Posts by wizzwizz4@fosstodon.org
(DIR) Post #AR6J9cu1PTYpmqCxxg by wizzwizz4@fosstodon.org
2022-12-29T13:52:09Z
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@meeper No, you can't. However, trademarks are narrow in scope, so you could probably use the phrase "Sonic the Hedgehog" in a domain that it has not been trademarked for.
(DIR) Post #ASQE8MpmcpYvCV309w by wizzwizz4@fosstodon.org
2023-02-06T20:13:30Z
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@revk @l0ngyap Art 5.1(c), Art. 7.2.Especially considering I can replace most of Authenticator's functionality with my entirely-offline copy of oathtool.
(DIR) Post #AScKXXvHb6eCa6Q4G0 by wizzwizz4@fosstodon.org
2023-02-12T22:28:38Z
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@clive @pluralistic I couldn't read this on Medium (only the first paragraph was available), but it's on the Pluralistic website too: https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/05/battery-vampire/
(DIR) Post #AShwiIZbm7guD2dRYG by wizzwizz4@fosstodon.org
2023-02-15T01:04:22Z
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@lightweight I wonder whether there's anyone running a mailing list like this, but providing more useful, ethical, single-edged advice.
(DIR) Post #ASsLw3mY0S5Up8wfrs by wizzwizz4@fosstodon.org
2023-02-20T16:01:42Z
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@dside @mo Codeberg's running Forgejo, not Gitea, now. The relevant issue is https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues/81.
(DIR) Post #ATLoQjEJZwFEaRRMHo by wizzwizz4@fosstodon.org
2023-03-06T21:06:37Z
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@wakame @danielseda @wizard The opposite of complicate is applicate: so named because of .com and .app computer programs. This is why modern computers have applications and complications.
(DIR) Post #ATeJWTrX7lamCsKGlU by wizzwizz4@fosstodon.org
2023-03-15T17:49:14Z
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@publius @alberto_cottica I think @pluralistic knows this.> There are a lot of totally normal people who would suffer if not for this bailout […]. They're totally normal working people who took no risks and bear no responsibility for the failure of SVB.>> But *come on*. Does anyone seriously believe that the absolute fucking *ghouls* […] are advocating for endless billions for SVB's depositors because of the *janitors*?
(DIR) Post #AULt6MvM91lNEB2BZw by wizzwizz4@fosstodon.org
2023-04-05T19:52:04Z
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@grammargirl How do they make the computer system stop committing crimes on their behalf? Well, they could switch it off…
(DIR) Post #AWKQFu3zhUyQY4Ui7E by wizzwizz4@fosstodon.org
2023-06-03T22:35:30Z
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@dym @Moon @hj I was going to argue that "well, Windows NT was genuinely a complete rewrite as compared to the DOS-based family that contained Windows 95"…… except, no. Both supported the same Win32 API, in which several programs were written (mspaint.exe could even be copied between Windows 95 and Windows XP, iirc); and even if that weren't the case, parts of Control Panel were written in HTML *and* appear identical in XP and Windows 95. (This part was not, and in shell32.dll, iirc.)
(DIR) Post #AWdJCc4TT12dAabC52 by wizzwizz4@fosstodon.org
2023-06-12T19:21:23Z
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@linuxenjoyer @natty Stack Overflow (the useful part, at least) isn't actually all that proprietary. Like Wikipedia, everything's CC BY-SA licensed, so if the company folds, we can just host our own.Projects like @codidact have done that for other Stack Exchange sites, and https://topanswers.xyz has a fairly active TeX community.
(DIR) Post #AWkmnJLN914SThux3A by wizzwizz4@fosstodon.org
2023-06-16T14:46:13Z
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@array Your mistake was in trying React: it corrupts everything it touches.Try plain HTML. As annoying as parts of HTML5 are, it really does contain nearly all the elements anyone needs – and WAI-ARIA supplies the rest.
(DIR) Post #AWkmnKqFZhMf7lN7om by wizzwizz4@fosstodon.org
2023-06-16T15:46:41Z
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@array Most people's "vanilla" HTML+CSS+JS is ad-hoc and terrible. (I'm no exception, much as I would like to be.) That's why all these terrible frameworks got invented: nobody knew what they were doing.Learning to write proper HTML (not HTML+JS) will prepare you very well indeed for writing good React sites; whereas the React side of things can just be looked up when you need it.
(DIR) Post #AXqfGngPtkiGczvIUi by wizzwizz4@fosstodon.org
2023-07-19T09:49:30Z
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@Archivist @lily Contrary to popular belief, not all cats are girls, and not all dogs are boys.
(DIR) Post #AXqgirv1qMJfpLhoWW by wizzwizz4@fosstodon.org
2023-07-19T10:05:32Z
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@boss @interpeer Gemini is inadequate for many use-cases. How does one describe a citation in Gemini? Plain text is not unreasonably effective.I prefer to stay and fight. Support non-Google browsers, like the text-mode browsers, https://argonaut-constellation.org, and Ladybird.
(DIR) Post #AXqpssp0Ezoz6ujlya by wizzwizz4@fosstodon.org
2023-07-19T11:48:16Z
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@boss @interpeer Even print books use formatting (e.g. italics) that can't be represented in plaintext Unicode.
(DIR) Post #AXrWIloN7hYWyNT6vI by wizzwizz4@fosstodon.org
2023-07-19T19:21:35Z
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@ErikUden @lan Gentle reminder that this isn't actually true. Per https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-donors/donors/, Apple Inc. paid:2023: $250–$4992022: $1000–$49992021: $1000–$49992020: $250–$4992019: $1000–$49992018: $1000–$4999So that's $4500–$20994 total over the past 5½ years. So aktually, the trillion dollar corporation has paid not even 18 months' *US minimum wage* ($7.25/hr) for one person. Across 5½ years.But hey. It's more than $5, so it's totally fair, right?
(DIR) Post #AZ9uAiZ0HQBaTU7pVg by wizzwizz4@fosstodon.org
2023-08-27T14:28:02Z
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@Linux_in_a_Bit @cas @torproject The problem with proof of work CAPTCHAs are the same problems as with Bitcoin (though vastly less harmful):• PoW competitions waste energy (though vastly less if it's not a single international competition like Bitcoin is).• PoW competitions discriminate against those with lower-power CPUs.Cloudflare's PoW CAPTCHA system drains 1% of my Amazon Kindle Paperwhite's battery per attempt, and requires multiple attempts to succeed. Others are worse.
(DIR) Post #AbPhkSUNKBv6WCQIFc by wizzwizz4@fosstodon.org
2023-11-03T00:45:23Z
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@AlgoCompSynth @simon I think your model of how these things work is entirely too sensible. They're not complex algorithms designed to know a lot about a lot of topics.Nobody *designed* the algorithms: they wrote a small-ish computer program to identify (a certain class of) patterns in textual data, then gave it loads of space in which to store those patterns (parameters) and gave it a *lot* of text to look for patterns in. The *output* of this process – the patterns – is the language model.
(DIR) Post #AbPhkTMG5r1PDJdKEq by wizzwizz4@fosstodon.org
2023-11-03T00:51:10Z
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@AlgoCompSynth @simon These "cheat codes" are the patterns in those patterns – but a neural network is a very different kind of structured data than a text corpus, so you can't use the same techniques to pick out patterns. Instead, it's mostly just people going “I wonder if this pattern is there?” “Oh, yes it is! Better write a paper on it.”The people who “make” the language models have no special insight into their behaviour, except in as far as they've deliberately altered it.
(DIR) Post #B0TWRCcouIdqUVDg4O by wizzwizz4@fosstodon.org
2025-11-21T15:56:51Z
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@mage_of_dragons @fiore Tcl has the "everything is a string" philosophy, except quoting actually works properly (so, no shell injection vulnerabilities), you can add new control flow primitives if you like, you've got more control over pipelines (https://www.tcl-lang.org/man/tcl9.0/TclCmd/open.html#M22 https://www.tcl-lang.org/man/tcl9.0/TclCmd/exec.html), there are database, threading, and GUI packages, it's an actual programming language, and the syntax is simpler.Tcl isn't a great programming language, but it's better than bash. Nearly anything is.