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New comment by backwardsponcho in "How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots"

backwardsponcho — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 11:37:43 +0000

I ran into a government site that not only was aware of the devtools being open, but also stopped virtually all user actions if it did. And it worked quite well- to bypass it, I had to block the detection script from loading altogether since merely removing the event listener didn't work.

New comment by backwardsponcho in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

backwardsponcho — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:48:59 +0000

I think that changed around the time COVID hit and offer was highly surpassed by demand. Lots of overhiring during those days.

New comment by backwardsponcho in "My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”"

backwardsponcho — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 21:26:07 +0000

As someone from South America I find it interesting that people born and raised in developed countries would think that phone-snatching detection is a bogeyman feature. Over there it's a given that your belongings can stop being yours at any given moment just 'cause.

New comment by backwardsponcho in "The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models"

backwardsponcho — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 05:57:44 +0000

The thing is that some people start to adopt certain "mannerisms" from their LLM of choice. It's not funny in and by itself, but it tends to be unnecessarily pompous words/expressions as well. Relevant: https://www.vice.com/en/article/youre-not-imagining-it-peopl...

New comment by backwardsponcho in "Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?"

backwardsponcho — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 23:49:15 +0000

When people interact with spouses and coworkers, it's still human-to-human interaction. There is a person on the other end. Not quite the same when your head doctor, DJ, gym coach, and nutritionist are the same sycophant machine who's eager to let you know how absolutely right you are.

New comment by backwardsponcho in "Grok CLI uploaded the whole home directory to GCS"

backwardsponcho — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:32:22 +0000

Wouldn't you solve the space allocation issue by using a symbolic link?

Sorry if it's a dumb question - I'm just getting into sandboxing for the first time myself and ran into this same thought before.

New comment by backwardsponcho in "Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again"

backwardsponcho — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 23:41:20 +0000

You hit the nail in the head.

Those who say stuff like "nobody makes me feel integrated" would also very much struggle to befriend people in their own country if they got dropped anywhere else other than their home cities away from friends and family.

Making new friends after school is hard, no matter where in the world.

New comment by backwardsponcho in "Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again"

backwardsponcho — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 23:15:49 +0000

You'd be surprised at the lengths some will go to avoid learning a new language.

I've met people who have lived over 20y in a country while working, having and raising kids there and still can't have a half decent basic conversation in the local language.

There is always an excuse: too much work, too little time, too tired or you name it, but the end result is that they are inconveniencing themselves.

Not saying it is OP's case, just some anecdotal obserevations.

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