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Yes, although resources might be a better word than tools in that case. If I'm at the library and I'm asking the librarian to help me locate some information, they are definitely a…

The author is making the same mistake that they're claiming other news outlets have made. They're placing too much responsibility on the AI chatbot rather than the end-user. The pr…

This is why I dislike the word "hallucination" when AI outputs something strange. It anthropomorphizes the program. It's not a hallucination. It's an error.

Use pkill.

I hope you cut that client lose. If they'll do something like that on the POC they'll do it on the big contract and in numerous other ways. You'll have to double-check everything w…

Google Maps was also an acquisition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Maps#Acquisitions

I feel that we've done ourselves a disservice by referring to them as ad blockers rather than content blockers or, better yet, virus blockers. With malicious ads being the primary …

> The ZFS on Linux project gets around this restriction by running ZFS in user space ZFS on Linux is a kernel module. You may be thinking of ZFS-FUSE which runs in user space using…

Yes, it's normal. Just people scanning for SSH ports to attack. What I did was take the IANA IPv4 address space list[1] and add firewall rules to drop packets to port 22 coming fro…

I appreciate all you do as a moderator to fend off obvious trolls and griefers. I'm sure it must be a thankless job. However, I feel that your comment is not helpful or constructiv…

Please forgive the off topic question, but why is your user name on hacker news shown in color? I've never seen that before.

Sure it is. Quiesce your application, take a snapshot, then resume application. Then you can back up the snapshot. The alternative can be a lengthy downtime for your application.

Are hardware RNGs, such as the ones that plug into a USB port, of any value when the RNG in Linux is good enough for generating GPG keys? I'm wondering what the use case is for peo…

Instagram is another site with this problem. Someone supplied my email address when creating an account in late 2018. I only know this because I started receiving emails to confirm…

They aren't that great for books anymore, either. They've starting shipping books in a padded envelope that don't do much to protect the book. I've ordered a number of books that h…

> Is it worthwhile to 'counterfeit' cat food? Let me direct you to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal . If people are willing to poison milk with melanine to m…

This has changed. It's hard to tell they're fake. For example, each reload of https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ produces a new computer-generated image of a person.

I suspect that someone, or a group of people, will step up to unofficially maintain Python 2 for the foreseeable future. It's clear that there are a lot of people using it that eit…

My employer has Chrome configured to prevent installation of extensions.

I look forward to the day that society treats combating noise pollution with the same level of seriousness as combating other types of pollution. It appears that day is still far o…

Then the people that downvoted should provide a correction. I still don't know what IC is supposed to stand for. I'm assuming it's not integrated circuit which is what I think abou…

That web page's color choices have made it very difficult to read. I don't know who thought putting light grey text on white was a good idea. I had to copy and paste the text to a …

This reminds me of ClusterSSH, although I think I would rather use ClusterSSH since it will tile a bunch of xterms across all of my monitors and let me point to click to address ju…

Wait, what? There are ads in the OS? That's insane.

ABCs? I don't understand. What does that mean?