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New comment by cyberbanjo in "My bank keeps on undermining anti-phishing education"

cyberbanjo — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 14:20:11 +0000

Have you tried what you're recommending without an ad block extension recently?

New comment by cyberbanjo in "Ubuntu 25.04 "Plucky Puffin" Takes Flight"

cyberbanjo — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 18:18:22 +0000

  install_firefox() {
      source /etc/os-release
      printf "Package: snapd
  Pin: release a=\*
  Pin-Priority: -10" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/preferences.d/nosnap.pref
      sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:mozillateam/ppa
      sudo apt update -y
      sudo apt install -y -t 'o=LP-PPA-mozillateam' firefox
      printf "%s" "Unattended-Upgrade::Allowed-Origins:: \"LP-PPA-mozillateam:${UBUNTU_CODENAME}\";" | sudo tee /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/51unattended-upgrades-firefox
      printf "Package: firefox\*
  Pin: release o=LP-PPA-mozillateam
  Pin-Priority: 501" | sudo tee /etc/apt/preferences.d/mozillateamppa
  }

  remove_snaps() {
      sudo snap remove --purge firefox
      sudo snap remove --purge snap-store
      sudo snap remove --purge gnome-3-38-2004
      sudo snap remove --purge gtk-common-themes
      sudo snap remove --purge snapd-desktop-integration
      sudo snap remove --purge bare
      sudo snap remove --purge core20
      sudo snap remove --purge snapd
      sudo apt remove --autoremove snapd -y
  
      cat <



New comment by cyberbanjo in "Samsung Foundry Tracking 2nm In 2025"
cyberbanjo — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 00:15:23 +0000

Perhaps they'll change the acronym



New comment by cyberbanjo in "The FBI has formed a national database to track swatting incidents"
cyberbanjo — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 23:57:29 +0000

How much more often does injury from police happen than kidnapping?



New comment by cyberbanjo in "Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies [pdf]"
cyberbanjo — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 23:41:10 +0000

It's a book by Chomsky, are you sure you did? His name and face are on page 1



New comment by cyberbanjo in "Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies [pdf]"
cyberbanjo — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 23:38:43 +0000

Please open the link.



New comment by cyberbanjo in "I Built Linux from Scratch"
cyberbanjo — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 18:48:16 +0000

Why do that when there is pacstrap?



New comment by cyberbanjo in "I won't pay on your website"
cyberbanjo — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 09:12:50 +0000

I was surprised to learn the extent of what is a valid local-part (something+else in your example) of an email. Can have two dots in sequence if the local-part is quoted, and support for non alphanumeric characters like !#$%&'*+-/=?^_`{|}~; if the local-part is quoted, comments with parentheses. And it could be case sensitive.



New comment by cyberbanjo in "You're doing two-factor authentication wrong"
cyberbanjo — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 08:55:24 +0000

In that case, doesn't your password manager support TOTP?



New comment by cyberbanjo in "A daytime nap is good for the brain"
cyberbanjo — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 19:23:05 +0000

Caffeine naps are awesome, you just have to fall asleep before the caffeine wakes you up, but you wake up caffeinated. If I do it too tired though, I can sleep past my alarm, caffeine won't necessarily wake me up from a sleep, but will make me feel very groggy if I don't wake up before it's peak is passed.



New comment by cyberbanjo in "Desktop Linux Hardening (2022)"
cyberbanjo — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 16:46:36 +0000

Source for executing files with cat? That certainly defies my understand of how cat works.



New comment by cyberbanjo in "Mirages: On Anthropomorphism in Dialogue Systems"
cyberbanjo — Mon, 29 May 2023 01:17:15 +0000

Maybe it's anthropomorphic but I like hallucinations because it reminds me of the DeepDream psychedelic generator



New comment by cyberbanjo in "Linux for schools: why use Ubuntu for education"
cyberbanjo — Sat, 27 May 2023 21:34:41 +0000

Supported in what sense? I meant that you could pay Ubuntu for support beyond it being pre-baked into the distro, which seems rare if not exclusive to Ubuntu.



New comment by cyberbanjo in "Programming in Standard ML (2011) [pdf]"
cyberbanjo — Sat, 27 May 2023 16:50:32 +0000

PolyMl is one
https://polyml.org/



New comment by cyberbanjo in "Linux for schools: why use Ubuntu for education"
cyberbanjo — Sat, 27 May 2023 16:18:22 +0000

Active Directory is allegedly supported in Ubuntu so that makes it seems most ready for fleet deployment for existing edu IT teams.



New comment by cyberbanjo in "Linux for schools: why use Ubuntu for education"
cyberbanjo — Sat, 27 May 2023 13:43:36 +0000

Most adults also use mobile OS which are needlessly restrictive in terms of productivity software, even compared to Ubuntu, so it can't be just that or we would put the kids on Android and iPhone, don't all/99% adults use them?
EDIT: also how do you not think that Ubuntu using kids won't go on to use this free tooling in the future? MS spends a ton to target the education market because they know that you can get kids hooked early you get easier wins.



New comment by cyberbanjo in "Linux for schools: why use Ubuntu for education"
cyberbanjo — Sat, 27 May 2023 13:26:52 +0000

Should schools use a mobile OS like Android or iPhone since that's most popular especially for school age?



A guide to home row mods
cyberbanjo — Fri, 19 May 2023 23:11:08 +0000

Article URL: https://precondition.github.io/home-row-mods
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36007859
Points: 2
# Comments: 0



New comment by cyberbanjo in "Advertise on DuckDuckGo Search"
cyberbanjo — Wed, 17 May 2023 19:20:26 +0000

Everyone wants a censor on their side, but they rarely are



New comment by cyberbanjo in "Successful Lisp: How to Understand and Use Common Lisp (1999)"
cyberbanjo — Sun, 14 May 2023 20:55:46 +0000

Java I am unsure about, but Clojure does support multiple dispatch
https://clojure.org/reference/multimethods