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Lol, what? Haven't heard of this... What's your experience with nativePHP?

While i am a defender of modern (!) php for web applications, this does sound rather weird. But also interesting. Thanks for the link.

I wonder though how "native" this is? Glancing over the docs it seems to be built upon tauri / electron? Not as native as i expected, but probably more native than most people would dare to think about...

It's not like the government is taking the money though... usually it goes to someone who is arguably deserving. So i feel "kicking in the teeth" seems inappropriate.

I also fucked up because of taxes many times and just recently a big bad "surprise" hit me. But it's not like it was not my failure of responsibility.

Let's encrypt has done great work with certs for free. But they do still cost money. Insane for how long unencrypted traffic was the default. But i could not have done anything, if browsers had soft-enforced https earlier. I simply could not have paid that money.

Thanks, it does clarify. I thought one might at least be able to pretend to have a QR code parsed result string (eg wifi:T:WPA;S:MySSID;P:mypassword;;), to trigger the systems API. I didn't know that android now has these limitations.

I was sure, a third party QR code scanner should be able to read wifi qr codes and trigger a connection prompt as well. But apparently the it can't. This is dumb, but then you're app is not.

Hope i didn't bring too much negativity.

> I guess the question is "why generate a QR code rather than just connect?"

Exactly. Why not use the API directly? Why encode a string into an image for the sole purpose of displaying that image to then basically do a screenshot to then read from the screen, to run an algorithm on that to detect & decode to get the string you already had after doing the OCR on the wifi credentials.

Btw: i didn't even open the link. My comment was based solely on this post. Now i see that it's an expo / react project... so the amount of wasteful energy spent is even higher.

I have looked at the code. This here stands out to me:

>>> if (Platform.OS === "android") { // On Android, we use system built-in WiFi connection dialog via qr code return false; } else if (Platform.OS === "ios") { // On iOS, we need to use a different method await WiFiManager.connectToProtectedSSIDPrefix( ssid, password, !isWPA // iOS only ); <<<

Aside from the fact that the comments indeed look very llm-esque to me, the way they're phrased also implies that the ios way of directly connecting is the "different" method. Like that one is the workaround of both approaches– and the wasteful way is the desired one– for no apparent reason.

Spending compute to encode a string just to decode it with more compute, because the whole purpose was to print the decoded string seems... a bit wasteful at best. I don't understand.

Sure, the excuse here might be that the generated QR code can be used to connect other devices as well, but if that was the reason, it would have been mentioned i guess. It seems like the QR code is only generated & displayed to be read from screen... It seems to me– a judgmental moron– almost as if chatgpt came up with this...

Sorry if this sounds harsh, most likely i am wrong and don't get something here. And usually i wouldn't have commented because my comment doesn't bring something positive to the table... But i really so much don't get it here, i had to comment in the hope of being enlightened why this is smart and not the opposite...

But either way: if it solves an issue for you the way you want it to: perfect. Congratulations on finishing an app as you imagined it. That is really great, regardless of opinions like mine.

Facebook, take note! The germans seem really good at rebranding to make people forget terrible things of the past... insane, actually...

> The mission of a company is to deliver value for customers and shareholders, not to chase fads.

So you think the stock price resembles the delivered value? Or may it be rather the p e r c e i v e d value? And then, how would a company change perception of it's value to make customers and shareholders happy?

But then, who'd invent excel? Maybe we need the compromise and let some people be the 10xcel engineer...

You can run chromium/chrome with many security features (eg cors) disabled. If that helps whatever security hell you wanna swim in...

Interesting. I have no rust experience yet, so i wonder: while that sounds very cool, how does it look like in the wild? To me it seems like this could quickly turn into a nightmare, if the code is not very well organized / structured. In reality shouldn't this rather be two separate libs?

But maybe i should first learn rust before asking.

I mean in relative terms not bad for putin actually... 10x-ing is the wet dream of many in the silicovska valley.

Awesome! Missingno was what i meant. Thank you!

> Pokémon Red takes 25 hours on average for a new player to complete.

Seriously? I've never really played video games, but i remember spending so much time on pokemon red when i was young. Not sure if i ever really finished more than once. But i'm pretty sure i must have played for more than 50h or so before even close to finish. My memory might trick me though.

Not sure which pokemon version it was, but i got so hooked trying to get this "secret" pokemon which was just a bunch of pixels. Some kind of bug (of the game, not the type of pokemon). You had to do specific things in a park and other things and then surf up and down x-times on the right shore of an island... or something like that. I had no idea how it worked and got so hooked, i must have spent most of my playing time on things like that.

Oh boy, memories...

How is trump speed running towards another world war? To me– a non-us citizen– it does seem like quite the opposite.

> Any mobile app designers out there think TikTok has good UX? I mean scrolling video is great, but everything else?

You wouldn't ask a doctor if she thinks crack is great, right?

Dear god, please never screw up the x-overflow...

(or... do it, and see if these artificial beings are already more powerful than us and can't be stopped...)

It's just insane how this is a pattern with microsoft. That should be studied. It's not meant snarky. I am really fascinated. I dislike microsoft but feel that my bias is taking over whenever i get to say things like "of course it failed– it's microsoft". But it is also true every time. Somehow microsoft has a unique talent to take things and just find ways to screw it up in ways, people couldn't imagine. That is really, really fascinating.

But, of course: thank god they blow it every time. They bring the spotlight to the places where others create good things.

Interesting, didn't know about dune3d. I can't try today though. What are you expecting from my comparison? If i don't forget, i can come back here in a few days if had time to try dune and tell you about my experience.

Just wanted to say that i found out about shapr3d here on HN through a comment a while back. And– though it does sound dramtic– it changed my life. It got me into CAD modelling without any experience. Which i wouldn't have tried on a computer, but on my ipad, it was so easy and intuitive to get started.

Since then i've designed so many things. From weird furniture ideas to replacement parts for my vacuum up to the mot important 3d models of a device-prototype. It's super fun, intuitive and i think in general the most expensive software subscription i pay for, also hands-down the software that impacted my life the most (as a consumer/user).

I would have expected the downvotes for not being funny. But i would have never thought to be taken serious on this. But thank you for taking the time to explain. (Un-?)fortunately, i have been writing php for years. And my bash/zsh setup is slightly insane. But truly appreciate your sincere response (except the last sentence, which makes me think, the sincerity of your comment is equal to the on of my first comment...).

I just love HN, no downvote can stop me! Ever!

Interesting. I have had the opposite experience. And i am happy that they're behind on the AI front.

Way too many tools force their shitty AI (API wrapper) upon me already. And i have yet to see any benefit.

Interesting.

Any code you want to share?

Sweet. The night before last christmas eve, i needed to come up with a gift quickly– and i started to write a script for this. I went down the rabbit hole of perfecting different formats, length variations etc & generate the PDFs.

Unfortunately, i failed at the physical part of this. I couldn't figure out that quickly how to print it nicely & make a usable flipbook.

So my gift ended up being a crappy mvp of a flipbook. It was appreciated, but it's embarrassing considering how many hours i've put into it, for a shitty result.

I would order, but i know, the minute i pay, i will fall down the rabbit hole again and get obsessed trying to create the physical flipbook myself. But i really don't have the time for that at the moment. When i do, i will place an order!

All the best to you!

Psst, don't tell my clients that it's not actually me but the languages syntax i use, that's solving their problem.

We all are, since a long time. The mud just doesn't shine so bright.

I'm sure they'll undersand

So, "consultants" from the big letters?

Yeah, that's a given. Everyone has only 24h of time per day. And everyone has different struggles.

This is an incredible achievement. And i really don't like, that your comment invited other people to jump onboard & comment in a way belittling the achievements– even if just implicitly, to make themselves feel better why a high-schooler is doing things like that.

If all that was really the main driver, HN frontpage should be flooded with projects made by high-schoolers. But it is not. It might be contributing factor.

Btw: Funnily enough, i would expect these type of excuses & self-comforting negativity from high-schoolers.

Agree. Though a valid concern might be that a victim uses signal because of E2EE, thinking no 3rd party involved in delivery, not knowing/thinking about a CDN used.