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I disagree. I personally consider these my biggest problems with the Web: - Bias, specifically commercial bias - Webpage formatting: every website looks different, hides the inform…

There is a well-reviewed study on this from 2004 - Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory[1] [1] https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/green-blackboa...

Linux DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer - Clouds(AWS, Azure, DigitalOcean, *), Kubernetes(OpenShift, EKS, k8s), CI/CD, Networking, programming, whatever. I'm currently a manager of a …

You’re not going to like this answer. But I think you’ve just described a Walmart Supercenter.

Oh man. I just assumed this was unchecked Microslop. It's funny when a brand doesn't realize how the public has started perceiving them and makes quite ironic choices that should h…

I think this is way too optimistic. I suspect these things will be only available to the already-quite-wealthy. While the poor (i.e., not billionaires) are left to rot and starve w…

May your wish be granted: https://www.amazon.com/GPD-Pocket-LPDDR5X-Bluetooth-Handheld... plus this: https://gpdstore.net/gpd-pocket-4-4g-lte-module/

Lenovo has whitelists for both wifi and cell cards. It's highly annoying. A decade ago, I had a Lenovo Yoga 2. The Wi-Fi card it came with only supported 802.11g, or something old …

That only works if the engines move the planet around the airplane.

Have some light reading: "required" spyware: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy/required-d... "optional" (but on by default) spyware: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-…

Fastmail is like $150 for 3 years. That's cheaper than I can rent any mail-capable VPS for, and it's cheaper than the electricity I'd pay (80W @ $0.15/kWh = $316 over 3 years) to s…

I ran my own self-hosted email server from 2008-ish to 2018, and I would highly recommend against doing it! Especially when Fastmail and Proton are so cheap. I was running Postfix+…

Reposted from HN user notacoward[1]: Entrepreneurship is like one of those carnival games where you throw darts or something. Middle class kids can afford one throw. Most miss. A f…

Yes, that is what they're referring to. The technical details behind it are kind of cool. It's a "bug" of the JBIG2 compression algorithm. See 1, 2 [1] https://community.apryse.com…

You know you can lie right? As far as openrouter knows my name is Bob Dole.

If you really want to do things manually, like telnet but with ssl, see OpenSSLs sclient: openssl s_client -connect my.mailserver.com:465

I use this in all the various little bash scripts I have running via timers. I love curl. local email_body=$(cat

You may enjoy this: Quake 3 Source Code Review: Network Model (Part 3 of 5) https://fabiensanglard.net/quake3/network.php

If you want Anthropic (or others) but anonymously, what you do is use https://openrouter.ai/pricing and fund your account from any of your preferred cryptos.

This is neat, and thank you for sharing! I've been wanting to set up something exactly like this for my own use, but... You know, time is limited. This is just enough scaffolding t…