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Already__Taken··on Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux
So this is the death of "Stable" finally?
Already__Taken··on Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display
if you can manufacture the board on both sides you can probably alternate top/bottom and panel rows with no waste in a straight line.
Already__Taken··on Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display
that's really cool and somewhat burries the lead IMO that embedded rust wasmi runtime & loading 3rd part displays us a very powerful pattern. I hadn't seen fuel before but metering loading and frame time makes sense, better that arbitrary timeouts.
Already__Taken··on Security Incident INC-2026-07-28-01 – UK AI Security Institute [pdf]
Even if you want it to run wild out of a sandbox, no firewall? why let it email? Why even send POST requests.
Already__Taken··on UK Fuel Price Intelligence – Market analytics from reporting stations
Awe, yes sorry I'm sceptical of Tesco not your data.
Already__Taken··on I tracked 7,700 UK petrol stations every 10 minutes for 3 months
The Tesco premium/super e5 is so much cheaper than everyone else I'm actually pretty sceptical of it.
Already__Taken··on Teardown of unreleased LG Rollable shows why rollable phones aren't a thing
I don't really care to roll it up but why not an bit soft? To cup in my hand or fitted in my pocket would be nice instead of this brick. We can make lighter thinner phones if they don't need so much rigidity.
Already__Taken··on Microsoft Abruptly Terminates VeraCrypt Account, Halting Windows Updates
Windows actually isn't very cheap.
Already__Taken··on Veracrypt project update
It's got a lot of analogy to restaurants banning Uber delivery for not handling their food to their standards.
Already__Taken··on Signing data structures the wrong way
Thats a fun read and a topic I've specifically looked into before and its one of those black holes of terms than cannot be searched. You get so much noise.
Already__Taken··on GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash
Growth. It's a disease. Can't just work on a good product it's got to make arbitrary growth targets.
Already__Taken··on Our commitment to Windows quality
Someone called it a number of years ago once each kind of brand new apple device couldn't plug into each other without a dongle.
Already__Taken··on 7zip.com Is Serving Malware
No update for a year for something that opens weird files from the internet is a little scary, even just dependency changes. Not that 7-zip was ever any better at that.
Already__Taken··on Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app
You could if they built a donation & support trading app separate from the content app?
Already__Taken··on 6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available
I'm confused what you'd want an IP certificate for when DNS A records update so easily and cheap? Is this a case of you'd want both not either, like setting up spf/dkms/dmarc?
Already__Taken··on Native Amiga Filesystems on macOS / Linux / Windows with FUSE
btrfs has a real driver at least https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs

It's what my steamdeck is formatted to so I could plop the drive into windows and rip steamapps across to shortcut a lot of downloading.

Already__Taken··on Xsight Labs E1 DPU a 64-Core Arm Neoverse N2 800G DPU
Those are very cool thank you. Still need the host device to remain powered on however so not quite.
Already__Taken··on Xsight Labs E1 DPU a 64-Core Arm Neoverse N2 800G DPU
I wish I knew hardware better but I'm coming to the idea that an xTB nvme and ~25gb/s PoE pcie card in my gaming PC would be a sic always on device. Lots of server roles really just need a tiny IoT device but storage/backup/media you're talking NAS and I just don't want a big NAS around all the time.

So an always on network storage in my PC that's sometimes-on. Between NVME-of and pcie that should be doable I would have though. PoE from my router that's got a tiny UPS and that's pretty sick.

Maybe Valve should make it so everyone with a gaming pc it's re-downloading their steam library or running 2 computers just to open a file.

Already__Taken··on Splice a Fibre
Yeh it's awful, but all of our CCTV was wired like this through patch panels with 24v/48v power injectors. 2 cameras a cable. So that's what I needed to document, because in reality I can't book scaffolding and change rooftop cameras for a documentation tool.
Already__Taken··on Splice a Fibre
Honestly that's fine I'm just glad I'm not crazy.
Already__Taken··on Splice a Fibre
I've always had stuff like this turned down by Netbox, they argue they want to model the logical topology as a source to trust, not the physicality, but then they model rack U placement. I'm always puzzled by their stance.

Like you can't model 1 cat5 split into two 100mb terminations, patch panels are kinda of hack, I think you can now but forever you couldn't just swap a termination direction because logically why would you (but their UI gets messy when 44 are done A-B and the 45th B-A)

Anyway that's thoughts as of maybe v2 or 3? Before the new UI when it was all jquery.

Already__Taken··on GraphQL: The enterprise honeymoon is over
Reminds me a lot of Grafast too, a new stab at this the people that made postgraphile had. I liked using graphile, haven't needed to rewrite or start a new project yet for grafast. * https://grafast.org/
Already__Taken··on Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025
the cve isn't a zero day though how come cloudflare werent at the table for early disclosure?
Already__Taken··on Gaming on Linux has never been more approachable
imo everyone needs to try ChromeOS for the OOBE and living with sleep & instant reboot updates. Windows is a nightmare.

it's made me want to get into core boot and find Linux laptop hardware that hums along.

Already__Taken··on Marko – A declarative, HTML‑based language
These aren't good because for 0-lists you have an empty parent containers so often you have a wrapping if outside all of that. More generally, template logic indent doubles up inside the indent levels of the template markup and I just find it ugly.

I like vue a lot more;

    <ul v-if={users}>
      <li v-for={some in users}>{some.name}
    </ul>
Already__Taken··on Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia
In my completely uninformed opinion I think China is taking their toys and going home.

The UK gov stepped in to stop a Chinese firm closing our steel mill. Capitalism wasn't made to handle large strategic foreign investments closing their own company at nationally inopportune moments.

It feels like a slow burn of embrace, extend, extinguish but playing out on global critical technology and industry.

Already__Taken··on NPM debug and chalk packages compromised
It does, the answer to my question was no.
Already__Taken··on NPM debug and chalk packages compromised
We didn't get locking until npm v5 (some memory and googling, could be wrong.) And it took a long time to do everything you'd think you want.

Changing the main command `npm install` after 7 years isn't really "stable". Anyway didn't this replace versions, so locking won't have helped either?

Already__Taken··on Sequoia backs Zed
vscode came along with a thriving extension ecosystem. That made up for any pitfalls really.
Already__Taken··on Ergonomic keyboarding with the Svalboard: a half-year retrospective
Reading how the keys trigger, I don't know if this is interesting or not but that how high end paintball markers work, with lots of adjustability.
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