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mrbluecoat··on Progressive Web Components
Nice! Reminds me of https://semantic-ui.com/ and its forked cousin https://fomantic-ui.com/
mrbluecoat··on The End of an Era
'act' as in a play, but now with no audience. So all that hard work of memorizing lines, rehearsing, and vocal lessons becomes an experience only the actors can enjoy by themselves.
mrbluecoat··on AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt
Alternative title: Memory, GPUs, and SBCs are about to become affordable again :)
mrbluecoat··on Private healthcare makes industries less innovative. It's time for change
Sigh, another US Healthcare article that states the obvious and won't change our reality. This topic is such an insta-depression trigger.
mrbluecoat··on Moist Towelette Museum
Ah, now it makes sense why my AI prompt last week for "Create a Spock moist towlette image" was so realistic.
mrbluecoat··on Waldi: A quiet place to write, and to be read
I had the same meh reaction. Why put content behind a wall if you're a content distributor platform?
mrbluecoat··on In-toto: A framework to secure the integrity of software supply chains
Feels way too over-engineered

https://github.com/in-toto/specification/blob/v1.0/in-toto-s...

mrbluecoat··on LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent
Very helpful, thank you. But it does remind me of that Yzma quote in The Emperor's New Groove: "Why do we even have that lever?"
mrbluecoat··on Decoy Font
> try squinting to see it

Cool effect. Reminds me of those board games that use red cellophane to reveal a secret message.

mrbluecoat··on A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese
What a cool idea! Need something similar for Korean - perhaps the EverLine light rail line in Yongin.
mrbluecoat··on GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in all Linux distributions for 15 years
Seems low considering the wide impact, but maybe the only thing corporations throw big money at is remote exploits?
mrbluecoat··on AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn
..and YouTube Music
mrbluecoat··on Transparency efforts behind the Helium Browser
> cause havoc, and put people first

An odd pairing

mrbluecoat··on Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop
I had a hunch that would be the case. I'm always nervous pointing any AI tool at my email, browser, and finances. Any similar solution that's truly local-first?
mrbluecoat··on Europe's company websites are mostly served by US vendors
Curious what the percentage would be when you include Visa, MasterCard, PayPal, and Shopify...
mrbluecoat··on Qualcomm Linux 2.0
We'll see. They purposely dropped all server/console support and now only offer a Debian desktop image, which seems crazy for an SBC. Not exactly a welcome mat:

> Other variants that were previously provided AS-IS are no longer provided. Interested users need to build those by themselves.

https://github.com/radxa-build/radxa-dragon-q6a

AI / NPU use cases have been severely hampered as well:

https://gist.github.com/Foadsf/3cc2e0ed357c3ac7180589701bf83...

I've personally been wrestling with their broken I2C for a couple weeks.

Really want to love this board but lots of sharp edges at the moment. Hopefully Qualcomm keeps dedicating resources to improving things - I know it's hard work!

mrbluecoat··on Why I Stopped Arguing with People
> Sometimes I won on points and lost the person.

So, so true. Not worth it.

mrbluecoat··on Open Source Low Tech
Reminds me of the book "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope" by William Kamkwamba. Good read.
mrbluecoat··on Experimenting with Random() in CSS
I especially liked the aurora demo. Nice example!
mrbluecoat··on Regular expressions that work “everywhere”
> the following features work everywhere. YMMV.

Amusing pair of statements.

mrbluecoat··on Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days
A surprising amount of documentation if the actor was just LLM-dropping these..
mrbluecoat··on Jolla Phone (October 2026)
Ship to the US with GrapheneOS and I'll be first in line :)
mrbluecoat··on We're making Bunny DNS free: because a faster internet won't build itself
> We implemented DNSSEC with NSEC Black Lies

That's pretty cool. Learned something new today.

Best wishes in your new business model!

mrbluecoat··on Canada plans 'nuclear renaissance' with up to 10 reactors built by 2040
Canada also has cold weather, which makes Nvidia's pairing of closed-loop liquid coolant and passive cooling datacenter design more attractive.
mrbluecoat··on Show HN: A pure ARM64 Assembly web server, now on Linux with CGI for no reason
> written entirely by-hand in ARM64 assembly as a fun project. It's probably got a lot of vulnerabilities I'm unaware of

Impressive, but that second part worries me. I hope one day AI security scans upon commit (or integrated in the IDE) will alleviate that risk.

What's the current security gold standard for web servers? Hiawatha? https://hiawatha.leisink.net/

mrbluecoat··on I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware
> I'm surprised they don't partner with some antivirus company to at least scan "releases" for malware

...like Windows Defender? Oh, the irony :D

mrbluecoat··on Seven Perfect Shuffles Randomize a Deck of Cards. But How Many Sloppy Ones?
TL;DR "roughly 14"
mrbluecoat··on GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17
I don't. GrapheneOS is worth the effort of pulling a card out of my wallet.
mrbluecoat··on Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers
Better title: “Google Chrome's Next Update Will Drive Privacy-Minded Users To Other Browsers“
mrbluecoat··on Boot Naked Linux
> the linux kernel configuration menu, a wonderful text menu system with a thousand options which has been baffling new users for about 30 years now.

So true.

In addition to C in the article and Rust linked to in the article, Go fans can use the similar https://gokrazy.org/ project.

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