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I gave up at "the current phase of the moon as an emoji." Looks like so of you guys tried harder than I did


I've had the on-screen keyboard on my phone set to Dvorak for > 5 years, and I just can't switch back to Qwerty. I think it's quite good for the phone.


Running a relay (non-exit node) has been a rewarding and educational experience.


It's not much, but if you want to contribute to the network easily you can host a Snowflake entry point, which allows users from heavily censored countries to access the Tor network.

It's as simple as installing an addon or leaving this page opened and turning it on: https://snowflake.torproject.org/embed.html

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/snowflake/mafpmfcc...

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/torproject-snowflak...


How so? Are you talking about just the technical parts of running a server, of interactions with law enforcement an other third parties (I would a non-exit node to avoid these, but who knows) or about some kind of data/metadata you are able to collect?


My bitwarden (not LastPass) iteration count was only 5000, even though their default is supposed to be 100,000


The author of the software has some other interesting projects on his poersonal website: www.durlej.net/v/

I'd be interested to know if anyone is using this OS, and for what use case.

Amazing bit of work!


Some of the affects I can think of, to name a few:

Inaccurate or irrelevant answers: ChatGPT is a machine learning model that uses past data to generate responses. This means that it may not always provide accurate or relevant answers to questions, leading to confusion and frustration among users.

Loss of trust: If users notice that many of the answers on the forum are coming from ChatGPT, they may lose trust in the forum and stop using it. This could lead to a decline in user engagement and overall traffic.

Competition with human contributors: ChatGPT's answers may compete with those provided by human contributors, leading to a decrease in the quality and value of the content on the forum. This could make the forum less useful and engaging for users.

Increased moderation: The influx of answers from ChatGPT may require more moderation to ensure that the answers are accurate and relevant. This could require additional resources and time for moderators, leading to increased costs and workload.


I wish there were some sort of monitoring tool for the docker container, so you know if you're actually doing any good (it's working), like the browser extension.

Something like nyx (for tor) but for snowflake.


Cool story - thanks for sharing.

I've got a spare laptop and started a TOR relay (no exit) recently - I'll be on the look out for these kind of errors


Interesting language/script.

Are there any other comparable alternatives?

Would Node/TS-Node be a suitable replacement with a few shell helper functions?


A recent one is Zuo, a tiny Racket for scripting/makefiles: https://docs.racket-lang.org/zuo/index.html



I'm partial to zx for that (it has optional typescript support) and pretty reasonable ergonomics



This is basically a package repo of WASM file(s), which seem to have been compiled from Rust source mostly, but other language that can be compiled to WASM would work too.

And from what I've read the CLI downloads the WASM and runs it. The "runs it" part is interesting, as it's cross platform - so does it run a JS engine, e.g like V8 or NodeJS?

I don't personally like the idea, esp since Rust can compile to all those supported platforms anyway, and the native code would be so much faster.

It says on the website that it is opensource, since 2019, but the Github account has zero repos.

The website looks flash, but has many spelling errors and typos, and so if little things like this get through after 3 years of development, then the chances of malicious code getting through is very high.


Wasmer Inc (they run wapm.io) basically wants to own the Wasm ecosystem the way that NPM has owned the JavaScript world. This isn't run by an org like Apache, or CNCF. They are VC backed and and have had some internal shakeups, a story about this was posted to HN awhile ago.

The site doesn't inspire a lot of confidence, even the about page results in a 500 error. https://wapm.io/about

As does support, https://wapm.io/support

The future needs a better solution to this problem than a single company owning the package repo.


> Wasmer..wants to own the Wasm ecosystem

They tried to trademark the terms WASM and WebAssembly.

https://uspto.report/company/Wasmer-Inc

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24900186


Isn’t the big difference between running some random rust from the internet, and a WASM file, the sandbox in which WASM runs. This has some security advantages. And as you also point out, it’s like an abstraction over various languages which also can generate WASM (Go, Swift, C#, etc).


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