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- climate change is fake

- 5G causes cancer

- bitcoin is a scam

Your substantive and well-reasoned argument fits right in with that list ;)

Yeah I hate this spammy marketing speak.

> Whether you've taken a few photos with your phone's camera or you're a professional photographer with terabytes of digital negatives, Adélie gives you the tools you need to manage and view all your photos.

Translation:

> Adélie installs digiKam by default

How is it impossible? I would think an MD5 quine exists with probability approaching 1 as the size of the document grows to infinity. Think about the reduced problem:

1. a document containing "1", whose hash begins with "1"

2. a document containing "12", whose hash begins with "12"

3. a document containing "123", whose hash begins with "123"

#1 is certain to exist. #2 exists, but would take 16x as long to brute force. #3 would take 16x longer again. If this pattern doesn't continue until 2^128, where would it stop, and why?

All hashes can be brute forced this way, even secure ones SHA-2. Its security relies on the fact that the earth doesn't contain enough computing power to execute a brute force attack within the universe's lifetime.

In a way that means the copyright lobbyists have won. You don't find the list interesting now, but 14+14 years after 1928 you would have. A lot of it would still be fresh in our collective minds. Now in 2024, most of it is dead to us.

What about 14+14 years ago (1996)... can you think of any music/movies from the mid-90s or before that would be interesting to remix? I sure can. But very few people are still going to care in 1996+95 = the year 2091.

So instead of "There is a good identity", GP should have said "There are about 200 good identities around the world, but if your country happens to not have a single unified ID system you're out of luck"

I'd never use an account someone else made for me either. Who knows if after you created it, you added some recovery questions or a recovery email or saved the login cookie or who knows what else? I'll stick with my fresh account made on my own PC through my own connection, thanks.

> There is no fair or private use of hyper-realistic fake money.

What about every movie ever made where two people trade a briefcase full of cash?

Indeed. It's a multistep process, like changing the oil in your car.

Step 1. drain the old oil

Step 2. pour in the new oil

If you skip step 2 and damage your car, it doesn't mean oil changes are an unmitigated disaster. It means you didn't fucking do it right!

I don't know what I'd do if Firefox died. Maybe it's time Firefox starts diversifying itself away from Mozilla.

I had the opposite thought -- I bet the new color mixing will increase payload size. Which of these would you rather send over the wire?

  A) color-mix(in srgb, var(--primary-color), white 50%)
  B) #abcdef

For me to give up scss, there needs to be a minifier that calculates colors ahead of time and emits them plain, the way scss does. (Maybe there already is, who knows)

> And although Google permits third-party app distribution platforms, it still requires apps to use its billing system.

Can someone explain this line? If you publish an app on an alternative app store and someone downloads it on their de-googled phone, how in the world would Google prevent it from making a few API calls to Paypal?

  alias ..='cd ..'
  alias ...='cd ../..'
  alias ....='cd ../../..'
  alias .....='cd ../../../..'
  alias ......='cd ../../../../..'
  alias .......='cd ../../../../../..'

Merry christmas, HN!