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New comment by scarlehoff in "Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Packages"

scarlehoff — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 22:18:48 +0000

I like the aur wrappers for the convenience, but if I've already limited my AUR consumption quite a bit, I think from now on all aur updates will be manual.

One thing programs like yay could do though is to tie the packages to the maintainer. If the maintainer changes, it should be treated as a completely separate package. Not a perfect solution, but could avoid a few automatic upgrades.

New comment by scarlehoff in "Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack"

scarlehoff — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:58:58 +0000

I think it is simpler than that. For a lot of people he's the one who "created the AI"* so he is the reason they have been fired.

That's it, I don't think much of the rest has any weight outside internet forums like this one.

*I've seen people using copilot and calling it "chatgpt".

New comment by scarlehoff in "Spain to ban social media access for under-16s, PM Sanchez says"

scarlehoff — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 23:05:50 +0000

The issue I see here is: what counts as social media? Is this site social media? Will anything with a comment box be banned? If yes, what about online newspapers? If not, how will they prevent almost-social-media sites from popping up?

How will they deal with mastodon? If I have an instance in my home server at home, do I need to check people reading my posts are over 16 or is the onus on the servers where they are logged in?

For the record, I'm totally in favour of banning social media for kids and, contrary to other people here, I think it can be done without deanonymising anyone. I just don't think it is possible. Ban facebook, x, and bluesky and tomorrow all the cool kids will be using facemagazine, y, and greensky.

New comment by scarlehoff in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

scarlehoff — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 23:36:26 +0000

I agree. This is the first time I regret updating macOs.

I hoped the .1 or .2 would fix things, but I'm still seeing glitches and even random freezes.

Microsoft is a disaster right now, but if the new intel processor can compete on battery life with mac I might go back to linux.

New comment by scarlehoff in "Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines"

scarlehoff — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 19:58:55 +0000

I find the "censorship" frame funny. This is happening because certain countries in Europe are governed by soccer oligarchs instead of big tech.

Choose your poison, I guess.

New comment by scarlehoff in "Apple to beat Samsung in smartphone shipments for first time in 14 years"

scarlehoff — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 06:42:52 +0000

I'm in the same boat. Although I would also be willing to go back to Apple if they release a truly small phone. But I'm forced to carry one of these gigantic beasts I want to be able to take (handwritten) notes with it.

New comment by scarlehoff in "A theoretical way to circumvent Android developer verification"

scarlehoff — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 04:21:03 +0000

As far as I know it is only EU. Both UK and Switzerland have some operators that roam and some that do not. fwiw, fastweb in Italy provides roaming in both and has a very generous fair usage policy.

New comment by scarlehoff in "Answering questions about Android developer verification"

scarlehoff — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 21:47:04 +0000

I'd be fine with a warning. You can just dismiss it and continue doing your thing.

It is a bit more convoluted in macOS now but still something quick.

What Google is saying is that I need to install adb, search for a cable, connect it and _then_ run the cli command. It is very different, not even close.

New comment by scarlehoff in "LaLiga's Anti-Piracy Crackdown Triggers Widespread Internet Disruptions in Spain"

scarlehoff — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 21:17:20 +0000

iirc, part of the problem is that the main ISP (Movistar) is also a football rightholder (Movistar +). So they have decided that blocking cloudflare is profitable for them.

New comment by scarlehoff in "Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team"

scarlehoff — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 21:07:37 +0000

Apparently in Spain they can: https://www.reddit.com/r/CloudFlare/comments/1j7yx5y/i_cant_...

New comment by scarlehoff in "PYX: The next step in Python packaging"

scarlehoff — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 22:10:51 +0000

Hi Charlie

what happens in a situation in which I might have access to a login node, from which I can install packages, but then the computing nodes don't have internet access. Can I define in some hardware.toml the target system and install there even if my local system is different?

To be more specific, I'd like to do `uv --dump-system hardware.toml` in the computing node and then in the login node (or my laptop for that matter) just do `uv install my-package --target-system hardware.toml` and get an environment I can just copy over.

New comment by scarlehoff in "Private Welsh island with 19th century fort goes on the market"

scarlehoff — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 15:42:17 +0000

Not GP, but for me it means that this is affordable for someone "not a billionaire" (for example if your family happens to be from London since generations).

I would keep the London house given the choice though :P

New comment by scarlehoff in "The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine"

scarlehoff — Fri, 30 May 2025 21:53:13 +0000

This is what I fear as well: some companies might adopt a "sustainable" approach to AI, but others will dynamite the entry path to their companies. Of course, if your only goal is to sell a unicorn and be out after three years, who cares... but serious companies with lifelong employees that adopt the AI-first strategy are in for a surprise (looking at you, Microsoft).

New comment by scarlehoff in "Starting July 1, academic publishers can't paywall NIH-funded research"

scarlehoff — Thu, 01 May 2025 18:45:53 +0000

Very interestingly, I tried to write "gender" and mistakenly wrote "gendea". The search engine, trying to be helpful, gave me: "No results found for 'gendea'. Showing results for gender"

And voilà, I just got 1666 (heh) results free from the censors!

New comment by scarlehoff in "Reports of widespread power cuts in Spain and Portugal"

scarlehoff — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 13:56:55 +0000

While I don't particularly like twitter (X), in a situation like this it probably has a better reach than the website of REE.

That said, twitter should allow for official profiles and organizations to have their tweets (xs?) made public.

New comment by scarlehoff in "Self-contained Python scripts with uv"

scarlehoff — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 06:30:20 +0000

I think anaconda's rug pull was on the repository (you can still use packages from conda-forge for free).

uv just uses pypi, so it would be just a question of changing from uv to pip, poetry or whatever, all packages would still be coming from the same place.

New comment by scarlehoff in "A 2FA app that tells you when you get `314159` (2024)"

scarlehoff — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 19:34:27 +0000

I felt real joy reading this, thanks :)

As someone starting to feel a bit of burnout I think I needed to read something like this.

New comment by scarlehoff in "Framework's first desktop is a strange–but unique–mini ITX gaming PC"

scarlehoff — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 20:54:09 +0000

Same here. I'm still using my 11" MacBook because it is the only one that fits in my handbag :)

New comment by scarlehoff in "Obsidian is now free for work"

scarlehoff — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:23:54 +0000

I'm so fed up with subscriptions that I didn't realize it was a one-time payment. Time to get my license :)

New comment by scarlehoff in "I miss Vim"

scarlehoff — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 07:16:37 +0000

I also fell into the neovim pit of plugin horrors. The good news is, you can get out, empty completely your config (or rather, go back to vim) and start from scratch with only what you need.

(I now make sure that my config works equally well in vim and neovim so I don't have to worry about the odd server with only one vim)