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imcritic··on (nossl) What do Ursula von der Leyen and Putin have in common?
Dumb Ukrainian propaganda.
imcritic··on Show HN: qqqa – A fast, stateless LLM-powered assistant for your shell
If you were unaware that such approach is frowned upon then you might also not know that even if you delete the binary files from your git - they will stay there and thus be bloating your repository forever. To truly cut them away from the repository you will need to use some special instruments that will rewrite git history while trying to remove the bloat and the downside of that is that commits checksums will change and you will essentially have to force push existing commits but with new checksums.
imcritic··on Show HN: qqqa – A fast, stateless LLM-powered assistant for your shell
Pushing releases right into the repository? That's kinda nuts.
imcritic··on Show HN: qqqa – A fast, stateless LLM-powered assistant for your shell
A lack of such a prompt would mean nothing from security point of view. It's not like you run a program you used regularly and now all of a sudden such a warning appears (as if someone replaced the program's binary with another one). You did download this program manually from the internet, the warning is basically just about that.
imcritic··on Show HN: qqqa – A fast, stateless LLM-powered assistant for your shell
> inspecting the open-source source code

But how does one open the open-source source code?

imcritic··on Why Nextcloud feels slow to use
It is proprietary: it has words license and price on their page => crapware.
imcritic··on Why Nextcloud feels slow to use
Unison. Unfortunately it has no mobile apps, though.
imcritic··on Why Nextcloud feels slow to use
It felt unnecessarily complex for such a simple task as file synchronization. I prefer unison. Unfortunately, it is a blast from the past written in ocaml and there is no Android app :-(
imcritic··on Why Nextcloud feels slow to use
Kinda. In the long run you will definitely stumble upon a ton of bugs, but they mostly have some workarounds. Mostly.
imcritic··on Why Nextcloud feels slow to use
Their calendar plugin provides CalDAV, so you could just use your local calendar app that syncs with the server over that protocol.
imcritic··on Why Nextcloud feels slow to use
> Nobody likes the web apps because they're slow.

Web apps don't have to be slow. I prefer web apps over system apps, as I don't have to install extra programs into my system and I have more control over those apps:

- a service decides it's a good idea to load some tracking stuff from 3rd-party? I just uMatrix block it;

- a page has an unwanted element? I just uBlock block it;

- a page could have a better look? I just userstyle style it;

- a page is missing something that could be added on client side? I just userscript script it

imcritic··on Perfetto: Swiss army knife for Linux client tracing
Something too complex; I fear I won't ever have enough time to try it and figure out how to apply it for it to be of any use for me.

I wish there was a simpler and quicker introduction into the tool's capabilities than an hour long video and a text article saying it's a swiss army knife that does a lot of things. I need 1 or a few glimpses into it, there's no need to cover every capability thoroughly, show just enough to have some general understanding of how it works and how to use it and how to solve some common problems with it.

imcritic··on EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU languages
Nothing has changed: Russia still fights the Nazis. There are countless videos of Ukrainian Nazis and even Ukrainian kids brainwashed into jumping and chanting nazi (anti-russian) chants.
imcritic··on EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU languages
You just proved my point. You are a rusophobe.
imcritic··on Keep Android Open
I am nice, it was an illustration of what a logical position/reply would be towards their position "I am a social outcasts". It's a poor argument "it works for me as a social outcast". It's not normal to be one.
imcritic··on Show HN: Helium Browser for Android with extensions support, based on Vanadium
Do you have any plans to push it to F-Droid?

That would raise the value of that project quite a lot (at least for me, but I feel like there are others, thinking similarly).

Please, push it to F-Droid!

imcritic··on Show HN: Shadcn/UI theme editor – Design and share Shadcn themes
What is shadcn?
imcritic··on Scripts I wrote that I use all the time
Just imagine this comment of yours would get flagged. Was it something very valuable and now the discussion is lacking something important? Surely not, but how would you feel? So what that you have some not so mild and not so "pleasant" opinion on something - why flag the comment? Just let people downvote it!
imcritic··on /dev/null is an ACID compliant database
How does a disaster recovery plan with it look like?
imcritic··on Dave Ball has died
That's sad. Such talent, so awesome tunes, lots of the hooks I really deeply enjoyed...
imcritic··on Scripts I wrote that I use all the time
Yes, flagging mechanism on HN is evil.
imcritic··on Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down
Underdog? More like topdog!
imcritic··on Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down
Just noticed that with my star on GitHub it now has over 9000 stars!
imcritic··on The case for the return of fine-tuning
Because you need a solution for your problem and the available tools are what they are and nothing else and you don't have enough resources to train your own model.
imcritic··on Show HN: We packaged an MCP server inside Chromium
No resulting code, just a page rendered similarly. I could save you those 5 mins: just open any site and hit Ctrl+u, Ctrl+a, ctrl-c - done, you now have vibecoded a clone of any site to your clipboard!
imcritic··on Apple M5 chip
Support means that the manufacturer just still releases OS updates. But it says absolutely nothing about the quality of those updates: what if those updates simply degrade the situation? Every iPhone user I know says the same without conspiring with each other: it's better to stop updating to newer major OS releases for older iPhones.
imcritic··on Apple M5 chip
That's some new version of what happens, never heard of that before, do you have any prooflinks?
imcritic··on Apple M5 chip
What about wine flavor from crossdressers?
imcritic··on Apple M5 chip
I think they will continue ruining their products via software updates. That's implied by a walled garden approach they chose to do their business: this forces users to consoom more and thus generates profits. Apple isn't a "lean" company, it needs outrageous profits to stay afloat.
imcritic··on Modern Linux tools
IMO this is very stupid: don't let past dictate future. UNIX is history. History is for historians, it should not be the basis that shapes the environment for engineers living in present.
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