Farage is a moral-free scumbag who will be known in history as one of the architects of Britain's period of decline. The fact that he hasn't been held to account is one of the great scandals of our age.
Unless he gets into power he’s just a symptom.
Readit Newsmr_toad commented on Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking? torrentfreak.com/uk-govt-... · Posted by u/gloxkiqcza
The most insane thing about this headline is that implies parents are giving their children devices with unfiltered access to the Internet and then the government needs to play wack-a-mole with every single website they come across to prevent children from accessing it.
The most insane thing about western society is the tendency of a lot of the populace to abrogate all responsibility to the government.
The new ban is easily bypassed even without a VPN. The government is trying to block cracks in a dam with their fingers. Assuming they even care about results rather than performative posturing.
mr_toad commented on The two versions of Parquet jeronimo.dev/the-two-vers... · Posted by u/tanelpoder
Sounds similar to HDMI allowing varying levels of specification completeness to all be called the same thing.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy defines the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as "a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes,"
mr_toad commented on The two versions of Parquet jeronimo.dev/the-two-vers... · Posted by u/tanelpoder
mr_toad commented on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis... · Posted by u/taviso
HN hug of death
I’m getting a black page. Not sure if it’s an ironic meta commentary, or just my ad blocker.
mr_toad commented on Copilot broke audit logs, but Microsoft won't tell customers pistachioapp.com/blog/cop... · Posted by u/Sayrus
But those are technicalities.
I imagine the intended feature is learning about who read some information, and who modified it.
The implementation varies, but on a CRUD app it seems easy: an authenticated GET or PUT request against a file path - easy audit log.
If you are copying information to another place, and make it accessible there in a lossy way that is hard to audit... you broke your auditing system.
Maybe it's useful, maybe it's a trade-off, but is something that should be disclosed.
Not all vector databases are lossy. And even if a lossy index is used it’s totally possible to identify the original source of the information.
mr_toad commented on Vendors that treat single sign-on as a luxury feature sso.tax/... · Posted by u/vinnyglennon
> but remember that the big price-insensitive customers pay for the price-sensitive customers
The fallacy is thinking that the alternative is for everyone to pay the lower price and get the enterprise features.
In reality, without market segmentation a singular price for everyone would fall much closer to the enterprise price than the non-enterprise price.
You can call it an SSO tax, but it would be equally correct to refer to the lower price as the non-corporate discount.
> In reality, without market segmentation a singular price for everyone would fall much closer to the enterprise price than the non-enterprise price.
That totally depends on the relative elasticity of supply and demand.
It’s not very intuitive, but price discrimination (usually) results in too much demand for a good/service and a deadweight loss of consumer surplus. In the worst case scenario all consumer surplus can be arrogated to the producer, and an extreme oversupply of the product. Imagine a cheap drug that could be sold for whatever amount of money the consumer had available.
mr_toad commented on Emacs as your video-trimming tool xenodium.com/emacs-as-you... · Posted by u/xenodium
I just don't think it's that bad. Even if it spawns a process for each frame when you're scrubbing, it seems to run fast enough on my computer.
If you want to do a lot of advanced video editing then yeah use a real editor, but if you're just doing a quick trim it's really not a big deal to spin up a few dozen very-short-lived processes.
It’s probably be more efficient to convert the video to multiple frames in batches, and then buffer them. Spawning processes is pretty resource intensive.
mr_toad commented on "Remove mentions of XSLT from the html spec" github.com/whatwg/html/pu... · Posted by u/troupo
I love XSLT. I released a client-side XSLT-based PWA last year (https://github.com/ssg/eksi-yedek - in Turkish). The reason I had picked XSLT was that the input was in XML, and browser-based XSLT was the most suitable candidate for a PWA.
Two years ago, I created a book in memory of a late friend to create a compilation of her posts on social media. Again, thanks to XSLT, it was a breeze.
XSLT has been orphaned on the browser-side for the last quarter century, but the story on the server-side isn't better either. I think that the only modern and comprehensive implementation comes with Saxon-JS which is bloated and has an unwieldy API for JavaScript.
Were XSLT dropped next year, what would be the course of action for us who rely on browser-based XSLT APIs?
XSLT, especially 3.0, is immensely powerful, and not having good solutions on JS ecosystem would make the aftermath of this decision look bleaker.
I’d just use the browsers XML parser and javascript for the transformation. Which is what I assume a putative XSLT javascript library would do.
And if you’re leaning towards a declarative framework, use React.