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Re:SSH hacks – a little sanity for remote workers on Thursday April 30, 2020 @06:39AM (#23029420)
For those tasks I just use sshfs. I keep a ~/n/${host} directory where I access remote files like they were on my machine.
Re:Why Google Did Android on Monday February 10, 2020 @11:55AM (#22290831)
Source? I could understand (!) `reboot` (with backticks) evaluated by mistake inside a shell script; but still reboot needs high privileges.
Re:Ask HN: Is it worth it to move to London as a SWE? on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @09:45AM (#21991853)
After Brexit are they going to move the island like in Lost?
Re:Rob Pike on good commit messages (2014) on Thursday December 19, 2019 @12:20PM (#21836934)
It isn't "some google group", it's the golang-dev mailing list.
I think a better comparision would be a manuscript about calculus. If it was produced before Newton/Leibniz it's remarkable, otherwise well... who cares?
Pike's code should be studied in schools.
That's a great news! Thank you.
To be honest, I think that DNS-over-HTTPS is pretty awkward. (I use DNS-over-TLS, by the way).

Also, we still have the problem with the unencrypted SNI after the name is resolved.

Re:Living without the modern browser on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @08:37AM (#20401354)
After a workday, I used to be repelled by using a computer. I started to use it again when I uninstalled Firefox. Now I just use elinks for basic stuff and I'm happy again to hack or just use a computer again, instead of a bloated web browser.

If I want to do "fancy" things, like book a flight, I just do that on the iPad.