An update, the site has been updated to remove the last paragraph, and change the title (bolded). The author is clearly trying to hide that it’s slop.

Pretty sure this is AI slop. See the privacy page (https://culdesac.site/#/privacy):

Nothing here knows who you are. Some things get counted, but only ever as totals - never as a record of you. This page says exactly what. No cookies, no accounts, nothing following you to other sites. A few things are counted as totals: a site was shown, opened or saved. Never who did it. What you save and where you’ve been are kept on your device. Every link opens someone else’s site, which has its own rules. […] Stated plainly rather than overclaimed: whatever service hosts these files may keep its own routine access logs, as essentially every web server does. That is outside this site’s control, and nothing here reads it.

I think “Stated plainly rather than overclaimed” is pretty clearly LLM copy-paste.

The user has also posted about a bunch of similar small projects in the recent future, which is also suspicious.

Cool, maybe it’ll encourage them to use search engines other than Google.

Looks like much of the text is slop too, the groups of 3 are very common with LLMs. I certainly wouldn’t trust this service with anything of importance.

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Been satisfied with mailbox.org as my email provider for over a year now, switched to it from Proton.

Yeah sorry about that, was the default format in my spreadsheet software and I didn’t think to change it

Yep, I cloned the git repo and wrote a script to step through commits a week at a time and count the total em dashes in the repo at each point in time

I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as GNU + Linux, is in fact, Linux

Very true

The regex is to match only em dashes in comments (following a //). If you want to search for all em dashes you can just do that (though there’s no need for the -o since grep matches lines and wc -l counts lines).

$ git clone https://github.com/y4my4my4m/harmony && grep -R "//.*—" harmony | wc -l
17

17 em dashes in comments… yeah that’s slop

Happy to hear you enjoyed it (though full disclosure I did steal it)

Imo it would be awesome if every person could have only one single account. Bans and restrictions have much more impact which forces users to behave more like irl.

What about people who want to criticize their oppressive government without risk of being identified from their post history? People questioning their gender or sexuality who don’t want to come out to everyone yet? People who view or post NSFW things and don’t want it associated with their primary account?

There are plenty of valid reasons to have multiple accounts besides ban evasion.

Some modern hard drives transparently encrypt all data with an internal key, which can be erased with a special secure erase command. Comes in handy for wiping drives without spending hours overwriting the enire disk.

A cool project! Sure hope it’s not AI slop!

em dashes in code comments

sigh

Why use an if statement that compiles down to a conditional branch instruction and takes a nanosecond or two to execute, when you can outsource the decision making to a paid cloud service with expensive hardware that multiplies matrices with billions of elements to get your answer?

Do you think a passive heatsink like this would work? As I understand it 1U servers usually use a passive heatsink with fans pushing air through the case horizontally, rather than an active heatsink with a fan. Noise isn’t a problem since it’s in a server room so I can cram in as many fans as is necessary.

Yes, hosting providers do run servers on desktop hardware. See for example Bisect’s dedicated server options which all have desktop Ryzen processors.

Smaller Minecraft servers can run just fine on standard server hardware, and I’m sure that’s what most hosting providers use for their lower tier server plans, since you can cram dozens of Minecraft servers onto one machine. But the main limitation for larger servers is single-threaded performance, which desktop CPUs are just far better at.

Very large servers generally use server software like Folia which multithreads the game (like 2b2t) or split the server into many smaller servers (like Hypixel), which eliminates the single threaded performance issue but has some serious drawbacks.

For small playercounts a server CPU works fine, but my server regularly has 20+ concurrent players and sometimes has up to 50 so we kinda need the performance.

A typical server unfortunately won’t work for my use case, as Minecraft servers are highly single threaded workloads and desktop CPUs are just far better than server CPUs in that regard.