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vekntksijdhricon New gTLD Application for .lan

This is a security issue for many devices. What could possibly go wrong overriding a tld used for internal networking....

vekntksijdhricon An Alien Mind

This is incredibly unscientific and just a marketing stunt

vekntksijdhricon The moral panic over data centres is foolish

The title was cropped

"The moral panic over data centres is foolish, filthy peasants!"

vekntksijdhricon Apple CEO Tim Cook's Legacy Is Dull Products and Spineless Capitulation

There is a lot to criticize about TC, but if you think the Apple Silicon move is dull (not in terms of technology, but what experiences it opens), you are incredibly stupid and shortsighted.

vekntksijdhricon Being kicked out of the tech industry

+1 to this. The author is not the main character in a drama, but he seems to disagree.

vekntksijdhricon Show HN: I built a native app for coding agents with Rust and GPUI

I don't understand what is the value of this tool, can you elaborate?

vekntksijdhricon I close SSH port 22 (and what I use instead)

SSH available only via VPN is simpler and more extensible.

vekntksijdhricon I close SSH port 22 (and what I use instead)

this

vekntksijdhricon Is it all just vapourware?

I stopped at "The hard part of software engineering was never writing the code."

Better read https://blog.senko.net/code-was-never-the-hard-part-is-an-in...

vekntksijdhricon Shrimple – A Simpler, Nicer Markdown

How is it more convenient to add lines under a title than start with a # ? How is it better to limit to h1 and h2 only?

vekntksijdhricon Does average person understand that all disc media dies too?

I think it is too much for you understand the other implications of not having a physical copy of your purchases...

vekntksijdhricon No Systemd

showing a list of bugs and vulnerabilities is not a compelling case against systemd, or it is a compelling case agains every single piece of software.... providing an argument *why* systemd is bad is what I expect

vekntksijdhricon John Carmack on why he would push back against anti-datacenter efforts

Compaing AI datacenters (which haven't proved to benefit most people, especially the ones near such DC) to nuclear is a really dumb analogy.

vekntksijdhricon Don't host email yourself – your reminder in 2026

exactly, this is a stupid and misleading title. self hosting your email is perfectly fine.

vekntksijdhricon LinkedIn Is Down

Let's keep it that way

vekntksijdhricon Why aren't we using SSH for everything? (2015)

I guess the answer is UI, which clearly the author didn't mention

vekntksijdhricon Pink Power Ranger takes down white supremacist dating sites

right, because being a anti-white supremacists is the same as being a white supremacist....

vekntksijdhricon Drinking champagne could reduce risk of sudden cardiac arrest, study suggests

"flying on private jet also reduces SCA". Looks like correlation more than causation.

vekntksijdhricon Watch R1 "think" with animated chains of thought

same, it is unclear what you can get out of this work

vekntksijdhricon The Curse of Markdown

I hate that I'm forced to scroll just to be able to read something that is already in the screen, but each to its own.

the chart is flashy, but pretty meaningless, there is zero value from it and everything looks overcomplicated.