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961.
by bandrami 10mo ago
> Maybe I've been irreparably corrupted by being behind NAT for too long Bangs head against desk NAT per se does not prevent an outside host from connecting to a host on your local network.
962.
by bandrami 10mo ago
Remember when Facebook was an application development platform? And people built businesses on that, and then they just kind of stopped allowing that? Good times.
963.
by bandrami 10mo ago
For that matter the GNOME desktop asked me for money the other day
964.
by bandrami 10mo ago
Isn't the problem that if everybody started using it most Web sites couldn't keep existing?
965.
by bandrami 10mo ago
Did more software ship in 2025 than in 2024? I'm still looking for some actual indication of output here. I get that people feel more productive but the actual metrics don't seem to agree.
966.
by bandrami 10mo ago
Did you ship more in 2025 than in 2024?
967.
by bandrami 10mo ago
An LLM is a plausibility engine. That can't be the final step of any workflow.
968.
by bandrami 10mo ago
At some point money from outside the sector is supposed to come in to the sector, right?
969.
by bandrami 10mo ago
I think it's even more fair to assume the user has a MIDI device with a bunch of knobs on it?
970.
by bandrami 10mo ago
I can't think of the last time I used a knob with a mouse; you usually map it to a knob on a MIDI device and the GUI just gives you visual feedback
971.
by bandrami 10mo ago
A boss once asked me "is there a way to tell if an image has been Photoshopped?" and I did eventually get him to "yes, if you can see the image it has been digitally processed and altered by that processing". (The brand-
972.
by bandrami 10mo ago
OK but is it leading to either better or more plentiful software? That's the step that people keep seeming to miss here.
973.
by bandrami 10mo ago
And yet the output isn't noticeably different from 5 years ago.
974.
by bandrami 10mo ago
One day someone will actually build something with an LLM and do a write-up of it, but until then we'll just keep reading about tooling.
975.
by bandrami 10mo ago
Maybe I'm misreading the article but isn't every example about the downside of using github as a database host, not the downside of using git as a database? Like, yes, you should host your own database. This doesn't seem li
976.
by bandrami 11mo ago
That is an important point: in 2005 "all code must be in version control" was still a controversial idea, particularly for companies that made software but were not "tech" companies. A lot of git's expansion came fr
977.
by bandrami 11mo ago
It made a lot of sense before centralized source storage (Debian packaging predates Sourceforge, let alone github). But it's still nice to have when an upstream source goes dark unexpectedly, as does occasionally still happen.
978.
by bandrami 11mo ago
It's like how an alert system that sends more than ~8 alerts a day effectively sends zero alerts.
979.
by bandrami 11mo ago
The writing of vowels also varied greatly over time so any sweeping statement somebody makes can attract a chorus of "yes but"
980.
by bandrami 11mo ago
I love that interface. If I ever get a lodpi monitor again I'm going straight back to Windowmaker.
981.
by bandrami 11mo ago
There are plenty of very light browsers you just have to give up on having a JS engine (which honestly can be a kind of nice way to surf, but probably not a good idea for work)
982.
by bandrami 11mo ago
I mean, I don't trust ublock, for what it's worth. I just disable javascript by default with has pretty much the same effect.
983.
by bandrami 11mo ago
Is this even a problem that code review could find? Once they have your conversation data what happens then isn't part of the plug-in.
984.
by bandrami 11mo ago
Only if you've added a signing certificate the VPN controls to your CA chain. But at that point they don't have to do anything as complicated as you described.
985.
by bandrami 11mo ago
Not easier , lower-risk. Agriculture produced a standard of living with a lower mean but a much thinner left tail.
986.
by bandrami 11mo ago
In the music world there are people who will build whole symphonies out of one sample, one filter, and one delay patch.
987.
by bandrami 11mo ago
I love that they put all the diplomats in Chanakyapur which would be like Italy putting them on Machiavelli Lane
988.
by bandrami 11mo ago
If I forget my LUKS passphrase no power on heaven or earth can recover my data
989.
by bandrami 11mo ago
The point of open source is I don't have to trust the person who wrote it
990.
by bandrami 1y ago
> any type of web pages with javascript being illegal Inshallah

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