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Re:Understanding Email Encryption (2025) on Sunday November 01, 2026 @02:40PM (#50328954)
Its often backups signed with Google or Apple keys that are uploaded to Google or Apple that would be vulnerable to a warrant from Law enforcement. Even today, you need to enable end to end encryption on the backups to plug that hole (apparently).
Re:Show HN: I Turned DOOM into a Transformer on Friday October 30, 2026 @08:47AM (#50303151)
If Claude wrote the readme, technically its correct.
Using Renovate can be one of those processes.
Hugo is great. I had Claude make the framework for my wifes site using Hugo, Netlify free tier, and Decap CMS. And I forced Claude to avoid any Javascript for the non CMS parts.
Re:Battlezone Online: BZFlag in the Browser on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @02:38AM (#50176877)
Eagles nest 1.
Re:An ad-free Android TV on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @06:28AM (#50163989)
For those with more capable routers, local dns adblocking, or NextDNS; you can add a static DNS entry for "androidtvwatsonfe-pa.googleapis.com" and direct that to 127.0.0.1, you will also get no ads on the stock launcher. At least on Android 11 (For the Nvidia Shield). You might have to restart the device or empty the cache for it to take effect.
Re:AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @12:34PM (#50090461)
I think the large studios who have the willingness and resources to do that are also willing to contribute to the ongoing enshittification of our digital experiences. I think small indie studios will continue to flourish.
Re:AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @12:24PM (#50090258)
I wonder how AI handles stuff like Denuvo DRM? I've been building alternative clients for some software I regularly use, and AI is a master in using gdb to find keys, understanding how to construct signatures, hashes, etc.
Have you not seen the mass layoffs from Microsoft and other major publishers? And the toxic work environment they are often associated with? AI has nothing to do with that. I hope we see a resurgence in Indie studios and studios that care about their community and customers and not pulling rug pulls like Ubisoft do. Or the union busting Rockstar did.

The industry needs a shake up.

> AI is kinda motivating everyone to do everything on their own instead of gathering up and contributing to one (or two) projects, which is something I'm worried about in Open Source software as a whole.

I think the people who are relying upon AI the most, might not contribute to OSS anyway. I can certainly say I am in that boat because I do not have software development skills and I do not want to learn how to do it. However I am very much using AI to write alternatives to some software I use like Kodi, because I can have something bespoke to my needs and perform "better" in terms of metrics that I care about, which may not align with metrics the contributors care about.

Have you tried making a skin for Kodi? Awful experience, poorly documented, and something only a handful of the community can do. They tend to perform poorly because of an over dependence on python plugins, have many foot guns, and can feel sluggish and unresponsive. But I can say make me a media player that looks like Netfix and pulls trending from trakt, and in one shot have something working on Android TV that performs far better for me.

There maybe arguments that AI couldn't have done that without OSS like Kodi to train on but I dont think thats accurate.

Hopefully this will cause Denmark and its banks to issue more Dankort cards
I think you are being too harsh. Even before AI, software and games would often work great on one computer and poor on other computers. I believe that isn't because they understood the programming less or their standards were low, but because there is so much variance between computer hardware, the firmware inside, and the software running on it that you can't guarantee software to run identically across many combinations.

Similarly it's not unusual for one website to behave differently across browsers.

Eh. Kodi, Torrserver, and Jacktook, Jacktor if you rather stream torrents and not have to deal with storage. Fairly easy to keep track of your shows and view on demand within Kodi.
Re:ReBarUEFI: Resizable BAR for almost any UEFI system on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @08:32AM (#49815130)
Since I don't want to tinker with my HP Firmware, a brief investigation led me to OpenCore's ability to enable Resizable BAR in the bootloader before Windows boots. Not sure how reliable it is. https://github.com/xCuri0/ReBarUEFI/discussions/118
How reliable is this information considering the trump administration hates California and other blue states?
I've used a bunch of similar tooling like airdrop and localsend. I don't have alot faith in them a little since they usually choke on large files or many files. I'm still looking for something that works well in those cases without resorting to a cable / MTP which isn't fantastic either.
The Boeing extension pack and watch how the plane deteriorates in the air in real time! Door plugs, MCAS, the works!
Re:Linux from Scratch on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @02:24AM (#49708491)
I learned a lot doing Gentoo stage 1. I was also following the guide like a recipe, but at the time I hadn't been exposed to the underlying machinery that is often automated, abstracted away, or done for me already. It was also a good test on how well I could follow instructions and later on apply my own customisations. Like lego.
Re:LG Says We're Fake News [video] on Sunday September 13, 2026 @12:56AM (#49680157)
I have a Sony A95K and have kept it in basic mode because I have a shield I like to game and stream from. The sony is very minimal and out the way, and after many software updates hasn't offered me any ads, or programs to run even while connected to WiFi.

However if you run Android, you have to accept some level of snooping.

Re:The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025) on Sunday September 06, 2026 @02:02AM (#49583761)
We are able to make do with Software Encoding for now, more so with the unlocked cores but it is limiting its potential. There seems to be something called PyroWave making waves for being a low latency encoder/ decoder but nothing supports it yet except for a now pulled Steam Beta.

Otherwise I'll have to investigate capturing video via the DP port or switch it out altogether.

Re:The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025) on Saturday September 05, 2026 @04:16PM (#49580269)
I have a bunch of these as headless gaming PCs in a rack running sunshine and Steam on Linux. The kids stream from them using moonlight on whatever smart device they want to play on.

Had the idea from LTT but he went a bit bonkers and bought expensive hardware to transmit video and input over cables. Gigabit Ethernet is more than enough.

I lived on Upper Street in Angel, London by some traffic lights and there was always a layer of black dust inside. I assumed it was brake particulate.
I suppose you can still be proud you did it during pre AI times and the gained knowledge by doing it yourself.

I don't expect Claude and other hosted AI's to be available so freely and thats when it'll get harder for me to do stuff like that.

On a similar experience, I use moonlight on my Android TV to stream video games from my computer in another room. I use my own fork from an unmerged PR which enables me to use an Xbox One Wireless adapter so I can play with my pad wirelessly. These pads have a 3.5mm jack on them which on Windows and Linux enables me to route audio from the game to headphones connected to the pad. Moonlight and the xow driver it bundled, was nowhere near being able to provide this as a feature.

After about 5 hours, feeding it the GIP spec, an export of sniffed usb traffic from Windows, prior art (xone driver for linux), and giving Claude connectivity to my Shield via adb, I had it working. This continuously blows my mind that I dont have to beg a developer on Github to do it for me.

Claude could do it for me for $20.

Re:Incident with Github.com on Monday August 17, 2026 @12:02PM (#49333177)
We have data residency in the EU and didn't notice anything.
Re:Incident with Github.com on Monday August 17, 2026 @11:34AM (#49332725)
GitHub Enterprise Cloud has been chugging along with no issues. I hope your critical infrastructure isn't dependent on a free tier / service. And that you have a business continuity process in place.
Re:Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code on Monday August 10, 2026 @02:49AM (#49240163)
I have noticed that Fable tends to macgyver solutions together to achieve some goal.
Re:RamenHaus on Saturday August 01, 2026 @05:56PM (#49138871)
For a long time, their first restruant in Covent Garden always had a hell of a queue and tiny seating area.

Shoryu Ramen is good too and bone daddies though they do other stuff too.

Re:Claude Opus 5 on Friday July 24, 2026 @05:15PM (#49041662)
In the $19 plan, I've been able to reverse engineer both an android APK and firmware (in Ghidra and Radre) for a baby rocker and build a quick PoC application in my session limit. And then further refined the app in another session at another point in time without leaving Opus. I dont consider that to be a tiny task. How are you blowing through your usage?
Re:Firefox Merges Support for Vulkan Video Decoding on Monday July 20, 2026 @02:06PM (#48982540)
There was nothing special about my setup. Standard intel processor with i915 driver which I would imagine covers a fairly large chunk of installs out there.

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