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gitowiec

419 karma · joined July 11, 2020

I am amazed about what I can read here, and the profession of the discussion.
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gitowiec··on My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it
Omg, PHP... I ditched this language 7 years ago, because I was fed up with the context switching (fullstack webdev). In the beginning I really was enjoying the gentle slope of learning. I could do a lot without knowing what classes, objects and types are. And I am grateful for this, because thanks to it, now I am here where I can do much more powerful things knowing classes, objects, types and paradigms
gitowiec··on Neovim have a ~$800k Bitcoin donation sitting untouched since 2023
Exactly this! It was rendered money by some minds.
gitowiec··on Claude is no longer available for minors
I don't configure my child's accounts as minor. I don't tell it is a child. The work I have to do to comply with different weird stuff when some platform knows a user is a child is so much crap that I get a headache! And it often does not work properly (eg try to signup child account for PokemonGo on slow device, or try to allow network play for a child in Minecraft game - microslop family crap will hit you hard)
gitowiec··on Claude, change the "Add to Cart" button to blue
This is kind of funny but with tears (not off joy). I stopped playing because it made me angry
gitowiec··on John Margolies' photographs of roadside America
I will leave these links here for generations. This is the full gallery of John Margolies

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?q=mrg&sp=1&st=gallery

Low res: https://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/albums/721...

gitowiec··on I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer
Ohh lol :D So Anthropic is a company of copy-pasters
gitowiec··on Arm Mali G2-Ultra NX GPU: desktop-class mobile gameplay with AI-native graphics
The worst opening ever "Demands from mobile users continue to grow.". I stopped reading bullshit
gitowiec··on My Feed, My Way
Someone measured that if a user is teenager boy, it will take Tik Tok 9 minutest to serve misogynistic content...
gitowiec··on My Feed, My Way
"The Albanese Government is taking the next step following its world leading social media age ban to ensure Australians have more choice online...." - Me thinking "What the heck? What Albanese government has to do with Australians? Are they under the occupation? Albanian occupation?!"
gitowiec··on My practical approach to surfing the web safely
For Firefox I recommend Cookie AutoDelete 3.8.2 addon. It is possible to configure it to erase all storage (cookies, indexeddb, localSorage and others) after chosen time (default 15s) after changing/leaving domain. It has many other useful options.

Another good addon is ClearURLs 1.27.3 which clears suspicious parameters of query strings on everything what's loaded by page. It sometimes break sites.

gitowiec··on My practical approach to surfing the web safely
I don't understand why author complains about Firefox performance. I use it everyday on laptop and mobile and I don't see the difference to the Chrome or Brave when I visit all my regular sites and all other I find on HN. She has to play HTML 5 games or something to observe such difference
gitowiec··on Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone
There should be influencers or agitators (as named correctly) to tell general public what distro to install, what server to buy and how block tracking and ads
gitowiec··on Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone
App catalog looks good, but they miss Home Assistant which is a major inconvenience
gitowiec··on Git hosting that never leaves Europe
Good luck, aspecialy in the UE!
gitowiec··on Fastpotify
When I saw the Winamp skin I had to hold to not cry
gitowiec··on Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO
I will keep the same
gitowiec··on Ask HN: AI for Home Lab Infra?
I think the most important work will be preparing the context for an agent (eg OpenClaw). Then add some skills (eg use ssh to visit specific machine). And finally the prompt. Maybe you should check what agent has the best tools for DevOps?
gitowiec··on Is a One Person Company (OPC) just another type of Uber driver?
It's common way of an employment in IT in Poland. SII and other big outsourcing companies offer mostly only B2B employment. And this sucks
gitowiec··on Live cloud GPU rental prices
What's "Est. $" column meaning?
gitowiec··on 1kB Website as Status Symbol
I was skimming through new posts on HN and this was the only one I read because "flagged" was enough of advertisement
gitowiec··on Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown
It's not building, it's telling others to build
gitowiec··on Run Minecraft in a Windows sandbox for computer use agents
Smells AI...
gitowiec··on Anna's Archive Owes $340 Million, Lost Several Domains, but It's Still Online
What are current domains? I tried the ones from article but got redirected to spam
gitowiec··on I Tracked Down the Hidden Workers Powering ChatGPT
One of comments "These are the "new jobs" the AI-class promised us."
gitowiec··on Qwen3.8 27B at 256K: 50 TPS on a 24 GB GPU
Why it's flagged?
gitowiec··on Every Fucking Website (2020)
Thank you for this information
gitowiec··on Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
As a Polish speaker I communicate with Claude using my native language and it does the same things. Most annoying and slowing down things are:

- acronyms and shortcuts - it makes it's own and start using it without introduction

- exotic names of variables or functions - it uses them as examples or analogies, but when I ask what they mean and where are they from it gives me answer that it came from C language or some C library (I only work with typescript and python)

- convoluted descriptions of code behaviour - it's hard to rely on a outcome of prompt of type "explain code in..."

gitowiec··on Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
Funny thing. In my work with Opus 4.8 it: - does not stop and does not ask questions if my intent was unclear, - makes assumptions without checking - and reinterprets or updates my plans without asking.
gitowiec··on London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces
Unsafe UK https://rapeganginquiry.co.uk
gitowiec··on [dead]
The report reveals in shocking detail the horrific acts committed over decades by grooming gangs and the scale of years of systemic neglect by British institutions and authorities. From the police, through the administration of childcare facilities and centers, to top-level politicians who placed political correctness above the safety of their own nation.

Over 250,000 white British girls under the age of 18 were horribly harmed. The victims were raped, often repeatedly, gang-raped, with objects, forced to have sex with animals, tortured, and, during their ordeal, videotaped and blackmailed. The perpetrators passed them around, rented them out, and took them to "party houses." The girls were transported like cargo between counties.

A large number of the victims were "in state care," in childcare facilities and centers, where they were easier targets for the gangs. The girls were lured with trickery, gifts, drugged, drunk, and then exploited.

The perpetrators targeted white British women because they were guided by clan "codes of honor," according to which Muslim girls cannot be defiled and should remain pure until their wedding day.

The perpetrators were almost entirely men of immigrant origin or Muslim immigrants, primarily from Pakistan, but also from Somalia, Iran, Syria, and Turkey.

Yeah and the best thing is to flag such topic to be politically correct.

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