Things you didn't know you needed
Readit Newsbeprogrammed commented on Convert SimCity 2000 cities into Minecraft worlds github.com/jgosar/mine-ci... · Posted by u/notpushkin
beprogrammed commented on Mastodon gained 70k users after Musk’s Twitter takeover theguardian.com/media/202... · Posted by u/samizdis
Why?
User controlled cryptographic identity management, distributed hosting, it's a protocol not a platform, you know...all the good stuff
beprogrammed commented on Mastodon gained 70k users after Musk’s Twitter takeover theguardian.com/media/202... · Posted by u/samizdis
I'm looking forward to clients and services built around the at protocol
https://atproto.com/
beprogrammed commented on Ask HN: Carrier “lost” my number in a port request · Posted by u/bojangleslover
Yeah they will do that when they're being idiots, which is quite often. There should be a hold on it being reassigned, if the porting request is recent, keep on hounding them until they get it worked out, if it's been awhile, you're probably hosed.
Really is quite a nice font
Know what will kill self-hosted email? Giving up and hosting your email with the big guys, the less self hosted email servers there are the less the big guys feel any requirement to support it
I find it less concerning that the police have this info, than the fact that it's just a random company providing it and presumably anybody with the cash to buy access could buy the same or equivalent system.
beprogrammed commented on Dear Linux, Privileged Ports Must Die ar.al/2022/08/30/dear-lin... · Posted by u/rcarmo
Literally my first thought when reading the article: "oh look- somebody else whining without RTFM."
I kept waiting for the author to mention capabilities, and give some reason why they aren't ideal- nope. The author is (was) simply oblivious.
Yeap, I don't understand this security stuff, I don't know why we just don't turn it all off.
As an aside, my life has been much easier since I learned you can 'sudo su' your shell and then everything just works.
beprogrammed commented on Diablo 1 for Web Browsers github.com/d07RiV/diablow... · Posted by u/nsoonhui
Omg It's incredible
beprogrammed commented on Tell HN: After 10 years of experiments, custom username emails receive no spam · Posted by u/sbf501
I have been thinking about using some sort of UUID-generator ([UUID]@mydomain.xz) whenever I sign up for a new site, but I just can not think of a _good_ way to keep track of them.
Generated algorithmically from their domain.
I believe sqrl uses a system like that.