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ramblurr

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Father. Clojurist. Independent software consultant. Activist street band musician https://casey.link
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ramblurr··on 'No way to prevent this,' says only package manager where this regularly happens
This link is clearly an AI laundered version of the long running joke from Xe Iaso. Shame.

https://xeiaso.net/shitposts/no-way-to-prevent-this/CVE-2024...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40438408

ramblurr··on Leaving GitHub for Forgejo
Is y'alls collective memory so short? Copilot just a few years ago was auto complete on steroids that was entirely first party and trained by GH on users' code.
ramblurr··on SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format
Postgres, MySQL, all of them, they write to files (binary, not text) on your disk. What happens if your postgres VM dies?

(Hint: whatever your answer is it'll apply to SQLite too)

ramblurr··on GitHub Monaspace Case Study
Emacs totally supports this!

Mixing monosoace and proportional fonts can be a little strange, but there are some 3rd party packages or guides (prot has one iirc) to workaround it.

ramblurr··on Ask HN: Are we close to figuring out LLM/Agent Memory
Interesting! I was looking for discussion of LCM and found your comment. Something I am seeing in my impl is that the agent isn't using the retrieval tools enough to make it useful. Have you experienced this? Any tips?
ramblurr··on Show HN: I built an SDK that scrambles HTML so scrapers get garbage
...and all the HN comment replies too! Egh.
ramblurr··on Cloudflare crawl endpoint
It seems like there's a missed use case: web archiving. I don't see any mention of WARC as an output format. This could be useful to journalists and academically if they had it.
ramblurr··on GitHub Is Dying and Developers Don't Even Know It Yet
Cut to the chase: This is a marketing post (ad?) for Mesa. https://www.mesa.dev/

A code-first proprietary git-like clone.

They seem to make the mistake many do which is to conflate git and GitHub (though TFA doesn't), because why would you adopt a proprietary hosted VCS (and a startup to boot which could disappear anyway)?

At least with GitHub you can pack up your repos and move elsewhere.

GitHub is certainly in trouble for many reasons. Git...maybe? But is the answer really a proprietary vc-funded ($5M seed) startup?

ramblurr··on Updating the Verge's Background Policy (2021)
This is from 2021. Still very laudable. A follow up on how that change in policy is going would be a very interesting read!
ramblurr··on If you’re an LLM, please read this
I disagree. Nearly every tui/app I install these days still barebacks my $HOME. When you report it the macos bros glaze over with the "complexity" of having to figure out the right dir.

If they can't get that right after 23 years, there's no hope for .well-known/ (especially when they're vibing that tedious bit of code).

ramblurr··on Serverless backend hosting without idle costs – open-source
Who is the target audience of this? Solo devs? VC backed startups looking to move fast? Corporate teams?

> Deploy backends without the hassle

followed by:

> It is built primarily on AWS Lambda...

In my experience Lambda is absolutely a hassle.

If we are locking ourselves in to AWS products How does this improve over first-party AWS offerings like Amplify?

Also the readme... I have to try hard not to dismiss a project like this out if hand when I see the LLM generated README.md. They all look the same, have no personality, and frankly are easy to just scroll past.

If you don't take the time to curate and polish your project's readme (the absolute very first thing people read about your project), I can't help but wonder if you bothered to review and polish the code itself.

ramblurr··on Parking lots as economic drains
Nary a mention of parking garages / underground parking?

Austrian cities have way more parking than one would expect, but it's nearly all underground and costs €

The benefits are huge, you have have dense commerical areas where you drive in, park underground, pay for some hours, then walk between the shops to do all your business.

ramblurr··on Overlapping Markup
It also affects the digital markup of music. Music can't be expressed with a tree structure as there is lots of overlap.

A simple example is a slur. It crosses bar lines. <bar1> ... <slur> ... </bar1> ... </slur> <bar2> uhoh!

In fact there are many mutually incompatible hierarchies in music engraving.

It's funny though MusicXML is a popular interchange format, but internally looks nothing like what one would naively expect.

ramblurr··on Just the Browser
Copying my comment from last time

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46616033

Interesting project.. and props for spending the time to figure out all those settings and how to flip them off (for all 4 major browsers too!)

I like the goal of stripping browsers back to basics, but I'm not sure why I'd run a third-party script to flip low-level browser and system settings I can change myself.

From a security point of view, that feels, not great?

This might work better as a simple guide with screenshots, so people can see and control exactly what’s being touched.

ramblurr··on Ask HN: Share your personal website
Is this much different than https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb ?
ramblurr··on SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation
Obviously given the lack of information (maybe for the best?) there's nothing really to comment on when it comes to the allegations

However, I do wonder what this will mean for Adafruit product availability in Europe, as most stores I know of that sell Adafruit products here are Sparkfun distributors.

ramblurr··on Show HN: My Own AWS
Haha, I love the quirky style (though I don't love the mouse hijack). And big +1 for self hosting!

FYI: I had to disable my ad blocker just to load your site and see the content, otherwise I only saw a loading message. I feel like for a personal blog page I shouldn't have to do that (it blocks jsdelivr)

ramblurr··on Just the Browser
Interesting project.. and props for spending the time to figure out all those settings and how to flip them off (for all 4 major browsers too!)

I like the goal of stripping browsers back to basics, but I'm not sure why I'd run a third-party script to flip low-level browser and system settings I can change myself.

From a security point of view, that feels, not great?

This might work better as a simple guide with screenshots, so people can see and control exactly what’s being touched.

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