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It hurts reading this after just realizing that I can't unlock my Samsung S24's bootloader anymore (to take control of my phone), because Samsung has decided to erase that feature …

I have a Cisco MR18 router that bridges my LAN to my remote NAS. It would have become e-waste if not for OpenWrt. When I was visiting my mom a few years back in my hometown, I conv…

I have started to think of engineers who have entirely replaced their critical thought processes with AI agents, AI proxies.

haha, yes, that was a good laugh :)

Reminded me of The Tao of Programming [1]. Fantastic little read that brightened my morning (during a boring meeting). [1]: https://www.mit.edu/~xela/tao.html

That reply was educational indeed. Thanks for sharing.

Writing this in GrapheneOS where Google Play and Services run just like another app in a sandbox. Moreover, there is a network access permission that allows you to block any app fr…

Malicious actors would always find them. Hiding information just creates a false sense of safety among public, which benefits politicians mostly.

Can't you simply make a PR against the other PR's branch?

> It’s an itch – a feeling that something is really important, and you need to do something about it, and nobody else can possibly do it except you. Might be difficult to believe, …

To add to what others have said, I would ask every person in my team what's the most important think I need to know.

I'm running my website with Jekyll for around a decade. Interestingly I use sqlite for comments submitted to the server (cgi-bin, mind you) and populate the pages during build. You…

Filter this page [1] for newly created profiles and see how it grows in realtime. https://firesky.tv/

Well, I recently used it in a small PostgREST-subset query builder I wrote in case the query builder received an input more complicated that what it could handle. I found 418 a nat…

FWIW, one python project I'm working on uses an obscure Framework, and ORM. I was contemplating to convert it to FastAPI+Pydantic, however the amount of effort needed was no differ…

This was literally among the best comments I've read today and I couldn't stop laughing out loud.

Can only second you. His style is by far my most favorite among all other technical authors. And thanks for the reminder, time to get another one of his books.

I wish we had all these goodies in default linux console (I know about and try to use kmscon sometimes...)

I can only second this comment. I discovered it a while back and it has been a pleasant experience ever since. I still use both though, depending on availibility.

It's a common scenario. Bars, coffee shops, trains, universities, etc. all offer free public wifi with DHCP outside your control.

Just use your home folder as a git repo, rename .git, create alias "githome" to git cli pointing to that directory and viola, you have all you need.

Lennart's toots suggest they are replacing a complex SUID binary with an already existing component (systemd-run) with better workflow (service manager handling the elevated contex…

If you haven't watched the short clip on the article, do it right now!

One side effect of such bans is that when something stops working in Iran, you can't easily figure out whether it is blocked by the operators inside the country, or by the operator…