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slipheen commented on Allowlisting some Bash commands is often the same as allowlisting all   joinformal.com/blog/allow... · Posted by u/drewgregory
iberator · 12 days ago
What do you mean?! Where? I would claim otherwise: 99% of software is not in the containers. Like 100% windows or debian software
slipheen · 8 days ago
I don't know much about how windows software is packaged, but I find that a solid majority of desktop software I use is in flatpack and server software in OCI images
slipheen commented on Allowlisting some Bash commands is often the same as allowlisting all   joinformal.com/blog/allow... · Posted by u/drewgregory
AllegedAlec · 8 days ago
Not entirely related to the content but man 'allowlisting' reads so badly. We should just out of ease of reading return to whitelisting.
slipheen · 8 days ago
I'm trying not to get nerdsniped, but in the realm of subjective pragmatics, I personally find `allowlisting` to be drastically more clear.
slipheen commented on Confer – End to end encrypted AI chat   confer.to/... · Posted by u/vednig
slipheen · a month ago
Does it say anywhere which model it’s using?

I see references to vLLM in the GitHub but not which actual model (Llama, Mistral, etc.) or if they have a custom fine tune, or you give your own huggingface link?

slipheen commented on Largest U.S. recycling project to extend landfill life for Virginia residents   ampsortation.com/articles... · Posted by u/mooreds
everdrive · 2 months ago
Plastic recycling is worse than useless: due to the filtration needs it's one of the larger contributors towards microplastics in the water supply. This is on top of all the other factors: any recycle-able plastics go in for another 1-2 rounds at most, and given the pace of plastic usage it means the recycling did not accomplish anything. Further, most plastic cannot be recycled, some 3rd party countries just dump it into the ocean, others just ship it to a landfill.
slipheen · 2 months ago
I agree that a lot of plastic recycling is greenwashing from the manufacturing industry.

I've seen the statistics, and we need to take dramatic steps in order to reduce the amount of single use plastics – but don't you think that it's better that we try?

I hear you about micro plastics, and I think that it's important to try to do better to fix this.

But given the limitations of our imperfect world, do you really think that we would be net-net better off without even making an attempt to recycle it?

slipheen commented on UniFi 5G   blog.ui.com/article/intro... · Posted by u/janandonly
marcosscriven · 2 months ago
Does Starlink have a temporary or “pay as you go” option?
slipheen · 2 months ago
Historically Starlink roam let you pause/suspend the service and restart it when you need-

In August they changed their plans so you’d need to cancel and re-subscribe.

slipheen commented on DOOM could have had PC Speaker Music   lenowo.org/viewtopic.php?... · Posted by u/minki_the_avali
slipheen · 2 months ago
What a beautiful bit of hacking! This is awesome, and made my day to see :) It sounded -much- better than I would have guessed!
slipheen commented on Ask HN: What is the current state of the art in BIG (>5TB) cloud backups?    · Posted by u/jacobwilliamroy
slipheen · 3 months ago
Like so many things, it depends-

How quickly do you need to be able to restore? Is it commercial or homelab?

The most cost-effective option by far would be to put a NAS device someplace offsite. You could use tailscale to connect to it remotely.

After that, depending on your access patterns, either a glacier-style s3 service (aws or backblaze/etc), or a rented bare-metal server with big disks some place inexpensive.

slipheen commented on The politics of purely client-side apps   pfrazee.leaflet.pub/3m5hw... · Posted by u/birdculture
pjc50 · 3 months ago
shrug if you think it's simple, why don't you build it?
slipheen · 3 months ago
Because the technical aspect of building the software like is the most fun and nerd–sniping, but perhaps the least important part in the process of building an audience and encouraging people to adopt it.
slipheen commented on Tesla unveils cheaper versions of its Model 3 and Model Y   cnn.com/2025/10/07/cars/t... · Posted by u/supportengineer
vardump · 4 months ago
Have you used both Tesla and CarPlay?

At least CarPlay is pretty disappointing compared to Tesla's native functionality. The "apps" are all very trivial, mostly reduced to playback control or simple selections.

Not a Tesla owner, but I've driven it enough to appreciate.

slipheen · 4 months ago
Just one point of view- but I have used both a decent amount and I drastically prefer CarPlay.

The native apps are … fine?

Again, it’s just my particular perspective, but I really appreciate that any CarPlay vehicle has the exact apps that I set up on my phone, already configured, etc.

There’s nothing Tesla could ever really do to compete with the convenience of already having all of my accounts set up and already having exactly the apps installed that I know I want.

slipheen commented on Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy   blog.cloudflare.com/suppo... · Posted by u/jgrahamc
whitepaint · 5 months ago
Like what?
slipheen · 5 months ago
The big one for me is moving packages to snap. You can work around it, but that defeats the whole “works out of the box” aspect

u/slipheen

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