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Walf

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Walf
·há 22 horas·discuss
Yeah, nah. Won't be doing that.
Walf
·ontem·discuss
This scene from the prescient Wall•E springs to mind:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xToQ4cIHkk&t=60
Walf
·ontem·discuss
>Don't use split DNS

So what's your solution when you have a wholly private service that will never have a public v4 address, nor a publicly routable v6? How do clients get the address for a nice domain name without the addresses in public DNS?

I use acme.sh with DNS validation, and use common domains that have both public and private services on subdomains. I use split horizon so private.domain.example resolves only on LAN and VPN, and public.domain.example resolves everywhere, but the address changes depending on the network one is connected to.
Walf
·há 15 dias·discuss
It doesn't have to be about ruling, but self-determination is something a great many value quite highly, and think there should be more of. AI controlling all of humanity removes that from the equation entirely. You should be free to live like a cow if you so wish, and it should remain your choice to, or not to. Your choice to should not remove that choice from others.
Walf
·há 21 dias·discuss
PNG has comment chunks tEXt, zTXt, and iTXt. You can have a completely normal image whose file is stuffed with as much content as you want. That is less fun, I suppose.
Walf
·há 21 dias·discuss
And it'll be one of the two choices that directly contradict each other.
Walf
·há 24 dias·discuss
I used to do this but I found it downloads needed language files in the background. So every time it updated, I would clear all the app data, open it again on something innocuous, like a text file, toggle each language I used. Not knowing how long it would take, I'd wait until each seemed to be behaving, then disable network permission. I still don't trust that it doesn't send data off via Play Services.

Now I use Heliboard with the swiping library added. It's not perfect, but has improved, and at least it can give more than three correction options (long–press centre suggestion with ellipsis below).

I really miss Keymonk — two–finger swiping, accurate, and no crap.
Walf
·há 25 dias·discuss
But the hero image is an AI homage to cute paper-craft, to remind us that people cannot or will not put in that level of effort any more, so it's okay!
Walf
·há 25 dias·discuss
It discusses clearly, and concludes with, lamenting the loss of complex flavour in favour of sweetness. Also mentioned is people's assumption that fruit's inherently healthy, but the sugar increase is changing that. The link between excess sugar and poorer health is assumed knowledge by now. Type II diabetes is on the rise for a reason.
Walf
·há 29 dias·discuss
Yes, exploration, discovery. One doesn't stumble across items available on inter-library loan.

I could not count the number of books I picked up and enjoyed, even if only for a short while, whilst I was studying at uni.
Walf
·mês passado·discuss
Ctrl + Shift + O opens a threaded conversation in a new tab.

Settings > Composition > Use paragraph format… set to unchecked

Search has always worked pretty well for me, with the exception of not searching message bodies in a folder that's set to only download messages on demand. If the folder is set for offline use, the bodies are there and searchable. I use the Quick Filter bar 99% of the time, anyway, it's great.

Still my preferred client.
Walf
·mês passado·discuss
Anteaters will be more likely, apparently.

https://phys.org/news/2025-07-mammals-evolved-ant-eaters-din...
Walf
·há 4 meses·discuss
The utility of $_ is often voided by tab-completion in the subsequent command, at least in bash. You won't know what it contains, which makes it dangerous, unless you first check it in a way that also carries it forwards:

printf %s\\n "$_"
Walf
·há 7 meses·discuss
>The terms and conditions are simple. Every time you perform any network access, you have to send a copy of the payload and response back to my server. Either that, or you're in breach of my terms.

That's not how contracts work, at all. MS hasn't bought anything from him, nor was he able to require them to agree to anything in order for him to install the OS.