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Re:A Markdown File Should Just Open on Thursday October 22, 2026 @04:41AM (#50192826)
Obsidian is the exact "or build an entirely separate app" that they said. It's an app just for Markdown
Which is a very high value gift in our culture
Re:Mozilla Introduces Firefox Enterprise on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @10:38PM (#50081713)
Managing apps via group policy is painful
It's honestly horrifying how many website just don't bother.

Like w3, the makers of the web accessibility checklist have a flash-bang of a website and noone appears to have cared enough to fix it

Re:Drawably: Hand-Drawn UI Controls on Monday September 14, 2026 @10:25AM (#49697412)
Truthful descriptions of products are so last century
Because of weightings around other things you aren't going to get a 1:1 50% of input code used node so it uses node 50% of the time. There's enough randomness and other stolen content to (in theory) bias it towards weird outputs/choices
Re:The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @05:20AM (#49533811)
> The only thing that donation could pay for is marketing e.g. events and meetups.

You do realise there's an insanely large gap in-between "everyone is a volunteer" and "everyone is full-time staff", right?

Re:I Think the Military Commissary's Freezers Were Hacked on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @04:10AM (#49519342)
> it is a strong evidence that the freezer can be remotely controlled globally

As per the article that's literally a selling feature

Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub on Monday August 17, 2026 @10:39PM (#49340557)
GitHub Actions, GitHub Auth, any hard coded GitHub URLs you use, GitHub's nice REST API.

They do have a bunch of value adds, it just depends on which you use

Re:AI psychosis is the new leadership blind spot on Friday August 07, 2026 @10:00AM (#49210542)
C-suites barely had a grip on reality before AI came in and started yes and-ing everything :(

It's really going to be a top-down destruction of everything

Re:Hackers Stalked Me by Hijacking a Smartwatch for Kids on Friday August 07, 2026 @01:09AM (#49206086)
> Dump all safeguards and get any piece of crap out the door as soon as possible?

Very few companies seem to get into trouble for knowingly releasing products that are either faulty, insecure, or actively dangerous

Re:Advertise in ChatGPT on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @02:48AM (#49002733)
I'm on Android and honestly love how it looks, but you can blue-ify your links and change the line spacing if you want. Settings > Appearance > Custom CSS and you can do anything your heart desires.
Re:Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3 on Monday July 20, 2026 @04:16AM (#48975693)
PE was created in a time where phones were VERY unimpressive when it came to compute
Re:Lobste.rs is now running on SQLite on Saturday July 18, 2026 @03:01AM (#48955858)
Currentsite isn't as good as it was in pastdate, the grass is greener on othersite!
They don't need to actually filter/blackhole to have have the same virtual effect.

Show someone a list of resumes with an "applicant score*" and they'll naturally ignore the ones with a low ranking

*scores are generated with AI, mistakes may be made, use only as a guide and verify results

Re:There Are No Instances in ATProto on Saturday June 20, 2026 @04:44AM (#48607508)
The same reason that they don't do that for Email. It's a lot more complicated for little obvious gain
Re:There Are No Instances in ATProto on Friday June 19, 2026 @03:42PM (#48602419)
You're treating Mastodon as the protocol here, and sure it's a combined frontend/backend, and it is the most used one, but its just one implementation of the AP protocol. You can plug your favourite AP app/frontend into any Mastodon instance.
Re:Stop Ruining It on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @09:23AM (#48383689)
> some people are shockingly incurious and approach academia and life through a depressingly hollow transactional lens from the beginning

I feel like that's a result of prior bad experience. Noone goes into university, or even primary school a blank slate.

It's very easy to fall into a trap where education is transactional if that's what was modelled to you or that's how previous teachers treated you

Fascism is when seatbelts
> Why are you writing papers and not having actually read the source you took the material from?

They're explicitly not writing papers. The fake citations are created and inserted by the LLM

I think they're saying that frontier LLMs may be usable to spot citations that are correct by shape (a real citation) but incorrect by usage (unrelated to the text)

I kind of hate the idea, but you probably could do a lazy LLM check of every paper and every citation and have it flag possible wrong (second sense) citations for human review

But you'd need a LOT of tokens and a LOT of human-hours

Re:Claude for Small Business on Thursday May 14, 2026 @04:48AM (#48132721)
> those people don't have the kind of security hygiene instincts that make CC a sane choice for coders.

Coders don't all have those kind of security hygiene instincts either

Re:From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @08:06PM (#48043654)
There are few hard and fast rules, but "never use something that could change as a primary key" and "never roll your own Auth" will always be true
Re:Async Rust never left the MVP state on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @04:54AM (#48019782)
It'll depend immensely on what you're actually doing, but if it's simple enough you may be able to make a macro that subs out the types & awaits
Re:LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua on Sunday April 05, 2026 @04:00PM (#47653273)
It isn't web based? It's a set of Lua scripts that run locally
Re:Gone (Almost) Phishin' on Thursday April 02, 2026 @10:06AM (#47614681)
1Password has really been bugging me recently, all the emails they send have giant link buttons they want you to click without verifying where you're actually going
Re:Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @07:59PM (#47608274)
Our organic artisanal code is written by free-range developers
> So the stable state here is all humans eventually being locked out?

Yep. The most easy to implement stable state for any system where you're aiming to prevent misuse is to just prevent use

Re:Using Thunderbird for RSS on Saturday March 14, 2026 @06:02AM (#47375064)
IIRC Thunderbird is a fork of Firefox, so it can do all of the web things your heart desires
Re:Helix: A post-modern text editor on Saturday March 07, 2026 @02:12AM (#47285247)
My local build of helix is 20MB, did you use the suggested flags on the install guide page?

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