Bishma
@Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de
Future winner of the Nobel prize in Minecraft
- Comment on Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down 17 hours ago:
When I was running a site, I had special rules in my firewall to look for things that said they were googlebot but which didn’t come from one of googles published public IPs.
- Comment on Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down 18 hours ago:
I mentioned this in another thread, but I do worry that google is eventually going infect the APIs that metasearch engines like DDG, Kagi, searchxng, etc depend on.
In my experience, a lot of the sysadmins who run high traffic sites will treat all bots as scrapers that have to be blocked or slowed to a crawl. Then they make special allowances for googlebot, bing/msnbot, and a few others. That means there is a massive uphill climb (beyond the technical one) to making a new search engine from scratch. With Google and MS both betting the farm on LLMs I fear we’re going to lose access to two of the most valuable web reverse indexes out there.
- Comment on Nature Valley: 10 bars in 5 packs 19 hours ago:
I noticed recently (though I doubt it’s new) that pop tarts are labeled that way too.
- Comment on Chilling 3 days ago:
Ah, the solar flare was just cover for another epic space battle over Earth.
- Comment on Another day another dollar 5 days ago:
Not flame. The Sun is a miasma of incandescent plasma.
- Comment on What is the General Consensus of Web3? 5 days ago:
There are very few use cases where an append-only database (like the blockchains that web3 are supposed to be based on) are a good idea. So the idea web3 is most focused on is artificial digital scarcity. That’s about as anti-web as I think you can get.
- Comment on bugs 6 days ago:
Agreed. In my mind “bug” has always meant arthropod. So it’s include insects, spiders, crustaceans, etc.
- Comment on Old comic, more relevant than ever 1 week ago:
Does it have a voice assistant so it can be voice controlled and totally not to violate our privacy?
- Comment on Weevil time 1 week ago:
Let me tell you about a friend of mine
His name’s Acorn Weevil, check him out
Spends all day on his big nut
And he don’t ever, ever get outside… - Comment on How Solar Panels Work 1 week ago:
So the reason solar panels get less efficient over time is because they all have Natty Ice hangovers?
- Comment on So which is it? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Peer review can be fun 1 week ago:
It’s like they were trying to do a compliment sandwich but the best compliment they come up with is “poorly written.”
- Comment on :((( 1 week ago:
At least they aren’t legendarily delicious like the dodo or the giant tortoise?
- Comment on How do passkeys work across devices? 1 week ago:
We’re in the process of adopting BitWarden at my job. I’m liking it so far. Not enough to convince my family to switch (yet), but enough that I wouldn’t hesitate to jump over there if I needed to.
- Comment on we love those power laws 1 week ago:
It’s probably a narrow demographic that immediately recognizes Yahoo Serious, isn’t it? Especially in the northern hemisphere.
- Comment on How do passkeys work across devices? 1 week ago:
I use 1Password as my Passkey holder so it’s device agnostic. But if 1Password ever pulls a LastPass, it won’t seem like a clever solution anymore.
- Comment on we love those power laws 1 week ago:
I love the idea of jumping straight from swords to nukes. Writing prompt: a 16th century blacksmith suddenly realizes, “If I surround an unstable rock with a neutron reflecting earth metal, I can trigger a runaway chain reaction that’ll get that stump out a me yard.”
- Comment on please tell your husband hello 1 week ago:
Heh. I pictured the seal saying
- Comment on I cast Demoncore 2 weeks ago:
Plutonium is an synthetic element, so Alchemy Achievement Earned
- Comment on It definitely *was* a good idea though 2 weeks ago:
Such a good idea it gives me an idea for an award.
- Comment on history buff 2 weeks ago:
I had a roommate who joked about making a movie where Arnold Schwarzenegger (this conversation happened in the early 00’s) was in an engineering degree program, and lugging around each day’s textbooks was how he got so ripped.
- Comment on If a universal basic income started today with the stipulation that you had to put 40 hrs/wk towards making the world a better place or solving societal problems, how would you spend your time? 2 weeks ago:
Since I was a kid I’ve wanted to be an inventor but I don’t think of marketable things and hate the idea of locking my ideas up behind legal restrictions (I prefer to license my personal software and 3D print designs under the MIT “just make sure my name stays attached” license).
So yeah, I’d just design stuff and put it into the world…
- Comment on Why are SMS messages so expensive? 2 weeks ago:
In the wild west days of the internet we used to connect consumer CDMA phones straight to our servers. You’d walk around your COLO and peak in racks of crazy expensive, rack mounted hardware with the world’s cheapest flip phone sitting on top.
The telcos caught wind and started terminating accounts. It was a great way to have a server tell you it fell off the network.
- Comment on Why are SMS messages so expensive? 2 weeks ago:
If you need to send SMS commercially they’re still generally priced at $0.03 each. I just had to deal with that because some users will apparently only turn on MFA if they can get the codes by txt.
- Comment on Italian herbs and spices 3 weeks ago:
Ok, hear me out. It’s a scotched egg, but the egg is soft boiled.
- Comment on unlimited power 3 weeks ago:
Neither is falling when connected to the generator. That’s nature’s cruel joke; the cat-bread dynamo is limitless energy but it can never be harnessed.
- Comment on is there a legal way to consume alcohol bought at a store, outside of a home, hotel room, etc.? 3 weeks ago:
When I worked in a grocery store years ago there was a “no naked alcohol rule.” In retrospect I don’t know if it was a thing the store did or if was a Liquor Control Commission reg. But it meant that part of training new clerks was explaining: these bags will hold 12 or 20oz cans, these hold a single 40oz, these will hold a full 6 pack, these are best for MD20/20 and Thunderbird…
- Comment on Cool insect facts!! 3 weeks ago:
Tardigrade football fields are only 1cm long.
- Comment on speedometers 3 weeks ago:
I like to do that with a lot of the o’meters, just for fun.
Acceler-o-meter and seis-o-meter are my favorite. Weirdly least fun: kil-o-meter.
- Comment on is there a legal way to consume alcohol bought at a store, outside of a home, hotel room, etc.? 3 weeks ago:
In the US, off the top of my head:
- Pedestrians in Paradise, Nevada (the Vegas Strip) are allowed open containers in plastic or aluminum containers.
- The French Quarter in New Orleans has similar open container laws.
