Don't ever use Chrome. Go for Brave or Vivaldi, they're far better than Chrome.
Doesn’t Brave has their own ‘Leo’ AI built in?
Readit Newstapland commented on Just the Browser justthebrowser.com/... · Posted by u/cl3misch
It's not hard to search for a few keys in the about:config menu or to set a group policy. If you can't be bother to do this you have zero business running random scripts that update your system configuration that you have no idea how it works.
Normie users would be better off reading some detailed step-by-step instructions on how to do it by hand using built-in methods than to run random code from the internet that can be malicious.
My mom is 75 years old and barely knows how to use a web browser to begin with. There is zero chance I encourage her to run random pwsh scripts from the internet.
God forbid we're going to start giving them AI agents to do this kind of stuff for them. God help us.
Yes, if someone wrote a guide on how to do it and why, that’d be great.
Knowing where to look and which settings are relevant, for yourself, is a crazy ask of even very computer savvy users.
tapland commented on TP-Link Tapo C200: Hardcoded Keys, Buffer Overflows and Privacy evilsocket.net/2025/12/18... · Posted by u/sibellavia
do you happen to have a guide on how to achieve this - I am fairly technical but still configuring Vlans and moving devices there would be good with some step by step instructions.
P. Sure the camera in question breaks in fun ways. From my observations because it can’t update it’s time, so messing with it a bit leaving to a need to update, downgrade, block from the web again.
But it’s worth trying
Not sure what does that mean.
Americans poor and wealthy are in the top 10% of the world wealthiest and own a huge part of the world stock value accordingly.
That's simply capitalism, money is spread unevenly across everyone, that does not make everyone an elite
So it’s more like the top 0.001% who have the voting majority in this wonderful democratic system we all have our life savings dumped into.
What was your attempted point? Or did you not understand the issue that was brought up?
“Just”? As if there aren’t pension funds and 401(k)s and IRAs serving >100 million Americans via investment in public companies?
“Open for the elite” how?
:)
You still don’t have a say and the investor is also the customer. How is it democracy or keeping companies to being good for society.
tapland commented on Show HN: I built a synth for my daughter bitsnpieces.dev/posts/a-s... · Posted by u/random_moonwalk
This is great. I’m going to start making something like this, but with some cut apple wood knobs, for my birds.
A friend of mine, a Linux user, says he installed Windows for gaming. Apparently the main issue isn't actual compatibility for games, but that a lot of games require some kind of kernel level anticheat (rootkit?).
It’s a few games, but a few very important ones.
GTAVs online ecosystem with custom servers. Rust hasn’t enabled Linux Battleye support. Valorant
Some releases that are temporarily popular like BF6, playtest of Battleye games where Linux support isn’t enabled (Fellowship, Exoborne). All games in this paragraph also by Swedish developers. Kom igen, linuxstöd
tapland commented on Launch HN: Hypercubic (YC F25) – AI for COBOL and Mainframes · Posted by u/sai18
There is a large graveyard of people trying to escape the mainframe, replace COBOL, etc.
I’ve seen a few, 9 figure projects to replace essentially 6 devs and three sysadmins.
Another proposed replacement about to fail now, after half the COBOL devs were laid off.
So if anyone needs a remote openvms/hp nonstop or junior z/os dev :D
tapland commented on Launch HN: Hypercubic (YC F25) – AI for COBOL and Mainframes · Posted by u/sai18
Rule of thumb — if a bank already was there and dealing with things 30 years ago, it likely has some cobol left.
Generalizing — if the company had enough need for it 30 years ago, was big enough to but a mainframe and the thing they used it for barely changes — chances are it’s still there, if the company is still there.
Banks absolutely do have it in house, in a dedicated secure site with a fence and a moat
And insurance, and there are telcos still having boxes spinning. And places dealing with inventories or airlines and whatever, or healthcare. If databases helped and it was around before 1992 it might still be running some cobol.
tapland commented on Two billion email addresses were exposed troyhunt.com/2-billion-em... · Posted by u/esnard
I just use <myname>+<service>@gmail.com
At the end of day day it’s all delivered to myname@gmail.com mailbox, but I can use filters based on part after “+”.
Anyone who’s looked at breach data knows to try yourname+service for any service.
This does help in filtering spam though