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Quiarkon Thinking hard makes the brain tired

An exercise machine? jeez, I hate that stuff

Meanwhile, I go to kung-fu training and get pretty annoyed when I have to skip a class once. Sports can be wayy more fun and I wouldn't worry about the social aspect so much - adults can behave better than teenagers.

Quiarkon I lost everything that made me love my job through Midjourney

Yes but are there enough jobs at those higher standard studios?

Quiarkon Coinbase issued Wells notice by SEC

Do you think the technical term coinbase refers to the company?

Quiarkon Google is shutting down Stadia

I agree it's becoming sort of pointless to make HL3. As a fan, I'm perfectly happpy with keeping HL3 as only an asymptote and getting episode1, 2, Alyx and hopefully more.

Quiarkon Exploring 12M of the 2.3B images used to train Stable Diffusion

Can you come up with a prompt that will reproduce some of his painting almost exactly?

Quiarkon Australian activist can't use encrypted apps, must let police access phone

Solana, Polkadot, Cosmos Hub, Ethereum Beacon chain, Binance Smart Chain, Cardano, Polygon, Avalanche, Cronos, NEAR, Algorand, Tezos, Osmosis, Juno, ...

Quiarkon Windows needs a change in priorities

When I was buying a new computer last month, I spent a some time considering if it should be Mac or Linux. The Windows option was rejected rather quickly. And I was a Windows developer around the time .NET was starting.

Quiarkon Why babies cry in the first three months, how to tell them apart, and what to do

> I think it'd resent it taking me away from spending time on the topics that legitimately interest me

oh, this one is kinda easy to prepare for: just forget about having time for this at all in the first couple of months. First 3 months you're not doing anything but caring for the baby, deal with that. Well, ok, you may have time to watch youtube or other videos while feeding or so.

Around 1 year old, the kid can become real fun though.

Quiarkon Log4j RCE Found

Did you look at it? Half of it is test and license headers plus the fix involves adding a whitelisting and filtering code.

Quiarkon macOS Monterey

It's going away though and is less functional than in previous versions of the system. Basically a waste of time trying to build rules for it right now.

Quiarkon What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week

Japan is nowhere as bad as Hong Kong or Singapore space-wise. Hong Kong people have mastered the ability to self-traffic control in the one-person wide aisles of supermarkets, to give you some idea.

Quiarkon Ask HN: Improving health despite working in a screen-based job

I've been doing these neck mobility exercises, I think they seem to help

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4dmZ5_n6uU&t=210s

Quiarkon Apple’s new keyboard feature in iOS 15 is insult to Cantonese speaking community

This is probably a bad example. The problem with typing pinyin instead of jyutping is that you must type a very different set of latin characters to get the result you want.

Quiarkon The work-from-home future is destroying bosses' brains

Flexible and future-proof is not the same as quality.

Quiarkon Why Decentralised Applications Don’t Work

HK resident here ... FireChat wasn't mainstream.

Quiarkon Why Decentralised Applications Don’t Work

What's wrong with VLC or Thunderbird? Nothing, they got replaced by online services which provide storage/content and not just the UI (usually the UI feature set of online services is actually inferior).

Quiarkon Zulip 4.0: Threaded open source team chat

Interesting. Threads in MS Teams utterly don't get used, they require significant self discipline to use properly (and yet they get more love from the devs than chat, somebody at MS is misguided in how the thing actually gets used).

Quiarkon macOS gatekeeper and file quarantine bypass

Somehow none of this is applied to packaged shell script into an .app which runs on double-click with no message whatsoever. Malware doesn't always have to be a binary...

Quiarkon Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic”

Exactly, no workflow for terraform or CLI if you have U2F (Yubikey) 2FA.

Quiarkon Response to “WireGuard: great protocol, but skip the Mac app”

Wow, shame on Apple...

Quiarkon Poll: Switching from WhatsApp

That depends whether shooting at taxis on the street is a regular thing.

Quiarkon Show HN: I built an intercom for my 6 yo to keep us connected during quarantine

The only reasonable explanation I can think of why this is even necessary is that the parents are divorced and he doesn't have custody of her.

Quiarkon Poll: Switching from WhatsApp

I still fail to see how switching from fully E2E encrypted WhatsApp to most-of-the-time NOT E2E encrypted Telegram is an improvement.

Quiarkon WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using app

And that is an improvement over WhatsApp when Telegram doesn't even encrypt group chats?

Quiarkon 51% of 4M Docker images have critical vulnerabilities

Exactly, many of these reports are of the kind "your java Web app container has a priv esc vuln in sudo" which is irrelevant 95% of the time. Need some smart tooling to help comb through all that noise.

Quiarkon macOS unable to open any non-Apple application

You can see debug logging about photo import in Console.app. When I do it, it takes forever but eventually works.

Quiarkon Security by obscurity is underrated

A tangent: are VPNs other than WireGuard less likely to have vulns compared to SSH? Seems the same to me (or worse for OpenVPN a few years ago)

Quiarkon NewPipe – ad-free, open-source Android YouTube client

Pi hole cannot block ads inside of YouTube app, only on the web. I suppose that will be similar with Chromecast.

Quiarkon We’ve decided to rename Riot

We're talking about a city where a woman was convicted for attacking police officer with her breast.