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okanesen··on GPT-6.1 Sol replaces GPT-6 Sol after just 7 days, with near-Astra intelligence
How is this relevant? Your link shows stats for GPT-6.0 Sol, not GPT-6.1 Sol and also was last updated yesterday.
okanesen··on Agent Safehouse – macOS-native sandboxing for local agents
I'm having trouble understanding what makes this: "better documented and tested"? Care to elaborate how the testing was done? What are the differences?
okanesen··on Apple M3 Ultra
Not that dramatic of an increase actually - the M2 Max already had 400GB/s and M2 Ultra 800GB/s memory bandwidth, so the M3 Ultra's 819GB/s is just a modest bump. Though the M4's additional 146GB/s is indeed a more noticeable improvement.
okanesen··on Bluesky migrates to single-tenant SQLite
The codes are all gone. That was fast.

E: Happy to take one, if somebody happens to have a spare one left. Email is in my bio.

okanesen··on Multi-Account Containers Add-on on Mozilla VPN
Even though I'm using Container Proxy myself, you can almost do the same thing with the official plugin (Manage Containers -> Click any Container -> Advanced proxy settings).
okanesen··on Multi-Account Containers Add-on on Mozilla VPN
I use Containerise[0] (not affiliated) exactly for that purpose but I agree, this should really be included in the official plugin.

[0]: https://github.com/kintesh/containerise

okanesen··on Guide to Firefox Containers (2018)
Probably not exactly what you want but for proxies you can use Container proxy[0] (not affiliated), which allows you to assign different proxies added by yourself to specific containers.

[0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/container-pro...

okanesen··on Yahoo Answers to shut down May 4, 2021
Minor correction: https://webirc.hackint.org/#irc://irc.hackint.org/noanswers

Without the %23 prefix.

okanesen··on CodeMirror 6
No, not necessarily.

There is a dedicated page under examples, if you're interested: https://codemirror.net/6/examples/bundle/.

okanesen··on A terminal stock watcher and stock position tracker
Correct, more info on the FAQ[0]:

> What are Ask HN and Show HN?

> Ask HN lists questions and other text submissions. Show HN[1] is for sharing your personal work and has special rules[2].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/show

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

okanesen··on Signal Fork with WhatsApp Migration
Just as a side info: unfortunately this won't work in Germany, since that feature was disabled there.
okanesen··on Cloudflare and Apple made a new DNS protocol to protect your data from ISPs
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25344358
okanesen··on Simple Password Management with GPG
Pass works great for me on iOS for years now and it's open source too [0].

[0]: https://github.com/mssun/passforios

okanesen··on Google users locked out after 15 years' use
Yeah, you can chose between once per year or every two months to the following endpoints:

* Mail

* Google Drive

* Dropbox

* OneDrive

* Box

okanesen··on MuditaOS: An open-source, e-ink mobile OS
I tried to look for it too and found it buried on a subpage[0], though the relevant information seems to be:

* Battery: ~1600mAh

* Water resistance: IP54

[0]: https://mudita.com/products/pure/specs/

okanesen··on Tell HN: Google should drop Quora from search results
Excluding via search works but there is also a script [0] - not affiliated - which you can use to block other domains as well.

[0]: https://www.jeffersonscher.com/gm/google-hit-hider/

okanesen··on Please Add RSS Support to Your Site
I don’t know about other browsers but you can turn that off inside Firefox‘s privacy settings.
okanesen··on AMD lands Google, Twitter as customers with newest server chip
I don't know about full pre and post benchmarks but there is the latest benchmark from Phoronix which benchmarks the latest Spectre "SWAPGS" mitigations [0].

[0]: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=swapgs-s...

okanesen··on Facebook Plans on Backdooring WhatsApp?
https://jibe.google.com/
okanesen··on Dropbox silently installed new file manager app on users’ systems
There is fsync() [0] for iOS.

[0]: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fsync/id964427882?mt=8

okanesen··on Apple releases iOS 13 macOS Catalina public betas
No, you can’t because apple isn’t signing old versions of iOS anymore.
okanesen··on Should you use www or not in your domain? (2017)
Yeah, in the comment section he does state[1], that you should stick with the one you have decided to pick in the first place.

[1]: https://bjornjohansen.no/www-or-not#comment-510

okanesen··on The Great Apple Keyboard Cover-Up
Doesn't make his point invalid though. My battery on my older rMBP was almost dying and I went to the Apple Store to let them replace the battery and they also completely changed the top including the keyboard, because the battery is attached to it.

So if you need to get your keyboard replaced, just ask for a new battery instead.

okanesen··on Norwegian Consumer Council report on how tech companies use dark patterns [pdf]
Same goes with Tumblr and Yahoo for example, where everything is enabled by default and you have to go one (I'm not talking about 10-20, it's more like +300) by one to enable the tracking done by advertising/marketing companies.

One of the better thing is, though I don't want to advocate the behavior of auto opt-in at all, that most of these sites are at least using something like TRUSTe or Oath, where you only have to disable hundreds of marketing services once and are done with all the sites, which are using the same service for cookie consent.

It's against the law to make the options opt-out but these companies are still trying hard to don't obey by the law, it's really comical.

okanesen··on Magit 2.13 released
Switching applications via alt+tab does cause some distraction for me personally, as I have to _adapt_ to a new environment, because every application differs in its overall appearance and the way how I it is used. Whereas in Emacs you just use one application and everything else feels kind of the same.

Moreover, I don't think that you can do something like manage your to-do list and reference an email directly between different applications but you can do that inside Emacs. This way I don't need to first search inside another email application which email I'm referencing to inside of that to-do list item.

I guess at the end of the day it just boils down to use whatever fits the job perfectly, whether it's combining different applications or use everything inside Emacs. Whatever makes you more productive.

okanesen··on Ascii Art Generator
There is also Monodraw[0] for Mac which is an editor for ASCII art.

[0]: https://monodraw.helftone.com/

okanesen··on VS Code can do that?
Not OP but for me it's just a preference like a color scheme is to anybody else. It is visually appealing and helps to distinguish different aspects of some context specific things.

I get that it's not for everybody but being so against it is something I really do not understand.

Why use color schemes or different fonts at all then?

okanesen··on Xray – An experimental next-generation Electron-based text editor
Vscode is not native and uses the same underlying architecture (Electron) as Atom.
okanesen··on Ad network uses advanced malware technique to conceal CPU-draining mining ads
> random urls from the same domain would work fine.

What stops someone from blocking the domain? I think a combination of random domain + url would make it rather hard to detect these things.

okanesen··on Ad network uses advanced malware technique to conceal CPU-draining mining ads
Afaik you can do that with "hard mode" [0].

[0]: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-hard-m...

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