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Re:Tasks as Code: Move Your Tickets into the Repository on Monday October 26, 2026 @09:56AM (#50243803)
Then you go the nanoservice route, with double the repos!
Re:F-Droid 2.0: A New Chapter for Android Freedom on Friday September 25, 2026 @01:26AM (#49840476)
What do you mean by "click through for each app"?
Re:Small Programming Tricks on Thursday September 17, 2026 @02:21PM (#49744584)
Welll... If you lend $100 to a hobo, would you really blame them when they run away with it?
Re:Health benefits of Tai Chi on Sunday August 16, 2026 @04:03AM (#49317911)
"this gentle form of exercise" - cue Chen Xiaowang (head of one of the major styles of Tai Chi) : https://youtu.be/gj6UaEay5Lg
Re:Am I a Bad Friend? on Thursday May 28, 2026 @03:44AM (#48305903)
They might not be doing it on purpose, remember that microsoft windows "take a screenshot every few seconds and send it to an llm" thing?
Re:Why Japanese companies do so many different things on Friday May 22, 2026 @05:18PM (#48241799)
There are aspects about cultures which can be fascinating, not (only) because they are foreign and new, but because dedicated and intelligent people have been improving them for generations, centuries even. I have a friend who is from Korea and who is a wood worker, and we have compared the different approaches to what, in the end, solves the same problems. Not everything can be incorporated into the other way of doing things, but I have found it eye-opening. My brain still tries to find ways, comparing, like a constant ping. Maybe one needs to dedicate 100% to the new way for a while to understand it fully before a genius brain would be able to find the spark how to meld both methods into a single improved Way of Doing Things (tm).
How would you implement no-downtime hot swap with only one item?
For three generations, unless you watch re-education videos.
Re:Help Keep Thunderbird Alive on Thursday April 09, 2026 @10:46AM (#47704475)
The Android build is a re-branded (and some might say, crippled) K-9 Mail, which AFAIR did not support NNTP. Adding it might be more work than they are willing to do.
Re:JuiceSSH – Give me my pro features back on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @04:09AM (#46792880)
Sharing in case this can help you in the future, this is what works for me with Termux in .ssh/config

  ServerAliveInterval 120
  ServerAliveCountMax 30
  TCPKeepAlive yes
Re:JuiceSSH – Give me my pro features back on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @06:30AM (#46778605)
Have you looked into enabling ssh keep alive/server alive?
Nothing against that per se, false alarms should be kept in check.

If you have a system where, as I understand it, the main point is to check who is standing in front of your door, and that system now is one automatic update away from dipping into your bank account... How long until the police departments figure out that donations to a specific company could be very profitable?

Slight tangent: on top of that, I just read an article yesterday (which of course I can't find again right now) about how false automatic alarms from such cameras will incur a fee from the owners when the Police comes to check it out. It was from somewhere in Texas.
Re:One thing has been holding back the Middle East on Friday October 17, 2025 @07:30PM (#45623370)
It happens everywhere, not only in the middle east, not only with religion. People who crave control rise to the top, apply tight control to stay there, kill creativity in the process.
Re:Beginner Guide to VPS Hetzner and Coolify on Sunday October 05, 2025 @03:30PM (#45484471)
And so, instead of having an open port for ssh, (ideally) with certificate-only authentication, optionally MFA, you trade it for an open port for tailscale/wireguard, handing over "all" your data to a company who is offering you a service for no monetary compensation.

Also, why do you think that it is better to not change the root password? It sounds like a very suspicious recommendation.

Re:Swiss voters back e-ID legislation on Sunday September 28, 2025 @05:48PM (#45408394)
Note that when the Swiss government says "handled by the state" it means it will usually be handled by the lowest-bidding consulting company.
Re:Swiss voters back e-ID legislation on Sunday September 28, 2025 @05:45PM (#45408376)
Swiss here, and I do not agree. We used to be able to trust our government, but more and more, as the years go by, tech-savvy people realize how laws have accumulated into surveillance.

Now there are much worse cases out there, sure. But most Swiss citizens are not even aware of those laws.

Nor are they aware of how much the Swiss government has been trying to hide its incompetence regarding anything IT-related. Like data leaks happening several times per year.

So yes, a big percentage of those almost 50% of "no we don't want this" responses were about lack of trust in the different branches of the government.

Re:Typst: A Possible LaTeX Replacement on Saturday September 27, 2025 @10:41AM (#45396105)
Looking at the examples on the website, I can see the appeal regarding the input. The output makes my head slightly dizzy - not sure why, but like the letters are all slightly off, in both dimensions. Is it just me, or the font/screen combination, or did it occur to anyone else also?
From my understanding, hunting is already allowed, and they also have a bounty program: https://www.sfwmd.gov/our-work/python-program

As an aside, and in a different, "Python Removal Agent" is certainly a worthy title for any of us.

Re:Building Ultra Cheap Energy Storage for Solar PV on Sunday August 24, 2025 @04:55PM (#45007688)
Why the downvotes?

Conversation instead of anonymous bashing would be appreciated.

Unless you have no good arguments, so I dare you, random aggressive strangers, I triple dare you!

Re:Building Ultra Cheap Energy Storage for Solar PV on Sunday August 24, 2025 @04:12PM (#45007355)
As my grandma used to say, regarding speaking a foreign language: "enough to get you beat up, not enough to get them to stop"
Re:Fourth, fifth, and sixth derivatives of position on Saturday August 23, 2025 @06:23PM (#44999598)
Yes, the change from not being pressed into your seat to being pressed into your seat is jerk. Basically the difference between two acceleration "levels".

Snap is how abrupt those changes between accelerations are. If you accelerate a bit, and then suddenly the light turns orange and you floor it, and the turbo kicks in, and your passengers go "woaaaaaah going to need a barf baaaaag" for example, it was probably not very smooth.

Sometimes instead of linear accelerations, those concepts can be easier to understand as changes in angular motions. You're on a curve of a certain radius, and suddenly the radius changes. The change is the jerk. How sudden the change happens is the snap.

Re:A Decoder Ring for AI Job Titles on Thursday August 21, 2025 @07:29PM (#44979427)
Weell, you probably don't want to serve "Backwards Deployed Engineers" to your clients
For English, press one...

There are - currently - three-hUndred-and--fifty-seven -- people - inthequeue. Please wait

If you are not using an OS which has something like windows recall enabled, or that weird stardict with online lookup with automatic lookup on select which came up recently.

I wonder how far back this has been going on. Did ICQ, IRC server hosters, BBSes do similar things?

Re:Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification" on Sunday August 17, 2025 @06:02PM (#44935319)
> Paranoia about this is silly.

Having had to deal with some clients with slightly sensitive data, I wish. Photocopies and printed screenshots lying around in the open, CC data copy-pasted manually to other fields or to generic excel sheets because otherwise "it disappears and we can't book late fees" etc. Not even only the "random third-party" companies vetted and specialised in ID verification, but then they get a new support contract down the road, and a fourth- or fifth-party agent who had the cheapest offer now has remote admin access to those desktops.

Probability is low, true. But all it takes is one compromised access.

We all choose our battles probably.

Maybe... Someone should teach kids about the pareto principle early on. Or is it about morality?

One might argue that a stone mason or a miner has less left of his body after 40 years of work.

Office work is slightly kinder to the body, although even here one reads worrying studies.

But when you're 12, nothing of that matters really.

Re:Did California's Fast Food Minimum Wage Reduce Employment? on Saturday August 09, 2025 @06:12PM (#44850801)
Where do people eat then? Coming from someone completely foreign to such a culture.
Re:Ask HN: Why is Gmail so incompetent at basic search? on Thursday July 24, 2025 @09:21PM (#44678417)
To answer your question: I am insinuating nothing. There is a certain vibe to his comments which struck me from having noticed it in certain people, and the effects it has on their relationships with others. From his answer, I gather that he doesn't care. So, that's it for the free remote psychoanalysis by HN comments.
Re:Ask HN: Why is Gmail so incompetent at basic search? on Thursday July 24, 2025 @07:05PM (#44677400)
You clearly decided to interpret that question in a way that would make you feel better about yourself, and I am disappointed.

Somehow this website is not what it used to be.

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