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beernutz··on Show HN: Oproxy – inspect and modify network traffic from the browser
I don't see how you actually see the web interface for the traffic it is tossing, and that is not explained in your readme so far as I have found.

I have it running in docker with docker run --rm \ --name oproxy \ --ulimit nofile=65535:65535 \ -p 8080:8080 \ -p 1080:1080 \ -e OPROXY_BIND_HOST=0.0.0.0 \ -e OPROXY_MITM_ENABLED=true \ -v oproxy-certs:/app/certs \ -v oproxy-storage:/app/storage \ ghcr.io/sauravrao637/oproxy:latest

and I set the proxy to use it, and it appears to work, but I don't have a way to see what it is doing.

beernutz··on On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train Midjourney
No, you pay them for the finished product. The STYLE is independent. Lots of artists have similar styles. They don't all pay each other for copying their styles.
beernutz··on Bean Soup
A friend of mine noticed that it looks like ALL these recipes are from Debbie. She has been busy! Thank you Debbie.
beernutz··on Scrollbars are becoming a problem
For chrome and firefox there is an extension I use that helps dramatically. "Scrollbar Anywhere".

The way I have it set up, I can right click and drag anywhere on "whitespace" on the page and scroll in any direction I drag the mouse. You can set it up to go as fast or slow as you like relative to the amount you move your mouse, and you can even have it "glide" when you let up on the mouse if you like.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/scrollbar-anywhere...

beernutz··on Interactive Map of Linux Kernel
Do the keyboard controls work for anyone else? At least for me in current Chrome, they do not seem to work as described.
beernutz··on First people sickened by Covid-19 were scientists at WIV: US government sources
hmmm. maybe?

What specifically is the actual conspiracy around "Hunter Bidens laptop"? I am not trying to be dense. I just don't understand I think where the conspiracy is.

beernutz··on Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you realized is wrong?
You are actually being hit a lot more by cosmic rays that are not deflected by our atmosphere. We survive this fine. This is probably a more acurate simile than the bullet one, based on the amounts involved.
beernutz··on Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)
I use Total Commander and Autohotkey, and CyberChef as well.

I would add ClipMate as the absolute BEST clipboard manager: http://www.thornsoft.com/clipmate7.htm

Display Fusion Pro for managing window layout with multi monitors https://www.displayfusion.com/

Misc programs I use daily that are easily google-able: Evernote Belvedere Bitwarden Snagit

beernutz··on Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)
If you like Vimium, you should check out SurfingKeys. It is similar but seems to have even more going for it: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/surfingkeys/gfblio...
beernutz··on Do you remember Ultima Online?
I think maybe Genshin Impact is made with Unity.
beernutz··on “UBO Minus (MV3)” – An Experimental uBlock Origin Build for Manifest V3
If it stops allowing cosmetic filtering, I will be looking for a different solution.
beernutz··on YouTube: filmmakers presumed guilty until maybe proven innocent
Torrents themselves are NOT illegal. They contain no copyrighted data. At all.
beernutz··on The Hair Dryer Incident (2014)
Maybe if you call out the day along with it?

Point at pill bottle. Taking my pill on Saturday.

Or something like that?

beernutz··on Google suffers from a digital petro curse
I am not sure where this "RSS is dead" keeps coming from, but I still use it quite happily every day.
beernutz··on Descript – A collaborative audio/video editor that works like a doc
If you hover over the Audiograms Pro help icon on the right, (midway down in the Pro plan card) it says "Custom colors, background images, and remove the Descript logo. 30 min max size (vs. 2 minutes)"
beernutz··on Beirut Port Explosion
The funding link works. I suspect there was just a typo in the other posters link:

https://forensic-architecture.org/about/funding

beernutz··on A small but complete JavaScript engine
That was a good article! Thanks!

I wish they had talked a little about his work on the Amiga. He wrote a full color MacOS emluator that actually multi-tasked with the AmigaOS rather than taking over the whole machine. It actually ran Mac programs faster than the fastest Mac hardware of the day as well. Really impressive work on such low end hardware.

beernutz··on Building a Basic Interpreter, '80s Style, Part 2
Yes, Simons basic really rocked my world! So many commands and cool things to play with! Inspired me to write my own "basic" extensions and burn them to a prom to make my own cartridge. Though things were much more primitive, it was fun getting such a low level look at everything.
beernutz··on Video Vectorization
Seems to work fine on Win 10 and latest chrome for me. I wonder if it might be related to turning on/off the GPU rendering in chrome maybe?
beernutz··on Valve's Proton Has Brought 6000 Windows Games to Linux So Far
It does work with VNC. Not sure about VirtualGL though. It IS very comlete however, so it has a high likelihood I think.
beernutz··on Ask HN: What has your work taught you that other people don't realize?
That the only thing you can really control is yourself and your reaction to the world. To me, this manifests most in how I "talk" to myself about things.

This quote is one that has been on my mind a lot lately.

"Let's think of the positives as personal, general, and permanent. Let's think of the negatives as impersonal, specific, and temporary. Let's actually go out of our way to inject these things into our discussions."

TLDR: We are what we think.

beernutz··on Broot – A new way to see and navigate directory trees
Can you tell me about what "new ideas" it features?
beernutz··on Sacha Baron Cohen Uses ADL Speech to Tear Apart Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook
I really think he is wrong on almost all counts.

This TD article sums it up well i think: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20191122/00412943432/sacha...

beernutz··on Sacha Baron Cohen Uses ADL Speech to Tear Apart Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook
I think TechDirt has the best commentary on this: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20191122/00412943432/sacha...
beernutz··on Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website
I see the same issue. I can save to root folder only in google drive. Also i am unable to open a file in google drive as it has the same "log in" dialog.

https://www.screencast.com/t/g4wnSWLDtOLk

Clicking the "Sign in" button closes the dialog and reopens it. It does this cycle twice, then shows this error pane:

https://www.screencast.com/t/qmUhxSuU2T

beernutz··on Goodbye, Flash
Flash's approach used something like a constraint solver to allow some areas to grow and some areas to have anchor points. It was reactive by design.
beernutz··on Goodbye, Flash
This is just not true. you did not have to specify fixed width in flash any more than you do with HTML. Flash's approach used something like a constraint solver to allow some areas to grow and some areas to have anchor points. It was reactive by design.
beernutz··on Goodbye, Flash
One hundred times, THIS!

The layout engine in flash was REALLY well thought out, and allowed for simple constraints that would allow for things to grow or shrink based on screen size. You could anchor buttons and they would move properly, all without having to worry about things breaking across browsers.

If someone would re-implement just this feature along from flash i would be REALLY excited to use it!

So far i dont think there is really much in the way of "constraint based" layout engines that are easy to use for the web is there?

beernutz··on Goodbye, Flash
Wasn't he talking about a "special mode" for places where WYSIWIG might be the better case? Not for ALL content, but for some web applications (complex CRUD apps maybe as a good example) I feel like there is still very much a case to be made for this.

Maybe the form it takes would be a good place for discussion, but really there is no reason things like this have to be inaccessable to screen readers any more than a native app would be.

beernutz··on Ask HN: What do you automate in your life and work?
Just in case you might not be aware (this has caught me out):

Google Calendar repeating events has no way to set up a "repeat every x" (day,week,month,etc..) forever. It will stop after something like 1 year with no warning.

I use it for an important daily email reminder, and did not notice it had stopped until a day or two after.

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