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loop22··on Gpg.fail
I think that's a feature not a bug for upstream projects encouraging these rewrites.
loop22··on Bluesky Announces Series A to Grow Network of 13M+ Users
It's possible unpin the Discover feed at least. If they pull a Twitter/X and make it the default then I'll be worried.
loop22··on Confirmed: Reflection 70B's official API is a wrapper for Sonnet 3.5
A much better summary is this Twitter/X thread: https://x.com/RealJosephus/status/1832904398831280448
loop22··on PuTTY vulnerability vuln-p521-bias
> No damage-control lawyerly BS, no 'ego'

And no cutesy name for the vulnerability

loop22··on Writing JavaScript without a build system
Epicureanism?
loop22··on A new AI game: Give me ideas for crimes to do
Interesting.Those replies are not too different from what Eliza gives.
loop22··on Twitter locked my account (again) for an obvious joke
The first submission of this post in July only has a single comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27921133
loop22··on Day One, the Journaling App, Joins Automattic
Still running an 8 year old version for that reason. Tried switching to MacJournal once it became free but kept going back.
loop22··on Disqus, a dark commenting system
> I wish there was some kind of service or plugin (preferably not based on a centralized service) where one could easily leave comments on any site even if the site itself did not support comments.

IIRC the Dissenter extension was just that, albeit centralized.

loop22··on The A-EON Amiga X5000: An alternate universe where the Amiga platform never died
The original iPhone?
loop22··on Goodbye Mac App Store
This would be great! Little Snitch, but for file access.
loop22··on Jarvis – A Personal Assistant for Linux
Appears to have been based on this tutorial: https://pythonspot.com/personal-assistant-jarvis-in-python/
loop22··on Unlicense Yourself: Set Your Code Free
The closest would be the JSON licence.

"The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil" http://www.json.org/license.html

loop22··on As a software engineer, what's the best skill to have for the next 5-10 years?
Make a 10x engineer help everyone else be more productive all day? Sounds like an effective way to lose that engineer.
loop22··on Bitcoin hits 3-year peak, nears record high on U.S. ETF approval
The Byzantine Generals' Problem.
loop22··on Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters
But how to keep out the spammy Meta-recruiters? We'll need Meta-Meta recruiters!
loop22··on The Making Of “Homer At The Bat,” The Episode That Conquered Prime Time (2012)
Highly recommend his novels to any classic Simpsons fans.