ah so no generative ai used in actual article production, just in meta stuff and for newcomers to ask questions about how to do things.

from the overview i can’t really tell what it is, although it sounds like onenote, which i’ve never really gotten along with. also yeah, the online requirement thing means it’s not suitable for secure work.

can’t wait to be accused of being a collaborator just because i’ve been peter principled into a position i don’t understand

idk, the account names being what they are conjures up a image of the second account always responding to the first, laying out in no uncertain terms exactly why a particular post is shit.
and then they get to this one and they just
give up

the nazis were talking about fighting “bolshevism” before the war even broke out.

yup, running a global network on top of something designed to be slow seems… inadvisable.

you’re calculating the sha256 (i think) hash of the previous transaction block’s hash plus your block of transactions. What’s making it proof-of-work though, is the stipulation that “the hash has to start with at least five zeroes”, with “five” being an adjustable difficulty value. To be able to get that specific hash an otherwise meaningless number (a “nonce”) is included, and by increasing this number by one you can change the hash value.

so basically, all these servers are running hash calculations on the same thing over and over again with a single number changing between runs until they get an “approved” hash value. whoever gets there the fastest gets their block added to the chain, then everyone else has to start over with that hash as the “previous” one.

It’s called “proof of work” because it’s difficult to find a suitable value, but it’s trivial to check that it’s correct. you just need the nonce. so by presenting that nonce to everyone, you’ve proved that you “did the work”.

as for the reason why they do this, if each block’s hash is dependent on the hash of the block before it, it means the entire chain is resistant to tampering. you can’t insert a block in the middle without recalculating the entire chain.

how do you even “feel” an increase in T? more irrational aggression? acute hair loss?

i had such a bad experience with 7, it was horribly unstable on a computer that had handled vista just fine. i switched to 8 as soon as i could and was better off for it.

try running the code outside the special editor, just python3 whatever_file_the_code_is_in.py. if it works as it should, then something is wrong with the environment you have been provided.

there was also the motivational poster era, the “wut” year, whatever ytmnd was/is…

the trademark got bought. it’s still FLOSS, and they pledged to keep it that way, for whatever that’s worth. code can’t be retroactively un-gpled, so if they did decide to close it down they couldn’t just take it offline, only do new development in private. the big fishy thing was that they added a CLA to their repo, which only affects developers. as an end-user you’re fine.

also, the “crap” was a draft proposal of opt-in telemetry, which was subsequently scrapped. the company in question is based in the EU, anyway, so they would have to abide by the gdpr for any collected information.

the hackaday series on this is probably the best summary.

the original is about wars i think

“melaninated” makes it sound like these people had melanin added after they were born… like a reverse michael jackson

is the metaphor of the little devil on your shoulder falling out of fashion? not aimed at you personally, your comment just made me wonder if it’s starting to become less known in general.

oh yeah the goopy stuff is what gets you goopy

hey good news, there’s basically no lactose in most cheeses. what kinda cheese were you eating where lactose became an issue?

sound of music

as long as floorp’s funding can sustain 500 full-time browser engineers, sure.

because that’s the way it is. if google stops funding firefox development, all the forks disappear.