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Re:You need a webring on Monday July 06, 2026 @12:38AM (#48800697)
Thanks that helped me find them - my bad.
Re:You need a webring on Sunday July 05, 2026 @09:33PM (#48799769)
I followed the web ring on the home page and the first person didn't continue the ring (they had no link to next) and the second webring only contained one other site. Pretty disappointing introduction to something I "need".
They've had people in their corner who've overturned state law. There are federal lawsuits in progress.
These apps claim to let you turn your knowledge into money. What this means is the insiders get to cash out and the desperate suckers provide the liquidity. I'm amazed they've all gotten away with this for so long.
Re:I'm Not Consulting an LLM on Sunday March 08, 2026 @06:31AM (#47296178)
This tech isn't going away anytime soon. It might become prohibitively expensive for individuals but it's here to stay. It's worth trying to find a use for it while it's cheap.
Re:Put the zip code first on Saturday March 07, 2026 @06:48PM (#47292678)
It doesn't take long to type your address. Plus password managers or keyboards often auto fill it. It's not that deep.
Re:Be Wary of Bluesky on Friday February 20, 2026 @09:49PM (#47096999)
I can't imagine a world where a p2p social network is practical. Not when each node is an unreliable mobile phone that's maybe on cellular. Even with something like ipfs you have pinning services, bittorrent has seed boxes, because pure p2p is impractical.
Re:Chrome extensions spying on 37M users' browsing data on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @07:25AM (#46974087)
Browsers break backwards compatibility for security all the time. Most recently Chrome made accessing devices on a local network require a permission. They completely changed the behavior of cookies. They break loads of things for cross origin isolation.
Re:Maybe the default settings are too high on Thursday December 25, 2025 @09:27PM (#46388665)
They moved the tents.
How do you collaborate with the other meeting participants? You all ssh into the one machine?
Re:I'm Archiving Picocrypt on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @03:30AM (#44808835)
bing it
The sever should cancel the request handler when the client drops. Otherwise you're just opening up to accidental DOS.
Re:Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share in USA on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @10:04AM (#44582543)
The article talks about browsers that use Linux in the user agent. This includes Alpine Linux - which is not GNU/Linux. It also splits out Chrome OS which is pretty much GNU/Linux.
I think learning how to unlearn is part of it. You'll often encounter music that is fingered unintuitively when learning increasingly difficult pieces. Plus if you're able to play legato at 100% speed guitar hero style you've probably discovered a mostly correct fingering anyway.
It's the rejection of pseudoscience.
Wow this is amazing.
There's always another log that could have been key to getting to the bottom of an incident. It's impossible to know completely what will be useful in advance.
Re:So Long, Figma. Thanks for Everything on Monday June 09, 2025 @08:21AM (#44223740)
Since most authors are probably 40+ your link seems to corroborate the above comment.
Re:Reverse engineering Claude Code (April 2025) on Sunday June 08, 2025 @05:47AM (#44215869)
Cursor has basically run into this exact thing. It figured out it can read .env files by running other tools despite the file being "blocked": https://github.com/getcursor/cursor/issues/2546
Re:parrot.live on Thursday June 05, 2025 @07:38AM (#44190605)
Curl just downloads the http response and prints it to the terminal. The sever streams the response and yields a frame of the video every 70ms or so. It sends control characters in the response to clear the terminal and change the color.
Re:Hotspot: Linux `perf` GUI for performance analysis on Thursday May 22, 2025 @07:04AM (#44060840)
I just assumed they used the same gui toolkit. Awesome to hear they're from the same author.
Re:Instagram Addiction on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @10:55PM (#44047869)
Do you believe in gambling addiction? Behavioral addictions are medically recognized. No need to be so pedantic.
Re:I Tried Windows Gaming on a Mac and It's Amazing on Saturday April 26, 2025 @08:57PM (#43808561)
> 95% of the Wine code base we develop for CrossOver gets released back into the Wine project for the open source community

nice

Re:Find the Odd Disk on Monday April 21, 2025 @04:25AM (#43749540)
Towards the end the disk I was looking at would change color and become brighter than the others. I didn't notice until I focused on each one at a time and the "different" one became the one I was looking at.
Re:I Analyzed Chord Progressions in 680k Songs on Thursday April 17, 2025 @08:49PM (#43723821)
Does this take into account capo position? A G is easy to play so authors might use G to play a Bb for example with a capo to avoid barre chords. Likewise authors will choose simpler chord substitutes to make it easier to play.

It's the same with lead sheets / the real book style music books. Performing musicians need to reproduce music quickly so only the triad will be written down even if the musician ends up playing some other extensions.

The data is heavily biased towards simplicity. You can make conclusions about the data - but not music as a whole.

Re:I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad on Thursday April 03, 2025 @12:34AM (#43564782)
I got an x220 jumping onto the hype but it was too small and too slow to use. Even though I'd maxed out the RAM, replaced the solder paste and was running a lightweight i3 environment.

I've only ever personally owned second hand Thinkpads and they're so great. But you should get the newest, reasonably priced one you can. There are so many affordable T480s/T470s out there or even the newer T14 models. They're still very serviceable and many still allow expansion with unsoldered RAM.

Re:Checkers written in Rust and exported to WASM on Monday March 17, 2025 @02:31AM (#43385697)
I was about to comment saying it was broken and forces you to jump. But it turns out I've just been playing checkers wrong my whole life.
Re:I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS–and You Should Too on Thursday January 16, 2025 @04:28PM (#42731120)
redlib supports rss feeds and is a much better ad-free, tracker-free, distraction-free frontend for reddit
Re:Ghostty 1.0 on Thursday December 26, 2024 @05:55PM (#42518507)
of course not
Re:Stephen King to shut down his 3 radio stations in Maine on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @03:42PM (#42311116)
Are you not describing the current talkback radio experience?

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