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New comment by tomkarho in "GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories"

tomkarho — Wed, 20 May 2026 04:07:03 +0000

This reminds me of George Carlin standup routine about PTSD. If you want to make any bad news sound less bad, just wrap the concept around complicated jargon to sterilize it.

New comment by tomkarho in "I Still Like Jenkins"

tomkarho — Sat, 09 May 2026 13:16:32 +0000

It's all fun and shells until you start adding parameters especially when those parameters have quotemarks in them. Groovy can get pretty wild with the syntax.

New comment by tomkarho in "UMD Scientists Create 'Smart Underwear' to Measure Human Flatulence"

tomkarho — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 19:29:12 +0000

Waiting on the legislation demanding that every underwear must have these "safety" features and then someone will insert a meter to those and start taxing us for every single puff.

New comment by tomkarho in "Shall I implement it? No"

tomkarho — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 07:28:02 +0000

Makes one wonder what the AI was trained with for it to settle on "no means yes if I justify it to myself well enough"

New comment by tomkarho in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"

tomkarho — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 06:12:44 +0000

There are no privacy concerns because there IS no privacy. /s

New comment by tomkarho in "I fixed Windows native development"

tomkarho — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 15:47:00 +0000

.NET does have flags to include the necessary dependencies with the executable these days so you can just run the .exe and don't need to install .net on the host machine. Granted that does increase the size of the app (not to mention adding shitton of dll's if you don't build as single executable) but this at least is a solved problem.

New comment by tomkarho in "Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTube"

tomkarho — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 09:23:38 +0000

Kind of. What is an interesting topic of debate is that B5 aired at the same time with Deep Space 9 (pilots were released a month apart). DS9 switched out the "adventure of the week" formula from Star Trek for a long form storytelling and it is fought over to this day if one copied from another.

B5 is known for the fact JMS had a full five year arch planned from the start (due to O'Hare's unfortunate state of mind he was forced to pivot with Boxleitner as well as season 4-5 got gutted for other reasons) but I can't recall if DS9 had similar aspirations from the get go or if they eased into it as the story progressed. For comparison: was the Dominion War in the cards all the way from episode 1 or did it come into play later?

New comment by tomkarho in "Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTube"

tomkarho — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 17:09:32 +0000

Those who come to this magnificent piece of Sci-Fi for the first time, a word of advice: Pay attention. There are things set in motion in season 1 that are resolved multiple seasons later and there's a lot of foreshadowing (pun very much intended) both subtle and overt.

Oh and, enjoy the ride. It's a good one.

New comment by tomkarho in "Tauri"

tomkarho — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 11:20:34 +0000

The big appeal for me was that Tauri didn't ship an entire Chrome browser to make it work. It never even occurred to me to gauge the webview used in such detail.

> On Linux, Tauri not only ships its own webview, it's also an old and fundamentally broken webview

I'd love to hear some details on this. What is Tauri shipping now and what should it ship instead?

New comment by tomkarho in "Bunny Database"

tomkarho — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 17:36:09 +0000

I was hoping to find a database of bunnies. I was left sadly disappointed.

New comment by tomkarho in "Brandon Sanderson just sold his Cosmere universe to Apple TV"

tomkarho — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 06:11:20 +0000

Risky business, creating TV shows out of incomplete book series and Cosmere has several. Granted, technically each of those series are standalone and some like Mistborn are timejumped in such a way that each trilogy can be seen as it's own entity so unlike GOT Sanderson and Apple has more wiggle room.

Also, Sanderson is pretty much the exact opposite of GRRM in terms of quantity of writing so odds are good even Stormlight is finished by the time Apple even gets to the first book.

New comment by tomkarho in "Linux from Scratch"

tomkarho — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 06:08:03 +0000

Let's break it down to traditional skill level terminology

Apprentice: Ubuntu, Fedora

Journeyman: Arch, Debian, Gentoo

Master: Linux From Scratch

New comment by tomkarho in "I like when apps are "finished""

tomkarho — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 13:40:30 +0000

Github has an "archived" function. Kinda wish there was a similar "completed" flag too.

New comment by tomkarho in "Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted"

tomkarho — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 06:30:21 +0000

I am currently using one that is prevented from connecting to the internet via firewall rules from my router and all media comes from a separate jellyfin server. Had to allow enough of an internet access to install the app but once that was done, everything going outside lan is blocked.

Also most tvs have usb ports so maybe either raw media or some third part dongle can service as well?

Also also, most tvs of this caliber have hdmi you can plug your computer to.

New comment by tomkarho in "Git 3.0 Defaults to "main" Branch Instead of "master"

tomkarho — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 21:46:13 +0000

There was outrage to be had and those who revel in it pounced.

New comment by tomkarho in "Just use a button"

tomkarho — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 21:18:48 +0000

I seem to recall that once upon a time the default type for a button was in fact "button" but at some point (somewhere in the region of html 5 / es6) it was switched into "submit".

New comment by tomkarho in "Discussion of the Benefits and Drawbacks of the Git Pre-Commit Hook"

tomkarho — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 16:55:11 +0000

I use git hooks in professional setting to prefix every commit message with the ticket the commit belongs to (this is done by extrapolating the ticket id from the feature branch name). It works pretty well and has saved my bacon a couple of times when I needed to figure out the provenance of a particular commit. Especially useful when I had to ask why that particular change was necessary.

New comment by tomkarho in "LinkedIn sues software company allegedly scraping data from profiles"

tomkarho — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 20:02:59 +0000

Victory against small fish => establish legal precedence

legal precedence => Surer victory in the future for similar lawsuits

New comment by tomkarho in "Heavy codes of conduct are unnecessary for open source projects"

tomkarho — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 19:53:49 +0000

"I am the law!" :D

New comment by tomkarho in "Samsung confirms it will begin showing you advertisements on refrigerator screen"

tomkarho — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 05:22:22 +0000

Make it run Doom.