Santosh83

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by Santosh83 3y ago
Subscription based apps and locked devices are the future. They've built the moat and now they'll withdraw the bridge. S/w industry will become just like any other, where cost of entry for an average person will be prohibitiv
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by Santosh83 3y ago
One of the HN regular contributor's personal site is similar. Extensively cross-linked and hovering over any links opens in its own popup window. A unique site.
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by Santosh83 3y ago
Why does it seem like 80 to 90% of hobby OS projects that are started are "Unix-like?" Don't we already have a huge variety of Unix-like OSes out there? Why not explore new models?
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by Santosh83 3y ago
Maybe not impossible but my understanding is the TPM and the closed source nature of the system level code will make it difficult enough that 99% of users will not be able to do it, which is what industry wants. They're never worried a
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by Santosh83 3y ago
Maybe I'm wrong but Web Attestation will also be a death knell for Linux devices (not Android/Chrome OS) as far as being able to use them as equal clients to use the Web goes. They're simply too diverse and 'hackable&#x2
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The worrying trend of Big Tech becoming gatekeepers for govt/health services(old.reddit.com)
3 points by Santosh83 3y ago|0 comments
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by Santosh83 3y ago
C Unleashed by Heathfield etc and Modern C by Jens Gustedt are two am aware of. Oh and also Expert C Programming by Peter van der Linden
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by Santosh83 3y ago
> At least until LLMs bury your platform in noise. Curious, but how exactly would they do that? Are you talking about scraping your website and adding garbage filler content from LLMs and republishing to divert traffic?
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When open becomes opaque: The changing face of open-source hardware companies(blog.adafruit.com)
464 points by Santosh83 3y ago|263 comments
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by Santosh83 3y ago
Its the best that can be done when the underlying physical network layer itself is not decentralised.
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by Santosh83 3y ago
Yeah the article body is black on red for me too, on Firefox. Must be some glitch.
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by Santosh83 3y ago
Clearnet also works for this particular use case, disregarding anonymity. And an IPv4 address is much more readable/usable than an onion one.
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by Santosh83 3y ago
Other than DDoS, all other issues you mentioned apply equally to all internet facing apps like Whatsapp etc. A static file server can be hardened to the point where only DDoS remains a significant threat and that hardly applies to an averag
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by Santosh83 3y ago
Indeed. These days we have 24x7 net connections on both our mobiles as well as home LAN/desktop whatever, but you still can't get a single, 1-click, drop-dead simple program that you can use to both author as well as serve web-pag
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by Santosh83 3y ago
Likely the stars born from it (including ours) accreted most of the gas & dust and the rest dissipated through stellar radiation pressure. Its been more than 5 billion years.
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by Santosh83 3y ago
The problem is promotion and payments. Amazon et al will deal with payments from around the world, will print & ship hard copies, will deal with refunds, and will promote your book across their properties. You get none of this with self
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by Santosh83 3y ago
This isn't average user friendly. No one except nerds will remember these symbols. Why not simply make it so that typing !history ____ will search history, !bookmarks ___ will search bookmarks and so on? This at least stands a chance o
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by Santosh83 3y ago
This is the case for most Linux distributions, except for LTS and rolling release, and the latter isn't newbie friendly, which leaves the only good experience newcomers have with Linux are the LTS releases with increasingly outdated
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by Santosh83 3y ago
True but in Debian's case I believe their 'social contract' forbids such a move, plus there is no central for-profit entity controlling the source code.
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by Santosh83 3y ago
What desktop does it use? Can't easily see from the website. But from the choice of Thunar as file manager, seems like it is XFCE? Also default browser seems to be Chrome instead of Firefox which is an odd choice for a Linux distro, bu
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by Santosh83 3y ago
It shows a blank page on Firefox, though displays as it should on Edge/Chrome. I guess they simply haven't considered deploying for non-Chromium engines yet.
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by Santosh83 3y ago
If you've uploaded photos of yourself on other services and those services have agreements among themselves to share each others' (anonymized?) data, then you can be tracked across services through, among other things, your phot
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by Santosh83 3y ago
We've almost come full circle with browser extensions, from being rare or non-existent to the zenith of popularity and power in the pre-Quantum Firefox days to now back to being increasingly whitelisted and sandboxed into unpopularity.
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by Santosh83 3y ago
This about:config toggle seems to be a "nuclear option" that disables the entire "quarantined domains" functionality. It would be better if Mozilla offered users a choice to toggle only certain blocked addons on certain
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by Santosh83 3y ago
It isn't HTTPS that's the issue so much as centralisation under CAs. Self signed certificates should not throw up a warning on sites that don't deal with sensitive data.
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by Santosh83 3y ago
Have used Tor for accessing the Z-library and several other cases where sites where blocked or taken down. Not all of Tor is dark web shadiness or bots.
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by Santosh83 4y ago
> But if you use windows, there is no inline assembly so shrug. (in Nim presumably) Can anyone say why?
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On Container Queries, Responsive Images, and JPEG-XL(cloudfour.com)
31 points by Santosh83 4y ago|3 comments
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by Santosh83 4y ago
I think Yandex have their own index and some others too like Marginalia, but the latter couldn't be called "in the same category" as the other three.
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Swisscows – an anonymous and family friendly search engine(swisscows.com)
4 points by Santosh83 4y ago|0 comments

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