dngray

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by dngray 17d ago
100% this, either use a DE like GNOME or Cosmic if you can't be bothered, or spend a little time looking at someone's dotfiles. No need to use a whole distribution with 1000 other poor decisions made for you.
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by dngray 17d ago
Which tells me that they don't really take security seriously because everyone knows exposing the docker socket is dangerous. I would almost bet that AI would warn about that.
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by dngray 17d ago
Exposing the docker socket seems like such a rookie mistake to. There's a good reason we've known about docker socket proxies for a very long time. Also beside that they use ancient package alongside Archlinux. One of those being
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by dngray 2mo ago
Confirmed it is slop and u can tell from the wording that it is too, all the LLM-isms are obvious. Also there's no usecase where syncthing and chezmoi make sense. The whole point of version control is being able to keep a log of what y
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by dngray 3mo ago
I know there's a lot of blog articles with blogspam ai slop with indian sounding names, so that's anecdotal but i have noticed that in tech.
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by dngray 3mo ago
The real thing i think people forget is that humans actually value time and effort from other humans. AI is often used by people who want to do neither and that's really what it boils down to. Ask yourself, would you like to receive a
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by dngray 3mo ago
A lot of those developing nations use it specifically to produce useless slop. Blog spam from India is also very common. I do use AI myself and don't believe its worthless, but I believe its only useful when you ask it fairly specifi
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by dngray 5mo ago
100% and when you decide to use something else, you realize why systemd is actually good.
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by dngray 5mo ago
That's because it's a slop article and it's only really an advertisement for a particular linux distribution.
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by dngray 6mo ago
No they say there they block ads, and I do as well, so maybe they're not used to seeing this kind of crap.
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by dngray 6mo ago
One of the things which really annoys me is the idea that it's every acceptable to blindly "curl -fsSL" bullshit .sh scripts. Even large companies have adopted this crap and you don't know whether there's any digita
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by dngray 6mo ago
They never did this for user privacy, and yes I think you're spot on. This was just to remove liability. Now it just costs them the data and development cost to maintain. Any remaining problems they'll throw some crappy AI moderat
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by dngray 7mo ago
The last time I did this I used the isolandoftex docker image and set it up with DevContainers in vscode https://eccentric.dk/2025/08/25/using-texlive-with-dev-conta...
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by dngray 8mo ago
No its because the emails were not written by Bill. They were written by Epstein to himself and were drafts that were never sent see above https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46867505
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by dngray 8mo ago
Not everyone mentioned in the Epstein documents is associated with kid diddling. Also the thing about "surreptitiously giving melinda antibiotics" weren't actually written by Bill and he has since denied it. > It’s unclea
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by dngray 9mo ago
I really want to love the MTNU reform with its Kailh Choc White switches. I wish like there was a laptop that actually had a mechanical keyboard. That's why I've been thinking of paring my desktop-replacement 16" laptop with
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by dngray 9mo ago
It's also worth noting the CAMM2 ram gets about the same performance.
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by dngray 9mo ago
I already have a server at home server. I used a MZ32 motherboard with a bunch of disks 3.5" in it as it's mostly a storage server. My HTPC is an old ATX desktop computer on its side in a Phanteks P400A case. On it's side it
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by dngray 9mo ago
The thing I don't get about the framework upgradability is that, what are you honestly going to do with the old system board or graphics card? I guess you could sell it. Who's going to really buy it? I tend to upgrade my laptop ev
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by dngray 10mo ago
> The solution to authoritarian regimes is to not have one The solution to not being poor is being rich. You could apply that logic to a lot of things. Have this thing instead of that thing. Using your example above of "differenti
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by dngray 10mo ago
> For conviction I agree, for suspicion not so much. Suspicion isn't guilt. The authorities should suspect people based on probable cause, courts should presume innocence and require the state builds a flawless argument beyond reas
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by dngray 10mo ago
> The solution to authoritarian regimes is to not have one, not tolerate cp on the internet. Perhaps the problem doesn't have a binary solution.
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by dngray 10mo ago
There is no god. You can bet the persons who have the magical keys to all the communications will come close to it though. The world won't fall apart because people have secrets.
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by dngray 10mo ago
> There are solutions for anonymous payments using homomorphic encryption. Things like Zcash and Monero exist. The main problem is there are no products that solve the problem Chat Control aims to solve without infringing massively on
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by dngray 1y ago
"Negative", unless you're from the usual axis of countries that actually will deal with Russia. Saved you a click.
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by dngray 1y ago
> If you log into accounts from your phone, that's also 1fa in the same way. Not quite, there's a lot more sandboxing on phones than what might go on with desktop.
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by dngray 1y ago
I'd probably use Aegis on android https://github.com/beemdevelopment/Aegis?tab=readme-ov-file#... it's a bit more modern.
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by dngray 1y ago
> There's a vim plugin for org mode that I used to use, but TBH, Emacs excels at org mode. Which one did you use? I use https://nvim-orgmode.github.io/ and am happy with it, it's fairly modern written as a lu
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by dngray 1y ago
> Obviously one needs to be an Emacs user first Not true I use the Neovim plugin https://nvim-orgmode.github.io/ . It supports everything I tried from the official org manual. https://orgmode.org/org.htm
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by dngray 1y ago
I used to use caldav but then stopped because there was once a bug on the server side where I couldn't delete events. The main thing I also don't like is there's no encryption or privacy really from the provider unless you go

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