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New comment by selendym in "One-man campaign ravages EU 'Chat Control' bill"

selendym — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 17:24:50 +0000

> If anyone else knows of similar interventions, I would love to learn of them. It makes me think about how individuals can force multiply their impact, and whether there's methods for personal empowerment to be learned from these examples.

One that comes to mind is Keith Gill [1] of GameStop fame [2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Gill

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameStop_short_squeeze

New comment by selendym in "Seven Engineers Suspended After $2.3M Bridge Includes 90-Degree Turn"

selendym — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 16:55:21 +0000

Client-side-only validation?

New comment by selendym in "Our crisis is not loneliness but human beings becoming invisible"

selendym — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 16:01:54 +0000

> Sometimes we would day dream.

There was an article about that a month or two ago: The Death of Daydreaming - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43894305

New comment by selendym in "U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts"

selendym — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 19:32:38 +0000

The problem with this line of thinking is that the government is, of course, composed of... individual citizens.

New comment by selendym in "TKey – Security for the New World"

selendym — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 03:48:06 +0000

For what it's worth, this company was spawned by Mullvad: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/mullvad-creates-a-hardware-compa...

New comment by selendym in "NsJail: A light-weight process isolation tool for Linux"

selendym — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 17:22:05 +0000

> Firejail can't handle : in some paths (at all, no escaping provided) which made me dump it.

This doesn't match my experience. For example, the following works just fine in a profile file:

  blacklist /sys/devices/pci0000:00/*

Can you give an example of what you had problems with?

New comment by selendym in "An Unreasonable Amount of Time"

selendym — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 13:33:54 +0000

> it bugs me to an unreasonable extent that he finished one person short of 7777

Perhaps (likely?) he himself should be counted too, so 7777 in total.

New comment by selendym in "CLI tool to insert spacers when command output stops"

selendym — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 19:16:00 +0000

In bash, you can do something like this out-of-the-box by setting the `PS1` variable to your liking. For example, I use the following in `/etc/bash.bashrc`:

  PROMPT_COMMAND='_prev_status="$?"'
  PS1='\n$(printf "%0${COLUMNS}d\n" 0 | tr 0 -)\n[\D{%y%m%d-%H%M%S}] \u@\H (${_prev_status})\n${PWD}\n\$ '

The first line saves the status of the previous command and the second line sets the prompt string. The result is something like this:

  ---------------------------------------- 
  [date-time] user@host (status)
  /current/working/directory
  $