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On the Well Astonishing Verdicts on Social Media

meiert.com
2 points·by kosasbest·2 years ago·0 comments

Tolkien Gateway: JRR Tolkien Encyclopedia

tolkiengateway.net
1 points·by kosasbest·2 years ago·0 comments

Taylor Swift is 'furious' about explicit AI pictures

dailymail.co.uk
2 points·by kosasbest·2 years ago·1 comments

Statichunt – Jamstack Themes, Templates and Tools

statichunt.com
1 points·by kosasbest·2 years ago·0 comments

What's the Most Underrated Whiskey?

vinepair.com
9 points·by kosasbest·2 years ago·0 comments

Toastmasters Members' Speeches Page

nytoastmasters.org
2 points·by kosasbest·2 years ago·0 comments

Mac Deployment Overview [pdf]

apple.com
3 points·by kosasbest·2 years ago·0 comments

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1 points·by kosasbest·2 years ago·0 comments

Accessible Color Palette Generator

venngage.com
2 points·by kosasbest·3 years ago·0 comments

Hanko – open-source authentication and passkey infrastructure

hanko.io
2 points·by kosasbest·3 years ago·0 comments

Time for Slack – In-chat time-tracking and reporting

timebot.chat
1 points·by kosasbest·3 years ago·1 comments

Vintage Computing

deramp.com
11 points·by kosasbest·3 years ago·3 comments

A new-year message from the CEO

economist.com
3 points·by kosasbest·3 years ago·0 comments

Heroicons Micro: What are these, icons for ants?

tailwindcss.com
1 points·by kosasbest·3 years ago·0 comments

Every engineer should understand Git reflog

graphite.dev
1 points·by kosasbest·3 years ago·0 comments

Typeset the Shrug ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Emoji

newbedev.com
2 points·by kosasbest·3 years ago·0 comments

Otter.ai – AI Meeting Note Taker and Real-Time AI Transcription

otter.ai
1 points·by kosasbest·3 years ago·0 comments

A short history of Recovery in macOS

eclecticlight.co
2 points·by kosasbest·3 years ago·0 comments

A complete guide to full-text search with Laravel

blog.meilisearch.com
1 points·by kosasbest·3 years ago·0 comments

Manifesto for Posting Online in 2023

meandorla.substack.com
1 points·by kosasbest·3 years ago·1 comments

comments

kosasbest
·2 years ago·discuss
I regularly go to Dark.fail[0] to get the latest .onions some sites are using, like the BBC:

    https://www.bbcnewsd73hkzno2ini43t4gblxvycyac5aw4gnv7t2rccijh7745uqd.onion
Just be careful out there. All I have to do is alter one letter for the BBC .onion and I can get phished/scammed/duped. For example, this is an altered .onion for BBC:

    https://www.bbcnewsd73hkzno2ini43t4gblxvycyac5aw4gnv7t2rccijh7746uqd.onion
Can you spot the alteration?

[0] https://dark.fail/

> Accurate URLs verified by PGP. No direct linking in order to protect against DNS leaks from accidental clicking in a clearnet browser.

How does the PGP verif work? I'm not used to it. There exists a tool here[1] but how does it all work?

[1] https://dark.fail/pgp
kosasbest
·2 years ago·discuss
I scooped up a bunch of non-smart HP printers from car boot sales over the years in preparation for this nonsense.
kosasbest
·2 years ago·discuss
You can determine if they're sloppy and just want the project rushed out the door. Kludgy code is actually fun to read.
kosasbest
·2 years ago·discuss
> and click a link to a site like Reddit

I have JS turned off in my main surfing profile and New Reddit performs badly and hides the content, unless you amend the URL to `old.reddit.com` so Reddit is not that accessible. I have JS turned off for privacy & security reasons. Reddit is basically fuck-you'ing those who enjoy their privacy.
kosasbest
·2 years ago·discuss
NSA are purple team (both red team and blue team), so they do defense aswell as offense. They need to sniff plaintext aswell as protect their own infra and IP with strong crypto standards like AES. The public also benefits from AES, often to the detriment of SIGINT efforts by the NSA, so there are caveats to this, and it's nuanced.
kosasbest
·3 years ago·discuss
MDN[0] is usually my goto reference for frontend stuff. I know DevDocs has the offline feature, but frankly I can't develop without an Internet connection. I tried it, and failed terribly. Besides MDN, developers need quick access to Google and ChatGPT to go forward, quickly.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/
kosasbest
·3 years ago·discuss
Before clicking I presumed this would be a compilation of blogposts about the Wim Hof method[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wim_Hof
kosasbest
·3 years ago·discuss
Noted.
kosasbest
·3 years ago·discuss
And turn this off in Chrome: chrome://settings/adPrivacy

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/09/11/chrome-...
kosasbest
·3 years ago·discuss
> but I always struggle to articulate what that would mean, how I should achieve that, what I need to change etc

I recommend bullet journaling, to get stuff on paper/written down first before you take action. Then you can revise past notes to see how much you've progressed. It's worth being very clear about what you want, and have a rough draft of the means to get it.

There's a phrase I always loved: 'What's meant for you won't pass you by'.
kosasbest
·3 years ago·discuss
Interesting that when we can't make chips bigger laterally, we go vertical and stack transistors. It's like we discovered high-rise buildings all over again.
kosasbest
·3 years ago·discuss
> I used to be worried about face scanning. But sometimes I wonder if it's an inevitable evolution of technology.

The cat's out of the bag. But you can still exercise caution. I remember when that app FaceApp was trending, and everyone wanted to see what they looked like when older, oblivious to the ulterior motives behind the app. Essentially they were building a FR database from user generated content. So, don't feed the beast and don't upload your faceprint to apps every chance you get.
kosasbest
·3 years ago·discuss
A bit of advice if you are aiming for FIRE: Don't buy Starbucks, buy instant coffee you make yourself, and stop buying stupid avocado on toast at cafes, and a whole laundry list of other luxury items. Basically you should refrain from buying any luxury item unless it's a treat and you set aside time and money for treats, not have treats and luxury purchases all the time. FIRE people need to exercise incredible restraint on their purchases, then that money that was saved can be pooled into your retirement fund. It's hard, I know, but that's life!
kosasbest
·3 years ago·discuss
There's no getting away from carbs. They're in everything. Often in extreme amounts, depending on what you select for treats. But to answer your question: I find strawberries, raspberries, & blackberries to be a comforting snack. For fiber, I eat a variety of nuts like redskin peanuts, walnuts, and brazil nuts. I also do a burger in a bowl which has all the ingredients of a burger, just without the bun.
kosasbest
·3 years ago·discuss
> Then there will be no place for my small agency to rank on the first page

Don't rely on agencies to do SEO for you. All the old tactics of SEO still work surprisingly well, and are worth learning. I still stuff the <title> tag with hundreds of keywords, and I get more leads. Some search engines still look for oldskool tactics like that and you get extra traffic.
kosasbest
·3 years ago·discuss
You can already edit your comments? They give you a grace period of about 15 mins. Are you pissed when that window of time expires and you can't go and 'perfect' your posts?
kosasbest
·3 years ago·discuss
Probably this gem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19728132
kosasbest
·3 years ago·discuss
AI is just hype at the moment, and subject to a hype cycle. Now we're at the peak, but usage will drop. The people using AI and wielding it the 'right way' will have made their money and live in Margaritaville, and everyone else will just use it as a personal assistant to make life easier, not make millions. Things will settle down. It will integrate into everything eventually just like a basic search functionality has been integrated into any capable app.
kosasbest
·3 years ago·discuss
> Since these services (ChatGPT, DALL-E, etc) are so powerful

They are powerful, but they're trained on already existing information painstakingly created by humans, so they're the 'compressed JPEG' of the Internet now. Under the hood, they're just if...else statements, so don't be fooled.
kosasbest
·3 years ago·discuss
> I'm not an expert in anything, but I know a bit of everything that is required to ship something that works

The landscape is always changing, potential employers change their requirements, so you need to know $framework or $language of the month. My advice is be agile and adapt. Don't get set in your ways with a strategy that only works for you.