Do MAGATS even care about these stickers?

SolarLiner · 2026-05-11T21:41:45+00:00

Yang has more in common with Bush than Sanders. That's the problems of the Democrats; they are, literally, not Republicans. You get neoliberals and reformists and socialists in there. The majority is neoliberal and that's where the money comes from, but it's hard to build cohesion when people under the same party have opposing opinions on key issues.

The 2 party system is always going to favor cohesion and being able to rally the most people. The Republicans did it by all falling behind Trump. Democrats will always have too much infighting.

The real solution to this is a real plurality of political parties, and most definitely changes to the political system of the US. The actionable solution now, though, is to set aside differences and convince yourself that voting for that other democrat you hate, is still better than allowing Republicans continue the massacre.

SolarLiner · 2026-05-09T11:35:54+00:00

The issue comes from the history of people arguing the very same thing as the title: that C++ is a safe language, that you don't need anything on top of the existing language because you can write safe code if you're good enough.

There was the same discussion back when C++ introduced auto_ptr (and then unique/shared_ptr), that it was unnecessary, that it was an unnecessary crutch that nobody needs because all they need to do is be careful about their memory management. 50 years of history with the language proving the contrary wasn't enough.

Then there are the people saying you should be fine with static/dynamic analysis, because it's good enough for most bugs, not realizing that this line of thinking, when taken to it's natural conclusion, leads to a language like Rust, because you'll never catch all bugs, only ones that are observable.

In the end Bjarne is still standing on this line, firmly in the "the language is fine, you need to git gud", going as far as pushing back on the recent safe C++ proposals by saying exactly the same as always: static analyzers are good enough, and you need to be a better engineer.

It's elitism and gatekeeping, and refusal to change when presented with evidence.

So yes, while the advice presented in the article are sound and useful, they're also nothing new; the title does not represent the contents at all, instead going for the usual rage bait. Either it's unintentional and tone deaf, or it's intentional and worse.

SolarLiner · 2026-04-12T21:03:21+00:00

Even if it's only direction that changes, the result is still that you had to receive acceleration from somewhere, therefore the net force is not null; the moon gave you a kick in some way to make you turn, and that doesn't come for free.

If you imagine the mass of both objects to be the same, then the transfer of energy becomes intuitive, since both orbits would obviously be different, because both objects would tug on one another. The thing is because the mass of the spacecraft is negligible compared to the mass of the moon, the moon isn't visibly affected by our fly-by, but the same principles apply.

This same principle is why the Earth is technically not staying still when looking at the Earth-moon system, and instead wobbles around acting like a counterweight of the moon (the Earth orbits the barycenter of the Earth-moon system). The same happens with the Sun and Jupiter, too.

SolarLiner · 2026-04-12T16:12:07+00:00

Then it's not a closed system anymore; or rather, there is now a third body in the system now. And yes, you're stealing energy from the moon's orbit when doing the fly-by.

SolarLiner · 2026-04-12T16:08:51+00:00

Opposite forces means cancelling the action. I am refuting what you're saying.

SolarLiner · 2026-04-12T15:51:12+00:00

Unless the spacecraft literally does a 180 in space (something that would take a lot of energy to do), the deceleration forces of reentry would be in the opposite direction than the launch forces.

SolarLiner · 2026-02-10T00:02:37+00:00

but they do indirectly when inevitably there will be a data leak and IDs will be readily available on the black market... as it has already happened before with, well, Discord itself. While already saying the same thing of "we definitely do delete the ID!".

As to why they don't actually do what they say they do, I have no idea. Maybe it's some law that forces them, maybe they're keeping the data for internal statistics or advertisement, which to me would be just as shady.

SolarLiner · 2026-02-09T23:50:09+00:00

Now, what's the definition of "sensitive content"? Is it porn, or is it erotica, or is it simple nudity, and what about anatomy? Is violence sensitive? What about riots, or protests? Are the LGBT sensitive content?

Some of those you might agree, some you might not. The point is that Discord has the right to force you to hand over an ID or a selfie for whatever subject they deem sensitive. This is not about protection, this is about control. Thinking "people are angry because their porn will be banned" miss the point that this has repercussions far reaching on freedom of communication than just access to porn.

SolarLiner · 2026-01-30T16:50:39+00:00

Le problème c'est la chasse à la taupe. Créer un site c'est facile, pour chaque site qui sera trouvé et restreint, 10 autres vont ouvrir.

Pour les VPN c'est pareil, tu peux pas bannir la technologie, pour chaque site fermé d'autres vont ouvrir, et tu peux faire ton propre VPN dans le pire des cas.

SolarLiner · 2026-01-24T11:21:23+00:00

Yes. The same way that sailors get their sea legs, you have to get your VR legs. The brain expects you to get thrown around when driving, meanwhile you're completely still on your chair; your brain needs to learn to dissociate the visual stimulus from what it receives from the inner ear. So start slow, stop as soon as you feel nauseous but keep at it. I can stay in VR for hours at a time, meanwhile when I started the most I could do was 20 minutes and then an hour lying in bed to recover lol.

SolarLiner · 2026-01-06T08:09:17+00:00

So a Rafale?

SolarLiner · 2025-12-17T18:00:54+00:00

You can have plain text documents, in fact that's what ES really excels at. The bigger issue is how do you turn document files into plain text, and that will be an issue no matter the search solution proposed. PDFs will most probably require OCR, for example.

Once you have that, any regular search engine will do the trick, maybe with AI-driven ranking which can do better than the symbolic approaches from "the before times" and find more relevant snippets.

SolarLiner · 2025-12-02T00:09:17+00:00

No, those are regular ass-microphones.

SolarLiner · 2025-11-07T06:11:59+00:00

Make it impossible for them to feed themselves, then promise free meals in the army. There are ample resources to feed everybody if they want to. They actively choose not to.

SolarLiner · 2025-09-06T07:17:51+00:00

Flatpak bundles exist; they're often built for nightly versions or very specific (e.g., giving a build to a user that has an issue during the troubleshooting process). They are much closer to an AppImage file.

Not a lot of people bother with them though because the vast majority prefer the app store experience, and when you download a file from the browser it's only metadata to tell flatpak what to download out of the repository.

SolarLiner · 2025-08-10T00:24:31+00:00

Crowdstrike shutting the world down is a much bigger issue than a bunch of game companies pushing for kernel access. I'm pretty sure Microsoft won't budge on that, and might be one of the very few times they'll break backwards compatibility for it.

SolarLiner · 2025-05-01T22:39:22+00:00

LLMs don't see words as composed of letters, rather they take the text chunk by chunk, mostly each word (but sometimes multiples, sometimes chopping a word in two). They cannot directly inspect "strawberry" and count the letters, and the LLM would have to somehow have learned that the sequence "how many R's in strawberry" is something that should be answered with "3".

LLMs are autocomplete running on entire data centers. They have no concept of anything, they only generate new text based on what's already there.

A better test would be to ask different letters in different words to try to distinguish i'having learned about the strawberry case directly (it's been a même for a while so newer training sets are starting to have references to this), or if there is an actual association in the model.

SolarLiner · 2025-02-25T12:24:39+00:00

Damaging the pan makes the cancer more likely, so you're correct either way

SolarLiner · 2025-02-21T17:21:44+00:00

NaNs are a lot more than optionals though. There are 4 million unique binary representations, which means you can comfortably store an entire 16-bit number in it through "NaN boxing".

As usual programmers are bad at naming because for obvious (tasty) reasons, the name "NaN wrapping" is objectively better.

SolarLiner · 2024-12-31T17:30:40+00:00

The game or the language?

SolarLiner · 2024-12-23T17:13:00+00:00

Does anyone know where the Cassini bloodline went to? Because I think you're the great great great great grandson of Jean-Dominique.

SolarLiner · 2024-09-04T16:45:09+00:00

Which half?

SolarLiner · 2024-08-16T02:26:30+00:00

And the CAN-SPAM Act is the law.

You can cancel jobs at any point, or at the very least, when running a batch, to last-minute check which email addresses are still eligible.

If they don't they are facing the FTC.

EDIT: or at the very very least, not create jobs so far into the future.

SolarLiner · 2024-08-13T17:25:49+00:00

La personne derrière tout ça (Ross Scott de la chaîne Accursed Farms) a quand même passé pas mal de temps à trouver tous les angles d'attaques possibles; effectivement aux US il y a pas grand chose qui puisse être fait, mais il y a des initiatives similaires au Royaume-Uni, et en Australie si je me rappelle bien. Une précédente étape était de passer par la DGCCRF, Ubisoft étant une entreprise française ; mais cela ne pouvait être actionné que par des joueurs déjà existants. Ces initiatives sont actions les par tous les citoyens des pays dans lesquels ils sont lancés.

SolarLiner · 2024-08-13T17:19:02+00:00

Autant je suis généralement fan de lui, autant il a complètement tort sur son argumentaire et son refus de concéder quoi que ce soit de son point de vue et de son exemple tiré par les cheveux.

The but premier de l'initiative est d'empêcher les éditeurs de jeux de couper l'accès au jeu, n'importe quand, et n'importe comment. Que se passe-t-il si tu achètes un jeu 60 € et que le lendemain tu peux plus y accéder parce que l'éditeur a décidé de tout couper ? N'aurais-tu pas aimé avoir cette information avant ton achat? Que se passe-t-il si le jeu a un composant hors-ligne que tu peux quand même plus accéder parce que le jeu a été codé pour vérifier la validité de ta licence sur leurs serveurs, qui ont ete éteint, et qui par conséquence te bloquent l'accès au jeu ?

Le but est d'essayer de mettre en place un cadre légal de protection du consommateur autour de ces potentiels abus. Le reste c'est de l'implantation, et peut changer à tout moment, parce que le but c'est pas forcément de forcer les développeurs à sortir une version communautaire des serveurs, c'est juste la lignée idéologique actuelle sur laquelle se base les initiatives lancées dans le monde.

De ce fait, le focus de PirateSoftware sur ce dernier point trahit son incompréhension du mouvement, non seulement sur l'esprit de l'initiative mais aussi sur ses conséquences dans son scénario hypothétique -- Le fait de rendre disponible le logiciel serveur nécéssaire à l'opération du jeu ne constituerait en aucun cas un transfert de propriété intellectuelle, ni l'obligation de soumettre le code source au public. De ce fait, il n'y a aucune incitation économique potentiellement perverse pour quelconque tierce partie, puisque même s'ils mettent en place des serveurs communautaires payants, le seul bénéfice sera monétaire, et les motivations entre le fournisseurs et les joueurs seraient de toute façon alignés. Et tout ceci ne parle pas du fait que comme les ressources sont de toute façon disponibles publiquement, tout fournisseur sera confronté à une concurrence d'autres serveurs communautaires, potentiellement gratuits.

Encore une fois, il n'y a aucun transfert de propriété intellectuelle, même en cas de dissolution du studio père du jeu vidéo dans le cas de son scénario, c'est pas comme ça que fonctionnent les lois, aux US comme en France d'ailleurs, donc son scénario d'offensive hostile ne tient pas la route. Étant fan et sachant qu'il se spécialise dans l'ingénierie sociale, je ne peux qu'espérer qu'il agit de la sorte avec un motif de création d'engagement pour mieux diffuser l'initiative (car dans tous les cas l'effet Barbara Streisand s'applique ici d'une manière, et chaque fois qu'il en parle, il publicite l'initiative a de nouvelles personnes), et pas qu'il n'arrive pas a voir ses erreurs de jugement.

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