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jniles··on $3 ChromeOS Flex stick will revive old and outdated computers
How did it go?
jniles··on News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns
I understand this is tongue-in-cheek, but do you have an alternative/better proposal?
jniles··on Show HN: Adboost – A browser extension that adds ads to every webpage
I am super curious how far this goes. If, hypothetically, I wore some sort of glasses that kept facial recognition from identifying and tracking me at my local grocery store, would that constitute a civil infringement in the future?

What about extensions that skip embedded ads in a YouTube video? Is that tortuous interference with the view counter that creators use to market their reach?

jniles··on Sergey Brin's Unretirement
Thanks for sharing this link! I'd never heard of it before, and it is fascinating.
jniles··on I wish my web server were in the corner of my room (2022)
Giving a second shout out to pangolin. You can also manage a multi site set up quite easily with built in auth and without much command line foo. Super useful if you run something like proxmox and eany go spin up several services without too much configuration on each service to expose to the world. Really happy with pangolin.
jniles··on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1B web users
In an employment context, do we consider the user to be the employer or the person using the computer? I would think it would be the device owner, which generally would be the employer.

If so, then I would think the previous statement about adblocking being opt-in would still hold. It is just that advertisers are trying to indivually track and monetize employees on company devices and time. On my work machines I am generally not allowed to run software that my employer does not approve, why should ads be treated differently?

jniles··on Czech Republic: Petition for open source in public administration
Crowdstrike is a recent example that comes to mind. I don't see how paying for CrowdStrike made it more secure or reliable.

I would also argue that you could take all the $$ paying for proprietary software and contribute it to people who are making the open source software, making the reliance on "free" eyeballs less of an issue.

jniles··on Show HN: A Chrome extension that will auto-reject non-essential cookies
Just curious, but it sounds like this is the ideal use case for Do Not Track. Do you all use that as a signal to not track/remove nonessential cookies?
jniles··on US Government threatens Harvard with foreign student ban
You didn't answer my question. Please outline how being white has lead to your suffering or your ancestors suffering. I am not saying they did not suffer - everyone does - but how did being white cause you or them to suffer?

So far, you haven't given any evidence of that, only called me racist.

jniles··on US Government threatens Harvard with foreign student ban
I am curious how you are suffering from not having a "white celebratation". I understand why there might want to be a protected space for certain groups that, up until recently, were systematically treated harmfully. Whites don't fall into that category. So, I don't understand how it harms you that you cannot have a white party. Can you explain what harms you suffer?
jniles··on Mozilla launching “Thundermail” email service to take on Gmail, Microsoft 365
Not just them. Also FF mobile with UBO, and no email submission block for me.
jniles··on Mozilla's new Terms of Use causes confusion among Firefox users
If that is the case, I wish they would just say that. Currently, it is written as a Rorschach test where each person sees the good or evil they want to in the changes.

Just say why and be done with it.

jniles··on Fish-delousing underwater laser (2018) [video]
I would love to see more data on this. Their site makes some bold claims, but it is hard to know how to quantify the effectiveness of the laser treatment, How many units do you need per X fish? After how many hours/ days/ weeks does it take to reduce the parasites to X levels?

Not critiquing the technology, just hard to visualize as someone with no knowledge or experience in the field.

jniles··on Federal Trade Commission Launches Inquiry on Tech Censorship
I wonder if signal.me links are still blocked on X.
jniles··on CDC: Unpublished manuscripts mentioning certain topics must be pulled or revised
By that logic, is the term Baptist or Hindu scientifically sound? Is the term string theory? Is the term working class ? What makes words or terminology scientifically sound that doesn't apply here?

It sounds like someone disagrees with the underlying identity that individuals ascribe themselves and now anyone who do research using these identities is censored. You don't have to endorse (or even fully understand) a phenomena to research it. Arguably those are some of the most interesting research questions.

jniles··on RamaLama
It sounds like this project isn't addressing the user convenience aspect of ollama, but rather the developer convenience.

Hopefully both will be easy for users to play around with, but RamaLama should be easier to get your PR merged as a developer and swap out different registries. Vendor lock-in is rarely a good thing in the world of open source.

jniles··on Ask HN: ChatGPT plus down for me, or for everyone?
It is also down for me.
jniles··on FIDO2 security key company publishes results of internal security audit
I just did an upgrade to a few keys a couple days ago using solo-python and it was a breeze. Note that you might need to add the udev rules to your Linux machine if they are not detected as explained here: https://docs.solokeys.dev/solo/udev/
jniles··on ICE Is Paying Millions to Surveillance Company to Spy on People’s Communications
I assume tor browser bundle.
jniles··on Millennials ‘Make Farming Sexy’ in Africa, Where Tilling Soil Once Meant Shame
As someone who lives in Africa, I can assure you that the cheapest food around is locally grown. My guess for why is that import duties make a sizable chunk portion of the cost and that the infrastructure for keeping things cold/fresh is expensive or non-existent, driving up the risks and costs of importing fresh items.
jniles··on Setting Up a Pi Hole Made My Home Network Faster
I find these lists to be super helpful: https://v.firebog.net/hosts/lists.php. It's an aggregator of blocklists that classify them based on your likelihood to get a false positive block. In my experience, they live up to their claim.
jniles··on Setting Up a Pi Hole Made My Home Network Faster
I also use Adguard (the free DNS resolver) on my phone for roaming, but use the pihole in my local home. Two advantages for me of the pihole are a more pleasant Android experience (none of these Android notifications that apps are running in the background, better battery life, etc), and my ability to the block lists and the frequency with which they update.
jniles··on Goodbye, EdgeHTML
I really wonder what it would have been like if MS threw its weight behind Gecko.
jniles··on ODKCollect: Android app for forms, designed for use in challenging environments
Open Data Kit is an awesome tool! Our NGO has used it for public health surveys and other data collection applications in the DR Congo where internet coverage is spotty, literacy is low, and transportation is a logistical nightmare. It does exactly what it says on the tin and enables our community health workers to gather data in challenging places with just a phone and extra battery pack. As a bonus, the development community is great as well!

Really glad to see this project getting some attention!

jniles··on Teacher in Ghana has no computers so he draws Microsoft Word on the blackboard
Just for interests sake, solar panels in the DR Congo are about a dollar a watt. However, getting durable batteries is a different story.
jniles··on Cockpit – Administer Linux servers via a web browser
I also had this question and it took me about 5 minutes to figure out that you needed to click to reveal. It's fancy, but not at all practical. Hopefully someone updates it to just a flat list.
jniles··on Ask HN: Best development laptop?
I really wanted to like the x260, but we equipped a team of 6 programmers with the x260 and not one was without fault. The build construction or QA must have been on the fritz with our batch because half of them would crash when even the slightest pressure was applied to the bottom left corner of the laptop. I cannot recommend it in good faith.
jniles··on Ask HN: What are some of the better Hacker News apps?
I second premii. It caches a lot of content which is useful in low-bandwith environments.
jniles··on Tales of SugarCRM Security Horrors
I had never used reader mode on FF, but just gave it a whirl for this atricle and really like it. Thanks for the tip!
jniles··on We Have 24 Hours to Save Online Privacy Rules
It might be difficult to avoid google and others for tech illiterate users, but in some areas, there isn't the choice to use a different ISP.
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