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dale_huevo

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About dale_huevo

Rate-limited account and comments down-weighted because I pissed off the mods.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #45017409

    >it benefits the wealthy that have investments in the tariffed industry If only they invested in venture-backed mass surveillance apps instead

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    Comment #44539565

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    Comment #44464840

    Might I suggest working on chronic pain?

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    Comment #44458073

    I disagree, it's an extremely myopic understanding of the world likely perpetuated by a sheltered Silicon Valley cabal. There are millions of non-technical people with jobs, where …

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    Comment #44457991

    This is peak HN. You behave like a douche then appeal to decorum and cry about the rules when called out about it. > No one says the plethora of email client choices is confusing. …

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    Comment #44457974

    > the streamlined solution for the non technical person is that they just have their phone and it has the passkey So no one uses desktop or laptop computers anymore? Who made that …

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    Comment #44453048

    Uh I know what KeePass is and how it works. The proposed "smooth" solution is - at best - clunky and inconvenient. You've missed the forest for the trees. > You don't understand Ke…

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    Comment #44452881

    So you need three different applications and manually moving around files to achieve a "relatively smooth" experience? I don't think this is the endorsement you think it is.

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    Comment #44452852

    The downfall of passkeys is that - as was inevitable - they are horrifyingly implemented webshit. For example, nearly every visit to my Amazon orders page I am now greeted with a n…

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    Comment #44373345

    If you think HTTPS is performing code validation I have news for you. HTTPS only guarantees the packets containing the unverified malicious code are not tampered with from the serv…

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    Comment #44373306

    winget is just Windows developers' version of curl | bash . Yet another example of Microsoft copying Linux features.

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    Comment #44371116

    yes, fuel contamination (with effluent probably) is still very much in play as a possible factor. unfortunately, there has been a lot of typical misdirection and wild statements ou…

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    Comment #44368054

    You don't think the proliferation of inexpensive dogshit IoT products from the Far East, running already-10-years-out-of-date versions of Linux (bonus if it has a hidden Telnet dae…

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    Comment #44362195

    Given the events of the last few days, it's possible the United States Government - who just dropped massive weaponry onto a target the size of a dishwasher from halfway across the…

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    Comment #44349327

    Yes, and they're almost exclusively used by the worst type of vindictive chickenshit humans imaginable. I've known people affected by this, whose evil neighbors used 311 as a weapo…

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    Comment #44349289

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    Comment #44349222

    > Decentralizing traffic enforcement is a win-win Win-win for who exactly? Maybe we need to decentralize and AI-accelerate construction permit reporting too. Your backyard fence lo…

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    Comment #44349183

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    Comment #44348882

    Maybe the commercial driver has asthma too and needs to run the AC.

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    Comment #44325542

    Linux would have had strlcpy/strlcat 25 years ago but the glibc maintainer was famously being a giant chode and refused to allow "horribly inefficient BSD crap" into his precious c…

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    Comment #44321682

    It's even more damning when you realize the Windows stage 1 installation process is essentially unchanged since Vista. The Linux people had nearly 20 years to straighten this out. …

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    Comment #44312588

    > It really doesn't seem like you're trying to engage constructively here. So I'm not allowed to disagree? For the record: I think the Framework laptop, while a noble cause, is a f…

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    Comment #44312199

    But are you really going to repair it? Or, upon spilling the juice, realize you can get a Surface Go on sale at Walmart (which this seems to be a clone of) for a bit more than a re…