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by bmacho 1y ago
There are no mechanisms in browsers yet. Best you can do is using the OS to forbid your whole browser to access your local network. (And use another browser only for your local network.) Ask ChatGPT for methods to sandbox your browser.
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by bmacho 1y ago
And everyone that worked on it, also everyone that still keep working at any division at Meta after knowing that it is organized crime.
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by bmacho 1y ago
> You can't have wizards without first having noobs. But maybe some wizards feel miserable when they are forced to interact 95% of the time with noobs, instead of other wizards? Maybe they want a circle for themselves, as a basic
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by bmacho 1y ago
Fun fact: when it is cold, and you need more heat inside you, it doesn't take any energy at all. In fact nothing takes energy, except physical work. The same is true for households, if it's winter, and you have the heating on, was
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by bmacho 1y ago
One of the very few security inspired restrictions I can wholeheartedly agree with. I don't want random websites be able to read my localhost. I hope it gets accepted and implemented sooner than later. OTOH it would be cool if random w
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by bmacho 1y ago
Android apps obviously shouldn't be able to just open or read a global communication channel on your device. But this applies to websites too.
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by bmacho 1y ago
> (Here's an anchoring point: the projected cost for the propulsion to "just" deorbit the International Space Station, at the end of its operating life, is $1.5 billion [0]). That's under 2% of the total cost, that&#x
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by bmacho 1y ago
Nah, it's needlessly hostile (just look at the comments). > Longstanding browser-specific issues .. make this tricky! I don't think it's true, there are no browser-specific issues that stand in the way of anything that peo
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by bmacho 1y ago
> Oh my god, this is your product!? Please, this is a stupid gimmick. Middle click on X11 pastes the selection buffer, a critical feature for my productivity, and now when I try to open links in a new tab I end up pasting text I've
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by bmacho 1y ago
> Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use and view the source code,[1] design documents,[2] or content of the product. > Generally, open
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by bmacho 1y ago
OFF: Can we do something about this "open source" = "Open Source" usage? I want the opposite, "open source" = "source available" usage, because - that's what the words mean. - the co
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by bmacho 1y ago
> I could just be redirecting people to this link What's the point of that? > I spent a whole day building a web scraper to bypass archive.today’s firewall Meanwhile archive.* refuse to serve the totally human me who makes at mos
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by bmacho 1y ago
https://archive.md/oldest/www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/busines...
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by bmacho 1y ago
> I improvised my post-2 work by simply washing with the shower pistol whose cord is long enough to reach behind me while I'm sitting on the toilet. > Since then, whenever I search for a new apartment to rent, this became one of
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by bmacho 1y ago
Works On My Ass
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by bmacho 1y ago
> Having goals and benchmarks is important, probably even required OTOH following on the benchmarks is ill-advised. Progress is not monotonous. For example you want to cut down a tree. What do you do, you start sharpening your axe, even
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by bmacho 1y ago
Did you learn to read Polish or English at that age? As someone whose first language is written as it is spoken, I believe that reading English for English kids is much-much-much harder. Reading in a language with a letter-sound corresponde
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by bmacho 1y ago
> You could have diverted him toward skills you aren't going to learn in school (checkers, chess, music,...) I think the kid has a higher chance to excel at their hobby of choice now that they are ahead of the curriculum and can foc
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by bmacho 1y ago
> Your main contribution here is your DNA. I think you are confusing contribution with effort. While it might not take a huge effort from a parent to do this, it is still a ginormous contribution, most likely life-changing in itself, eve
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by bmacho 1y ago
Tangential, but Windows Powershell kept nagging me to download PS6, so I did it, then I had to revert it to 5.1, because running a script had a ~1 second overhead. Very annoying. For one-off runs it's often the starting time what'
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by bmacho 1y ago
Another idea: if your content is ~5kb text, then serve it to whoever asks it. If you don't have the bandwidth, try to make it smaller, static, and put it on the edge, some other people's computers.
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by bmacho 1y ago
> This is a rational rationale to explain why Nvidia is not terribly interested in all the bullshit that B2C requires in general and the oceans of it that the gamer segment of the market involves. In the article this is a strawman, and t
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by bmacho 1y ago
I would say ℝ u {undefined}
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by bmacho 1y ago
Article is from 2012, compare [0] and [1]. The pdf got replaced for some reason (bug, sensitive information in the meta or idk), but the article seems to have stayed the same, except the date. [0]: https://arxiv.org/pdf&#x2F
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by bmacho 1y ago
> And I feel less connected. Watch whatever today's kids watch.
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by bmacho 1y ago
In other words M <= T.
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by bmacho 1y ago
That's the whole point, to remove trees from the land, so new trees can grow and extract carbon from the atmosphere.
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by bmacho 1y ago
> > a more carbon friendly alternative to steel. > Hard to beat. Since wood is actually carbon negative, it still manages to beat steel.
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by bmacho 1y ago
Windows + Edge populates it for me. I consider it a form of tracking so I definitely will look into it how to override it, this hasn't happened yet tho.
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by bmacho 1y ago
The site should respect explicit user actions. A get request to a /en/ domain, or a button click to a language icon should result changing to that language. Respecting implicit preferences that are more likely than not be just pla

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