Hacker News: woojoo666

New comment by woojoo666 in "The IE 11 user-agent forced Mozilla to freeze part of its user-agent string"

woojoo666 — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 01:19:24 +0000

That just sounds like a browser bug though. Client side code shouldn't try to work around it, the website should just notify all users that Chrome is broken and won't play audio properly

New comment by woojoo666 in "Qwantify"

woojoo666 — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 19:42:40 +0000

Looks like it's for couch coop. If anybody wants to do this on a home PC there's also [Parsec](https://parsec.app/) or [Sunshine](https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine)

New comment by woojoo666 in "2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop?"

woojoo666 — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 02:51:29 +0000

I think it's because it's an apples to oranges comparison. I'm guessing you installed Linux yourself on your PCs, instead of it coming pre-installed. Whereas for Mac OS, you can only get it on devices pre-installed, so naturally all hardware functions like sleep will work perfectly. I'm guessing if you buy a laptop from those distributors with Linux pre-installed, you will also get great hardware support

New comment by woojoo666 in "2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop?"

woojoo666 — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 02:41:28 +0000

I'd like to see a comparison between, say, how many people want to customize their scroll speed (hard on linux, easy in windows/macos) and some other use cases, like how many people to sandbox and control permissions for individual apps (easy on Linux using Flatseal, hard on window/macos).

Then we can get a better sense of how niche these demands are, and how well these desktop OSes support them

New comment by woojoo666 in "German court rules Twitter has to remove offensive posts before they’re reported"

woojoo666 — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 03:38:51 +0000

In case people are wondering how Twitter would know something is offensive before it's reported:

> the ruling that Twitter has a duty not only to remove the illegal content that is reported, but also to track down fundamentally similar content anywhere on the platform, from any account, and ensure that it ceases

So I guess we just trust that Twitter's "similarity" ranking is infallible

New comment by woojoo666 in "I almost failed to search a 37 GB text file in under 1 millisecond"

woojoo666 — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 03:28:13 +0000

As well as "with a pre-computed index"

New comment by woojoo666 in "My plane is not trackable without using non-public data"

woojoo666 — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 14:05:05 +0000

> people have determined that the location doesn't make sense for what he's claiming.

Details on this?

New comment by woojoo666 in "Songtell"

woojoo666 — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 10:31:47 +0000

I tried Yaosobi's Racing into the Night (which is about a woman tempting a man into suicide [1]) and the AI understanding is completely the opposite lol:

https://www.songtell.com/genius-english-translations/yoasobi...

Though granted, the metaphor in the lyrics "racing into the night" is probably lost on this AI

[1]: https://www.otaquest.com/yoasobi-2020-breakout-japanese-act/

New comment by woojoo666 in "My plane is not trackable without using non-public data"

woojoo666 — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 04:15:37 +0000

Would this count as stalking though? I pulled up a definition on Google and

> According to the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), the legal definition of "stalking" means "engaging in a course of conduct directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to fear for his or her safety or the safety of others or suffer substantial emotional distress."

http://www.oxfordlegal.com/legal-definition-stalking/

Using an antenna to figure out somebody's approximate location and publicizing it, when that somebody already has stalkers going after his children [1], seems like it would cause reasonable fear

[1]: https://nypost.com/2022/12/15/elon-musk-shares-video-of-craz...

New comment by woojoo666 in "Deepmind’s AlphaCode conquers coding, performing as well as humans"

woojoo666 — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 03:35:32 +0000

Yeah the article mentions that they outperformed Codex, but was Codex specifically trained on code contests?

New comment by woojoo666 in "Appreciating F-Droid as an app developer"

woojoo666 — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 14:17:54 +0000

Care to elaborate? Has there been any instances of malware?

New comment by woojoo666 in "Reinventing How We Use Computers"

woojoo666 — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 06:52:07 +0000

So the author prefers a tech world centered on the keyboard rather than the screen. I guess I can see why, since the author wrote a terminal-based browser. But I think the vast majority moved away from terminal-based browsers for a reason

New comment by woojoo666 in "Mandatory helmet laws make cyclists less safe"

woojoo666 — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 06:14:54 +0000

> To refute this, one must show that the "critical mass theory" is not significant and that driver attentiveness to cyclists is not a function of the number of cyclists.

Not quite. The critical mass theory could be real and significant, and ridership could drop from a helmet mandate, but the question is how it stacks against the reduction of head injuries from the helmet mandate

New comment by woojoo666 in "Yes, It’s Censorship"

woojoo666 — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 05:40:09 +0000

> The civil rights movement didn’t boo hoo that things were “hard to work around”.

I'm quite confident that the civil rights movement did complain that things were hard to work around. That didn't stop the movement of course. Just like people are still fighting the big tech monopoly, despite the uphill battle

New comment by woojoo666 in "Drowning in AI Generated Garbage: the silent war we are fighting"

woojoo666 — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 05:15:25 +0000

The solution is to integrate with AI. Why do people think Elon is working on Neuralink?

New comment by woojoo666 in "Yes, It’s Censorship"

woojoo666 — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 19:35:58 +0000

Monopolies don't need to have all the market share, there just needs to be no viable substitutes. And a social network that is tiny with barely any content, is not a viable substitute. Another characteristic is high barriers to entry, which for social networks, includes overcoming the network effect as well as dealing with Cloudflare, Mastercard, etc. It doesn't matter if there are work arounds, if the cost of these workarounds is high, it's a monopoly.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly

New comment by woojoo666 in "Apple demanded our apps filter some search terms from being returned"

woojoo666 — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 08:24:10 +0000

I and other users don't expect LBRY to be moderated, so it's current state falls in line with those expectations. Maybe those with other expectations should change them. Not everything needs to be like Youtube.

And Safari can absolutely moderate content if it wanted to. Apple could easily add domain blacklists, or even a whitelist. But they choose not to because it would break expectations of what a browser should be. And clearly for LBRY, moderating the way Apple wants would break the expectations of the users and developers of LBRY.

New comment by woojoo666 in "AI solves Advent of Code 2022"

woojoo666 — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 00:15:10 +0000

Day 1 was pretty mindblowing on how it was able to correct itself, and even identify it's own mistake.

But looks like it's already struggling by Day 2. Took multiple hours and 30+ attempts by the author

New comment by woojoo666 in "Huawei phones automatically deleting videos of the protests?"

woojoo666 — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 02:44:48 +0000

Personally I would consider neither of those examples as censorship. Unless the theater in your second example was the only theater in the world. When I said platform, I probably should have clarified that I meant "big platform".

There is still a difference though. With self correction, you make the choice. With platform censorship, the platform makes the choice for you. There may be an external force in both cases, but in the former case you can still choose to ignore it.

New comment by woojoo666 in "Apple demanded our apps filter some search terms from being returned"

woojoo666 — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 23:55:43 +0000

> you probably don't want an app on your store that allows any user to stumble onto an uncensored video of people getting decapitated.

Google Chrome, Firefox, and Safari will all allow any user to stumble onto those videos. People who use browsers know the risk. And the people who use LBRY also know the risk.