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oldestofsportson Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords

Video cameras are a thing too

oldestofsportson OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent

I dont understand this, what is the difference, technically!

oldestofsportson Microsoft's 'unhackable' Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss'

Why do you put 'unhackable' within quotes, like it would be a direct quote from Microsoft? I can't find any record of them using that word.

oldestofsportson Hyperlinks in terminal emulators

That's for the editor to handle, not the terminal.

oldestofsportson Europe takes first step to banning AI-generated child sexual abuse images

We should really up the game and completely ban all AI generated images depicting people, because we have no good way of knowing whether an image is AI generated or real, and images depicting people have terrible consequences in society when weaponized.

oldestofsportson Hyperlinks in terminal emulators

Browsers are great at hyperlinks, like really great. How about using browsers for hyperlinks instead?

oldestofsportson Willingness to look stupid

Just a few sentences in and the author is already comparing himself to nobel prize winners. Love it! Nice article!

oldestofsportson Meta acquires Moltbook

> Livies ruined after suddenly becoming rich.

This is somewhat of a myth though, in most cases, suddenly becoming rich is absolutely fantastic.

oldestofsportson Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs

It strongly pushes for max 3 LOC per function, and I am not even joking.

oldestofsportson Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs

That is called a "DI Container", and usually manages the objects and order of instantiation etc.

Dependency injection simply means to take objects as parameters, and not instantiate them themselves (which causes "Inversion of Control" also commonly mentioned when talking about DI). DI Containers just makes the managing of objects easier.

Avoiding it like a plague seems excessive, did you have a bad experience with them?

oldestofsportson When does MCP make sense vs CLI?

What non developer would have apt installed on their device though

oldestofsportson Landlines are ringing in homes again. Why parents are happy about that

Meanwhile in Finland all landlines will be gone this year.

oldestofsportson I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs

It's cool that it comes from CIA, and someone who doesn't know about xargs may just learn something new. What is not to like?

oldestofsportson I used Claude Code and GSD to build the accessibility tool I've always wanted

The tool looks neat, and normally I'd be interested to check out the code and learn something new by discussing it with the author, but I can't think of any technical questions that would be interesting to hear your opinion on, since you didn't code it. You even mention you don't know Swift at all.

But I'm sure you had fun creating it, so nice job. I'm just screaming at clouds.

oldestofsportson A Programmer's Loss of Identity

I'm pretty sure many doctors see themselves as being a doctor by identity, not just a person who works as a doctor.

If there is prestige in the profession, it seems to often become an identity.

oldestofsportson Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning

What a great project! Makes me confused as well as to why this received no engagement, but the slop must be drowning out the good signal.

oldestofsportson Claude Code is being dumbed down?

You dont expose error details to the user for security reasons, even though it does indeed make the user experience worse.

oldestofsportson Lessons you will learn living in a snowy place

This guy has mastered the art of dressing for winter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG3WfCWU9D0

oldestofsportson Another GitHub outage in the same day

My company just migrated to GitHub, and it's been a shockingly bad experience. BitBucket never felt like anything more than a tool that did the job, but now I really miss it.

oldestofsportson Another GitHub outage in the same day

This is just microsoft doing the only thing they know, which is taking a good product and turning it into a monster by bashing out whatever feature is on some investors mind that barely even work in a isolated vacuum-sealed test chamber. All microsoft producs are like bad experiments.

oldestofsportson OpenClaw is changing my life

What I find when I'm using Claude for coding personal projects is that it is pretty darn expensive when letting them work on their own. Is the cost of tokens ever a concern for those who use OpenClaw?

oldestofsportson Guide for Installing PostgreSQL on TrueNAS

I decided to write guides about random small things I do and publish them on the interwebs, just in case someone (or some AI agent) might find them useful.

oldestofsportson It's 2026, Just Use Postgres

Caching is mentioned in the article: What do you guys feel about using PostgreSQL for caching instead of Redis?

Redis is many times faster, so much that it doesn't seem comparable to me.

A lot of data you can get away with just caching in-mem on each node, but when you have many nodes there are valid cases where you really want that distributed cache.

oldestofsportson US has investigated claims WhatsApp chats aren't private

Surprised pikachu face

oldestofsportson Coding is when we're least productive

Writing code, notes, diagrams and now also AI prompts is certainly a big part of my work

oldestofsportson Doing the thing is doing the thing

> Buying tools for the thing is not doing the thing.

Why not? If i need a saw to build a deck, buying a saw must be the first step?

oldestofsportson I made my own Git

Nice job, great article!

I had a go at it as well a while back, I call it "shit" https://github.com/emanueldonalds/shit