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Sander_Marechal··on NPM flooded with malicious packages downloaded more than 86k times
How does Deno solve this? Genuine question by the way. I'm not trying to be snarky.
Sander_Marechal··on Bots are getting good at mimicking engagement
It's revenue for the ad platforms, not for the clients
Sander_Marechal··on Vectrex Mini
That looks really cool!
Sander_Marechal··on Ozzy Osbourne has died
It happens. My dad had a brain tumor. He was hell-bent on making his retirement age (65). He died two days after his 65th birthday.
Sander_Marechal··on Retro gaming YouTuber Once Were Nerd sued and raided by the Italian government
The pirate party is a single issue party about abolishing copyright and having no plan for what to do next. I'm not surprised it didn't go anywhere.
Sander_Marechal··on Falsehoods programmers believe about email (2022)
That site does not allow direct links to their articles. That's why you get a (great!) 403 forbidden page. If you go to the front page -> code -> article, it works.
Sander_Marechal··on I used to prefer permissive licenses and now favor copyleft
So, LGPL?
Sander_Marechal··on I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence models
I think you mean the movie "Memento"
Sander_Marechal··on Show HN: CSS generator for a high-def glass effect
None of your linked examples work on Firefox :-( We're back in the IE6 days again, aren't we...
Sander_Marechal··on YouTube No Translation
I'm lucky enough that I mostly only consume English content on Youtube and not my native language, so I just set everything to English.

But yeah, it's incredibly stupid.

Sander_Marechal··on Cataphract: Medieval-fantasy roleplaying wargame, in the Black-Sea C. 1300
I think it would be really cool to run a game like that
Sander_Marechal··on Show HN: Workout.cool – Open-source fitness coaching platform
In my specific case, yes. But you could also flip it around. Maybe select some muscles and not select any equipment. They you can see what kind of equipment you might want to buy.
Sander_Marechal··on Show HN: Workout.cool – Open-source fitness coaching platform
It would be great if the equipment and muscle selection wasn't mandatory. For example, I have a pull-up bar but I have no idea what muscles I can train with it. Why not let me filter on beginner exercises instead?
Sander_Marechal··on Space Selfie
Take a look at the "Maker Secret Santa" series of video's. It's a yearly collaborative series between a bunch of different maker channels. It can give you a great idea as to what makers you'd like to follow.
Sander_Marechal··on Making video games (without an engine) in 2025
At this point using any engine instead of unity is better. Unity has demonstrated time and again that they cannot be trusted and that you cannot build a game (or business) around them.
Sander_Marechal··on Firefox moves to GitHub
Gitlab is working on using ActivityPub for interoperability between instances. See: https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/architectur...
Sander_Marechal··on DoorDash to acquire Deliveroo
Not OP, but when I order take out, I usually pick it up on my way from work. It hardly takes any extra time or mileage. It's often faster than ordering delivery. Also, somehow with delivery the food is always colder than when I pick it up myself.
Sander_Marechal··on Dropbox will require App Indicator support on Linux
I like the "Forge" extension for tiling: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/4481/forge/
Sander_Marechal··on All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding
Isn't webrtc broken in Chrome? Or did they finally fix that? It used to be that everyone supported Chrome's broken implementation, leaving Firefox users with the correct implementation out in the cold.
Sander_Marechal··on Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes user cancellations
Then you use AI for triaging or summation to help you provide better support faster. You don't let it respond to users unchecked.
Sander_Marechal··on CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract
> you are in the business of compliance rather than security.

So, most businesses. They all need their ISO/NIST/HIPAA/etc certs.

Sander_Marechal··on CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract
Yes, maybe reach out to Michiel Leenaars from the NLNet foundation. But IIRC NLNet mostly funds shorter development tracks, not ongoing upkeep/maintenance.
Sander_Marechal··on Rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia
There's also `unp`, the universal unpacker.
Sander_Marechal··on Moving away from US cloud services
Perfect is the enemy of good. The EU has it's flaws, but if you can't see the difference between the US privacy climate and the EU privacy climate then you need a reality check.
Sander_Marechal··on Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google
Chromium is also stripping manifest v2. Firefox isn't. Chromium is open source, but it's not an open source project. It's a Google project.
Sander_Marechal··on Pee If You Want to Go Deeper (2021)
> I guess the downside of that an opponent is likely to attack your groin

It's possible but dangerous to do. You open yourself up to attacks when trying to attack someone's groin from below.

> I assume that must have been detachable?

I'm not sure. A lot of them don't look detachable, being partially covered by other armour pieces.

Sander_Marechal··on Pee If You Want to Go Deeper (2021)
Almost all medieval armour is open from below at the crotch. So, you can just let go, but you'll wet or foul your underwear. Sometimes there are flaps or removable pieces. Sometimes not. It highly depends on the type or armour and the exact time period.

I have a full maille kit for reenactment. I can easily pee while wearing it. I only have to remove my gloves and helmet (so I can see what I'm doing). Defecating is harder but not impossible, but I just go before gearing up. I don't have armour on all day during reenactment events.

Sander_Marechal··on US Cloud soon illegal in EU? US punches first hole in EU-US Data Deal
As long as it is a subsidiary of Amazon US in any way, shape or form, this won't work, because it's not safe from FISA.
Sander_Marechal··on US Cloud soon illegal in EU? US punches first hole in EU-US Data Deal
> but rather that the data and control remain within the jurisdiction of EU law

The fundamental problem is that EU and US law are incompatible. FISA allows the US to access any data from any US company no matter where it is located. It doesn't matter that the data is located in the EU, on a European server, manager by the European division of a company. As long as there exists a US parent company, FISA can compel the data. And that is fundamentally against the GDPR.

Sander_Marechal··on I'm Done with Ubuntu
A long time ago there were good reasons for Ubuntu to exist. Debian releases were very slow, sometimes years apart, and focus was on servers. But slowly Debian has incorporated all the things that make Ubuntu better than Debian. It also has a much faster release cycle.

There hasn't been a good reason to use Ubuntu over Debian for years.

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