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Re:eMudhra to Exit Global SSL/TLS Certificate Business on Thursday October 22, 2026 @01:21PM (#50198341)
One time after locking my keys in my '87 Toyota pickup, I just used a swiss army knife in desperation. Opened instantly
Re:How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs on Monday September 28, 2026 @10:06AM (#49878196)
A very good friend, who is not a brain surgeon, but designs and plans brain surgeries for clinical trials with the very brain surgeons doing the surgeries. So yes they do think it through and even do entire dry runs through every step.
Re:LittleSnitch for Linux on Thursday April 09, 2026 @10:28AM (#47704225)
Seriously, the amount flatpak misinformation that people hold onto is absolutely wild. Ex: I have had to show people it does differential updates because they don't bother to read the output.

Flatpaks are easily the best gui desktop app experience for users we have today.

Re:Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal on Thursday February 19, 2026 @04:11PM (#47079444)
Praise be to projects that use xdg paths before posting it to hn.
This mirrors my experience as well of multiple instances over my life of repressing childhood trauma and some event or conversation suddenly bringing it back to the surface.
Re:Ubiquiti SFP Wizard on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @02:54PM (#45737186)
Now if only the fiberstore SFP programmer didn't require an app that is basically malware as far as I'm concerned.
Re:Collaborative Text Editing Without CRDTs or OT on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @08:29PM (#44057593)
I miss Wave a lot, very quirky in a good way imo. We ran a few D&D games over it. RIP
O by Cirque du Soleil has underwater lifts not sure about other shows
Loved Dark Reign, I have the discs still, somewhere.
I'll just leave this here for the interested https://web.archive.org/web/20230408013446/https://www.plane... (archive link to not hug it to death)
Re:The case of the mysterious --help directory (2020) on Sunday January 30, 2022 @04:19PM (#30141217)
In Zsh setting '-x' on an interactive shell will also show you what is executed for prompts, completion, and any hooks (probably other things too)
Re:Sequoia-PGP – A new OpenPGP implementation in Rust on Thursday August 02, 2018 @11:42AM (#17672293)
Thanks for sharing those, I had kind of written off Nix for personal laptop after first glance, going to play around again.