ThePinion (u/ThePinion)

ThePinion commented on Verifying your Matrix devices is becoming mandatory element.io/blog/verifying... · Posted by u/LorenDB

tripdout · a month ago

What is verification? What does it involve doing? A lot of information on why it's useful, but how is it implemented? I hope it's not something like the Play Integrity API, but with no information to go on, I can't say either way.

ThePinion · a month ago

In the current state, it's basically just a self verification. When you use a new device it shows a series of emoji on each device and asks you if they're the same, then the device is verified.

ThePinion commented on Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor github.com/YaLTeR/niri... · Posted by u/atlintots

NatKarmios · 3 months ago

I'm in a similar situation; I think QuickShell [1] could be a compelling option, particularly premade configs for it like DankMaterialShell [2] (which is intended for Niri).

[1] https://quickshell.org/

[2] https://github.com/AvengeMedia/DankMaterialShell

ThePinion · 3 months ago

I've been very happy with Noctalia. https://github.com/noctalia-dev/noctalia-shell

ThePinion commented on Show HN: Patio – Rent tools, learn DIY, reduce waste patio.so... · Posted by u/GouacheApp

GouacheApp · 7 months ago

Totally fair point — and really appreciate the honest feedback.

Our goal is to build a platform where people can learn, educate, rent, and share tools within a community that loves DIY. The “Explore” section is part of our effort to surface great tutorials and ideas, but we hear you — the rental experience should be front and center.

We’re working on making that more clear from the start. Thanks again for the insight — it really helps us improve.

ThePinion · 7 months ago

Just to piggyback off this I had a similar thought. I read your post about the tool rental, got to the page and immediately saw random articles which unfortunately this AI age has got me to distrust that things are human written/curated when just presented with no context.

Seeing the rental and more community features would be best, then when you like the concept/community it makes sense to get invested in the posted articles because you've seen the site is active with people.

Love the idea, I really hope it all takes off!

ThePinion commented on Using lots of little tools to aggressively reject the bots lambdacreate.com/posts/68... · Posted by u/archargelod

miladyincontrol · 7 months ago

A lot of less scrupulous crawlers just seem to imitate the big ones. I feel a lot of people make assumptions because the user agent has to be true, right?

My fave method is still just to have bait info in robots.txt that gzip bombs and autoblocks all further requests from them. Was real easy to configure in Caddy and tends to catch the worst offenders.

Not excusing the bot behaviours but if a few bots blindly take down your site, then an intentionally malicious offender would have a field day.

ThePinion · 7 months ago

Can you further elaborate on this robots.txt? I was under the impression most AI just completely ignores anything to do with robots.txt so you may just be hitting the ones that are maybe attempting to obey it?

I'm not against the idea like others here seem to be, I'm more curious about implementing it without harming good actors.

ThePinion commented on Space Selfie space.crunchlabs.com/... · Posted by u/rossdavidh

ryanisnan · 7 months ago

> Stuff Made Here

Whenever I am feeling smart or particularly talented, I like watching Shane's videos. I'm swiftly reminded that I have no idea what the hell I'm doing and carry on.

ThePinion · 7 months ago

That's me reading Hacker News every day.

ThePinion commented on Authors Are Accidentally Leaving AI Prompts in Their Novels 404media.co/authors-are-a... · Posted by u/choult

smeeger · 7 months ago

i find it really strange that these romance novels, which contain graphic descriptions of sex and very often brutal acts of rape, not only have their own section in barnes and noble but can be found right of the register end caps at at least one target store near me. this is straight up pornography. and its being sold in tons of stores right in the open where kids can read it. its just very strange because 20 years ago im pretty sure target was not carrying graphic rape pornography. so now gambling is legal, sports betting, 10% of women are making porn and rape fantasies are being sold front and center in target. this feels like the biff future in back to the future.

ThePinion · 7 months ago

Degeneracy has been successfully normalized.

ThePinion commented on Show HN: SVG Animation Software expressive.app/expressive... · Posted by u/msarca

Hard_Space · 7 months ago

I think that this is a disingenuous use of the (legacy) term 'Lifetime license'. No-one who hasn't recently been screwed over by a software house like 4K Video Downloader [1] would think that 'lifetime' only covered the current lead version number.

A new term such as 'All version [n] updates included' (or something less clunky) needs to be found. At least one could Google it and understand the proposition, if its meaning was not clear - but 'lifetime license' is massively deceptive.

[1] https://reddit.com/r/4kdownloadapps/comments/1hbmdpn/really_...

ThePinion · 7 months ago

The fact that every single person that brings this up is met with a form of "we don't see a problem, you're just reading it wrong" is a bad sign for the future of this project.

ThePinion commented on Welcome to Ladybird, a truly independent web browser github.com/LadybirdBrowse... · Posted by u/goplayoutside

jeroenhd · 10 months ago

Microsoft abandoned Spartan (the original MS Edge rewrite) for Blink, Trident was just phased out and left to die.

ThePinion · 10 months ago

Oh wow, I actually completely blacked out that they attempted their own first. Those were interesting times to be a web developer.

ThePinion commented on Welcome to Ladybird, a truly independent web browser github.com/LadybirdBrowse... · Posted by u/goplayoutside

culi · 10 months ago

Thanks I forgot about NetSurf. After Microsoft abandoning Blink and Opera abandoning Presto to use Chromium, the internet needs these alternatives more than ether

Is Palemoon the most popular Goanna-based browser?

ThePinion · 10 months ago

Quick clarification: Microsoft abandoned Trident for Blink/Chromium.