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harvie commented on The Article in the Most Languages   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wik... · Posted by u/vhcr
harvie · 13 days ago
This only offers me 19 languages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Woodard The article claims that it has 335
harvie commented on Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives   blog.cloudflare.com/perpl... · Posted by u/rrampage
harvie · 20 days ago
Maybe we can just configure webservers to block anyone who requests robots.txt, regular browsers don't do it, but robots do to get list of urls to crawl (while ignoring rules). Just create simple PHP/CGI script that adds client IP addres to iptables once /robots.txt is accessed.
harvie commented on Kyoto University team develops pain reliever comparable to morphine   japantimes.co.jp/news/202... · Posted by u/nogajun
raylad · 20 days ago
It works by causing a release of noadrenalin.

Prediction: It will end up being used by the military and/or fighters to provide instantaneous muscle strength coupled with pain relief from overexertion.

harvie · 20 days ago
Isn't that just gonna keep the patients in constant fight-or-flight mode? Perhaps developing PTSD or something over time...
harvie commented on Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down   pcgamer.com/games/masterc... · Posted by u/croes
harvie · 21 days ago
There already was a time when Steam managed to free people from need to use funny pieces of plastic in their lifes... They've done that with CDs, they can do it again with Cards.
harvie commented on Fully homomorphic encryption and the dawn of a private internet   bozmen.io/fhe... · Posted by u/barisozmen
harvie · a month ago
Ok, lets stop being delusional here. I'll tell you how this will actualy work:

Imagine your device sending Google an encrypted query and getting back the exact results it wanted — without you having any way of knowing what that query was or what result they returned. The technique to do that is called Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE).

harvie commented on Czech Republic: Petition for open source in public administration   portal.gov.cz/e-petice/12... · Posted by u/harvie
belval · 3 months ago
I think libreoffice suffers from a branding style issue more than anything else. It's not like Office 365 is inherently superior, but it looks like it is straight out of 2006 and that negatively impacts the users perception of it.

My hunch is that if maintainers were to invest into making it look more like Office 365 (purely in a cosmetic way), the opposition to using libreoffice would reduce significantly.

And for the old timers that will run to "Office 2007/10/13 was the best version and had the old UI". I get it and agree, but the average person likes nice things that look up-to-date.

harvie · 2 months ago
This is not really about office suite choice. It's more about custom software that is developed for government for riddiculous amount of money only to be a huge vendor lock-in.

I would like to see how complex the software really is compared to its price and make it possible for other companies to offer maintenance or adding new modules without having to go through the original authors. so basicaly the freedoms government should already have to something they've payed crazy amount of money for.

harvie commented on Don't guess my language   vitonsky.net/blog/2025/05... · Posted by u/e-topy
harvie · 3 months ago
Me: Visits Morroco (or pretty much any other country), has smartphone set to english. Also me: Gets youtube ads in Berber language. Has no idea what the ad is about or why someone would pay google to show it to me.
harvie commented on Less Htmx Is More   unplannedobsolescence.com... · Posted by u/fanf2
mort96 · 5 months ago
The amount of times when I've clicked a link, hit the back button, nothing happens, I hit the back button again and I go 2 steps back in history...
harvie · 5 months ago
Ever considered the website authors don't want you to go back? :-D
harvie commented on Show HN: Cascii – A portable ASCII diagram builder written in vanilla JavaScript   github.com/casparwylie/ca... · Posted by u/ftr1200
ssriram · 5 months ago
Hi, great app. I'd love to understand how you are maintaining state behind that short url and see if there are ways (sans server) to at least partially recreate state from the exported ascii.

Having an Import from clipboard would truly make this a remarkable app.

harvie · 5 months ago
Exactly. Make it importable and i am sold.

Maybe base64 encoded metadata under the diagram? Maybe encode in non-printable characters?

Maybe just use non-printable characters to hint where the corners of objects are?

u/harvie

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