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The only time mine were ever connected to the internet was to update the software, and for that the easiest thing I thought was to host a temporary wifi hotspot (using a phone).

I've made a point of always installing software via the package manager. That means making my own PKGBUILDs if there's not already good ones available. I don't want to ever sideste…

Ubuntu Touch... I was so excited about it that I bought one of the phones with it preloaded. I even used it as my sole daily driver for months, until I learned that I was not recei…

It's the internet. There are no borders and there is no mandate to follow any consensus. Stores may not want to sell cigarettes to children, but e-stores safely hosted in some remo…

I recently stumbled upon a small channel called KVN AUST, who's been making videos about what he calls "YouTube's Recycle Bin". It's about this and SO many other search terms (over…

These days it feels like people have simply forgotten that you could also just have a bare repository on a VPS and use it over ssh.

Is HN "deeply imperialistic and super shit" too? Or is it okay because there's no option to set a display name?

Instead of "free communication" I would say "free large public social media", because without going all DPRK, there's no stopping people from using the internet, a means of free co…

One day they'll fly to a drone factory, eliminate all the personnel, then start gently shooting at the machinery to create more weaponized drones and then it's all over before you …

Flawless on AMD? Absolutely not. 2-3 years ago there used to be a amdgpu bug that froze my entire laptop randomly with no recourse beyond the 4 second power button press. After tha…

> I think this is the future way to consume a lot of the web I think I see many prompt injections in your future. Like captchas with a special bypass solution just for AIs that lea…

If I remember right, a problem with this is that you need to get those proofs by submitting your id or similar, you only get a limited amount of proofs at a time, they expire in ma…

> All competent #1 cloud-based password managers are like that. If you say so... Sadly there could potentially also be a supply chain attack that happens to make its way into the c…

I saw someone claim on SO that they were not able to get a PWA to install properly until they changed their IP address, supposedly because they were from Iran, a sanctioned country…

To my knowledge, every PWA installed from Firefox on Android will become a bookmark. For Firefox I believe that means for example that if you try to open a link elsewhere that is w…

To be fair, Android also sabotages PWAs, it's just done behind your back. You see, in order to get a PWA to properly install, you'll have to use Chrome, and you'll have to have a G…

Possibly. I just can't think of other stupid ones that have a comparably wide impact.

Doesn't spare you from having to interact with the popup. This is probably the single dumbest law to ever have been made. It wastes everyone's time, and not insignificantly. While …

It's not even certificates that's the problem, but trust. And here Google is making exceptions to allow unencrypted connections to private addresses, because trust is hard. If encr…

That looks like a variable that points to an anonymous function. For simple small functions here and there it may not matter, but if the entire call stack in a debugger is full of …