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(random anecdote) My first and last experience with FreeBSD laptop was trying to use 3.x (!) on a Dell Inspiron 3500 (PII-350 maybe?), no sound modules were precompiled or included…

We had 2U VA Linux servers at a company (circa 2000), they were rock solid beasts which continued to run for years. I vaguely remember cannibalizing one chassis to beef up another …

I'm mildly surprised GKH doesn't deploy SSL. In this day and age I just close the browser window when the http-only browser warning comes up and move on to something else.

IMHO based on my use of the fediverse, fundamentally it's about porn and curtailing unwanted porn in your domain. I'm a user of mastodon.social in the "wee US hours" (before US mod…

nod We have different use cases, for my browser use I'm using it as described mainly for one-off playing of content (think like watching a single video from a hotlink, checking out…

I seem to have no problems streaming from either Bandcamp or Qobuz, the latter which I'd never heard of before. (or as far as I'm aware any other site) I intentionally want to clic…

Here's the discussion forum post going over it: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/27068-grapheneos-security-p...

The about:config settings which you can look up: media.autoplay.blocking_policy media.autoplay.default I have mine set to 2 and 5 respectively.

This was the first one I looked for as well, NFCU is (per Wikipedia) the largest CU in terms of size and membership in the US - but wasn't included. I think you should add a "how I…

> I completely agree with this. I performed really poorly on this axis. I’m sorry to the Zig community for that. I’ll take my L and get back to working on std.Io and the rest of th…

Codeberg has been under DDOS attacks for most of 2025, someone out there has it in for them and has been attacking relentlessly. The volunteer team has been very transparent postin…

On the previous HN article, I recall many a comment talking about how they should change this, leave the politics/negative juju out because it was a bad look for the Zig community.…

Hi Arathorn, I recognize your name as the core developer lead. :) Alas, when I was trying to cull my old messages I tried that (and a lot of other API type hacks I found floating a…

Good to know, thank you - those of us currently using it are on Androids so we've not had a friend on iOS join yet. We're using a chatmail relay.

As a former user I felt these pain points trying to do nothing more than have a very active one-on-one chat with a good friend. Tens of messages an hour, maybe 2 years running. Usi…

My memory is really fuzzy, but I recall back when the new IM apps were all coming out and competing for the small share of people wanting to test them, either the Wire app or using…

How do they compare in actual use? I have a Pixel 6a connected to $40USD bone conducting headphones and the range and punch-through are incredible; the phone is sitting in the livi…

I'm not horribly worried near term (not saying it won't ever happen), as there are very vocal, proud and energetic proponents on Mastodon like Elena Rossini[1] driving community en…

Of all the articles this morning about the changes, this one has the most information about the reasons and lists the people taking on various roles as part of the non-profit's str…

> The war isn’t won by telling people to use GPG Tangent, a friend and I started using Delta Chat with a chatmail relay and it's incredibly friendly to get started, and hides the f…

Thanks to multiple mentions of Mullvad in this overall post comments, I decided to replace dnsmasq with unbound and convert the laptop to DoT. Here's the specific Mullvad snippet i…

Interestingly, I get 3 different source IPs, BUT! The one from Quad9 is IPv6 and the ones from 8.8/1.1 are IPv4. Google returns an extra TXT record as well with "edns0-client-subne…

I actually do (did, I demoted it for now) use the unfiltered service (9.9.9.10) but find the same result on both, so I used .9 here to keep the chat more streamlined. But, could st…

I'm sure geo has something to do with it - my connections generally terminate in Austin, TX but it varies around Central US. I have T-Mobile Home Internet and our IPs show up to re…

Hoping the HN DNS savvy reading this can help me understand a Quad9 thing I ran into. I was debugging (as in scratching my head) a bank website login problem and ended up doing som…