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malikNF

2,639 karma · joined December 10, 2016

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malikNF··on LG Says We're Fake News [video]
So change the wifi password.
malikNF··on ChatGPT claims rogue AI attacked more companies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Who_Cried_Wolf
malikNF··on DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost
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malikNF··on Kagi Small Web
I really loved Kagi and was a paid customer for close to two years. But sadly this year I wont be renewing my plan.

Kagi made search feel just “right” it was simple, got the job done and had some really simple but cool search features.

But over time they started doing way too much, and I kept seeing more and more features that I really didn't want. It felt like I was paying for all this while I just wanted to type something on to a text box and click search and see a bunch of results organized according to my filters.

I wish they would just dump all the other nonsense projects like ai and just focus on search only. Or give me an option to pay for search only without any limits.

malikNF··on Perfectly Replicating Coca Cola [video]
You should try the Coke made in Mexico. Easiest way I find it is by searching for “Mexico coke” on uber eats or something similar.

Most stores carrying products made in Mexico have it.

malikNF··on Show HN: Windows 7 GUI for the web
Every time I see something about windows7 coming up, I feel a little sad. 7 imo was the last good windows ms came up with. I remember upgrading to it was something worth bragging to your friends in school. There was so much excitement around it. After 7, something felt, broken, new features felt unnecessary, things got more user hostile, the magic, it was just gone!
malikNF··on Cockatoos have learned to operate drinking fountains in Australia
At first I read it as "Cockroaches".
malikNF··on Is X Down?
Looks like a global outage. Was asking Grok to help me fine tune a sourdough bread recipe, and it got stuck halfway. Guess we are back to regular ol sourdough today.
malikNF··on You'll own nothing and be happy- Jaguar Land Rover now offer a car subscription
So... hertz for Jaguars?
malikNF··on Twitter/X will let people you've blocked see your posts
What thread has Elon lost really? When Elon bought twitter there was a huge wave of people and the media telling us it was over in 6 months, when Elon fired staff they told us X would go down forever in a few months.

Under Elon imo X has gotten a lot better, I see more content that relates to me and has since found myself using X more than all the other social media platforms combined.

Blocking content makes no sense on a platform like X, if you block me and I still want to read your posts all I have to do is to make another account and read them. This just gets rid of the friction. If I block someone I just don't want to interact with them, I still want them to see me and my friends have fun.

malikNF··on How high speed fiber optic internet cables are made
There an old "how things are made" video on yt that explains this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CqT4DuAVxs
malikNF··on Show HN: I built a simple, open-source tool to manage servers and SSH keys
This looks very useful. I did not know this. Thank you!
malikNF··on Show HN: I built a simple, open-source tool to manage servers and SSH keys
>No need to remember server IPs

On your local machine under ~/.ssh/config you can add something like

#PERSONAL

Host vpn-us

    HostName 1.2.3.4

    User my_fun_username

    Port 1212

now you can ssh using

ssh vpn-us

(above is the same as the following command --> ssh my_fun_username@1.2.3.4 -p1212)

malikNF··on Don't use Vim for the wrong reasons (2020)
Pretty much this. And,

4. Not MS.

malikNF··on Don't use Vim for the wrong reasons (2020)
One of my favorite things about using vim as my main IDE is, I can run it on a linux server. My work has me moving around the country. I program on a vim instance running on a remote server. I just need to carry a tiny laptop around.

I usually get an okay ping(<100ms) and if its unacceptable (overseas travel) I change the vm location. Depending on what I am working on I can increase or decrease resources and since things I program usually end up running on ubuntu servers it feels right at home.

edit- Incase anyone is wondering, I actually started doing this since one of my laptops once got lost while traveling. Airline did find mybag later, but the two weeks without it drove me crazy. Now, if I want I can just show up anywhere get a fresh laptop load up my ssh keys and im all set lol.

malikNF··on Please maintain eye contact for the duration of the ad
He should patent the idea and block anyone else from attempting this.
malikNF··on Show HN: I built a web app to open source travel itineraries
Love the idea. Only issue I had with was the $$$ bit, it's not clear what I am looking at. Think there should be an option to see a approximate ranges in $ for the trips.

If I am using a site like this, I would want to quickly scan a $ range and then see if there's anything I like in there.

Again, love the idea and congrats on shipping. Bookmarked will be visiting again :)

malikNF··on My Fediverse use – I'm hosting everything myself – PeerTube, Mastodon and Lemmy
Convenience. Setting it up, maintaining it, cost, audience reach. Lots of reasons.
malikNF··on WeWork Goes Bankrupt
When I search it says this is a chapter 11 bankruptcy, and it says that means its a restructuring. What does this really mean? So can we see we work come back again ? Or is we work as we know it never going to come back?
malikNF··on A blog post is a long and complex search query to find people (2022)
He mentions he was born in 1989, so it makes sense to talk about pre internet. Till the mid 2000s the internet was not this available. Growing up we didn't have ADSL till around 2004-2005. And even then it was 512mb/s. Yes the internet was invented a long while before that, pre-internet in this context makes sense to me as time before the internet existed this widely, and at these speeds.
malikNF··on AWS IPv4 Estate Now Worth $4.5B
Question for the networking folk here. How can the rest of us help move things over to ipv6?
malikNF··on DevToys – A Swiss army knife for developers
wow! I didn't know how badly I wanted this. Thanks!
malikNF··on 1919 cartoon depicting the use of a ‘pocket telephone’
A better alternative that doesn't annoy your loved ones would be, to connect your phone to a smart watch.

Keep the phone on silent enable notifications on the watch. You get to keep an eye out for anything important while being away from the phone takes a bit of effort to reply immediately.

Im using an older garmin watch and it works perfectly, it even has a silent zone setting so I never get disturbed when I sleep. Also has a really neat feature where I can ask the watch to ping my phone if I cant find it, so when I get an important message and I need to find the phone I could quickly find it.

malikNF··on Mister Rogers had a point – routinely greeting six neighbors maximizes wellbeing
I used to have trouble going to get my hair cut after a barber clipped my ear with a blade.

Whenever I go to a new city what I do is, I read up a ton of reviews from multiple sources and find a few barbers I think ill like. Then I go for a quick trim to understand how comfortable I feel around them (this is the hardest part, I usually explain to them about my anxiety before I make a booking except for one instance everyone is really understanding usually), I have been lucky enough to find someone good after trying 2-3 barbers.

My current barber is an awesome older gentleman from Iran who migrated to the same city as I am, knows my exact haircut I want, so all I have to do is show up on time and get a great stress free haircut, and get to hear some really interesting story from him. lol if I go out of the city for a while, I wont mind looking like an escaped lunatic for a few days extra until I come back home.

malikNF··on Mark Spitznagel says the ‘greatest credit bubble in human history’ is set to pop
To the folk who dismiss this as “just another hedge fund manager who stand to win if everyone fails”

Why do you think this event or any other kind of big economic downturn is unlikely to happen?

malikNF··on Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users
I an part of the former. I do miss it. Glad to see there’s more people who are doing this. You shouldn’t be allowed to treat your community this way and get away with it.
malikNF··on Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users
Yep. W3schools is one of those sites that helped me begin my career. I still find it useful to look up something in a hurry. No idea why so many people hate it.
malikNF··on Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users
One of the main reasons I don’t mind paying for kagi is my absolute hate for pinterest.
malikNF··on Storing dead people at -196°C [video]
Haiyoo, what kind of person are you when even in death you can't give back to earth the body you borrowed.
malikNF··on Dear websites, stop asking for ransom sign-ups
curl is a very powerful tool.
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