pknopf's comments

On: Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free, but ra...

[pknopf]

Are they any free email services that allow you to use your own domain?

[input_sh → pknopf]

Zoho is a somewhat well-known provider that has a "forever free" plan for up to five users.

The only caveat is no IMAP in the free version, you have to use their apps / web interface.

[rogerkirkness → pknopf]

iCloud Mail (if you have paid iCloud...) is free to add custom domains.

On: Mergiraf: a syntax-aware merge driver for Git

[pknopf]

Can LLMs help here?

[wetneb → pknopf]

There are attempts to do that, such as https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.11904 or https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.00084. I couldn't find any open source implementation though. I'm personally not so keen to use LLMs for merging: I want it to be quick and predictable.

On: The xz attack shell script

[pknopf]

If a projects build system can't depend on python, that let's leave them in the dust, ffs..

[humanrebar → pknopf]

What if the project is python or a dependency of python?

On: The xz attack shell script

[pknopf]

Package managers that use git are less prone to this kinda of attack (goland, rust).

[steveklabnik → pknopf]

Cargo does not “use git.”

[3836293648 → steveklabnik]

Cargo absolutely uses git, or else we wouldn't've had that thing where setting it to use the cli git instead of some reimplementation lead to massive speedups

[steveklabnik → 3836293648]

What I mean is that it doesn’t use git as the source of truth for packages (unless you point at a git repo instead of crates.io). It does use a git repo for the index.

[AnyTimeTraveler → steveklabnik]

What they meant was probably, that you have the option to rely entirely on using git repositories for your dependencies or even just paths to other projects on your disk.

You can also setup your own dependency registry and only work with that.

[steveklabnik → AnyTimeTraveler]

That is possible but it’s not the default and isn’t as nice as the default is.

On: On reddit: Someone in IT trolled me for over a dec...

[pknopf]

It's as real as any other fake story.

If a story is bombastic, it's safer to assume it's fake. Reddit incentivizes OPs to get engagement.

[squigz → pknopf]

As opposed to HN, of course.

On: .NET on Linux: What a Contrast

[pknopf]

Yup! Well worth the 20 bucks a month!

On: Microdot: A Web Framework for Microcontrollers

[pknopf]

Platform.io makes things very approachable.

On: Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, Git grep, ucg, pt...

[pknopf]

Thanks for this!

On: Freetar – an alternative front end for ultimate-gu...

[pknopf]

I did the same! I'm so happy I did!

On: HP disables customers’ printers if they use ink ca...

[pknopf]

I'll never forget how confused I was when my HP printer kept printing ads, randomly.

Turns out, it was an official practice by HP.

I'll never use any of their products again.

[trampi → pknopf]

That sounds like pure horror to me. I haven't heard of this before. Can you provide a source to back this claim?

[fwlr → trampi]

I hadn’t heard of this before either. A quick search (miraculously, Google still sometimes works for me) indicates two separate phenomena: one is that HP did intend to insert printed ads when you use some of their automated print options (https://www.computerworld.com/article/2519039/hp-partners-wi...), and the other is that some HP printers are “web-enabled” in the sense that emails to a certain printer email address will automatically be printed, and the default access settings allow spam ads which then get automatically printed (https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Mobile-Printing-Cloud-Printing...)