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> I noticed that Whatsapp is even worse than Chrome, it opens HTT PS even if I share HTTP links. Firefox does this when I type in a URL and the server is down. I absolutely hate th…

Some motherboards only support firmware updates applied from Windows. In 2025, which is just crazy to me.

Ironically, this Google page itself fails to work without Javascript enabled!

> I applaud the author for trying. The underlying viewpoint is valid Is it valid? I’m not really convinced. I’m not particularly a fan of copyright to begin with, and this looks li…

Is the restriction on grantees not violating federal law a new one, or has it been around for ages?

Reaching out only to members of certain groups rather than others is still invidious discrimination. When based on characteristics like race, sex or national origin it is probably …

Regardless of what others do, the best thing to do is to choose the best license for one’s own software. One which preserves the freedom of one’s users and the openness of one’s co…

> I have never once thought Visual Studio needs some way to edit its own source code on the fly... whats [sic] the actual use case? Writing Visual Studio, for example. Debugging Vi…

> with your logic, you can take the lisp interpreter out of emacs, stick it into say mspaint, and have an equally powerful program. Yes, that would be pretty awesome. The GIMP trie…

> direnv does exactly what you describe (and a lot more) using flake.nix Direnv is awesome! Note, thought, that it does not depend on Nix, just a Unix-like OS and a supported shell…

I recommend direnv for that: https://direnv.net/ Its intended use case is loading environment variables (you could use this to load your virtualenv), but it works by sourcing a scr…

Doh, I missed the secondary sort. Were I trying to optimise this, I would test to see if a hash table of alphabetical characters is better, or just checking (or (and (char>= c #\A)…

He’s also saying that Magit is so good that he doesn’t recognise the complaints which motivate some people to switch from Git to Jujutsu. FWIW, I agree. Jujutsu seems fine, but Mag…

> splitting a line into words is a whole project on its own Is it[1]? My version below accumulates alphabetical characters until it encounters a non-alphabetical one, then incremen…

Everybody wants to charge as much as he can. Workers do the same: we all want to charge as much for our labour as possible. Unions do the same thing too. Everyone also wants to pay…

If customers keep trying to do something … let them do it? Charge them to do it? It’s crazy to me: folks quite clearly want to run Windows 11 without an account. What is it worth t…

Sure, but those are not backwards-compatible. If Wayland let me run my existing window manager then I would be glad to try it out.

> Life-or-death care almost certainly needs to be a government-run, single-payer system. > If giving another kid their cancer meds means one less gold-leaf-covered item in the pres…

An issue with his remote setup is that the remote VPS decrypts packets from the remote laptop, then re-encrypts them for the LAN — this means that the remote VPS can see the plaint…

Nope, while it is possible to run normal X11 apps under Wayland, there is no support for running X11 window managers. Which is a damn shame, because window managers are where some …

Were there photos? All I saw was a few paragraphs of text.

> mdadm+luks+lvm still do not quite provide the same set of features that ZFS alone does even without encryption. Namely in-line compression, and data checksumming, not to mention …

Local Org mode, local LLM, all orchestrated with Emacs, all free software. If only I were retired and had infinite time!

Of course, adjusted for inflation the dollar has done much, much worse than gold! Not that one should put all of one’s portfolio into gold. That would be pretty insane. But a certa…