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throitallaway··on Bring bathroom doors back to hotels
"To sex" is to determine sex (gender.)
throitallaway··on Bring bathroom doors back to hotels
How many people consider what a bathroom looks like before booking a hotel room? I can't say I've ever done so.
throitallaway··on GrapheneOS is leaving France after receiving threats from law enforcement
How many posts about this do we need this week?
throitallaway··on Google Antigravity exfiltrates data via indirect prompt injection attack
I'm not sure how much sandboxing can help here. Presumably you're giving the tool access to a repo directory, and that's where a juicy .env file can live. It will also have access to your environment variables.

I suspect a lot of people permanently allow actions and classes of commands to be run by these tools rather than clicking "yes" a bunch of times during their workflows. Ride the vibes.

throitallaway··on Cool-retro-term: terminal emulator which mimics look and feel of CRTs
I've tried the shaders in the following repo with ghostty. They definitely work. I ended up keeping a cursor trail shader. https://github.com/0xhckr/ghostty-shaders
throitallaway··on France threatens GrapheneOS with arrests / server seizure for refusing backdoors
Gotta love the Streisand effect that happens due to stuff like this!
throitallaway··on My stages of learning to be a socially normal person
Maybe social connection doesn't come easy to them and they don't care about it much.
throitallaway··on Project Gemini
Google renamed Bard to Gemini last year. Side note: Google's "Gemini" product name is way overloaded. They have like 6 different things that you can buy/use that are named that.
throitallaway··on Redmond, WA, turns off Flock Safety cameras after ICE arrests
There will always be a million "what-ifs" that can be used to justify the erosion of personal liberties and privacy.
throitallaway··on Redmond, WA, turns off Flock Safety cameras after ICE arrests
They'd find a need (or excuse) for it regardless of the state of our immigration system.
throitallaway··on Thiel and Zuckerberg on Facebook, Millennials, and predictions for 2030 (2019)
Besides hating immigrants and Palantir contributing to the surveillance state? Just like drug dealers, I guess someone else would do it if he weren't.
throitallaway··on Thiel and Zuckerberg on Facebook, Millennials, and predictions for 2030 (2019)
It's always projection with those people.
throitallaway··on Thiel and Zuckerberg on Facebook, Millennials, and predictions for 2030 (2019)
That may be true, but that's not the news I'm exposed to. I only see him pop up every few years or so when he's announcing The Next Big Thing or trying to look/act more like a human person.
throitallaway··on Thiel and Zuckerberg on Facebook, Millennials, and predictions for 2030 (2019)
Musk tried that once at a Dave Chappelle show. It didn't go so well for him.
throitallaway··on Thiel and Zuckerberg on Facebook, Millennials, and predictions for 2030 (2019)
Those that have their names on the high score board of capitalism are truly the Einsteins of our generation and we should be so lucky to hear every thought stream that dribbles out of their heads.
throitallaway··on Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not
The UI/UX of Twitter has always been a dumpster fire. The non-sequential view that you get when accessing a page when not logged in is horrible.
throitallaway··on Show HN: Tommy – Turn ESP32 devices into through-wall motion sensors
Ah, I was hoping (at least rough) coordinates were something that this would do. I have HA and have been looking at mmwave devices for that use case. For things like "turn on a light, but only once I've sat down in the chair."
throitallaway··on Date bug in Rust-based coreutils affects Ubuntu 25.10 automatic updates
I also can't be hacked if I pull the power to my PC!
throitallaway··on Date bug in Rust-based coreutils affects Ubuntu 25.10 automatic updates
It seems like I'm probably preaching to the choir, but what really is the attack surface with coreutils? I can't imagine there have been a lot of pwns as a result of the `date` command.
throitallaway··on What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail?
If a company needs to rely on the CEO to file bug reports, it really shows their absolute lack of QA and testing along the way.
throitallaway··on What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail?
> But, man, Apple hardware still rocks. Can't deny that.

Ah yes, the Johnny Ive era of "no ports on Macbooks except USB-C, and hope you like touchbars!" was fantastic. Not to mention how heavy the damn things are. Oh and the sharp edges of the case where my palms rest. And the chiclet keyboards with .0001 mm of key travel. I'll take a carbon fiber Thinkpad with an OLED display any day of the week, thank you. Macbooks feel like user hostile devices and are the epitome of form over function.

throitallaway··on Show HN: Tommy – Turn ESP32 devices into through-wall motion sensors
This is impressive and some of the "coming soon" features are ambitious. So, these devices mesh with each other. Are they like "idle" WiFi connections, or are they chatty? I'm wondering how much spectrum clashing there will be. WiFi can be finicky enough as-is.
throitallaway··on Claude Memory
> you are using Ubuntu 18

Time to upgrade as 18(.04) has been EoL for 2.5+ years!

throitallaway··on Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption in US-East-1 Region
Their headquarters is in Seattle (Pacific Time.) But yeah, I hate time zones.
throitallaway··on Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption in US-East-1 Region
Would it matter? Would you base decisions on whether or not to use one of their products based on the dependency graph?
throitallaway··on ChatGPT Atlas
Does Google have my .env files that I've opened via Chrome?
throitallaway··on Fallout from the AWS outage: Smart mattresses go rogue
Thank you for your service. I spent a few years traveling all around North America and I can assure you that offline mode is very necessary for Maps. These Bay Area engineers need to go to the Rocky Mountains sometime and see how their phones act there when they have zero connectivity.
throitallaway··on Fallout from the AWS outage: Smart mattresses go rogue
Highly doubtful that someone would do that, but OK: turn off the breaker then.
throitallaway··on Tariffs Are Way Up. Interest on Debt Tops $1T. and Doge Didn't Do Much
Color me surprised. DOGE didn't touch the #1 candidate (defense spending) so it shows you where their priorities were.
throitallaway··on WinBoat: Windows apps on Linux with seamless integration
Maybe I would call Docker an installation and running method rather than a package manager in this case.
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