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Re:Tell HN: Old.reddit.com Requires Login on Monday August 10, 2026 @11:24PM (#49253002)
Red Harvest I guess. Let's build our own, this time with.. oh, a lot of lemmy instances already do have an old. subdomain and interface!
maybe for the business target audience, but I doubt this can be a thing for the majority of users. They just want to get on with their day, not learn magic words to search for and relate to each other.

As for Apple fans, they specifically seek the vertical integration.

Re:I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster on Saturday September 20, 2025 @10:01AM (#45313507)
I tend to use quite old hardware that is powered-off when not in use for its intended purpose and I coined "capability is its own quality".

For dedicated build boxes that crunch through lots of sources (whole distributions, AOSP) but do run seldomly, getting your hands on lots of Cores and RAM very cheaply can still trump buying newer CPUs with better perf/watt but higher cost.

Re:AnduinOS on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @07:06AM (#44960745)
addressing that concern, the dev blog roadmap[1] lays out the plan to commonize in the 1.4 version cycle with completion in v1.5 to

> .. establish our own apt software repository, managing all changes directly via dpkg. [..] This also allows other Linux distributions like Debian to install AnduinOS's customizations easily

[1]: https://news.anduinos.com/post/2025/5/21/anduinos-future-dev...

Re:AnduinOS on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @03:31PM (#44955366)
it's pretty straightforward to change: a makefile, some preset variables in a .sh, then it iterates through https://github.com/Anduin2017/AnduinOS/tree/5bbd94d9c4fa455e... - the tree also points at the gnome-extensions it uses to create and mod the global menu.

can't be too hard to rebase onto Debian (the superior .deb distribution). I put it on 2 endof10 laptops as whatever I do every few years, kde just doesn't stick

Re:Show HN: I wrote a modern Command Line Handbook on Friday May 30, 2025 @09:42AM (#44136146)
if you add a cover page with http link, an example download read at a later time will find its way back more easily. Looks good!
Re:Have I Been Pwned 2.0 is Now Live on Monday May 19, 2025 @09:17PM (#44036782)
it's right there after the "The Domain Search Feature" heading. Verify ownership, then you get results
Re:Gmail to SQLite on Saturday May 10, 2025 @09:09AM (#43945339)
having sqlite exporters for platforms is great help for archiving, but also general questions: I used https://github.com/ltdangle/mail2db to see how much mail volume I still receive monthly on a mail account that I want to move away from. A top10 of senders directed my un- and resubscribe actions.
Re:Gmail to SQLite on Saturday May 10, 2025 @08:44AM (#43945192)
in both iOS and Android it's all stored in sqlite already. Table schemas circulate forensics blogs and QA sites and how to obtain the unencrypted db
Re:Why do I run FreeBSD for my home servers on Monday March 31, 2025 @08:28PM (#43541557)
come for the reminder to try FreeBSD some time again, read light systemd bashing (can't be harmed at that point), stay for managing Jails backup through.. NocoDB :) Stunning travel photography btw!
you could try Zealdocs - it was a reason to go reading more of the projects own documentation pages. There are converters for whatever-doc/ssg-framework a project uses to Docset, the packaged format it relies on. Though ignoring that, how approachable the docs are to different levels of experience is another thing.

I learned heaps from treating a REPL as an (offline) escape room, in terms of how to get inline help, variable introspection and debugging tricks. Not every language offers a convenient one though.

seen the win32 aesthetic used for higher-order reasons: separating "work mode" from playtime. An extra user to do so on the same machine helps.

Connect the dots reading https://www.marginalia.nu/log/99_context/ and seeing the ui change in old vs new screencasts https://www.youtube.com/@ViktorLofgren/videos

Re:PeerTube v7.1 Is Out on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @07:29PM (#43406471)
a quick shortcut flow in a browser on the youtube channel page (a click below the video title):

ctrl+u ctrl+f "rss+x" -> shows a click+copyable video.xml link

I understand people being pleased to learn this, for me the peertube announcement was learning about p2, as it's been around a few years already.

alternateEnclosure is a real gem in the p2 rss spec, the thing that makes multiple channels and alternative formats/codecs/resolutions work.

Re:PeerTube v7.1 Is Out on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @03:43PM (#43404058)
> .. improves support for Podcast 2.0, allowing users to subscribe to channels and play the video audio stream (if available) using classic podcast applications

that refers to https://podcasting2.org/podcast-namespace

A youtube channel url provides a rss link too, but it's not advertised much and you need a player that can extract the audio stream. I often yt-dl the audio from talks/interviews, but it could be easier.

The v7 interface came out nice, for examples see https://instances.joinpeertube.org/instances?sort=-version&p...

Re:Rippling Sues Deel over Spying on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @10:50AM (#43400145)
for anyone wanting the Matt Levine delivery on this, it was in his Newsletter yesterday under "Spies in the Sales Slack"
Re:A Look at Firefox Forks on Monday March 17, 2025 @11:49AM (#43389795)
had a positive experience recently on an issue and getting it fixed, people were helpful and instructive. For drive-by newbies there's an initial penalty to dig into Mozilla tooling. Lowering the threshold there will attract more contributors.
well done.. made me enable my static-sitegens opengraph plugin, add images, rewrite summaries, thanks!

Mastodon preview? :)

Re:Uchū · the color scheme for internet lovers on Sunday February 16, 2025 @11:06PM (#43075017)
webb.page is fun!
Re:I Blog with Raw HTML on Sunday February 09, 2025 @11:47PM (#42997039)
had a look and I like it. More "raw markdown" (what the OP uses too) instead of HTML in web publishing is a good thing - basically because xml syntax is not how humans want to write.

This, combined with git forges pages concept or tilde user accounts makes for nice corners in the webs.

Re:You Didn't Notice MP3 Is Now Free on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @11:11PM (#42958994)
true, but the complexity is greatly reduced between a caf container and (since Safari 17.5) a webm encumbered opus: the provider can offer 1 webm file to all platforms.

Especially in podcasts where it's just voice the savings in storage and traffic are significant. My own listening preference is 32kbits opus at ~1/4th size of the original 128kbits mp3.

centralized services can execute on "give every user a wallet", but federated services and protocols can also add an attribute to piggyback on the addressbook that is inherent to a following/follower relation. Subscriber tiers and encrypted content is harder, but the peer discovery is already there.
after june 2025 producers cannot sell a phone in the EU market with such a short software support timespan

https://energy-efficient-products.ec.europa.eu/product-list/...

> availability of operating system upgrades [..] at least 5 years from the date of the end of placement on the market of the last unit of a product model

Re:How do you backup your Android? on Thursday January 09, 2025 @08:11PM (#42651492)
Seedvault, Syncthing, DAVx5-to-Nextcloud, Signal Archive, passwordstore.app (discontinued) + git
thanks for the PSA, I use the network tab alot and was still unaware. If you hover in the field the '?' symbol will actually link to this help page.

when you filter the requests and export an .har, the archive will include only the requests listed. For adhoc extraction I then poke at the har with jq to get what I need.

there's Named Data Networking (went by Content-Centric Networking earlier). You request data, not a url, the pipe/path becomes the CDN. If any of your nearest routers have the bytes, your request will go no further.

I don't see it much mentioned the last few years, but the research groups have ongoing publications. There's an old 2006 Van Jacobson video that is a nice intro.

Re:VLC vs. the App Stores on Saturday April 20, 2024 @06:25PM (#40101562)
off by a line - 75% according to apilevels.com / statcounter. But true, apilevel pace is relentless
Re:Better Adb-Shell on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @09:14AM (#40051472)
why pad my opinions with outdated quotes if I can have first-hand experience? it's a good tip I gave on recent developments and your objections aren't convincing. Latest Lineage/Graphene both include in their forked seedvault repos a current enough version to check out d2d-transfer, give it another try.
Re:Better Adb-Shell on Monday April 15, 2024 @10:38PM (#40047863)
did you base your impression for 'half the time' on a version that can't skip the allowBackup=False app manifests via d2d ?
Re:Better Adb-Shell on Monday April 15, 2024 @07:55PM (#40046982)
if you use an AOSP based ROM, give Seedvault another look since they merged device2device-transfer in the beginning of the year https://github.com/seedvault-app/seedvault/pull/562
I had the opposite experience with RDP and Debian 12 / GNOME 45. It marks the release where I can easily tell family how to enable RDP in GNOME from the settings (or do it myself if ssh is available). Next release had even more refinement: https://release.gnome.org/46/#remote-login-with-rdp

'grdctl' managed to be able to configure everything with RDP the gui does. VPNs help to secure the port though. I wonder if your experience hinges on trying to work it out with vnc instead of rdp.

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