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by neilalexander 5d ago
Documentation explaining the Keychain security model: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/security/secb0694df1a/...
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by neilalexander 7d ago
I would think it has far more to do with content consumption than it does eyesight.
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by neilalexander 7d ago
“Useful computer” is subjective. It seems to be difficult for HN users to imagine a device that doesn’t have a terminal for example, but the overwhelming majority of users simply do not care. Many of them manage just fine with a smartphone
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by neilalexander 8d ago
It's not about fighting over the "one and only", it's about sane human-friendly defaults. A desktop environment can and should express opinions over those defaults, because they are what make or break the experience for
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by neilalexander 8d ago
Naming should be general. Ask a new user whether names like Dolphin, Okular, Kdenlive, Kate, Gwenview and Dragon are even remotely discoverable. KDE application naming is so consistently terrible that their default application launcher ha
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by neilalexander 10d ago
Regarding 2, use the File menu in the menubar.
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by neilalexander 23d ago
XMPP leans heavily on capability negotiation and service discovery which makes it straightforward to degrade gracefully when feature mismatches occur. Matrix is significantly lacking in this regard.
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by neilalexander 23d ago
> audacious mission to make Linux on the desktop happen On the one hand, I'm supportive of people trying to make Linux on the desktop happen. On the other hand, a distribution aimed squarely and solely at developers doesn't see
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by neilalexander 1mo ago
It's not really a hack. It's a hint to a static analyser, that's all.
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by neilalexander 1mo ago
For anyone who missed the reference: https://xkcd.com/927/
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by neilalexander 1mo ago
In the same way that you can hack apart a loaf of bread with a spoon, yes, but they are very different things with different goals.
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by neilalexander 1mo ago
Different animal altogether. Rayfish, Tailscale, ZeroTier, Netbird etc are a different category of tool, designed to facilitate connectivity between you and your own pool of machines. They don't generally do much in the way of multi-ho
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by neilalexander 2mo ago
It is immensely frustrating that there is so little unlicensed spectrum available vs the massive amounts of spectrum available to militaries and very rich network operators. Worse is that the unlicenced spectrum that is available is often s
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by neilalexander 2mo ago
I worked on Dendrite for a number of years, activity on it pretty much fell off a cliff after I left Element but there seems to be a fork called Zendrite that has carried on with development more recently. There is a migration path from a s
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by neilalexander 2mo ago
The CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE capability on Linux is far less of a blunt instrument that applies to a single process rather than system-wide.
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by neilalexander 2mo ago
Someone else commented about the law being “non-autistic”, this is a perfect example of that. The technicality of the encryption keys vs the files is irrelevant, the intent was to successfully prevent a search. The border agents will not
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by neilalexander 2mo ago
This is not true. There's a specced QR code and Bluetooth workflow for using a passkey on one device to sign into an account on another. It works cross-platform.
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by neilalexander 2mo ago
Ofcom's interpretation and enforcement of a law is not immune from judicial review, however. The courts can rule that Ofcom misinterpreted the law or acted outwith their remit or didn't have the necessary legal foundation for a de
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by neilalexander 2mo ago
I did read the article, yes, and it is clear to me that this is a bug, not a feature. Ofcom were suddenly able to find a "novel reading" when directed to do so by a court as a means to temporarily make the problem go away and to a
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by neilalexander 2mo ago
In other words, "stay where you are for now, we promise to extend the legislation to cover you in the future".
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by neilalexander 2mo ago
I don't expect that my current version of the software will be updated forever or remain indefinitely secure though. I expect that I'll get some small updates or security patches for a certain amount of time only and I'm OK w
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by neilalexander 2mo ago
TablePlus is a good example. I buy their product and in exchange I get a year of updates. After that, it keeps on working without new features or updates. If I want new features or updates after that, I buy it again. Otherwise, I can keep o
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by neilalexander 2mo ago
> Upgrade pricing also doesn’t solve this. [...] versioned upgrades incentivize developers to chase shiny features that people might pay for rather than improving their app and building for the long haul. It makes the product worse. In m
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by neilalexander 3mo ago
This is a dumb take and a very weird attempt at gatekeeping. Of course programming is a profession. It can also be a hobby, but that doesn't mean that it isn't a profession. The world runs on computers and software development is
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by neilalexander 3mo ago
Visa and Mastercard are both US companies and they issue both debit and credit cards. If you have a UK or EU bank account with a Visa or Mastercard, regardless of currency or whether it's debit or credit, you are still ultimately relia
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by neilalexander 3mo ago
Bank-owned and supermarket cash machines don't generally charge for withdrawals in the UK but there are still many third-party machines that do.
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by neilalexander 3mo ago
No, because you could feasibly end up with neighbour entries for the same address via multiple interfaces and then you are no further forward.
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by neilalexander 3mo ago
AI contributions are only a part of the issue. Another part is where a contributor decides they want a specific feature and contributes it but then disappears off into the sunset when it comes to needing maintenance later.
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by neilalexander 3mo ago
Having services be accessible on a link-local address and then advertising that service via mDNS is a completely legitimate use-case that works extremely well and is extremely common with Apple devices amongst others. The advantage being th
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by neilalexander 4mo ago
I would add that there is no particularly good reason for an EV to have a push-to-start button. With Volvo, Polestar etc, you get in and shift straight into Drive or Reverse, and when you’re done, you put it into Park and climb out again. T

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