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nwellinghoff··on Lawmakers want to ban VPNs
What if it’s a “thirty day” window? Safe?
nwellinghoff··on Benchmarking leading AI agents against Google reCAPTCHA v2
No you don’t select the post. No you don’t select the guy. Hence the point. Agreed they are annoying.
nwellinghoff··on Drilling down on Uncle Sam's proposed TP-Link ban
Wow. Where are the actual details about the threat, what models are affected etc? How to mitigate the threat? Totally useless.
nwellinghoff··on Oxy is Cloudflare's Rust-based next generation proxy framework (2023)
So why is this surfacing again now and why not a up to date article on Oxy? Which sounds very useful btw.
nwellinghoff··on Medical student ate 700 eggs in a month and his cholesterol levels dropped
Site is so plastered with ads it’s totally unusable. I mean who runs this and thinks it ok?
nwellinghoff··on Free software hasn't won
Agreed. Its only going to get worse and all current trends validate that. It’s clearly trending towards closed source big brother platforms. E.g ios, android, windows and macos.
nwellinghoff··on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account
I mean inside WSL. E.g. running nested virtual inside WSL env. https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/11216#issuecomment-2... for details.
nwellinghoff··on Git, JSON and Markdown walk into bar
What about json schema files? Hmmm
nwellinghoff··on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account
Wsl2 features like nested virtualization only work in the win11 version. The ltsc releases seem like the only viable option at this point.
nwellinghoff··on NFS at 40 – Remembering the Sun Microsystems Network File System
Got any more details about pros and cons based on your experience?
nwellinghoff··on Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available
Could be incompetence. Highly likely. Or could be…suspect.
nwellinghoff··on OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3B in income, $13.5B in loss
I think we are all forgetting that Google is a massive bureaucracy that has to move out of its own way to get anything done. The younger companies have a distinct advantage here. Hence the cycle of company growth and collapse.I think openai and the like have a very good chance here.
nwellinghoff··on Why the end of support for Windows 10 is uniquely troubling
Agreed. Not a good solution for mom and dad. I am starting to think i should just put Ubuntu on my mom’s computer. All she cares about is “it doesn’t change”. Eg the two icons she clicks on done move and do the same thing every time.
nwellinghoff··on Why the end of support for Windows 10 is uniquely troubling
Since this is “hacker” news. Just to let everyone know it is trivial to remove the tpm checks from the installer. You can do it manually or just download rufus and it has an option to remove them for you when you write an iso to a usb drive for install. Its a totally artificial requirement to drive sales. Windows 11 runs just fine on the older hardware. Like others have said windows ltsc is another great option. That being said…I agree its VERY annoying.
nwellinghoff··on Simple, free and efficient ad-blocker
Can it run locally with no outgoing internet access? Then maybe yes?
nwellinghoff··on Hidden risk in Notion 3.0 AI agents: Web search tool abuse for data exfiltration
How does a random user get a document in your notion instance?
nwellinghoff··on The Asus gaming laptop ACPI firmware bug
Its totally unacceptable that a customer, albeit a very skilled one, has to reverse engineer ASUS's code to solve this problem And even more unacceptable that all an executive would have to do is hand their engineering team this article and they are hand held through fixing it.

Asus has what looks like some great offerings and they are just loosing customers over the simple stuff. Dell has the same kind of problems. I have had a XPS with dual graphics since 2017 and only in 2023 did I finally get the magical combination of drivers and "old" firmware such that its perfectly stable. Of course its thunderbolt dock has a firmware issue where it detects external TB drives wrong about 50% of the time when it wakes from sleep. I just know its some bone head firmware code similar to this issue.

Message to the CEOs of these companies: Stop outsourcing your firmware dev to the lowest bidder! One can argue its kinda of the easiest part to get right! And then have a support channel that recognizes technically gifted people and fast track their issues to the top of your backlog! It will pay for itself in sales I promise!

nwellinghoff··on Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio
Confirm. I used xp on a silicon graphics 21” crt for a longgggg time. Was freaking heavy as hell to lug around, but it was a great monitor even well into the lcd era.
nwellinghoff··on Nest 1st gen and 2nd gen thermostats no longer supported from Oct 25
Anything that requires a cloud account and does not offer a self hosted option, even a limited one, should be considered throw away. Would be nice if google released a self hosted server for these as a nod and thanks to the early customers.
nwellinghoff··on Cache of WW2 bombs found under a playground in Northumberland
Fascinating. Amazing they don’t just evacuate the town and detonate it. Seems like a matter of time before it goes.
nwellinghoff··on A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (2008)
The spell check is truly bad. It boggles the mind how this is even possible given how solved the problem is everywhere else. Also the period being to the right of the spacebar such that it gets hit instead of space. So annoying!
nwellinghoff··on End of 10: Upgrade your old Windows 10 computer to Linux
You could always switch to the ltsc line. Been using ltsc iot and its pretty nice
nwellinghoff··on Show HN: Xenolab – Rasp Pi monitor for my pet carnivourus plants
Its the water. I have a ro/DI system and use that water. All of the cool low nutrients species have been living for years no problem.
nwellinghoff··on How the US Built 5k Ships in WWII
Wow. Very extensive and fact rich article. Worth a read.
nwellinghoff··on Replacing Kubernetes with systemd (2024)
Why / how is it 60% cheaper?
nwellinghoff··on A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen
I also Love the direction of this truck. It would be nice if they installed speakers…two door and a small sub and just left a space in the dash for a standard radio of your choice. Or at the very least cut out the spaces and run wire so installing a proper stereo isn’t a nightmare. I don’t need “infotainment” but I do consider a radio with decent sound to enjoy the ride standard equipment.
nwellinghoff··on Getting Forked by Microsoft
Is there a template license that says open source unless your market cap is or goes above x million? Would like companies to be able to use things to grow but then if they hit it big the have to start paying.
nwellinghoff··on How the 2025 US Financial Crisis is Different than 2008
I think we (Americans) are hoping this is a giant bluff and he will pull it all back in less than 6m. Please God let it be a bluff…
nwellinghoff··on Debian bookworm live images now reproducible
Does anyone have any information as to how they modified their C code such that the complier output was deterministic? I thought one of the hardest problems with a effort like this was writing your C such that the compiler would output everything in the same order (same bytes)? And I am not just talking about time stamps etc.
nwellinghoff··on "Awful": Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen
Its because its the next step in the boil the frog process. They will train you on that and then a few months later it will force play for 5 sec. Then a few months later full ad. Etc. etc.
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