pull_my_finger (u/pull_my_finger)

pull_my_finger commented on Lenovo’s new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairability ifixit.com/News/115827/ne... · Posted by u/wrxd

midtake · 11 days ago

Sure they might be repairable now, but after Superfish I can't trust Lenovo.

pull_my_finger · 11 days ago

This was my thought as well. I'm surprised people are so easy to forgive and forget

Edit: a link[1] for those that aren't familiar

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfish#Lenovo_security_inci...

pull_my_finger commented on I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services neilzone.co.uk/2026/03/im... · Posted by u/speckx

bArray · 11 days ago

I was sitting in a room the other day with a young adult, we were searching for additional algorithm learning materials. They searched in Google, and accept the cookies. They clicked on a website, and accepted those cookies too. They then started entering their email address to access another service. I was completely taken aback.

I'm the sort of person that either rejects the cookies, or will use another site entirely to avoid some weird dark-pattern cookie trickery. I don't like the idea of any particular service getting more information than they should.

Siting there I realized, we were not the real target. It is the young people that are growing up conditioned to press accept, enter any details asked of them, and to not value their personal data. Sadly, the damage is already done.

pull_my_finger · 11 days ago

I use Cookie AutoDelete on Firefox and it's great. It works with Firefox Container Tabs (groups have their own cookie settings), and let's you greylist (allow cookies from a particular domain pattern until the tab is closed) or whitelist (always allow from the domain pattern). I set it up for my kids computers also. The default is to blacklist (cookies aren't set), and I can whitelist for particular sites where they need say persistent login.

Definitely in 2026 kids should be getting tons of education in public school about how to safely browse the internet, both for personal data privacy and for safety against stalking, doxxing, grooming etc in the same way millenials were grilled about source checking internet resources like Wikipedia.

pull_my_finger commented on Show HN: I'm writing an alternative to Lutris github.com/navid-m/styx... · Posted by u/death_eternal

pull_my_finger · 2 months ago

I'm curious what short-comings you found with Lutris is particular, because the examples you listed are actually not hidden from the users at all.

Not that there's anything wrong with tailor-made solutions or hacking for the sake of hacking, but it sounds like a fairly big undertaking and it might just be a skill-issue (no offense) if those items in particular were your only gripes.

pull_my_finger commented on White House Insists Trump Is 'Joking' About Canceling Midterm Elections time.com/7346834/trump-ca... · Posted by u/perihelions

pull_my_finger · 2 months ago

You can find so many parallels to Trump's presidency and the presidency of Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines. I wish there were some in depth political analysis of the similarities because just as a layman, there are many.

- Both used Cambridge Analytica heavily in their elections and terms.

- Both appealed to very macho/misogynistic bases.

- Both made wildly inappropriate jokes and threats, leaving their Press Secretaries to explain it away. "Locker room" talk for Trump, and "Bisaya humor" for Duterte.

- Both did basically anything they wanted, basically with impunity (although Duterte is captured by ICC now iirc)

- Both accused of being a foreign asset. Trump->Russia, Duterte->China.

- Both want to rewrite/dispose of their constitutions.

- Both wanted to end elections or remove term limits.

- Duterte declared martial law, Trump wants to.

- Duterte did door to door searches (under guise of War on Drugs), Trump doing it under guise of Immigration enforcement.

There's probably more, but those are off the top of my head. If I had a tinfoil hat to wear, I would almost believe this is all still Cambridge or other big data backed planned behavior. I admitted don't know much about Project 2025, but just knowing a) they worked with big data in Cambridge, and b) there is actually goals planned that accommodate expected responses from congress etc make things highly suspicious.

I wish a political scientist/independent researcher would do the leg work and investigate the two presidencies, because all of it is just really scary and prophetic.

pull_my_finger commented on API Clients: Bruno betrays, Yaak yaks royathan.com/blog/the-api... · Posted by u/thunderbong

pull_my_finger · 2 months ago

Say what you want about Bruno and Insomnia, but $50/year is pretty steep for the lowest tier of commercial use when there are more mature free options available.

pull_my_finger commented on Lua 5.5 lua.org/versions.html#5.5... · Posted by u/km

gsck · 3 months ago

Cannot wait for another version of Lua to sit unused basically everywhere.

Truly is a shame, everything seems to have settled on 5.1 for the most part without ever being updated, or any intention of it being updated. Some really nice features post 5.1

I understand each version of Lua introduces breaking changes in the language, which isn't great as the language becomes fragmented (Or not really, once again 5.1 is pretty ubiquitous)

pull_my_finger · 3 months ago

5.1 (by way of LuaJIT) gets a lot of use, but to suggests no one uses the modern versions is just not true. Lua being an embedded language just takes the pressure away to upgrade. It's a feature, not a bug.

pull_my_finger commented on Wine 10.20 Released With VKD3D 1.18 Upgrade For Direct3D 12 phoronix.com/news/Wine-10... · Posted by u/Bender

SvenL · 3 months ago

Its funny how „Games are supposed to be fun“ is also the answer to why there are such sophisticated anti cheat tools needed in the first place. Cheater do lower the fun for other players of course…

pull_my_finger · 3 months ago

I don't think they are needed. Cheaters will always find a way to cheat, giving game developers access to low level kernel features under the guise of anti-cheat is definitely not a trade-off I'd be willing to make. If game makers can't solve a problem with mechanics or moderation, I probably would just not play the game. Most of those issues revolve around MMO things, and could be solved with private lobbies, self-hosting etc - i.e. not playing with randos on the internet.

pull_my_finger commented on KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices community.kde.org/KDEConn... · Posted by u/snthd

roshin · 5 months ago

when it works it's amazing. but very often both my phone and laptop are connected to the same WiFi, yet kde connect can't see them. I can't figure out how to diagnose and solve that when it happens

pull_my_finger · 5 months ago

I have the same issue, very frustrating. I thought it was a firewall issue, or Android's blocking LAN connections without a VPN, but at this point I'm pretty sure it's just some KDE Connect bug.

pull_my_finger commented on Is pawn promotion to rook or bishop something that is seen in play? (2012) boardgames.stackexchange.... · Posted by u/susam

pull_my_finger · 5 months ago

There is a program called CT-Art[1], that uses "motifs" to train tactical sight for these sorts of things. Instead of next-move type puzzles where the moves are obvious, it gives you a game position several moves out from the targeted tactic, so you learn to recognize the conditions to be able to steer the game toward the tactical position. I think in it's current iteration it's broken out into separate courses or something but the older programs (v2 or v3 that I can vouch for) were really great for improving in these kinds of areas.

[1]: https://chesskingtraining.com/ct-art/

pull_my_finger commented on Luau – Fast, small, safe, gradually typed scripting language derived from Lua luau.org/... · Posted by u/andsoitis

pull_my_finger · 6 months ago

I know everyone hates bringing up naming conflicts, but I'm just going to say I think it's pretty lame to name a language so deeply inspired by another language, a name that is also insanely close to said language. Even the logo... I mean there's paying homage, then there's whatever this is.