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abraham··on You can now uv run a GitHub gist
You can also get text from Gists by add .txt

https://gist.github.com/charliermarsh/ea9eab7f56b1b3d41e5196...

abraham··on Build and Host AI-Powered Apps with Claude – No Deployment Needed
On-device models seems like a good approach to this. Especially if it's silly projects they probably don't need the latest and greatest expensive models.

Firebase recently launch some experimental on-device APIs. https://firebase.blog/posts/2025/06/hybrid-inference-firebas...

abraham··on New Firefox Add-On Policies
> We’ve updated Add-on policies for addons.mozilla.org (AMO).

Their policy doesn't apply to your computer. Only to developers that want to use Mozilla's infrastructure for distribution.

abraham··on GitHub MCP exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP
You can go to https://github.com/settings/installations and edit Jules permissions to be limited to a specific list of repos.
abraham··on GitHub Copilot Coding Agent
Gemini has some GitHub integrations

https://developers.google.com/gemini-code-assist/docs/review...

abraham··on GitHub Copilot Coding Agent
Have it write tests for everything and then you've got a well tested codebase.
abraham··on Google change is breaking some digital photo frames
You can change to archive size to 50GB per file.
abraham··on Ask HN: What's the one feature you'd want in a GitHub productivity tool?
Wikis are a git repo that you can clone.

https://docs.github.com/en/communities/documenting-your-proj...

abraham··on Why does everyone run ancient Postgres versions?
When a critical security patch comes out, you don't want to have to to do a major version upgrade to get it.
abraham··on "GitHub" Is Starting to Feel Like Legacy Software
https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/keeping-your-accou...
abraham··on AI-generated thumbnails used to promote 12 Angry Men on Amazon Prime
Netflix's approach has also had criticisms

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/oct/20/netflix-film-b...

abraham··on Tell HN: Twitter Domain Redirecting to X
> large-format posts, spaces, improvements in video hosting (can post multiple hours), community notes is now an integral part, premium accounts.

All features that existed before the change in ownership. They had increases in length or branding changes but already had the core framework implemented.

abraham··on Ask HN: Did you turn off Google activity tracking?
Google has announced on-device only encrypted back options.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/15/24002693/google-maps-upd...

abraham··on ZX – A tool for writing better scripts
According to Stack Overflow JavaScript is more popular.

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023#section-most-popular-te...

abraham··on Google dragged to UK watchdog over Chrome's upcoming IP address cloaking
> The Google-run proxy can observe the user's IP address but not the websites being visited and the third-party proxy can see the web servers being visited but not the IP address of the visitor.

Google will likely already have the user's IP from sync, safe browsing, etc, if Google's proxy doesn't know what sites are visited it doesn't sound like this increases Google's access to any user data.

abraham··on Twitter's onion service is serving an invalid TLS certificate since 3/6/2023
The API page is still up

https://api.twitterstat.us/

abraham··on 1.1.1.1 lookup failures on October 4th, 2023
You have to pay $200/month for access to live chat support.

https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/

abraham··on DALL-E 3 is now publicly available inside Bing
Bing Rewards was launched in 2010 so apparently it's working enough to keep it around.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bing#:~:text=Bing%20....

abraham··on Passkeys are generally available
I don't remember verifying TOTP in months. I'm pretty sure since I setup passkeys. Maybe it's not required if you have three methods setup.
abraham··on Passkeys are generally available
GitHub has a "Preferred 2FA method" method that you can set to passkeys.
abraham··on Pocket gets worse the more you use it (2019)
This appears to be from 2017.
abraham··on Google is selling all my personal information in Google Domains to Squarespace?
> move their domain to somewhere else in the meantime?

Everyone can already do this.

abraham··on Show HN: I made CSS Pro, a re-imagined Devtools for web design
Reminds me of https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/ProjectVisBug
abraham··on Google appears to be scaling up the ads it shows to Gmail users
Gmail seems to only show ads if you have categories on.

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/3094499?hl=en&co=GENI...

abraham··on Tesla Model 2 will have 53kWh LFP battery pack
> Tesla cuts US prices for fifth time since January

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/07/business/tesla-cuts-prices/in...

It seems like there is some effect or they probably wound't be cutting prices.

abraham··on NPR cancels 4 podcasts amid major layoffs
> Currently, the NPR+ bundle is only available in a select number of locations.

It's apparently not available in WI.

abraham··on We updated our RSA SSH host key
GitHub has had a password breaching the past?
abraham··on Acropalypse: a vulnerability in Google's screenshot editing tool
I was not able to replicate with a 7 pro.
abraham··on Let's build a Chrome extension that steals as much data as possible
It's a chrome APi, not a browser web API.

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/syste...

abraham··on GitHub Is Down
Note that one is a two minute planned maintenance period.
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