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The real problem is deeper than this. The actual question to ask is: "What if we just stopped distributing and blindly executing untrusted binary blobs?" A trusted compiler in the …

I think it's more a case that browsers take security into account at the feature design phase, whereas other applications don't. That's actually a huge step in the right direction.…

Linux is now the best desktop OS. Not necessarily because it got that much better, but because Windows & Mac have gotten that much worse.

Besides proton/wine/VMs for gaming which are all very good, console/computer emulation for gaming is solid in Linux, including literal plug and play joystick support.

but it has been confirmed: EURISKO has been successfully run in Interlisp Medley! https://github.com/white-flame/eurisko

I added a github repository for the core of AM: https://github.com/white-flame/am We still need to figure out which files compose EURISKO.

The file LRR.DRI[AM,DBL] also contains what looks like a REPL log of starting & running it.

REU is a bit of a cheat, and for some releases people are using cartridges with far higher capacities than ever sold back in the day. Cross-platform tools and emulation are also hu…

I use onion addresses to have basically a hash-addressable socket on the internet, which can be relocated without any additional configuration. It can even work without any inbound…

Yes. I can't stand that IPFS basically took the Freenet model, stripped out all the anonymity & privacy, and added the weird "interplanetary" marketing push.

I don't even have a Facebook account. But with my relatives that do, this stuff leaks in from seeing their coworkers' & acquaintances' posts and escalates over time once there's ev…

Facebook (and most other businesses in the space) is a system of manipulating and editorializing individuals' social communication in order to extract engagement-related profit. Th…

What do you define "social media" as? If it's communication kept within circles of family, friends, colleagues, and enthusiast/interest groups, I really don't see much problem with…

> Forget the rest of the trash on Facebook The thing is, Facebook actively pushes the trash at you, because trash content monetizes the best. The only effective avoidance mechanism…

VMs imply a non-native bytecode execution. Garbage collection doesn't require any of that. It's just normal library code usually called by the allocator, and well-specified memory …

The actual ultra-tough material formed in Roman concrete seems to be Tobermorite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobermorite

I hope they do like USB 3.0B and add yet another independent set of connector pins for 4.0, making it twice as large. /s

Across USB-C land, there's the various USB3s as well as Thunderbolt, DisplayPort, PCIe, and probably others, too, all sharing the same connector with arbitrary overlaps or omission…

> full stack web developer I think this is par for the course in that subfield. Part of it is the speed at which things change, both in the software ecosystems and in the change re…

Even if you like one, you should (_after_ you finished learning the first) also go through the other alternatives, for perspective. And even though you found one that worked for yo…

Yes, Freenet. IPFS is basically Freenet with all the anonymity and privacy stripped out, and claiming it's some new innovation. Freenet allows connecting only to peers, and is the …

Well within the last hour or so on #freenode, root (Andrew Lee) went off on a completely unhinged tirade about BIG FOSS and his perceived victories over it, as well as his totally …

The policy basically changes on a daily basis, depending on which action he needs to quickly justify. Generally speaking, mentioning anything about libera.chat in the topic is coun…

That puts the decision on where to put public good will and non-profitable money sinks solely into the machine of government bureaucracy, which I don't think would be very effectiv…