OmarAssadi

Yeah, I haven't yet taken a serious look into it from that perspective yet, but similar came to mind; while, outside of bootstrapping the JDK from GCJ, Boehm GC hasn't been super relevant to me for "release" builds of anything, it's been useful in leak detection mode on occasion.

I figure even if you cannot use, or do not want to use, something like Fil-C in production, there's solid potential for it to augment whatever existing suite of sanitizers and other tools that one may already build against.

Nothing stopping you from using one with totally modern systems as well, except for the ever increasing prices, I guess. Anyway, yeah, same as some of the others already mentioned, but I don't think I actually owned any sort of standalone display—be it a monitor or television—that wasn't CRT until ~2009 or so?

I used my mom's iMac G3 (CRT) probably until 2004 or so, because I distinctly remember getting stuck on Tutorial Island on RuneScape as a kid, since you had to Right-click -> "Prospect Rock", and at the time, I had no idea how to actually do it with Apple's single-button mice lmao.

Aside from the couple of laptops that came later, I don't think I had moved on [for the worse] until a bit after I put together my first DIY computer (Phenom II 920, etc); I still had a CRT TV in my room long enough to have been using it when Halo Reach came out.

Do you happen to have any examples, if you're allowed to share and comfortable doing so?

Always found differences in teaching styles and curriculum interesting as is, but I am curious about how others are balancing the new additional challenges of combating LLMs without making the material significantly more difficult to understand.

I mean, I agree that you should be able to avoid things like Netflix and make use of libraries and other archives, but that's sort of the point; there is a ton of media that never even gets a physical release anymore; once one of these platforms goes under, or something enters licensing hell, or whatever else and gets removed, all you can do is hope someone out there with both the know-how and access went out of their way to illegally download a copy, illegally decrypt it, and illegally upload it somewhere.

I say "know-how" and "access" because, while I'd still argue decrypting, say, Widevine L3 is not exactly super common knowledge, decrypting things like 4K Netflix content, among other things, generally requires you to have something like a Widevine L1 CDM from one of the Netflix-approved devices, which typically sits in those hardware trusted execution environments, so you need an active valuable exploit or insider leaks from someone at one of the manufacturers.

But also on top of all of that, you also need to hope other people kept the upload alive by the time you decide to access it, and then you also often need to have access to various semi-elitist private trackers to consistently be able to even find some of this stuff.

The legal issues with DRM here are hardly exclusive to Netflix and other streaming services, but at least in the case of things like Blu-rays or whatever — even if it is technically illegal in most countries to actually make use of virtually any backed-up disc due to AACS — you usually don't have the same time-pressure problem nor the significant technical expertise barrier.

>If streaming services like Netflix are harmful then we should avoid using them. Thus it should not be important for our freedom-preserving computers to be able to access Netflix.

I generally do avoid them whenever possible, though, yes. And I've explicitly disabled DRM support in Firefox on my computer. But I am just one person and I don't think my behavior reflects the average person, for better or for worse.

Sure, Netflix may not be as important as, say, housing, food, or whatever else, but I think there is something to be said about the cultural importance of [at the very least some] film and television.

There's a lot of media worth studying, analyzing, and preserving. And in that sense, between the constant churn of catalog items, exclusive content, and the egregious DRM, I think these sorts of streaming services are, unfortunately, kind of harmful.

Personally, it is one of the flags, yeah. It's been a while since I've tried ChatGPT or some of the others, but the structure and particular usage felt a lot like what I'd have gotten out of deepseek.

It's not a binary thing, of course, but it's definitely an LLM smell, IMO.

Early into high school, I needed something to take to class, but since I already had a decent desktop at home, plus we were broke, I picked up some cheap Asus K55N; AMD A8-4500M, 4GB DDR3, etc -- nothing particularly fancy; only upgrade I did to it was removing the mechanical hard drive and swapping in my old 120GB Corsair Force GT.

I eventually upgraded, went off to university, etc. When I finally came home, I found out my mom apparently "borrowed" it, figured out how to install Ubuntu, and has been using it ever since for grading papers and what not.

No idea how much longer it will remain in use, but aside from the awful screen, ironically, honestly, I think the browser and the seemingly ever increasing resource requirements of the web will eventually be the only thing that finally causes an upgrade.

Oops, realized too late that I deleted a sentence by accident; I gave the GPU to my younger brother.

I feel that.

It's difficult to justify any new hardware until I'm in a better place; while it'd be nice, I'm not suffering enough to /need/ a new system.

Until the beginning of 2020, during university, I was still on a 3930K from launch-day in ~2011 and GTX 680. Honestly, I'm not sure I would've bothered if it weren't also for the fact that I wanted to be able to test AVX2 implementations of some of my code without relying on an emulator or someone else's machine every time.

It probably helped that I mostly only care about Source games and RuneScape. But I haven't really played anything since my ex-girlfriend and I broke up in ~2022.

I took his RX 480 to have a display-out and gave him my 2070 Super so it wouldn't go to waste.

There is something beautiful about how U.S. news outlets were always going on about how Russia is a dictatorship, with rigged elections, where you'll be beaten, arrested or killed for protesting or speaking out--Russians supposedly have no agency. And yet simultaneously, now, Russians apparently must be held accountable for everything their government ever does, because they "voted him in" or "should overthrow Putin".

We can't have it both ways. Either Russia is a functioning democracy (which I don't personally believe exists anywhere but that is another topic), or perhaps the average person does not actually have very much say in such events.

Sanctions are meant to harm innocent people as much as possible, on purpose, with the idea being that it will cause so much unrest that the government either caves to the pressure or the people revolt. While I find that very sick in and of itself, I would at least appreciate it if we were honest about that rather than making contradictory moral statements.

That said, worse yet, almost hilariously, I cannot think of a single time sanctions have ever truly worked in a situation even remotely similar to that of Russia. Just think about countries like North Korea, Iran, Cuba, Syria, etc -- like it or not, these countries have not toppled as a result of the sanctions. Do they hurt? Yes, of course, but they evidently do not destroy nations the way we believed they would.

Instead, the innocent are hurt, as was the intention, yet the goal never gets achieved. North Korea still has nuclear weapons, and all we've done is force Iran to develop its own industry, such that, ironically, it is now capable of sending weapons to aid Russia.

While looking into Acme several months back, I actually bumped into this; there just don't seem to be many editors that draw inspiration from Acme's workflow rather than borrowing from things like Vim, Emacs, or more traditional mouse-based GUI editors -- e.g., Notepad++, Sublime, Kate, VS Code, etc -- so Anvil popped up pretty much instantly while searching around for similar concepts.

However, as someone who hadn't, and unfortunately, still hasn't, spent a load of time using Acme, it wasn't super clear to me how they differentiate from each other. I wasn't totally sure whether it was more of a clone made for fun of it, or whether Anvil was trying to solve a genuine issue that Acme wasn't, or was trying to solve in its own distinct way, or perhaps trying to address a gripe with Acme itself, etc.

If anyone working on the project could highlight some of the differences in features and goals, or if anyone who has used one or the other long enough to notice some stuff at a glance, it'd be super helpful as an outsider to both. Superficially, I do see syntax highlighting, but I figure there's probably more going on than that.

Also, is there any sort of publicly accessible version control? I see the source archives, but I couldn't find any sort of mention of git or any other vcs.

FWIW, by the way, I hope asking about a comparison doesn't come across as some sort of dismissive, "what's the point", comment; it was just cool and interesting enough that this isn't the first time I've wanted to ask.

> Bear in mind that "invasive tracking" is also used for protection of the vulnerable.

If we're going to go down the "think of the children" path, I'd argue invasive tracking is used far more often for persecuting the vulnerable. But anyway, if you want an ultra locked-down machine for schools running Apple devices, use MDM, Santa or whatever else, and network filtering like everyone else.

I'm getting very tired of the idea that we need to bend to ad agencies and absurd government abuse in the supposed name of protecting the innocent. It's suffocating for everyone.

Some people online are strange and scary no doubt; I know that better than anyone. But kids will be kids, and they'll do dangerous things without you knowing; people go home and talk to strangers on Discord or whatever else all day and no amount of browser fingerprinting is going to change that.

Maybe I am the crazy one, though, I don't know. But I only learned to program because I wasn't caged up; I couldn't have been older than six years old or so when my friend introduced me to this MMO, RuneScape, which I became obsessed with. And like all dumb kids, I eventually tried to look for cheats, of course, there were none, but I stumbled upon some reverse engineering forums where people were collaborating and trying to build their own server emulators for the game. It was interesting, so I stuck around, and it incrementally forced me to learn just about everything I could really need -- from software to things like "oh gosh, we've suddenly got players, but now we're getting slammed by some dude's botnet; I am twelve and BlackLotus wants $500 a month for a server with any sort of DDoS mitigation, so we need to figure out how to deal with this on our own".

I had good times, and I had many terrifying times, but at the end of the day, my life would be entirely different if I grew up sheltered and shackled to an iPad with no way to truly investigate the things that interested me. I'm very glad I stole my mom's PowerBook to stay up all night in the vBulletin shoutbox with people no sane person would normally want their child hanging around.

I was right about to go to another site and had to do a double-take when my eyes caught the title; I hadn't thought about her in YEARS. I hope it's boxxy on purpose.