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New comment by greenicon in "Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release"

greenicon — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 10:40:28 +0000

In German you use en-dashes with spaces, whereas in English it’s em-dashes without spaces. Some people dislike em-dashes in English though and use en-dashes with spaces as well.

New comment by greenicon in "The lazy Git UI you didn't know you need"

greenicon — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 12:37:06 +0000

git absorb works surprisingly well. I was quite skeptical in the beginning, but it really turned into something I used daily (until I switched to jj, where I haven't found a replacement yet). If you use stepwise commits I can really recommend it.

small edit: It seems that jj supports `jj absorb` now as well. Wonderful!

New comment by greenicon in "John Carmack on mutable variables"

greenicon — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 08:40:22 +0000

Yes, depending on your highlighting scheme. Not every highlighting scheme shows this by default, unfortunately.

To me, this seems initially like some very minor thing, but I find this very helpful working with non-trivial code. For larger methods you can directly discern whether a not-as-immutable-declared variable behaves immutable nonetheless.

New comment by greenicon in "Passkeys: They're not perfect but they're getting better"

greenicon — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 19:01:10 +0000

Passkeys cannot be phished.

Other than that they shouldn't have a big advantage for a more professional user with unique, long, and random passwords. For the common user it should be a great upgrade, giving all these advantages with better UX.

New comment by greenicon in "A simple way to measure knots has come unraveled"

greenicon — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 17:31:26 +0000

I'd say that the basic sailing knots should fit your bill pretty well. I can't recommend an online source, but you should find plenty resources on Youtube. It shouldn't take longer than an evening or two to learn them.

New comment by greenicon in "Tailscale is pretty useful"

greenicon — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 10:22:54 +0000

Wireguard does not re-resolve dns when your dyndns ip changes. This ip change is common in parts of Europe where it usually changes daily. To circumvent this you need a jumphost or similar. This again brings additional issues when you don’t want to go through the jumphost when at home (I use nftables-magic on the router, but it’s not very nice).

New comment by greenicon in "Germans decry influence of English as 'idiot's apostrophe' gets approval"

greenicon — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 15:35:45 +0000

It seems the EU laws for this have changed last year [1], to allow Erdbeermarmelade again.

1: I was only able to find something in German: https://www.wiwo.de/politik/ausland/realsatire-aus-bruessel-...

New comment by greenicon in "DHCPv6-PD – First Steps"

greenicon — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 08:08:54 +0000

That’s exactly what prefix delegation is for. Your ISP ought to give an /56 or more, so you can then have multiple /64.

I get an /56 by my ISP and have 6 or so different /64 in my residence.

New comment by greenicon in "Intel Brings a Big Fork to a Server CPU Knife Fight"

greenicon — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 10:10:56 +0000

Modern CPUs are mostly limited by their energy budget/heat and smaller cores are more efficient. Also, if you have a workload scaling to, say, 8 cores chances are good that it also scales to 20+, allowing the usage of many small cores. Hence, having a few fast and then several smaller, more efficient cores should be also useful for workstations and servers.

New comment by greenicon in "A disk so full, it couldn't be restored"

greenicon — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 06:12:42 +0000

For a networked Time Machine restore you can reinstall MacOS without restoring first and then use the migration utility to restore from a remote Time Machine. That seems to use a different smb binary which works. Still, I find it infuriating that restoring, one of the most important things you do on a machine, is broken and was not caught by QA.

New comment by greenicon in "A Partisan Solution to Partisan Gerrymandering: The Define–Combine Procedure"

greenicon — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 15:25:30 +0000

These are all valid issues.

Germany addresses them by doing a FPTP pass and then filling the remainder of the parliament such that the overall parliament has PR according to a second, independent vote given at the same time. This creates some other issues again, but works surprisingly well for the most part.

New comment by greenicon in "Choose your own IP"

greenicon — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 20:57:57 +0000

Yes, the battery drain on iOS is also the thing stopping me from having it on my iPhone. Wireguard is way better in that regard, but has other issues (e.g. no split dns, no dns re-resolve for dyndns or for network changes).

Other than that tailscale is really great. It just works.

New comment by greenicon in "Paperless-ngx – Open source document management system"

greenicon — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 19:46:51 +0000

You can easily use this for digital documents as well. The only difference in my setup is a tag showing whether the document id maps to a physical document in a binder or not.

New comment by greenicon in "Paperless-ngx – Open source document management system"

greenicon — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 19:40:27 +0000

Just a side note to this and the other replies: You can also keep the original documents and add scans to paperless for indexing, etc. Since I switched to paperless I keep my originals in binders just ordered by the paperless id, so I can retrieve the original when required.

New comment by greenicon in "Libsodium: A modern, portable, easy to use crypto library"

greenicon — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 08:17:50 +0000

I can fully recommend Tink, especially when libsodium isn’t available. Although its documentation isn’t very good, it‘s build to be hard to misuse. You still need some cryptographic knowledge though, as it isn’t that opinionated as libsodium.

New comment by greenicon in "The Mullvad Browser"

greenicon — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 11:32:06 +0000

This is not necessarily the fault of the browser alone. I‘m also unique on a Safari on an up-to-date iOS, which in itself is not very unique.

New comment by greenicon in "Paris votes to ban rental e-scooters"

greenicon — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 07:37:03 +0000

The QR code is usually just for easier use, you can also unlock them in the apps via selecting the vehicles on the map.

New comment by greenicon in "Punctuation Matters: How to use the en dash, em dash and hyphen"

greenicon — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 17:19:28 +0000

Sure. As far as I‘m aware the Gedankenstrich is usually set as en-dash with spaces in German, though [1].

1: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halbgeviertstrich#Gedankenstri...

New comment by greenicon in "Punctuation Matters: How to use the en dash, em dash and hyphen"

greenicon — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 17:14:30 +0000

Yes, and the Gedankenstrich is usually set as en-dash with spaces around, only rarely as em-dash. See https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halbgeviertstrich#Gedankenstri...

New comment by greenicon in "Punctuation Matters: How to use the en dash, em dash and hyphen"

greenicon — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 11:30:46 +0000

The alternative is usually en-dash with spaces.