petrichor's recent activity
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Comment on Kagi Small Web in ~tech
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Comment on Jet Lag | Season 9 trailer : Hide and Seek across Switzerland in ~hobbies
petrichor Link ParentNo spoilers They discuss this some in their Layover podcast, but all of the bad curses were really bad: the last six curses all allowed the hider to move, which would completely invalidate every...No spoilers
They discuss this some in their Layover podcast, but all of the bad curses were really bad: the last six curses all allowed the hider to move, which would completely invalidate every question already asked. They just kind of all rolled statistically unlikely easy curses all season.
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Comment on The right to change sex in ~lgbt
petrichor LinkWhat a wonderfully well-written article. It hits home on a large number of personal points. Thanks for sharing.What a wonderfully well-written article. It hits home on a large number of personal points. Thanks for sharing.
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KDE Plasma 6 is (mega) released
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Comment on Active US Air Force serviceman self-immolates himself in front of the Embassy of Israel in ~news
petrichor Link ParentI didn't know that. You're right: thinking about it again, I entirely take back that joining the United States military (in support services or in combat roles) implies one is willing to die for...I didn't know that. You're right: thinking about it again, I entirely take back that joining the United States military (in support services or in combat roles) implies one is willing to die for it. Even ignoring support services, there's definitely too much recruiting and too many incentives to join the military to treat that as a oath of commitment in that sense. I guess I'd only say that about... signing up for the military during an active and prolonged conflict?
I do think that the rest of my comment holds, though. He chose self-immolation to be his most effective form of protest. And I'm definitely glorifying it because it lines up with my views. That's the point. That's his point.
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Comment on Active US Air Force serviceman self-immolates himself in front of the Embassy of Israel in ~news
petrichor Link ParentI don't think that being willing to die for a cause is automatically emblematic of mental health issues. This man was an Air Force serviceman. He was already willing to die for the United States....I really don't love the implication that this was automatically noble and not a disturbing example of extremism and mental health issues.
I don't think that being willing to die for a cause is automatically emblematic of mental health issues.
This man was an Air Force serviceman. He was already willing to die for the United States. And when he saw his country doing something indefensible, that he was obligated by oath and position to defend, he chose by his own principles and volition that his most effective act of protest was self-immolation.
It's horrid. That's the point. He intended his death to spark international outrage.
I think he died a noble death.
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Comment on Active US Air Force serviceman self-immolates himself in front of the Embassy of Israel in ~news
petrichor Link ParentThis is an impactful and self-contained enough event I'd prefer for it to not be in the weekly thread.This is an impactful and self-contained enough event I'd prefer for it to not be in the weekly thread.
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Active US Air Force serviceman self-immolates himself in front of the Embassy of Israel
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The billionaire who wants to live forever has Long COVID
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Comment on A 2024 plea for lean software in ~comp
petrichor Link ParentCan you elaborate? This doesn't seem true. I can write an ECS in any language.Languages where you don't control memory (for example) might seem like an efficiency boost, but the drawback is you can't optimise for memory access patterns, which makes programs slow.
Can you elaborate? This doesn't seem true. I can write an ECS in any language.
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Comment on UBC student flies to school from Calgary (because Vancouver is that unaffordable to live in) in ~life
petrichor Link ParentHe is also in school for one term only, which makes it more reasonable. Most places want a year long lease.He is also in school for one term only, which makes it more reasonable. Most places want a year long lease.
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Comment on UBC student flies to school from Calgary (because Vancouver is that unaffordable to live in) in ~life
petrichor Link ParentHis commute is also shorter than yours was. 1h 30 minutes for the flight, 40 minutes for other transportation.His commute is also shorter than yours was. 1h 30 minutes for the flight, 40 minutes for other transportation.
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Comment on <deleted topic> in ~lgbt
petrichor Link ParentI don't, and I'm pretty familiar with the tagging conventions you and mycketforvirrad follow, but I'm not really on here as much as I used to be. I might take you up on that if I become more...I don't, and I'm pretty familiar with the tagging conventions you and mycketforvirrad follow, but I'm not really on here as much as I used to be. I might take you up on that if I become more active again in the future.
(but your all's efforts in tagging are extremely appreciated! i only bring this up because i was unsure if tagging stories that may not explicitly mention transphobia, but are about transphobic legislation, is a convention you all actively follow.)
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Comment on <deleted topic> in ~lgbt
petrichor Link ParentWhile tags are mentioned: could I request that the transphobia and homophobia tags be more consistently attached to such news stories? It's about 50-50 whether they are or aren't right now.While tags are mentioned: could I request that the
transphobiaandhomophobiatags be more consistently attached to such news stories? It's about 50-50 whether they are or aren't right now. -
Comment on ‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says in ~tech
petrichor Link ParentTangentially, I find it to be such a shame that much of the individual pushback against these soulless corporations sucking up people's life work for profit has focused on reinforcing our existing...Tangentially, I find it to be such a shame that much of the individual pushback against these soulless corporations sucking up people's life work for profit has focused on reinforcing our existing bullshit intellectual property laws rather than accepting that they are harmful and cut us off from our own culture, and not put thought into shattering the copyright system and embracing the better, already successful ways to fund art and artists (Patreon, Bandcamp, Itch.io, and the like).
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Comment on ‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says in ~tech
petrichor LinkThey're wrong. The MIT license is the most popular software license in the world and the majority of projects on GitHub are licensed under it. Content on Wikipedia and the Stack Exchange network...“Because copyright today covers virtually every sort of human expression – including blogposts, photographs, forum posts, scraps of software code, and government documents – it would be impossible to train today’s leading AI models without using copyrighted materials,” said OpenAI in its submission, first reported by the Telegraph.
They're wrong. The MIT license is the most popular software license in the world and the majority of projects on GitHub are licensed under it. Content on Wikipedia and the Stack Exchange network is CC-BY-SA, and images on Wikimedia Commons are public domain. These all permit usage by essentially anyone for any purpose, so long as modifications to the content are propagated under a compatible license. And these are massive datasets.
What OpenAI has done to get a hand on their datasets is explicitly in the wrong: Twitter, Instagram, the New York Times, Getty Images, etc all have provisions in their terms of use stating explicitly: "you are not allowed to scrape content without prior consent [of the company]". The legal backing of "Terms of Service" on websites I do not know, but OpenAI very very much broke them.
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Alexei Navalny disappears for three weeks; reappears at isolated Arctic penal colony
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Comment on Circumventing network bans with WireGuard in ~comp
petrichor LinkThis is a neat tutorial. If you're on Arch instead of Nix, and using Mullvad, you can use the mullvad-vpn package. It'll set up systemd services and the like to force all connections through...This is a neat tutorial. If you're on Arch instead of Nix, and using Mullvad, you can use the mullvad-vpn package. It'll set up systemd services and the like to force all connections through Mullvad for you.
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Comment on 4-year campaign backdoored iPhones using possibly the most advanced exploit ever in ~comp
petrichor Link ParentNo. Luckily, as long as you're not a journalist, security researcher, or in politics, you'll likely be fine. Apple is actually exceedingly good as far as security goes: these are astonishing...No. Luckily, as long as you're not a journalist, security researcher, or in politics, you'll likely be fine.
Apple is actually exceedingly good as far as security goes: these are astonishing hacks. Their Lockdown Mode would have prevented this attack, were it enabled (by blocking PDF attachments in iMessage: and possibly by blocking the Safari exploit). Though given the complexity of the attacks here, chances are the attackers had some way around it...
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Comment on Are there other good aggregator sites? in ~tech
petrichor Link Parent(aside: LMFAO THE TOPIC GOT FLAGGED) I think I would disagree. There's more than a fiscally conservative bend to the average HN commentator, there's a socially conservative bend too, and there's...(aside: LMFAO THE TOPIC GOT FLAGGED)
I think I would disagree. There's more than a fiscally conservative bend to the average HN commentator, there's a socially conservative bend too, and there's also... what I can only really describe as mansplaining?
Avoid anything involving universities. Avoid anything involving history. Avoid anything involving politics. Avoid anything involving tech, if the people behind that tech so happen to be too queer. There's a reason quite a lot of bloggers - jwz, Xe Iaso, everyone at Asahi Linux, pretty much the entirety of Mastodon... - hold Hacker News in contempt, and it's more than just the tendency of people there trying to show off what they know or just looked up for internet points.
SearXNG has gotten a lot better over the past year. Particularly, some work to allow boosting/blocking domains in the same vein of Kagi was merged. I haven't had any issues with reliability: when one backend fails, the other backends still work fine, and I very rarely encounter any failures at all - though it should be noted I have never gone longer than ~ a month without updating it.