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Re:Tailscale SSH: Investigation and remediation update on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @01:57AM (#50269764)
Why does your comment here contain more information than the blog post from tailscale itself?
I am just a layperson when it comes to pixel art, but to me the example in the article is clearly garbage/low quality.

- the magenta background is still visible along the edges - the color palette is all over the place - random noise pixels of totally different colors are visible scattered around - the lighting and shading doesn't look that good

Re:Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @01:23PM (#49995896)
It's definitely a trend. But it's also arguably not ASCII art. But maybe I'm just moving the goal posts.
Re:Pi.dev: You Said No MCP on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @06:26AM (#49906879)
1. The first paragraph has a callback and link 2. You're not the intended audience of the post most likely
Re:Obscura: The first VPN that can't log your activity on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @04:14PM (#49807445)
So like OHTTP but for UDP traffic? I suppose they are using MASQUE CONNECT-UDP?

They are careful to not exactly claim the same anonymity properties of Tor, though I think a lay reader will read that differently (ie, that they do have the same anonymity property as Tor).

That said being able to verify the inner wireguard conn to mullvad is nice. Of course you have to trust them that they aren't colluding with mullvad to share your identity/ip. But same goes for OHTTP.

Re:How to Write with an LLM on Friday September 18, 2026 @07:30AM (#49752841)
>So give the options to a model that doesn’t have the context of your editing process.

> I conjured a bit of software to manage this for me[...]

I don't understand how the annotation application shown helps with the stated goal of preventing the model from praising you. What's the actual software assisted workflow?

Re:How to Write with an LLM on Friday September 18, 2026 @07:15AM (#49752710)
Paperback copies in EU seem to be very expensive (90+€ on amazone.de) unfortunately.
Re:Whoisinspace.com/ on Friday September 18, 2026 @05:23AM (#49751942)
What does this have to do with the linked page? Not a criticism...I just don't understand like I am missing context.
Re:Orbs on Friday September 11, 2026 @03:09PM (#49663712)
Care to share more about how/what you built?
Re:Where to for Clojure and Enterprise Web Applications on Friday August 28, 2026 @07:53AM (#49477237)
(as discussed in clojurian slack):

The argument seems to take the leap from 'Ring is the wrong abstraction for what I want to do' (fair enough) and concludes 'Ring is inadequate, and therefore Clojure has a viability problem.'

Ring is explicitly designed to be web-server agnostic and therefore intentionally does not expose the full Jetty/Jakarta surface. Many using ring aren't using Jetty!

If your app requirements are specifically EE/Jetty-centric, then bypassing Ring may be entirely reasonable, but I don't see how that becomes an argument against Ring's design, much less against Clojure’s viability for enterprise applications...when enterprise means "serious business" not "Jakarta EE".

There are a few actual issues with Ring's design (that are in the issue tracker) I can think of when it comes to it's ability to express valid HTTP semantics. But "it doesn't OIDC" isn't one of them (that's sort of a category error?)

All that said... The charitable reading of "Clojure has a larger problem for its future [...] in which we can produce enterprise-grade web applications" is one where the "we" is limited to Derek's company/team, which yea, sounds like they need more Jetty/Java EE than Ring provides. But if the "we" is the Clojure community as a whole, then I would dissent.

Re:Credit Card Rewards Became a $9.2B Wealth Transfer on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @03:40PM (#49454673)
But with a debit or credit card?
Re:An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @03:10PM (#49454232)
Bamboo has been sketch and proprietary since the beginning. It's such a shame to see the maker community get sucked in (though I guess there is precedence wrt Fusion et.al.)
Re:Headlong: A Microharness for Persistent Agents on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @05:39PM (#49441035)
Your comment is also rather vague, how is it relevant? Did you observe something interesting?
Agree so much! It's so interesting all the different use cases and interpretations of those use cases people have.

Like this self-hosted project aims for "simple deployment"/less infra, but I can't imagine how you end up at "use Cloudflare proprietary offerings" and reconcile that with "self hosted".

But if you host the node app yourself and point it at your own seaweedfs/minio/garage that's still more infra than node process+SQLite file.

Re:Jolt: Clojure compiler implemented with Chez Scheme on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @02:53PM (#49262831)
Coffi is a great library that makes Panama FFI/FFM painless without interop. https://github.com/IGJoshua/coffi

For example look at this arc from sqlite4clj https://github.com/andersmurphy/sqlite4clj/blob/master/src/s... it's very elegant.

(Also can plug my own libvips wrapper using coffi https://github.com/outskirtslabs/vips)

Using FFI/FFM "vanilla" with java interop is also viable, and in my experience the SOTA models do just fine with it (with or without jextract).

Re:A big win for Android interoperability on Sunday August 02, 2026 @04:33AM (#49142345)
Is this ruling related to https://keepandroidopen.org/ at all? It's not clear to me..
Re:JEP 540: Simple JSON API (Now in Incubator) on Friday July 24, 2026 @04:53PM (#49041454)
Ironically as a Clojure developer I would really love a JDK native JSON library that we could wrap to avoid having to ship 3rd party JSON deps. Sort of like how java.net.http made things simpler.
Re:Microsoft's new DocumentDB rethinks NoSQL on PostgreSQL on Saturday July 11, 2026 @04:43PM (#48875661)
Stagnant? Both are alive and well. It's never been better to be a clojure+datomic dev.
Re:TLS certificates for internal services done right on Thursday July 09, 2026 @12:07PM (#48848218)
> TLS certificates for internal services* done right

* "internal services" = on a single server that is publicly routable

Re:There Are No Instances in ATProto on Friday June 19, 2026 @04:06PM (#48602670)
> their cost of operation is still something most people can afford: approximately $30/mo now.

Your definition of "most people" must be very different than the literal meaning.

Re:Hetzner increased dedicated server prices 3-4x on Monday June 15, 2026 @12:58PM (#48544066)
Don't forget these price increases are only for new purchases. Old rentals keep their price.
This is the second company (that I know of) that got acquired shortly after an AI pivot and re-brand. See: OpenAI to acquire Ona https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48491821
Re:Anthropic's Safety Superpower on Monday June 15, 2026 @08:44AM (#48540435)
> > The bottleneck is compute and data, not the model.

> I disagree. It is not the model alone. It needs a system which capitalizes on it. And this is very complex. Hardware, software, architecture - it takes a lot to get it right.

What do you disagree with exactly?

Re:Your ePub Is Fine. Kobo Disagrees. Blame Adobe on Monday June 15, 2026 @08:31AM (#48540313)
> > The Kobos don't limit what you can do with them either, you can sideload alternative e-reader software like KOReader that improves on the built-in reader functionality.

> This is patently false, the latest Kobo Libra Color is using secure boot which completely locks out custom development

Your "patently false" is not true. There are nuances here that you are glossing over or ignoring.

Yes, the Kobo Libra Color uses secure boot.

But, you can still get root and install KOReader on it.

What is "custom development" if you mean "boot my own operating system" because, then yes. But the 90+% of the Kobo hacking community has never meant that.

For most folks in the community "custom development" means being able to install/side-load applications like Plato and KOReader alongside the existing Kobo/Nickel software.

Yea, I agree it sucks that the new Kobo uses secureboot, but it was never an open development platform. I feel for the quill-os folks, that sucks. I'm glad they found a home with the PN as they won't get a rugpull.

But the Kobo is still a system where you can trivially get root on it without having to jailbreak or otherwise exploit a vulnerability.

And +1 for the xteink x4 (though if you're rabidly against manufactures locking down their devices, you should look at the recent xteink developments where they are only releasing unlocked devices to the western market.)

Re:Your ePub Is Fine. Kobo Disagrees. Blame Adobe on Monday June 15, 2026 @01:33AM (#48536997)
Yes, it is widely known in the epub space that targeting 3.1 or 2 is the more sane option.

With EPUB compatibility issues CSS should always be suspect number 1. Using "modern" CSS features and complaining about missing flex boxz grid, etc is a web developer's mindset.

Just because EPUB shares some of the stack with the web doesn't mean they perfectly overlap (or even should).

Hardly any e-ink embedded e-reader devices use a browser for rendering, they all use purpose built HTML/CSS parsing and rendering toolchains, are baked into firmware and updated once in a blue moon. (If you're interested look at koreader's crengine or Crosspoint reader which runs on an ESP32!)

The blog post reeks of overly confident AI prose. But don't be fooled.

But a message about your Door dasher also likely wouldn't be justified.
That is false for AWS. There are no spending limits that stop usage and cost after some threshold.
Re:OpenAI to acquire Ona to expand Codex on Thursday June 11, 2026 @05:02PM (#48496369)
Ona used to be GitPod. They renamed about 9 months ago. Looks like the AI pivot paid off! Congrats.
Re:Why Janet? (2023) on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @01:44PM (#48373559)
Have you tried jeep?

https://github.com/pyrmont/jeep/

It let's you vendor deps and easily install modern Janet bundles without jpm.

Re:Why Janet? (2023) on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @06:42AM (#48368444)
Always nice to see janet getting some attention.

shout out to one modern feature: sandbox

"Disable feature sets to prevent the interpreter from using certain system resources. Once a feature is disabled, there is no way to re-enable it."

https://janet-lang.org/api/misc.html#sandbox

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