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This will resonate with anyone who operates a public-facing website and doesn't work at a big tech company. In the past few years I have also been down this exact same road. I'm de…

Any reason you don't use `pinentry-gnome3` from the `pinentry` package? Your wrapper is clever but doesn't work with gpg-agent.

Oh this is hard to read. Foxboron was a massively positive force for Arch Linux and the Linux ecosystem in general! I discovered his ssh-tpm-agent https://github.com/Foxboron/ssh-t…

I've never heard of that Superset . I've used the Apache business analytics one though: https://github.com/apache/superset . Unfortunate name collision...

I came to say something similar. On mobile it looks really nice and matches the highlights elsewhere. Cool subtle visual effect.

Sadly, go-away https://git.gammaspectra.live/git/go-away doesn't seem to be maintained anymore.

This is really cool. We have them in Kenya too. https://www.colobusconservation.org/how-to-build-a-colobridg...

I think it's cool. Having lived in Jordan for a while I see there are some missing castles there. I will look into adding them in Wikidata.

Awesome! JPEG-XL support is here. I enabled it via the new "Firefox Labs" section in the settings, then tested on https://jpegxl.info/resources/jpeg-xl-test-page.html without a res…

The excessive scraping and ignoring robots.txt only breaks the informal social contract established over the past decades of the open internet. The real problem is the companies of…

Reminds me of Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath .

In season 1 episode 2 of The Audacity JoAnne tells Duncan that "information is not insight" and that's a similar argument to this.

I was reminded of this hilarious skit about English sports. https://youtu.be/E_6d3JBBo4s

In web Outlook I *very" often begin typing as some element is loading a popover and end up hitting some key that archives the message and leaves me scrambling to click Undo. I gues…

Ah interesting. They use the "FUTO source first" license. https://github.com/futo-org/android-keyboard/blob/master/LIC... Open source with limitations on commercial use.

What are "guardrails" in an LLM? Is it part of the system prompt, like a long list of "if the user asks about xxxx, xxxx, or xxxx, tell them xxxx"? On a related note, I don't use L…

Strictly commenting on the license: it's my understanding that, if an LLM like Claude wrote it, it's not copyrightable. Isn't that the consensus these days?

Yes, and there was a good post about exactly this social contract last week https://jola.dev/posts/the-social-contract-of-writing . I find the argument compelling on the face of it…

I wasn't familiar with the Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP). Apparently they were acquired by Morningstar in February 2026. I also found this press release from Vangua…

Last year a non-technical friend sent me a YouTube video about a niche history topic that we had been discussing. I was surprised because there wasn't much information online. The …

You could scrobble to Last.fm or ListenBrainz to track your personal library listens.

> Celebrated designer Clint Hocking – him wot worked on Far Cry 2, Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, Watch Dogs Legion, and the forthcoming Assassin's Creed Codename Hexe Is this "him w…

> Manually edit pyproject.toml to add upper bounds for every single dependency. Hah! I thought I was the only one. Still very happy with uv though.

Another vote for pass. I've been using it for ten years with a git repository. I sync to all my machines and use https://github.com/agrahn/Android-Password-Store on Android. Not a …

Brilliant! I hate it. The author will surely admit that there was "joy" in creating this suite of software, but it's a different kind of joy than most of us here would recognize. I…