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Slikeyon PowerToys – open-source Windows utilities

Isn't it ironic that the operating system called "Windows" offers one of the worst window management user experiences?

Slikeyon Ask HN: People who use different emails everywhere, who sold you to spammers?

Amazon. Amazon Pay has been the worst offender and every purchase using Amazon Pay has leaked my Amazon email to third parties.

Slikeyon Twitter's new Tor onion service

I believe Twitter is trying to be better though and it appears they do chip away at this. They have also been in a difficult situation between cancel culture and free speech absolutism. Determining the reasonable solution is hard when the extreme edges and vocal minorities are yelling at you. My personal hope is that Twitter will further crack down on the very low hanging bots / trolls / alt accounts - there are many especially young accounts with handles like @Name359345809 which don't contribute to the platform in any way.

Slikeyon China's state media buys Meta ads pushing Russia's line on war

Free Speech for individuals does not mean that we have an interest in allowing foreign and potentially hostile actors to run propaganda campaigns using the ad targeting machine we have built using social media. They can say what they want and every citizen can do so as well, but we should not allow asymmetric amplification.

Slikeyon Nuclear should be considered part of clean energy standard, White House says

Not just that solar is the cheapest but nuclear is also the second most expensive option. I really don't understand this recent flood of pro-nuclear posts on HN.

https://ourworldindata.org/cheap-renewables-growth

Slikeyon EU experts to say nuclear power qualifies for green investment label: document

Given that mountains are a result of geological activity, this is for sure the worst place to store it. You'll have a better chance digging out a big hole in the desert - which the EU doesn't have.

Slikeyon Intel chief Pat Gelsinger: Too many chips made in Asia

That doesn't matter. If they want to export TO the US they are subject to US export laws. The US has a history of their economical and political power forcing companies that have no business with the US to do their bidding to stay in business. Just look at the Iran sanctions.

Slikeyon How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%

Check out https://github.com/simdjson/simdjson

More than 3 GB/s are possible. Like you said 10 MB of JSON is a breeze.

Slikeyon Bitcoin and other PoW coins are an ESG nightmare

He means a Dyson swarm and we are not centuries away from achieving this. The economical sense is on a different paper. Having ASIC miners in space connecting to something like Starlink is entirely possible even though not cost effective. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere#Dyson_swarm

Slikeyon Berlin car sharing startup Miles demands €13k from customer whose car was stolen

3 months in advance is the legal limit, it's great. We also love our contract bindings for 2 years. Cunsumer friendliness here is heresy.

Slikeyon Europe Is Guaranteeing Citizens the Right to Repair

> Part of the problem with electronics is often a brand new unit costs less than replacing a faulty part

This is only partially true. The true cost is hidden and at least by average people like me immeasurable. We are putting a lot of cost out of sight if you consider the environmental impact of e-waste.

Slikeyon Tether price manipulation

> Dec 2017

I am fairly certain over 3 years passed since then.

Slikeyon Tether price manipulation

This sounds incredibly illegal. I can't imagine trading like this is wanted by legislators and even if Tether is currently backed 1:1 there is no way that legislators will allow this to keep happening eventually crashing the entire Tether currency into the ground.

Slikeyon US passes anti-corruption law that effectively bans anonymous shell companies

I am not a US citizien but I'd still like to thank you for taking time out of your day to explain. I wish politics would generally be more transparent about their intentions but I guess it wouldn't be politics then. It's always hard to find out the intentions of thresholds and numbers as the models behind them are never communicated through the media.

Slikeyon How bad is your Spotify?

Spotify became entirely unusable for me when I started using Bluetooth headphones on my computer. When I turn them off, Spotify goes into some weird attempt to play every single song in rapid succession as it has no Output device to play to. Finally crashing so bad that I have to end the process and reopen it. It doesn't help that I've reported that a long time ago and even though the QA triage should have marked this as a low hanging fruit, nothing has happened. // rant end, I know this post doesn't help anything but venting is always a form of self-therapy haha

Slikeyon Microsoft may be developing its own, in-house ARM CPU designs

In an ideal world that'd mean we become architecture agnostic and solutions should work on any CPU entering the market while ARM has still not achieved majority support on desktop solutions. Sadly I am certain there will be an extremely painful phase in which some software runs a lot better (more than the instruction set would explain) on some hardware and not on others. Driver support is going to be really poor and tech support will be a very secure job for the coming decade.. hah :)

Slikeyon No Cookie for You

Sadly this is often unfeasible if your site relies on reCAPTCHA. Are there any cookie-free GDPR compliant captcha options?

Slikeyon Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews

Amazon is truly the AliExpress of the west and they are running the quality down faster and faster. A dead giveaway is the fact that there are tons of rebrands of the same product whenever you look for something. If I want the China product I go directly to AliExpress and get the unbranded version and don't need to pay the 100-300% premium on Amazon.

Slikeyon AirPods Max

This is just demonstrably not true. Bluetooth Hands-Free mangles the sample rate to 16 / 24 kHz. See this video for a collection of pretty much all common devices from "this decade". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifmGS_WWk7o

Slikeyon AirPods Max

Especially if you consider the inherent issues with Bluetooth call quality. No matter how good their microphones in them are, they will mangle the audio back to the 90s. $549 seems entirely detached and I am baffled, even as an ANC enthusiast.

Slikeyon Brave Browser Passes 20M Monthly Active Users and 7M Daily Active Users

The entire system of affiliate links piss me off for the same reason I have to pay the same in cash as people using a creditcard.

It has a taste of paying too much if the vendor can afford to give a fraction to the affiliate.

Slikeyon Brave Browser Passes 20M Monthly Active Users and 7M Daily Active Users

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

I've started using them recently to have entirely seperate environments for personal and work websites and it's a blessing. Previously I used 2 browsers just like you, now I have the unlimited power of Firefox AdBlockers in every environment.

Slikeyon Netflix raises monthly charges for U.S. subscribers

And making it more complicated will breed piracy. We are coming full circle.

Slikeyon Uber sends political ads through push notifications

I used Uber once in LA almost 2 years ago and live in Germany. I received an email from them to vote in their interest sending a sponsored MADD campaign letter. (lol)

Slikeyon Discipline Doesn’t Scale

I am actually interested in your context. Usually the return on investment analysis favors features over performance especially in a B2B environment.

Slikeyon Discipline Doesn’t Scale

The key is that hardware has marketpreassure to become faster and faster. Software gets faster if there is market preassure (see gaming & financial). When the feature backlog is more important than performance that is obviously what is prioritized. You obviously can't work on everything.

Slikeyon Model fits in a tweet and predicts all elections since 1960

Did you look at the tweet and it's content?

Slikeyon Harvard, Oxford, Stanford doctors among leaders of global anti-lockdown movement

Well there are three possibilities 1) Reduce Infections: You try to get infections down to zero. 2) Ignore Infections: Usually used for common cold. People even go to work with it. 3) Limit Infections: You dynamically scale meassures to stay at a defined limit. In this case a number derived from hospital capacity.

Slikeyon Harvard, Oxford, Stanford doctors among leaders of global anti-lockdown movement

This is a very good point, but sadly in reality it seems these goals are purposely hidden or obscured for subjective gain or unpopluar ideological reasons.

Initially the pandemic response was about "not overwhelming the hospitals", but it seems some politicians disagree on the fundamental direction. I'd just be happy if my government had a clear policy on their goal. Do they want to reduce infections or do they want to prevent overwhelming emergency services?

Obviously my knowledge on facts is very limitted, I simply don't have time for that, but the news still report lots of capacity in hospitals.

Slikeyon DigitalOcean App Platform

You should be able to get the cost down significantly by caching on cloudflare. My company managed to deliver 99.9%+ from cloudflare for static pages and allowed us to serve large amounts of traffic from a small backend.