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I tried to switch to nushell full-time but couldn't stick with it. Ironically, the main friction point were not old-fashioned tools (which `from ssv` usually handled nicely) but th…

It doesn't stop Android Auto from doing whatever with the car data, but it's sandboxed to have no more default privileges than a regular app, so it can be denied access to your pho…

> Beyond that, this is a laptop that is running a really shitty, 'apps only, no you cannot do anything useful with this' operating system. I have an awful lot of complaints about M…

> It’s such an annoying question because the honest answer is I eat what the locals eat, which is to say the most authentic Japanese cuisine is what you find in a Japanese supermar…

> so something that 95% of the users of Zed will end up doing? Will they? I downloaded it for a test run, and there was no pressure to create a Zed account. I got the impression th…

By "release infrastructure" I didn't mean gain admin access to github.com, I meant gaining the credentials to push out a release of that particular package.

That's correct. In practice we would often rephrase to avoid the double 'la', not because it's grammatically incorrect but because it is awkward to read (less so in speech). Compar…

The cooldown is a defence against malicious actors compromising the release infrastructure. Having the forge control it half-defeats the point; the attackers who gained permission …

Even in that scenario, having the duress pin option does not make things worse. It's functionally equivalent to smashing the phone, just easier to do with one hand. i.e. whatever t…

> Other Email providers such as Tuta which also offer encrypted emails, were forced to install a backdoor. As soon as the police arrive, every future email sent to the account in q…

The enforcement isn't the issue, it's the scarcity.

Often it's to acquire the founders' knowledge and/or IP. But Gastown is MIT licensed, and Yegge is bragging about never having looked at the code at all.

> I always wonder why people bother with providing source under a source available license. [..] There's little to no benefit to outside users. Any work they do on the code is effe…

> same crime as sellers of 'light' products which replace nutritious ingredients with water or air The analogy, in this case, would be replacing NON-nutritious ingredients with wat…

There's nothing any UniversalBlue image tweaks that you couldn't tweak yourself. It's just adding/removing packages, adding/removing drivers, a few configuration scripts, and a bun…

I want to bear witness that I did exactly that when I downmoted one of my computers from 'gaming machine' to 'closet server'. One `rpm-ostree rebase` from Bazzite to a server-orien…

It was a theoretical question. It's not the first time I hear the complaint '$previous_dev left a bunch of unmaintainable macro tricks in a C codebase' and I thought, since those m…

Layman question: say you have a C codebase with a bunch of preprocessor macros and you want to get rid of a particular one that's too clever, and assume no other macros depend on i…

One quick improvement would be to style the number boxes to include decimal separators. For a few answers I was squinting to check if I had typed six or seven zeroes, for example.

They work perfectly fine side-by-side, too.

Austria has 9 million people. Scaled up in proportion to US population, that's the equivalent of ~940 academics. Still not huge, but a somewhat bigger drop.

What if the bank abstained from evaluating your own stuff, and instead provided you with whatever they consider a 'good' device? Like a powered-up version of the TOTP hardware toke…

Umberto Eco once jokingly lamented the deprecation of the Index, writing that it was a "very handy canon of books one ought to read to call oneself an educated person".

I'm sure you just linked the first google result you found, and it's not like the internet wasn't full of crappy 'quote' websites in the halcyon days of 2021, but it's incredibly d…