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by jmholla 9mo ago
Sadly, I think your only option is to follow up with legal action against Google. On the positive side, I expect Google will react quickly to any legal action as this puts them at risk of losing safe harbor protections.
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by jmholla 9mo ago
You can disable things like this by setting the environment variable `LESSSECURE` to `1`. You can also compile `less` without these features [0], but I don't think most distros provide a restricted `less` by default. [0]: https:/
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by jmholla 10mo ago
You might be interested in browsing the active page [0] of Hacker News every so often. It shows even flagged stories that have a lot of recent interaction. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/active
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by jmholla 10mo ago
Next[0] does have fixes for this. Fixed versions: * 15.0.5 * 15.1.9 * 15.2.6 * 15.3.6 * 15.4.8 * 15.5.7 * 16.0.7 [0]: https://nextjs.org/blog/CVE-2025-66478
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by jmholla 11mo ago
> Why do you doubt that is exactly what is happening? I don't. I was just letting people know the title here was different than the source.
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by jmholla 11mo ago
Original title: Brussels knifes privacy to feed the AI boom
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by jmholla 1y ago
I think this says more about how we don't know how to toy with the magic switches than it does consciousness of LLMs. We can't interpret the maps of language LLMs. To me, this research basically boils down to, we flipped a switch
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by jmholla 1y ago
I haven't used it, but I think `mkcert` is the go to solution for this. [0] [0]: https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert
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by jmholla 1y ago
Here's the article in question. [0] I think runxiyu is correct. The author delves a bit more into the issue. > One of most obvious problems is that if you also tell curl to follow HTTP redirects (using -L or --location), the -X opti
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by jmholla 1y ago
My standard procedure for copying and pasting commands from a website, is to first run it through `hd` to make sure there's no fuckery with Unicode or escape sequences: xclip -selection -clipboard -o | hd From the developer&#x
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by jmholla 1y ago
I thought I heard that TurboTax is moving to web only, but maybe that's only for personal use and not corporate?
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by jmholla 1y ago
So does Python. They're called protocols. [0] [0]: https://typing.python.org/en/latest/spec/protocol.html
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by jmholla 1y ago
The creator is actually in this thread now [0] and said that they passed ownership and it now unmaintained and recommends using zoxide instead. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45346715
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by jmholla 1y ago
Also, in that same vein of caginess, they don't call out their pricing. It's one of those, "contact sales" services.
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by jmholla 1y ago
That's the whole point. They're being targeted for their skin color, not their legal status.
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by jmholla 1y ago
> No one is stopping you from buying a non Google phone, no one is stopping you from running calyx or graphene. Google and phone manufacturers have been actively moving in that direction and have a long history of being actively hostile
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by jmholla 1y ago
This assumes that Google actually does reduce malware and scams within their garden, but they do not. They are just as prevalent (perhaps more so) within the apps that Google certifies. So the only thing it kills is the risks to Google&#x27
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by jmholla 1y ago
I think it's still be worth your time to check out the articles as they talk about other fields of engineering and how they compare to software AND mechanical.
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by jmholla 1y ago
I also read this series of blog posts recently where the author, Hillel Wayne, talked to several "traditional" engineers that had made the switch to software. He came to a similar conclusion and while I was previously on the fence
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by jmholla 1y ago
Then why do people pay for services like Spotify, Netflix, and other subscriptions when they have the ability to pirate? Further, ads are often sold as a way to keep access "free".
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by jmholla 1y ago
This was a great answer. I'm glad you spent the time on it. Though I am curious what the 6 indicates.
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by jmholla 1y ago
Hopefully you saw one of the sibling comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44855551 TLDR: M-/ (Alt /) will do file auto-completions regardless of the commands auto-comoletion. It is a different method, bu
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by jmholla 1y ago
Here's a deeper article on ordering things around network startup: https://systemd.io/NETWORK_ONLINE/ It doesn't conflict with anything you've said, just a very handy document.
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by jmholla 1y ago
A related personal story: During my statistics course in high school, we discovered that the TI-89 had some statistical functions that the TI-83 didn't have. So, the rule was that if we wanted to use the TI-89 ones, you had to write an
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by jmholla 1y ago
screen does as well. Unless I'm missing something here.
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by jmholla 1y ago
The hidden phrase is the two words left at the end of the game.
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by jmholla 1y ago
Once you're the slightest but comfortable navigating vi, I highly recommend Practical Vim. [0] It tooke me a few days to get through, but I'm 100% in vim these days and more effective in it than in my old primary editor PyCharm. [
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by jmholla 1y ago
I read OP's opening lines as sarcasm.
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by jmholla 1y ago
Followed up with: > While everyone can register for free on Let’s Encrypt, only (or mostly) serious companies pay money to register on DigiCert, GoDaddy, and so on. GoDaddy is not a serious anything. DigiCert perhaps, but GoDaddy has rep
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by jmholla 1y ago
Why have a dependency on Zenity instead of displaying the message in the terminal? Seems weirdly limiting to have a GUI dependency for a terminal application thus making this unusable on headless systems. I think you could make it optional

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