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treve··on HTTP/1.1 Must Die
I hope it never goes away. There's advantages to simpler text based protocols.
treve··on The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a Thirty-Five Year Mistake
This is less about what metaphors are under the hood, but the patterns used on top of them. You can get technical, but it's definitely possible to write primarily functional, imperative or object-oriented code in Python, irrespective of what the syntax is for dealing with primitives.
treve··on We built an air-gapped Jira alternative for regulated industries
I just learned air-gapped includes private networks. I was under the impression this strictly meant isolated non-networked computers. Was this always the case or has the term diluted over time?
treve··on The Great Unracking: Saying goodbye to the servers at our physical datacenter
This is such an absurd argument. It's wild that you took the time to write this. But the next time you run into a problem like this, just ask a co-worker. I'm sure they can handle the logistics of giving something away for free.
treve··on The Great Unracking: Saying goodbye to the servers at our physical datacenter
They're cables, someone can pick them up and move them somewhere else. Some more logic for ya
treve··on The Great Unracking: Saying goodbye to the servers at our physical datacenter
Also thought that was quite wasteful. Even ethernet cables are cut. Why not just put them online for free pickup?

Also I can't help wondering if the switch to cloud makes sense for stack overflow now again because their traffic collapsed. I took the whole post as something that should be mourned a bit, not gleefully destroyed.

treve··on AI therapy bots fuel delusions and give dangerous advice, Stanford study finds
In other words, vulnerable people should have access to therapy
treve··on Six Years of Gemini
The limits of the medium and the creativity this enforces is why people like it. It caters a niche audience with a shared set of values. I get why people don't really care for it personally or on a technical level (myself included), but it always surprises me that it's hard for people to understand that others do.
treve··on Solar power has begun to transform the world’s energy system
It's a small joke.
treve··on Ptar: Replacing .tgz for petabyte-scale S3 archives
We can get everything back except data. It feels silly to take the risk _not_ to if you're somewhat established.
treve··on Rules of good writing (2007)
PG is not influential because of his writing though. His name is what gets his writing circulated, so I'm not sure if it's a good couter example.
treve··on Plants monitor the integrity of their barrier by sensing gas diffusion
Even if there's no hard measurable rule on the limits of what we consider consciousness, that doesn't mean that definition includes anything that exhibits chemical reactions.

Ultimately it's a bit of an inprecise human concept. The boundaries of what fits in there might be somewhat unclear, but we definitely things that intuitively are (humans) and aren't (plants, rocks) in this set.

treve··on Show HN: Jukebox – Free, Open Source Group Playlist with Fair Queueing
0-trust house parties
treve··on Hymn to Babylon, missing for a millennium, has been discovered
Legend has a specific meaning:

> A traditional story sometimes popularly regarded as historical but unauthenticated.

Even though it's BS I think it's still interesting to read how people relate to the story.

treve··on ASCIIMoon: The moon's phase live in ASCII art
Could use an ANSI version!
treve··on Show HN: Vet – A tool for safely running remote shell scripts
It wasn't meant as a gotcha. I'm actually curious if this went wrong, and if it was more of a spear-fishing style attack or a vulnerability hitting multiple people.

Tons of devs download thousands of NPM packages as well, and each can execute code upon install, so a single curl-to-shell pipe from a HTTPS endpoint from a domain you checked always felt way safer than any `npm install`, and so a pretty minor in comparison and yet it gets a lot more attention than package manager, which _feels_ like security cargo culting. Plenty of supply chain attacks in package managers of course. But yeah, would like to be corrected if that intuition is wrong.

treve··on Using Sun Ray thin clients in 2025
This youtube channel was an absolute rabbit hole for me.
treve··on My home servers are not a homelab
Home rack!
treve··on Show HN: Vet – A tool for safely running remote shell scripts
Does it work really well? Any major examples?
treve··on Access BMC UART on Supermicro X11SSH
This is very interesting, but I'm a little lost. UART is serial. Are they trying to get a serial terminal set up with some chip on this motherboard? Wat does it let them do?
treve··on Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme
Delete social media or wipe your phone and restore on your destination. On a laptop, you could use a decoy OS on a separate partition.

The best way to seem like you're not hiding something is to have something else to show.

treve··on Tell HN: Beware confidentiality agreements that act as lifetime non competes
One is friendly to existing wealth and the other to innovation and disruption I suppose.
treve··on Infinite Mac OS X
> Infinite Mac is a collection of classic Macintosh and NeXT system releases and software, all easily accessible from the comfort of a web browser.

https://infinitemac.org/

treve··on Long live Xorg, I mean Xlibre
Does Waypipe solve this problem?
treve··on Long live Xorg, I mean Xlibre
[project] is bad because it's missing [pet peeve feature] will never get old. Ultimately open source devs work on what they want to work on. Feature-wise Wayland may be worse in some ways than X11 and better in others, but it's winning because people work on it/with it.

But choice and competition is one of the best things about Linux, so if a small group is upset about losing X11 and self-organize to carry the torch, more power to them. Build a great alternative, and maybe present yourself as a choice rather than being so reactionary. You're not a rebel, you're just in a niche and that's OK.

treve··on After 25 Years, Linux Format Magazine Is No More
Any (niche) print magazines anyone would recommend? Seems kind of fun to get something in the mail every month.
treve··on Every 5x5 Nonogram
There's a button at the top with an arrow ->, which lets you find an unsolved puzzle.
treve··on Using lots of little tools to aggressively reject the bots
The answer is attribution. also putting things public does not imply no copyright or license
treve··on Show HN: Git-Add–Interactive with Enhancements
The one feature I would love to see and would be an instant-install, is a command that lets me revert a hunk back. It would be nice to be able to wipe out some dangling console.log() statements as I go through the changes.
treve··on Mullvad Leta
For this kind of application, they would likely distribute the data across nodes, not sync.
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