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Even after the owner has realized the attack and revoked the token, there’s next steps (alerting the community, pulling from NPM) that causing havoc delays even by just a bit.

While not directly mentioned in this article, guix pack[1] allows you to distribute your software in multiple formats, including Docker images. The general philosophy of Guix is to…

I mean, it's certainly not as seamless as an open x86 machine, but if you have an Air already you can always try Linux on it? The Fedora Asahi spin [1] supports pretty much everyth…

I'm...rather confused why the results here are surprising. The title and first paragraph are suggestive of unusual data like analytics or sending all your codebase, but it's just s…

Youch. I knew the rates of people criticizing-by-headline could be bad, but this one is rough. Y'all, please actually read the homepage before dunking on someone's project...

Dang, everything about this feels really well considered. Semi-throwaway, nearly bare-metal machines that I can put on the internet with basically 0 config? I'll take

Silverbullet is a PWA that downloads all your notes and then operates on them locally, so that slow initial load happens fairly infrequently.

Wow, this is embarrassing. Hard to read.

> But since it is a electron app, it will always contact Google everytime you open the app Do you have a source for this? I couldn't find anything about this, and I find it strange…

Huh, TIL. Thanks.

> I think that shows what the target audience is. I think most people wouldn’t know what to do with that prompt, other than immediately discard it. That's a fair complaint, and I'm…

> I think after Windows 7 the processes are grouped per application in Task Manager. We’re all grumpy about the redesigns of things we are familiar with, but little UX improvements…

I worked on Haiku this summer as part of Google summer of code, and it just made me wish their attitude towards user experience was more prevalent in mainstream OSs. It's little th…