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gblargg · 2025-05-01T09:16:50 1746091010

These simulations are great. With the balance example if you move the clock back and forth at resonance frequency, you can get it really twisted up so it doesn't work: https://postimg.cc/xXFgbxtn

gblargg · 2025-05-01T06:49:43 1746082183

Props to them for not locking out older browsers as many sites are doing these days.

gblargg · 2025-04-30T08:01:05 1746000065

So the trick is to disguise it as an accident. Have the zip bomb look like a real HTML file at the beginning, then have zeroes after that, like it got corrupted.

naikrovek · 2025-05-01T15:40:59 1746114059

well, what does "damage" mean in that law? filling the disk isn't destructive. filling RAM isn't destructive. there's nothing in a zip-bomb approach that is destructive; a reboot or an `rm` (at most) undoes it all. I would say that this doesn't qualify as a destructive operation in any way.

IANAL

gblargg · 2025-04-29T20:18:12 1745957892

Anger is often the only way to motivate action, since when you were calm you didn't care about solving it.

gblargg · 2025-04-29T20:15:29 1745957729

Apps are like subscriptions, a way to get their claws into your stuff and continually drain whatever they can from you.

gblargg · 2025-04-29T20:11:57 1745957517

Seems like the proper fix would have been to remove the file from the server when they realized the increased traffic. Then clients would just fail to check the update each time and not tie up bandwidth.

gblargg · 2025-04-29T05:23:19 1745904199

Why would you want to use a linear color space for something meant for eyes?

reverius42 · 2025-04-29T06:37:53 1745908673

I assume they meant a perceptually linear color space, which is exactly what you'd want to use for something meant for eyes.

gblargg · 2025-04-27T06:48:00 1745736480

They can also store things for later upload. A phone in airplane mode still isn't safe.

gblargg · 2025-04-23T09:12:13 1745399533

I really hope someone makes them talk like in Bladerunner. "Walk walk walk walk walk... Don't walk don't walk don't walk don't walk."

gblargg · 2025-04-23T04:08:35 1745381315

Of the proposed policy changes, which ones do you consider not backed by facts? These are the things that actually matter.

cratermoon · 2025-04-23T05:04:12 1745384652

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gblargg · 2025-04-24T09:25:48 1745486748

I think you misunderstood my question (to be charitable). It was to focus on policies (rather than personalities and people), and which ones(s) one was opposed to. If there no opposition to the policies themselves, does it really matter if you don't like the person?