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New comment by ranger_danger in "A Recipe for Steganogravy"

ranger_danger — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:41:34 +0000

Can you answer the question?

New comment by ranger_danger in "LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua"

ranger_danger — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:38:59 +0000

How have they not been sued by Nintendo yet?

New comment by ranger_danger in "SPF/PC v4 for MS-DOS, FreeDOS, x86"

ranger_danger — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:13:48 +0000

>nor will I look at tickets

Let's hope this doesn't get abused.

New comment by ranger_danger in "AGI Is Here?"

ranger_danger — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 04:05:10 +0000

> we can’t even figure out why humans have consciousness right now.

My uneducated guess is that it just means we save/remember (in a lossy way) inputs from our senses and then constantly decide what to do right now based on current and historical inputs, as well as contemplated future events.

I think the rest of our body greatly influences all of that as well, for example: we know running is healthy and we should do it, but we also decide not to run if we are busy, feel tired, or are in pain etc.

New comment by ranger_danger in "AGI Is Here"

ranger_danger — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 03:43:21 +0000

> A certain percentage of humans will never acknowledge that machines can be intelligent.

Doesn't this assume there IS an objective, quantifiable definition of an "intelligent machine" that is agreed upon by most people? That instead sounds rather subjective to my ears.

New comment by ranger_danger in "Free stuff makes us irrational"

ranger_danger — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 03:48:23 +0000

I was hoping this would talk about the hordes of ungrateful users demanding more and more free labor from the unpaid volunteers of open source projects, but I guess we still don't know how to deal with that properly.

New comment by ranger_danger in "The Document Foundation ejects its core developers"

ranger_danger — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:01:25 +0000

> required branding, logos

I'm no lawyer but I don't think the AGPL says you must use the same branding in a fork, in fact most hard forks tend to prefer changing it in my experience, as the original branding might be trademarked and so they can't legally use it themselves without permission, and/or they just want to distance themselves further from the parent.

New comment by ranger_danger in "The Document Foundation ejects its core developers"

ranger_danger — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:09:52 +0000

I don't think so, I think it's more about TDF considering their involvement at that point a conflict of interest.

New comment by ranger_danger in "The Document Foundation ejects its core developers"

ranger_danger — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:02:27 +0000

I'm assuming this is related to the previous drama back in 2020:

https://lwn.net/Articles/833233/

Apparently TDF wanted to host LibreOffice Online for free, when it had previously been a source-only project. Collabora didn't like that as they did 95% of the development and wanted to be able to sell support for their own version, but they didn't want to be competing against TDF's version at the same time.

New comment by ranger_danger in "Age verification now required for DNS resolution"

ranger_danger — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:12:01 +0000

April Fools.

New comment by ranger_danger in "Show HN: Cerno – CAPTCHA that targets LLM reasoning, not human biology"

ranger_danger — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:28:53 +0000

The description doesn't make sense either... like "Color-word interference at maze decision points", but there are no colors (or words) at the decision points.

New comment by ranger_danger in "Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only"

ranger_danger — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:37:56 +0000

I think it's a little more nuanced than that.

https://www.allsides.com/news/2022-02-08-0800/media-industry...

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fox-news-entertainment-swi...

New comment by ranger_danger in "Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only"

ranger_danger — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:14:02 +0000

Mandatory Fun (TM)

New comment by ranger_danger in "Comprehensive C++ Hashmap Benchmarks (2022)"

ranger_danger — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 01:24:42 +0000

It's a bit confusing. QVector in Qt 6 is an alias to QList, which has now been changed to work like QVector did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSFIFlLpsTQ

New comment by ranger_danger in "TSA lines are so out of control that travelers are hiring line-sitters"

ranger_danger — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:04:24 +0000

Even if you're flying commercial, wealthy people can just pay Perq Soleil $250 a pop to waltz them through the employee line with no wait.

New comment by ranger_danger in "OCR for construction documents does not work, we fixed it"

ranger_danger — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:40:25 +0000

Some OCR solutions do change the original file, like OCRmyPDF. They take layers that were just images before and replace it with text layers so that you can search the document.

New comment by ranger_danger in "OCR for construction documents does not work, we fixed it"

ranger_danger — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:38:43 +0000

Can't one just remove the signature and re-sign it with anything else after tampering? Who verifies PDFs that hard?

New comment by ranger_danger in "CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font"

ranger_danger — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:26:47 +0000

Fira Code for me.

New comment by ranger_danger in "The bot situation on the internet is worse than you could imagine"

ranger_danger — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:03:54 +0000

Hard disagree, it's very easy for a bot to use a credit card. And not only are card numbers often stolen, they're even given to teenagers these days, and can also be owned by businesses and exist entirely virtually... so I don't think you can assume the use of a credit card can always be tied to legitimate use by a single person.

New comment by ranger_danger in "The bot situation on the internet is worse than you could imagine"

ranger_danger — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 03:06:06 +0000

What makes a real human?