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tommica··on Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.3
Its the monetizing part that makes me think its not Omarchy - they have no monetizing things.
tommica··on Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM
Oh that looks fricking neat! Might wanna port my little diff-tool to this for funsies!
tommica··on Motorola Signature 27 with GrapheneOS support
Just because someone is willing to make it does not mean the market will/can buy it. For that price I am out, I cannot afford it, and I really wanted one when I heard about the partnership.

But I agree with your sentiment, there is hope!

tommica··on Download your favourite YouTube videos
They are connected to your payment details and unless you have good opsec, your IP is in logs
tommica··on Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data
Yeah, updated Bruno after a while, saw the premium stuff and immediately thought of Postman
tommica··on Microsoft fixes a Windows 11 annoyance as PC revenue declines
Windows 11 is really the worst iteration, my partner did not want the telemetry and other windows 11 crap, so she, from her own free will, researched linuxes and chose Fedora Kinoite as her operating system, because she liked the idea that she could not accidentally break it.

After a year or so, she is a happy camper, steam works, web works, all is good. Though once we start with the art software, that might be a bit tricky.

Only issue that it had was when after an os update the extra hdd mount points lost their execute flags for some reason, so unfortunately not a 100% technical free experience.

tommica··on Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance
Could be Claude!
tommica··on Roblox downloaded 145GB models from us (including adult content) without asking
true! but how does one find all those ips?
tommica··on I will no longer upload to NEW
> spend my valuable developer time (this is my free time)...

Lesson for us all is that if we do not own the thing/project/etc, things can suddenly change without our decision, and all time we put into it might become a waste-of-effort retroactively

tommica··on Three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics
If I was a racer, I would absolutely care which racer got the credit.
tommica··on Lula wins election after final votes tallied
Didn't both parties request for the extension, or am I misinformed?
tommica··on A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis
But how well will the CNN be able to write me a fanfiction of Dobby being in Lord of the Rings?
tommica··on A complete bypass of eMudhra’s 1FA OTP login system
Could someone explain this? Does this mean that it enables logging in as any account in emudhras infra?
tommica··on Quad9 (DNS Resolver) to Exit France
Sorry that you guys have to go through this. I use quad9 and it works great!
tommica··on There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability
I fell for the fear mongering, which annoys me.

It was some good drama, and honestly I didn't even know LLM was involved so heavily in it. But damn annoying that people blindly believed LLMs and I blindly believed those people.

tommica··on Upcoming critical PHP security release (CVE-2026-109618 / -109619)
It was top post
tommica··on Starcraft: Ashfall
It's crazy how such a simple game can be so addictive. Solid game loop!
tommica··on Janas: Run LLMs larger than RAM by streaming experts from SSD
Hardware is becoming the choke-point. If that gets resolved, things will start to change even faster
tommica··on Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
You have a pretty neat philosophy. We do rely a lot on gifts!
tommica··on Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
Neat, thanks for sharing! Seems very convenient!
tommica··on Cloudflare acquires Deno
I'd guess Deno failed because of the original decision of not supporting node_modules, instead went with a different way of handling dependencies. Else the native typescript support would most likely had pushed them to bigger success past nodejs.

Though nodejs was even then quite solid in it's position, so maybe it would not have made a difference.

tommica··on Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
Can you tell how you configured the tool to accomplish this? It sounds very convenient!

Does it mean that the VPS has to be in-between all the traffic, or do we punch holes through the NAT for direct connections?

tommica··on Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
One mistake with your google account and poof, everything is gone.

Granted, an average person most likely will never mess up, but in google-land the surface area where to make that mistake is quite large.

tommica··on Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
Is that the prompt you would use, or is there more to it?
tommica··on VMPal – Virtual Machines for Apple Silicon and AI Agents
A very sleek product presentation, those guys really know their mac environments.

Funnily I get reminded of Vagrant. Maybe that technology is a solution to the sandboxing issue, because running a lightweight sandbox with an OS that has a GUI this time seems to be important.

tommica··on Shaders, WebGPU Components for React, Vue, Svelte, Solid, JavaScript and Framer
20 years ago front-end devs really took that "front-end is not real programming" statement personally...

All of this could have been avoided had we just gotten a "good job" and a pat on the back when we showed our jquery scripts!

Jokes aside, looks impressive!

tommica··on AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped)
And the fact that you put in a disk and got to play, instead of waiting for an update the next 2 hours.
tommica··on Why Common Lisp is now the best programming language
Spot on! People do really enjoy NOT having to change. We can come up with many excuses why we do not have to do anything different. I'm finding multiple rrasons why I should stick to laravel.

Could be said that it was the path of least resistance, but the funny thing is that most of that resistance is you just being in your own way.

tommica··on Commit description as a thinking tool
Interesting, thanks for sharing. Need to try it out!
tommica··on Pi 1.0
One of the best parts about pi is the fact that it runs as a single agent. From what I've seen, multi-agent setups, like cursor and codex have not caused anything else than extra token usage, without any worthy benefit, at least when coding.

Pi without extensions, with a decent model that allows thinking to be disabled works really well, and is faster than multiple subagents.

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