Hacker News: tekromancr

New comment by tekromancr in "FFmpeg Explorer"

tekromancr — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 01:44:20 +0000

People are so soft now. Back in the day, we'd line up to see Harrison Ford do it; sometimes multiple times!

Snowflakes, man

New comment by tekromancr in "Ethereum Proof-of-Stake"

tekromancr — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 13:47:20 +0000

Wait, you are saying that people with more capital have more power under capitalism?

New comment by tekromancr in "Popcorn Time Is Back"

tekromancr — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 16:08:56 +0000

They run great on arm, too! I got a raspi 4 running everything smooth as butter. The most problematic aspect is interfacing with the usb drives; I eventually had to move them to a powered hub to get the required current.

New comment by tekromancr in "Red Engine: modern scheduling framework for Python applications"

tekromancr — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 02:14:08 +0000

Celery Beat is pretty good

New comment by tekromancr in "AI Could Defeat All of Us Combined"

tekromancr — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 22:09:01 +0000

People who mainlined lesswrong think this.

New comment by tekromancr in "Twitter buyout puts Mastodon into spotlight"

tekromancr — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 03:43:34 +0000

What does that mean? Like a single domain that randomly routes to different sites or?

And where would the database live?

New comment by tekromancr in "Twitter buyout puts Mastodon into spotlight"

tekromancr — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 03:19:53 +0000

I have it open on another tab, I use it pretty much every day. I've built incredible friendships in there; And when I started I knew nobody on the protocol. A lot of the people I am mutuals with aren't even on the same instance as me; and yet, somehow I was able to find and connect with them. When they post things, I see it. When I post things they see it.

Like, what you are saying is so nonsensical as to be not even wrong.

I /think/ you are trying to say something about discoverability, but like, it's not really that hard. You can just watch the local or federated tabs, and if you see anything interesting check it out. If someone seems alright you might even reply to something they post. Pretty soon you are having conversations, and the people you follow are boosting other nice, interesting people onto your home tab. Next thing you know, you are part of a community. It's great!

And all of this happens without the need for some weird corporate overlord to try and mediate the experience by way of manipulating you in order to keep you online longer so they can steal your data and shove ads down your optic nerves.

New comment by tekromancr in "Twitter buyout puts Mastodon into spotlight"

tekromancr — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 03:00:37 +0000

It's federated, mate. You don't need to be on the same server as your friends to talk to them.

New comment by tekromancr in "Twitter buyout puts Mastodon into spotlight"

tekromancr — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 02:59:17 +0000

Yes to all of those. The only issue is some smaller instances with limited admin bandwidth might only federate automatically with larger, well moderated instances to help reduce their own moderation burden.

If you want to be well federated even with the smaller instances, you need to hang around for a while; build connections within the larger communities; then ask to federate with any smaller instances you want to connect directly with.

New comment by tekromancr in "Twitter buyout puts Mastodon into spotlight"

tekromancr — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 02:52:47 +0000

Its the same thing. Rises on the network effect, falls on the network effect.

New comment by tekromancr in "When No-Code Stops Scaling (2020)"

tekromancr — Sun, 24 Apr 2022 13:19:17 +0000

The value of these no-code solutions is in letting domain experts workout the requirements and prototype workflows to their own problems.

If it stops scaling; that's a pretty good sign engineers should start actually building the thing

New comment by tekromancr in "A tiny Docker image to serve static websites"

tekromancr — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 17:03:41 +0000

Can you do SSL?

New comment by tekromancr in "Dall-E 2 illustrations of Twitter bios"

tekromancr — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 03:49:28 +0000

A wallpaper generator could be a rad application of this, actually. You could feed some random poetry into gpt and the outputs of gpt into the input of this, randomly pick an output, and everytime you login to your computer some surreal, never before seen image.

I'd dig it.

New comment by tekromancr in "Show HN: DontBeEvil.rip: Search, for developers (API, expressions, CLI)"

tekromancr — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 14:50:01 +0000

Yea, I was wondering about that; but the risk feels similar to a browser RCE to me. Maybe it's higher because browsers are more widely used/analyzed; but then again, a browser RCE has a much wider range of targets with more opportunities to exploit

New comment by tekromancr in "Show HN: DontBeEvil.rip: Search, for developers (API, expressions, CLI)"

tekromancr — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 13:44:48 +0000

What security implications does running curl have that wouldn't be present in a browser?

New comment by tekromancr in "Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other offices from April 4"

tekromancr — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 13:42:21 +0000

> I miss my old work when the chat was actually a place for smalltalk, instead of a place for just sharing technical knowledge or updating progress.

That sounds more like a company culture issue. It's surprising that there isn't a small talk channel. You should suggest one, they can be pretty valuable

New comment by tekromancr in "Somehow, Futurama Is Coming Back Again"

tekromancr — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 08:02:57 +0000

The second finale was really good, too.

New comment by tekromancr in "You block ads in your browser, why not in your city?"

tekromancr — Sun, 26 Dec 2021 19:38:52 +0000

We do have real life targeted ads. The NYC Link terminals, for example, can detect tons of data about the devices people carry, and the comings and goings of the owners, and sometimes link them to their ad profiles. ads for display can then be selected accordingly.

This isn't even particularly new tech, they prototyped roadside billboards thay could infer what radio stations the cars driving by were listening to, and this was in the early 2000s

New comment by tekromancr in "How to Set Low Expectations at Your Two Remote Jobs"

tekromancr — Thu, 23 Dec 2021 23:04:05 +0000

Are you high, sir?

New comment by tekromancr in "Opt Out of Cynicism"

tekromancr — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 14:21:41 +0000

> I think human nature will tend towards some kind of hierarchy

Only if you ignore every society that that ever existed without a strict economic hierarchy, sure.