thepuppet33r

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by thepuppet33r 7mo ago
Everyone complains about one little update breaking your PC, or random things not working, but my Windows 11 laptop for work has been a nightmare, too. I'm always terrified to let them install the latest version update as it has done e
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by thepuppet33r 10mo ago
This sort of thing has existed for a while, but it's not picked up in the mainstream for two main reasons (at least based on my anecdotal evidence). 1. The friction between a zipped file and an unzipped file isn't enough to make t
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by thepuppet33r 10mo ago
I would pay for this. 100%.
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by thepuppet33r 11mo ago
Wasn't that an edge case, though? Not even done by a bad actor, just someone misguided? And it was discovered and quickly corrected, unlike what would happen on something owned by a massive FAANG-style corp. I have been schooled many t
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by thepuppet33r 2y ago
The font is hard to read. From a usability and accessibility standpoint, I'd recommend changing it.
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by thepuppet33r 2y ago
This is amazing. Much prefer this to helping train autonomous vehicles.
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Almost Everyone Developing Tor Was Paid by the US Government (2014)(web.archive.org)
3 points by thepuppet33r 2y ago|2 comments
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by thepuppet33r 2y ago
We're using GoFundMe as a bandaid for healthcare, to the degree that the CEO went to beg Congress to pass more government assistance in COVID-laden 2021. https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/
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Saliva-testing wand knows how stressed you are(engadget.com)
1 points by thepuppet33r 2y ago|0 comments
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by thepuppet33r 2y ago
Fair point.
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by thepuppet33r 2y ago
How much money does it take to manage and develop a web browser? Was it necessary for them to create a whole new way to deliver ads to support it? I feel like a lot of these tech nonprofits like Mozilla and Wikipedia are constantly begging
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by thepuppet33r 2y ago
Putting aside the whole "I'm rich and aimless, what should I do" thing the author's got going on, I found the product they got rich for (Loom) to be fascinating as a statement on where we are right now. It's essenti
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by thepuppet33r 2y ago
It's odd that they include the phrase "a board game invented in prison" in every photo caption. Is this an AI caption thing that repeats the same descriptor each time? > Dana Lopez sands a wooden token for poleana, a board
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by thepuppet33r 2y ago
Congrats on your privileged position! I'm glad you are able to retire, but not sure this is the best time to crow about it. I'm trying to eke out enough money to put in my 401K and hope that when it's time for me to retire in
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by thepuppet33r 2y ago
A long time ago, I decided a day was successful if I helped someone, learned something new, or made something. It's a low bar to clear, so it isn't intimidating, but it drives me to make intentional connections, be curious, and co
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by thepuppet33r 2y ago
Maybe I was just a bad kid, but if my parents had done something like this, my friends and I would have pooled our cash and bought a used phone. That wouldn't invalidate this and it would still be better, but just FYI. Any parent-drive
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by thepuppet33r 2y ago
Not if I burn them! Then they contribute to the air quality issue! Time to go cry in the corner!
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by thepuppet33r 2y ago
I'm still not sure how they plan to enforce this. Even now, I see an age verification popup on both illicit sites and even sites I feel are innocuous. But I can just click that I'm old enough to move on. If the social media compan
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by thepuppet33r 2y ago
God, this thread is bleak. Not undeservedly, but...woof. Nobody's mentioned antibiotic resistant bacteria much that I saw, so that'll probably keep being more and more of an issue. Everyone predicted a second Great Depression duri
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by thepuppet33r 2y ago
This was fun! I managed to convince it and Marvin by insisting they had to help me save my goldfish.
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by thepuppet33r 2y ago
It's an interesting idea, but I'm not sure it actually accomplishes much. I do some purple team work for my company occasionally, and if I scanned a network and got back a bunch of delayed traffic and an active host at every IP, I
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by thepuppet33r 2y ago
I'm such a baby programmer that Advent of Code is still challenging for me, so it's fascinating to see people taking it and exploring all these new languages and platforms. I found (and subsequently lost) someone who had started c
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by thepuppet33r 2y ago
"This body is built on the ruins of all the people I have ever been." - The Simplest Words by The Narcissist Cookbook. Grownups aren't just big kids, but we're standing on the rubble of who we were back then. https:&#x2
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by thepuppet33r 2y ago
So, I had a emoji in my original post that indicates a joke around the trademark comment, and I didn't realize HN automatically strips those out. I appreciate the clarification in this and the comments below, but yeah, it was meant to
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by thepuppet33r 2y ago
> I think the OP would disagree or simply say those who want to be on the web can do it, It's relatively easy, your ambitions can be simple and that simplicity is more authentic than just sharing links from your profile on a Social
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by thepuppet33r 2y ago
> Sheesh. I can only imagine what is your interest in personal expression--seems diabolical. Think about the older people or not tech-heavy people in your life and try to imagine them building their own website from scratch or using a ho
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by thepuppet33r 2y ago
I did a lot of sleep hacking in college, trying to sleep as little as possible so that I could spend time with friends, play video games, and (ostensibly) study. Now that I'm working a job where I do overnight deployments, often work 1
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by thepuppet33r 2y ago
Hacker News (as much as I would like for it to be) is not and likely will never be the mainstream. Even posting a link has friction, compared to the "share now" or retweet options. I love the format and Hacker News in general, but
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by thepuppet33r 2y ago
The biggest problem with people making their own websites is: 1) It's more effort and time than most people are willing to deal with, when instead they can create an account on Bluesky in seconds, and immediately begin sharing their o
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by thepuppet33r 2y ago
It's a clever concept, but I'm leery of having someone send a letter on my behalf to someone. You all haven't trademarked the idea, have you? I think I'll just write a few of these up myself and send them out.

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