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Re:Why is every rationalist blog post way too long? on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @06:27PM (#50096363)
> I haven't heard the term "rationalist blogger" before, but surely, not assuming tradition is correct is sort of key to the "rationalist" part?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalist_community

Re:Shimano Bicycle Museum Review on Friday October 02, 2026 @09:52AM (#49933539)
Also in the Netherlands, https://velorama.nl/collectie/
Re:Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives on Thursday September 10, 2026 @03:10AM (#49639566)
The best way to reduce driving fatalities is probably to reduce the amount of driving that people do. Excellent public transit, denser cities, better pedestrian / bike infrastructure, mixed-use zoning, etc.
Re:Immich v3.0.0 Released on Friday July 03, 2026 @02:01AM (#48771359)
I think the application layer is the wrong layer for encryption for immich anyways, I just encrypt the whole disk on my server. When _self_ hosting, there's no need to prevent access to files from the operator.
I thought this too, but inspecting the HTML source could have shown that a nodal would be shown next.
> I don't have any other marketable skills. My coding skills were barely marketable to begin with.

Hot take: moving is more about interview skills than coding skills. Whether you leave or not, start interviewing now. You might end up finding a better place sooner than you hoped.

Re:Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @04:47PM (#48376051)
Very happy to have mostly de-Googled, I don't miss the AI-forward product decisions. I only use Google now for occasional searches and interacting with other Google users (e.g. Docs).
I've been thinking of making an event platform like Partiful, but only for personal use because it's also the perfect platform for spam (send emails and texts to people with attacker-controller content).
Wax-style earplugs like you describe are the only kind that a friend of mine uses. The foam ones never fit them.
Even though it's a meaningless comparison, I'd be interested to see how performance compares (max requests per second?) for this compared to fully-featured web servers.
> This does nothing since the drive is still unencrypted.

Even though the data is unencrypted in memory, an attacker would still need either a local privilege escalation (from the login window?), or some sort of side-channel attack if they're still not able to get the password.

Re:Ask HN: Any Interesting Niche Hobbies? on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @10:35PM (#47698694)
> Meaningful contribution is easy: these groups always benefit from more participants.

Same for probably all small dance communities! While it seems like a different kind of 'contribution' than the OP is looking for, it's very meaningful personally to share music and creativity with people. (Personally, I dance lots of Balboa -- a swing dance with a local scene of probably less than 100 active participants.)

Re:Slightly safer vibecoding by adopting old hacker habits on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @11:42PM (#47684869)
I believe the author's idea is to do dev work from a Github account that only has access to the fork, but not to the main repo. Then, as a contributor, you'd open PRs from your fork to the main repo. I think this would only work if your Github account doesn't have write access to the main repo, though. I know you can use 'deployment keys' to give read-access to a single repo using an SSH key, but not sure if you can otherwise restrict access to a single repo with write access. Essentially, though, you'd want to find a way to give the remote host the most limited possible privileges to your Github account.
Re:Tailscale's new macOS home on Thursday April 02, 2026 @09:03PM (#47622187)
Hence

> that almost certainly will break in the next OS release

My scanner has drivers available for download that date from 2015 with no updates since then.

Re:Our Commitment to Windows Quality on Friday March 20, 2026 @07:06PM (#47461998)
When I had a similar issue on FreeBSD, I wrote some automatic pre- and post-suspend scripts (audio interface could cause full system crash going into suspend unless correctly managed beforehand). I’m sure you could do something similar on Linux.
Re:Tons of new LLM bot accounts here on Sunday March 15, 2026 @03:10PM (#47390779)
Long-term, I think AI bots will destroy text-based online communities like this one. I'll be sad to see it disappear.

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