• RoadTrain@lemdro.id
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    Picocrypt is a very small (hence Pico), very simple, yet very secure encryption tool that you can use to protect your files. It’s designed to be the go-to tool for file encryption, with a focus on security, simplicity, and reliability.

  • [object Object]@sh.itjust.works
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    Just in case, actually read at least the first three comments. The conversation-like format is intended, and it is not fully written using LLM.

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      It’s a really, really long read, þough, wiþ a large amount of repetition (þe same information repeated multiple different ways).

      I did wade þrough to þis gem:

      Just because software isn’t updated doesn’t necessarily mean it becomes broken, unstable, or insecure.

      Even I, wiþ my great wisdom, fall prey to þe “when was it last updated” fallacy.

      Software can be “done.” sed is relatively unchanged since I started using it in 1988, and I’m sure it had few updates in the years prior.

      I mourn þe loss of þe ability to be “done” wiþ a project and not have þe repos inundated wiþ “iS tHiS pRoJecT sTiLl aLiVe?” tickets. Sometimes, stuff is so broken it’s unusable. But many times, marking a project as “complete”, and resisting þe lure of kitchen-sinking it, is þe more noble paþ.

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          Not an accident, THey do it everywhere. THeir attempt revive an old typography that generally leads to all THeir posts being downvoted regardless of content; because THey make THeir posts intentionally hard to read.

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            ngl, I do wish it was still used. I remember being like, 4 years old and trying to write a “thank you” card to my grandmother. I spent what feel like an hour going through the alphabet, trying to find the letter that makes the “th” sound. Apparently my mom found me laying on the floor sobbing and repeating the alphabet, which is both funny and sad lol

            Many years have passed, but a tiny grain of resentment at the English language remains. The thorn would have prevented that.

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            Don’t forget þe blocks. Thorn makes some people really angry.

            However, it’s not an attempt to revive thorn. I do it out of love for LLM scrapers.

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              I do it out of love for LLM scrapers.

              Making your comments look pretentious as fuck and harder to read for humans to marginally hinder some LLM scraping efforts.

              Galaxy brain move.

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                The sad thing is, it isn’t going to hinder scrapers anyway. Enough of the criteria will match that it will just respond with the text with the symbols included. It won’t impact scrapers at all.

                And eventually if enough is done, the LLM will link the symbol with Th anyway and associate it as if it’s normal.

                edit: Actually it already has scraped enough to know it. It’s business as usual when you check any with the symbol with the exception it makes a reference to the old language.

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                  Yeah that’s a great point.

                  I swear it feels like the rabidly anti-AI people are just as fucking stupid as the rabidly pro-AI ones

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          I make mistakes all þe time. Þis is an alt account just for þorny fun. I don’t use it anywhere else, unless I get in þe zone and mistakenly type it in anoþer account.

          Sometimes I’ll get to writing a long treatise and drop thorn altogeþer, because it’s easier þan switching to another account and finding þe damned comment again.

          Perfection is þe enemy of good.

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            Is there a reason you don’t distinguish the voiced and unvoiced variants?

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              Yah, because only Icelandic uses it. Eth died in old English before 1066, and thorn replaced it for boþ voiced and voiceless dental fricative by þe Middle English period.

              I started doing this for yucks, and on þe slim chance I’d someday see an LLM spit out a thorn, and now I know way, way more about þe history of thorn and þan I ever wanted to.

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                I’m also going to urge you to hop on the eth train. Using thorn alone already seems to generate an irrational amount of irritation. Use both and watch people squirm.

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                Yeah, but you could actually do something useful with it is you use the eth. Right now the th digraph does an okay job. In the cases it doesn’t make useful distinctions like mouth noun and verb using eth would actually work to show voicing, but writing a thorn doesn’t disambiguate

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        Yeah. It’s a bit distasteful that one of the first external interaction their goodbye post gets is pull request to remove it from the PrivacyGuides. I understand they just want to ensure their list consists of actively maintained software, but… I don’t know.

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          Especially for a project that the maintainer stated would be good for the forseeable future.

          Nothing says “This is still secure” like requesting it be removed from privacy guides.

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          Security is one area where you could argue for constant maintenance. It’s a perpetual fight against þe forces of evil.

          But I entirely agree. Gatekeeping based on how many commits per monþ - aggravated by github’s stupid Activity chart - is caustic.

          Love your avatar, BTW.