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by theschmed 2mo ago
Yes, and any game that is frequently streamed or otherwise recorded is wise to. Exclusive full screen doesn’t play well with others.
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Tell HN: Amazon Linux 2 is EOL today(aws.amazon.com)
4 points by theschmed 3mo ago|1 comments
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by theschmed 3mo ago
Time to upgrade to AL2023, for all of us who procrastinate
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by theschmed 4mo ago
Yeah but the product is not “LLM” it’s “proprietary frontier model LLM paid by the token”. And I don’t even necessarily disagree with OP! It’s more like the competition is shifting so quickly that your competitors could undercut your PMF in
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by theschmed 5mo ago
Prior discussion about Cloudflare’s blog post regarding WAICT: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45606070
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Linux Mint: Monthly News – February 2026(blog.linuxmint.com)
1 points by theschmed 7mo ago|1 comments
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by theschmed 7mo ago
Includes announcement of a bug fix for the longstanding bug that carded the session to sometimes briefly appear on screen before the lock screen password entry appears. Hooray!
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by theschmed 10mo ago
Be very careful with bisync, it is experimental and perhaps the most fragile part of rclone. Carefully read the limitations[1] and monitor your logs! I personally use mount, I have never had problems with locking. [1] https://rcl
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by theschmed 11mo ago
Read to the end. Ways to financially support this important work can be found there.
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by theschmed 1y ago
Thank you for this clear explanation.
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by theschmed 1y ago
I hadn't thought of this use case for aliases. I had to make my Outlook email primary again on my Microsoft account, unfortunately, because of how I use OneDrive. I send people share invitations and there are scenarios (or at least the
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by theschmed 1y ago
I tend to think that this challenge posed by "mixed" domains, partly unobjectionable but partly inappropriate, will only become more prevalent. A couple of thoughts: 1. Filtering at the DNS level will never be enough. You'll
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by theschmed 1y ago
As mentioned there, anyone using Power Automate to automate their personal Outlook.com/Hotmail email, OneDrive, etc can try migrating to a free Power Apps Developer plan ( https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-pla
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Changes (deprecations) coming in Power Platform(learn.microsoft.com)
3 points by theschmed 1y ago|1 comments
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by theschmed 1y ago
Another site, which includes a smaller but more professionally curated set of recordings, is Lit2Go ( https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/books/ ). My children and I for example have greatly enjoyed Lorraine Montgomery’s rec
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by theschmed 2y ago
More details here: https://zhero-web-sec.github.io/research-and-things/nextjs-a... Hat tip ash: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43451485
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by theschmed 2y ago
One important note: > Does this affect content from music and photo libraries? > The announced changes for remote streaming of personal content from a Plex Media Server apply only to movie/TV/video media. This does not affec
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by theschmed 2y ago
Funding =/= monentization, and the former presupposes a need for the latter
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by theschmed 2y ago
Exactly. The stakes of the conversation are quite high. Innocent people could suffer real harms. Professional norms exist to support people in taking responsibility for the power they have. The CEO is manifestly failing in his responsibilit
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by theschmed 2y ago
FYI in case you’re not aware, they announced in a podcast near the end of 2024 that a Linux version of Orion is planned.
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by theschmed 2y ago
I can't speak to the encryption or privacy aspects of this, but I can say that this is an important step to keep Signal competitive with Whatsapp, and help encourage people not to upload their unencrypted backups to cloud providers.
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by theschmed 2y ago
The difference in focus between the linked article and this one is startling to me. https://www.thefp.com/p/the-autism-surge-lies-conspiracies It really is important to understand that increased incidence of autism is
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General Availability of Bitnami Premium(blog.bitnami.com)
3 points by theschmed 2y ago|0 comments
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by theschmed 2y ago
Thanks for making yourself available to answer questions! Hopefully this is not a dumb question. Is plc.directory a single point of failure for BlueSky users who want to take advantage of the benefits of a did:plc? And if so, is that a perm
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by theschmed 2y ago
> Just me or is that extremely short notice? That’s in 2 weeks… It is not just you.
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by theschmed 2y ago
Isn’t the phone itself the best place to check, rather than your carrier’s website? It’ll vary per manufacturer exactly where to find the info on the phone, but it’ll be reliable. You can also use an IMEI checker website, although some of t
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Beware UserDefaults: a tale of hard to find bugs, and lost data(christianselig.com)
6 points by theschmed 2y ago|0 comments
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Proton announces release of a new VPN protocol, "Stealth"(protonvpn.com)
190 points by theschmed 2y ago|132 comments
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by theschmed 2y ago
https://once.com/writebook#exporting “Can I export Kindle, PDF, ePUB, or other formats from Writebook? Not currently, no. Writebook purely publishes web-based books. We may add other export formats down the road.” This woul
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by theschmed 2y ago
Counterpoint: The best thing about Bluesky is that it is open enough that it may be able to sustain more than a monoculture.

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