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New comment by aorth in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

aorth — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:36:17 +0000

What version of npm has this? This isn't working for me on npm 11.6.2 (Node v24):

  ~/.npmrc
  min-release-age=7 # days

New comment by aorth in "The Slow Collapse of MkDocs"

aorth — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 06:27:24 +0000

I'm not an MkDocs user yet but I've been meaning to be for years! It's unfortunate to hear about the issues with project leadership. Why bring the drama about gender into this?! It should be closed as off topic.

New comment by aorth in "Grafeo – A fast, lean, embeddable graph database built in Rust"

aorth — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 18:41:47 +0000

Figurative!

New comment by aorth in "Blacksky AppView"

aorth — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 03:45:20 +0000

How much was the 8TB NVMe?

New comment by aorth in "The state of Linux music players in 2026"

aorth — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 04:49:06 +0000

For local music it's my preferred client as well. I've set mine up to resemble the old iTunes interface, with three panes: artist (left), album (right), and song (bottom), and explicitly configured it to use album artists instead featuring blah blah.

For network-based music Navidrome is very good. A good client for that on desktop is https://github.com/victoralvesf/aonsoku. It's Electron, but I don't mind. Ironically, it was Tauri based until a few months ago and that was much heavier and buggy, which is what people complain about with Electron.

New comment by aorth in "US Government wants DNA and social media from visitors"

aorth — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 17:13:47 +0000

American citizen living abroad for almost 20 years here. This happens to me ever so often when entering the US. Last under Biden, when I had been living in Jordan for a few years. I got pulled aside for a secondary inspection and the guy asked for all my phone numbers and social media accounts, and was surprised I didn't have Facebook—I just said I was a computer scientist and didn't like Zuckerberg. I gotta give him credit for being patient as he asked for all my addresses abroad etc. But this has been happening before Trump.

New comment by aorth in "I'll pass on your zoom call"

aorth — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 05:03:00 +0000

It comes from жици in Bulgarian, which means "wires".

I think the author should remove that part of the blog post because it detracts from the author's point and is even a bit embarrassing that they hadn't looked it up.

A reference for the name: https://desktop.jitsi.org/Documentation/FAQ.html#spelling

New comment by aorth in "Tech Writers Are About to Become Obsolete"

aorth — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 06:04:16 +0000

You guys had tech writers? I write everything myself—from the code to the reports to the policies to the deployment scripts. Well at least I also get to write the firewall rules myself! Sigh...

New comment by aorth in "Xfce is great"

aorth — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 11:54:36 +0000

> Many people praise KDE. But to me, KDE is extremely ugly. > > Admittedly, I use Gnome.

Same. To each their own, but I also prefer the aesthetics of the GNOME and GTK ecosystem. Though I use Sway as a WM the past few years, I always opt for GNOME and GTK apps when there are options. I've been using Linux since about 2000.

New comment by aorth in "Kagi releases alpha version of Orion for Linux"

aorth — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 06:40:57 +0000

Love to see it. I've been a paying Kagi member for three years (!), and for now I trust them more than Google, but I echo the other users' concerns that to switch to this long term I'd want it to be open source.

New comment by aorth in "Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%"

aorth — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 06:34:49 +0000

For technical users who are in the know, yes. I would not recommend Brave to less-technical friends and family knowing that they would surely be duped by some dark patterns in Brave's UI/UX.

Even Firefox, which is the best we have currently, surprises us a few times a year with questionable decisions. Still, it's what I recommend to people.

New comment by aorth in "Odoo: Open-Source ERP"

aorth — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 08:15:34 +0000

Huge billboards all over Nairobi, Kenya for several years now as well.

New comment by aorth in "Scientists discover beer bottle in the Mariana Trench (2024)"

aorth — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 17:29:12 +0000

I don't see any ads on Firefox (Android) with uBlock Origin.

That site seems horrible though. Random words in the body like reddit are hyperlinks to SEO landing pages on the same site. And there must be a better (original) source for the story than this...

New comment by aorth in "Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2025?"

aorth — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 17:20:42 +0000

Thanks. I didn't realize Dan Carlin was still producing new episodes. Ten years ago I was enthralled by his series on the Persian Empire and then I forgot about him.

Fall of Civilizations is excellent too.

New comment by aorth in "AI Slop Report: The Global Rise of Low-Quality AI Videos"

aorth — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 16:48:18 +0000

I saw one Warren Buffett video where the voice was Buffet's and he said "in this video I will show you...". Most videos featuring Buffet's voice are snippets from actual interviews etc, but this one threw me off. I stopped it immediately. Sigh.

New comment by aorth in "Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI"

aorth — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:57:19 +0000

Looks like a Cybertruck actually!

New comment by aorth in "Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop"

aorth — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 14:39:55 +0000

The Apple Magic TrackPad works well on Linux, both via Bluetooth and USB-C. I used one for a few years.

New comment by aorth in "Nook Browser"

aorth — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 04:49:53 +0000

Right, as I read that I also thought, "Wait a sec, do they have the user's browsing data?" They should say "Your browsing data is local and we don't even have it!" instead.

New comment by aorth in "Why we built Lightpanda in Zig"

aorth — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 10:51:57 +0000

Sounds fast. Does it respect `robots.txt`? My web services are not written in Rust, Zig, or Go. :)

New comment by aorth in "10 years of writing a blog nobody reads"

aorth — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 06:40:14 +0000

> My style has certainly improved since my early days of writing. Reading my old stuff is painful.

I've been blogging since 2006 and I feel the same way. The past few years I blog less, but I do try to write more to the point and use less idioms and spoken writing style.