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New comment by backwardsponcho in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

backwardsponcho — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:36:50 +0000

Programs, configs and "other bits" are the trivial parts that no one should care about. It takes about 5min to go from fresh install to near-fully-configured.

Even the hardware itself doesn't matter that much, in the end it's all provided by your employer.

Leaking session tokens or secrets, on the other hand...

New comment by backwardsponcho in "Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services"

backwardsponcho — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:09:27 +0000

Are you using something like Bubblewrap/Firejail/Flatpak, or what does such a setup look like? I've been entertaining a similar idea for a while but haven't gotten to it

New comment by backwardsponcho in "Various LLM Smells"

backwardsponcho — Thu, 28 May 2026 21:55:57 +0000

The LinkedIn Kool-Aid predates the advent of LLMs though.

New comment by backwardsponcho in "My I3-Emacs Integration"

backwardsponcho — Sun, 24 May 2026 21:52:29 +0000

Dark mode? God finally

Edit: and PWA support! Woohoo!

New comment by backwardsponcho in "Bun support is now limited and deprecated"

backwardsponcho — Sat, 23 May 2026 00:17:51 +0000

And five engineers reviewing 20 thousand LoCs would get the job done in ten days, but both numbers are just as BS when it comes to actually understanding the codebase. No one is comprehensively reading 5k lines per day for a month straight.

New comment by backwardsponcho in "Who wins and who loses in prediction markets? Evidence from Polymarket"

backwardsponcho — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:02:19 +0000

First one that came to mind: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/07/wager-platform...

New comment by backwardsponcho in "Show HN: Rmux – A programmable terminal multiplexer with a Playwright-style SDK"

backwardsponcho — Thu, 21 May 2026 13:40:54 +0000

I think the issue is that the parallax is choppy in your page. For whatever it's worth, I typically don't care much about parallax in itself but I thought the same thing about the scrolling not being smooth.

New comment by backwardsponcho in "We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag"

backwardsponcho — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:46:39 +0000

Sounds like bandaids on top of bandaids, at which point you start to wonder if the idea is fundamentally broken.

New comment by backwardsponcho in "We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag"

backwardsponcho — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:52:09 +0000

Yeah, because we'd hate to allow people from poor countries to contribute to FOSS projects, right?

Or teenagers without full access to online banking.

Or the unemployed.

New comment by backwardsponcho in "Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit"

backwardsponcho — Fri, 08 May 2026 07:36:55 +0000

NPM seems to have introduced the flag `minimumReleaseAge` for this exact purpose. However even though are many recent references to it[0][1][2] I don't see it anywhere in the NPM documentation.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47513932

[1] https://github.com/npm/cli/issues/8570

[2] https://socket.dev/blog/npm-introduces-minimumreleaseage-and...

New comment by backwardsponcho in "Update on "Co-authored-by: Copilot" in commit messages"

backwardsponcho — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:07:20 +0000

"We're sorry we got caught"

New comment by backwardsponcho in "Agentic Coding Is a Trap"

backwardsponcho — Mon, 04 May 2026 10:17:02 +0000

While I'm sure the US has its quirks, this is not a US-only "problem" (not a health expert so I'm not sure if it's even a problem to begin with).

I live in Norway and have heard from lots of people (coworkers, friends, acquaintances) that doctors are very reluctant to prescribing anything at all - the running joke is that they'll advise you to "get some fresh air and go for a walk" even if you just broke your leg in half

New comment by backwardsponcho in "Make tmux pretty and usable (2024)"

backwardsponcho — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:30:53 +0000

Do you use this when running tmux remotely?

(I only run it in my own machines so it never runs as root anyway)

New comment by backwardsponcho in "The recurring dream of replacing developers"

backwardsponcho — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 20:59:48 +0000

I love me a good drop cap, but you're right in that this example is not good.

New comment by backwardsponcho in "I'm a developer for a major food delivery app"

backwardsponcho — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 07:10:25 +0000

Also much more dangerous, right? Since you're spending so much time on the road.

New comment by backwardsponcho in "Swapping SIM cards used to be easy, and then came eSIM"

backwardsponcho — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 16:45:26 +0000

TIL that the Xperia line is still alive and kicking. Sweet phones!