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Jim's TrueType QR Code Font

github.com
2 points·by gpvos·4 days ago·2 comments

The slow creep of epistemic apocalypse

haversine.substack.com
2 points·by gpvos·2 months ago·0 comments

Rust adoption stalls amid shift in memory-safe programming trends

developer-tech.com
2 points·by gpvos·3 months ago·0 comments

The Maintainers

themaintainers.org
1 points·by gpvos·3 months ago·0 comments

John Bradley, author of xv, died

voxday.net
1 points·by gpvos·4 months ago·3 comments

Remove your ring camera with a claw hammer

hamiltonnolan.com
87 points·by gpvos·4 months ago·72 comments

Open source repos consider making bandwidth hogs pay for every download

theregister.com
1 points·by gpvos·4 months ago·0 comments

Microsoft uses plagiarized AI slop flowchart to explain how GitHub works

pcgamer.com
8 points·by gpvos·4 months ago·3 comments

Bullshit benchmark for LLMs

twitter.com
1 points·by gpvos·4 months ago·1 comments

China is running out of critical battery material

electrek.co
7 points·by gpvos·6 months ago·0 comments

comments

gpvos
·2 days ago·discuss
I'm righthanded and I usually hold my phone in my left hand so I can do clicking and typing with my right hand, but I often do basic scrolling with my left thumb.
gpvos
·5 days ago·discuss
I assume they all do, it's nigh impossible to maintain your own data fork and keep reconciling your users' edits and the updates from OSM.
gpvos
·8 days ago·discuss
He wrote 14 Rust to C compilers. Sanity has gone out of the window already.
gpvos
·9 days ago·discuss
It's a pity DivestOS has stopped.
gpvos
·9 days ago·discuss
I'm still living in the Netherlands without a bank app. It's occasionally less convenient, but quite doable.
gpvos
·11 days ago·discuss
I would like to add one note: if I were an activist in Iran, or in any other way my livelihood would depend on strong privacy services, I might keep using your service and even be (slightly) more certain of the company's resolve to keep my privacy protected. Although I would be very aware of the irony. But choosing for one's own safety can override other concerns. Very few things in life are black and white.
gpvos
·12 days ago·discuss
If Ars can, then HN definitely can.
gpvos
·12 days ago·discuss
Oh, come on. If you're trying to make a point, be more clear.
gpvos
·12 days ago·discuss
For starters, Ars shouldn't write "this journal" when it's about another publication than themselves.
gpvos
·12 days ago·discuss
A company shouldn't be able to fire an employee over their opinion,[0] so that wouldn't matter to me. For a major owner, the donation amount starts to matter to me around $5-10K, but YMMV.

[0] I suppose unless they have a very influential position and it's about a matter that contradicts main company goals
gpvos
·12 days ago·discuss
The guy owns half the company, so a significant part of the money I'm paying is involved. Yes, it is quite ethical to decide based on matters like that. It's not an employee or minor shareholder.
gpvos
·12 days ago·discuss
Including a statement from the other founder.
gpvos
·12 days ago·discuss
"Mullvad AB and its parent company Amagicom AB are 100% owned by founders [1 person] and Daniel Berntsson [...]"[0]

So I'll assume he owns about 50%. Well, that ends my usage of Mullvad.[1] I appreciate that probably many of Mullvad's employees have different views, and obviously Berntsson has every right to his opinions and to express them, and I also appreciate that someone can have control over an opinionated company and run it for one particular set of reasons but not for other causes that someone believes in, but in the end I just don't want my money supporting anti-people causes.

[0] https://mullvad.net/en/about

[1] If it was a small amount, say less than 5% or maybe 10%, I might have decided differently. But it's still millions, so probably not.
gpvos
·12 days ago·discuss
To hold large corps accountable you need clout, and the individual countries don't have that.
gpvos
·16 days ago·discuss
We were talking about the fallback system, see earlier in the thread.
gpvos
·17 days ago·discuss
Actually, I read stories that on some of the long distance trains with restauration they gave away all food and non-alcoholic drinks for free.
gpvos
·17 days ago·discuss
I have no idea which is cheaper, upgrading those or paying for one 2G network to remain on (at least enough cell towers to cover the railway network).
gpvos
·17 days ago·discuss
I'm roughly at the same level. The main improvement of vim over vi is the infinite undo, and more recently the UTF-8 support. I like the more elaborate status line and the syntax colouring, and I actually have cpoptions set to "downgrade" a few (but not all) features to how they were in vi ( notably vx$ so text you're changing remains visible while you're typing over it, and Esc actually executes the command line).
gpvos
·17 days ago·discuss
It is more like a one-line visual mode, you can actually use the same commands as there. Depending on terminal capabilities (that's why there are apparently three submodes), you can move the cursor left and right, and insert and delete text. IIRC, I once somehow got it in a very limited "dumb terminal" mode, and it printed \ for every deleted character.
gpvos
·17 days ago·discuss
I mostly used it when I logged in over a 1200 baud modem. The terminal would have supported working full-screen, but it was just quicker to not keep the entire screen visible all the time (even though classic vi is already very efficient about screen updates).