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by binaryturtle 5mo ago
This is just sad. Luckily I do not use any of the listed programs. I threw out Homebrew many years ago when they started this nonsense. The only tool I have installed currently that does %/"($& like this is Deno (required for
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by binaryturtle 5mo ago
No, "grass always looks greener on the other side" is a perspective thing. If you stand on your own grass then you look down onto it and see the dirt, but if you look over to the other side you see the gras from the side which mak
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by binaryturtle 5mo ago
I have a simple rule: I won't pay for that stuff. First they steal all my work to feed into those models, afterwards I shall pay for it? No way! I use AI, but only what is free-of-charge, and if that doesn't cut it, I just do it l
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by binaryturtle 5mo ago
I used GitHub's Copilot once and let it check one of my repositories for security issues. It found countless (like 30 or 40 or so for a single PHP file of some ~400 lines). Some even sounded reasonable enough, so I had a closer look, j
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by binaryturtle 5mo ago
Wouldn't telemetry solve this problem automatically? I mean: they should get some signal back when people opt-out no? :)
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by binaryturtle 5mo ago
How about computers to have replaceable SSDs? There's no point you can exchange the battery when the hard-soldered SSD dies first. (I had more dead SSDs than batteries)
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by binaryturtle 5mo ago
Once I played a similar prank to a computer science teacher. Back in the Windows 3.x for Workgroups era this was. I made a screenshot of the desktop (showing a window), and put it on as wallpaper. Took the man a little while to figure out w
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by binaryturtle 5mo ago
It's probably for "agents" that want to make websites for other agents. This has nothing to do with us humanoids.
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by binaryturtle 5mo ago
I'm getting a lot, and I mean A LOT, spam recently from various "<IP in reverse notation>.bc.googleusercontent.com" domains. Not sure what can be done about that. But the uptick is very noticeable.
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by binaryturtle 5mo ago
I always force myself to do this too. The only 3rd party python library I regularly use is "requests" basically —a dependency that comes with its own baggage, see the recent controversy about "chardet"— but I go out of m
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by binaryturtle 5mo ago
I thought it was only me. Or it's temporarily down because some HN overload or something.
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by binaryturtle 5mo ago
I guess you really need to unpack each and every extensions before installation and carefully inspect the code manually to see if it only would be doing what the extensions is advertising. Darn… and I thought that the JSLibCache extension w
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by binaryturtle 5mo ago
I never used the ~/Documents folder. Lots of apps just trashed their stuff in there over the years making that folder entirely unusable for my actual document files. I would have to dig through the mess to find them. So I have to admit
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by binaryturtle 5mo ago
Looks like it needs a meta account? As soon you hit enter it wants to log-in. I guess I won't try this any time soon. :)
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by binaryturtle 5mo ago
I recall we could dial up a super slow connection over telephone lines, get all our mails into such client in less than 4 minutes over said slow line, just to dial off again.¹ Afterwards we would read all our mails offline with all the time
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by binaryturtle 5mo ago
Macs that no longer get reboot-requiring updates by Apple usually have long(er) uptimes. :) My record here with my primary Mac mini was a bit over a year. Only to be forced to reboot because of a power outage. Generally it feels like somet
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by binaryturtle 6mo ago
It's more fun? :) /edit And you can combine both approaches: XOR'ing the code first for good measurements. :)
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by binaryturtle 6mo ago
When I wrote my own brainf*ck interpreter (in C) at the start of the year I was really struggling to find a use for the language. Eventually I had the idea to obfuscate emails on my websites with the language. Basically each email gets writ
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by binaryturtle 6mo ago
It's going on since quite a while. Want to update some GNU software, or look up something? I have to switch the user agent to "curl" to be able to visit the sites.
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by binaryturtle 6mo ago
Sounds interesting. I always wanted to use a Raspberry PI as router (to have one as backup in case the OpenWRT Linksys goes down), but couldn't wrap my head around properly how to overcome the single network port (I think the usual rec
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by binaryturtle 6mo ago
I'm with a slightly older Firefox and can't use many websites at all anymore because the Cloudflare cancer. Of course then you got sites like gnu.org too that block you because your slightly outdated user agent.
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by binaryturtle 6mo ago
Needs a recording of an Amiga reading in a floppy disk... and the floppy drive just waiting to be feed. Those were the sounds! :) (The interface on the website is a bit confusing to use, IMHO)
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by binaryturtle 6mo ago
I still can check the SPAM folder, if needed. But most SPAMs are HTML, so you'll have a good default last-stage in-client filtering in place in case some SPAM actually makes it through the other setup on the server (greylisting, DNS ba
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by binaryturtle 6mo ago
Any "HTML emails" get filtered straight into the spam folder here. I think I'm not part of the target audience here.
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by binaryturtle 6mo ago
I run a setup like that on my (outdated) Yosemite machine to provide multiple private TLDs for local deployment/development needs. I set that up in like 2014? Even back then it was known already that the quick /etc/resolver w
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by binaryturtle 6mo ago
It would be less hypocritical if that critique of the situation wasn't posted on a website that itself loads unnecessary 3rd party resources (e.g. cloudflare insights). Luckily I use a proper content blocker (uBlock Origin in hard mode
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by binaryturtle 6mo ago
So does OpenTTD gets a part of the generated income then? The team has costs too to support the game.
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by binaryturtle 6mo ago
That's the content why I check HN! :)
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by binaryturtle 6mo ago
Actually I can select text too it seems, but I can't see the selection and it acts weirdly. Probably some JavaScript overloading user interactions. I need to use the "Allow Right Click" extension (it also fixes other annoyanc
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by binaryturtle 6mo ago
I can't select text. A huge accessibility issue. A site like that is disqualified by default. The whole content is in a thin stripe in the middle, left and right huge areas unused. Resizing the browser window causes weird effects. If t

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