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by ndegruchy 1y ago
I'm not in any position to judge you or the work you've done. Don't end it though. You are far and away more valuable than lab work or the tantrums of a child-king. If you need someone to reach out to, I'm here. I'v
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by ndegruchy 1y ago
If I still used Windows, I would still use mIRC. I bought a copy ages ago and it's still one of my favorite clients. Highly customizable and fast as hell.
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by ndegruchy 1y ago
I wonder if they're gonna get rid of the 1040-EZ forms, too. Wouldn't want to let a loophole as juicy as that stay around when you could force everyone to use TurboTax or Intuit.
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by ndegruchy 1y ago
Alternative link that's not behind a paywall: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg7pqzk47zo Sad day. Trans rights are human rights.
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by ndegruchy 1y ago
Huh, I hadn't thought of the multiple party review process. My so works for a law firm and when I hear about the issues with passing documents around, I often think of `git` or SharePoint/OneDrive with versioning. However, it seem
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Re: "Google Is Winning on Every AI Front"(degruchy.org)
2 points by ndegruchy 2y ago|1 comments
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by ndegruchy 2y ago
A response to the "Google is Winning" article that is making the rounds. Google has a great model _now_, but winning is ephemeral. I discuss what _I_ think "winning" in this case should mean.
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by ndegruchy 2y ago
I use the `~/.local/bin` methodology for single binaries, too. Linux, macOS, doesn't matter. I try hard to not make my home directory look like a phonebook when I `ls -alh` it. Sometimes that's easier said than done. I a
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by ndegruchy 2y ago
I am actually interested in Qubes, it seems to take security very seriously. Probably too seriously for my own daily driver needs :D
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by ndegruchy 2y ago
Well, putting the idea of malvertising aside, I don't think this would even prevent it. An app 'layer' would be separate from the OS. Though they wouldn't be able to taint the OS, so that's a plus. I don't agre
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by ndegruchy 2y ago
The MSIX apps can opt to run in a sandbox. It's not perfect, but it's _something_. Plus MSIX helps ensure clean install/uninstall as well as delta updates. Again, not perfect, but serviceable.
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by ndegruchy 2y ago
Huh, I had no idea that UFW was a feature of Windows and I'm kind of surprised to not see more widespread adoption for workstation rollouts. DeepFreeze was great (excepting updates and other minor issues) and actively reduced a lot of
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The Mutable OS: Why Isn't Windows Immutable in 2025?(degruchy.org)
23 points by ndegruchy 2y ago|24 comments
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by ndegruchy 2y ago
Hey all—this is something I’ve been thinking about for a while in my day-to-day as a desktop support tech. We’ve made huge strides in OS security, but immutability is still seen as exotic, and I don’t think it should be. Curious to hear tho
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by ndegruchy 2y ago
My only guess is that it either prevents quitting of applications (accidentally) or quits them on idle? I dunno, there doesn't seem to be a lot to work with. Not to mention it hasn't been touched in 2 years.
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by ndegruchy 2y ago
You can Command-Drag some of them off the menubar. It doesn't work in every case, but it might help. Plus there are tools like Ice and Bartender that help you hide most or all of them.
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by ndegruchy 2y ago
I had an issue where one completely unrelated conversation about a topic bled into one that happened days ago. When I asked about it, ChatGPT said: > It looks like I accidentally analyzed and described a Hammerspoon script instead of pul
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by ndegruchy 2y ago
Force of habit, I usually install the set of tools I need from homebrew because I know that either Apple has the BSD variants, or has old versions.
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by ndegruchy 2y ago
Eh, I swap between the big three every day and they're all terrible in their own unique manners. macOS certainly has problems, and Apple's adversarial relationship with open source is not helping anything, but I wouldn't call
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by ndegruchy 2y ago
In all likelihood they just don't want to broach the idea of having to fight (and potentially lose) the GPL3 in court. Given the case history on the GPL2, it seems like more work than it's worth. They can just replace the parts th
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by ndegruchy 2y ago
Huh, interesting. I hadn't noticed when I upgraded, but I don't use many of the features of `rsync` to begin with. I ended up installing the real `rsync` shortly thereafter.
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by ndegruchy 2y ago
I have an i7 and I've been replacing parts on it for ~5 years now. It'd be a shame to have to get into something else, it really has done a great job of cleaning the house. Like another comment said, I might have to go buy a bunch
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by ndegruchy 2y ago
It's great to see innovation in the Terminal space. It's an interesting problem to tackle, because _so much_ of our interaction with computers (and therefore people and other computers) is done through the medium of text, and so m
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by ndegruchy 2y ago
Custom designed and tested to be as effective as humanly possible. They know all the buttons to push, and how to push them the most effectively. It's good that you were able to recognize it and stop, but so many more people don't
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by ndegruchy 2y ago
So, they hacked a default Wordpress install with no plugins updated, customized, removed or anything? Moreover, the password was easy to 'guess' because it was a well known password? Okay, this is not _great_ out of the box, but e
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by ndegruchy 2y ago
I'm going to have to look at this. In the meantime I've banned fandom results from my search engine.
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by ndegruchy 2y ago
Yeah, the number is above 0.
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by ndegruchy 2y ago
I paid for that domain, I'm gonna use all of the characters in that domain!
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by ndegruchy 2y ago
I also like the Pages/Numbers/Keynote suite. Of course, I'm not a heavy user of office apps at home, so large or complex documents aren't something I'm encountering day-to-day. If I needed to build such a beast, I w
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by ndegruchy 2y ago
They're still gathering 'everything' so they can be the 'everything' app like Papa Musk wanted.

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