hellcow

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by hellcow 10d ago
Google can shuttle network requests to any of their other apps (or play services, if that's running) via IPC, even with the network permission disabled in Gboard. So if you're using Graphene for privacy from Google specifically, i
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by hellcow 13d ago
Seems like you could use an escrow to defeat this and sell domain names safely and easily.
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by hellcow 13d ago
Yes, all this talk about the language used still leads us to the same frustrating outcome: customer pays for something, and at some unspecified point in the future that same thing is taken away from them. I don't care if 6 years earlie
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by hellcow 15d ago
What alternatives do people recommend that are secure and easy to use for nontechnical people with auto-backup?
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by hellcow 17d ago
vimium is my solution to the web.
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by hellcow 1mo ago
There's raylib and sdl2 eggs available. Those are a great place to start.
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by hellcow 1mo ago
The eggs are great. For instance I can be up and running building an SDL2 game or make a webserver quickly. It has good emacs support with geiser-chicken. Because it compiles down to C the FFI provides a lot of nice ergonomics beyond what I
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by hellcow 1mo ago
Fastmail is an Australian company.
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by hellcow 1mo ago
There's no reason Framework needed to be storing this much PII about me all this time including my address, IP addresses and phone number. I just requested a full delete courtesy of GDPR and CCPA and encourage others to do the same.
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by hellcow 2mo ago
There's a Pink Floyd song about just such a thing, Fletcher Memorial Home: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDDzR2zSgsM
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by hellcow 2mo ago
Electric cars face a lot of depreciation, so you can get a really good deal on a used one. Plenty of supply, low cost, and cheap to keep running.
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by hellcow 2mo ago
Did we read the same article? > To us, it seems ridiculous to see projects with a single developer and virtually no users consuming as much or even more resources than some of the largest community projects on Codeberg, which operate fru
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by hellcow 2mo ago
There's security consequences to allowing inline JS, which hyperscript requires.
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by hellcow 2mo ago
It's sad to see the pre-LLM history of this project dating back years completely nuked in favor of this.
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by hellcow 2mo ago
They tried to put ads into Organic Maps, and they only backed down because CoMaps sprung up in response. Others in the thread highlighted other issues, like Organic Maps' proprietary license for some parts of the repo: https:/&#x
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by hellcow 3mo ago
I'm hoping for a renewed focus on writing software that runs well on constrained machines and helps people get many more years of useful life out of their existing computers.
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by hellcow 3mo ago
GrapheneOS lets you restrict the internet access of any app on install. But yes, agreed it should be everywhere.
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by hellcow 3mo ago
Apple still pushes ads to you. I can't recall how many times I saw ads in the App Store, and how many times they tried to push me into subscribing to whatever nonsense their executives' KPIs demanded (Apple Arcade+? News+? Music+?
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by hellcow 3mo ago
Sheesh. $500 is a hard pass from me. Too bad because I was psyched to try this.
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by hellcow 4mo ago
Sure, I _could_ carry more weight, but I'm not sure why I'd _want_ to. Why should I sacrifice for example an extra pair of socks or a shirt, when I don't need to? Having a bigger screen or a faster PC doesn't matter more
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by hellcow 4mo ago
I travel with strict luggage limits (both size and weight) and hike all day. Removing weight absolutely helps.
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by hellcow 4mo ago
Meanwhile the moment I (a human, of which I'm reasonably confident) see a Cloudflare captcha I nope immediately out of the site and block it forevermore in Kagi. It's not worth the waiting game. "Verifying..." lasts ages
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by hellcow 4mo ago
Another clanker comment...
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by hellcow 4mo ago
I care that runtime developers know and understand their codebase deeply. 1M LOC written by 1 dev in a short time does not inspire confidence in such an important dependency. There's no way this code is understood fully by the original
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by hellcow 4mo ago
> WhatsApp claims to be end-to-end-encrypted, but it's not open-source And explicitly does not encrypt metadata. Meanwhile NSA top brass publicly stated, "We kill people based on metadata."
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by hellcow 4mo ago
It's trivial to set up WAL-based streaming backups. Same thing as you'd have with Postgres on GCP. Restore from your latest backup.
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by hellcow 4mo ago
The MNT Reform has a trackball option. https://shop.mntre.com/products/mnt-reform
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by hellcow 5mo ago
When these mega-companies block new competitors it really ought to be seen as collusion. Google, Facebook, and Microsoft certainly have the resources to test and approve the occasional new browser.
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by hellcow 5mo ago
I used an immigration service to help me through the process. Alongside that I spent several months learning the language then weeks traveling through PT before making the decision. You can do the immigration process yourself, but it's
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by hellcow 5mo ago
My family has been in America for... I dunno, 8 generations? A long time. I'm moving. I don't have any connection to Europe. I just don't want to live under America's increasing fascism and would rather contribute to a j

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