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@sirjoho Pretty much got what I expected. It did a good job of scaffolding everything out. But the game design has too much nuance for it to understand. I'd say it completed about 50% of the project in a single run. I need to review all of this and then I'll use cursor agents to tweak it into place. I'd grade this a solid B for following instructions and writing a running app.
In terms of replacing a software dev, I give it a grade D.
@sirjoho Following up on this, turns out the game is more functional than I thought. I misunderstood what the front-end was doing. A few more tweaks and I'll be about 75% there. Which is where I wanted to be.
I'm gonna change my grade from a D to a C. With the caveat that I was able to give it very precise technical specs.
Bottom line, you need to be an experienced dev, explaining everything in intricate detail. Then it's like having a jr dev there to bang out the boring parts.
WOW! #NextDNS has added support today to get around the #AgeVerification checks mandated by #OSA and #SREN (and I assume others). Both #free and #paid plans have access to it.
may I shamelessly plug my feed, which is something I’ve been wanting since before bluesky and was finally able to build it myself 💃 the anti-algorithm, no rules no learning no nothing. a purely random shuffle of all your friends’ posts RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:da4qr…
A terrorist targeted federal workers last week. There wasn’t much reporting on it. But I’m not finished thinking about it! 🧵
An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 "blast-proof" windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror.
Damn! Maybe they'll realize people are very angry Globalists who want us dead. Of course dufus has to say, "It's these "right wingers..." It's why they get no sympathy and why they lose, but I'm so sorry for the young officer.
Received an email threat that if I don't send $1290 in bitcoin, the "hacker" will reveal all my naughty activities.
Not sure who would care about any naughty activities I might have, if I had any.
The "hacker" included a password I used years and years ago, to prove he or she is legit. Problem is, I change my passwords every year, so any old password is useless now.
Just imagine being some poor little Nigerian prince on the internet and discovering that the stolen database you spent your life savings on is ten years out of date.
Shockingly Americans won’t pay patriotic premiums to starve. Buy American zeal melts faster than cheap plastic when tariffs jack up prices. Turns out 'economic patriotism' is easy to preach until your grocery bill needs heroism.
Only 17% would pay >10% extra for US goods, everyone else quietly buys what they can afford as politicians perform flag-waving kabuki.
But sure, blame consumers for choosing rent over abstract nationalism. 'Let them eat flags!' 🙄
The Shock Doctrine is Canadian author and social activist Naomi Klein's companion piece to her popular 2007 book of the same name. In short, the shock doctri...
Hat hier zufaellig jemand ein #Linux system mit infiniband hardware auf dem er test code ausfuehren kann oder mir eine shell geben? Würde gerne etwas in net-tools patchen (oder gibt’s nen emulator?)
In this conversation, former political prisoner and anarchist Eric King shares the emotional depth of his journey—through solitary confinement, court battles, and spiritual struggle—to the slow and ongoing work of healing. From tattooing as therapy to fighting patriarchal power in prisons and families, Eric explores how trauma, solidarity, and resistance intersect. We discuss paralegal activism, building an abolitionist legal strategy, the challenges of unity across tactical lines, and the danger of romanticizing suffering.
If held to the same standards, 27 private schools identified by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune through tax filings likely would have violated state law. … meant to prevent self-dealing and conflicts of interest if they were public. texastribune.org/2025/08/13/te…
An investigation by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state laws had the schools been public.
The Cuba's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, through a statement, reported the release of the Salvadoran citizen Otto René Rodríguez Llerena, sentenced to 30 years
Also I would like to call out the SINISTER tactics of the IKEA in Elizabeth. I see you. I know what you are doing. Its commonly known that it is one of the best Newark planespotting locations. Need a snack? Have to use the bathroom? Why goodness there is a store right there!
The door closes behind you. Its a trap.
Two-three hours later you finally escape the Swedish labyrinth slugging around $200 worth of stuff for your house you didnt need and a belly fully of Swedish meatballs ready to go home.
You may have everyone else fooled, IKEA, but I see the dark and powerful force you truly are
10:24 Nasser Medical Complex: 6 martyrs and dozens of injured among aid seekers hit by enemy fire near Morag axis and southern Gaza english.masirahtv.net/news/385…
Just a general tip - When possible, it's a lot more effective to make someone's behavior not pose a bother than it is to try to convince them to change behavior. IE - the hall light being left on is a bother to me. Getting my roommate (not you, bestie, before you) to turn it off was a battle, and involved confrontation. The problem got better when I could turn it off from bed, and went away when I made it turn itself off.
If you can make someone's problem behavior fix itself, do that.
Further example on that light... Out of spite, for some fucking reason... That same prior roommate would deliberatly use the lightswitch to cause the smart bulb to disconnect, and then leave the light on. I didn't even attempt that confrontation. I just researched and found a bulb with a component for behind the lightswitch to make it opperate regrdless of the switch. Now he could try that all he wanted, it made no difference, and the light would turn itself off like I needed. I won.
It can also be kinder when it's ND related. Current roomie forgets to turn the bathroom light and heater/fan off. Drives me crazy. So I added a motion sensor. No need to put a demand on her, and I still get what I wanted.
@ferret I feel like if I was alive in the time of gas lights, I likely would have figured out how to combine a gas light valve with a clock work timer.
@Miakoda Totally. I need to do more IoT things; most I've done is a garage door opener. You say you do light switches without offending your landlord? (Presumably without messing with your place's electrical?)
@ferret Yes. For one - wiring in one that fits in the box can easily be reversed before move out. But without that, there are lightswitch covers. Turn the switch on, put on the cover. Put in a zigbee bulb, and put a zigbee button by that covered up switch.
Hola. Buen domingo para todes. 🙂 No sé como decirlo sin morirme de vergüenza y angustia: en mi pueblo de apenas 200 habitantes son las fiestas patronales este fin de semana, San Roque que fue ayer y hoy San Roquín. Y la actuación estelar que empieza en breve es la de Leticia Sabater. Ya está todo dicho. 😒 No sé si emigrar o pediros croquetas y consuelo...
In the context of the Chatcontrol attempt to get Americans to scan our photos with AI so we can be reported to Europol, the EU has even bigger plans in this direction. And they are honestly (I am told) asking for experts to advise them on these plans. You can apply until September 1st to be part of the expert group: berthub.eu/articles/posts/poss…
tl;dr: The European Commission is honestly asking for experts to advise them on ways to institute “effective and lawful access to data for law enforcement”. If you are an expert, I urge you to apply to join this group. You have until September 1st.
I wonder what's the most bang-for-your-buck advice that can be given.
I mean, "don't do it" is kind of obvious, and hundreds of people are going to sign up and say just that.
I suspect that if they DO implement it, it probably leads to actually better outcomes, because it drives more people off of centralized crap over to the fun side of the internet.
What's the lawful and effective way for "normal" people to access the private communications of law enforcement and government officials, which arguably shouldn't be private at all? That's the same process that should be used for getting communications of citizens who aren't affiliated with government.
I don't understand where in the stack they plan to insert this... They're going to force all phones to contain a backdoor? What are CIA and Mossad operating in Europe gonna do? Special phone from Israel/USA -> Stands out like a sore thumb.
I suspect Whatsapp and Signal are setup to protect covert ops, and they will just pull geopolitical strings to make sure this goes nowhere...
But if it's like some kind of thing that only half the phones have it and half the people uninstall it, then whatever, no one will care...
Probably also a CIA communication platform - because it's popular enough that someone having Signal tells you basically nothing about them. But if Europe says that the CIA needs to decrypt it's communications channel to all CIA agents, or else install a special "CIA-Only" app that completely outs them all as CIA agents, the CIA is gonna be like "hard no".
Also they openly admit that CIA uses/used TOR to communicate with CIA agents, and again it only works because there are enough people using it that having it installed does not positively identify someone as CIA....
@vic @Caleb James DeLisle @bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 In the US you can file a Freedom of Information request, but the scope of those requests is severely limited and depending upon the agency and the requests there are usually retrieval fees. That is the polite legal and usually ineffective route.
@bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 Well to all you Ur-O-Peein's out there I hope you don't mind a hardy go fuck yourself when you try to tell us American's we can't use end-to-end encryption, because not only are we going to use it but we're going to use quantum safe variants of it.
Any idea what the time commitment for this is? I have a full-time job so scared to apply as someone else would probably do a better job.
But I worked both at Wire for 3 years (E2EE chat / video calling) and Feeld for 2 years (Dating app; so lots of more direct interaction with law enforcement w.r.t. sexual abuse cases, age verification, etc). so I feel like I have an interesting perspective from both sides of the spectrum.
@arianvp count on this taking serious time. Either it is serious and takes serious time or it is not serious and it takes little time, but that corner of the quadrant is not very interesting.
Hey #fediblock a conversation got me wondering: Is there an easier way to tell which instances don't respect delete requests than just...deleting a post and seeing who doesn't delete it?
@Comrade Ferret The fediverse has a whole mix of protocols, not all of which are congruent, so even before you get into local system policies you have the issue of protocol incompatibilities. Therefore you might want to think about what you say before you say it because more likely than not it will be as permanent as the fediverse.
Firstly, most instances that reject deletes indicate such on the about page and, if it's a per-instance rule, and they announce domain blocks, the relevant api call - docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/… . Mastodon, unless running something modified I'm not aware of, categorically doesn't have this capability.
Second, just because when you delete a post and it remains on the target instance doesn't necessarily indicate they're wilfully ignoring deletes. Fediverse software in general only propagates deletes to instances it has a reason to believe have the content in the first place, think your followers, anyone who's responded to or reacted to a post, and any relays they may have configured. If I deleted an arbitrary toot on my account, one that you may have loaded manually by copying it's URL into your own instances search box, because you don't follow me and because I don't believe you to share a relay with me that relays all toots, I can't reasonably expect that toot of mine to be removed from your feed.
@Comrade Ferret Mastodon is only ONE player in the fediverse, I have a Mastodon instance (mastodon.eskimo.com) but also a Hubzilla (hubzilla.eskimo.com), and a Friendica (friendica.eskimo.com), and a Pixelfed (pixelfed.eskimo.com), and a Nextcloud (nextcloud.eskimo.com), and a Yacy (yacy.eskimo.com), although there is overlap in the protocols and some speak multiple, Friendica for example is not obligated to obey Mastodon's API or Mastodon Friendica's. It is good to the extent that they do because it is what makes the fediverse work at all, but usually one servers implementation of another's protocol is not 100%. It is good for delete's to function, else how to you limit spammers and the like, but you should not anticipate it to be a guarantee. Sites that fail to honor it, well they are going to get more than their fair share of spam.
@Nanook Yeah, I'm running Hubzilla myself. I've run Mastodon and Friendica, too, and haven't seen anything to set to ignore delete requests, so I imagine it's a bit more involved, if it's even possible with that software either.
@Comrade Ferret I don't think it is baked into the protocol of these servers but there are literally hundreds on the fediverse and there is also the potential of local hacks given that these are all open source but I think a more frequent problem is not deliberately ignoring such requests but rather incomplete protocol implementations and servers running on inadequate platform that are dropping 9/10ths of what comes in for lack of adequate resources to keep up. As an example when I first turned up my friendica instance, the database was on rotary hard drives and maxed out at about 300 tp/s, and it was consistently backed up. Now I'm running it on an 18 core/36 thread machine with 256GB of RAM and database is on RAID-1 nvme array and is capable of more than 10,000 tp/s, averaging about 1700 tp/s. People start these without any idea of the resources required. I have no doubt mine in it's infancy dropped a lot of requests. I think the bottom line is that the fediverse is not a high-reliability network in terms of individual nodes, it's main claim to fame is that by being distributed it is censorship resistant. In my view that is a VERY worthwhile objective and the reason I run so many services.
@Nanook Yeah, it took me altogether too long and talking to altogether too many people who just shrugged and told me "idk, friendica is slow" until someone finally pointed out to me that MariaDB by default only has a buffer of 128MB. Now, whether I'm running Hubzilla or Friendica, I have the buffer set to three gigs, and those get used. I'd like to spin up another instance, but I'd need another host just to do it.
@Comrade Ferret There are various buffers and cache in mariadb, the most important of which is probably innodb_buffer_pool_size, I have mine set to 80G. Ideally you want this to be as large as all of your databases if you can afford the RAM because this way your server will mainly operate out of RAM which is infinitely faster than even nvme. And friendica's database load is 92-93% read and only 7-8% write so it benefits massively from cache. Others that are important particularly for friendica are join_buffer_size and sort_buffer_size because friendica does a lot of complex joins and if these aren't large enough external file system tables are used. With them both set to 256M I get about 3% overflow to files. On my system this is not expensive because the /tmp directory where it creates these overflow tables is a tmpfs memory file system, if yours is not it will benefit even more from adequate sized buffers here. And table_open_cache ideally will be large enough to accommodate all of the database tables in your database because open is a relatively expensive operation. Another is table definition cache, again as many tables as you have. query_cache_limit, here you are advised to keep under 64M because if larger it may take longer to search the cache however locally I found this to be untrue and for my server at least 38M is the sweet spot, but again I can get away with this because the machine has 256G of RAM, this particular item is a per client item, so whatever you set it to multiply that by the number of clients you allow to determine the max memory it will eat. At this point I have roughly 4 slow queries per 10,000,000 queries with a query rate of 1700 tp/s on average.
Gavin Newsom threw trans people under the bus, palled around with fascists on his podcast, and gleefully filmed himself destroying houseless peoples' tents, but then he was mean to republicans on social media so everyone is praising him. I hate this country.
@violetmadder Newsom is the real life manifestation of the slick, handsome, corrupt, lying bad-guy politician character in countless movies and TV shows, I just don't get how so many are blind to this obvious fact 🤷♂️
I think the trolling is funny, but we need to keep banging the drum that he isn't a good guy. If he gets the dem nom then a LOT of voters will be very disinterested
The spoiler effect is voter suppression, and the DNC intentionally helped elevate Trump to a serious candidate in the first place.
They'd rather lose, and feed us to the Republicans ON PURPOSE than let us win anything we actually need. This is controlled opposition, good cop / bad cop kayfabe that makes a vile parody of democracy.
But sure, punch down and to the left instead of blaming our oppressors. They love it when you do that.
It appears that the HN search stopped pulling in new data on Friday evening. Spot-checking the HN API, I see current data matching the live front page. So I think algolia/hn-search is the right pla...
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in reply to Sir Matt • • •Sir Matt
in reply to Sir Joho the Swasselknight • • •@sirjoho Pretty much got what I expected. It did a good job of scaffolding everything out. But the game design has too much nuance for it to understand. I'd say it completed about 50% of the project in a single run. I need to review all of this and then I'll use cursor agents to tweak it into place. I'd grade this a solid B for following instructions and writing a running app.
In terms of replacing a software dev, I give it a grade D.
In terms of assisting a senior dev, solid A
Sir Matt
in reply to Sir Matt • • •@sirjoho Following up on this, turns out the game is more functional than I thought. I misunderstood what the front-end was doing. A few more tweaks and I'll be about 75% there. Which is where I wanted to be.
I'm gonna change my grade from a D to a C. With the caveat that I was able to give it very precise technical specs.
Bottom line, you need to be an experienced dev, explaining everything in intricate detail. Then it's like having a jr dev there to bang out the boring parts.