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Mikina

@ Mikina @programming.dev

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  • What is a service you host you never knew you needed?

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  • I use Pixel with GrapheneOS as my phone, and I just have a separate profile that only has WhatsApp installed and nothing else. Since the profiles are completely separated, it doesn't have access to anything else I do on the phone and it's not running in the background (the profiles are basically sandboxed fresh slates, and switching it can be set-up to behave in a same way as basically turning off the phone as far as the profile is concerned).

    When the bridge asks me to log in again or refresh a session, I simply switch to the second profile for a minute and re-log in. I've heard iIt might be possible to set up an emulator and leave it running on the server, but that felt like too much effort.

  • Artifical ballot generation script by DOGE Engineer Ethan Shaotran

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  • Some context from the repo readme, since it is a pretty click-baity title that's taken out of context.

    BallotProof takes in input images of the front and back sides of your ballot and uses [client-side] image analysis to specifically determine which errors can prevent your critical vote from being counted.

    ALL BALLOT IMAGES ARE AUTOGENERATED BY A COMPUTER FROM A SINGULAR SAMPLE BALLOT. THESE BALLOTS DO NOT EXIST PHYSICALLY AND ARE NOT INTENDED TO BE SUBMITTED AT A POLLING LOCATION OR BE SENT IN THE MAIL.

    The generation script (generate.py) enables the generation of semi-randomized ballots that fit certain satisfiability criteria. We use these sample ballots as tests for model functionality.

  • CAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit that made us spend 819 billion hours clicking to generate nearly $1 trillion for Google

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  • Do you pay for successful verification only, or even for failed ones?

  • Microsoft hates freedom

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  • I've been slowly starting to get used to Helix, doing a tutorial in either that or VIM (since it has similar keybinds, but a lot better interactive practice tools, like VimHero or VimAdventures) whenever I have time and feel like it, to get used to the motions and navigations. I still can't imagine using it to actually code when I need something done, but I did notice gradual improvement in my efficiency. It's more of a marathon, though.

    In the last few years, enshitification was the final motivation that pushed me towards better habits, like self-hosting, discovering Fedi, stop watching YT, de-google, switch to Linux as a daily driver, etc. I'm kinda looking forward to finally being forced out of IDEs into Helix.

  • Shock and Outrage at Latest Actions by White House

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  • It shouldn't be hard to modify. I haven't looked into it, but I assume that it looks for ID/class of HTML elements, so if you replace .post-listing with a class you find by using RightClick - Inspect on the feed/post listing in your UI, it should work.

    Here is what you are looking for, I found it by Right Clicking the post listing, and clicking on Inspect.

    So, for example, if I wanted to filter comments, the rule would be (the . is there because it's a class, I assume?) programming.dev##.comment-content:has-text(Musk)

    I haven't tested it, but from my vague CSS knowledge, it could work like that.

  • Shock and Outrage at Latest Actions by White House

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  • Thank you, I've found the post in YSK, and eventually used this filter instead:

    programming.dev##article.row:has-text(/Trump|Elon|Musk/i)

    With the post-listing, if I opened an article by a link, it would also hide the post text - which has funnily enough happened when I opened the YSK post, and by that point I'm kind of interested in what it has to say. By using the rule above, it only seems to hide it from the feed. I haven't tested how robust it is, just posting it here in case someone else is interested.

  • Shock and Outrage at Latest Actions by White House

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  • Mind sharing how you do it? I'd love to do this in regards to US politics, and especially AI, since most of the AI post frustrate me with how much bullshit it is.

  • Since Andy Yen's unfortunate comments, have any of you left Proton? And if so, what alternative did you choose?

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  • I see a few people who don't want to switch due to the hassle it would take with changing email addresses, presumably because they use one of the @proton.me email domains. Get your own email domain! It's super cheap (if you choose one of the new TLDs, it can be as low as few dollars a year), the setup isn't really hard - you just change a few DNS values, and that's basically it - you can use whatever email you want that ends with your domain. It might take a while to slowly replace all your @proton.me emails with your domain one, but if you're not in a hurry and change any old mail you see during your day-to-day activities, you'll eventually be done with it, and you can set up mail forwarding to your domain for mail that arrives to your old @proton.me address.

    And if you ever need to move to a different provider, you just change the DNS records again to a new provider, and your email will start coming to the new one immediately.

  • Proton Mail says it’s “politically neutral” while praising Republican Party

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  • What would be a good alternative? I refuse to support this. Thankfully, I have my own domain, so anything where I can use it would be great, and moving shouldn't be that hard. Bonus points if I can use wildcards, or at least have a few emails, like spam@mydomain and other.

    Oh, and it has to support "+" emails, such as mail+whatever@mydomain.com

  • Microsoft Probing If DeepSeek-Linked Group Improperly Obtained OpenAI Data

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  • Isn't the OpenAI one they offer the same one as the one provided at https://chatgpt.com/ without login? So probably something not as impactful.

    Or do they share their unlimited subscription?

  • Google Trends comparison between Steam Deck and other PC handhelds

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  • Ooh, that's actually a good idea, just installing it on a separate removable drive, copying it over and seeing what works. Thanks!

  • Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral

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  • Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done.

    Insist on doing everything through ‘channels.’ Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.

    “Make ‘speeches.’ Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your ‘points’ by long anecdotes and accounts of personal experiences. Never hesitate to make a few appropriate ‘patriotic’ comments.”

    That reminds me of something. Standup, Kaban, Retrospective! It's Agile!

  • How to become a competent coder? - I was advised to cross post here.

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  • If you want a headstart, I'd recommend looking into other kinds of languages, such as lisp, assembly, smalltalk and prolog. You will probably have classes on those in college (at least I did have mandatory ones), and it can take a while to wrap your head over such different programming styles.

    And it also helps wonders to make you into a versatile programmer - since you would be vaguely familar with most of the different styles of languages there are, picking up a any new language will be a lot faster, since it will probably be similar to one of the above mentioned.

  • Google Trends comparison between Steam Deck and other PC handhelds

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  • I mostly wonder whether I would be able to just copy and paste /home from Nobara to Bazzite, and apps like steam or lutris/wine games would keep working, or if it's more complex than that.

  • Microsoft Probing If DeepSeek-Linked Group Improperly Obtained OpenAI Data

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  • That's only for the 200$ one, and if you use it constantly, no?

  • Trump Buyouts Mirror Elon Musk's Twitter Purge

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  • Isn't that the plan with greenland, though? Except instead of "buy" it will be "invade".

  • Microsoft Probing If DeepSeek-Linked Group Improperly Obtained OpenAI Data

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  • lol, I love it. I'm thinking about paying for DeepSeek even though I hate AI bullshit, just to spite all the panicking AI tech scammers. This has seriously made my week, the amount of copium they are inhaling is insanely funny :D

  • Google Trends comparison between Steam Deck and other PC handhelds

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  • I'm planning to do that, I've been running Nobara for the past year, but I don't have /home on separate partition and Idon't want to bother with moving data, so I'm postponing it. What are the advantages, are is there something I should watch out for before switching?

  • Google Trends comparison between Steam Deck and other PC handhelds

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  • I bought a Legion Go last week, and so far I'm really happy with it. The first thing I did was delete Windows and install Bazzite, and from that moment everything was smooth. The larger size is nice, and so far I had no issues running games pretty comfortably.

  • Distrowatch - Linux Facebook Ban

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  • If there's anyone here who works at Meta, I've heard they have an internal system to report and escalate such cases of unreasonable bans.