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jandrusk··on Show HN: Bible translated using LLMs from source Greek and Hebrew
Which set of NT Greek manuscripts is it using? Textus Teceptus? Byzantine? Critical Text?
jandrusk··on Making RSS More Fun
He clearly hasn't met elfeed that you run from within Emacs; I've used all of the major RSS readers over the years and elfeed is unbelievably versatile as are most things in Emacs, but learning Emacs might be worth it just for elfeed and org-mode.
jandrusk··on Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros
This is going to be an off the wall statement given this audience, but WWE signed an exclusive deal with NetFlix for 10 years I think in an effort to counter their main competitor AEW, which signed a deal with HBO Max shortly before that. Now they'll both potentially be on the same platform, which WWE will hate as it will be interesting in having two competitive pro wrestling promotions on the same platform.
jandrusk··on A Love Letter to FreeBSD
What is love? Baby don't reboot me, baby don't reboot me :) Truly a rock solid OS and I use it for my personal DNS servers and never had any issue, it just run and runs and runs with minimal bloat. I think it's way more stable than Linux, but obviously has some work to be a comptetive desktop. I've recently developed the philosophy of using Omarchy as my desktop and servers are FreeBSD unless there's some reason it doesn't fit my use case.
jandrusk··on Red Hat confirms security incident after hackers breach GitLab instance
VPN profiles? Best start revoking/renewing certs and keys. Geez, why would you store VPN profiles there?
jandrusk··on Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks
They’ve always have had a leftist bias like most of big tech.

https://x.com/therabbithole84/status/1957598712693452920?s=4...

jandrusk··on CrowdStrike's impact on aviation
Will be most interesting how this lawsuit by Delta plays out against Microsoft & Crowdstrike:

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/delta-hires-law-firm-seeki...

jandrusk··on For advertising, Firefox now collects user data by default
Not a good strategy for keeping an already very small user base.
jandrusk··on DuckDuckGo was down
How in the world is DDG dependent upon Bing to function? So glad I switched to Brave Search :)
jandrusk··on Making friends as an adult is hard (2021)
I tend to lose friends every time I start talking about Emacs.
jandrusk··on IBM swallows Red Hat storage products
Everything IBM touches turns to shit.
jandrusk··on Final thoughts on Ubiquiti
Sure sounds like a response to the law suite: https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1508965090019577856?t=L...
jandrusk··on The Story of Mel (1983)
I wrote a Twitter bot in Python that tweets one of the Hacker Dictionary Words of Day once a day.

https://twitter.com/hashtag/hackdict?src=hashtag_click

jandrusk··on HN is up again
Had to take a bunch of Xanex to get through the data without HN.
jandrusk··on Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?
I use Slack as my bookmark manager ;) Have my own personal Slack workspace where I have various channels for certain types of bookmarks(coding/emacs/history,etc). On my Debian box at home I have weechat with the weeslack plugin where my weechat instance runs in a tmux session 24X7 and I log everything locally to disk. That way I can just open up the Slack log for a given channel to find a specific bookmark in Emacs via search/regex search. Have Slack clients at work, mobile, and home, so it seems to work pretty good for me.
jandrusk··on If OpenSSL were a GUI
This also demonstrates were CLI excels and where GUI's fall short. With the GUI your just stuck digging for the correct option and tab. With the CLI you can create aliases or shell scripts to make wrappers for complex CLI options. Not to mention building custom openssl.cnf configs.
jandrusk··on Microsoft Purview: Additional classifiers for Communication Compliance (preview)
Employees will just start colluding using external tools once the first few suckers get fired.
jandrusk··on SELinux is unmanageable; just turn it off if it gets in your way
The other thing is that not all sysadmins are security engineers and you essentially have to be one to be able to manage SELinux well. You really have to understand the security implications of incorporating policy X for application Y.

Minimally, Redhat needs to come up with some better documentation around managing it along with better tools for managing policy. Like say, exporting the existing policy set before each upgrade or policy change and import them back? I'm thinking sort of what is done when a package is updated and you are prompted if you want to keep or replace your existing configs.

jandrusk··on Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
Isn't that what the block, mute, and muted wordlist options are for? If these were not available options I could see the argument, but they are, so why isn't this sufficient for users to moderate their own content?
jandrusk··on Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private
If the bid is accepted, he's going to want to build his own app store otherwise Google & Apple will kick the Twitter app off if his version of free speech doesn't align with their version of censorship.

Gab discovered this early on and pivoted accordingly.

jandrusk··on The Influence of Neuromancer on Cyberpunk
I just start reading Neuromancer on my Kindle last night and then this post pops up on HN. :)
jandrusk··on Ken and Roberta Williams Working on Colossal Cave Adventure Remake for VR and PC
I just don't see VR going mainstream for gaming. I think there is a certain degree of tactile feedback that gamers look for when gaming that they get from a controller or a keyboard and mouse. It will reach a niche audience and I think that most likely be millennials.

It will never work for greybeards like me with Vertigo ;)

jandrusk··on Pwnkit: Local Privilege Escalation in polkit's pkexec
There is already POC code published: https://github.com/mebeim/CVE-2021-4034
jandrusk··on Keep a Changelog
Does that mean you need a changelog for each changelog, since each changelog will be part of the project?
jandrusk··on Tools for Thinking
org-roam should have made the list.
jandrusk··on CISA Rumor Control
And how do we know that the information presented is not itself disinformation? It's simply an appeal to authority with no data presented to validate the claims. Would love to hear them address the data in this video: https://youtu.be/Ztu5Y5obWPk
jandrusk··on Please read the paper before you comment
Perhaps they should check the grammar on their article before they post it:

"They also do a literature review of existing work in word meanings, making in very clear they were building on the existing work in anthropology and linguistics. "

:)

jandrusk··on IMAP Email Backup
I use offlineimap to sync mail locally and then periodically backup the mail folders to an encrypted USB drive. Using Protonmail with ProtonBridge to pull it down.
jandrusk··on Ask HN: Best resources for non-technical founders to understand hacker mindset?
I would recommend Steve Levy's: Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution: 25th Anniversary Edition.
jandrusk··on Tiny Books Fit in One Hand. Will They Change the Way We Read?
Thought that's what e-readers were for.
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