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Both perspectives make sense, it’s simply a trade off. But it seem like the perfect opportunity for progressive enhancement.

An initial comment can be via email. Additional capabilities via a magic link received in response to the first email.

I love this idea, and I think it’s quite powerful in how frictionless it makes the initial process.

There’s a cognitive load to creating an account, even with a magic link interaction. Any requirement to “sign up” bring with all the baggage of experienced passed. This manages to break out of that space for me, which makes it a very interesting proposition.

Interested in more details.

Top right menu button doesn’t work on iPhone SE 2020.

Are they taking this approach only in the negative form?

Ie; if they detect you’ve made a mistake an and not claimed something you are eligible for. Or paid some tax that you are actually eligible to deduct/offset somehow, does it notify or automate the process of fixing that error?

I’m not opposed to the idea of automate to ensure compliance with the law / regulations. But enforcement should go both ways. The goal of automation of policy should be for the policy to be maximally effective. It shouldn’t just penalise those who incorrectly claim, but rather maximise eligible claims. And by that same measure, ensure those ineligible are rejected.

Obviously without any penalities, this would lead to over claiming, and reliance on the system to reject. But I think the system should be resilient enough to handle that.

While it’s not to such an extreme extent, there is a polar opposite attitude / policy towards entitlement of government benefits in Australia and New Zealand. In Australia you may be eligible for something, but it’s your responsibility to know that and claim it. And the government takes a ‘we defend the benefits from those who are ineligible’ attitude (more so if the Liberal party is in power, see Robo Debt scandal).

In New Zealand they take a ‘these benefits must go to those who are eligible’ attitude. And they model the extent to which they fulfil that objective based on how many claim vs how many their model states are eligible.

The outcome is that in NZ they call after you’ve had a baby to ensure you’re receiving additional tax benefits, services, etc. In Australia you’d only receive a call / letter to notify your benefits are being cut off, and there’s some difficult->impossible method of re-applying. Such as contacting a call centre that’s queue is full by 9:30 and stops accepting calls…

Except.

And I’ll never know. Because X has so severely broken the UX of their product I have no idea how to find out. Or if there even is anything beyond that.

Twitter is becoming a link I don’t bother clicking anymore…

My favourite game, hands down. This pleases me immensely. Can’t wait to load RTX and these new maps.

There was an app called “workflows” on iOS (I think it was eventually acquired by Apple) that felt very similar to a Zapier, but on my phone for controlling/automating my apps.

I only used it a few times and found it too clunky. But I loved the idea. Worth researching what happened to them.

I thought chromium was open source?

Yep their iOS cross app sharing is a privacy nightmare. Not to mention just plain annoying.

The google meet app seems to include an entire gmail client for no reason and seems to show it rather than go back to your calendar / mail.

Mail loads a web view, rather than the app (say slack) or even safari. Which means half in email links go nowhere, because I’m not logged in / able to access the destination via the web view.

And they always want to continue linking my personal and business account within the same app, and then messing up which one should be trying to access. No matter how many times I remove my personal, it always reappears. Often via a “authorise access” pop up while logging in via a different device. Surely it’s a security issue to run 2FA via a device that has actively logged out and removed the account from it.

I’m looking forward to them being broken up. It’s becomes too hostile.

Amazing. I’ve often wished this would exist. Thank you.

It was always my step 1 towards Xxx. Keen to know what directions you were thinking?

I’d love to see more remixing on top of API’s websites typically only expose for their own use.

I once had a specific device that wouldn’t airdrop to anything. Beyond that one device, it has always, just worked. Instantly. First try.

I wish everything were as simple to use.

Documents is the other app I use for sending files to and from iOS (primarily iPad, from Linux laptops). But I’ve run into a lot more bugs with that, and the transfer setup process requires generating and entering codes. It’s a pretty good UX, but it always reminds you how effortless airdrop is.

I love the idea of a cross platform, open source, airdrop. It’s a lofty, but worthwhile goal.

I’ve had a lot of fun over the years with a 424 mk1, which I picked up at a garage sale for very little, probably 20 years ago.

I recently used it again for a period, and this time invested in some other analogue gear, preamp, decent mic, few reverb and delay effects, compressor.

There was something about the limitations that just made it more fun. And the simplicity of having just a few pieces of gear to experiment with.

It’s unfortunate that they’ve become such expensive items to buy. I’d never pay $1000 for one, which they seem to go for on reverb.

Lots of stuff in there outside of Azure. I think we got a $1500 credit with Miro which was pretty awesome.

And if by worse, it’s one hour every year, the argument is still a worse trade off for both time and customer & employee morale.

Does it have anything in the way of multiplayer?

Never loved doom, but quake 1/2 consumed a lot of hours in multiplayer.

Always keen to see modern twists on the original, fast paced, movement focused, fps style.

I like the prodeus aesthetic, but I’m not sure it’s that style. But I’ll buy and see. Thanks for the tip.

P.s if you visited their site and couldn’t find the game, it’s on steam. I couldn’t find any link to buy from their website.

I went to exactly this a few weeks ago in Ocean Grove, Vic, Australia.

A cafe and ‘market’ that was entirely sustained by ‘expired’ goods from the local super markets that was otherwise destined for the garbage bin. Trucks kept rolling in as we are.

The cafe was only open weekend (volunteers) but the market was open everyday.

It was a ‘pay what ever you can system’, and $0 was fine. There was a 2 bag maximum on goods you could take away from the market.

And any payment made was a tax deductible donation.

The market had an obviously limited selection of goods, dependent on what came from the supermarkets.

But when I was there,

- unlimited breads of all kinds (like shelves and shelves and shelves, including very nice sourdoughs)

- capsicums (green)

- milk

- yogurt

- lettuce

- carrots

- few other misc veg

- a lot of soy and protein powders

- juices

- and frozen goods, which I didn’t explore.

You couldn’t survive off it alone (unless you had to). But it was a cool option to have. Love the concept.

This, with a little more automation, is exactly how I was able to book a covid quarantine hotel to return to NZ.

It felt pretty unfair that the average user was at an impossible disadvantage because the system had no protection against automation.

It was quite obvious others were already running automation, but I only booked for myself and then turned it off.

I was impressed NZ got a highly functional system up and running extremely quickly, but it became a game of high frequency trading.

Wow, saw this happen at the coffee shop round the corner.

They had no back up, so reverted to cash only.

We’d already ordered, so we’ll pay tomorrow.

But seriously wtf. If square intends to be the only for of payment for a business (an envious position) then they simply can’t go down. Their product should have enough redundancy, or some form of backup/offline pay, to ensure this never happens.

This is not a show HN. First time posting, sure. Your first time posting in a community shouldn’t be a request of that community. And if it is, it should follow the guidelines that community has set.

Legend. Well done for supporting, and for putting your money where your mouth is and laying down some code.

Man. Love this. React for a purpose. Htmx and Hotwire for the rest. The debt years saved are for humanity.

Great list, I’d add:

- Alexisonfire :: self titled

- Thursday :: Full Collapse

- Taking Back Sunday :: Tell all your friends

- The Used :: self titled

- From First To Last :: dear diary

Fun fact: The lead singer of the last band went on to become Skrillex.

Selfishly, I’m excited only because it might mean Toyota continues to be a viable operation into the future.

I want them to be one of the leaders of next generation vehicles, what ever the technology, only because it means they will continue to support their previous generation vehicles, for which they have an honourable history.

I want my BJ74 landcruiser to run on diesel until it’s no longer available, and then I want it to run as a hybrid/electric vehicle until like the ship of Theseus we are debating whether or not it’s still a BJ74.

I’m assuming this can only be used to chat with other users/instances of databag, for now.

But is the vision to be able to “DM” with users on instances of mastodon, Lemmy, etc?? (anything that supports activity pub)

Yea I recently started hosting a very niche game server in Guam (action quake 2) because of its central location.

It’s 95ms from Melbourne, AU, 110ms from Auckland, NZ and about 120ms from west coast US. Central US is probably about 150ms.

All of which are very close playable.

Living in Australia, as a teen FPS gamer it was always frustrating to know that no matter what tech comes next, the physical distance is the limiting factor.

So Guam is a cool workaround.

I used oneqode. Really easy, and affordable.

Actually they use it even if you call them. Rather than do the “name, dob, etc”, they send a push notification to the app and require you to accept it.

Which phone verifies you to continue the conversation.

And I guess you’re right. The receive sms and read out the code is similar. Tho this doesn’t have a code. It’s an in app push notification which you simply accept (or reject if not expecting it)

CommBank. From a tech perspective they’ve been pretty good. They had careless cash early on.

That’s how it works with my Australian bank. It verifies me via a push notification to my app. And vice versa, doesn’t that also validate they’re the bank?

Not that I have an option to request them to perform the validation. But they require that validation to continue the conversation now.

The problem with getting ban happy and that generated / black hat content doesn’t care. It expects to be banned. They just make more. But higher value, none automated content gets killed by google (Adsense ban, negative seo or just out ranked by crap) and then they give us and stay dead.

These are hard problems to solve. But google at scale efforts have failed.

Is there an easy way to see what services you cover, and what institutions/services they cover?

By region, I’m interested what you cover in Australia.

I love stimulus. And Hotwire. I find everything more maintainable and faster to developer when rails on the centre of the universe. Obviously a personal preference.

I faced a similar display toggle-able use case for form fields recently.

I did find that I used stimulus to hide the fields there was a slightly “flicker” as they appeared and then were hidden in the connect() function.

It didn’t affect my use case, as I could default hide and then toggle them to appear with stimulus.

But in the event they should appear by default and then be hidden based on some logic within the stimulus controller, is there a better way to handle this?