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Just have a database of UUIDs. Seems pretty trivial to generate and sort as it's only 16 bytes each.

HN is blocked in mainland China, so stats of visitors from China are likely to be low. HN is similarly blocked in Russia. Users from these locations would come via VPN. Unfettered …

You're dealing with a different type of actor if that's necessary.

Surely attempts to block archive.is are more likely to be Kremlin based as that would stop dissemination of journalistic information in favour of more easily manipulated YouTube an…

That's because 166.2% of the population are allergic to wheat.

It's all about trade-offs really. In this case, a laptop sometimes waking up in a bag vs a constantly and deliberately cripled GUI and keyboard.

Do not expect this from the UK. That fight despite millions of signatures was batted down: The UK is introducing passed legislation that citizens' digital IDs are owned by a Google…

“ Spoken with neither anything beyond lay observation of linguistics nor economics.”

IIRC the country code RFC does not specify physical location, nationality of entity, or other.

It is. It also plays into the hands of the Chinese government to flatten the concept of ethnicity, culture, nationality and border into one. That way, the mainland government, as t…

I have no astigmatism. If something is on dark mode with no easily discovered option to switch it at the top of the screen I am more than likely to close the website or remove the …

I own a 2008 Audi. It drives fine.

I'd give the app four walls and have it host a variety of events.

While I don't use Facebook, my YouTube feed is similar. I don't subscribe to anything in YouTube and nor do I log in. All I watch is a few music videos a week, 80s electronic. The …

You can do a lot of criming with a pair of shoes. Some might argue that shoes are essential for many types of crime. When will we KYC shoes?

Favebook introducing photo tagging was when I exited Facebook. This was pre-AI hype, perhaps 15 years ago. It seems Microsoft feel it is normalised. More you are their product. It …

People that love linear algebra reserve a special space, of either fondness or of hate, for Euclidian Space.

Why do services need to verify identity? What service needs a solution to verify identity that doesn't already exist? Banks do KYC now. Employers already need a National Insurance …

But did it show as a list or an ordered collection of folders? And the second time you opened the folder did it rearrange into a haphazard scattering with items off the edge of the…

Like all of language: context. Why would hair be like 80s synthpop, or potatoes be in any way related to a by-product of honey?