frereubu

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by frereubu 2y ago
You seem to be relatively new here, so you may not have read the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html You're being pretty abusive in this thread, which in turn has provoked others to be abusive,
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by frereubu 2y ago
What I mean is that they don't say "Scan this QR code with your time-based one-time password (TOTP) app." They say "scan this QR code with your Google Authenticator app" or "scan this code with the HMRC app&quo
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by frereubu 2y ago
I love (hate) the idea of a site where you need to send a personal email to the webmaster to be whitelisted.
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by frereubu 2y ago
That is definitively what they were when the term "podcast" was new and I was trying to figure it out - and in any case this seems like rather pointless hairsplitting.
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by frereubu 2y ago
TOTP suffers from a similar issue - I use 1Password to store my TOTP codes, but both Google and the UK's HMRC tax website talk about using their own apps for codes rather than anything agreed like "one-time passwords". The d
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by frereubu 2y ago
I get that this this is a way to do it in practical terms, but isn't that just like having to have two passwords for each site (outside the fact that passkeys are a bit more secure than passwords)? I thought one of the main points of p
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by frereubu 2y ago
I guess, but doesn't that start to feel like the tyranny of productivity? If it doesn't take long while you're the urinal it doesn't take long just afterwards too, and then you can enjoy the feeling of having a pee! (Per
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by frereubu 2y ago
> there’s also ways to lock yourself out of apps and websites after X amount of time on them I've tried this, but it feels like a big administrative burden, having to think about how long each app should be, when it should be availa
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by frereubu 2y ago
It feels like for a lot of people (I'm including myself in that) "reducing social media consumption" is a somewhere between "reducing my cocaine usage" and "reducing my heroin usage" it's so compulsiv
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by frereubu 2y ago
I would always have a copy of The Economist, New Yorker, NYRB, LRB or similar when I was travelling around London, so avoiding boredom was a priority for me even then. Much more restful to read a physical magazine though, and the only thing
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by frereubu 2y ago
Something new that I've seen is men standing at urinals on their phones. It really blew my mind that they can't even take a pee that lasts maybe 20-30 seconds without looking at their phone. What could you possibly do in that time
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by frereubu 2y ago
https://archive.is/5Lx61
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Is There Any Escape from the Spotify Syndrome?(newyorker.com)
2 points by frereubu 2y ago|1 comments
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The birth of Jesus would probably have been forgotten if it wasn't for a plague(theguardian.com)
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I keep turning my Google Sheets into phone-friendly webapps, and I can't stop(arstechnica.com)
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by frereubu 2y ago
I didn't read it that way at all. It felt to me like the author thought video stores were terrible too, just in a different way, and the main point of the article was the different incentive structures for the pre-streaming movie compa
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by frereubu 2y ago
Absolutely agree, even if it was just the tagline on the first page of the documentation - "Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration." - underneath the
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by frereubu 2y ago
“We’ll look back on the WPE drama next year as something that seemed like a big deal at the time but isn’t that notable in the grand arc of history” said Ozymandias.
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World Famous Permaculture Property Tour, Holmgren and Dennett's Melliodora [video](youtube.com)
4 points by frereubu 2y ago|0 comments
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by frereubu 2y ago
Christmas in 1982/3 in the UK, I was praying desperately for a ZX Spectrum so I could play Manic Miner like my nephews (who, due to a generational slip were more like my cousins) and was genuinely crushed when I opened my present to fi
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by frereubu 2y ago
That depends, as the comment you replied to shows, on how they respond to that. I'm an atheist, but one of my wife's best friends is a dyed-in-the wool catholic, and we get on really well despite that fundamental difference. He ha
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by frereubu 2y ago
It's a nice coincidence but I doubt it was intentional or even subconscious - The Wall was released in 1979, when casette tapes were only just starting to become popular (it was the same year as the first Walkman was released, which co
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by frereubu 2y ago
Like that quote from Twain: "I apologize for such a long letter - I didn't have time to write a short one." (Edit: perhaps that's the cliché you were hinting at!)
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by frereubu 2y ago
Likewise, Borges said (paraphrasing) "if you're not enjoying a book after a while, just put it down - it wasn't written for you".
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by frereubu 2y ago
I don't think that's true any more, at least not in the UK. Not drinking alcohol is becoming normalised to a large extent - most restaurants and bars I go to now have non-alcoholic options, some of which are really delicious. I ha
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by frereubu 2y ago
Two wrongs don't make a right. There are certainly corporate interests who try to exploit copyright law to the maximum, and I agree that that should be stopped by reducing copyright terms etc, but that doesn't mean that, for examp
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by frereubu 2y ago
> Option 3: A data mining exception which allows right holders to reserve their rights, underpinned by supporting measures on transparency https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/copyright-and-ar... This se
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by frereubu 2y ago
Not true in the UK: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy94vz4zd7zo
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by frereubu 2y ago
Oh stop it. That kind of snark is pointless. WordPress with the correct hosting setup and good coding practices is absolutely fine. It's the cheap hosting and throwing insecure plugins that causes issues with WordPress sites.
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by frereubu 2y ago
I run a WordPress agency and I'm absolutely horrified by all of this. It's not cutting through to our clients yet, but building on WordPress suddenly feels incredibly risky when one person can throw their toys out of the pram - th

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