charonn0 (u/charonn0)

charonn0 commented on Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise wikimediastatus.net... · Posted by u/greyface-

MagicMoonlight · 8 days ago

They have no incentive to improve the site, because they’re a for-profit entity.

Despite the constant screeching for donations, the entire site is owned by a company with shareholders. All the “donations” go to them. They already met their funding needs for the next century a long time ago, this is all profit.

charonn0 · 8 days ago

That's a serious accusation. Can you elaborate? What is the name of the company? Why does the Wikimedia Foundation claim ownership? And if you're referring to the Wikimedia Foundation, then what do you mean by "shareholders"?

charonn0 commented on Was Windows 1.0's lack of overlapping windows a legal or a technical matter? retrocomputing.stackexcha... · Posted by u/SeenNotHeard

CanopyCoder · 9 days ago

The likelihood of any legal restriction was probably close to zero - it’s only from today’s era of hyper-regulation that we might even imagine something like that.

Most likely it was a deliberate technical limitation. After all, dialog windows themselves were already overlapped. I remember well what a headache it was to program and render graphical elements on those old machines (PC AT 80286 with 256 KB of RAM).

charonn0 · 9 days ago

I don't think regulations are the legal restrictions people are referring to, but rather private lawsuits.

charonn0 commented on A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification pcgamer.com/software/oper... · Posted by u/WalterSobchak

rhinoceraptor · 14 days ago

How wouldn't this also apply to things like useradd(8) or simply automated user account setup, e.g. like cups, sshd, etc? Do we need to add this to vi for use in vipw on UNIX?

charonn0 · 13 days ago

Maybe the OS could ship with preconfigured age-range based usergroups. When you add a new user you could simply add them to the appropriate usergroup.

>> useradd -G under13usergroup username

charonn0 commented on A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification pcgamer.com/software/oper... · Posted by u/WalterSobchak

charonn0 · 14 days ago

Skimming the actual text of the law[1], I don't see anything particularly objectionable. Basically it requires a toggle when creating/editing a local user account that signals "this user is/is not a child". Applications could then tailor their content for child/not child audiences.

Which isn't to suggest that it's a good law, just not really "age verification".

[1]: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

charonn0 commented on Leaving Google has actively improved my life pseudosingleton.com/leavi... · Posted by u/speckx

charonn0 · 14 days ago

> I can't think of any other differentiating features in Gmail. Ads in my mail? Nostalgia?

Originally, the differentiating features were multi-gigabyte storage limits and the public's goodwill towards Google, Inc.

Gigabyte storage is now the norm, public goodwill for Alphabet, Inc. is minimal, and so there's nothing that really sets Gmail apart anymore.

charonn0 commented on AI uBlock Blacklist github.com/alvi-se/ai-ubl... · Posted by u/rdmuser

filldorns · 20 days ago

So what? Your proposal is to change nothing, continue as is, and subtly continue using terms like "blacklist" as something bad and "whitelist" as something good... I don't think I understand your point. I don't see any real sense in it.

Unfortunately, MANY people still think this is nonsense and shouldn't be given attention. What you don't understand is that you subtly say that things from Black people are bad and things from white people are good. Do you know what that causes in the end?

A company "of Black people" applies for YC and has a higher chance of being rejected than a company of/for white people, even if it's a necessary solution. You doubt it? Try it!

charonn0 · 20 days ago

No, I'm not proposing to change nothing, continue as is, nor do I use coded language to express my secret inner racism.

I'm saying that changing words like "blacklist" or "master" is purely performative and actually quite selfish. People do it to feel good about themselves for "helping" without actually having to do anything helpful. It's the moral equivalent of sending "thoughts and prayers".

charonn0 commented on AI uBlock Blacklist github.com/alvi-se/ai-ubl... · Posted by u/rdmuser

filldorns · 20 days ago

Come on guys, 2026 and you still using "blacklist". Why not BlockList?

charonn0 · 20 days ago

Because changing blacklist to blocklist, master to main, etc. is a meaningless act of virtue signalling.

charonn0 commented on Verizon outages reported across U.S. firstcoastnews.com/articl... · Posted by u/Scubabear68

SoftTalker · 2 months ago

Comcast doesn't let you change your DNS unless you run your own router. And they also rate limit you if you do.

charonn0 · 2 months ago

Pretty sure you can do it at the individual device level, in the OS's network settings.

charonn0 commented on High Performance SSH/SCP psc.edu/hpn-ssh-home/... · Posted by u/gslin

riobard · 3 months ago

"(sftp) packetizes the data and waits for responses, effectively re-implementing the TCP window inside a TCP stream."

why is it designed this way? what problems it's supposed to solve?

charonn0 · 3 months ago

Notably, the SFTP specification was never completed. We're working off of draft specs, and presumably these issues wouldn't have made it into a final version.

charonn0 commented on Microsoft makes Zork open-source opensource.microsoft.com/... · Posted by u/tabletcorry

AdmiralAsshat · 4 months ago

Why does Microsoft own the rights to Zork?

charonn0 · 4 months ago

Because they bought Activision, who owned the rights since the 80's.