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You've misunderstood. The blog post is not talking about running random binaries. It's talking about opening links and files using different programmes, like PDF viewers, video pla…

Hacker News is obviously a very corporate-centred website, so most of the posts in this thread are about profitability and economic value. If that's the lens through which you see …

> So... I think scripting is actually really important -- otherwise not only are you stuck with the lowest common denominator of all browsers, but the browsers need to implement a …

Because the paragraphs are short, and the post is straight-forward and to the point. Also, there are no em dashes.

I agree with the general sentiment. I treat anything running arbitrary machine code as if it has full access to a machine. I don't know where you get "run your services as root" fr…

I didn't even notice it until you pointed it out, but I checked that account's comment history and it uses em dashes. Also, "the database history itself is the active distribution …

Maybe somewhat unrelated, but I'm reminded of the fact that people have deleted the main page on a few occasions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_delete_the_m...

I'm half-tempted to try and claim it myself for fun and profit, but I think I'll leave it for someone else. What should we put there, anyway?

As someone on the Wikipediocracy forums pointed out, basemetrika.ru does not exist. I get an NXDomain response trying to resolve it. The plot thickens.

Here before someone says that it's because MediaWiki is written in PHP.

That's definitely an interesting argument I haven't seen before. I suppose it depends on how effective these types of measures actually are, and also on how many adults refuse to i…

I don't know about Australia, but there's a page here detailing some of the sites that got shut down because of the OSA in the UK: https://onlinesafetyact.co.uk/in_memoriam/

You've basically just confirmed what I said at the end, that democracies have no immunity to mass surveillance. 24/7 surveillance may have been an exaggeration but not by much, rea…

A lot of the arguments I see in this thread are about whether modern mainstream social media are bad for young people. When the debate becomes about that, it's very easy to defend …

I think this reflects one of the biggest fallacies behind LLM adoption; the idea that reducing costs for producers improves the state of affairs for consumers too. I've seen someon…

"This year, the UK also passed a mandate for age verification—the Online Safety Act—" No we didn't. That was 2023, and it went into effect in multiple phases, the last of which I b…

I do something similar, although there's an added peculiarity when I do it. I lie down for 5 minutes and wake up 9 hours later.

I was incredibly surprised to find that this actually is a computer. Normally when you hear about a "computer" constructed in an unusual medium, it turns out to just be a binary ad…

I don't think the author is wrong for saying that certain kinds of code should be written carefully. I object to the implication that other code shouldn't. From TFA: "Write your au…

It was probably written by the type of programmers who criticise programmers like me for using "unsafe" languages.

Logic in Doom is particularly interesting to me. Apparently you can fit ~64k logic gates in a map (using the method described). From [1]: "As the DOOM engine was not designed to be…

This is addressed in the second paragraph of TFA: "Stuff which is somehow limited (stack overflows, arbitrary configuration, etc) is still considered Turing complete, since all "ph…

You basically just described the XPM format.

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