jayrhacker

imagine you are watching youtube on this thing and when an ad shows up, you can’t look away, even if you try to they can track your eye movement and just move the window, you can’t mute it, you certainly cannot install adblock on it, you are forced to watch the ad until it satisfies apple

WUT? Apple is very focused on privacy and the idea that a user can’t mute or install Adblock is… weird. Safari has good ad-blocking options as well as built-in anti-tracking features to protect users, applications can’t usually prevent the system from muting content and Apple doesn’t really sell ads outside of the App Store.

If you want to worry about that stuff I’d suggest focusing on the Meta VR goggles or god forbid Google starts making goggles, both of those companies survive on ad revenue and have an incentive to enshitify their experience in ways that the Apple we know today would never do. Of course companies can change over time, but the ethic at Apple is to only make products they feel comfortable with their families using.

The trick is getting the lightning into the rocks first…

Oh, it’s worse than that, it’s not garden variety “make jimmy fall in love with me” magic; it’s “call forth the daemon spirit of Fourier to transform the spectral flux into symbols for the sacred converter to interpret via the MCS scrolls into a cursed message posting to kbin…”

“You’re either a cop or little people.”

Immigration and Emigration are the most basic of human rights, without those how are you going to move to the place which has the rest that you want?

They don’t teach about Configuration Management in web-dev bootcamp

There is a huge overlap between people who would participate in Antifa and Anarchists, so you can imagine the problems getting a structured organization setup and keeping on task and purpose.

Oh, you could make Waffle Biscuits which hold onto the gravy and egg… Oh my.

Visions and hallucination are not uncommon in meditation practice. In Zen training we’re reminded that the mind generates thoughts and visions like the eyes generate sight, the ears sound and so on… The instruction in that context is not to cling to the vision so that you can return to object-less meditation.

If you are interested in how some of the older meditation traditions view different meditative states, search for Jhana or Dhyana, sentient beings have been doing this for a long time and there is a lot of helpful guidance out there to support your practice.

”Make sure you spell my name right"

if you compiled some code and then uncompiled it you would get the most efficient version of it … ?

Sorta, an optimizing compiler will always trim dead code which isn’t needed, but it will also do things that are more efficient but make the code harder to understand like unrolling loops. e.g. you might have some code that says “for numbers 1-100 call some function” the compiler can look at this and say “let’s just go ahead and insert 100 calls to that function with the specific number” so instead of a small loop you’ll see a big block of function calls almost the same.

Other optimizations will similarly obfuscate the original programmers intent, and thinks like assertions are meant to be optimized out in production code so those won’t appear in the de-compiled version of the sources.

Historically, reverse proxies were invented to manage a large number of slow connections to application servers which were relatively resource intensive. If your application requires N bytes of memory per transaction then the time between the request coming in and the response going out could pin those bytes in memory, as the web server can’t move ahead to the next request until the client confirms it got the whole page.

A reverse proxy can spool in requests from slow clients, when they are complete, then hand them off to the app servers on the backend, the response is generated and sent to the reverse proxy, which can slowly spool the response data out while the app server moves onto the next request.

ZFS will let you setup a RAID like set of small volumes which mirror one larger volume, it takes some setup, but that’s the most “elegant” solution in that once it’s configured you only need to touch it when you add a volume to the system and it’s just a mounted filesystem that you use.

Does not solve the off-site problem, one fire and it’s all gone.

For Science!

Under the heading: “Digital Signage Display”

Three Words: Digital Signage Display

You think someone would just do that? Just go on the internet and lie?

Web sites and pages come and go, but the search engine indices are forever. The Internet Archive, for example, uses data from a search engine crawler to populate their archive of the internet (until Alexa was shut down by Amazon, they do their own crawling now). Google likely has a lot of old internet data in archives as well.

True, but if all the data was encrypted, then the drive formatted it would require physically dismantling an HDD in a clean room to recover data, for SSDs the wear leveling makes it hard to fully erase anything, but again, after encrypting and formatting the cost of the tools needed to get the data back are well above the potential benefit (i.e. there are easier ways to get people’s personal info)

One round rock salt, one bird shot, one buck shot, nothing bug slugs after that.