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New comment by threePointFive in "Vaultwarden commit introduces SSO using OpenID Connect"

threePointFive — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 16:58:23 +0000

My company just implemented the SaaS Bitwarden with Google SAML on their Enterprise Plan. Very easy to set up, not too expensive ($6/user/month). Their compliance page made it much easier to sell to my manager who had to give the final approval: https://bitwarden.com/compliance/. It is only used by my department so far and we're still doing manual invites rather than integrating with the SCIM features so I can't speak to that. My biggest annoyance is that, as an admin, unlocking the vault still prompts for the master password rather than letting me select SSO without logging all the way out.

New comment by threePointFive in "My AI skeptic friends are all nuts"

threePointFive — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 23:59:29 +0000

While i think i know what you're getting at, for the sake of discussion, could you elaborate?

New comment by threePointFive in "My AI skeptic friends are all nuts"

threePointFive — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 23:17:22 +0000

Can someone comment on the cost of running agentic models? Not for a company but for an individual. I tried "vibe coding" a personal project I was struggling with and left even more frustrated because I kept running into token rate limits with Claude (used inside of Zed if it matters). Did I pick the wrong model, the wrong editor, or do I just need to not be so tight with my money?

New comment by threePointFive in "From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you.""

threePointFive — Fri, 09 May 2025 01:09:28 +0000

Moreutils has a great command `chronic` which is a wrapper command like `time` or `sudo`, ie. you just run `chronic `. It'll supress stdout and stderr until the command exits at which point it will print only if the exit code was non-zero.

New comment by threePointFive in "Fedora 42 Beta"

threePointFive — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 16:33:07 +0000

That's quite impressive by the standards I'm used to. Do you mind if I ask what scale you're operating at and what tools you use to manage the staged rollout?

New comment by threePointFive in "Fedora 42 Beta"

threePointFive — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 22:05:46 +0000

I've been super happy with Fedora since switching to it on desktop. Unfortunately I'm still biased to Debian for the server usecase. Fedora moves too quickly but RHEL (and derivatives) not supporting major version upgrades is pretty much a deal breaker. Would love a RedHat-themed distro with a ~5year support cycle with the option to do major version upgrades.

New comment by threePointFive in "Launching RDAP; sunsetting WHOIS"

threePointFive — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 21:29:55 +0000

My first question when reading this was how is it going to affect the `whois` CLI tool, which I use at least weekly for both IPs and Domains. I even started trying to find source code before getting pulled away. Luckily I had an excuse to use it today and noticed that an RDAP endpoint was already being queried for the information. Good to know I won't have to change any habits!

New comment by threePointFive in "Microsoft is killing Skype"

threePointFive — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:25:51 +0000

I wish that were true. Every enterprise I've seen has thrown their hands up and said "we already use microsoft for everything else (generally email, ad, or office) and teams is bundled why would we use anything else". So instead of getting good chat and VoIP apps, the decision makers just stick with the cheapest option (Teams, they're already paying for it in one of their tens of other Microsoft subscriptions)

New comment by threePointFive in "I Stopped Using Kubernetes. Our DevOps Team Is Happier Than Ever"

threePointFive — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 13:22:47 +0000

Does anyone have access to the full article? I'm curious what their alternative was. Terraform? Directly using cloud apis? VMs and Ansible?

New comment by threePointFive in "Show HN: I made an ls alternative for my personal use"

threePointFive — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 20:31:49 +0000

> Newlines are now forbidden in filenames

No. To quote that article

> A bunch of C functions are now encouraged to report EILSEQ if the last component of a pathname to a file they are to create contains a newline

This, yes, makes newlines in filenames effectively illegal on operating systems strictly conforming to the new POSIX standard. However, older systems will not be enforcing this and any operating system which exposes a syscall interface that does not require libc (such as Linux) is also not required to emit any errors. The only time even in the future that you should NOT worry about handling the newline case is on filesystems where it's is expressly forbidden, such as NTFS.

New comment by threePointFive in "How to sort your library in exactly 51,271 steps"

threePointFive — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 14:58:25 +0000

I might be misunderstanding the ruling, but I believe if your play involves an infinite loop that cannot resolve, you tie the game. Combine that with the fact the game is Turing complete, and this makes it such that you could force a game state where you must solve the halting problem in order to determine if you draw or not.

New comment by threePointFive in "Wcurl Is Here"

threePointFive — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 22:40:52 +0000

-O (for name based on end of the URL) or -J (for name based on the returned HTTP header)

New comment by threePointFive in "Linux desktop market share climbs to 4.45%"

threePointFive — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 20:53:58 +0000

I had a similar issue trying to do a Windows reinstall on a Dell laptop. The cause was due to the default setup of Intel RST for the storage. The suggested fix was injecting the RST drivers into the Windows installer. I couldn't get that to work and ended up installing it in a VM then cloning the VM hard-drive onto the laptop's via Clonezilla. Unfortunately it was for work so just using Linux wasn't an option.

New comment by threePointFive in "Show HN: A modern Jupyter client for macOS"

threePointFive — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 20:37:58 +0000

Jupyter and pytorch can be installed completely as python packages via pip thanks to the modern wheel distribution format. Because of that, I would generally not recommend using an external package manager for project dependencies. I prefer installing python via the Python.org downloads, then creating a dedicated virtual environment where I can pip install any packages. That way I known where all my dependencies are installed, and I can make seperate environments for different Python or library versions.

New comment by threePointFive in "My (Neo)Vim workflow"

threePointFive — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 21:02:16 +0000

My biggest gripe with the ecosystem right now is complete lack of any consistency around language servers, which seems to come from the fact that many were written assuming they would only ever be a VSCode plugin (ie. typescript-language-server). The author is using coc.nvim which appears to be a VSCode compatibility layer for nvim to deal with this. I've primarily used Mason.nvim just to manage my LSP installs. I'd really love for LSP (and DAP) tooling to make its way into distribution repos, but I'm not sure what needs to change to make that a reality.

New comment by threePointFive in "FUTO Keyboard"

threePointFive — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 16:50:19 +0000

How does precedent about how commercial is interpeted here apply? If I use this to fire off a work email, is that commercial? Or does this only apply if I'm selling a product built around this?

New comment by threePointFive in "Show HN: Shpool, a Lightweight Tmux Alternative"

threePointFive — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 16:27:01 +0000

Nohup still attaches to the terminal's stdin/out/err. If the process is known to be non-interactive, redirecting to log files should be sufficient (tail -f to "reattach"). If it does expect interaction, creating a fifo file to redirect stdin from should work, but I've never tested it.

New comment by threePointFive in "macOS Bartender Auto-Update Signed by Unknown New Owner"

threePointFive — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 02:11:41 +0000

I don't develop for Mac, so I'm probably missing something important here, but what is the point of code signing if the owner of the signing key isn't publicly verifiable? Is there not a chain-of-trust back to Apple that can be used to determine who requested the signing key?

New comment by threePointFive in "GNU Nano 8 comes with modern key bindings"

threePointFive — Fri, 31 May 2024 22:46:38 +0000

Wasn't nano released after the CUA spec? Hardly seems correct calling these "modern" keybinds

New comment by threePointFive in "Debian KDE: Right Linux distribution for professional digital painting in 2024"

threePointFive — Fri, 31 May 2024 21:09:42 +0000

AppImage is a good distribution format, but IMO is not comparable to your system's package manager or Flatpak for that matter. For starters, when you downloads an AppImage, you are just getting the binary. Documentation, Desktop and Service files, and update tracking are all things that are missing from a vanilla AppImage deployment that your system package manager always provides (Flatpak and Snap only handle some of those sometimes).

The missing piece is perhaps some sort of AppImage installer which can be registered as the handler for the AppImage filetype. When ran it could read metadata (packaged as part of the AppImage?) and generate the support files. Ideally would also maintain a database of changes to be rolled back on uninstall and provide a PackageKit or AppStream provider to manage updates with your DE's store.

Now none of that addresses dependency duplication, but thats clearly not in scope for AppImage.