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cocoto··on Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions
I’m pretty confident that at least 95% of HN users use adblocking so clearly the users are not worth much to the ad companies. Today I have absolutely zero ads on my devices.
cocoto··on Please Use AI
Not everyone live in a big city.
cocoto··on DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode
For hiking trails, I highly recommend https://www.comaps.app/. It's simply miles ahead of Google Maps and Apple Maps for hike and biking.
cocoto··on C constructs that still don't work in C++
Non-owning view over a single element should simply be a reference, you don’t care where this element is located.
cocoto··on Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD
It can be way more than 2 hours depending on the project.
cocoto··on Idempotency Is Easy Until the Second Request Is Different
In your example, idempotency means same request + same state = same response. State becomes part of the request, that’s why it is hard.
cocoto··on Light without electricity? Glowing algae could make it possible
Yes but LED lights need to be connected to some electricity source, which is inconvenient in some scenarios.
cocoto··on Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data
Replace your material content with lorem ipsum or garbage LLM content and upload it to Canvas to test the accessibility of your documents if required.
cocoto··on Self-updating screenshots
Wouldn’t a real live render approach work in this case? Have a live preview of your tool inside a rectangle. If the tool is light it should be optimal visually: it will respect browser rendering settings like accessibility parameters or custom addons.
cocoto··on Industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice
Pc hardware stores often have some keyboards available to try (mostly cheap cherry mx stuff).
cocoto··on Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones
I’m sure Android and iOS could add some AI feature to let some specific noises in the headset when needed (baby cries when enabled, smoke detector alarms, bike/car bells, etc). Simply stop the music for the duration of the specific noise and replay it. That would be a cool use of AI.
cocoto··on German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function
Simple, provide a simple API, let the community build the clients for the machines they have.
cocoto··on Herbie: Automatically improve imprecise floating point formulas
But I guess using the density distribution of floating points is rarely useful in a problem. Your actual distribution will almost surely be way different. Imo, the tool presented here should provide a way to manually provide a custom density function (with some common presets like uniform and normal distributions).
cocoto··on Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)
Prepend your command with a space and now your command is not saved in the history.
cocoto··on 4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches
Yes but the number of 4chan passes would skyrocket to be able to post with a VPN.
cocoto··on Microsoft's 'unhackable' Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss'
Good luck If I burnt the one time pad.
cocoto··on Microsoft's 'unhackable' Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss'
I can give you a piece of paper with a one time pad encoded secret, where the one time is physically destroyed. You can take all the time you want but you will not crack anything…
cocoto··on ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did
Yes and also keep in mind that low-income in US is high income in most of the world!
cocoto··on Apple's MacBook Neo makes repairs easier and cheaper than other MacBooks
The new naming of iPhones makes sense for a yearly update, not so much for the Neo.
cocoto··on Online age-verification tools for child safety are surveilling adults
I personally don’t use VPN’s except for work but I have multiple clients installed on my devices “just in case”.
cocoto··on MacBook Neo
Tons of programming tasks requires at least 32gb to be somewhat comfortable, think of having running databases, running tests in background, running simultaneously multiple docker images, virtual machines, have one or more code projects open in an IDE with LSP (whole code database needs to be in cache), one browser with 20 tabs, and maybe one or more heavy electron apps (Teams/Spotify). You really quickly reach 32gb when doing real development.
cocoto··on Daily Driving GrapheneOS
Personally I would just love Apple to be forced by governments to open up their hardware by releasing complete documentation of their hardware and allowing to install another os or dual boot. iPhones hardware is really good and would love booting Linux on theses. And then force every services company to provide an API to their services so we have an alternative to their app. I guess Motorola partnering with GrapheneOS will not change anything in this space because contactless payments and some apps will not work and fundamentally because the sales will be way below mainstream brands like Apple/Samsung. Governments need to step up here.
cocoto··on A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification
The features are all already here.
cocoto··on Cache Monet
Works almost like stereograms (with duplicated object)!
cocoto··on Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass
You could always generate a random face model with real time rendering with enough details to trick any AI detector (or even human) and then you can do real time animation to orders or screen light tricks. You could also simply use some face filter on your face and these ones are really convincing these days (like on Snapchat and such).
cocoto··on Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass
The real and robust method will be generating artificial video input instead of the real webcam. I really don’t think any platform will be able to counter this. If they start requiring to use a phone with harder to spoof camera input, you will simply be able to put the camera in front of a high resolution screen. The cat and mouse game will not last long.
cocoto··on It's not finance, it's your pensions
Completely false, the money to help the poorest people comes from the rich ones, so you are poorer if the gap is smaller. But at some point too many poor people can make a country hard to live for the richest (crimes for example)
cocoto··on LLMs as the new high level language
If there is no error on the compiler implementation and no undefined behavior the resulting program is equivalent and the few differences are mostly just implementation defined stuff which are left to the compiler to decide (but often gcc and clang do the same). The performance might differ also. It’s clearly not comparable to the many differences you can get from LLM’s output.
cocoto··on First Proof
They could solve the problems and train the next models with the answers, as such the future models could “solve” theses.
cocoto··on C++ Modules Are Here to Stay
In my opinion this syntax is super good, it allows to have all functions/method names starting at the same level, it’s way easier to read the code that way, huge readability improvement imo. Sadly nobody uses this and you still have the classic way so multiple ways to do the same thing…
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