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Re:HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN on Saturday October 31, 2026 @07:03PM (#50321097)
Sounds good, but could you please make it so that it can also be viewed without Javascript being enabled?
I migrated from Gmail to Proton a few years ago which already took a large toll on my energy and mental capacity.

I get the feeling that in a few years even the options you suggested will have some sort of downside as well.

Doing a migration dance every few years is getting tiring and unsustainable for me.

Running my own mail server is going to be a losing race to keep me out of spam filters (which you tend find out after you discover that your mails are silently being dropped)

Honestly perhaps we should just migrate from e-mail altogether. The question is to what instead?

Bazzite recently started to ship msedit by default, which makes sense since a large portion of its userbase are first time Linux users.

It did make for quite a surprise for existing users when the msedit logo popped up in their KDE Plasma launchers though.

Re:Audacity 4.0 on Friday September 04, 2026 @03:03AM (#49561429)
Not sure, but since I've installed is as a Flatpak (org.audacityteam.Audacity) I simply disable its network capabilities via com.github.tchx84.Flatseal

This way, even if they had telemetry, I wouldn't really care.

Uh... sometimes? First time I clicked it seemed to work, but a subsequent click gave me that 403 error.
> Here are some past cases of these interactions: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu....

For me that link says:

> Error: Forbidden

> Your client does not have permission to get URL / from this server.

Don't you think that as LLMs get better the deanonimization attacks will get easier?

Also, a journalist in a hostile regime might be one example, but a user that posted _very_ personal things under an alt account is also another example, and I bet the latter is much more common than the former.

Ask HN: Stylography, AI and an impending privacy nightmare?

From what I've understood, we can make modern day computer systems exceedingly effective in recognizing patterns in (vast amounts of) data.However, one of the ways this can be (ab)used is the de-anonymization of people through stylography. Since (plain)text datasets are relatively massive (in variety and density, not necessarily in size), one would assume that those systems (or similar ones)...

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AFAIK B&W 800D is used in many mastering studio's. I wonder what they will do with their high-end / pro audio segment, since it's quite different from your average home stereo (or even hi-fi) markets.
I'd say that after numerous revelations in regards to UEFI vulnerabilities and such, an open source BIOS / EFI has become a necessity for me rather than something just nice to have.
Considering Intel's track record on hardware vulnerabilities, I'd much rather prefer AMD.
> ...the first Framework Laptop 12 motherboard is going to use Intel's 13th-generation Core i3 and i5 processors

I _really_ hope they launch an AMD version (perhaps with an iGPU) soon after that. That and preferably with Libreboot support. This would make it the ideal portable laptop for me and thus I'd be able to (finally!) replace my X220T.

Does it have ECC and Coreboot / Libreboot support?
For sure this. I've recently found out that you can only pay using credit card, US bank account or Cash App.
Re:Popcorn Time 0.5.0 on Sunday February 11, 2024 @02:04PM (#39337547)
As long as private trackers have absurd seeding rules and require you to sign up (initially) without your VPN active, I won't be touching them with a ten foot socket.
Re:I accidentally Blender VSE on Thursday February 08, 2024 @09:03PM (#39310554)
Really hoping for some nice performance improvements because my first time experience with VSE hasn't been that swell so far: https://old.reddit.com/r/blender/comments/186bbll/my_experie...
Re:2023: The Year of AI on Monday December 25, 2023 @03:54PM (#38766016)
Would you say that this could run (smoothly) on my X220 with i7-2640M?
Re:What is the point of a public key fingerprint? on Saturday December 16, 2023 @09:08PM (#38669750)
I think you have to have WSL for this to work, but this is how I do it on Linux with Xorg:

  sleep 3 ; xdotool type --delay 5 "$(xclip -selection c -o)"  ## Force-paste the secondary paste buffer (Ctrl+Shift+c)
Re:Ask HN: Wordpress.com alternatives? on Monday November 27, 2023 @06:33AM (#38431091)
I think I've found an alternative: https://forevernoob.hashnode.dev/
Re:PipeWire 1.0.0 on Sunday November 26, 2023 @10:26PM (#38427713)
Can't edit my post, but I think I've found a place that fits my requirements: https://forevernoob.hashnode.dev/the-beginning - In any case I'll try to update as I go.

Ask HN: Wordpress.com alternatives?

Just tried to make a WordPress.com page after this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38426116The (new?) WordPress.com editor feels incredibly frustrating to use. It's slow and bloated (on Firefox at least) and I can't seem for the life of me figure out how to delete initial posts.I remember working with WP and it being a much nicer experience. I can't imagine editing and publishing...

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Re:PipeWire 1.0.0 on Sunday November 26, 2023 @07:28PM (#38426689)
Thanks for the pw-profiler recommendation, wasn't aware of that one.

I believe the Pro Audio profile [0] (which I'm using) doesn't resample by default.

Using pw-top, I noticed that something was causing xruns [1] (see ERR column) though I was unsure what that was. Since the Pro Audio profile uses the IRQ mechanism, I looked at interrupts [2] but couldn't spot anything unusual. There is however irq/16-mmc0 process which is at times causing significant (>50%) CPU usage, so I think I need to unload the sdcard module and see if that fixes anything.

First however I think I'll try a newer kernel (linux-lowlatency-hwe-22.04, which according to apt search is on 6.2.0.1017.17~22.04.14 as opposed to the current 5.15.0-89-lowlatency that ships with Ubuntu 22.04)

0: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/wikis/FAQ...

1: https://paste.debian.net/1298908/

2: https://paste.debian.net/1298905/

Re:PipeWire 1.0.0 on Sunday November 26, 2023 @06:14PM (#38426116)
I hope the pro audio side gets a bit more love. I've installed PW for the first time on my Ubuntu 22.04 (through https://pipewire-debian.github.io/pipewire-debian/) and so far have been experiencing high CPU usage on Bitwig Studio v5.0.11 when trying to send audio from and to my Native Instruments Komplete Audio 6, and I have no idea what the culprit might be.

I'm going to try a bunch of stuff and hopefully be able to take advantage of this wonderful technology (that has already come _so_ far!)

I should probably document my troubleshooting ventures. Does anyone know a nice hosted blog that supports Markdown / CommonMark and RSS syndication? Is Substack a good option?

Not to diminish the legacy of curl, but wget exists as well, right? Pretty sure a lot of machines use wget instead of curl.
Re:Lemmy Instances are already blocking each other on Friday June 16, 2023 @07:29AM (#36354790)
Wait, isn't one of the benefits of such federation that (the equivalent of) subreddits _don't_ live on one specific instance? So if an instance goes down for whatever reason, that subreddit still maintains its existence since it's shared across other instances.
Re:Hacking anything with GNU Guix on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @01:37PM (#32928503)
One of my personal pet peeves are that Guix does not support Apple, while Nix does.
Re:I passed 2 AWS Solution Architect exams in a month on Friday November 27, 2020 @10:48PM (#25235107)
I look at it this way: I'm a noob. I learn the things I do because I've genuinely developed an interest and understanding of how technology can improve my life and that of others.

A Raspberry Pi home automation server running Alpine, a load-balanced OpenBSD router... I make some projects which are considered a hobby for now.

But how would you convey this to a recruiter with limited to no understanding of technology? How would it even look like to a recruiter if someone like me was trying to get a foot in the door?

This is where certs might come in handy. I may not become an expert overnight, but at least it shows that I'm willing to focus and learn the material required to pass a cert.

Re:Org Mode's new site on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @06:37AM (#24906071)
I made a thread about this on /r/Emacs, perhaps people here might chime in too: https://old.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/jiyn4n/orgmode_archi...