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tux1968 commented on NYC congestion pricing cuts air pollution by a fifth in six months   airqualitynews.com/cars-f... · Posted by u/pseudolus
afavour · 9 days ago
I didn’t say every objection was disingenuous, just that there was an incredible number of objections that were.
tux1968 · 9 days ago
I'm sure you're being honest about your intent, but a glancing read of your previous comment sounded categorical, to my ear at least, "And they've all been proven false."
tux1968 commented on Switching from GPG to Age   luke.hsiao.dev/blog/gpg-t... · Posted by u/speckx
lrvick · a month ago
tux1968 · a month ago
It's hard to know how these pieces fit together, especially if you have a fuzzy mental-model of the objectives and potential benefits. Is there a gentle introduction you'd recommend?
tux1968 commented on Switching from GPG to Age   luke.hsiao.dev/blog/gpg-t... · Posted by u/speckx
lrvick · a month ago
There are not many reasons for signing without a strategy for key discovery and verification so others can verify your signatures are really yours and not that of an imposter.

SSH Authenticaton subkeys are widely shared publicly on every git host I am aware of. If you use a separate key for signing than you use for authentication, then you throw away the only established SSH key discovery method.

Now you solved the overloaded key problem, while making key discovery worse.

Everyone seems to be trying to re-solve problems with ssh keys that PGP actually solved reasonably well.

tux1968 · a month ago
Isn't this more of a theoretical problem, rather than a practical one? In what situations do you want people to discover your key? You create a key pair for Github, upload the public key, and you're done; you can securely communicate with Github. Nobody ever has to discover it. Do they?
tux1968 commented on Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support   github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/... · Posted by u/bertman
xmcp123 · a month ago
This absolutely screams graphics card drivers problems to me.
tux1968 · a month ago
Does it? Why do they play perfectly fine after being downloaded?
tux1968 commented on Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support   github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/... · Posted by u/bertman
WD-42 · a month ago
Glad to hear it’s faster now!

YouTube barely works in a full-on browser these days, props to the team that keeps it accessible via a Python script!

tux1968 · a month ago
Do you use Firefox on Linux, too? 4K Videos freeze so often for me, I don't even try watching them online, and always just download them with yt-dlp. It doesn't bother me enough to give Chrome a try, but maybe that'd make a difference.
tux1968 commented on YouTube Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm'   news.itsfoss.com/youtube-... · Posted by u/WaitWaitWha
pants2 · a month ago
Why should I care that much what Microsoft is doing? I sold my Windows 11 computer long ago and haven't looked back. In fact, more user-hostile they get the better that is for the Linux ecosystem which is better for me!
tux1968 · a month ago
Linux can exist because there is a huge industry producing inexpensive open hardware. If that industry transitions to producing only locked down hardware, it will hurt Linux and all open source software. Be careful what you wish for.
tux1968 commented on An eBPF loophole: Using XDP for egress traffic   loopholelabs.io/blog/xdp-... · Posted by u/shivanshvij
drewg123 · a month ago
I come from a very different world (optimizing the FreeBSD kernel for the Netflix CDN, running on bare metal) but performance leaps like this are fascinating to me.

One of the things that struck me when reading this with only general knowledge of the linux kernel is: What makes things so terrible? Is iptables really that bad? Is something serialized to a single core somewhere in the other 3 scenarios? Is the CPU at 100% in all cases? Is this TCP or UDP traffic? How many threads is iperf using? It would be cool to see the CPU utilization of all 4 scenarios, along with CPU flamegraphs.

tux1968 · a month ago
It's also a bit depressing that everyone is still using the slower iptables, when nftables has been in the kernel for over a decade.
tux1968 commented on Spinning Up an Onion Mirror Is Stupid Easy   flower.codes/2025/10/23/o... · Posted by u/speckx
throawayonthe · 2 months ago
that seems unwise, you'd be associating your 'impolite' activities with an irl legal identity
tux1968 · 2 months ago
Well, you could use a disposable legal identity. Say a hobby site, about bowling.
tux1968 commented on From VS Code to Helix   ergaster.org/posts/2025/1... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
eviks · 2 months ago
> I honestly don't understand what the big deal is.

Honestly, you't not even trying to

> To my mind, selection-then-action is provided by Vim if you want it.

Ok, let your mind be content with ignoring the difference that I've just explained. By the way, you can also trivialize vim as "it's just a fewer keystrokes sometimes to do the same as in notepad, what's the big deal?"

tux1968 · 2 months ago
> Honestly, you't not even trying to

Why do you think that? I've been listening to what you say. But again, you haven't exactly proven that operating on the single-most-recent movement (which as I understand it, also defines the selection) is the thing that you want to operate on the most often, rather than the convenience of being able to use the flexibility of multiple movements to define a selection.

Anyway, many people do claim that an editor isn't the most important thing, and that thinking takes a lot more time than the operation itself, and that therefore Notepad would often be sufficient. What those people don't really appreciate is the ability to operate on multiple lines at once, not a single selection, but across vast swathes of the text being edited. When your thinking is done, and needs to be applied to every single line of the file, you'd much rather have Vim than Notepad. But in such a case Helix wouldn't offer much, if any, advantage over Vim.

You seem emotionally attached to this in a way that my skepticism provokes, so we can drop the debate. People should use whatever they prefer; no harm done.

u/tux1968

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