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Does this actually work? I would think it will be out of date by at least weeks, and I'd be surprised if their crawlers actually iterate through every issue page.

I don't agree with your conclusion, but just wanted to say the segment on "roast nothing" was hilarious and absolutely true. Quite right that many cuisines depend on meat to be wor…

This is my experience as well. If you want it to write good tests, you have to take a much more involved approach of first making it establish what needs testing in each module, wr…

I understand your concern, though your suspicion is a little shortsighted. It can be personally dangerous to volunteer for projects that directly circumvent the control of the esta…

I mean, I talk like this as well. It's not really intentional. My interests influence the language that I use. Why is the rationalist movement asinine? I don't know much about it b…

Can you explain the subtext here?

Many Android devices are unlockable, you can run your own software, and yet we still have a problem. This problem exists irrespective of what you can technically do with the hardwa…

AI coding is in many ways antithetical to great software engineering. It is the current spear-edge of the investor pressure to ship products faster, and monetize users more aggress…

Yes, with major tradeoffs. Asahi Linux is an amazing project, but they have not yet figured out how to get anywhere close to a Mac's power efficiency when it is running MacOS. For …

Note, GrapheneOS seems to have been able to secure partner access to Android early security releases, but this comes with the cost that the source used to make these special "01" b…

I imagine so. I understand that Opera GX, for example, provides a specialized version to Russian IPs that locks down the search engines that can be used.

Can you provide more context on this?

As I understand it, it's just a nostr client, so it uses nostr's decentralized network of relays.

When trying to login via GitHub, I was redirected to " https://wakana.io/login?error=An+unexpected+error+occurred+w... ", without an error message being displayed.

Well, rewriting entire features without tact can be a little toxic in collaborative environments. There may be good reasons for the design that does already exist, and those reason…

> Seriously. Stop using LLMs to "help" you do stuff you already know how to do. Why?

It's also understandable why services opt to use a Cloudflare proxy, what with the growing threat that is DDoS attacks from large botnets. I feel we should build an extension to HT…

Why bother? They can just visit Cloudflare HQ, who already proxy 19.3%[1] of the internet. AFAICT, all https traffic proxied by them is accessible to them in plaintext. Of course, …

Isn't it self evident that this person has principles if they have left their job over it? Does Visa Insights save lives?

I would implore that you just write a blog post or two (or three) instead, but it is your choice of course.

I can't even find the price anywhere. Do you have to install the software to see it?

How do we actually beat this narrative? I've been proposing a E2EE-based chat application to my friend, and they asked me a similar question: won't it just be rife with pedophiles?…

If Signal can do it, then why doesn't Apple make a stand?

Have you tried the AI intellisense models like Copilot? I don't understand the notion that it is faster to generate repetitive code with keyboard macros. I use Vim-mode exclusively…

Well, I notice there is a lot of pressure in organizations for individual developers to start making use of these tools. I was already using AI extensively before my company picked…