I wonder how much money went into the hosting over the years.

A year ago I bought a Intel N100 Mini PC with 16 GB DDR5 RAM and a 512 GB SSD for $170.

Maybe it could have hosted the site too. It's certainly a lot faster than Azure VMs with 4 "vCPUs".

If you don't restrict each account to specific subreddits, it's quite likely that one will get banned somewhere without you noticing or remembering.

If you happen to post to the same subreddit with another account at some point, Reddit bans all of your accounts.

I've definitely posted to the same subreddit with two different accounts by accident without being banned.

The android reddit app annoyingly doesn't check for account matches. If you click a browser notification link on Account A it can open a reply form on App account B.

I meant if one of the accounts is already banned there, it counts as ban evasion and Reddit bans all of your accounts.

This might easily happen if you like to participate in political discussions.

In hindsight, I understand. But I did this 6-7 years back and no one has come after me, should I care at this point?

Anecdotal but I've noticed Reddit has gotten very ban happy in general in the past year.

I actually gave up using it because, perhaps in part because I'm behind a VPN (required in my country), any new accounts I create get banned very quickly once I start commenting.

I haven't been able to create a Reddit account by any method in years. It always happens in one of two ways: you create an account and instantly get the red banner at the top of the page saying you're banned, or you create an account, post a few comments, notice nobody's replying to you, try loading your profile page in private browsing and it says you don't exist (a shadow ban).

There's nothing of much value on that website, but sometimes I try creating an account to comment on something.

There's also a setting on the Settings app's Search page, which you can conveniently reach via the kebab menu on the search results.

I heard people talk about registry hacks for the internet search results on here many times.

Windows has a "Search" page in the Settings app. You can also reach it via the kebab menu on the search results.

There you can simply disable Bing.

Coding agents work just fine without a sandbox.

If you do use a sandbox, be prepared to endlessly click "Approve" as the tool struggles to install python packages to the right location.

Erm, no, that's not a sandbox, it's an annoyance that just makes you click "yes" before you thoughtlessly extend the boundaries.

A real sandbox doesn't even give the software inside an option to extend it. You build the sandbox knowing exactly what you need because you understand what you're doing, being a software developer and all.

I know 'exactly' that I will need internet for research as well as installing dependencies.

And I imagine it's going to be the same for most developers out there, thus the "ask for permission" model.

That model seems to work quite well for millions of developers.

If you know then why do you need to be asked? A sandbox includes what you know you need in it, no more, no less.

With Codex it runs in a sandbox by default.

As we just discussed, obviously you are likely to need internet access at some point.

The agent can decide whether it believes it needs to go outside of the sandbox and trigger a prompt.

This way you could have it sandboxed most of the time, but still allow access outside of the sandbox when you know the operation requires it.

This also works fine without a sandbox:

  echo -e '#!/bin/sh\nsudo rm -rf/\nexec sudo "$@"' >~/.local/bin/sudo
  chmod +x ~/.local/bin/sudo

Especially since $PATH often includes user-writeable directories.

I've never been annoyed by the tool asking for approval. I'm more annoyed by the fact that there is an option that gives permanent approval right next to the button I need to click over and over again. This landmine means I constantly have to be vigilant to not press the wrong button.

maybe this could be a config setting.

When I was using Codex with the PDF skill it prompted to install python PDF tools like 3-5 times.

It was installing packages somewhere and then complaining that it could not access them in the sandbox.

I did not look into what exactly was the issue, but clearly the process wasn't working as smoothly as it should. My "project" contained only PDF files and no customizations to Codex, on Windows.

I might as well say that no, it is not going to happen.

As handwriting code is rapidly going out of fashion this year, it seems likely AI is coming for most of knowledge work next.

And who is to say that manual labor is safe for long?

And if the maintainer does close the issue, you can have the agent make a disparaging blog post automatically.

It's Apple. They won't even notice. If all of 4chan and HN decided to abandon Apple they wouldn't even register the change.

On the web you need accessibility and often also responsive layouts.

These are requirements the DOM / CSSOM addresses, you'd probably not have an easy time getting this right in a <canvas>.

With WinUI 3 I did not even manage to render PNGs correctly.

The colors were always slightly off and oversaturated, no matter what setting I used.

I migrated the app to Tauri and the PNGs of course rendered perfectly. The implementation was much easier overall.

Hypothesis: This could be due to the toolkit's handling of color profiles. You see this a lot in macOS land with images that use a Display P3 colour profile, e.g. screenshots from a Mac or iPhone.

Native toolkits are usually more advanced and tend to properly support the colour profiles and allow for wider gamut output. Whereas historically the web had poor handling and would assume sRGB, causing more "washed out" output.

I believe that the opposite was the case: WinUI does not handle color profiles correctly.

In the browser or the Windows Photos app they were looking correct, while WinUI was incorrectly oversaturated.

It's also easy on Windows:

The kebab button next to the search results takes you to Settings -> Privacy & security -> Search

Switch off Bing.