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ulimn··on GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension
I'm surprised that we have a lot of comments but still no alternative which would be secure by design. Meaning, not downloading stuff shadily in the background like Zed, or allowing extensions to roam free like VSCode...
ulimn··on Googlebook
I'm not sure about that. The "normies" around me love AI. My mother and mother-in-law drive me crazy when I ask for advice and they copy the answer directly from ChatGPT. Not to mention the stupid images generated by AI.
ulimn··on DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro
That is true in most cases I guess but just look at the current product in OP. In 3 months, at the pace AI products evolve, we might "all" be using the next AI coding harness and Claude Code could be a thing of the past. So it's not a long lasting tool like curl for example.

All I'm trying to say that generalizing like suggested might exclude some useful things.

ulimn··on DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro
But then that would have the downside of falsely blocking projects that were developed in private and then just pushed to Github (or any public repo). Like I always use my own, self-hosted Forgejo for everything by default.
ulimn··on LinkedIn is scanning browser extensions
I think it's also an option to anonymously tell the world what will happen. That way you keep your job and still people are at least aware. Unless if you are one of like 3 people who know about it and they would immediately know it was you.
ulimn··on How ChatGPT serves ads
Do you have some source I could read on this? I don't really use Gemini but I would be interested to know more.
ulimn··on AISLE Discovers 38 CVEs in OpenEMR Healthcare Software
Checking for OWASP top 10 items during code review is usually a mid level dev interview question IME. It's nothing new. Teams don't have to come up with these. These things exist.
ulimn··on Is my blue your blue? (2024)
I guess it's not a browser issue. I tried firefox, safari and brave on macos and neither worked, even in private window. Bummer.
ulimn··on GPT-5.5
Isn't the outcome / solution for a given task non-deterministic? So can we reliably measure that?
ulimn··on Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?
I think it's more about how they approach their users in general that is the problem here.
ulimn··on The C3 Programming Language
I am not a C programmer but I always find these low level languages intriguing.

I am wondering though: when does one pick C3 for a task/problem?

ulimn··on CachyOS: Fast and Customizable Linux Distribution
Regarding the KDE aspect: my preferred DE is KDE and I installed CachyOS with that. Everything seemed to go smoothly and using it was also a good experience.

With that said, I ran into an age-old problem: sleep.

(For reference, I have an AMD Ryzen CPU, RTX 4070 super GPU and some low-end motherboard and I am using the proprietary nvidia drivers.)

I searched the web for hours and tried a lot of things, including different kernels, but nothing helped. In the end, after I couldn't find anything new on forums, reddit, blog posts, etc, I asked chatgpt for some ideas.

It had me change BIOS settings, kernel params, nvidia module params (or something like that - I'm not well versed in this topic tbh), etc, but in some way waking up from sleep still did not work.

After it suggested some undocumented kernel param with the nvidia kernel module, I said that's it, let's try something else and reinstalled with Gnome.

To my surprise, it worked without issue. I've been using it like this for weeks now.

I have no idea if the explanation is good or not but chatgpt said it's because my hardware + proprietary nvidia driver + plasma wayland was a bad combination.

ulimn··on You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here
Or at least not anymore since this became the number 1 sign whether a text was written with AI. Which is a bit sad imo.
ulimn··on What excessive screen time does to the adult brain
I'm not very confident about the quality of this study... It already begins like this:

Evidence suggests that chronic sensory stimulation via excessive exposure to screen time may affect brain development in negative ways. Excessive smartphone use may increase the risk [...]

Do they consider "screen time" only to be "smartphone use"? Is it better to use a tablet? Or PC / laptop? What if I use a 6.7" screen with my computer? Does it count as "bad" screen time?

Also, do they take into account what you do on said screen? Reading a book, learning something or binging tiktok videos, watching the facade people put up on facebook / insta don't sound the same to me.

ulimn··on Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine
I hate this about MacOS. It happens seldom enough for me to forget about it and every time I have to search the web for the solution. Thanks for posting the steps.
ulimn··on Remix Vite Is Now Stable
I think one could say that Remix is simple in the sense that there is less magic and reinventing the wheel like in the case of Next.

It's not simpler as in less features.

ulimn··on Don't use NameCheap for the .fr TLD
I recently tried cloudflare domains and it works well, does what I need. On PC I can download the invoice as pdf.
ulimn··on Netflix CEO says Apple Vision Pro market is too insignificant to bother with
Isn't adding customers a way of getting profit?
ulimn··on YouTube is now blocking ad blockers so I make ads run faster
Recently, there was a post on reddit where people posted the amount of money content creators are getting from views with ads.

I don’t remember the numbers well enough to quote it but it’s barely anything. I recommend to look it up.

And the biggest surprise for me was that older videos get even less.

ulimn··on JDK 21 Release Notes
I kind of like the inside java website for these kind of things: https://inside.java/2023/09/19/the-arrival-of-java-21/
ulimn··on Virtual Threads Arrive in JDK 21, Ushering a New Era of Concurrency
I think the book "Core Java for the Impatient" by Cay S. Horstmann is a really good one on (relatively) new java.

The author has a 2 volume, longer book as well if you want more details.

ulimn··on EU Commission doesn't understand what's written in its own chat control bill
If I write a message to someone, them being blue or green means I will either pay for the message (sms) or it's free (iMessage).
ulimn··on DNS0: The European public DNS that makes your internet safer
Well... I understand what you mean but they only have "European" in their title. Europe != European Union.
ulimn··on Digitec Galaxus now displays warranty score and return rate
Also, I think in case of a lot of stuff it's hard to tell if you also used it once or twice (e.g. small electronics which can be easily re-packaged).
ulimn··on Ask HN: How do you trust that your personal machine is not compromised?
I'm genuinely curious: Do you check/audit the code you compile and run on your machine? Going with the assumption of "no": How is it then different than downloading a prebuilt version from an official source?
ulimn··on Show HN: Socketify.py: Http/Https and WebSockets servers for PyPy3 and Python3
How is fiber slow? Can you please provide some source? According to the techempower fortune branchmark, it's the 3rd (prefork) and 6th (normal) fastest go framework and even in the all-language list it's 24th and 34th.
ulimn··on More developers use Linux than Mac, according to 2022 StackOverflow survey
> font rendering

At least on Linux I can have crystal clear (looking) font on my 2K 27" monitor.

On MacOS it looks blurry because they expect you to buy a higher DPI monitor - there's no subpixel rendering. If you want to share your monitor with your gaming PC as well (and you don't want to spend thousands on video card and monitor), you are left with subpar fonts on your MacOS.

ulimn··on Apple introduces end-to-end encryption for backups
But if the other person in the chat doesn't have this encryption, they will backup your messages unencrypted on their icloud, right?
ulimn··on Huawei phones automatically deleting videos of the protests?
I don't know if you are really curious, but this article pretty much summarizes why people might think he was/is crazy: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/09/richard-stallman...
ulimn··on Protonmail can delete the wrong email and nobody cares
Do you mean the ad about the Visionary subscription? I'm also a paying customer but I'm OK with these one-time notification kind of ads about the product I'm using. Just don't shove it in my face every time I open it.
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