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progval

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About progval

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/progval; my proof: https://keybase.io/progval/sigs/iJkfMTZcmOHP3IcHyhl94KHqYHNLDk5z-JbHXnZgvUQ ]

email: progval+hn@progval.net

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49249809

    The Reddit post you linked to was hallucinated by Claude, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47659552 Their website (now offline) also added this page since I posted that com…

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    Comment #49233456

    And they're using a temporary redirect (HTTP 302) so browsers won't automatically redirect users when this happens.

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    Comment #49224529

    abuse@ contacts never send responses (though some send acknowledgements) because they don't want to give any details about their abuse process.

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    Comment #49224498

    Dumping the database won't stop the scrappers because humans running the scrappers are not even aware Gentoo exists. They're just scrapping every website their bots find.

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    Comment #49222267

    It's indeed written by Claude, like most of the website: https://github.com/jdevalk/specification.website/commit/99b1...

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    Comment #49194165

    From the README: > The name is borrowed from the Wallfacers of Liu Cixin's The Dark Forest — people entrusted with plans too sprawling for anyone else to follow. Which misunderstan…

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    Comment #49154649

    > All advisories in this repo seem AI generated when testing them with Gptzero I pasted this blog post from "Analysis Matrix" to the end in Gptzero, and it also says the blog post …

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    Comment #49143027

    And Github doesn't let us see stargazers anymore, so we can't tell which repos bought stars.

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    Comment #49142391

    There's no time to write a readme after writing 48k lines in less than two days (not including "Initial commit from create-turbo", "first commit", and "initial commit")

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    Comment #49136714

    > I recall some time in 2016 when they were regex replacing variable names in peoples repositories and pestering them if they didn’t accept the request. Do you have more details ab…

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    Comment #49131805

    This is addressed two paragraphs later: > Years ago, when the server was set up, choosing Dendrite seemed like a good decision > Unfortunately, migrating between Matrix homeserver …

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    Comment #49119604

    Stacked PRs are so hard to implement for software not natively designed for them. Gitlab has been struggling with them too, despite 2.5 years since the MVP ( https://gitlab.com/git…

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    Comment #49108291

    They aren't. The device administrators (ie. the parents) set an age range in the OS' config and then the OS tells applications the value. That's it.

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    Comment #49054704

    The repository was force-pushed so the link doesn't work anymore, but the file is still available at: https://github.com/demo-zexuan/liang-wenfeng-investor-meetin...

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    Comment #49007442

    > Kagi of course reviews it They had quite some lag at the beginning. I made reports from the very day they announced it, and none of them were processed last month. But they are n…

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    Comment #48929763

    1 and 2: I rarely need to do that. When I do, then move or hardlink to a dir with shared read access 3: There is no reason for both my main user account and a dev account to share …

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    Comment #48919137

    Successful sudo from a cgroup still makes you root on the machine. What you want for this is user namespaces, not (just) cgroups.

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    Comment #48917974

    I meant for CLI tasks. Just "adduser" and "sudo -u bash".

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    Comment #48917395

    Most programmers and power users install large dependency trees with npm/pip/bundler/... on the same user account as their main browser on a regular basis. Even on Linux where it's…

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    Comment #48869081

    Depending on where you live, your employer may be legally required to accommodate your disabilities. Here in France, HR are usually dutiful about it.

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    Comment #48861893

    It's because the page you posted contains this incorrect tag:

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    Comment #48836307

    There is a third-party API now: https://doc.fnar.net/ , which collects data through a browser extension that scraps the traffic. This kind of extension is blessed by the devs as lo…

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    Comment #48835367

    They most definitely did not solve real time translation yet. The French in the video is barely understandable, both the translation and the pronunciation are the quality of an Ame…

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    Comment #48830030

    I can't find information about this except in a Reddit thread. Is it documented somewhere?