SlurpingPus

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One man's trash is another man's garbage⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, that was what I’m most familiar with, and it felt neat as heck. 2014 is probably part of overall change away from Jobs’ skeuomorphism to glass texture that Jony Ive likes.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One man's trash is another man's garbage⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:
2006 is actually close to MacOS’ trash icons, which indeed always looked way better.

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One man's trash is another man's garbage⁩ ⁨⁨36⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:
…And Windows’ recycling bin icons were shit ever since, except for Vista, where the icon actually resembled those used in OSX.

The suit was filed in 1988, when 2.0 was the latest release of Windows. I couldn’t find what the trash bin icon looked like in it, but Macintosh back then had wonderful icons designed by Susan Kare:

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Windows 3.1 seems to have had a pretty neat icon, if this page is correct, but it might’ve already been updated after the initial decision in the case, or just as an overall refresh.

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Do you know how law works? There’s no law against Newell accepting cash from Russia. Whereas, if the US wanted, they would easily make a law saying it’s forbidden to accept any kind of payment from Russia.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Are you aware of what you yourself wrote in the original comment?

Russia is sanctioned and they are not supposed be able to make purchases at all.

Explain to me why they’re supposed to not be able to make purchases.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
There are no ‘Western sanctions’ that prohibit from selling stuff to all Russians. Visa and MasterCard stopped doing cross-border transactions by their own decision, and most Russian banks are cut off from SWIFT. That’s all, aside from more individual and sector-specific sanctions.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
It’s well-known that there are levels of engagement with content, with fewer people doing the more involved things. Most people just scroll past everything. Single digits percentage upvote posts. Fewer go into the comments, and again maybe 10% of those participate in comments. The ratio of every level is different on different platforms, but it’s there.

For platforms with pretty quick flow like Reddit and Lemmy, the ratio naturally falls off hard. Something like Hacker News rewards slower and more thoughtful engagement with content and threads, so I’d guess they have a larger share of active commenters — although OTOH you don’t quite want to show up with mindless predictable comments like prevalent here.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

Russia is sanctioned and they are not supposed be able to make purchases at all.

Might want to try finding sources for this, because you’ll discover this is untrue.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have clankers visited my blog one hundred twenty-one sexagintillion eight hundred ten novemquinquagintillion times so far in November??⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
This here is the implementation of sha256 in the slow language JavaScript:
```
const msgUint8 = new TextEncoder().encode(message);
const hashBuffer = await window.crypto.subtle.digest("SHA-256", msgUint8);
const hashHex = new Uint8Array(hashBuffer).toHex();
```
You imagined that JS had to have that done from scratch, with sticks and mud? Every OS has cryptographic facilities, and every major browser supplies an API to that.

As for using it to filter out bots, Anubis does in fact get it a bit wrong. You have to incur this cost at every webpage hit, not once a week. So you can’t just put Anubis in front of the site, you need to have the JS on every page, and if the challenge is not solved until the next hit, then you pop up the full page saying ‘nuh-uh’, and probably make the browser do a harder challenge and also check a bunch of heuristics like go-away does.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perfect size for brats⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Are ‘cocktail sausages’ made from a variety of meats boiled, cured, or smoked — shaken, but not quite stirred, so to say?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have clankers visited my blog one hundred twenty-one sexagintillion eight hundred ten novemquinquagintillion times so far in November??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
I mean, I thought it was long dead. It’s twenty-five years old, and the web has changed quite a bit in that time. No one uses Perl anymore, for starters. I used Open Web Analytics, Webalizer, or somesuch by 2008 or so. I remember Webalizer being snappy as heck.

I tinkered with log analysis myself back then, peeping into the source of AWStats and others. Learned that a humongous regexp with like two hundred alternative matches for the user-agent string was way faster than trying to match them individually — which of course makes sense seeing as regexps work as state-machines in sort of a bytecode close to machine code. My first attempts, in comparison, were laughably naive and slow. Ah, what a time.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have clankers visited my blog one hundred twenty-one sexagintillion eight hundred ten novemquinquagintillion times so far in November??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

Awstats

I thought I recognized it. Hell of a blast from the past, haven’t seen it in fifteen years at least.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have clankers visited my blog one hundred twenty-one sexagintillion eight hundred ten novemquinquagintillion times so far in November??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

The deterrent might work temporarily until the challenge pattern is recognised, but there’s no actual protection here, just obscurity.

Anubis uses a proof-of-work challenge to ensure that clients are using a modern browser and are able to calculate SHA-256 checksums. Anubis has a customizable difficulty for this proof-of-work challenge, but defaults to 5 leading zeroes.

Please tell me how you’re gonna un-obscure a proof-of-work challenge requiring calculation of hashes.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perfect size for brats⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Wikipedia says this approach originated in Germany, called ‘Würstchen im Schlafrock’. Afaik it’s popular in Eastern Europe.

English-speakers may know it as ‘pigs in a blanket’.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨**How** should I properly document my homelab?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Use Ansible or some such solution like Puppet, Salt or Chef, just like the big boys do. If you don’t have a unified editable config for your machines, you don’t really have a homelab, you just have a pile of hardware instead.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cows are made of grass⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, carnivores basically have herbivores use the four stomachs to digest tons of low-nutrition grass for them, and then scoop all the good parts by eating the herbivores.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An entire PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory, even after a discount — simple memory kit jumps to $600 due to DRAM shortage, and it's expected to get worse into 2026⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
In theory laptops and assembled PCs should lag behind the parts market, so there might still be time.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An entire PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory, even after a discount — simple memory kit jumps to $600 due to DRAM shortage, and it's expected to get worse into 2026⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I mean, memory companies are like shovel sellers in a gold rush. They should be fine and dandy.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An entire PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory, even after a discount — simple memory kit jumps to $600 due to DRAM shortage, and it's expected to get worse into 2026⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I’d try seeing if the second-hand market is still behind on the pricing.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨now kith⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

bonus panels on Patreon

It’s marine porn, isn’t it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Youtube Videos are like going to the garbage and remixing everything so it's shiny and new.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
In my experience, YouTube without history is the garbage. It looks like cheap Jerry Springer-style tv that apparently people in my country watch.

I taught YouTube for years what I watch, and thankfully recommendations mostly reflect that. Although I’d still watch maybe one out of ten of them.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Youtube Videos are like going to the garbage and remixing everything so it's shiny and new.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Stories like this circulated on Reddit before AI. The latest one was about a lion or a tiger being friends with the goat brought for them to eat. Iirc the animals had to be separated after a while, because they started squabbling.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Youtube Videos are like going to the garbage and remixing everything so it's shiny and new.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Recommendations are actually great if you skim through them on a video you liked and save promising videos to ‘watch later’. Personally I have a dozen ‘watch later’ playlists by topic, with dozens videos in each — so I could live off these playlists for a year.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Well, it seems that you don’t have the internal monologue as a mandatory part of your everyday life, instead using it sporadically as a helping instrument — which also translates to you not using it when reading, for the most part.

Although it seems weird to me that you’re using narration for conceptual things, and not ones describing tangible stuff. Since you’re a borderline case, you might want to commit yourself to one of the neuropsychology departments, for us normies to study what the hell is going on in your brain.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
The person who recommended those books said they ‘teach how to draw what you see instead of what the brain tells you to draw’. Which is a bit odd, and I don’t know if they meant drawing from references specifically, but it kinda sounds like it might help with capturing an object how it should look. Especially since their ‘after’ example was a detailed drawing of a crow down to the feathers.

I’m actually simultaneously intrigued and a bit wary of these books, since I prefer unrealistic and quirky style and want to develop one like that for myself, but am afraid I might go for detailed looks if I learn to do that.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Spatial skills seem to be separate from visualization. Elsewhere in the thread a commenter said they can’t visualize, but do very well with rotating objects in the mind and fitting shapes together.

As to your question, people indeed can imagine smells, tastes, and sounds. Smells are supposedly one of the strongest factors in evoking memories — although my own olfaction was always questionable and got worse with age, but some strong smells still elicit recall from ages ago, e.g. the mechanical smell of subway around here when I haven’t been in it for fifteen years.

Another commenter said they can imagine the taste of a dish from its ingredients, which I can do only approximately.

However, I’m pretty good with imagining sound, particularly music — while knowing jackshit about music theory. This actually brings some annoyance, as I’m trying lately to finally do some music production, and it never sounds quite like I want it to.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

I wouldn’t be surprised if those people are also generally #5 or thereabouts on this chart

Afaik the two are unrelated. I’d guess the ‘narration’ is rather tied to the internal monologue. E.g. I’m around 2 or 3 on visualization, but have lots of monologuing going on constantly, and likewise ‘hear’ the text being read unless I specifically try to skim. It’s also worse in the second language, which is English for me, while I can read my native language faster — I’ve noticed before that the second language requires more brain processing and isn’t absorbed as directly.

Do you have the internal monologue, when not reading?

The ‘speed reading’ technique, of which you might’ve heard, is all about turning off the internal narration while reading and just absorbing the text directly. However, studies show that for most people, the narration helps comprehension and recall; and also that everyone or nearly everyone has subvocalization when reading, i.e. involuntary muscle movement of the throat, mirroring the words that they’re reading.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
We have hardware in the brain wired to recognize faces. For some people it’s not working too well, independently of the other abilities.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

I’m coming to think there is a lot more nuance to this than the 5 images let on.

It’s just that spatial skills are separate from the visualization ability, and are judged separately. I’ve been told even that people with aphantasia can do the ‘memory palace’ mnemonic technique, though I can’t quite see how.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Well, if it makes anyone feel better, I’m somewhere around 2 or 3. But that’s really nothing to write about.