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by troad 5mo ago
No, I don't agree. Asking plugins to pinky-promise which resources they will and will not use is absolutely meaningless from a security perspective. If anything, it engenders a false sense of security in end users, and continues a patt
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by troad 5mo ago
It has a nice and fully-featured editor, it syncs reliably between devices and it has a mobile app for notes on the go. I don't see why I wouldn't use it. (What a weird false dichotomy? As if the only two choices were either to ex
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by troad 5mo ago
This word has a surprising amount of regional pronunciations. Each of the US, UK, and Australia pronounce it slightly differently. [0] [0] https://languagehat.com/solder/
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by troad 5mo ago
No, it isn't. It's never rude to respectfully try to understand how others speak. If it were, we'd have to shutter all the linguistics departments.
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by troad 5mo ago
That's good to hear, thanks for letting me know. I might check it out again.
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by troad 5mo ago
For what it's worth - and I know I'm being very critical of the plugin security model here - I also think Obsidian is very good, and am a paying customer. Part of my frustration with this is that I've seen hobbyist video gam
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by troad 5mo ago
I have indeed read the blog post. Can you point out which part of my post is inaccurate? It is certainly possible I misunderstood something. Surely you're not about to claim that asking plugins to "disclose" what resources th
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by troad 5mo ago
This is an important observation, but there were specific technological choices that Old FB made that were conducive to becoming and staying high-trust. For so long as your feed was just your friends and family, you'd effectively perce
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by troad 5mo ago
No permissions system, nothing resolved. Plugins still have access to everything - full disk, network, etc. How does one even speak of security vulnerabilities when the security model of Obsidian plugins is just straight up "click here
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by troad 5mo ago
> the enshittification A strong reason to stick to using Obsidian as just a Markdown editor and not get sucked into the plugin ecosystem at all. If your Obsidian vault is just a folder of Markdown files, you're ready to leave at a m
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by troad 5mo ago
I always thought it was strange how intolerant Homebrew is of users who are not surfing the bleeding edge. I held out using MacPorts for ages, but there came a point when I just could not reasonably expect to find the software I needed on M
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by troad 5mo ago
The first safety warning assures the user that "plugin security is important to [Obsidian]". That Obsidian plugins undergo initial code review by Obsidian themselves. That "many" plugins are open source and that Obsidian
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by troad 5mo ago
> multiple safety warnings in Obsidian Idk, I've always thought it was odd that the "community plugins" settings pane seemed more concerned with assuring the user that community plugins were fine than actually explaining t
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by troad 5mo ago
Slightly orthogonal, but I'm curious how much effort is going into capturing historic hardware in accurate FPGA representation? There'll come a day when the final physical 6502, 80486 (etc etc) powers off for the final time, and i
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by troad 5mo ago
There have been protests against tourism in Spanish cities, esp. Barcelona. As always, the protests are really about local issues (lack of housing, jobs, etc) and foreigners are being scapegoated. A lot of this has a dark edge - e.g. locals
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by troad 5mo ago
> And I think the value that various cloud companies and tech companies derive from open source by far exceeds their contributions to it. Isn't that how literally all economic exchange works? Why do you think your boss pays your sal
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by troad 5mo ago
Me too. All I want is a top-notch Markdown editor with a mobile app and trustworthy sync, and that's what Obsidian gives me. And if ever Obsidian goes away or is enshittified, I'll still have a perfectly good folder of Markdown do
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by troad 5mo ago
> Not sure what's going on here, but this reads like 90s cosplay. This reads like Reddit-style "debunk" culture to me. Improbable things happen. They happen often, because even if the individual improbable thing is itself
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by troad 5mo ago
> Urgency, expectations… too high these days. Hear hear. I was amused to watch the trajectory of all my older relatives, from "I don't understand why you spend all your time on that computer" to "I texted you some idl
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by troad 5mo ago
> To me as a Brit, "buffalo" is not and cannot be a verb, and it's not a place anyone much has heard of either Very fair! Given the structure of the underlying sentence, I wonder if there are other words that could pull tr
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by troad 5mo ago
Just as a contrapoint to the other commenters, I've had Mac do this on PDFs that I myself scanned many years ago. Pretty sure they were not malware. I suspect what triggered it was the fact that the files had journeyed through many fil
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by troad 5mo ago
That's very cool. Don't knock yourself - congratulations on reaching a good level in such a fiendish language. My own SO hovers between A2 and B1 after many years, so I absolutely appreciate how frustrating Czech can be. > Blb
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by troad 5mo ago
Thank you for looking through that; that's very interesting and helpful.
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by troad 5mo ago
I've read some surreal recounts of the Canonical interview process. The CEO appears to have a fairly extreme fixation on candidates' high school experiences. Needless to say, this is just absolutely bizarre. What kind of kid you w
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by troad 5mo ago
The disconnect here is that I have a degree in polsci and have read much of Chomsky, and you're repeating a "debunking" (replete with declarations of "fallacies") in a manner that is popular with people whose level
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by troad 5mo ago
This is a weird take, imho. Should they feel shame for using Dockerfiles in their OCI-standard-compliant tool? Would you be happier if they introduced subtly incompatible Applefiles? Why are they obliged to emulate the Docker CLI? This limi
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by troad 5mo ago
You're surprised that a project by Apple Inc that is basically a wrapper around the Mac virtualisation framework [0] is Mac exclusive? [0] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization
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by troad 5mo ago
> LUA_USE_C89 How much functionality/performance does one lose with this flag? Genuine question, I don't know. If C89 and C99 were equally performant/functional, it would seem logical to just target C89 (since any C99 comp
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by troad 5mo ago
That's perfectly readable to me as a speaker of modern Czech, and it appears to have been readable to all the commenters on your post too. > W téchto se dozwédá sjnjch pilné robé, Bohu čjm povinné, bratřjm, wlasti, sobě. This is alm
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by troad 5mo ago
> The sign above the door at the primary school outside Karlstejn Castle is unreadable to a speaker of modern Czech. What? No it's not. It looks no more than ~100-150 years old, and is perfectly readable if you've ever seen a l

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