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Re:WTF Ubuntu?
on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:37AM (#50339456)
Alma released a patch ahead of upstream again, just like they did for several other critical vulnerabilities this year.
Re:Upgrade your desktop: Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is now available
on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @10:50AM (#49909788)
The actual changelog can be found at https://documentation.ubuntu.com/release-notes/26.04/1/
Re:The stupidity and arrogance of GNOME developers
on Friday September 25, 2026 @07:33PM (#49851469)
(2024)
Re:Spymarks, Not Watermarks
on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @07:10AM (#49799373)
Does the shorter enwp.org/Steganography render any better? It's quite handy for English Wikipedia links.
(Edit: hmm, without the "https://" it seems to depend on the browsers ability to recognise a URL.)
Re:English: A vs. An
on Saturday September 19, 2026 @07:49PM (#49771137)
Certainly English can be odd. It can usually be understood through tough thorough thought though.
Re:Λ Snap – An inviting programming language for kids and adults for C...
on Saturday September 12, 2026 @08:19AM (#49671573)
. o O (Maybe Ubuntu users can use snap to download Snap! from the Snap store…)
Re:Authorization Terminology Is a Mess: Let's Fix It
on Friday September 04, 2026 @07:23AM (#49563113)
> ENTI- can you enter, ORI (or ORIZ) what can you do?
I don't mean to quarrel about it, but I understood Authentication to be closer to identification. To provide "adequate proof that you are actually who you claim to be".
Even the "can you enter" question falls under authorization; "does the user have appropriate permissions?" Entering is just one of perhaps many subsequent levels of permissions.
Re:Stopping the smart TV from being used against you
on Saturday August 29, 2026 @09:32AM (#49489785)
> nothing like this in the UK.
It turns out there are several similar services offered in the UK by ISP's like O2, Sky, and BT¹ (recently rebranded as EE-WiFi²) who claim to be the UK's largest WiFi Hotspot Network. Perhaps that's due to it being opt-out on their routers since it was first introduced over a decade ago.
Re:AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – In...
on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @03:14PM (#49187560)
Don't forget to check out: "bosh", "cosh", "dosh", "gosh", "josh", "mosh", and "nosh" too! ;)
Before people were getting fired in AI chats or Video calls, they were getting fired by voicemail - as featured in the track "Exciting New Direction"[0], by The New Deal.
Re:Ask HN: Are systems ready for the first negative leap second?
on Saturday July 11, 2026 @09:04AM (#48871711)
Better still, if Unix time tracked TAI (monotonically increasing every SI second), and Leap Seconds were handled in a distributed database much like time zones - possibly even the same one we all use anyway.
Re:
on Thursday July 02, 2026 @01:24PM (#48764630)
That paper was published in 2014. The reference Opus encoder has certainly had a number of improvements that affect sound quality since then, whereas very few AAC implementations have.
Re:The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it duri...
on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @04:25PM (#48561529)
Heh, "funrollloops" reminds me of recompiling FreeBSD 4 on my thinkpad back in the early aughts. The word made me imagine some sort of processed breakfast cereal with too many additives.
Re:The Smart TV in Your LivingRoom Is a Node in the AIScraping Economy
on Sunday June 07, 2026 @09:46AM (#48434826)
Indeed, but some scoundrel is probably scraping this page and having an LLM prepare their pitch as to how manufacturers could improve Ad / Data collection revenue by bypassing these suggestions :/
Re:What Is a Dickover?
on Saturday May 30, 2026 @07:15AM (#48335002)
uBlock-Origin settings | Filters | Cookie notices
Re:Ubuntu 26.04
on Friday April 24, 2026 @04:44PM (#47895533)
I'm not certain about CLI, but Plasma 6.6 does allow preferences / settings to be exported & restored / shared.
https://youtu.be/RuxNnfllxco?t=3894 - Neal Gompa on the Fedora 44 Release party stream,
Re:An open letter to the UK Government on digital privacy
on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @03:52PM (#47770610)
I recently found this video about UK's track record regarding privacy:
Re:Make Tmux Pretty and Usable
on Monday April 13, 2026 @11:46AM (#47753724)
Prefix-w works, or did you want something more?
Re:
on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @09:01PM (#47420438)
also: no "C", and no "rust", despite being a portmanteau of both these other languages names :)
Re:Linux explores new way of authenticating developers and their code
on Friday February 27, 2026 @10:09AM (#47181407)
> The article seems to be insinuating that it would have.
I disagree, the article clearly states:
Montgomery and others were careful to say that Linux ID
will not magically prevent another xz‑style supply‑chain
attack, but they argue it materially raises the cost.
Re:Linux explores new way of authenticating developers and their code
on Friday February 27, 2026 @06:59AM (#47179531)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47166473
- the video is well worth a watch.
Re:AIs can't stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations
on Thursday February 26, 2026 @07:13AM (#47165031)
> That's the literal topic of War Games (1983)
Probably ran out of tokens before the end, during training.
"How about a nice game of Chess?"
Re:Show HN: Clocksimulator.com – A minimalist, distraction-free analog...
on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @05:43PM (#47159117)
Really nicely done. I usually settle for
xclock -analog -update 1 -norender -hl grey -fg grey -bg black
Brits of a certain age will recall (and might appreciate) the clock faces available at https://625.uk.com/tv_logos/flash2.htm#clocks too.
Re:Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveill...
on Saturday February 21, 2026 @09:49PM (#47107628)
Those are not "speed" cameras, they're to enforce daily payment (or fines) for driving in "Ultra Low Emissions Zone" areas in non-compliant vehicles. The area covers all 32 London Boroughs, around 1,500 km² (580 square miles), - affecting approximately 9 Million people.
Re:ShannonMax: A Library to Optimize Emacs Keybindings with Informatio...
on Thursday February 19, 2026 @09:02PM (#47082741)
I like "both Shift keys" to toggle caps lock on the odd occasions it's useful.
Re:Meta patents AI that takes over a dead person account to keep posti...
on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @07:17AM (#47046702)
Some information about this leaked 3 years ago (February 2023), see:
https://cdn.xcancel.com/pic/orig/64D3E63614C36/media%2FHBUh4...
via
Re:Traintrackr – Live LED Maps
on Saturday January 24, 2026 @04:54AM (#46742281)
> unusual maps https://raildar.co.uk/map/KGX
Nice one, OpenRailTimes[0] is a similar style, but split in to smaller local sections by rail company and area.
I also like SignalBox[1] maps for their more traditional geographic layout, and for "less map -- more data", with accurate times that trains pass through stations and junctions, then RealTimeTrains[2] is hard to beat.
- [0]: https://www.opentraintimes.com/maps
Re:How Markdown Took over the World
on Friday January 09, 2026 @09:12PM (#46562074)
Good call, I've had success with:
pandoc -f gfm -t typst -o file.typ file.md
Re:Show HN: Prism.Tools – Free and privacy-focused developer utilities
on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @09:57AM (#46513060)
You know that "this dude" is basically the UK Governments version of the NSA, right?
Re:Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem?
on Thursday December 18, 2025 @12:55PM (#46316126)
"encrapsulated"