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sprayk commented on Microsoft is starting to open Windows Update up to any third-party app theverge.com/news/675446/... · Posted by u/Tomte

pjerem · 7 months ago

Don’t be too embarrassed, WinGet is only 5 years old and is nothing more than an alternative to Scoop and Choco.

It’s « just » a tool which will fetch installation manifests on a centralized Microsoft GitHub repository and execute it. Exactly like brew or chocolatey. It’s fine for a third party « package manager » but it feels pretty weak for an official system tool.

Also, if I’m not wrong, it’s only available as a CLI tool which makes it pretty useless for 95 percent of Windows users and for developers to distribute software with it.

The thing is useful for sure but it’s far from a Linux package manager.

sprayk · 7 months ago

scoop, Choco, and winget are all very different. winget is closest to Choco in that it prefers to just run regular installers. It keeps its own state of installed packages, though, while winget uses the same sources of truth as "Add/Remove programs" (msstore/appx and the "uninstall" group in the registry). Scoop is its own thing that installs everything under its own prefix and manages its own state.

sprayk commented on The Alexa feature "do not send voice recordings" you enabled no longer available discuss.systems/@dev/1141... · Posted by u/luu

sprayk · 9 months ago

It would be interesting to put an Alexa (or another voice assistant device) in a space with only an audio playback device around to keep it company, with that audio playback device playing sounds associated with various crimes (but never saying the trigger word obviously). I wonder if there are any crimes it thinks it would hear that would result in a police visit. If police were called as a result of this setup, would this constitute a false police report on Amazon's behalf?

In the US, because I'm at least reasonably confident that such a setup comes nowhere near any exceptions to free speech protections here.

sprayk commented on Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15 lapcatsoftware.com/articl... · Posted by u/latexr

aeyes · a year ago

What are some example keywords? I have never searched for landmarks, I only search for location.

How many landmarks are there to justify sending your data off? Can't the database be stored on the device?

sprayk · a year ago

cat, pizza, dog, red car, Tokyo, dolphins, garden

The usual context is "oh I saw some dolphins forever ago. let me see if I can find the photos..."

sprayk commented on ISPs say their "excellent customer service" is why users don't switch providers arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/alsetmusic

sprayk · a year ago

In my case, Comcast has a city government-granted monopoly to provide broadband, so they are my only choice (without going to a WISP/Starlink)

sprayk commented on Attacking UNIX Systems via CUPS evilsocket.net/2024/09/26... · Posted by u/NetBender

sprayk · a year ago

> I had no idea Linux just added anything found on a network before the user can even accept or be notified. The more you know!

Windows does this too, I believe. At least it did it with a Xerox laser printer I bought and the Brother printer at my friend's place.

sprayk commented on Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses about.fb.com/news/2024/09... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

sarthakdash · a year ago

You can try Asus Zenfone. It's smaller than an iPhone 13 Mini.

sprayk · a year ago

the only Zenfone they make now is the Zenfone 11 Ultra, which is a big phone :(

sprayk commented on i3wm inspired wm for Windows github.com/glzr-io/glazew... · Posted by u/piyushsthr

mariusmg · a year ago

Tiling is old news, bring on scrollable window managers.

I honestly think scrollable VM is the future of window management. It just make sense to arrange windows like that instead of cram multiple opened windows in a fixed area.

sprayk · a year ago

Are there any scrolling WMs you can recommend? I have always been interested but never found one that I could get working (on Linux).

sprayk commented on Meta has run hundreds of ads for cocaine, opioids and other drugs wsj.com/tech/meta-cocaine... · Posted by u/cwwc

jklinger410 · a year ago

Wow this is terrible! Are you saying someone could buy these drugs over the counter, with regular currency, not on the dark web?

Can someone share these ads with me so I could check them out? Just purely out of my own concern?

Thanks

sprayk · a year ago

I never ged ads for "real" drugs, just the normal OTC/prescription stuff and occasionally some legal analogues (non-psilocybin mushroom gummies come to mind). Very curious what they look like as well and what their sites say about the purchase process (what forms of payment do they accept, how do they ship, etc).

sprayk commented on Ask HN: What's Prolog like in 2024? · Posted by u/overclock351

sprayk · a year ago

The most recent prolog news I've come across in recent years is some updates to SWIprolog (can't find a good link) and some talk of Scryer-prolog[0] which is a more recent implementation of Prolog in Rust.

One interesting development recently is a load of research into, reverse engineering of and emulation of the 1986 Sega AI Computer[1], which used prolog under the hood for mostly educational software. Unfortunately it does not seem there is a way to actually write some prolog for the thing today :(

[0] https://github.com/mthom/scryer-prolog

[1] https://www.smspower.org/SegaAI/Index