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keyb0ardninjaon KDE Plasma 6.0, and KDE Gear 24.02 released

Thank you KDE developers, you're the best! Thank you for all your hard work.

Thanks also for making the KDE community the most friendly and welcoming.

Plasma 5 has been a joy to use for the last 10 years and I'm sure Plasma 6 will be even better!

keyb0ardninjaon Ask HN: What programming tutorial/course/article/blog would you like to see?

That sounds like a Dockerfile

keyb0ardninjaon PSA: uBlock/AdBlocks on Chrome to lose function thanks to Manifestv3

I've a similar setup as yours (https://i.imgur.com/D3McL6m.png).

You're wasting a bit of vertical space though with that empty titlebar. I turn off the titlebar for all windows in KDE Plasma and add this (https://github.com/psifidotos/applet-window-buttons) applet to the panel.

keyb0ardninjaon Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Wikipedia

I agree with you on this 100%.

Have you seen Android 12's new fisher-price UI? I would really love to hear your thoughts on this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xLgXIhebxA

keyb0ardninjaon Amazon is bypassing supply chain chaos with chartered ships and long-haul planes

Agreed. I thought that was meant as sarcasm at first, but apparently not. I'm shocked that is the top comment.

keyb0ardninjaon Show HN: I had some time yesterday so I made a GPT3 podcast to help you sleep

Just listened to one of the episodes. Sounds decent. I personally think it would sound a lot better if you slowed down the speed a little bit. 0.75x sounded much better to me.

keyb0ardninjaon Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community

> Please don't ask people to run non-free software to participate in your open source community.

Doesn't that imply the end of all macOS related projects? Not that I'm complaining, I'm actually very surprised by the amount of effort individuals put in to open source efforts (such as homebrew) to support a proprietary closed platform like macOS.

keyb0ardninjaon Vscode.dev

More like a virtual machine. The javascript virtual machine.

keyb0ardninjaon Vscode.dev

I didn't play around with it much. It might have the issues you're facing.

keyb0ardninjaon Vscode.dev

You can do this right now on android. If you're using chrome/chromium based browser, just visit vscode.dev and then select add to home screen from the browser menu. A similar option exists in firefox on android too, I believe.

Once you open the shortcut created from the previous step, it will open the webapp without the browser's UI.

keyb0ardninjaon Android phones are sending significant amount of user data with no opt-out [pdf]

LineageOS's default phone app supports call recording out of the box. I'm using LineageOS 18. I don't know if this is true for earlier versions.

keyb0ardninjaon Thoughts on chess improvement, after gaining 600 points in 6 months

I find Gothamchess very annoying. I like Ben Finegold a lot. Go Ben!

keyb0ardninjaon Coinbase Breach Notification

I must be missing something, but can someone explain what's the point of a hardware wallet? Why not just use a password manager?

Hardware wallets seem to have so many downsides, as far as I can understand.

You can keep multiple copies of your password manager's database (something like a kbdx file), but you won't have multiple copies of the hardware wallet. Therefore a single point of failure. If the wallet is stolen, damaged in a house fire, crushed by some accident etc. you're done. Also, can't the firmware of the hardware wallet possibly have some unknown bugs that might cause some failure in the future? Is the hardware failure-proof? No possibility of manufacturing defect etc.?

Secondly you've to buy a hardware wallet and whatever the cost, it's not free. Whereas an open source password manager like keepass is completely free (as in freedom as well as beer).

keyb0ardninjaon Happy Petrov Day

I love the video Robert Miles made on this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qWzDA84pKQ

keyb0ardninjaon Facebook’s Push to Defend Its Image

> A few years ago it'd be the place to go for in-depth yet concise explanations from experts in all different kinds of fields, and for some very interesting perspectives on different subjects.

If by "a few years" you mean "a decade", then yes. Quora went down the drain between 2012-2013.

keyb0ardninjaon Tim Cook Faces Surprising Employee Unrest at Apple

Jonathan Haidt has been talking about exactly this issue for many years now.

Here's is one of many of his videos on YouTube dealing exactly with this topic: https://youtu.be/jQcDw1r1lGw

keyb0ardninjaon China has forbidden under-18s from playing games for more than three hours/week

It's better to give the other person the benefit of doubt, and in case of confusion to ask for clarification rather than making the more uncharitable interpretation of the possible interpretations and thereby questioning the morality of the other person.

keyb0ardninjaon China has forbidden under-18s from playing games for more than three hours/week

This is exactly what F. A. Hayek warned us about in his book The Road to Serfdom.

keyb0ardninjaon My mouse driver is asking for a firewall exemption (2019)

> Linux Desktop has consistently proven that it has no interest in doing anything in a sane or consistent manner

Could you explain that a bit more?

keyb0ardninjaon Debian 11

You should use btrfs with snapshots. You won't be in that situation ever again. Just a suggestion.

keyb0ardninjaon The rise of never-ending job interviews

> Makes a lot of sense, you could solve all these questions without knowing specific algorithms as long as you are good at problem solving - which is, I assume, the intent of the process.

You could solve all these questions as long as you are good at problem solving, *given enough time*.

However, with tight time constraints and perfomance pressure, the only way you could solve all these questions is memorizing and practicing all these algorithms.

keyb0ardninjaon Launch HN: Atmana (YC S21) – An app to help cut down on compulsive porn usage

https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/research/

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ru3RQbsaYfM

keyb0ardninjaon Launch HN: Atmana (YC S21) – An app to help cut down on compulsive porn usage

https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/research/

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ru3RQbsaYfM

keyb0ardninjaon Launch HN: Atmana (YC S21) – An app to help cut down on compulsive porn usage

No pseudo-science is required when you've real solid science:

https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/research/

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ru3RQbsaYfM

keyb0ardninjaon Looking Glass: Run a Windows VM on Linux in a window with native performance

Thanks a lot, I'll check it out.