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stwrzn commented on The Bluesky Dictionary   avibagla.com/blueskydicti... · Posted by u/gaws
wantlotsofcurry · 23 days ago
I'm very curious as to how this works in the backend. I realize it uses Bluesky's firehose to get the posts, but I'm more curious on how it's checking whether a post contains any of the available words. Any guesses?
stwrzn · 22 days ago
I very much hope that the backend uses one of the bluesky jetstream endpoints. When you only subscribe to new posts, it provides a stream of around 20mbit/s last time I checked, while the firehose was ~200mbit/s.
stwrzn commented on US embassy wants 'every social media username of past five years' for new visas   thejournal.ie/us-visa-cha... · Posted by u/jahnu
stwrzn · 2 months ago
What happens if I don't have any active social media? Also, most people could not even produce such a list, even if they wanted to.

Would that be a permanent ban from entering the US?

stwrzn commented on Thank you Google for breaking my YouTube addiction   rakhim.exotext.com/thank-... · Posted by u/ambigious7777
loloquwowndueo · 3 months ago
This seems to be ip-address-based. Change your ip if feasible, possibly using a vpn, and you can likely bypass that.

Or you could just do the healthy thing and walk away from YouTube. Plenty of better things to do with one’s time!

stwrzn · 3 months ago
It is IP based, and my whole range is banned. I welcome it though, as you said it stops the Youtube time-wasting.
stwrzn commented on Thank you Google for breaking my YouTube addiction   rakhim.exotext.com/thank-... · Posted by u/ambigious7777
stwrzn · 3 months ago
Youtube doesn't even want me to watch videos anymore!

Every video is just this now:

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stwrzn commented on Zoom outage caused by accidental 'shutting down' of the zoom.us domain   status.zoom.us/incidents/... · Posted by u/RVRX
imcritic · 4 months ago
They were probably joking when they asked that question.

Your reply doesn't seem sarcastic, so I take it you genuinely r/whoosh'ed (that's a reference to a subreddit about situations where someone is acting clueless).

stwrzn · 4 months ago
I know ;) Some people still value an explanation though.
stwrzn commented on Zoom outage caused by accidental 'shutting down' of the zoom.us domain   status.zoom.us/incidents/... · Posted by u/RVRX
gerdesj · 4 months ago
Please don't keep us in suspense ... who is privacy?
stwrzn · 4 months ago
They probably meant "whois privacy"[1] (without the space). Whois is basically a way to get information about a domain name (and many other stuff). Whois privacy just ensures that your address, name and other stuff is not public.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_privacy

stwrzn commented on Gmail E2E is as terrible as expected   michal.sapka.pl/2025/gmai... · Posted by u/HypnoticOcelot
stwrzn · 5 months ago
What happens if the sender's Google account ceases to exist for whatever reason? What if Google ceases to exist?

I know that there are a lot of HIPAA "secure email" solutions that also do this, but I don't want this to become more common practice then it already is...

stwrzn commented on YouTube DRM added on ALL videos with TV (TVHTML5) clients   github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/... · Posted by u/azalemeth
peterburkimsher · 6 months ago
In Switzerland, I heard that downloading is legal, it's only uploading that's frowned upon.
stwrzn · 6 months ago
Downloading is a "grey-zone", but no one that I know of got in trouble for that. Uploading is not allowed, and the little seeding done while downloading a torrent is still illegal. Although getting in trouble is rare because ISPs are not allowed to give out user data to random companies.
stwrzn commented on Show HN: I built a tool to detect scams   scamchecknow.com... · Posted by u/vinnythejinny
hiesnbugtastic · 6 months ago
damn, I can't stress this enough. You publish a key be prepared for millions on dollars of issues.
stwrzn · 6 months ago
Yes, exactly. Google seems to be calm in this regard luckily as far as i know though.

OP please revoke the key ASAP

stwrzn commented on Show HN: I built a tool to detect scams   scamchecknow.com... · Posted by u/vinnythejinny
stwrzn · 6 months ago
Nice tool, however if I am correct you are calling the Google generative language API directly, your API key is exposed to the client (the browser).

If you have no spending limits, this is a very (very very very) bad idea.

u/stwrzn

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