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Steve0··on Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings
You could let users import their own Google api key...
Steve0··on Offline card payments should be possible no later than 1 July 2026
I have grown up seeing my parents write physical paper cheques.

It's basic life goods and everything is still signed for, tracked and registered. Besides, banks love to collect interest.

Steve0··on Google releases Bard to a limited number of users in the US and UK
Check out Llama, Alpaca, Langchain, Dalai.
Steve0··on An aggressive, stealthy web spider operating from Microsoft IP space
Would be strange not to use the Bing crawlers for that.
Steve0··on The Ethereum merge is done
Feels like arpanet atm, so give it some time. https://online.jefferson.edu/business/internet-history-timel...
Steve0··on LackRack: IKEA's cheapest table is perfectly sized to rackmount computers (2020)
Just to add some more context, these were used back in the day at chill areas of hacker conferences.

Back then wifi (if available) was not very reliable, and battery tech less advanced. People carried network cables and extension cords in their backpack.

Steve0··on Student photographs people with hidden spy cam in the 1890s (2018)
I presume there is some selection bias to take into account here.
Steve0··on TheNFTbay.org – The Billion Dollar Torrent (All NFT's from Ethereum and Solana)
Isn't this comparable to the guy in the Ferrari being mad at other drivers because he's in the same traffic jam as the rest or us?

I get where he's coming from, but that doesn't make it reasonable. And certainly not a scam by Ferrari.

Steve0··on Xiaomi Unveils Xiaomi Smart Glasses
Does anyone have an idea of what the retail price might be?
Steve0··on Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card
It depends on the qr-code scanner you have on your phone. The one on my android shows a button 'connect to this network'.

In regards to security, you are completely correct. But this is to be used in cases where one would put a paper with the password on the wall, think of coffee shops. Saves some typing. Or you can put a card on your coffee table to help out your house guests.

Steve0··on 1989 Yugo GVL: Performance Testing
If there are no other cars, people make them last. They are simple so easy to repair. They don't have many parts, so not much can break.
Steve0··on Is Sony's 140MB MiniDisc Drive the Next Betamax? (1996)
Well, it wasn't "the record companies" as a whole. The creative nomad player was during the same period and had no such limitations. Sony, being a record company and a hardware company, limited their players in this way. And basically paved the way for other companies to take over the market.

Sad because their walk-man was basically the standard before, and sony makes some good hardware.

Steve0··on Google removes its head of diversity after 2007 blog post surfaces
An apology used to go a long way... in my perception. Could be wrong of course.
Steve0··on Ethereum Is Green
Less affluent users could use a staking pool, where they send some of their eth and get a certain percentage return.

Many crypto-exchanges already offer this service.

Steve0··on The “Granny Knot”
Just pull the ends to get it off. Works great, never gets untied.
Steve0··on John Carmack is reading and contributing to OpenBSD source code
Here is a policy of a London casino explaining their facial recognition to be compliant with the gdpr. I suppose this was written pre-brexit.

https://www.hippodromecasino.com/facial-recognition-policy/

Steve0··on Actix project postmortem
Not deleted.

> I moved actix-net and actix-web project to my personal github account. I will make decision during next couple days what to do. I don’t want to see the project becomes ghost of what it was. Maintainers must understand how everything work, but don’t anyone who does and those who could are busy with other projects. At the moment I am planing to make repos private and then delete them (will remove benchmarks as well), unless others suggest better ideas.

Steve0··on Actix project postmortem
It should be noted that the code wasn't deleted, but forked to his private repo, where it's still open for anyone to use, download, fork, ...
Steve0··on Actix project postmortem
I've never heard of "implicit promises". For me a promise is by definition explicit. Anything else are assumptions, in this case false assumptions.
Steve0··on Toddler Password – Get a secure password generated by a toddler
I tend to type guid in duckduckgo. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Guid

Bad idea?

Steve0··on Show HN: Open-Source Food Delivery and Local Shopping Platform
Be the change you want to see in the world: https://github.com/SumeetMoray/Nearby-Shops-End-User-Android...
Steve0··on Google Public DNS turns 8.8.8.8 years old
If you don't trust a provider the obvious choice is to use another one.
Steve0··on Explanation of DAICOs
The document sees the 51% attack originating from token holders, not miners.
Steve0··on iPhone App will not stay open - just flashes when trying to launch
Yes, the device the user paid 99 dollars for and is now useless. So for the user to get his money back he has to send back the device.
Steve0··on iPhone App will not stay open - just flashes when trying to launch
Fair enough, but please tell them that before they enter a contract with you. Don't take their cash followed by not providing a service for reasons not stipulated before accepting the money.
Steve0··on Hello from Orkut
Bit disappointing it's not available in my country.
Steve0··on I quit my job last March and it was a bad idea.
Also http://bluehackers.org/
Steve0··on Are you a Facebook employee?
It's related to release management, see this video: https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10100259101684977... .

In short: FB employees get to see the new features first, and are encouraged to submit bug reports.

Steve0··on Violated: A traveler’s lost faith, a difficult lesson learned
That doesn't seem to be the conclusion of said experiment. "In Milgram's first set of experiments, 65 percent (26 of 40)[1] of experiment participants administered the experiment's final massive 450-volt shock, though many were very uncomfortable doing so; at some point, every participant paused and questioned the experiment, some said they would refund the money they were paid for participating in the experiment." IMHO Milgram's experiment has more to do with obedience than ethics.
Steve0··on Show HN: ChatVoting - American Idol-like voting for everyone
It's my impression that those voting things are a way to make money for the company that initiates the voting. In your concept it's the other way around.

I'm curious who your customers will be.

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