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Re:Copy Fail – CVE-2026-31431 on Friday May 01, 2026 @01:43PM (#47977691)
No, it was fixed initially in 7.0, and the patch then applied to the 6.18 and 6.19 branches, fixing the existing bug in versions 6.18.22 and 6.19.12. The bug exists in 6.19.0 to 6.19.11, but not as a regression - those were all released before the bug was fixed.
Re:Git and Jujutsu: In Miniature on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @05:59AM (#42114500)
I've probably just learned to ignore a lot of that. Stash conflicts are annoying. And I have a long list of stashed changes that I should just purge at this point.

All the discussion here has me very interested to look at jj, though. Although most of my git interaction these days is through magit, and changing that will probably be hard.

Re:Git and Jujutsu: In Miniature on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @05:51AM (#42114451)
I'd be interested to know how it's burned you. I use stash a lot.
Re:ReiserFS and the Art and Artist Problem on Sunday November 10, 2024 @11:44AM (#42101101)
But if I recall, it was not named that by Linus, but by the FTP administrator, who didn't like the name Linus chose.
Re:Show HN: Learn Blender shortcuts with lots of tiny videos on Saturday August 17, 2024 @08:41AM (#41274144)
I turn off autoplay globally because it's been abused for so long by some news sites, for example, that autoplay a video and then pin it to follow you as you scroll the article.

I find any autoplay, even muted or no audio, to be more of a distraction then helpful in general.

That said, I'm happy to make exceptions for well designed and intentioned sites, and so have allowed it on yours.

Re:Show HN: Mazelit - My wife and I released our first game on Saturday April 13, 2024 @04:58AM (#40021624)
Congratulations on your launch!

I went to have a look and maybe wishlist it, but at that price it was an easy impulse to just buy with DLC to support you. Good luck with your future games.

Re:Atuin – Magical Shell History on Thursday February 22, 2024 @02:27AM (#39464227)
I had been using the history append for years before finding atuin a couple years ago. I still occassionally lost history through some combination of events I was never able to understand.

I've been using atuin happily for a few years now and it blows bash history out of the water.

Re:Gradle Still Sucks on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @07:51AM (#35712215)
> In other systems I could say “<tool name> create branch x from parent y”.

While the default of `git branch` is to branch from the commit you have checked out, the command does take an optional argument for the start point of the new branch:

  git branch <new-branch> [<start-point>]
or, to create and check out in one go

  git switch -c <new-branch> [<start-point>]
No need for phone number, they just give you a TOTP private key you can use in Google Authenticator or something like that.
Re:Add 10 GbE to your system with an M.2 2280 module on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @04:31AM (#29991594)
Are the ports in pairs at each location? Then it sounds like they did a Very Bad Thing and ran one cable per pair of ports; 100Mbps uses two pairs, so why use two cables when one cable has four pairs, right? :( I've seen that a lot in much older installations, but I'd expect better from 2015 construction.

I'm busy retrofitting Ethernet in my house by pulling cat6 through the walls and pulling out the old cat3 phone cabling. It's much harder work doing two cables (not least because none of the phone cables were in conduit, so it just starts off harder already) for each pair of ports, but it's very much worth the effort.

Re:German Court Rules Against Internet Security Non-Profit Quad9 on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @10:27AM (#29404590)
https://quad9.org/about/sponsors

> Quad9 is a not-for-profit organization whose operational budget comes entirely from sponsorships and donations.

Re:Firefox 91 on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @10:17AM (#28129167)
FF supports containers used by that extension natively; I think the extension basically adds some UI around it.
Re:The Itanic Has Sunk on Friday July 30, 2021 @06:46AM (#28006575)
I had a netburst P4 for a while.

MATLAB simulations were comically faster on my lower clocked Pentium M laptop.

Re:What mRNA is good for, and what it maybe isn’t on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @06:37AM (#27686963)
I think misrepresenting data that explicitly states it can not be used to make this conclusion, to come to this conclusion is not a fair point and works to propagate vaccine conspiracy theories. See my other reponse with details from VAERS about not using this data to directly determine vaccine cause of adverse effects.
Re:What mRNA is good for, and what it maybe isn’t on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @06:24AM (#27686875)
That data explicitly says it is not to be used directly for causal analysis of health effects after vaccination.

> What is VEARS? [0][1]

> VAERS is not designed to determine if a vaccine caused a health problem

> Limitations of VAERS: [2]

> * It is generally not possible to find out from VAERS data if a vaccine caused the adverse event

> Are all adverse events reported to VAERS caused by vaccines? [2]

> No. Some adverse events might be caused by vaccination and others might be coincidental and not related to vaccination. Just because an adverse event happened after a person received a vaccine does not mean the vaccine caused the adverse event.

> VAERS accepts reports of adverse events following vaccination without judging the cause or seriousness of the event. VAERS is not designed to determine if a vaccine caused an adverse event, but it is good at detecting unusual or unexpected patterns of reporting that might indicate possible safety problems that need a closer look.

[0] https://www.openvaers.com/f-a-q

[1] https://vaers.hhs.gov/about.html

[2] https://vaers.hhs.gov/faq.html

Re:Reddit’s disrespectful design on Saturday June 26, 2021 @06:32PM (#27646585)
I use a firefox extension called Redirector to regex-rewrite some URLs like this.
Re:NVMe is not a hard disk on Friday June 11, 2021 @03:41PM (#27477577)
Also, if I understand it correctly, there are a few other caveats with hot spares: It will only activate when another drive completely fails, so you can't decide to replace a drive when it's close to failure (probably not an issue in this case, though, with the unresponsive drive). Second, with the hot spare activated, the pool is still degraded, and the original drive still needs to be replaced; then the hot spare is removed from the vdev, and goes back to being a hot spare.

It's these reasons that I've decided to just keep a couple of cold spares ready that I can swap in to my system as needed, although I do have access to the NAS at any time. If I was remote like GP, I might decide to use a hot spare.

Re:Firefox Release 89.0 on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @01:32PM (#27358238)
"works" in quotes. Compact after an update I measured as a third taller than "normal" density before the update (100px vs 75px). I want maximum vertical space for the website, not for the browser UI. It's really not compact anymore.
Re:Signal outage is keeping messages from sending on Saturday January 16, 2021 @04:35PM (#25805730)
I use it without any trouble on Linux and Windows.
For all of this, I recently got a 21:9 display, and it is absolutely fantastic.
I would say it's less about the compute resources, and more about possibly needing a team dedicated to maintaining quite a lot of infrastructure to replace the features that GitHub has, which is far more extensive than just git hosting.
Re:Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @07:41AM (#24352247)
I'm still sitting on a GTX 970 and was waiting for the RTX 30 release so I could buy a used RTX 20 at under $500. This pricing means that it's worth it for me to just jump straight to the 30 series.
> > Disabled APIs for blocking ads? Check

> They didn't. uBlock Origin and adblocker extensions never stopped working.

That was probably this issue in the chromium tracker https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=896897...

I don't know what happened after that though; the conclusion of that issue (in Jan 2019) was "these changes are draft, and still being discussed".

At a guess, more demand for direct flights served by A350 and 787 and falling demand for hub-and-spoke flights served by A380.
Re:X on Thursday May 21, 2020 @01:30PM (#23261624)
I think there is a design issue in that language. X in a fixed width font should be a constant. X in a variable width font is a variable.
Re:GoPro cuts workforce, changes sales strategy on Thursday April 16, 2020 @02:27PM (#22892089)
I'm disappointed with the Hero 8 Black. I prefer my old Garmin Virb XE.

I guess this isn't all "ease of use" stuff, but I do think it's all more generally usability:

- The Virb XE has a much easier to find and actuate record switch (physical moving switch); the position of the switch will tell you if you're recording or not if you can't see the camera.

- The Virb XE waterproofing isn't compromized by connecting it to power; the GoPro battery door has to be removed/opened to connect to power.

- The GoPro won't let you connect a bluetooth headset/microphone, so you can't connect a mic and keep waterproofing.

Re:My experience with NixOS on Thursday April 16, 2020 @01:32PM (#22891648)
I tried that initially but never spent enough time using it in a VM to really learn it.

In the end, I just decided to take the plunge and set it up as my main OS after a year of procrastinating around trying it out. I've been using it for about 4 years now, and wouldn't go back to a traditional distro.

And finally, 4 years on, I just set up a new laptop and it was much easier than its ever been before. I just had to copy over my existing nix config, and nix built out the whole configuration and my user environment (with home-manager [0]). It's always been a bit of a pain setting up my profile before this, and maintaining my .emacs.d, etc; now it's all managed.

[0] https://github.com/rycee/home-manager

Re:Poor man's document camera for videoconference on Monday March 23, 2020 @05:01AM (#22662240)
When my phone was updated to Android 9, that toggle became force-portrait. If I enable it now, it immediately turns back to portrait and disables rotation.
Re:Firefox 74 on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @03:37PM (#22538778)
Temporary containers will do that https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...

All urls that are not "pinned" to a container open in a temporary container.

Re:Show HN: Linux driver for the Xbox One wireless dongle on Monday December 23, 2019 @09:19AM (#21863710)
At least the original xbox one controller used AA batteries by default, and had an optional accessory rechargeable battery pack to replace the AA batteries. Maybe the later models are different; I don't have an xbox anymore.

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