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GCUMstlyHarmls··on Bitwarden scrubs 'Always free' and 'Inclusion' values from its site
I wonder if Bitwarden shit on everyone, how long it would take for Vaultwarden specific clients to appear. A browser extension would be pretty simple, app store apps are a bit more complicated because of the pay-to-play aspects.
GCUMstlyHarmls··on They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker
I came here to shitpost and deploy microservices... and github is down.
GCUMstlyHarmls··on They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker
I would say yes, conversing between two humans, maybe even collaborating, is more human than a solitary human using inanimate objects.
GCUMstlyHarmls··on Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise
I dont mean to be snarky, can you run `pacman -Syu` without root with "new" tech? Or do you mean in general on production systems or whatever?
GCUMstlyHarmls··on PS3 Emulator Devs Politely Ask That People Stop Flooding It with AI PRs
> Should the barrier of entry be someone who knows how to code? or should the barrier of entry be someone who is motivated to help with open-source software.

Probably yes? QED submitting slop PRs is not helping. If "helping" is sticking it through an LLM, the developers can do that themselves with better insight and guidance? If you must help via an LLM, donate cash for tokens.

If you can't code, and cant donate cash/machine time, help by confirming issue reproductions, design, wikis, documentation, whatever.

GCUMstlyHarmls··on Rotten Dot Com
I'd say getting PTSD and depression working in a slaughterhouse, or dealing with death as a healthcare worker only proves the point? It's a correct sane reaction.
GCUMstlyHarmls··on Show HN: Hallucinopedia
That would be a play on six degrees of kevin bacon [0], which spawned at least six degrees of wikipedia [1] and wikirace [2].

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon 1. https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/ 2. https://www.wikirace.io/

GCUMstlyHarmls··on It's official: Utah is the U.S. state closest to banning VPNs
Dont they just pass a bill saying you can use the state audited VPN as provided by SecUTAH for remote access. Submit your business requirements for review and oh we also know all the keys for anti terror reasons.
GCUMstlyHarmls··on Agents for financial services and insurance
I'll be honest, I thought the first few items on your list of time consuming work was sarcasm.
GCUMstlyHarmls··on Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust
Interesting experiment, would it actually function if Zag was syntax/api locked to Zig? I guess Zag could still have api extensions.
GCUMstlyHarmls··on PyInfra 3.8.0
I'd be curious how unintelligible the original post was, probably a lot more intelligible than you might think assuming it wouldn't be in literal French? It's kind of sad you (the royal you -- is that a englishism?) feel the need to clean up the frenchisms Just like you meet people in Mali wish American English accents because they learn it from movies, we're all going to end up writing some smoothed over glob of LLMnglish.

I've used Pyinfra for a few years, great software.

GCUMstlyHarmls··on DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier
> I even got a warning on my OpenAI account.

This is kind of terrifying to me, regularly. No real manner of recourse to normal people without a following, potential exclusion from real fundamental tooling. Imagine OpenAI goes on to buy 20 companies and now you cant use Figma, Next, whatever just because you once tripped some very foggy line somehow. Not just OpenAI but the entire ecosystem is so... hard to read.

I was asking Gemini about a quote from catch 22 and it kept dying mid stream saying it cant talk about it, god knows why, it had no violent or sexual content -- though that is in the book. I could imagine it dinging my whole workspace account just because ... shrug?...

I know ideally the future is local, but I don't know how real that is for most people at least in the next few years with practical costs and power usage except I guess through a M* processor if you're in that ecosystem.

GCUMstlyHarmls··on Eka’s robotic claw feels like we're approaching a ChatGPT moment
Notably it does not show the robot turning on the washing machine?
GCUMstlyHarmls··on Eka’s robotic claw feels like we're approaching a ChatGPT moment
Could we not simply encase the weaker unit some kind of armored robotic shell?
GCUMstlyHarmls··on If I could make my own GitHub
Radicle supports private repos https://radicle.dev/guides/user#3-selectively-revealing-repo...
GCUMstlyHarmls··on If I could make my own GitHub
Between Radicle, Tangled and Grasp, Radicle feels the coolest to me, emotionally, local first, p2p, for whatever reason it feels kind of nostalgic.

Grasp is actually pretty cool too, built on nostr, which is maybe a stronger platform in the end? I dont really know enough about it. Stronger as in, you're maybe opening up more interoperablity by putting your stuff on a "anything network" vs Radicles "p2p git data network".

To be honest they're all cool ideas, Tangled feels some how corporate though.

GCUMstlyHarmls··on Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others
You can do restic+rsync.net too if you didn't know. `rclone serve restic --stdio` on their end exposes the restic REST server over stdio, then with some fiddling of restic, telling it to use rclone as the repo address, and configuring its rclone args to actually invoke `ssh rsync.net`.

Again, with regards to my other comments, I am not affiliated with rsync, just rclone is cool. You can use the same trick with any host with ssh and rclone installed.

GCUMstlyHarmls··on Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others
Depending on the usecase, rclone can expose an S3 endpoint via `rclone serve s3` to route to another protocol, eg sftp.

I mention it not to shill rsync.net, but to shill rclone, because when I discovered it I was even more impressed with it.

Obviously having to run a command and apply some amount of plumbing is different to a service just providing that API at the outset so the applicability for users will differ but still, rclone is very cool!

GCUMstlyHarmls··on Want to Write a Compiler? Just Read These Two Papers (2008)
Nanopass paper seems to be dead but can be found here at least https://stanleymiracle.github.io/blogs/compiler/docs/extra/n...
GCUMstlyHarmls··on Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others
I use rsync.net. You can use basically any SSH tool or rclone interface. They have a cheaper plan for "experts" if you want to forgo zfs snapshots,https://www.rsync.net/signup/order.html?code=experts.
GCUMstlyHarmls··on The Zettelkasten method in Obsidian
Isn't the "gardening" aspect part of it though? It's where you naturally review and mentally correlate topics, infer connections in your brain and spark new paths?
GCUMstlyHarmls··on John Deere to pay $99M in right-to-repair settlement
>Then there was a pre-trail meeting where I, the company rep, and a retired judge sat.

This is them trying to intimidate you right? Or settle pre-court at least? Not part of the actual process where some retired judge always mediates before trial? It reads as gross.

GCUMstlyHarmls··on Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones
I was going to make a joke about advertisers working in some kind of ultrasonic modulation to their audio so it breaks ANC (I'm aware this wouldn't really work) but then thought, whats more likely, advertisers doing that, or advertisers partnering with 80% of ANC chip makers to just let them by-pass with specific tone markers...

Then we'll be hacking our headphones with specific 3d printed clip-ons that involve a particular brand of coffee filters that happen to attenuate the "clear freq" enough for the headphones to miss it.

GCUMstlyHarmls··on Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer
Pretty surprised to hear this. I would think (assuming they are LLM written as parent suggests), that MS could throw a large context "pro" LLM at the code base and you should get perfect docs, updated every release?

More perfect than a person where I might mistakenly copy/paste or write "Returns 404" but the LLM can probably see actually return a 401.

I'm not a stranger to LLMs hallucinating things in responses but I'd always assumed that disappeared when you actually pointed it at the source vs some nebulous collection of "knowledge" in a general LLM.

GCUMstlyHarmls··on Post Mortem: axios NPM supply chain compromise
To be honest, I would have assumed the tooling would do attestation verification for me. The diffing the lockfile would be on me though.
GCUMstlyHarmls··on Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March
8Bitdo does have a gyro controller, I have the Ultimate 2. It does have some requirement to configure the gyro though, you have to boot it in `dinput` mode by holding down a button.

I have included a link from my notes, I have not actually tested it much beyond seeing that the gyro does work in steams "configure controller" thing, never got around to correctly mapping any game.

https://pastebin.com/YP4CD6BX

GCUMstlyHarmls··on Email obfuscation: What works in 2026?
Surely spammers just turn `me+leaked/sold@mail.com` into `me@mail.com` as well as `me+apple@mail.com`, `me+softbank@mail.com` etc. The cost of stripping any `+postfix` must be about zero even at volume.
GCUMstlyHarmls··on Android Developer Verification
Lieutenant Appleby rejected my submission almost immediately. The notice informed me that I had committed the grave offense of impersonating a third party in the description.

"I didn't impersonate a third party," I explained in my message to Lieutenant Appleby. "I only wrote a disclaimer stating: Not affiliated with ACME."

"Exactly," lieutenant appleby replied. "By stating you have nothing to do with ACME, you have involved ACME. Therefore, you are unlawfully impersonating an unaffiliated party."

"But I only mentioned them to prove I wasn't affiliated with them!"

"Which is a violation," Lieutenant Appleby pointed out.

It was a Catch-22. The Guidelines stated that to prove you were not affiliated with a third party, you had to write a disclaimer. But to write the disclaimer, you had to type the third party’s name, which was a strict violation of the rule against mentioning third parties you were not affiliated with.

I deleted the disclaimer, thereby making myself safely affiliated with nobody by refusing to acknowledge anyone. I resubmitted the app.

Lieutenant Appleby rejected it again.

"What is it this time?" I asked.

"You are using your app's name," Lieutenant Appleby replied.

"Of course I am using my app's name," I replied back. "It is the name of my app."

"You cannot use that name. It is trademark infringement."

"Infringing on whose trademark?"

"The app's."

"But I am the app! It is my app!"

"Which is exactly why you cannot use it," Lieutenant Appleby wrote patiently. "If you use the app's name, you are impersonating the app. And impersonation is strictly forbidden by the Guidelines. An app cannot go around pretending to be itself!"

GCUMstlyHarmls··on Neovim 0.12.0
This is essentially how the new package manager got done. `mini.deps` was created as basically a proposal for a built in package manager (beyond also just being its own thing), sat in the wild for a year or two then a derived version got imported.
GCUMstlyHarmls··on Velxio 2.0 – Emulate Arduino, ESP32, and Raspberry Pi 3 in the Browser
The container instructions has `-d` in it, but note that after booting the container it downloads another, I don't know, 300+mb more (its still downloading as I write), so if you can't connect that's why.

Might be better to not include `-d` in the instructions?

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