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mmh0000on Public Domain Image Archive

On desktop Firefox, if you scroll while the mouse is on the top half of the first row of images, it goes very wonky.

mmh0000on Public Domain Image Archive

Just contact the original author. You may need to pay extra for the Medium.

mmh0000on Public Domain Image Archive

I do not know how this site managed to break mousewheel scrolling so badly, but I am quite impressed.

mmh0000on Running 'Doom' on E. coli cells slowly

Unless I greatly misunderstood. That's a misleading title, there's no running of Doom code.

They're displaying screenshots on E. coli, which is very cool!

mmh0000on The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid

This has been my go-to for discovering new things to watch for 15 years. If something doesn't show up in the top-100 list, I'm generally unaware of it.

mmh0000on Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O27Tn06bEXU&pp=0gcJCTkCo7VqN5t...

The joke has been around forever. Big bang probably did the best “popular” showing off it.

mmh0000on Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC

As always. XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1200/

mmh0000on It Will Never Be the Year of the Linux Desktop

Everybody needs tmux, especially locally.

My terminal splits panes (which I don't use), but what if I want to open two terminals that share the same set of splits? Can't. But tmux can!

What if I want to SSH back into my desktop (because I'm on a laptop or whatever) and grab something from my desktop terminal? Can't. But tmux can!

Vim splits and the vim terminal are poorly implemented. Technically, yes, they work. But you'll run into a lot of issues. I know, because a few years ago I went down the same path: Why do I need tmux, when I have vim!? ... I quickly learned why I needed tmux.

I agree with your side note: plasma+kitty+tmux and a few support scripts:

(please don't criticize my scripts; these were never meant to be shared, and it's a disaster, but it works for me)

I have this script (https://doc.xn0.org/tmuxedkitty-newwindow.sh) bound to WIN+T; it opens kitty, and either creates a new tmux session if there isn't one or attaches to the existing session and creates a new pane.

Then, I have my insane (I understand I am insane, but it works for me!) tmux config file: https://doc.xn0.org/.tmux.conf

Then, I have my insane zshrc that auto-titles my tmux windows: https://doc.xn0.org/.zshrc

Using titles from: https://doc.xn0.org/tmux-window-titles

I have put way too much thought and time into this...

mmh0000on Why Ctrl+V won't paste images in Claude Code on WSL, with a fix

Use Claude Desktop? (https://claude.com/download)

Personally, I much prefer the CLI. The CLI is a tool that has been refined for over 50 years to excel at text input and output. Once you learn it, it can feel like an extension of your brain.

mmh0000on Training our own AI models

> if you believe your organs don’t die when you die, then don’t donate your organs?

Because "I" don't know what "I" am.

Am I a brain? Am I a soul? Am I the universe?

I have no idea. Science currently has no idea. Religion is unprovable.

I want to donate my organs. If my death can bring life to others, it would be a truly amazing deed I could do.

On the other hand, if I am just a brain, I do not want to be locked into some sort of drugged, half-conscious state where I can't scream.

mmh0000on Training our own AI models

Um... I, 220% disagree with that statement. I did edit to fix a spelling mistake, I did not add/remove content...

I wish HN showed the edit history >:(

mmh0000on Training our own AI models

I think most people, and definitely myself, when they sign up to be an organ donor, they think of the liver, kidney, and heart. Things that will help other people.

Not the brain, the center of conscience, being kept in some sort of horror-movie half-alive state. I do not think we understand consciousness enough to rule out what those brains are experiencing.

mmh0000on Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down

That's neat! I had no idea rclone supported iCloud now. Looks like they added support about a year ago[1].

Step-by-step instructions: https://rclone.org/iclouddrive/

I just tested, and it worked... rclone is such an amazing and incredible project.

[1] https://rclone.org/changelog/#v1-69-0-2025-01-12

mmh0000on Training our own AI models

Which we probably need to consider changing now that some truly bizarre and evil shit is being done on donor organs:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48212992

mmh0000on Don't Subscribe So Casually

Plus, how are you going to sleep 300LBs of mayo without someone noticing?!

mmh0000on Oura says it gets government demands for user data

You may want to reevaluate.

Apple has a great PR (propaganda) department that has convinced many people they respect your privacy. In truth, they do not. They're "better" than Google, but only slightly. And only so slightly that realistically it doesn't matter.

"Apple is taking the unprecedented step of removing its highest level data security tool from customers in the UK, after the government demanded access to user data."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgj54eq4vejo

It happened in the UK; it will not be long before it happens in the US.

Also, USA: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36084244

Also, France, Germany, Australia, Brazil, Japan: https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/pdf/requests-2024-H...

Also, Russia: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-04/apple-fil...

Also, China: https://www.article19.org/resources/apple-cares-about-digita...

Also in general: https://proton.me/blog/iphone-privacy

mmh0000on AOC displays drinking water contaminated by data center

  > Most water use in data centers should be able to be self-sufficient, mostly closed

[Citation Needed]

My understanding is that data centers CAN use closed-loop systems. But, most don't if they're not forced to, because it costs more than evaporating towers.

According to this[1], 88% of water-cooled data-centers use open-loop evaporation towers.

"up to 85% of the water data centers use evaporates and does not return to the water supply" [2]

[1] https://intelligence.uptimeinstitute.com/sites/default/files...

[2] https://mostpolicyinitiative.org/science-note/data-center-wa...

mmh0000on Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart

Shamelessly stolen from Wikipedia:

  Examples of games that use HJKL are the text-based "graphic" adventures like NetHack, the Rogue series, and Linley's Dungeon Crawl. It is also used by some players of the Dance Dance Revolution clone StepMania, where HJKL corresponds directly to the order of the arrows. Gmail, Google Labs' keyboard shortcuts, and other websites use J and K for "next" and "previous".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_keys#HJKL_keys

mmh0000on Mounting git commits as folders with NFS (2023)

Ah, so you agree NFS is not fit for purpose (network file sharing), and I should use something else to share files over the network.

EDIT (the above is a bit more snark than I intended, let me add a little more):

NFS's direct (still widely used) competitor, SMB, natively supports:

  - Authentication
  - Transfer encryption
  - Authentication encryption
  - Has open implementations across platforms
  - Supports individual account management, and large enterprisey account management (LDAP/AD/etc)

With SMB, I can share out a directory on the network that allows visitors access, optionally authenticated with a simple username and password.

I can share out specific directories with easy control over who can access what. You know, basic network file sharing capabilities.

[[ And, don't take this as a love for SMB, it too has many issues and legacy junk ]]

mmh0000on Mounting git commits as folders with NFS (2023)

To be clear: I am not criticizing the use case in the article. It's a silly, fun, and creative hacking together of technology.

I am criticizing NFS as a whole, and specifically its Linux implementation.

mmh0000on Mounting git commits as folders with NFS (2023)

Sure, if you (the admin) have full control over the NFS server, the network, and the client devices, NFS can be secure with the help of Kerberos. But this isn't a simple thing. A Kerberos server needs to be set up, Kerberos clients need to be configured on the NFS server and client, tickets need to be issued, firewall ports need to be opened, and user accounts need to be centrally managed. That's all fine for an Enterprise.

Now, how about this common scenario: I want to run a file-sharing server on my network. I want a random "friend" to come over and grab a copy of a file, but I don't want them to see any other files on the NFS server.

So, the "friend" has root access on their device. They can just log in and lie to the NFS server, claim they're my UID, and see all my files that I didn't want them to access. Configuring KRB in that scenario is totally impractical.

mmh0000on Mounting git commits as folders with NFS (2023)

Usually, no. NFS defaults to "root_squash," which silently changes UID=0 to the UID of the `nfsnobody` user.

However, in the /etc/exports file, you can (but shouldn't) add the share option "no_root_squash" which disables that.

So, root access is slightly protected. But all other users are wide open.

mmh0000on Mounting git commits as folders with NFS (2023)

You're being downvoted, but, seriously... NFS is a joke for anything outside of an enterprise setup with a bunch of ancillary support services in place.

The fact that NFSv4 has no concept of true "Authentication" and just blindly accepts whatever the client sends is the craziest network application design ever:

  Client: Hi, NFS server, I'm Bob! UID=1000
  Server: Hi Bob! Here's access to all of Bob's files! I trust you and don't need a password or anything!
  Client: Thanks!!!

Some of you may nitpick and say, "well ackkkuallyy, NFS supports authentication through GSSAPI/krb."

And to you, I say, that's crazy! Setting up Kerberos just to authenticate users for access to my Linux ISOs is a crazy large requirement! Sure, it might make sense for an enterprise that already uses Kerberos + LDAP + NFS + certificate management, but for everyone else, that's a lot of infrastructure to set up and maintain for what should be BASIC functionality.

EDIT

ALSO!!! Why the fork does NFS run as a kernel module (nfsd)!? Shouldn't that be an external daemon!? Who the heck thought any of this was a good idea!?

  <sarcasm mode> 
    Dev1: Here's a great idea! Let's run an insecure network server in Kernel space! 
    Dev2: OMG! You're so smart! Let's also exclude any encryption!!!
 </>

//end rant of an old, bitter Linux sysadmin

mmh0000on U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app

It's not a "switch" per-se (though some of the kits have realtime tuning switches to make more/less smoke on demand).

It's a purposely poorly-turned engine + accelerator control.

TL;DR: poor turning, and floor it (high RPM).

This video gives a pretty good overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miTnnJ7xMv8

mmh0000on U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app

The "people" doing this are exactly the type of people you'd expect...

Just the first thing that came up in a youtube search, there are thousands more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYPMbLO4pAY

mmh0000on U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app

Utah used to require safety inspections every year, but they eliminated them; there were no noticeable side effects [1].

"Safety Inspections" were generally just a grift for third-party repairshops to collect free money and I couldn't be happier that they are no longer a thing.

Be aware that "safety" and "emissions" are different. Emissions testing is still required biannually for newish vehicles and yearly for older ones.

[1] https://www.deseret.com/2017/3/9/20607904/lawmakers-remove-r...

mmh0000on A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking

Wow! Somebody with ChatGPT discovered the concept of browser headers, then for some odd reason made the verbiage really ... weird "We chose not to tell you"... okay...

Anyway, if you really want to know what your browser is sending:

https://browserleaks.com/

https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

mmh0000on Utah senator smacks ABC reporters phone out of hand amid Data Center controversy

As always, there's an XKCD for everything: https://xkcd.com/1053/

mmh0000on Only 173? Tesla Cybertruck RWD Recall Reveals Low Sales

I'm honestly a little surprised that many people bought the RWD-only CT.

If you're looking to buy a CT and have the money for one, considering the price difference after taxes and other fees.

The RWD-only CT didn't make much sense when you could get AWD for a few thousand more, which increases range, torque, and speed.

mmh0000on It's official: Utah is the U.S. state closest to banning VPNs

It very likely is, but someone is going to have to pay lawyers tons of money and wait for years for it to go through the courts to stop it.