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by xoa 2mo ago
> Some things are worth an alias, or a script, some things aren't quite worth either but you still wanna run them again in the future I think the bigger problem is that sometimes it's just hard to know upfront exactly what i
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by xoa 2mo ago
> What do you mean "personally" ? Are you expecting a process to behead the Prime Minister or something ? I don't know precisely what they were thinking, but in America someone who is impeached and convicted by the Senate
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Inaccessible .bnnsir files on macOS Sequoia(lapcatsoftware.com)
2 points by xoa 2mo ago|1 comments
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by xoa 2mo ago
Just encountered this with a near-fresh Tahoe 26.6 install, with Siri never enabled, no AI etc, so it's still a thing today. Was trying to just copy or tar a home folder to move elsewhere, left it to cook and came back to an error hitt
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by xoa 2mo ago
> if you are in the context of a "known-plaintext attack", i.e. where besides the cipher that was used you know both the non-encrypted text and its corresponding encrypted text I know with some pre-modern ciphers like Caesar t
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by xoa 2mo ago
There's a lot going on in this story and interview, but I'd like to narrow in on one aspect I consider pretty core, and that I'm pretty disappointed Joel didn't push back on: > Garrett:[...] To individuals that are pr
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by xoa 2mo ago
> Social credit? Or money credit? Neither. Above poster is wrong. You don't require anything to own a house or car in the US except your own cash/equiv. If you wish to borrow other people's money or property (in some case
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by xoa 2mo ago
This is a very brief blog blurb linking the original Tech Radar article that got fairly extensive discussion on HN a week and a half ago [0]. Potentially quite an important one though so a second go around may still be very justified for th
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by xoa 3mo ago
Actual court document [0]. The topic of grant funding under the Trump Administration has gotten some significant discussion on HN over the last year, such as (chronologically): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44755429
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Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him(nytimes.com)
14 points by xoa 3mo ago|1 comments
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by xoa 3mo ago
> the entirety of 10/8 and 172.16/12 and 192.168/16 wasn't large enough for your house? Just to chime in agreeing with sibling comments, the issue is when it's not about just your house and you're deep into
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by xoa 3mo ago
We live in the age of Wireguard (and Nebula and Tailscale etc). Not being home is not an issue for accessing stuff at home in the slightest, no other public service port exposure required either. In the context of someone considering hostin
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by xoa 3mo ago
> Jellyfin doesn't even have a tvOS client. Huh? I find Infuse to be a very solid tvOS/iOS client, and they added built-in support for Jellyfin over 6 years ago [0]. It's right there at the bottom with other media servers
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by xoa 3mo ago
I'd like to add some extra strong emphasis/support to your post: > Being ahead of the game is never a bad thing, especially when small towns are so easily exploited due to income and infrastructure. They just can't afford
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Vermont becomes first US state to ban paraquat herbicide over Parkinson's fears(theguardian.com)
7 points by xoa 3mo ago|0 comments
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by xoa 3mo ago
> I can't think of any industry that has a market leader that only gets further away from their competition forever. You're on Hacker News and you can't think of silicon fabrication? What brand new players do you think ar
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by xoa 3mo ago
> however using an old PC as a router almost certainly wastes an enormous among of power I don't think you're quite right on this, or at least you're imagining using something inappropriate when the comparison here involv
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by xoa 3mo ago
> Any service or product delivered at a loss seems pretty plainly anti-competitive. You have to get into the weeds though on what exactly counts as a "product delivered". Like, Apple doesn't charge for new versions of mac
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by xoa 3mo ago
> Starlink satellites are just routers to ground stations. You are very out of date on your knowledge here. When it first launched yes, Starlink sats purely acted as "bent pipes" so you needed a ground station within 300-400 m
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by xoa 3mo ago
I also just tried this as well, sending an email from a Migadu-based account to one at both Gmail and MXRoute using Mail.app under macOS 15.7.7. Neither included any private IP address info I could find in either headers or raw source. That
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by xoa 3mo ago
> I’m in the “we should protect kids online” camp, but I am not sure there’s a real way to do it without compromising privacy for everyone. Of course there is, it's easy! You take a white list approach instead of an auth one. The d
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by xoa 3mo ago
...yes, really? Gun fire is indeed stupendously, dangerously loud, which is why we have suppressors and heavy hearing protection for them. And there are indeed significant public/legal fights around outdoor gun ranges that end up near
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by xoa 3mo ago
> Apple is a digital services company that happens to sell hardware. Their big money maker is their app store, and no Linux user is ever going to buy apps from the app store. You do realize that Apple is a public company and one can jus
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by xoa 3mo ago
A perfect theoretical filesystem can still have subjective user configurable choices though right? Like case sensitivity, UTF normalization, checksum hash function, extra copies of data/metadata to store for redundancy/healing, et
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by xoa 3mo ago
OK, setting aside the possibility this is some sort of joke/sarcasm I can't quite get, and the absolute wtf of this "scenario" which doesn't exist and all the ways it cannot exist with nothing to with privacy, and t
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by xoa 3mo ago
> privacy does not matter when there are rampant black operations being conducted which violates human dignity in every sense of the term. You have this completely backwards. The threat and existence of such operations is one of the fun
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by xoa 4mo ago
At the time I write this parent comment is grey and I don't think it deserves to be. Some people may be down voting around the blanket statement about "US elites" despite a lot of elites clearly not being ok with the horrendo
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by xoa 4mo ago
> And it raises the heat outside of buildings. No it doesn't. Seriously, where does this meme even come from? It should be pretty obvious just from a solar insolation map that AC is just noise vs the sun. The energy usage is tiny v
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by xoa 4mo ago
Yes, at least in theory changing this is straight forward. Though: > You have to do it once per file type but it's once and done. I will note I have one Mac with one old user account where it will not remember this anymore across r
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by xoa 4mo ago
> shows just how bad it was > Goes to show that a year of anybody with any sort of clout complaining about the thousand little cuts of Liquid Glass on macOS will get a company to respond. Worth remembering too that this isn't m

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