Submodules are pinned by commit hash. It prevents an attacker from replacing a release.

If you're trying to deny internet access to a program, beware that landlock only restricts tcp sockets. Programs are free to setup udp or just raw sockets.

fyi https://blog.cloudflare.com/topaz-policy-engine-design/

Handy https://handy.computer/ is a free and open source voice transcription app. Works on macOS, Linux, and Windows, and you can pick which model. Everything runs locally. There is no API.

I use the app constantly, all day long.

I just want to remind people that the alternative to authority is anarchy. No, not the utopian kind, Star Trek style. Think: Mad Max.

I’m trying to communicate with relatives of my partner while on holiday. We have iPhones, they all have Androids. We asked them to install “ChatGPT” because its voice mode is shockingly good at near-real-time translation.

When I type “ChatGPT” into the Apple App Store, the top hit is… drumroll… the very same, by OpenAI.

My uncle in law was struggling a bit on his phone and showed me what came up: a wall of fakes. Scam app after scam app, all with similar icons and similar names “GPT Talk”, “Chatty GTP”, and garbage like that.

Why would anyone want this?

Why would I prefer this?

Why would you… unless you’re an “app developer” working for… not the company that ought to be getting the first and only search result.

The problem here — specifically here on Hacker News — is that a lot of you work for those companies. Startups faking till they make it, engaging in guerrilla marketing, less then perfectly legal practices… hoping to be the next Uber or AirBnB by emulating them.

Politely, and with all due respect: Bugger off.

Your arguments come from unclean hands.

Most of the world likes the authority of the App Store.

If you don’t, if you’re vocal about “rules are bad!” it says volumes about you, not the rules and the people that enforce them.

> flask

Off-topic, but I absolutely loathe new Flask logo. Old one[0] has this vintage, crafty feel. And the new one[1] looks like it was made by a starving high schooler experimenting with WordArt.

[0] - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Flask_lo...

[1] - https://flask.palletsprojects.com/en/stable/_images/flask-na...

Red Faction: Armageddon uses a clever method to set your inversion preference: w hen you first enter the game, it asks you to look up and then adjusts the controls based on that instinctive input.

> sort of a "delayed" mode to updating my own dependencies. The idea is that when I want to update my dependencies, instead of updating to the absolute latest version available of everything, it updates to versions that were released no more than some configurable amount of time ago.

For Python's uv, you can do something like:

> uv lock --exclude-newer $(date --iso -d "2 days ago")