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by coldpie 2mo ago
Interesting! More reading here: https://blog.chromium.org/2020/05/a-safer-and-more-private-b... Looks like they try to choose a D-o-H provider that is associated with your plain DNS provider, instead of just jum
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by coldpie 2mo ago
I have to use macOS for work. The window manager is so bad it makes me feel like a crazy person. They actually ship it like this on purpose?
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by coldpie 2mo ago
With DNS-over-HTTPS, your DNS queries are sent to Cloudflare (by default; it is configurable). Without it, your DNS queries are sent to your ISP. The question is which company you trust more with your DNS queries. Given how often ISPs and
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by coldpie 2mo ago
> Alas it seems we won't see any such phone that fits in a pant's pocket and that can be operated single-handedly Check out the Motorola Razr! I switched from an iPhone 13 Mini to the Razr last year and I'm a big fan. The
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by coldpie 2mo ago
If you go from using Linux for years to having to use an OS like macOS or especially Windows, it really does feel like using a computer with padded walls and safety scissors so you don't hurt yourself. You do get used to the limitatio
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by coldpie 2mo ago
Yeah, I was gonna say. These are reasonable defaults for a technical user and I do much of the same, but it's also reasonable for many users to want the features that are being disabled here. It's not slop just because the autho
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by coldpie 2mo ago
Install uBlock Origin and enable the Cookie Notices and Annoyances lists in the Filter Lists settings.
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by coldpie 2mo ago
> Is this a common experience or do I just have to be better at tracking? I don't know anything about your illness, but I have Type 1 Diabetes, which is a pretty high maintenance chronic illness. Many T1Ds put a lot of effort into
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by coldpie 2mo ago
I dunno. TBH I'd rather just let the food go bad than bother with the expense and hassle of having a battery and keeping it charged. I guess other locations may have less reliable grids than I do, but I've only experienced one po
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by coldpie 2mo ago
> my 565GB photo library I always wonder what people do with these photos. For me photos are utilitarian. I take a photo and immediately send it to my wife or friend, or upload it to my website for an article, or post it on Instagram or
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by coldpie 2mo ago
I wrote a browser extension to automatically click the Hide link for stories containing AI keywords. It helps keep the boring stuff off the front page. https://github.com/ColdPie1/enough-ai-on-hn
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by coldpie 2mo ago
Sammme. Remember all the hullaballo about the AwesomeBar in Firefox 3? https://ed.agadak.net/2008/03/beyond-awesome Truly amazing stuff, in 2008.
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by coldpie 2mo ago
Handy tip: If you disable all the tab category things in settings and go down to a single category (Primary), it will stop showing you ads entirely.
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by coldpie 2mo ago
Yeah. I've written about this a few times, with some suggestions for how to make it marginally less miserable to visit a website: "Take back your web browser screen space with Kill Sticky" https://www.smokingonabik
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by coldpie 2mo ago
Ran into this quite a bit while working on Wine, too. Start digging into a program's behavior to fix some Wine bug and, "oh, huh, it's another Delphi app."
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by coldpie 2mo ago
A teammate put my name on a patent proposal he filed with our legal team. I immediately demanded to have my name taken off of it. No way I would accept having my name associated with that trash. I'm sorry you weren't able to ge
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by coldpie 2mo ago
And 40,000 Americans die due to cars every year. Everything's got tradeoffs, I choose the one that makes me happy.
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by coldpie 2mo ago
For me, I take the bus to work, so my commute time is spent on pleasant things like reading library books, or working through Chinese lessons on my phone, or just looking out the window, or occasionally chatting with other commuters. I actu
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by coldpie 2mo ago
That has not been my experience at all. Usually people aren't interested in the career as a conversation topic ("Oh I don't understand anything about computers! Anyway,") but I've never seen anything like what you&#
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by coldpie 2mo ago
We learned about it here in Minnesota, too! But I suppose we are about as close to Canadian as you can get without actually crossing the border.
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by coldpie 2mo ago
I host a couple WordPress blogs on Lithium Hosting. It's like $5/mo, fixed cost, and I've never had any issues. If I somehow hit a transfer usage cap, they would just shut my site down until the next month, but I've ne
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by coldpie 2mo ago
That's true for the big-advertising-budget AAA slop games. Go do a search for "best indie games 2025" and you'll find more amazing games made just last year than you could spend several whole years playing.
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by coldpie 2mo ago
Interesting. What sorts of projects did you use XSLT for? I used it once to transform some XSD schema documents into HTML for presentation, but it would've been pretty trivial to do the same in JS in browser, or Python for offline tran
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by coldpie 2mo ago
As a public transit using American who does not live in NYC, I do live in a car sewer, so I will happily accept this significantly better shit while still also advocating for increased density, traffic calming measures, and better public
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by coldpie 2mo ago
I'm a Google/advertising hater too, but you're choosing a really lame hill to die on here. No one cares about XSLT except as a way to bash Google. Killing it was the correct choice. Find a better argument.
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by coldpie 2mo ago
Definitely a lot of approaches. I like that mine is dead simple & runs in the browser; but an advantage to a deeper inspection like yours is it will catch those endless AI thinkpieces that don't obviously stick an AI term in the t
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by coldpie 2mo ago
I also built a browser extension to do this client-side. It just auto-clicks the Hide links for any story with an AI-related term. Source & Firefox add-on link here: https://github.com/ColdPie1/enough-ai-on-hn
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by coldpie 2mo ago
The bubble needs to burst already. Everyone so braindead that they actually build and ship a product like this fucking garbage needs to be out on the street. Like, read that fucking prompt again. If that doesn't make you want to stick
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by coldpie 2mo ago
This is all so fucking stupid.
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by coldpie 2mo ago
> The only relief is that on my iPhone, I was able to block all calls not found in my contacts (ie whitelist phone numbers only). It is insane that Android still does not have this option. It has to be some kind of software patent horse

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