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uneekname··on Show HN: Octelium – FOSS Alternative to Teleport, Cloudflare, Tailscale, Ngrok
Headscale is great (I use it) but it is an alternative to the Tailscale control server, not the client applications. Some of those are closed source, and their compatibility with Headscale is not guaranteed.
uneekname··on Jemalloc
This repository was just archived. Does anyone know what's going on with the project?
uneekname··on Owls in Towels
I'm not seeing the link on this page, but I believe this popular fediverse account[0] is run by the same folks

[0] https://earthstream.social/@owlsintowels

uneekname··on I hacked a dating app (and how not to treat a security researcher)
Genuine question, how could a well-formed HTTP request for a URL ever be considered unauthorized access? If I request something and someone responds...shouldn't it be their responsibility not to share important information?

Edit: should have read the linked article before commenting. It totally wasn't, and the charges were dropped...after thoroughly harassing the kid.

uneekname··on Flying Somewhere? You May Need That Real ID.
A passport card is valid for all domestic flights, as well as land travel to Canada and Mexico. I prefer it to my passport book when appropriate as it's sturdier and easier to carry.

It's also nice on international trips as proof of U.S. citizenship (though you'll usually need your book at border crossings)

uneekname··on What if we made advertising illegal?
My hometown did this, and I was surprised how bad billboards can be when I moved away
uneekname··on How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-)
Came here to post the same link! That book is wonderfully opinionated and has helped clarify some typographic concepts for me
uneekname··on Show HN: Metacheck – preview how any link appears on social media and chat apps
Well done! I was recently looking around for something like this and didn't love the options. Bookmarked Metacheck :)
uneekname··on A year of uv: pros, cons, and should you migrate
Why not just copy your last env into the next dir? If you need to change any of the package versions, or add something specific, you can do that without risking any breakages in your last project(s). From what I understand uv has a global package cache so the disk usage shouldn't be crazy.
uneekname··on A year of uv: pros, cons, and should you migrate
Yes, conda has a lot more features on paper. And it supports non-Python dependencies which is super important in some contexts.

However, after using conda for over three years I can confidently say I don't like using it. I find it to be slow and annoying, often creating more problems than it solves. Mamba is markedly better but still manages to confuse itself.

uv just works, if your desktop environment is relatively modern. that's its biggest selling point, and why I'm hooked on it.

uneekname··on The OBS Project is threatening Fedora Linux with legal action
I am a happy Fedora user, but the "Software" application it ships with has always been a joke. Pushing flatpaks (and especially poorly-maintained ones like this) has made it worse.

When I open Software I always think it's going to be a clean GTK interface for dnf. But it appears to just do its own thing, and I've learned not to trust the app listings in there.

uneekname··on "We're building a new static type checker for Python"
Yeah, this is a better link. Can we swap it out?
uneekname··on TikTok goes dark in the US
Yes. I was recently in Indonesia and shocked at how many high-profile sites are blocked at the DNS-level there, e.g. Reddit.

Is Reddit a great place? Eh. Is it critical to daily life in Indonesia? Of course not. But what I witnessed was censorship, full-stop.

I understand that the U.S. is not blocking TikTok at the DNS level. And that there are valid concerns over sharing user data and government influence over TikTok. But in my view, this is still censorship. Instead of allowing individuals decide whether or not to use TikTok, my government decided to ban it.

The whole argument over selling TikTok to a U.S.-based company is bullshit, imo. What kind of precedent is that? I use online services from all over the world, and in doing so decide to allow my usage to fall (to some extent) under the jurisdiction of that country.

uneekname··on Uncut Currency
...and now that Ebay listing says "477 viewed in the last 24 hours!"
uneekname··on LineageOS 22 Released
I bought a 1yo (new in box) OnePlus 11 5G last year and immediately installed LineageOS on it. Great, modern daily driver. My next phone, in many years, will also run LineageOS on day one.
uneekname··on Unexpected Keyboard
It's listed as a "similar app" in the README. I think it has a similar feature where you can swipe on keyboard keys to type different characters.
uneekname··on Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History
I love OHM! Some places are impressively well-mapped, for example NYC.
uneekname··on Amazon to invest another $4B in Anthropic, OpenAI's biggest rival
Well, there you go. These companies are always closer than they seem at first glance, and my preference for Anthropic may just be patting myself on the back.
uneekname··on Amazon to invest another $4B in Anthropic
As someone who doesn't really follow the LLM space closely, I have been consistently turning to Anthropic when I want to use an LLM (usually to work through coding problems)

Beside Sonnet impressing me, I like Anthropic because there's less of an "icky" factor compared to OpenAI or even Google. I don't know how much better Anthropic actually is, but I don't think I'm the only one who chooses based on my perception of the company's values and social responsibility.

uneekname··on Show HN: Jelly – A simpler shared inbox for small teams
This product looks great! I know a team who might be interested. Below is a minor suggested edit:

> There are plenty of shared inboxes out there, but they’re incredibly expensive and bloated with features that small teams don’t need. How expensive? Try $20+ per user per month. That’s over $240 a year just for one user—in this economy!?

The wording is confusing here, "user" used back-to-back to represent different dollar amounts.

uneekname··on SSH Remoting
Yeah, while I'm pretty happy with git in the terminal, I'm eager to see what Zed's take on a git workflow will look like. The inline git blame info is nice, but a UI for committing and push/pulling the repo would be great.
uneekname··on SSH Remoting
I'd really like to see this. I already run a bunch of containers on servers at home and work, and running a "Zed server" of some sort would be fabulous.

I also wonder (I haven't looked yet) how Zed communicates with its server process over SSH, and if this could be accomplished over some other protocol. Is it possible SSH could be a speed (or latency) bottleneck on high-speed networks?

uneekname··on Show HN: Marmite: Zero Config Static Site Generator written in Rust
Blazing Fast New Project Written in Rust (it's a SSG btw)
uneekname··on Rewriting Rust
I am relatively new to rust (only written a couple thousand lines, haven't fully grokked "idiomatic" rust, etc.) and I feel like I've run into these and similar warts many times. It is weird to lookup, say, coroutines in Rust to learn that everyone seems to agree they should exist, but they won't anytime soon. For a language focused on "correctness" and ergonomics, I think the rust community should consider some backwards-incompatible changes in the name of a better language.
uneekname··on Show HN: OpenFreeMap – Open-Source Map Hosting
As with other community projects such as Wikipedia or OSM, OpenHistoricalMap relies on keen-eyed volunteers such as yourself to improve their database!
uneekname··on Show HN: OpenFreeMap – Open-Source Map Hosting
The key problem here is a lack of accurate data. OSM is amazing, but is constantly getting improved and closer to realtime "ground truth." Historical OSM data is usually worse all-around, rather than "equally good, but as of year XXXX"

Perhaps there is a different dataset with better historical accuracy than OSM, but I do not know of one. You'd likely have to reduce your scope: trails in a specific park? Roads in a specific city?

As another commenter notes, there is a sister project OpenHistoricalMap that focuses on mapping historical data. It is rather sparse compared to OSM, but super fun to explore around e.g. NYC.

uneekname··on Show HN: OpenFreeMap – Open-Source Map Hosting
If your application allows for it, I also recommend checking out Protomaps / PMTiles. Brandon has some insanely cool work making a tile format and related infrastructure that scales nicely.
uneekname··on Ask HN: Should I open source my licensing server?
You post it on HN first where all the grumpy security open source contributors congregate.
uneekname··on What to do about America's killer cars
I can't speak for OP but their take sounded pretty city-focused. I live in a downtown that feels so overrun with these monstrous SUVs and what-have-you for no reason. I know they're useless because they're always empty and they park on my street (or better, in the bike lane I use every day).

I agree with your sentiment. Large vehicles have a lot of utility for a lot of people. I don't want to tax rural folk out of owning an important tool. But in the densest zip code in my state? I'm tired of reading about pedestrian murders in my neighborhood.

uneekname··on Show HN: Typeform alternative, turns Markdown to forms
If web 4.0 is better forms, count me in.
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