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A random computer geek on the internet. Comments are CC BY-ND 4.0.

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auscompgeek··on Sublime Text Build 4213
Like many text editors, you can open a directory and it'll show a file tree in the sidebar.
auscompgeek··on Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
Cursor does currently allow users to BYO OpenAI token. Given Cursor won't have access to OpenAI models for prompt engineering/evals though, there's definitely a question of whether they'd allow picking any new OpenAI models, assuming the BYOK option continues to exist at all.
auscompgeek··on DMARC has been public since 2012 but most company domains still don't enforce it
Specifying sp=reject in a DMARC policy would have a similar effect right?
auscompgeek··on Git rebase -I is not that scary
That somewhat sounds like the sort of thing git imerge does.
auscompgeek··on Systemd 261 released with systemd-sysinstall, IMDSD, and storagectl
Is `cloud-init query` not already a standard interface for "who am I" on cloud instances?
auscompgeek··on GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories
As a developer or security researcher, you're able to download and run GitHub Enterprise Server. I'm not sure having access to the full source code makes a meaningful difference for most of GitHub's surface area, given it's largely Ruby.
auscompgeek··on Content-defined chunking added to Bazel
In theory eStargz layers should be amenable to CDC.
auscompgeek··on Copy Fail 2: Electric Boogaloo
From what I can gather it is the exact same vulnerability.
auscompgeek··on The next phase of the Microsoft OpenAI partnership – OpenAI
In isolation sure. But in context with the other points it makes it look like "they" refers to Microsoft in all the dot points.
auscompgeek··on Highlights from Git 2.54
describe is also the command you can use to edit the commit message of the change you're currently drafting. In jj there's no staging area, every modification to the working tree immediately gets integrated into the current commit. (This means if you have no diff in your working tree, you're actually on an empty commit.)
auscompgeek··on LM Studio 0.4
Depending on what NPU you have yes.
auscompgeek··on Building a macOS app to know when my Mac is thermal throttling
It was definitely a relatively well known problem with the 2019 MBP on the internet at some point. I found a Reddit thread linking to a news article about this. https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/vi3grj/you_should_char...

It was so much of a problem that at work we added a check that you were charging from the right ports to our internal doctor script (think like `brew doctor`).

auscompgeek··on Claude Code gets native LSP support
I think you may be confusing Agent Client Protocol with Agent Communication Protocol.
auscompgeek··on School security AI flagged clarinet as a gun. Exec says it wasn't an error
At the very least schools should be billed for the frivolous police callouts. Who knows, maybe then the school might change their tune.
auscompgeek··on Sunsetting Supermaven
I would've considered signing up if scrolling on your website didn't make my modern flagship phone drop frames.
auscompgeek··on XSLT RIP
Firefox haven't removed XSLT support yet.
auscompgeek··on How I use every Claude Code feature
git very much supports symlinks. Although depending on the system config it might not create actual symlinks on Windows.
auscompgeek··on Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model
IIRC that's actually a change in upstream pip.
auscompgeek··on Sign in with Google in Chrome
> Indeed, while Chrome is displaying the dialog, it blocks all Chrome extension popup windows from appearing.

We discovered this one the hard way at work. I keep learning this the hard way myself because I've been working on browser extension dev lately. I don't understand how this could possibly be an intended feature.

auscompgeek··on Python classes aren’t always the best solution
typing.NamedTuple also sets `__slots__ = ()`, just like collections.namedtuple.
auscompgeek··on Show HN: A color name API that maps hex to the closest human-readable name
This can be useful for accessibility. For example you might have a colour palette that users can add to, but the colours are only stored as hex codes. Giving a screen reader user just RGB values isn't as helpful as providing a name alongside it.
auscompgeek··on Launch HN: mrge.io (YC X25) – Cursor for code review
I wanted to check this out, so I installed the GitHub app on my account, with access to all my personal repos. However when I went looking for one of my repos (auscompgeek/sphinxify) I couldn't find it. It looks like I can only see the first 100 repos in the dashboard? I have a lot of forks under my account…
auscompgeek··on Whose code am I running in GitHub Actions?
> They can't block every 8 character tag.

Whilst Git will be default abbreviate commits to 7 characters, that's merely a default; `core.abbrev` can be set to any number to change the default display. Git will also accept any length abbreviated hashes as long as they're unique in the repo.

auscompgeek··on iTerm2 critical security release
There's a known issue where the shell integration doesn't respect that setting when it sets the cursor shape. https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions/2812
auscompgeek··on Apple acquires Pixelmator
Curious why you think Canva isn't a good company?
auscompgeek··on GNU.org was down
Looks like it's been back up for an hour or so now.
auscompgeek··on Show HN: Wat – Deep inspection of Python objects
It could override the reverse bitwise or magic method `__ror__`.
auscompgeek··on X.com refuses to open with Firefox strict tracking protection enabled
You have to opt-in to turning tracking protection to strict. When you're about to there's a prominent warning that it will likely break some websites.

Using Firefox in its default configuration shouldn't break websites.

auscompgeek··on How to type “blimpy” in Emacs [video]
It's Lua. Presumably they're using Neovim.
auscompgeek··on ChromiumOS Developer Guide, Programming languages and style
The ChromiumOS Python style guide notes the difference between Google's public Python style guide and their internal one.

> New projects should use that unmodified public Python Google style guide (4 space indent with methods_with_underscores). Historically, we adopted a style that was congruent with Google internal Python style guide (2 spaces with MethodsAsCamelCase).

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+/HEAD/sty...

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