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New comment by rovr138 in "“It works better in the app”"

rovr138 — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 17:01:28 +0000

If you think a book is made by the physical medium, you must think everything in paper is a book. The prose in a book has certain content structure, intent, and writing.

So unless a napkin and a receipt are books, what actually makes something a book is its content structure, intent, and writing. Not the paper it's printed on.

New comment by rovr138 in "“It works better in the app”"

rovr138 — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:33:56 +0000

Kindle / Audible.

New comment by rovr138 in "“It works better in the app”"

rovr138 — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:07:44 +0000

What's your alternative to these examples?

In my case, I use both, for different reasons, and continuously test other.

New comment by rovr138 in "“It works better in the app”"

rovr138 — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:06:16 +0000

Anthropic finally added the ability to sort by spend.

I have thousands of people on an org. I had to go through every page to extract the top spenders.

Openai... you captured the sentiment.

New comment by rovr138 in "“It works better in the app”"

rovr138 — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:03:27 +0000

Not OP

Unfortunately for me, a lot of my books are tied to them.

New comment by rovr138 in "“It works better in the app”"

rovr138 — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 15:58:48 +0000

I have like 5 parking apps. It's exhausting.

The worst part is not that, but.. _which is the app for this area?_

New comment by rovr138 in "“It works better in the app”"

rovr138 — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 15:56:25 +0000

The people they want to follow. What's your point?

New comment by rovr138 in "Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is"

rovr138 — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 12:34:18 +0000

Instead, I'd build tooling for the model to be able to query the tickets, pr, commits, diff, etc

This is something I can reuse better.

New comment by rovr138 in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

rovr138 — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 15:10:24 +0000

It's not the same issue. From the article,

> After questioning, he eventually turned it over but gave officers a passcode that then erased the contents of his Google Pixel phone.

I don't see the problem being a clean device, but destroying evidence in the moment.

New comment by rovr138 in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

rovr138 — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 15:08:32 +0000

> I don't trust government to maintain the security level my job requires

What does the security officer at your company say?

Either you shouldn't be leaving with devices with the data from your job on them, or you don't trust them, but your job is fine with it.

I keep work things separate. If it's a personal trip, I don't travel with work devices. If it's a work trip, and there's worry, I usually take a loaner device usually with ms office and a vpn.

Usually the issue is not returning, but other governments.

New comment by rovr138 in "Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open"

rovr138 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:54:04 +0000

I actually donate to a bunch of tools I use.

New comment by rovr138 in "Ask HN: Who Has This Pain?"

rovr138 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:58:28 +0000

What is a 'sensitive environment' in this case?

If it's a sensitive environment like what I'm thinking, you probably have a security officer. What do they say should be the process?

Is the device the sensitive environment? Or is it the network?

Can you have a separate device/network in which to do this?

New comment by rovr138 in "Curlese, Five Years Later"

rovr138 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:53:12 +0000

Curlese, five years later: curl is still the universal language of broken integrations

Curlese, Five Years Later

rovr138 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:53:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.hypertesto.me/en/blog/2026/08/curlese-five-years-later

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49163202

Points: 25

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New comment by rovr138 in "Tell HN: Amazonbot aggressively scraping my website and ignoring robots.txt"

rovr138 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 23:24:24 +0000

> they aren’t bypassing access controls.

Weev went to jail for accessing public api's, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev#AT&T_data_breach

> The flaw was part of a publicly-accessible URL, which allowed the group to collect the e-mails without having to break into AT&T's system.

It was argued that he didn't circumvent, but it didn't stop them from putting him in jail initially.

New comment by rovr138 in "Ask HN: Anyone still do work on Intel Macs?"

rovr138 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 22:31:13 +0000

macOS 26, Tahoe, is the last supporting Intel Mac. Tahoe will be superseded in 2026. 2 more years for Tahoe updates (unless they change how they support previous os versions (current + 2 versions back))

Not much longer for supported versions.

New comment by rovr138 in "Codex Resets"

rovr138 — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:11:19 +0000

They had an issue yesterday that said Fable needed extra usage.

I’m guessing they’re getting ready.

New comment by rovr138 in "OpenSSH 10.4/10.4p1 Released"

rovr138 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 02:07:42 +0000

https://www.openssh.org/releasenotes.html#10.4

New comment by rovr138 in "Hacker News but for independent blogs"

rovr138 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:16:37 +0000

I like that in Kagi I can set this as an option.

Default, on the same tab (since browsers have options around this), but allow users to select if they want it on a new tab/window.

New comment by rovr138 in "Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?"

rovr138 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:56:02 +0000

I'm just curious about testing.

Is this a configuration that's not common and thus not tested?

If people think they can do better, I want to see their forks and them keeping up with it.

https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/graphs/contributors?fr...