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imcritic··on A German ISP changed their DNS to block my website
You see, he isn't against propaganda, he is against propaganda he doesn't agree with.
imcritic··on A German ISP changed their DNS to block my website
That description fits any authority, not just democratic. The state is an apparatus of coercion. Always was, always will be.
imcritic··on From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent
What's there to hate in it?
imcritic··on The value of hitting the HN front page
If HN had some kind of Hall of fame - you would be hanged there as a local (?) celebrity.
imcritic··on PG Auto Upgrade – Docker (and K8s) container to auto upgrade your database
Depends on the scale. Something small is okay to keep in containers. If you want to push performance to the limits - you definitely will run your DBMS outside a container.
imcritic··on Writing simple tab-completions for Bash and Zsh
Oh, I thought you didn't hardcore those as if conditions, but rather parsed inventory files to get suggestions for -t and parsed tasks in playbook's roles to get suggestions for -l.

Still cool though, thanks for sharing!

imcritic··on Writing simple tab-completions for Bash and Zsh
Could you share how you do it? Ansible playbooks are ran via command `ansible-playbook` command and it surely has its own tab auto completion script.
imcritic··on Writing simple tab-completions for Bash and Zsh
Thanks for linking this! This is a lightweight solution, compared to ijq (interactive jq), but it still may come in handy.

https://github.com/gpanders/ijq

imcritic··on Qwen-Image: Crafting with native text rendering
Thanks for that comparison/overview/benchmark!

However, you have mistakenly marked some answers as correct ones in the octopus prompt: only 1 generated image has octopus have sock puppets on all of its tentacles. And you marked that one image as an incorrect one due to sock looking more like gloves.

imcritic··on Customizing tmux
Another ex-tmux user here: for it was text selection with mouse without extra line breaks, introduced by line wrapping when long strings are rendered.
imcritic··on Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives
CF is a bad actor. They ruin internet. They own more and more parts of it.
imcritic··on How I configure BorgBackup and borgmatic (2023)
This site seems to use netlify and it doesn't serve responses.
imcritic··on Why Exercise Is a Miracle Drug
You are right. I haven't thought about donations possibly not being altruistic, but there actually are such ones. Personally I would say we need separate words to distinguish egoistic charity/donations from the altruistic ones.

But how does donating to some poor people abroad benefits you?

imcritic··on VSCode extension for syntax highlighting multi-line YAML strings
Who (and in which valid cases) embeds some block of code in a programming language as a value to some key in a YAML file??
imcritic··on Why Exercise Is a Miracle Drug
Why do you donate? Do you owe them anything? No. Yet, you still donate. But how much do you donate? Why that amount and not nearly everything? Surely there are people in need!
imcritic··on Replacing tmux in my dev workflow
But Zellij supports tmux hotkeys.
imcritic··on Replacing tmux in my dev workflow
Correct statement, but poorly chosen alternatives: zellij is like tmux, but with less scrollback issues and supports mouse.

It is also extensible.

imcritic··on Vibe code is legacy code
I call bullshit on this article and most of its arguments. The article was written out of fear felt as programmers' gate keeping falls apart and programming becomes generally more available to the broader auditory.

A quote from the article:

> Programming is fundamentally theory building, not producing lines of code. We know this.

Well, then you should understand that the "vibe coder" is someone with the idea for the code and during the vibe code session they build the theory for the program. Coding is less important than the idea behind the code.

So what the resulting code is "one use" and "legacy" or whatever if it does the job? If the vibe coder has saved their prompts - it could be later reproduced, improved and extended just the same way!

imcritic··on Multiplex: Command-Line Process Mutliplexer
No need for foreman: just start things sequentially!
imcritic··on Multiplex: Command-Line Process Mutliplexer
The idea of such a tool looks interesting at first. But then you realize there exist no problems, that require a solution provided by this tool.

You need to run a webserver with some backend components? Start them sequentially one after another, it will be fine.

imcritic··on What would an efficient and trustworthy meeting culture look like?
Too many mistakes/typos in text.

That's a signal for me. A signal, that the author of this shit of an article didn't bother reading his own article before publishing it.

This article brings nothing new useful to the table. That's a rehash of someone else's rehash of something they've read somewhere.

imcritic··on The future is not self-hosted, but self-sovereign
Are you talking about Android?

Can your player delete media files?

If yes - PLEASE SHARE!

imcritic··on Getting decent error reports in Bash when you're using 'set -e'
That's a pitfall №60

https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls#set_-euo_pipefail

imcritic··on Celebrating 20 Years of MDN
MDN was great. Mozilla was great. It is incredibly sad it all went to shit.
imcritic··on Show HN: Self-updating MCP server for official pip, uv, poetry and conda docs
We are just trying to adopt an LLM to answer users' questions based on our internal KB/wiki, that's all.
imcritic··on Show HN: Self-updating MCP server for official pip, uv, poetry and conda docs
It didn't get clearer much: so what am I supposed to do to achieve that? If I query AI and it gives me outdated instructions how is your server supposed to help here? I suppose that I am supposed to somehow direct that AI's pipeline to use MCP protocol to make as a next step and query a locally running instance of the server of yours to improve the final answer..? The solution sounds quite ad-hoc: so instead of fixing the problem where it is (in AI's knowledge base), you suggest to apply corrections to it's results by making it query a server each user supposed to run locally? Sounds as a wrong approach to me, I honestly doubt many people would bother working with AI that way, especially given that AI is a paid service.

What I think would be great is either you hosting a central server permanently available to public and somehow convincing major AI service providers to query your servers for solving that narrow scope of tasks, or rather do something similar for open source models available on Hugging Face or something.

imcritic··on Fun with gzip bombs and email clients
The owner of this site can just fuck off with their nationalism.
imcritic··on Just Open Sourced NeuralAgent: The AI Agent That Lives on Your Desktop
That's an open source agent for closed source services.

Nothing's really running local, everything gets sent to big corps, whose agents you'll choose to do all the real work.

imcritic··on Show HN: Self-updating MCP server for official pip, uv, poetry and conda docs
I currently have poor internet connection and I am not able to view the demo, but having read the description of the project I failed to understand what it is/does and which problems/tasks it solves.
imcritic··on I know genomes and I didn’t delete my data from 23andMe
What an excellently idiotic post.
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