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laserbeam

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laserbeam
·4 giorni fa·discuss
This sidesteps xochitl and the normal remarkable display adapter. You should assume this thing can't render anything a remarkable normally renders, but does smooth fades instead.
laserbeam
·18 giorni fa·discuss
I saw 2-3 flavors of this news. None of them include a basic “how do I check if I need to do anything” guide that a linux newbie can do.
laserbeam
·18 giorni fa·discuss
> I really want to find reasons to like this

But why? Why would I want to like a project which seems to invent problems rather than solve any? I don’t want to like this.
laserbeam
·23 giorni fa·discuss
No, water filtration sounds like the first part the device will cheap out on to cut costs.
laserbeam
·23 giorni fa·discuss
Massive Theranos vibes.

You don't market medical imagery to the regular public and build a random wellness spa and talk about "shallow pools of golden light" if it actually works well. You write academic papers and sell to hospitals.

The tech may be good, but if you want me to trust you you shouldn't do what every snake oil salesman does.
laserbeam
·24 giorni fa·discuss
> This is a bash feature, not POSIX. dash (Debian’s /bin/sh) and zsh don’t have it, so a #!/bin/sh script can’t use it. Call bash directly.

This is why we can’t have nice things. This feature is complex and obscure enough that you are unlikely to be able to use it manually without consulting a reference, and poorly supported that any script you write with it is unportable.

Bash is so powerful and so frustrating for this reason all the time :(
laserbeam
·2 mesi fa·discuss
I’m fairly certain if you give any substitution cypher to an LLM it will decipher the message. And that’s all I see here, a substitution cypher in a private area of unicode.

At best this is an adversarial attack to poison LLM training data… at worst this screws up accessibility tools (like screen readers) and copy paste.
laserbeam
·2 mesi fa·discuss
It's impossible to say. But as a reminder from Cory's first talk on enshittification... When Google and Facebook were small, they would argue for open protocols and competition. Facebook would reverse engineer MySpace's protocols to allow people to migrate away. Once FAANG became dominant, they went the opposite direction to built monopolistic practices.

GrapheneOS is still small and appears honest. Despite them being in the right in this fight and them deserving our support... We gotta keep them honest in the long run!

I don't think there's any way to tell if a small company will keep their values if they succeed in getting enough market share.
laserbeam
·2 mesi fa·discuss
That's like saying users have no right to push against certain features. It's like saying Windows Recall was always ok and there was never any reason to demand it not be installed. The only difference is one can choose to use a different browser easier than they can choose a different OS.

You're right in the sense that practicality and consent are orthogonal issues. There are probably stronger arguments to complain about a feature than the disk use.
laserbeam
·2 mesi fa·discuss
You use eID when explicitly interacting with a govt entity or bank or otherwise similar institution because you have to and want to prove who you are. Yes, I do want to prove who I am when I file taxes, vote or want to start a business...

You don't use it when just browsing randomly on the internet. You don't use it to buy games on steam. Your computer isn't forced to store it because a law arbitrarily says so.
laserbeam
·2 mesi fa·discuss
I just grabbed one of the examples there which was readable and didn't require the reader to know all the extra flags passed. One that would illustrate the purpose of the website. One that Linux newbies who read the question and further answers here could follow along with. Not one that tried to be optimal.
laserbeam
·2 mesi fa·discuss
Cool, so it is what I imagined, thanks!
laserbeam
·2 mesi fa·discuss
I am confused. Is this saying that if you don't have access to `cat`, instead of `cat /path/to/input-file` you can use `base64 /path/to/input-file | base64 --decode`?

Or is it saying that `base64 /path/to/input-file | base64 --decode` can bypass read file permission flags?
laserbeam
·2 mesi fa·discuss
Damn, I really wish there was a T in "Quick jazzy vibe flows from exploding pixels", 'cause the sentence is just cool!
laserbeam
·3 mesi fa·discuss
Ladybird is many years away from being usable by a casual human. The hope is it turns out to be a great browser eventually.
laserbeam
·3 mesi fa·discuss
The first thing I tried to do is resize that rectangle in the default diagram... and the resize handles do not affect the height, only the width. What is this "better" than?
laserbeam
·3 mesi fa·discuss
1. The video is amazing. It does deserve a shoutout.

2. I actually prefer when HN links to articles rather than videos. I kind of expect interesting reads, not watches when I open this forum.
laserbeam
·3 mesi fa·discuss
If that's so, it's really poorly communicated. I strongly recommend full sentences for that.
laserbeam
·3 mesi fa·discuss
> It points out that the compliant subjects who delivered the shocks weren't always following the procedure they were given perfectly. Which is, of course, expected, since people in general don't follow instructions 100% perfectly all the time

The article quantifies the amount of rulebreaking. The article actually compares rule breaking across participants and notes that those who were better at obeying the instructions of the experiment are the ones who refused to continue till the end.

The article doesn't invalidate the milgrim experiments. It claims that the interpretation from traditional literature is possibly wrong.
laserbeam
·4 mesi fa·discuss
That’s my feeling when reading nixos forums. People are willing to help but don’t realize how little newbies know about nix when asking for help. The first month of nixos was a massive uphill climb for me, and that knowledge doesn’t stick well because I get to interact with nix every few months to tweak things, not weekly or daily.

It’s a solid os, and I’m enjoying it, and I love that I can’t break things while tweaking. But the docs are and discussion threads are not written for beginners (it’s really hard to write for beginners).