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DuncanCoffee··on Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs
I once read the manual of one of those small floor cleaning robots (Ecovacs Deebot U2 pro), and it basically said that by using it you were giving them a right to take pictures and send them to a remote server (to analyze issues or something like that)
DuncanCoffee··on Your phone is about to stop being yours
Cannot wait for linux phones to be ready... When I switch my current phone I'll check out how the Jolla status is
DuncanCoffee··on Arch Linux Now Has a Bit-for-Bit Reproducible Docker Image
I know it's an anti-pattern, but what is the alternative if you need to install some software? Pulling its tagged source code, gcc and compile everything?
DuncanCoffee··on YouTube starts showing 90-second unskippable ads to TV viewers
I feel strongly about advertising. Long before streaming, my parents used to leave the ads on in between programs, and it always made me mad. I think my ADD comes into play, the idea of voluntarily watching them feels really strange.

I also wonder how the world would change if we made targeted advertising illegal. One can dream...

DuncanCoffee··on The beauty and terror of modding Windows
Last week I added to my dolphin toolbar the "Show Hidden Files" button so it was always shown, my only issue was that it was a really long because of its text. "But wait!" I thought, "This is not windows, I'm sure I can change it!". Lo and behold, my button now says "Hidden" and it's as short as I want it, just by editing the normal settings, no mods required.
DuncanCoffee··on Keybee: A Keyboard Designed for Smartphones
I used minumm keyboard a long time ago and it was actually good, 1-2 cm of keyboard height, sadly I think it's been discontinued long ago, but you can see a couple of screenshots here

http://minuum.com/

DuncanCoffee··on Show HN: 3D Mahjong, Built in CSS
Nice! Wish the supported rotation was bigger, maybe +- 90 instead of only 90 deg?
DuncanCoffee··on Ask HN: What recent UX changes make no sense to you?
I installed stylish for Firefox and sometimes use some custom CSS to enlarge the body. I recently did it for chatgpt, on a 32" having the main content filling 1/4 of the display is ridiculous
DuncanCoffee··on enclose.horse
Nice game, I'm going to sink some time on these! Got 86 points today

https://enclose.horse Day 8 PERFECT! 100%

DuncanCoffee··on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell
Love it, I discovered it last week and bought a supporter pack after two days! Everytime I get stuck I'm 100% sure you made a mistake... Until I find my own mistake
DuncanCoffee··on GitHub Actions has a package manager, and it might be the worst
Yeah I sign my project APKs so people can install them from the action's artefact

  - name: Retrieve keystore for apk signing
    env:
      KEYSTORE: ${{ secrets.KEYSTORE }}
      run: echo "$KEYSTORE" | base64 --decode > /home/runner/work/keystore.pfk
DuncanCoffee··on Floss Before Brushing
Because when you floss you create more particles
DuncanCoffee··on My Deus Ex lipsyncing fix mod
It's the game that made me stop using cheats. I was young and discovered cheat codes and used them in every game that made them available. I remember completing Deus Ex and finding it "just ok", but then I read how people talked about it, and realized that taking away the challenge from games was making them worse! Never used one again, aside from when I discovered Cheat Engine, which was amazing for somebody who was starting to get interested in programming.
DuncanCoffee··on Samsung Removes Bootloader Unlocking with One UI 8
I have an xcover 6 pro with dual sim, 3.5 jack, removable battery and micro sd support, it works great (except buying an original battery is not super easy). I know the 7 is out too but I think its reviews were worse on amazon
DuncanCoffee··on Why your website should be under 14kB in size
It wasn't required by law and the ocpp charging protocol, used to manage charge sessions at a high level between the charger and the service provider (not the vehicle) did not include payments management. Everybody just found it easier to manage payments using apps and credits. But I think Europe is going to make it mandatory soon(ish)
DuncanCoffee··on Upcoming coordinated security fix for all Matrix server implementations
There's an official Golang rewrite called dendrite: https://github.com/element-hq/dendrite it has few start because they recentyl migrated it from the original repo (https://github.com/matrix-org/dendrite) Development is not fast but it's going on, and it's currently on beta. I haven't tried it, I selfhost a synapse server which I used with friends, and with docker it wasn't hard to set up/maintain after the initial effort.
DuncanCoffee··on Rocknix is an immutable Linux distribution for handheld gaming devices
Bazzite was built as a "plug and play" distro to play games on steam, I think their main handheld target is the Steam Deck which has a 7.4 inches display
DuncanCoffee··on I use zip bombs to protect my server
Would this also stop users with automatic form filling enabled?
DuncanCoffee··on Ask HN: Share your AI prompt that stumps every model
Reminds me of the abomination of nature you could build in Monkey Island 4

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/RiwL9awO5y0

DuncanCoffee··on I think we need a bigger boot partition
Yeah, with a 500 MB partition I cannot have both the normal and LTS kernel thanks to that, and resizing it sound like a good way to break stuff, so I'll pass for now
DuncanCoffee··on Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord
I remember a gitea update where they said in the release text something like "new github-like ui" and they basically copied all of it (check some screenshot of the latest version)
DuncanCoffee··on Ask HN: What's the best implementation of Conway's Game of Life?
You may like https://www.dwitter.net/
DuncanCoffee··on F-Droid's Progress and What's Coming in 2025
I sort by last updated and check the date. Since most of the projects are on Github I then open it and check last commit/stars. Maybe they could add Github stars? I use droidify btw
DuncanCoffee··on I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back
My personal experience: I use Firefox because all its issues are fixable either via about:config or extensions. It's not slow or crashing.

- Embedded telemetry can be disabled via about:config - Running ublock origin in advanced mode blocks all third party domains, websites are often broken but easily fixable - Cookie Autodelete deletes a website cookie after the tab closes - Decentraleyes as a local CDN to avoid external requests for common libraries - Redirector to change request to alternative no tracking frontends for famous websites - Simple tab groups keep tabs organized by "job" - Bitwarden to manage passwords

I rarely encounter websites that are not working and I just switch to another website, and I use Vivaldi for things like meet where I want things to "just work".

DuncanCoffee··on Autocorrect in Your Keyboard Firmware (2021)
I keep a second layout, the "US, alt. intl." (US international alternative?)even on computers without US keyboards, then use a hotkey such as win + space to swap between them and "\" becomes the backtick. Not only it's easy to write "~" but it's also easier to write upper case accented letters since it's just backtick + shift + vowel
DuncanCoffee··on How de-Googled is Lineage OS?
Not seeing relevant ads is literally my use case. If you see relevant ads it means at best that somewhere there's a list of all your history and preferences, and at worst your devices are actively listening to you
DuncanCoffee··on What is the significance of the character "j" at the end of a Roman Numeral? (2013)
Could it be because of the shape of I? A scratch could easily make that shape, while an X requires at least two of them
DuncanCoffee··on Zed on Linux Is Here
I've been looking (for years!) for an editor with code highlight which can open single files as fast as notepad++ but on linux, I have to say I'm really happy about zed.

I also use it to open folders with source code and markdown documents without having to boot up an intellij editor

DuncanCoffee··on Zed on Linux Is Here
I always see this comment and understand its reasoning, but people who check what they are installing are the same people who can download and check a shell script.

In this case it's 150 rows with spaces and comments and the first one is

# Downloads the latest tarball from https://zed.dev/releases and unpacks it # into ~/.local/. If you'd prefer to do this manually, instructions are at # https://zed.dev/docs/linux.

Then it's a download, extract and copy stuff around, it takes 1 minute to visually parse

If an install script is obfuscated then yeah, I'd skip it too.

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