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New comment by evertedsphere in "Firefox expands fingerprint protections"

evertedsphere — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 19:41:46 +0000

wow lmao

> Do Not Track. Some web browsers may transmit a “do-not-track” signal. Because there currently is no industry standard concerning how to treat such signals, the Services currently do not take action in response to do not track signals. We respond to legally recognized browser-based opt out signals such as the Global Privacy Control signal for California residents.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/privacy-policy/

New comment by evertedsphere in "The write last, read first rule"

evertedsphere — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 09:54:16 +0000

As a general rule when it comes to this pattern of replying to "this is AI generated" with that link: the people that write these posts often read HN and attach a certain amount of importance to the opinions presented here, and it's important that people express their opinions about trends in how the majority of technical writing submitted to this website is either generated or presented, before they become well and truly entrenched as being problems "too common to be interesting".

There's a difference between criticisms of the content or the reader's ability to view it and complaints about "tangential annoyances" surrounding it.

New comment by evertedsphere in "Erlang Meets Idris: Cure Programming Language"

evertedsphere — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 11:00:49 +0000

emoji at the end of a statement are not the same thing as emoji adorning or replacing every heading

New comment by evertedsphere in "You can't cURL a Border"

evertedsphere — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 11:25:47 +0000

claude is nothing if not sensitive to cultural differences

New comment by evertedsphere in "The Internet runs on free and open source software and so does the DNS"

evertedsphere — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 08:56:46 +0000

Perhaps it doesn't even matter anymore, but I'm not yet past the point where it's disheartening every time I click on a link and it's clear that it came out of an LLM. Hopefully this doesn't extend to the actual report.

New comment by evertedsphere in "Board: New game console recognizes physical pieces, with an open SDK"

evertedsphere — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 07:13:47 +0000

This reminds me a lot of…something Dynamicland.

New comment by evertedsphere in "Why do some radio towers blink?"

evertedsphere — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 20:54:14 +0000

> Always wondered why do they need to blink at the same time.

presumably this makes it more striking, and thus easier to notice and avoid

New comment by evertedsphere in "Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division"

evertedsphere — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 12:02:32 +0000

Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone affected by this unfortunate corporate-involved job loss incident at this time.

New comment by evertedsphere in "Why JPEG XL ignoring bit depth is genius (and why AVIF can't pull it off)"

evertedsphere — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 15:38:32 +0000

Formatting and headers aside, there are lots of local rhetorical flourishes and patterns that are fairly distinctive and appear at a far higher rate in AI writing than in most writing that isn't low-quality listicle copy artificially trying to hold your attention long enough that you'll accidentally click on one of the three auto-playing videos when you move your pointer to dismiss the newsletter pop-up.

Here's something you know. It's actually neither adjective 1 nor adjective 2—in fact, completely mundane realization! Let that sink in—restatement of realization. Restatement. Of. Realization. The Key Advantages: five-element bulleted list with pithy bolded headings followed by exactly zero new information. Newline. As a surprise, mild, ultimately pointless counterpoint designed to artificially strengthen the argument! But here's the paradox—okay, I can't do this anymore. You get the picture.

    Inside JPEG XL’s lossy encoder, all image data becomes floating-point numbers between 0.0 and 1.0. Not integers. Not 8-bit values from 0-255. Just fractions of full intensity.

Everything after the first "Not" is superfluous and fairly distinctively so.

    No switching between 8-bit mode and 10-bit mode.
    No worrying whether  quantization tables are optimized for the right bit precision.
    No cascading encoding decisions based on integer sample depth.
    The codec doesn’t care about your display’s technical specs. It just needs to know: "what brightness level does white represent?" Everything scales from there.

Same general pattern.

    JPEG XL not worrying about bit depth isn’t an oversight *or* simplification. It’s liberation from decades of accumulated cruft where we confused digital precision with perceptual quality.

It's hard to describe the pattern here in words, but the whole thing is sort of a single stimulus for me. At the very least, notice again the repetition of the thing being argued against, giving it different names and attributes for no good semantic reason, followed by another pithy restatement of the thesis.

    By ignoring bit depth, JPEG XL’s float-based encoding embraces a profound truth: pixels aren’t just numbers; they’re perceptions.

This kind of upbeat, pithy, quotable punchline really is something frontier LLMs love to generate, as is the particular form of the statement. You can also see the latter in forms like "The conflict is no longer political—it's existential."

    Why This Matters

I know I said I wouldn't comment on little tics and formatting and other such smoking guns, but if I never have to see this godforsaken sequence of characters again…

New comment by evertedsphere in "Why JPEG XL ignoring bit depth is genius (and why AVIF can't pull it off)"

evertedsphere — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 09:47:35 +0000

the article could be better if it weren't entirely "ai generated"

New comment by evertedsphere in "An overengineered solution to `sort | uniq -c` with 25x throughput (hist)"

evertedsphere — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 07:18:11 +0000

more precisely, uniq produces output in the same order as the input to it, just collapsing runs / run-length encoding it

New comment by evertedsphere in "Claudeskills.cc – Share, Discover, and Reuse Claude/OpenAI Agent Skills"

evertedsphere — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 06:50:25 +0000

I know we haven't seen a human-written README or technical post on a company blog in maybe the last year on this site, but posts like this being at #1 are a reminder that we can still go lower.

New comment by evertedsphere in "Asahi Linux Still Working on Apple M3 Support, M1n1 Bootloader Going Rust"

evertedsphere — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 19:35:15 +0000

> choice of ONE Linux distro

fwiw the asahi kernel and patches are usable from other distros just fine; i've done it on nixos in the past and the linked blog post shows some stuff running on gentoo

New comment by evertedsphere in "Asahi Linux Still Working on Apple M3 Support, M1n1 Bootloader Going Rust"

evertedsphere — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 19:30:29 +0000

how's the battery life / what's your usual workload

New comment by evertedsphere in "Typst 0.14"

evertedsphere — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 15:47:45 +0000

famously knuth was trying to (and pretty much did) solve digital typesetting not create a nice piece of hci so this is all as it should be or at least as might be expected

New comment by evertedsphere in "Asahi Linux Still Working on Apple M3 Support, M1n1 Bootloader Going Rust"

evertedsphere — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 15:43:53 +0000

if only it were 10%

even the things you mention in your post paint a picture of a difference that for a lot of usage patterns is much more significant than just the last 10%

New comment by evertedsphere in "Google flags Immich sites as dangerous"

evertedsphere — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 00:35:13 +0000

COPY is often a usable alternative.

New comment by evertedsphere in "How I'm using Helix editor"

evertedsphere — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 21:58:49 +0000

> Expreg (teeesitter expand region)

reminds me of combobulate (which i haven't tried but think looks cool) but sounds much more light/limited

New comment by evertedsphere in "How Kyoto, Japan Became the Loveliest Tourist-Trap"

evertedsphere — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 21:38:47 +0000

oh, totally

what i intended to point out was that regrettably few people actually pay any attention to the nozze di cana despite it being both more accessible physically and worthy of interest

New comment by evertedsphere in "How Kyoto, Japan Became the Loveliest Tourist-Trap"

evertedsphere — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 08:19:36 +0000

one tiny famous painting from a cop-enforced distance of god knows how much while an enormous painting full of stuff stands right opposite it