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How is the fediverse different. Can't the owner of an instance post as you? Can they read all your data stored on their instance and pass it to anyone they want to?

The site is referring to Iroh's preference for using IETF standards rather than rolling their own.

And yet at that time we already had a stranglehold of Compuserve and AOL. The talk was of walled gardens, safe spaces compared to the horrific wilds of the open Internet. The web b…

Lu-anti seems like two syllables to me

Imagine if Python had as strong a compatibility promise as Go

It's real and I have it. I was astonished when I discovered other people see pictures in their head. It doesn't restrict my creative thinking but I am a spatial thinker. When I sol…

I tried it but the two images it generated looked nothing like me and were of the wrong gender and ethnicity

"To use passkeys, you just use a fingerprint, face scan or pin to unlock your device, and they are 40% faster than passwords — and rely on a type of cryptography that makes them mo…

It's a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromebox which is a class of small computer that run ChromeOS

I have done this too. How did you get the bot to use your MJ credits? I found that the bot still uses the credits of each person who invokes the command.

Automatically grant every patent application but equally allow every granted patent to be challenged at no cost causing the patent rights to be suspended. The patent owner then has…

As if Hacker News is a single homogeneous unit

It means that the conversation isn't producing much of value despite lots of activity, like an inefficient lightbulb that wastes energy by emitting heat instead of light.

A question for people practising trunk based development: how do you perform code reviews?

Yes, see here https://www.rfc-editor.org/pubprocess/tools/

I just put on a twitch stream and listen along until I fall asleep. As you say it just allows my brain to switch off and allow me to sleep.

Elder Scrolls Online is primarily content led

It doesn't defeat the point of cryptocurrencies which is to create a currency free from a single point of control.

No, Bram Cohen has said that will never happen.

The implication is that police are routinely scanning all Encrochat photographs to extract fingerprints and other biometric details to match with existing databases.

> What is the rationale for taking a profitable company that does not need additional funding public? Liquidity for investors