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New comment by blue_pants in "Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label"

blue_pants — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 09:43:03 +0000

Don't you have an option to vote against all? Don't neglect it

New comment by blue_pants in ""

blue_pants — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:22:50 +0000

I don't think this is true. As per wayland protocol docs (https://wayland-book.com/seat/pointer.html):

> Using the wl_seat.get_pointer request, clients may obtain a wl_pointer object. The server will send events to it whenever the user moves their pointer, presses mouse buttons, uses the scroll wheel, etc — whenever the pointer is over one of your surfaces. [...] The server sends this event when the pointer moves over one of our surfaces, and specifies both the surface that was "entered", as well as the surface-local coordinates (from the top-left corner) that the pointer is positioned over.

So the program should know the pointer's local coordinates.

New comment by blue_pants in "Tested: How Many Times Can a DVD±RW Be Rewritten? Methodology and Results"

blue_pants — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 06:54:22 +0000

Epoxy and brushes?

Doesn't it use a special metal layer, and the laser high-heats the spots to make them amorphous (to write) and then low-heats them to crystallize (to erase)?

New comment by blue_pants in "Show HN: Pg-typesafe – Strongly typed queries for PostgreSQL and TypeScript"

blue_pants — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:01:30 +0000

How do you guys solve the problem of conforming DB schema to TS interfaces (or vice versa depending on what you like)?

Do you manually keep them in-sync (that's what I'm leaning into as the most practical solution)? Do you introspect the DB schema? Or maybe use something like Drizzle which autogenerates sql migration to keep the db schema in-sync

New comment by blue_pants in "NPMX – a fast, modern browser for the NPM registry"

blue_pants — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 05:00:58 +0000

It can load for a couple of seconds (!) for me

New comment by blue_pants in "Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking"

blue_pants — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 07:24:46 +0000

Editing hosts file seems unwieldy, and impossible on a phone without rooting it, AFAIK

> split-horizon configuration

Is it when your local router redirects media-server.mydomain.com to a local IP, and say Cloudflare DNS redirects it to your Nebula IP?

New comment by blue_pants in "Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking"

blue_pants — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 07:22:53 +0000

I haven't thought about it, thanks

New comment by blue_pants in "Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking"

blue_pants — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 20:00:26 +0000

Yes, but when you connect your phone to a Nebula network, and go to http://media-server in your browser, the DNS won't resolve it to your desired node, because the phone client (same on desktop) didn't update DNS of the phone, so you'll have to use node's IP address.

That's what I've read (when evaluating Nebula), at least.

New comment by blue_pants in "Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking"

blue_pants — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 17:30:06 +0000

What about DNS integration? As far as I know, you can't resolve nodes by name (http://media-server), you have to use node's internal IP.

New comment by blue_pants in "AI generated music barred from Bandcamp"

blue_pants — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 14:38:05 +0000

Please, share your method.

I looked up an artist there (Dio), and then an album (Holy diver). Neither page helped me find "similar" music

New comment by blue_pants in "Lightpanda migrate DOM implementation to Zig"

blue_pants — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:45:42 +0000

also Roc

New comment by blue_pants in "Flow – A Programmer's Text Editor"

blue_pants — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 17:09:43 +0000

This is one the uses

https://streamable.com/r44sjd

New comment by blue_pants in "The Future of Programming (2013) [video]"

blue_pants — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 14:45:29 +0000

But couldn't we do something about that as well? Couldn't drivers be built on some abstraction that would simplify some work?

I have zero knowledge about this area though

New comment by blue_pants in "Voyager 1 is a light-day away by November 2026"

blue_pants — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 15:23:32 +0000

But if we don't advance our technology enough to escape this planet, then we'll go extinct for sure, no ifs

New comment by blue_pants in "Berry Script: lightweight embedded scripting language for microcontrollers"

blue_pants — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 18:03:28 +0000

What's the advantage over MicroPython?

New comment by blue_pants in "Web Numbers"

blue_pants — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 18:09:05 +0000

  The commercial domain name system is a perfect example of the type of artificial scarcity capitalism creates and exploits.
  Domain names are tiny little rows in a database. They cost next-to-nothing to set up and maintain. There’s absolutely no reason why they couldn’t be a public good, paid for from the public purse.
  And yet you pay (at times extortionate) amounts for them… why?
  Because capitalism.

Isn't this a bit simplistic? Domain names are a limited resource, so there has to be some way to regulate who can use which domains. What alternative method of regulation would you propose and why it's better?

New comment by blue_pants in "An origin trial for a new HTML element (2024)"

blue_pants — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 14:28:00 +0000

What about having browser-defined UI instead? A site needs to access the location, for example there's a button on the page, 'Show my location', which is wrapped in a tag. When the user hovers over the button, the browser UI would appear on top of the area with a lock or something (the site cannot style this UI). If the user clicks on it, it would show the usual 'Site wants to use your location', and if the user agrees, they can click on the 'Show my location' button, if they don't agree, the browser UI would be shown again on the next hover. It would make it impossible for sites to obscure the permission-requesting UI.

New comment by blue_pants in "How I like to install NixOS (declaratively)"

blue_pants — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 10:23:41 +0000

Slightly offtopic, does anyone know how to setup vscode dev containers with podman on NixOS? I tried vscode-fhs and some consulted wiki[0], but encountered some issues with gid ranges for commands like `sudo apt install ...` inside a container.

Is there an guide for it?

[0] https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Podman

New comment by blue_pants in "RSyncUI – A SwiftUI based macOS GUI for rsync"

blue_pants — Thu, 29 May 2025 12:06:36 +0000

robocopy is the Windows equivalent of rsync

New comment by blue_pants in "Rust vs. Go: Battle for the Back End"

blue_pants — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 08:45:01 +0000

Why is the article being upvoted then..? Not only is the content paywalled, but the quality of it is questionable