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wild_pointer commented on Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code   claudiacode.com/... · Posted by u/zerealshadowban
wild_pointer · 7 days ago
No Windows support :(
wild_pointer commented on Twenty Eighth International Obfuscated C Code Contest   ioccc.org/2024/index.html... · Posted by u/mdl_principle
dbacar · 22 days ago
This is epic: :)

From : https://github.com/ioccc-src/winner/blob/master/2024/kurdyuk...

This code draws the current moon phase to the console. So if you’re a lycanthrope, you can monitor the phase of the moon.

#include <time.h> #include <stdio.h>

        a,b=44,x,
     y,z;main()  {!a
   ?a=2551443,x=    -b
  ,y=2-b,z=((time     (
 0)-592531)%a<<9)/     a
 :putchar(++x>=a?x     =
 -b,y+=4,10:x<0?x=     x
 *x+y*y<b*b?a=1-x,     -
  1:x+1,32:"#."[(     x
   <a*(~z&255)>>    8)
     ^z>>8]),y>  b?0
        :main();}

wild_pointer · 21 days ago
Compiler Explorer link: https://c.godbolt.org/z/xE8hzM189
wild_pointer commented on Microsoft is open sourcing Windows 11's UI framework   neowin.net/news/microsoft... · Posted by u/bundie
Springtime · 23 days ago
I hope this leads to having a native vertical taskbar, which has been absent in W11 despite being a taskbar feature dating back as early as Windows 98.

Third-party tools have tried to reimplement it but it's either been by bastardizing the native W11 horizontal taskbar to be vertical (eg: Windhawk) or just restoring the old W10 taskbar code (eg: StartAllBack).

wild_pointer · 23 days ago
How will making the UI framework open source lead to taskbar changes? For third party contributions in this area, they need to open source the taskbar, not the UI framework.
wild_pointer commented on How Compiler Explorer Works in 2025   xania.org/202506/how-comp... · Posted by u/vitaut
wild_pointer · 3 months ago
How about compiling client-side with wasm, fully or partially? Feasible? Was it considered?
wild_pointer commented on Cap: Lightweight, modern open-source CAPTCHA alternative using proof-of-work   capjs.js.org/... · Posted by u/tiagorangel
wild_pointer · 3 months ago
So each spam message will take an extra second and 2 additional cents for electricity? I'm not sure what's the use case here.
wild_pointer commented on Caffeine induces age-dependent brain complexity and criticality during sleep   nature.com/articles/s4200... · Posted by u/gnabgib
wild_pointer · 3 months ago
Can somebody eli5? Coffee good or coffee bad?
wild_pointer commented on Show HN: Free, in-browser PDF editor   breezepdf.com... · Posted by u/philjohnson
philjohnson · 4 months ago
PDF editor is used as a broadly encompassing term. Yes, other tools can edit existing text, but they upload your PDF to their servers, so it's not private if that's something you care about.

There isn't anything off the shelf that enables editing existing text in the browser, but it's something I'll build from scratch. So you'll be able to edit existing PDF text without compromising privacy.

wild_pointer · 4 months ago
This can if I remember correctly (can't check now), but it's a POC and not a finished product https://github.com/ShizukuIchi/pdf-editor
wild_pointer commented on Show HN: Free, in-browser PDF editor   breezepdf.com... · Posted by u/philjohnson
behnamoh · 4 months ago
doesn't "edit" PDF text, just adds more.
wild_pointer · 4 months ago
That's the problem with all the pdf editors available out there. I guess adding stuff is much easier than editing existing stuff which you didn't add, and can be laid out in a gazillion ways, because PDF is a format for viewing and printing, not for editing.

I had a period when I worked with lots of documents. I could only find one fairly decent PDF editor which deserves to be called that way. I could use it to open any PDF and delete an existing element, or change text in an existing field. Sometimes things behaved funny, for example a text field can have each letter in a separate block, but I assume the tool did what it could within reasonable effort. It worked fine for me overall.

wild_pointer commented on The Chromium Security Paradox   island.io/blog/the-chromi... · Posted by u/wild_pointer
graemep · 4 months ago
This seems to make some odd claims:

"Chromium has developed and pioneered several security architectures such as: HTTPS for encrypted communication."

https is more than a decade older the Chromium.

The whole thing is an attempt to sell their "enterprise browser" and "by embedding enterprise-grade IT, security, network controls, data protections, app access, and productivity enhancements directly into the browser itself"

wild_pointer · 4 months ago
They pushed hard for its adoption, for example with the "Not secure" indicator: https://aboutssl.org/how-to-fix-the-https-not-secure-message...

There are other, not less important players, such as Let's Encrypt.

So while they didn't develop or pioneer HTTPS per se, they played an important role.

u/wild_pointer

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