The_Decryptor

That’s “Extended ASCII”, basic ASCII only has upper and lowercase latin characters and things like <, =, >, and ?

And probably half of the control codes are still used, mostly in their original form too, teletype systems. They’re just virtual these days.

The lossy mode is a dirty hack, the lossless mode is genuinely good though.

Shame it only supports a subset of what PNG does though.

They’re just going to feed it to some LLM and then rely on the slop it outputs.

If it makes you feel any better, he didn’t steal it directly from Heinlein.

He stole it from his ex Grimes.

True, but at the same time it’s their app. They already know what profiles you’re looking at, what posts you’re viewing, and the images you view, knowing what links you’re clicking on is just another event handler.

Then you have to scan every single existing known post every time a new link is blocked, if you redirect it through a bouncer it’s a single endpoint to block any link, regardless of the source of the post (since bluesky is in theory decentralized)

They already know your IP address, you’re using their website/app.

It’s either to track outbound clicks (And potentially block them if they’re harmful, YouTube and Steam do that), or a much more unlikely option is to hide the referrer from the target site (Since browsers have better ways to handle that now, but old ones don’t)

It’s more “smallweb” oriented, but there’s also Marginalia Search, independent index, operated out of Sweden, no ads, and warns about sites that use JS and include trackers.

It might not have sit well with the fans - he might take a big swing and miss - but at least I felt like he was trying to create art instead of merely making money.

Same, I actually loved how his story had Rey as a “nobody” whose choices and actions were what made her important, SW has way too many special bloodlines, prophecies, and chosen ones.

Then Abrams does a 180 in the sequel 😑

I still hate that god damned dagger.

Probably ~15 years ago I knew a guy who used to help run a large local forum, one day without warning they got cut off entirely by Google because they decided some of their content wasn’t suitable to run ads against, so that was it the entire site got blocked.

Ended up having to break the site into 2 separate domains, one advertiser friendly, and one they wouldn’t touch.

A place I worked at did it by duplicating and modifying a function, then commenting out the existing one. The dev would leave their name and date each time, because they never deleted the old commented out functions of course, history is important.

They’d also copy the source tree around on burnt CDs, so good luck finding out who had the latest copy at any one point (Hint: It was always the lead dev, because they wouldn’t share their code, so “merging to main” involved giving them a copy of your source tree on a burnt disk)

Is it really malicious if you do it by yourself, to yourself?

What’s creating these shortcuts though, and why isn’t that considered a risk?

Valve said the same about EA when they used them to publish the Orange Box, seems they’re great as partners but not owners.

For a while Google let you blacklist domains from search results, fantastic feature so of course they killed it off.

Never knew until I immigrated to the US. And even then, its merely a brief mention on it and calls it “communism” (its not lol) and then the teachers proclaim its why “communism” is bad, USA constitution rule of law blah blah.

That’s when you bring up Kent State

How about a 6.4TB sqlite database?

https://boyter.org/posts/searchcode-bigger-sqlite-than-you/

I mean, that’s just plastic in general, it’s also why you shouldn’t reheat food in plastic containers because it can leach chemicals out of it.

Completely baseless assumption, but if there’s enough chemicals leaching from the containers into your food, you’d be able to taste it and wouldn’t be ingesting it to begin with.

It’s apparently their most asked question, it has top billing in their FAQ.

https://forgejo.org/faq/#where-does-the-name-come-from

I’m not sure why they’re separate, but I thought it had the progress import that the other versions did? So you just load your existing player into the new version instead of starting from scratch.