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3 years ago
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on: Making an SSH client the hard way
Putting my vote in for this feature as well... Also, why not compile VNC into WASM and get full remote desktop experience for graphical apps. It seems that hard work has already been done!
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3 years ago
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on: After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel
My fear is that something similar will slowly happen to everything "compute". How long before my bank's website won't let me login if I don't use a computer with secure boot and a browser installed from an app store? McDonalds app on Android won't run on a de-googled or rooted device... At this point one may argue that there will always be computers that you can compile and install your own Linux. Yes, that is true. But just like I am not likely to have un-googled andorid for some apps and googled one for others, the same way it won't be practical to have one computer for some apps and the other one for others. And the one that will win will be the one that lets you login into your bank account, for simple and practical reasons.
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3 years ago
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on: Using A Very Old Machine
Still rocking Dell Precision M4400 from 2009 with Intel Core 2 Duo and NVIDIA Quadro FX 770M. Arch + XFCE + Nvidia drivers from the AUR (not in main repos anymore). On my 5th battery pack and 3rd wifi module. Runs like a champ. Replaced CD drive with second SSD (replaced original HDD to SSD long ago). This laptop was powered on pretty much non-stop for 13 years! Dat thermal paste gotta be cooked solid by now. They just don't make 'em this good anymore...
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Dell-Precision-M4400-No...
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3 years ago
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on: Remote Attestation is coming back
Attestation is great for consolidating power and eliminating competition. As far as the cloud goes - you will only be able to use AWS, Google or Azure, because they will have proper certificates and attestation. Browser support will be built for "big three". For all the others there will be a fee for said certificates which will increase barriers to entry, and there will be even less competition and choice. Existing cloud providers will be the only game in town, just like it is with mobile operators and cable companies.
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3 years ago
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on: Remote Attestation is coming back
It will make web scraping impossible. You will not be able to install any software that can do that because it won't be let in to app stores (i.e. it will never get the right keys and permissions, websites won't even respond to it as it won't have attestation).
If you somehow try to work around and use your "attested" machine and user id to do this (because websites will require it and your script can't have it, but may be it can run under your user account, for example) - monitoring systems will soon block your account for "suspicious activity" and it will be next to impossible to re-instate because Google and Microsoft don't provide any human support, unless you are some 1mm+ influencer on instagram and will manage to start a rukus on social media.
The outlook is quite bleak :-(
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3 years ago
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on: Show HN: tere – A Faster Alternative to cd+ls
What about `skim` - integrating it as a library? fzf is nice, but it is external - you have to pre-install and configure it.
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3 years ago
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on: Show HN: tere – A Faster Alternative to cd+ls
I disagree with "bloat" comments. First, the binary will only have stuff you use. Secondly, the fact that you are not writing from scratch code that someone else had more time to write and test - this is a huge plus. I'd use your implementation any day vs. something that someone could put together in C with no dependencies and remarkable pointer math equilibristics.
As long as the use of dependencies remains reasonable, the number of dependencies does not immediately mean that the code is "bloated".
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3 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
Awesome alternative. I've been using Shaarli for a very long time. Very stable, always works, everywhere works. Doesn't look fancy, but reliability is off the charts.
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3 years ago
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on: YaLM-100B: Pretrained language model with 100B parameters
> Take down Russia protest vote app or go to prison
What about Canadian truckers? Didn't Trudeau call them terrorists, took their trucks, donations, bank accounts and driver licenses... There is no right to protest anywhere, don't kid yourself.
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3 years ago
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on: Estonia clocks fastest inflation in the Eurozone at 20.1 percent
Didn't EU freeze all Russian dollar accounts? That basically means Russia never gets those dollar payments. Why would it keep delivering gas for free? Does that "contract" even mean anything then? By switching to rubles Russia actually helped EU nations with a legal way to keep paying for gas.
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3 years ago
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on: Estonia clocks fastest inflation in the Eurozone at 20.1 percent
They say 2 generations need to pass between large wars reoccurrence on the planet. 1st generation that largely participated in the war will never do it again, whatever the cost. 2nd generation gets very strong message from 1st generation about true horrors of war, so it is much more careful. 3rd generation looses that direct connection and feedback from veterans, grandfathers, etc... so naturally they think of war as something that is minor inconvenience at best... And through the ignorance of 3rd generation - here we come. 80 years have passed since the last world war. Sadly, our time is up.
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3 years ago
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on: We lost 54k GitHub stars
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3 years ago
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on: Moskva cruiser sank while being towed in a storm – Russian Defense Ministry
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3 years ago
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on: Intuit asked Mailchimp employees to pay medical costs out of pocket
There is also another differentiator - companies buy insurance for all employees (i.e. in "bulk") when if everyone were to buy it privately, insurance companies will have to sell it in "retail". As is always the case with any business - bulk customers have preferential treatment, lower prices, better terms, you name it. Retail always pays it in full. While current employer based insurance model is broken, I don't think goin "full retail" will change the situation much. We'll end up in a situation similar to wireless service market - 3 major players with overpriced plans and lots of cheap MVNOs that stop having any coverage 5 miles down the highway.
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3 years ago
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on: Zas Editor
I think there is a difference between features of the editor and editing method. Following your logic - if there is already Notepad, why create TextPad, Atom, Word, VSCode etc...
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4 years ago
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on: The end of the nice GTK button
A couple of times i found myself clicking on various text labels just to see if it is a title or a button. All these flat minimalist designs are a step in a horribly wrong direction.
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4 years ago
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on: Start Self Hosting
I am surprised by this shortcoming of Calibre image. I guess the trade is learning how to install calibre vs. learning how to deal with docker. I'd also agree that even if you use docker and installation is easy - for any self hosted apps you are using for a long enough time you end up learning enough about them to be able to install without docker (and avoid managing docker in addition to everything else).
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4 years ago
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on: Start Self Hosting
To do this right you should also think of backups, updates, and monitoring. Self-hosting is true freedom but doing it right for things like email is akin to running a small business. On the positive side docker makes many things a breeze.
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4 years ago
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on: Dum: An NPM scripts runner written in Rust
> ... I'm less likely to choose it, ...
I find I am more likely to choose it because you don't have to be super experienced in Rust to produce fast, reliable binaries. That is not the case with C/C++.
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4 years ago
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on: I'm 14. Am I too old for a career in tech?
All the code that humanity needs has already been written. Even if you were younger, you'd still be late - there is nothing else to code.
