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by cxr 6mo ago
The Wikipedia page for Little Snitch indicates that it's written in Objective-C. Is that still the case? Before going with the new implementation, did you attempt (or consider) to port the current codebase (using e.g. Cocotron or GNU
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by cxr 6mo ago
The project in the very first link, which points to "Open Source components of Little Snitch for Linux", is what this article is about.
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by cxr 6mo ago
This is a strange (and strangely confident) rejoinder. You should refuse to use Steam.
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by cxr 7mo ago
> The low-tech version could be to put a static-URL page on my blog that links to other blogs I like, with a short description. Then people who find my blog interesting might also enjoy the blogs that I enjoy. That could be powerful if i
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by cxr 7mo ago
To think that there's any one class of behavior motivating them is missing the point. This was all pretty well-documented a couple of months ago. (Previously: < https://github.com/mdp/linkedin-extension-fingerp
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Project was assigned for my Software Architecture course(danb.me)
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by cxr 7mo ago
The FSF just published a whole post on additional restrictions versus additional permissions < https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/gpl-compliant-legal-noti... >.
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by cxr 7mo ago
> PSA: npm/bun/pnpm/uv now all support setting a minimum release age for packages. The solution is not moar toolz. That's the problem—this crazy mindset that the problems endemic to bad tooling have a solution in the
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by cxr 7mo ago
This comment highlights a basic dilemma about how and where to spend your time. Here's a basic rule of thumb I recommend people apply when it comes to these sorts of long, contentious threads where you know that not every person showin
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by cxr 7mo ago
It would be great if you would stop and at least try to understand the argument you find yourself in and what's being claimed/described by the other side, especially in the comments you're choosing to respond to, instead of h
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by cxr 7mo ago
> I am not sure what you claim about web formats.¶ If you try to print any non-trivial Web page with any of the existing Web browsers[…] For instance, Firefox and Chrome[…] ... why do you think this matters? Like, at all? We're ta
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by cxr 7mo ago
> Even today, web formats cannot render documents with the same fidelity as ODF. Especially not for spreadsheets. That's a nonsense claim—literally a category error. You're conflating the limitations of what can be represented
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by cxr 7mo ago
LibreOffice needs to pull their heads out of the sand and recognize that both OOXML and ODF are the past. Make it a polyglot ZIP à la SingleFileZ if you have to (or polyglot JSON[1] or just straight up XHTML with a big sidecar blob of emb
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by cxr 7mo ago
What an absurd double standard. The language is patterned after GitHub's own caveats about misuse of GitHub Pages: > you may receive a polite email from GitHub Support suggesting strategies [… such as, and including] moving to a
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by cxr 7mo ago
You are an exasperatingly selfish and un-self-aware person. You should not be mentoring children. This is enshittification personified: > One of these will allow you to[…] get a raise > given the unreasonable nature of my working co
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by cxr 7mo ago
Flagging isn't supposed to be used as a super downvote. There's a term for the bizarre behavior and thought processes (read: justification) by the person you're responding to. < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by cxr 7mo ago
(2020) Previously: 12 comments; 156 points. 2022 November 29. < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33788013 > 67 comments; 484 points. 2020 January 8. < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=219684
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by cxr 7mo ago
< https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079 >
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by cxr 7mo ago
> There are only two ways to make money. One is to bundle; the other is to unbundle. —Jim Barksdale The original (or just the Firefox 3-era Places revamp?) bookmarks implementation in Firefox had a multi-line field to jot down a perso
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by cxr 7mo ago
> Can you please elaborate on this? You're replying to an LLM-powered comment generator.
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by cxr 7mo ago
> It seems like you have taken offense to the phrase "stores diffs", but I'm not sure why. Yeah, I'm not sure why it seems that way to you, either. > the way delta compression works in packfiles might lead me to ca
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by cxr 7mo ago
> I don't understand why you need to switch out the VCS to fix that issue. For some reason, when it comes to this subject, most people don't think about the problem as much as they think they've thought about it. I recentl
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by cxr 7mo ago
The problem with comments like these is that guessing what "better language" a commentator has in mind is always an exercise left up to the reader. And that tends to be by design—it's great for potshots and punditry, because
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by cxr 7mo ago
And what are your thoughts on Frito chili pie?
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by cxr 7mo ago
Maybe if the Jolla folks were serious about making inroads in the market for personal mobile devices that they're ostensibly trying to compete in. But they're just as deluded and as doomed as their Meego/Maemo/Moblin pr
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by cxr 7mo ago
It sounds like you're not grasping the meaning of the linguistic construction being used by the person you're quoting. (Or you're being deliberately deceptive about your understanding of their intent. But it's probably
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by cxr 7mo ago
> cross-platform GUI only looks good on the platform that it was originally designed for Formulated more rigorously, cross-platform GUIs and outsider, non-Mac-first GUIs ported to Mac OS look (and feel) bad on Mac. The opposite is virtu
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by cxr 7mo ago
> A portable GUI interface is a hard problem, unless you mean "a browser window without an URL bar" and your controls are HTML/CSS components[…] > […] an abstraction layer on top of several genuinely different systems[…
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by cxr 7mo ago
It doesn't look like they're "trying to say" anything. They said it. They opened the homepage and heard and/or felt their fans rev up, which didn't leave a good impression. They don't have confidence tha
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by cxr 7mo ago
> Would you voluntarily negotiate a pay cut just because you can charge a fraction of what you do and still swim in cash You're posing the question like there's an obvious answer, and that that answer is "no". In rea

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