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I have a "paper-feel" screen protector and a metal nib on my Apple pencil. The combination provides a comfortable amount of friction for me, and the fact that it's matte cuts down …

When I was a kid, my dad (a physicist) would often read stories to me and my brother. He would sometimes fall asleep while reading, and we could tell when that was coming because s…

0 probably comes from things like "0 day (vulnerability)" and "0 deps".

I switched from a giant docker compose file to podman quadlets on my homelab. IIRC it look me a little while to translate the first couple of services because there wasn't (at the …

I don't like my wife's car for several reasons, but one thing it absolutely nails is the dash: all the lights are orange. It's a night-and-day difference (pun intended) to most car…

When I first heard about the reboot all I could think of was this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HeNZBItzps I'm going to call this news a win.

It's been a few years since I went with Fastmail over Proton, but if I remember correctly Proton prioritizes privacy while Fastmail prioritizes other features which were higher up …

It's actually not as hard as it seems. Just set up forwarding from gmail to your new email address, then update your email everywhere at your leisure.

He's the guy who reported the bug. It looks like he copy-pasted an email from Anthropic without context, and the gif is his response.

The vast majority of "AI screwed up" posts I've seen on HN have been written with AI.

And yet even in that shallow of water the pressure would have been around 10 atm. It's amazing how dangerous something as mundane as water can be.

Seconded. Even if one unknown number call isn't a scam, they will almost certainly pass on your number to ones that are. I made the mistake of answering one last week and since the…

> Sending HTTP requests is a basic capability in the modern world, the standard library should include a friendly, fully-featured, battle-tested, async-ready client. I've noticed t…

Very nice! I switched off video.js some time ago because it kept giving me trouble. Looking forward to trying this new version.

> While it is theoretically possible that the relays could fail on through some sort of physical failure, this is so unlikely that we did not design for it. Anecdotally, I've had a…

Web development has certainly gotten more complicated, but that's mostly because people are doing more complicated things. Writing the equivalent of a "Geocities, Blogosphere, and …

I think that section left out some details. On my Unifi setup, the router's IPv6 connection is configured with DHCPv6 (SLAAC isn't even an option) while the local networks are conf…

My experience has been the opposite, especially since Rails has included more batteries over the years. You need fewer non-Rails-default dependencies than ever, and the upgrade pro…

> What does this mean? The computer isn't alive. But they want you to think of it as alive. They're anthropomorphizing it.

My org (USA) was affected. I wasn't the primary person dealing with it, but from what I gather one user marked one of our emails as junk, and then suddenly all of our emails to Out…

I really enjoy the original Earthsea books. I guess my expectations of sci-fi are different than magic/fantasy; technology feels like it should be explainable in a way that magic d…

The update check is HTTPS, only the files themselves are HTTP.