Readit News logoReadit News
Wicher commented on Ask HN: Effective way to deal with mosquitoes?    · Posted by u/simonebrunozzi
Wicher · a month ago
Use fans. They don't like flying around in wind and they don't know where to fly to anymore because the fan disperses the CO2 you produce so quickly that there's no gradient for them to follow to the source (you).
Wicher commented on SailfishOS: A Linux-based European alternative to dominant mobile OSes   sailfishos.org/info/... · Posted by u/ForHackernews
m4rtink · 2 months ago
Afaik the problem is the lack of embedding API in the Firefox core, so they have to adapt their patches every time they need to update Firefox version.

This is also why you see Chome being used as a core in all kinds of applications and frameworks - AFAIK it has the necessary API for this.

Wicher · 2 months ago
There's GeckoView which one'd use for embedding Firefox in an Android app. Can't use that on Sailfish OS of course, but it'd help in figuring out what of core Firefox to bind to to make a similar layer.
Wicher commented on Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive   github.com/linagora/twake... · Posted by u/javatuts
MontyCarloHall · 2 months ago
How would you implement things like version history or shareable URLs to files without a database?

Another issue would be permissions: if I wanted to restrict access to a file to a subset of users, I’d have to make a group for that subset. Linux supports a maximum of 65536 groups, which could quickly be exhausted for a nontrivial number of users.

Wicher · 2 months ago
As for the permissions, using ACLs would work better here. Then you don't need a separate group for every grouping.
Wicher commented on SSH3: Faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3   github.com/francoismichel... · Posted by u/tempaccount420
KronisLV · 3 months ago
SSH/HTTP/3

That way, when you need to use sed for editing text containing it, your pattern can be more interesting:

  sed 's/SSH\/HTTP\/3/SSH over HTTP\/3/g'

Wicher · 3 months ago
try:

  sed 's:SSH/HTTP/3:SSH over HTTP/3:g'

At least with GNU sed, you can use different separators so dodge the need for exscaping. | works as well.

Wicher commented on Google shifts goo.gl policy: Inactive links deactivated, active links preserved   blog.google/technology/de... · Posted by u/shuuji3
xp84 · 5 months ago
> cull any that have had dead endpoints

That actually seems just as bad to me, since the URL often has enough data to figure out what was being pointed to even if the exact URL format of a site has changed or even if a site has gone offline. It might be like:

kmart dot com / product.aspx?SKU=12345678&search_term=Staplers or /products/swingline-red-stapler-1235467890

Those URLs would now be dead and kmart itself will soon be fully dead but someone can still understand what was being linked to.

Even if the URL is 404, it's still possibly useful information for someone looking at some old resource.

Wicher · 5 months ago
Totally. Furthermore one can input that (now broken) URL into the Internet Archive to see if they might have snapshotted that red stapler page.
Wicher commented on The curious case of shell commands, or how "this bug is required by POSIX" (2021)   notes.volution.ro/v1/2021... · Posted by u/wonger_
Wicher · 6 months ago
For SSH specifically (ssh user@host "command with args") I've written this workaround pseudoshell that makes it easy to pass your argument vector to execve unmolested.

https://crates.io/crates/arghsh

Wicher commented on GitHub introduces sub-issues, issue types and advanced search   github.blog/changelog/202... · Posted by u/julius-fx
Wicher · a year ago
Great, but I would've been happier if I'd had some dead simple dependency tracking 10 years ago. Just enough to create metabug functionality with. Like Bugzilla, Trac, Mantis etc have sported for at least two deades. I've always wondered why Github didn't have such basic functionality. (No, just the ability to reference other issues is not enough; I want to get an email for the metabug when all blocking issues are resolved).
Wicher commented on Ask HN: How do you backup your Android?    · Posted by u/Openai2
esperent · a year ago
Since your phone is rooted, how do you manage banking apps and other things that don't like working on a rooted device? How much work is involved in getting those to work?
Wicher · a year ago
I'm running LineageOS, rooted, with MicroG' Safetynet emulation (of sorts?). So a build signed with userdebug keys.

Some banking apps just work - two with warning on first launch, and one just doesn't care at all.

Two refuse to run and I have an old unrooted phone for them. Resulting in me being a good customer of those three banks that are not fussy.

So try and see, perhaps things just work!

Wicher commented on How much do I need to change my face to avoid facial recognition?   gizmodo.com/how-much-do-i... · Posted by u/pseudolus
pavel_lishin · a year ago
But they did have tremendous data processing abilities for their time!

u/Wicher

KarmaCake day259February 19, 2010View Original