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bnt··on An open letter against Apple's new privacy-invasive client-side content scanning
How would OSS help in this case? Someone can run a hash, find an “offensive” photo and jail you. Shit, if someone is out to get you, they will dig up any photo on your phone, put it in the “bad hashes” database and just wait for Apple to catch you. And then you’re effed, because no court will want to publicly display a photo that may contain child pornography, so you’ll be jailed without a fair trial.

OSS won’t help here. This system must be shut down, and the gov should deal with pedos in a different way.

bnt··on Apple drops radical Safari tab changes in new macOS Monterey beta
I mean, they could have just had a checkbox "switch to old design" and call it a day. I like the new design in a single-tab, single-use case scenario, but the moment you have multiple tabs it becomes weird. When you're like me and you open 50+ tabs when trying to customize Devise and you're searching for tutorials, then it becomes a complete mess.
bnt··on Google is capping Meet’s group video calls to an hour for free accounts
100 people, 4 hours.. that’s not a call, that’s a conference.
bnt··on Older job seekers get fewer offers on LinkedIn but a younger profile photo helps
I think the sane are locked up in the asylum these days, and the loonies are in the spotlight.
bnt··on Petite-Vue – 5kb subset of Vue optimized for progressive enhancement
First time I heard of it from you, and I’ve been looking at it for the past day. I’ll definitely try a demo project to see if it fits my needs.
bnt··on Petite-Vue – 5kb subset of Vue optimized for progressive enhancement
After building 2 large projects with Livewire (using it just to sprinkle interactivity instead of going for Vue, not being a psycho and building an entire SPA with Livewire), I simply don’t like it. In most cases it would be quicker for me to use jQuery, and the response times would be quicker.
bnt··on Petite-Vue – 5kb subset of Vue optimized for progressive enhancement
For me, no build step is a huge selling point.
bnt··on Intel to Create RISC-V Dev Platform with SiFive P550 Cores on 7nm in 2022
They might get approval to continue selling to China (companies on the export ban list)?
bnt··on How I Found a Vulnerability to Hack iCloud Accounts and How Apple Reacted to It
I see this comment every year, for 15+ years that I’m active in the community, and yet I don’t see the promised hoards of Linux fanboys rioting on the streets wanting to burn down Redmond and 1 Infinite Loop.

Oh right, Linux on Desktop lost. Stop trying to make Linux on Desktop a thing.

bnt··on Apple Silicon Chips: What to Expect This Fall
The M1 13” Pros were supposed to replace the low end Intel 13” machines.
bnt··on Stripe Reader
Impending IPO?
bnt··on Apple M1 support for TensorFlow 2.5 pluggable device API
OK, so we’re in mid-2021, why is installing Python THAT HARD? I think the only reason Node is so popular is because it JUST WORKS. Windows, Mac, doesn’t matter. One-click installer and you got NPM as well and access to thousands of packages.
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Dial down on the drugs, please
bnt··on Why we're going back to the office
I can understand this might be productive for small teams, but for large corporations - I can't relate with any of the points listed.
bnt··on Tips for Interviewing over Zoom
Between juggling a 20+ person team that spans the Globe, hiring for another 20 slots and a 2 yr old at home - I definitely don’t have time for exercises like that.
bnt··on Ask HN: Why does software development take so long?
Compared to what? Making a pizza or building a Space Shuttle?
bnt··on Tips for Interviewing over Zoom
Oh my god, I can’t express enough how stupid 4) is. I interviewed so many amazing people I wanted to hire on the spot, instead they tell me they consider this as an exercise. What a waste of my time as well.
bnt··on Tips for Interviewing over Zoom
Guy from China logged into a video tech interview. Fully nude, only wearing sunglasses, and behind him a huge swastika. That was an instant disconnect for me and a rejection email to the candidate.

Edit for concerned folks: it was a Nazi swastika. Red flag, black tilted swastika.

bnt··on Tips for Interviewing over Zoom
Yesterday I had a candidate late for her interview (senior tech recruiter position). What happened next was absurd: she joined from her phone, in her bra. A moment later her partner was running in the background naked. She realized the situation and in panic turned off the video and then (like in comedy movies) faked her wifi was breaking and was faking her voice as if she was in a tunnel. Then she just quit the call and I haven’t heard back, no response to my email request to reschedule.

Not my weirdest experience, but the lack of professionalism for such a serious role just caught me off guard.

bnt··on Saying Good Bye to Hey.com
(Maybe) not in particular related to Hey.com, but I'm worried about the amount of people (apparently 50%) who left Basecamp, and how that will reflect on the future development of their services (Basecamp, Hey) but also on Ruby on Rails and the surrounding ecosystem (like Stimulus, Turbo etc). I'm one of those (rare?) folks who still think Rails is a fantastic framework and it suits most of my private projects just fine (I haven't felt the need for a SPA approach in my last 2 years) - but I'm now hesitant to start anything new on Rails because I don't know who will pick up maintenance of Stimulus, Turbo and multiple Rails gems.
bnt··on Notion API – public beta
Isn't that the whole point of Agile MVP development? Sell something that doesn't exist and hope someone buys it? Personally, I don't expect much from it, after working with Airtable's API and hating every second of it.
bnt··on Vue 3 drops IE11 support plan
So what's the alternative? Code in Chrome and yolo?
bnt··on Prisma – ORM for Node.js and TypeScript
Laravel has Eloquent and it’s an absolute delight to use. I’ve used Rails and Django, and I always felt as if I was fighting the ORM, where as with Eloquent everything just seems natural.
bnt··on Ask HN: After acquisition by Okta, Using Auth0 for a new enterprise projekt?
I worked with several enterprise customers through Okta, so I’d bet you’re in good hands.
bnt··on One Commander – a new Windows 10 file browser
10commander sounds like a better name, since we’re at version 10 for Windows :-)
bnt··on Viber extreme long list of *trusted* partners
Mine are all unchecked by default, maybe you've recently created an account?
bnt··on M1 Macs cannot support dual Extended displays through their Thunderbolt 3 ports
Thanks! I appreciate the history lesson
bnt··on GCP Outpaces Azure, AWS in the 2021 Cloud Report
Or some ML crob job algo going haywire and closing your account - with no human to contact to get it resolved.
bnt··on Show HN: Convier.me – A Calendar Service for Developers
Any chance you could convert pricing to $X per 1000 requests? My previous company needed something like this (we ended up building it our selves at a whooping cost) but our needs were 50k+/mo of calendar invites.
bnt··on M1 Macs cannot support dual Extended displays through their Thunderbolt 3 ports
Why? (I’m too young to know)
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