WhyNotHugo

A year or two ago my iPhone started showing ads for Kentucky Friend Chicken on the home screen. I've never been to this store, installed anything related to it, or even visited their website.

Apparently this is triggered by walking near a venue of theirs. Apple doesn't classify this as an app, it's a "suggestion". The huge sign at the mall that says "drink coca cola" is also a suggestion, that doesn't make it any less of an ad.

The App Store has had third party ad for years too. And the settings app has first party ads too. iOS is full of ads, it's the exact crap that users expected to avoid with Apple.

These photos are terrible. They have incredible quality, but they're still terrible.

The amount of post-processing in them makes them look fake, like somebody took a photo of the background, and then photoshopped the subject on top of it.

I can't fathom how they'd consider "Private" something that uploads all the sensitive information in readable form to a third party service.

In fact, If I were asked to explain the opposite of private, I might give this kind of design as an example.

This isn't portable though, it's a GNU-specific "smart" things. Elsewhere, this overwrites the target device file.

It might not be about banning minors and just an excuse to get government ID / biometric face scan.

A dice roll is non-deterministic.

Replacing a six-sided die for an eight-sided die also keeps rolls non-deterministic.

That doesn't mean it's fine to just replace the dice mid-game.

The requirements for the third party app-stores are completely ridiculous and unreachable by 99% of the individuals and organisations out there. In practice, only vetted partners with huge resources can operate one.

You can get the same result by appending to your prompt "Avoid verbosity. Assume ADHD.".

Some brands have TVs share Wi-Fi with each other, so even if you don't connect it to Wi-Fi, your neighbour's TV will silently share with yours.

https://hister.org/ sounds like something you'd appreciate.

I wrote a little cli to import a zone file into deSEC: https://git.sr.ht/~whynothugo/zone2desec

I can also show a delta when you've made changes and asks for confirmation before applying.

I see it differently: as a teen, I could remember the exact word for lots of things, I could recall numbers and data with high precision. Nowadays, I'm pretty bad at all those things, but I can very well understand metaphors and connects concepts from wildly different topics — which I couldn't back then.

I see this kind of "interconnecting ideas" of my current years as somewhat connected with "fuzzy memory". It's like, when I retrieve data, it's not as precise, and sometimes I get neighbouring data, but that can actually of use.

This renders OOXML (Office Open XML), not to be confused with OpenOffice.org XML, standardised by ISO as OpenDocument Format.

I can't fathom why it's so common to run docker as root instead of as an unprivileged user.

Docker has supported running rootless mode for years. I packaged the docker-rootless into Arch/AUR over 4 years ago, so it's been around and stable that long.

Sure, on a server dedicated to running docker containers, maybe it makes sense for the marginal improvements to network latency. But otherwise, rootless should always be the default.

It doesn't technically have a parliament, it's a presidential system, not a parliamentary system. In a parliamentary system, it's parliament who appoints the head of state. Their congress does not appoint their President, and the President does not answer to congress.

This is true in other fields too. Wheel-chair ramps are used by people with baby strollers. Subtitles work for deaf people, those who can't understand the spoken language, or simple folks in situations where someone is sleeping next to them. Pretty much every accessibility-oriented feature ends up helping out people beyond the original audience.

The outstanding thing about these sanctions is that there's no due process: the accuser is the jury and judge. You don't need to be found guilty, or even charged to be sanction. The impact is deep, and global.

Each of these sanctions is sending a really strong signal to the world: "stop relying on anything US".

A lot of Flatpak's design is a great prototype, but it's somewhat worrying (for the ecosystem in general) that this was taken as a final design and being pushed out in all directions.

Portals are just a terrible design for a security boundary: all interfaces clobbered up into one huge daemon, which also deals with a lot of the internals of Flatpak/Snap. If you want your sandbox to use portals, you can't, because it relies on internals of both of these sandboxing mechanisms. The devs have confirmed they won't implement an API for other sandboxing engines to integrate with them.

The whole system also deeply intermixes the package manager and sandboxing engine — to the point where you can't use the sandboxing engine with your favourite package manager, and you can't use the package manager without the sandboxing engine.

It seems that the mentality is: all other distributions are irrelevant, all other sandboxing engines are unsupported.

And then desktop applications start having first-class integration with Flatpak, and start having issues everywhere else.

You already need to set up Flatpak's daemons for using some features in Firefox (like screen sharing, where the native interfaces aren't supported), and it seems that the plan is to do the same for other features.

Permissions being granted implicitly is awful for security.

During installation they're _mentioned_ but the you can't pick which permissions to grant. If the developer requested it, its granted by default.

There are third party tools to tinker with permissions, but even those tools follow a "implicit grant first, revoke later" model, mostly because of how Flatpak implicitly grants permissions.

And, of note, online payments across EU countries is most often done with American payment methods. Most Chinese companies only take US-based payment methods.

Such a sanction really narrows down where they can buy online — it's not just the US that becomes off-limits.

One of my main reasons for writing notes is that I learn while writing: the act of dumping information into textual format lets me re-think though all of it. Sometimes I pause and realise that I need to better understand something in order to put it into words. To explain a certain amount, I need to understand a wee bit more than that.

Having an AI write notes would only produce text, but the actual notes are mostly a side effect — an important one, but not the most important one in note taking.

I think hard about related notes, and peek at them when linking, sometimes finding interesting one-off connections. This makes me think further and sometimes expand the topics. Automated linking would not make me think, it wouldn't make me learn. It would just produce yet another pile of information that's already available online anyway.

> But then how do you access the LLM provider? Etc.

You can expose an HTTP proxy over a vsock into the VM.

Anyone know if I can use this to wipe a OnePlus 6 device?

The example you're giving is for an application that operates on files. In that case, naming the menu "Files" obviously makes sense.

But the obvious example of what op is talking about is Pidgin, an instant messenger. The first menu is called "Conversations". It has actions for operating on conversations. The application can't open files, or save files. At least not in the same sense as Notepad, Paint, Audacity, etc.

Qt is fully of bugs on Wayland, some of which are unfixable because the API makes guarantees that are impossible to uphold. I've reported a few issues upstream where there's no apparent path to fixing them (after years), and have reported countless bugs to applications which are just a bug/incoherency in Qt that can't be fixed.

Flutter is an absolute nightmare to install and work with. Even now the few bleeding-edge distributions where it's available are lagging behind many releases because of the pain that it is to maintain it. I don't want that level of pain as a pre-condition to building my software.

Keyboard-driven GUIs belong in the realm of a lost art called "accessibility", which enabled people with motor issues (amongst many others) to use applications without a mouse.

FWIW, most of Windows XP's utilities and included software was perfectly usable with a keyboard alone.

Agree completely. Higher speeds are a bit pointless for most users. Unless you have an extremely fast NAS, where you need to copy (not stream) data over Wi-Fi, you're unlikely to be anywhere near the current limits.

I'm using 802.11ac and see no need for higher speeds.

Not necessarily rebuild llama from scratch, build attempting to build it without cmake and manually invoking all the build commands would be quite in character.

The "social media" platform aspect is really offputting. That's really one of the aspects where it's obvious that GitHub lost perspective of its purpose.

And atproto isn't really something I'd want to be around; it's really associated with the wrong crowds.

TUI developers could implement the same kind of anti-features. This isn't a trait of GUI vs TUI.