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nikisweeting
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About nikisweeting
Browsers, internet archiving, full-stack Python/TS, devops/networking/security, motorbiking/cycling
https://blog.sweeting.me
https://github.com/pirate
https://twitter.com/theSquashSH
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Comment #48960025
and the US famously never subsidizes any of its industries...
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Comment #48926673
If you want an $18 DIY / open hardware version of this using an LED cube off amazon & WLED, here you go: https://github.com/pirate/led-cube-agent-monitor
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Comment #48881839
Strong disagree, I use tools like DeepWiki, Mintlify, Cubic daily to analyze complex codebases. Their diagrams on PRs and generated docs have made it much easier to quickly drop in…
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Comment #48547983
I have never seen anyone pull off seccomp nested sandboxing of Chrome in Docker before, if you manage to figure it out please let me know!
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Comment #48534934
Singlefile supports scoped recursive crawls too: https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/single-file-cli#:~:text=an... I highly recommend reading the singlefile source or https://archive…
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Comment #48534865
Docker is designed to be undetectable by default, the best way I have found is to set env IN_DOCKER=True manually in your Dockerfile + check that there is no $DISPLAY configured + …
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Comment #48533661
https://github.com/archiveteam/grab-site or browsertrix may be easier to use for some, it's what was used to save a lot of the data.gov stuff before it got taken down.
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Comment #48533656
--no-sandbox is needed in docker, maybe they assume it will mostly run in docker?
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Comment #48481036
I just added this to Lima recently, hopefully the macOS container machines support it too: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/pull/4866
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Comment #48467580
Very curious if they're implementing browser driving themselves or using an off-the-shelf library like stagehand, browser-use, etc. to drive the DOM. Hopefully they open source it …
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Comment #48403420
Sending 5 marketing emails with no unsubscribe link is not "operating in good faith", that's a blatant CAN-SPAM violation and could be used in a textbook explaining UX dark pattern…
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Comment #48395176
I don't care what country they are from if after 15 years they cant figure out how to make a camera that doesn't reset its clock every time you recharge it.
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Comment #48389692
Good riddance, GoPro squandered their market lead for many years and shipped bafflingly mediocre software that seemed to add more bugs with every generation. I hope Insta360, DJI, …
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Comment #48214892
Has anyone made something like this for jazz, classical, or hip-hop? The closest I know of are: - https://www.music-map.com/ - https://everynoise.com/ - https://chartmetric.com/ - …
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Comment #48214568
Historically tracking "which tab is in the foreground" has been impossible via CDP. Libraries like Playwright and even Google's own puppeteer resorted to hacks like forcing users t…
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Comment #48102332
Nice, I've been trying to learn assembly myself recently and built a little REPL to play around with it directly https://github.com/pirate/assembly-repl But I've struggled with the…
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Comment #48051313
Or even better: https://zfsbootmenu.org/
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Comment #47979447
Oh nice, I just implemented something like this for installing from any package manager uv-style https://abxpkg.archivebox.io/ , but I haven't added a "search" command yet, I shoul…
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Comment #47772455
I've been excitedly following the development of Plain for a while now, it's so cool to see so many of the rough edges in Django get fixed in a nice comprehensive solution. Great j…
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Comment #47734800
You're off by at least 3 orders of magnitude, anodization is like 1,000x~5,000x thicker (5~25µm) than the natural oxide coating (~5nm).
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Comment #47734792
Yes but anodization implies thickness around ~5–25 micrometers (µm) for aluminum. The natural oxide coating is ~2-5 nano meters (1,000–5,000× less thick).
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Comment #47724773
gotta add vector search! that's the main benefit of these tools imo I want to be able to search abstract concepts like "package" or "download" or "jazz" and see everything vaguely …