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nightfly··on Android apps running native on macOS
It's just overused and cliche now
nightfly··on The plight of the public potty
You know the answer is yes. You also know they can, and did, choose not to do that. If you have to object actually object.
nightfly··on 90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks
That's changed a bit in the last few years! I'm in somewhat rural Oregon (The Dalles) and in practice none of our gas stations really do full service anymore. Gas prices didn't go down at all
nightfly··on Kcgi – minimal CGI and FastCGI library for C/C++
The assumptions I'm making here:

* Most sites/projects are internal to an organization

* Most public facing websites/apps/projects won't be successful

nightfly··on Kcgi – minimal CGI and FastCGI library for C/C++
Most people don't need to care about that. If you're writing something that's gonna be used by a fixed number of real humans a few times (or a even a few 1000) times a day the overhead isn't gonna matter
nightfly··on Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) 2026 Cancelled
> What happens to my in-person or virtual registration fee?

> Information regarding GHC registration and other financial matters will be communicated to you promptly once we obtain a clearer understanding of AnitaB.org ’s financial condition.

nightfly··on Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs
I move my whole hand around a lot, both by rotating at the wrist and moving at the elbow level.
nightfly··on Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs
Caps Lock remapped to control. By using a keyboard where I can remap keys at the firmware level whenever possible, and in the OS when not

Ctrl-C doing different things come from different os/software lineages

nightfly··on The Forgetful CPU (Linux on M4)
I will deal with everything I dislike about MacOS for laptops that never cook my lap and never, ever, ever randomly turn on full power while in my bag
nightfly··on Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel
I've been doing Linux sys-admin work for 10+ years. Used to be I could read the full report on what ever vulnerabilities came out and triage which servers needed to be updated now and which could wait. A few years ago notifications started having so many it would take more time/effort to read everything than it would to patch everything. With this notification there's even ten times more...
nightfly··on RIP, vector database
I kept asking myself "is this ai written" while reading it to. Nothing to do wit h the em dashes. Phrasing like: > RIP, primary vector index. > The solution to these problems is simple: don't key on the ANN address. That is precisely the change turbopuffer v3 makes. As you can imagine, it is not a trivial change."

Cute heading, followed by wordy opening sentence that feels like it's repeating stuff even when it's not

nightfly··on How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent
This seems completely out-of-touch with reality, and absolutely insults the intelligence of the poorest people
nightfly··on Quantum battery upends the rules of charging
> but where are you actually going to get enough power to charge it that fast?

The future of gas stations

nightfly··on Unlocking a locked/deactivated e-waste Cricut Maker
I have a silhouette cameo 4 I'm pretty happy with. Silhouette studio works, it doesn't handle svgs very well so when importing I tend to render svgs as a black bitmap and then trace that in silhouette studio. Being able to print registration marks and have the cutter align itself against those is invaluable. I've done clones of paper craft kits, perfectly cut out iron on transfers forct shirts, 3d trading card art, and trading card proxies on mine
nightfly··on GIMP Development Update
Calling people who are okay with different programs having different behavior _bootlickers_ is obnoxious
nightfly··on Turning a dumb AC unit smart (without losing my security deposit)
> so it took a few Amazon returns until I found the right one

This a pet peeve of mine. If you buy the wrong $2 part don't return it. If you don't eat the loss the seller will and the part will wind up in the landfill.

nightfly··on Cyberpunk Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels
But it's always been at a faster pace and a higher quantity than whatever decade preceded it
nightfly··on Starring the Computer
> You can also visit our site on your mobile phone!
nightfly··on Package Managers need global hooks
> since it's the only package manager that I know of that allows for package authors to essentially run arbitrary post-install scripts silently package install

Are you sure? I'm pretty sure .deb and .rpm packages both allow that

nightfly··on A robot is sprinting towards you. Do you want it running on Claude or Grok?
I want it to arrive at the hospital. Claude
nightfly··on Show HN: Streambed – Stream Postgres to Iceberg on S3, Supports Postgres Wire
vira28: It looks like nearly all of your responses to comments/questions here are flagged/dead. Probably because they all look AI written. Are you actually responding or do you have an agent answering questions for you?
nightfly··on Snowboard Kids 2 is 100% Decompiled
I'd love to do this for Mario Golf 64 but would run out of steam in like a week T_T
nightfly··on Flatpak Will Depend on Systemd
People seem to think it tries and do too much. As a sysadmin I love systemd, especially way more than the init scripts it replaced
nightfly··on Flatpak Will Depend on Systemd
> From what I understand from Vovk, they were intending to be “super considerate” of distributions and people not using systemd, which I take to mean we’d eventually end up in a situation very similar to systemd-logind, which was extracted from systemd into a separate daemon, elogind, so that distributions using other init systems could still make use of desktop environments depending on systemd-logind
nightfly··on Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD
> The question is...why do you care that much?

Not the OP, but I support Ubuntu as desktop and server OS for an engineering collage and have for 10ish years. Some LTS upgrades don't require many changes (mostly minor package name changes) and some take months of work to get rolled out (mostly for workstations, the server upgrades are usually quick.). Not everything gets upgraded every new OS release. If we had to upgrade everything every 6-12 months it would eat up a significant amount of time for our small team.

nightfly··on How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]
Most people have no safety net and if the money stops rolling in their life is effectively ruined for several years
nightfly··on UUID package coming to Go standard library
I think you're massively misreading the tone of the comment you're relying to
nightfly··on Artist who “paints” portraits on glass by hitting it with a hammer
> The medium is freer than Free Software

$$$$$ for supplies, you could probably take up oil painting for cheaper.

nightfly··on Show HN: SNKV – SQLite's B-tree as a key-value store (C/C++ and Python bindings)
It "only" doubles performance so the overheads aren't that heavy
nightfly··on My Snapdragon Dev Kit was healthy and working fine until a Windows update failed
windows update just doing a normal write causing the active chunk of flash memory being used to hold something in the boot loader to a different failed/failing section
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