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by mzajc 6mo ago
A tip for Librewolf: you can easily toggle permanent cookie storage for a site through the "Always store cookies/data for this site" option in the shield button menu on the URL bar. This is very convenient compared to vanilla
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by mzajc 6mo ago
22,056 is not about 30,000. Per scc: Language Files Lines Blanks Comments Code ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────── TypeScript 760 109110 14500 7397 87213 JSON 41
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by mzajc 6mo ago
I don't know. Manually {dis,re}connecting the cable doesn't wake the PC up, but it's too hard to reproduce reliably to tell if having it disconnected makes a difference.
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by mzajc 6mo ago
I have a similar problem, except instead of shutting things down, static discharge seems to wake my computer up (from suspend-to-ram). I have yet to figure out why that happens, but it's not the mouse or keyboard.
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by mzajc 6mo ago
> It runs locally on your Mac with no uploads and there is no subscription. From the bottom of the description on apps.apple.com: SUBSCRIPTION • Free tier: 10 images, common ratios, JPEG & PNG export • Premium: Unlock all 500
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by mzajc 6mo ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47680023
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by mzajc 6mo ago
> Microsoft's PhotoDNA scanning is not just in OneDrive, through the Microsoft's eco-system. Basically, if you are using your Microsoft account to sign in to Windows 11, PhotoDNA scans your entire computer. This information cam
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by mzajc 6mo ago
> Authors, screenwriters, et al. have a new niche to explore. Any day now I expect an A24 trailer featuring a villain who speaks in the register of ChatGPT. “You’re absolutely right, Kayleigh,” it intones. “I did drown little Tamothy, an
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by mzajc 6mo ago
Not sure if that's intentional, but the entire landing page gets replaced with an error if WebGL is not available: > Something went wrong! > Error creating WebGL context.
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by mzajc 6mo ago
For reference, this is the application: https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.bamnetw... 8 trackers, 49 permissions. Whatever reason they gave for requiring the application, evidently they couldn&#x
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by mzajc 6mo ago
I am not a high-rep user and I am still very much relieved that they got rid of the horrible redesigned website.
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by mzajc 6mo ago
uBlacklist is a great extension to avoid slopfarms like this: https://ublacklist.github.io/docs
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by mzajc 6mo ago
Is there a reason this user-hostile mess is preferred over an X.509 certificate (besides big tech lobbying)? Slovenia hands out certificates for online government services, including document signing, and it seems to be going fine, with the
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by mzajc 6mo ago
You've so far made 3 completely nonsensical top level comments across different posts. Are you a bot or am I missing something?
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by mzajc 7mo ago
> > I understood that the change was not going to be popular, but I was expecting civil discourse and a level-headed response. Not to give credit to the antisocial mob, but it would be a lot easier to take the maintainers' side h
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by mzajc 7mo ago
By "says on the tin," I was referring to the name ("undercover mode") and the instruction to "not blow your cover." If pretending to be a human is not the cover here, what is? Additionally, does Claude code sti
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by mzajc 7mo ago
There are now several comments that (incorrectly?) interpret the undercover mode as only hiding internal information. Excerpts from the actual prompt[0]: NEVER include in commit messages or PR descriptions: - The phrase "Claude C
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by mzajc 7mo ago
Brilliant! Just the thing we want: more hardware attestation, more deanonymization, less user control, all diligently orchestrated in a repository where the only contributor is Anthropic Claude [0]. Comes complete with a misaligned ASCII di
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by mzajc 7mo ago
Worse yet, there's several places with empty code blocks, eg. [0] and [1]. Even without that, the formatting contains so much unnecessary whitespace, newlines, casts, etc; I'm not sure why, given the already massive source file.
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by mzajc 7mo ago
It's tagged "nonfiction" just below the title.
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by mzajc 7mo ago
> then (with a huge enormous gap) comes Gog My favourite thing about GOG is that it uniquely does not demand that you install their software, instead letting you download installers straight from the website. They're not fake netins
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by mzajc 7mo ago
s/AI fanatics/Bots/, more likely. The repository also has 700 stars at the time of writing, but barely any real activity (only 1 issue in total and 3 outsider pull requests, all of which seem vibe-coded as well).
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by mzajc 7mo ago
It's hard to tell considering there is absolutely no company/ownership information on the site, but a .si (Slovenia) domain coupled with EUR being an accepted currency has me thinking they're Europe-based, and therefore forei
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by mzajc 7mo ago
It's a vibe-coded slop third party plugin for a niche gadget. I fail to see how this is frontpage-worthy.
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by mzajc 7mo ago
A few years ago, [0] made the following point in regards to password input feedback: > For a time, there was rich pickings in applications that accepted passwords in unbuffered mode. Many of them doing it so that they could echo "*&
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by mzajc 7mo ago
tl;dr: - You need to enable developer mode - You need to click through a few scare dialogs - You need to wait 24h once I wonder how long this will last before they lock it down further. There was a lot of pushback this time around and they
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by mzajc 7mo ago
Tangentially related, but does anyone know what Poettering's "cryptographically verifiable integrity" endeavor[0] is about yet? [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46784572
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by mzajc 7mo ago
Firefox has a neat feature for this; if you right click an iframe, it'll have a "This Frame" menu with options including "Open Frame in New Tab".
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by mzajc 7mo ago
Torvalds has made it very clear, on several occasions, that breaking userspace is not acceptable. I'm sure the kernel's deprecation policy is more detailed than "show up on LKML or else".
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by mzajc 7mo ago
Out of curiosity, are you replying with these incredibly bad takes to trip the flame war detector, or is there another reason?

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