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Re:Apple introduces the new 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6 on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @03:50AM (#50270393)
How removable storage will protect you from burned down laptop? Do you plan to keep SSD in your pocket while you are sleeping?
Re:Are others seeing Google's ReCAPCHA rejecting Firefox users? on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @12:19PM (#49612484)
We were getting about few hundred spam registrations per day on one of our sites. With CF's captcha number drops to tens per day. I have no idea who and why make these registrations.
Re:France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @04:50AM (#49255095)
Article is not clear. Does this law blocks B2B calls? If so then it can cause damage to the business.
Re:Codex logging bug may write TBs to local SSDs on Monday June 22, 2026 @07:38AM (#48628809)
I have exactly the same problem with Time Machine spinner on macOS. It even doesn't rotate.

Somewhere should be rare specialists with diploma who are capable of fixing such problems with waiting lists for years ahead.

Pasteboard counter exists to help apps to not ask again about the same item in the buffer.

And nothing stops from using reset it every day.

Re:The only scalable delete in Postgres is DROP TABLE on Sunday June 14, 2026 @12:15PM (#48528919)
Deleting whole file is faster then deleting rows in file.
Re:LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs on Monday March 30, 2026 @12:28AM (#47570396)
If you don't have adv from platform itself it doesn't mean that site content is not flooded by endless spammers content. LinkedIn is great example where you have both.
Re:I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Handed Over on Sunday February 22, 2026 @08:34AM (#47110890)
Unfortunately true, but this time shady KYC is involved
Re:I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Handed Over on Saturday February 21, 2026 @08:12AM (#47100526)
More interesting that LinkedIn use fingerprinting everywhere and connect your personal data to every device you are using and connect to other services connected to their network.
Re:The End of Licenses on Friday February 13, 2026 @01:23PM (#47005911)
At work, I meet many people with similar experiences. But the number of people who are able to use new tools is gradually increasing. I myself spent many hours learning how to make my AI work and make workable code. Moreover, I treated it as something important and new. So much so that I began to view my own old code differently. Not as something with sentimental value. But at the same time, it can easily become obsolete in the face of new realities.

I don't mean to devalue your feelings about your code. But I myself I went through devaluing my own work. Perhaps people who did carpentry in the old days treated their tools with care, creating beautiful engravings for the hard-polished handles. But now you can saw a board with a power tool, and we have lost the culture of these craftsmen.

AI is changing the attitude toward code. It may sound painful, but the value of old work has diminished. On the other hand, the main goal of developers has not changed. We're still solving problems, not writing code for the sake of code.

Re:The End of Licenses on Friday February 13, 2026 @05:45AM (#47001267)
Honestly, I couldn't care less about the rights to my code in today's world. What you're describing probably really bothered me a couple of years ago. But today, I'm not even sure what programming language my next project will be in. Everything has changed so much and is changing so rapidly that perhaps in a couple of years, corporations will be worried about their huge and important products.

What if, in a couple of years, you can create your own Photoshop with video editing capabilities? Maybe that will be possible too.

Re:Publish (On Your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere on Saturday January 03, 2026 @11:53AM (#46478814)
For incoming traffic you can use ?from=rss or utm. To measure traffic to rss itself just parse server logs
Re:Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself? on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @05:40AM (#46300370)
Imagine you are in a marriage and your spouse say: "I can sleep with other people, doesn’t want to do that. It feels off-mission".

I don't understand context, but my honest reaction will be: "WTF, you just said? What type of relationship you think we have if we discuss such things?"

I definitely understand why people worry. This is just crazy to weight trust in money. If this is on the table and discussed internally, then what we are talking about?

'T' in Mozilla Firefox means 'Trust'.

Re:Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @03:48AM (#46299640)
We use Gitlab for CI/CD and tbh it is amazing. Simple, predictable, debuggable.
Re:iPhone Pocket: a beautiful way to wear and carry iPhone on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @10:02AM (#45888010)
Pffff... No AI? Who need it? Even my shower gel is AI already.
Re:Why We Migrated from Python to Node.js on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @05:01AM (#45809212)
Just simple arithmetics.
Does it conform Occam's razor rule to have something that can be easily done very similar way without changing language?
Re:Why We Migrated from Python to Node.js on Monday November 03, 2025 @12:23PM (#45801601)
So basically you just rewrote boilerplate code with complexity of "hello world" and deploy scripts. Without any dependencies, data migrations, real user data and downtime SLA. And after that you had time to write quite long article.

What honest reaction you expect from readers?

Re:Disqus Turned My Blog into an Ad Farm – So I Killed It on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @05:31AM (#45423582)
I blocked Disqus locally on my computer via /etc/hosts many years ago. Reason is very simply. Because comments as genre is almost useless.
Re:Auth.js Joining Better Auth on Saturday September 27, 2025 @08:07AM (#45395044)
Labuba driven development
Re:The YAML Document from Hell on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @06:57AM (#45345314)
This one is amazing, I almost pissed myself laughing reading it. So true about YAML. Another caveat is using --- as section separator in the file. It will starts new file inside your existing file.

Still love it.

To be honest, right now I'm thinking about isolating of build process for frontend on my local environment. It is seems not hard to send my local environment variables like OPENAI_API_KEY or .ssh/* to some remote machine.

I know it is not very different comparing to python or projects in any other language. But I don't feel that I cannot trust node/js community at this point.

Re:iPhone dumbphone on Monday September 08, 2025 @02:17PM (#45171829)
Wow! It is crazy how much money people will to pay for such problems.

I restrict myself from distractions by disabling hosts via custom rules in my nextdns account. It is enough and free.

Re:iPhone dumbphone on Monday September 08, 2025 @02:12PM (#45171770)
I think it only disable the icon, not underlying frameworks, etc
You still need pip-tools in uv environment
Seems like fixes after shift from destructive ideology. It never should appear in the first place.
Lucky developers who wrote these rules live in totality different world at far distance from people

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