tapete1

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by tapete1 10d ago
Well, any article whose headline starts with "how" is always bad quality and/or clickbait.
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by tapete1 20d ago
Did both versions ever face a security audit or pentest?
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by tapete1 20d ago
Why do you end very comment with a "-"?
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by tapete1 21d ago
> “Hey Droid, tell Emacs to swap the command and option keys on my Mac.” Obviously, only a Mac user would need to do that. Every other person will just do this customization the normal way.
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by tapete1 28d ago
Do you have somewhere an article or similar about the motivation behind this project, i.e. how did you went from "I write a novel" to "I need to write my own editor to write my novel"? That would be really interesting!
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by tapete1 3mo ago
You will never write something that everyone likes. And furthermore, writing a quality text is _hard_, as in, that is something that even a native speaker will have to practice several years. "There's a Gap that for the first coup
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by tapete1 3mo ago
Well, the author is a mac user.
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by tapete1 3mo ago
I have asked LLMs several Emacs-related questions and _never_ got a reply that works. And at generating elisp code they are especially awful.
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by tapete1 4mo ago
So you are the AI? I mean, seriously, which human says "the compute"?
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by tapete1 4mo ago
I stopped reading at "Nerd rating".
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by tapete1 4mo ago
> I'm tired of people who, when they don't like an article, comment that it was "obviously written by AI" instead of arguing its merits. The point is that this article is extremely badly written; an over-influated pie
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by tapete1 5mo ago
You are wrong in this regard. If you complain about "6 inches of whitespace on each side", you should read this on a proper device (i.e. a desktop computer) or just inject some CSS to fix the site (this is HN, after all). But know
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by tapete1 6mo ago
> MacBook That explains the writing style.
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by tapete1 7mo ago
Yeah, this "article" is extremely badly written.
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by tapete1 7mo ago
Yeah there is something funny going on with the scrolling.
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by tapete1 8mo ago
This is true. If the user was capable of testing his backups, he would not be using a Mac in the first place.
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by tapete1 8mo ago
Of course Linux clients in your network can be controlled by group policy. You just need to roll out a enterprise-grade distribution like red hat. See for example: https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_e
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by tapete1 8mo ago
Why not just use the standard Linux tool bubblewrap?
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by tapete1 8mo ago
Why not just use the standard Linux tool bubblewrap?
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by tapete1 8mo ago
Of course not. But it is not needed, as Mac users are not interested in data safety.
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by tapete1 8mo ago
> agents know git far better than fossil. That does not matter though. If you need an AI agent for SCM you are already lost and should take a step back.
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by tapete1 8mo ago
> The fact that Markdown is widely used quite successfully demonstrates that it is adequate for a wide variety of tasks. Just because $x is used for lots of tasks does not mean that it is adequate for that. People use Excel for lots of t
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by tapete1 8mo ago
> You hit control-a and it goes to the start of the field. We "PC" users have a dedicated key for that on our keyboard, it is called "home". We even have the opposite, a dedicated key called "end".
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by tapete1 8mo ago
lol true. It is like "problematic".
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by tapete1 8mo ago
Damn. I was not aware that Kevin Mitnick has passed away.
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by tapete1 9mo ago
Same. I mean you can tell about the level of tech literacy just by reading that OP uses NordVPN.
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by tapete1 9mo ago
You can get all the domain stuff for less than 1 € from any competent hoster, e.g. netcup. For cloud drive, if you really want to put your own files on someone else's server, there are tons of cheaper options, e.g. 2 TB for 10 €/m
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by tapete1 9mo ago
To me, it is the most unimportant one. I don't even read email on my phone. The screen is way too small to do anything useful.