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Re:Linux 7.3 Released on Monday October 19, 2026 @08:34AM (#50151634)
Viruses were a problem and you're suggesting an old unpatched system.
Re:Why the Bronze Age Collapsed on Thursday October 01, 2026 @04:20AM (#49919120)
Re:Ask HN: What're You Reading? on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @09:37AM (#49908766)
I read a comic book series that sounds somewhat similar, history in generations. "My China" https://www.goodreads.com/series/74422-une-vie-chinoise
Re:Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC on Monday September 28, 2026 @11:49AM (#49879959)
Closed federations. Only trusted servers
Re:SAML: A Fractal of Bad Design on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @04:15AM (#49813065)
You can use Keycloak as a SAML/OIDC -adapter.
Re:SAML: A Fractal of Bad Design on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @02:48AM (#49812534)
Re:How to build a printer on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @06:01AM (#49623940)
vim/nvim at least have :print
Re:Authorization Terminology Is a Mess: Let's Fix It on Friday September 04, 2026 @08:32AM (#49563677)
I've seen a spreadsheet with NATO abbreviations and terms. It's tens of thousands of entries. And the best ones have tens of definitions.
Re:Stripe said to abandon $50B pursuit of PayPal on Friday August 28, 2026 @03:27AM (#49475468)
And instant (under 10 seconds)
Clickhouse seems to be a popular logstore these days. And is column-oriented.
Re:Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @07:50AM (#49181531)
Go isn't perfect, but $GOPATH isn't really used that much anymore. There's a bunch of stuff in ~/.config/ and ~/.cache/
Desktop operating systems don't have very good separation between programs. If some malware gets access, it will be looking for e.g. ssh keys and using a keylogger to get the passphrase if you encrypted your ssh keys. Tpm protected passkeys are much better protected
Umm, what about machine readable JSON in .well-known instead of yet another txt in root
Re:Firewood Splitting Simulator on Sunday June 14, 2026 @12:30PM (#48529165)
Re:Raspberry Pi 5 – 16 GB, $350 on Thursday June 11, 2026 @01:49AM (#48486646)
It is free market supply and demand. Clearly a stronger force than Moore's law.
Not credit card. Bank account. Webauthn/passkeys could also work for auth as they check the domain and can't be phished
Re:Just Fucking Use Go on Friday May 08, 2026 @02:02PM (#48066634)
So what happens when you write through the nil pointer?
If only https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPC_QR_code supported a sepa instant bit so that one could just show a qr code, scan it with whatever payer banking app and authorize the sepa instant payment.
SEPA instant already exists. I think it guarantees sub-10s transactions. Unfortunately it is not the default.
Oil free for electricity generation. The media in my country (Finland) also likes to brag about 90+% fossil-free electricity generation. But electricity is under half (30%?40%?) and the rest of that energy isn't fossil-free.
Compare the cost and you will find the reason
Re:Dobase – Your workspace, your server on Friday March 27, 2026 @03:31AM (#47539914)
Some will argue that it is Open Source. But Open Source came from commercial interests against Free Software.

It's clearly not free software, since the user freedom is restricted.

It's not libre, since that also refers to freedoms.

It's not really Open Source.

Source-Available has been used to describe this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-available_software

Stalebot closing is a problem. There's no problem with stalebot adding a stale label (but really, a filter with last update x time ago does the same).

Adding filters so that developers only look at actionable tickets would be much more sane.

Re:A sufficiently detailed spec is code on Thursday March 19, 2026 @06:10AM (#47437066)
I've heard various suggestions of only committing spec.md or change requests in the git repo and using that as source of truth.

We have spent decades working on reproducible builds or deterministic compilation. To achieve this, all steps must be deterministic. LLMs are not deterministic. You need to commit source code.

Re:Microscopes Can See Video on a LaserDisc on Monday March 09, 2026 @03:58AM (#47306022)
use gemini and ask it to summarize a youtube link
Teamspeak is using matrix under the hood

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