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by mdaniel 1y ago
I would have thought for sure any such transformation would come from the NSA, since they strike me as a more tech-forward organization, or from In-Q-Tel (which I believe is mostly the CIA) that already has a strong relationship with the co
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by mdaniel 1y ago
https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js#readme (Apache 2)
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by mdaniel 1y ago
Not on wikipedia, but VMDK is part of the DTMF OVF[1] format and thus I believe the .vmdk format would be implicitly made available therein However, words are words but software is better: - https://github.com/vmware/op
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by mdaniel 1y ago
Fastmail is fantastic, has a standards compliant calendar, a notes space, webdav, and a pretty decent mobile app I still have a Gmail address because getting a bazillion people to update their address books is a monster problem but otherwis
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by mdaniel 1y ago
What is the threat model against which you are protecting version control? It seems like you are either thinking about using GitHub as just a backup system, which is almost certainly better solved by actual encrypted backups, or posting enc
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by mdaniel 1y ago
Came back? Everyone and their cousin is falling over themselves to get on the AI train[1], and spending incomprehensible amounts of energy trying to "lint" their way to sanity as if the python ecosystem isn't fighting tooth a
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by mdaniel 1y ago
Well, based on the API enumeration mentioned in sibling comments, surely one doesn't have to estimate https://docs.gitlab.com/api/projects/#list-all-projects (for dumb reasons it seems GL calls them Projects,
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by mdaniel 1y ago
Email, bleh, I'm sure I'm not the only one who basically /dev/null's emails from github about pearl-clutching "security" but I wanted to point out that for quite a few providers they actually have an int
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by mdaniel 1y ago
heh https://github.com/kaiostech/gecko-b2g says > This branch is 400945 commits ahead of, 15894 commits behind mozilla-b2g/gecko-b2g:b2g48_v2_6 and it seems they're still using bugzilla, so they're ob
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by mdaniel 1y ago
Relevant: Denuvo Analysis - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44226406 - Jun, 2025 (136 comments)
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by mdaniel 1y ago
Recompiling a method[1], popping the stack frame, and re-entering the new method is a very, very common debugging pattern on the JVM. I miss it every day that I'm on vastly dumber platforms https://www.jetbrains.com/hel
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by mdaniel 1y ago
I haven't pirated games since I was in highshool, but this nonsense has resulted in the worst UX for games I have paid for - with no recourse on my part. I guess it's like Cloudflare: some people have to suffer because other peo
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by mdaniel 1y ago
Surely if Windows kernel can be taught to respond to those syscalls, XNU can be taught it even easier. But, AIUI the Windows kernel already had a concept of "personalities" from back when they were trying to integrate OS/2
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by mdaniel 1y ago
I don't know why they defaulted to placing it right next to my back button, but you inspired me to check and yes, one can right-click and either remove that dumb Sidebars button or hide it in the overflow menu
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by mdaniel 1y ago
Only in Firefox or user-friendly browsers, otherwise uBlock Lite is free for Manifest v3 browsers
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by mdaniel 1y ago
or the modern version: s/bloatware/AI/ he said, typing from Firefox with its new "open AI chatbot" sidebar button
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by mdaniel 1y ago
I wanted to fight the "hallucinating" versus "confabulating" delineation but was told "it's a term of art, sit back down"
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by mdaniel 1y ago
currently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44201975
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by mdaniel 1y ago
Wowzers, the line noise https://github.com/HazyResearch/ThunderKittens#:~:text=here%...
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by mdaniel 1y ago
> model fully open. uh-huh https://www.llama.com/llama4/license/
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by mdaniel 1y ago
That's interesting, thanks for making me aware. I'll try to dig up some reading material, but in some sense this is going the opposite of how I want the world to work because nvidia is already a supply chain bottleneck and so th
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by mdaniel 1y ago
As a counterpoint my Lenovo X1 that was fresh from the factory had a battery swell so bad it cracked the case. So I think the risk being addressed was that, unless you're looking at the device every single day, the battery poses a fi
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by mdaniel 1y ago
I guess the rest of the sentence is "... if TVs were a fundamental pre-requisite for modern life" > Yeah, bro, I rub two sticks together to cook my own deer meet, because Big Grocery is tracking me
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by mdaniel 1y ago
I do not possess enough rage to express at the "let me swoosh in content only at the last possible pixel so that you think there's no more content" pages
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by mdaniel 1y ago
I thought for sure this was going to be one of those "isfirefoxfastyet" style sites that was just a <h1>no</h1> but I guess the message is driven further home by hiding the "no" in the 2nd "page&quo
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by mdaniel 1y ago
MDN's got your back: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/... I recognize this might not help you, but my first one was one of those huge Unleashed books "HTML and C
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by mdaniel 1y ago
prelude: I realized that I typed out a ton of words but in the end engineering is all about tradeoffs, so, fine if there's a way I can teach some existing GPU, or some existing PCIe TPU, to access system RAM over an existing PCIe slot
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by mdaniel 1y ago
This answer skips over how you gain access to the machine. I'm guessing you're a solo dev shop, but still
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by mdaniel 1y ago
https://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/v12.0.1/LICENSE being AGPLv3 likely is a non-trivial part of that
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by mdaniel 1y ago
Run `man git-repack` or its `man git-gc` friend and recall that most filesystems hate dealing with a bazillion small files I think there have been several attempts to use S3-ish blobstores as git backends but of the two major git hosters,

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