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exitheone··on New privacy tools and policies to help you stay safe and in control online
Reasonable discussion of this would be fine. 90% of comments being snarky and adding absolutely nothing to the topic is not.
exitheone··on New privacy tools and policies to help you stay safe and in control online
Since when have comments become so obnoxious on HN?

A very large portion of the population willingly and happily uses Google products. These new tools make it easier to remove unwanted data about yourself from search. That's a good thing.

Please stop it with the "Google bad" circle jerk and realize that the majority of non-nerds has a very different perspective on this.

exitheone··on Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/products/firefox/fix-probl...

Try searching for "only chrome".

exitheone··on Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web
The market share of firefox is so low and there are already a ton of popular websites that don't work on firefox. Mozilla will very much be forced to follow along here.
exitheone··on Scaling up the Prime Video audio/video monitoring service and reducing costs
It's not only tests, a rollback because your pdf generation has a bug will also mean rolling back for example a customer facing new API, slowing down the API team until the monolith is fixed or the change reverted and rebuilt.
exitheone··on Tesla removes parking sensors, the results are predictably terrible
Portable Generators are a thing and a hell of a lot cheaper than a car. Buy one and stock gasoline for an emergency and you are fine.
exitheone··on Google's live from Paris event private/deleted immediately
My experience with chatgpt is that it is essentially a misinformation generator. It manages to bullshit with incredible confidence.
exitheone··on NSA CSI IPv6 Security Guidance (2023) [pdf]
That's not at all what I got from this.

Ipv4 security guidelines do not look much different.

TLdr: be aware of the differences and prefer ipv6-only instead of dual stack if you can, to reduce complexity.

exitheone··on The State of HTTP in 2022
That is just an implementation detail. It's trivial to create your own local CA, put it into the trust store of your device, use a cert signed by it and be done with it.
exitheone··on The State of HTTP in 2022
That is just an implementation detail. It's trivial to create your own local CA, put it into the trust store of your device, use a cert signed by it and be done with it.
exitheone··on The State of HTTP in 2022
Nothing prevents you from using a self signed cert.

It adds security for local deployments as well because you either trust the local CA or your browser tells you that someone has owned your network

exitheone··on US Government demands direct police access to European biometric data [pdf]
As a regular US traveler, I'm ok with that if the alternative is handing over EU citizens data to a known bad actor.
exitheone··on Wayland Protocol Finally Ready for Fractional Scaling
> Really? Is that a serious reason? Key-loggers are still very much possible because any program can read the memory of all other running programs of the same user.

That's not true. Reading other processes memory requires root even for processes of the same user.

exitheone··on I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information
I don't actually think they're true.

One second of Google cloud TPU has roughly the same number of floating point operations then 4 hours of raspberry pi 4B time.

So 3 minutes of cloud TPU time already covers your whole month of raspberry pi usage. Pretty sure it costs them less than 5$ as well, since they have the hardware anyways.

exitheone··on Brave New Trusted Boot World
I admire your positive view on people but I feel like you vastly overestimates both the ability to learn and the willingness to care of a huge chunk of the population. If we talk about corporate environments with hundreds of thousands of employees, you will absolutely always have malicious or drunk or just plain uncaring people that will not care at all what happens when they click that one blinking link in that one special email from the long lost relative.

The goal to teach people how technology works is admirable and necessary, but it is no defence against a motivated attacker. The attackers will always have a massive information advantage just because they have so much more time to aquire it.

exitheone··on We are still early with the cloud
It's perfectly possible and in fact quite pleasant to work with intellij inside google. At least for JVM languages.

Disclaimer: I work for google

exitheone··on Revamped German stellarator should run longer, hotter and compete with tokamaks
Is this not false? The plasma is so incredibly thin that it would cool down immediately the moment it touches the walls. Afaik the heat generated here is mostly due to neutron bombardment and not because of the plasma.
exitheone··on How to bury carbon? Let plants do the dirty work
But it does reach a steady state. All the carbon we are releasing comes from a time when Lignin essential did not decompose at all. And we are releasing orders of magnitude more of it than current gets captured and stays captured. Even large intact rainforests do very little to actively capture CO2, they cycle it and they keep a large chunk of existing Carbon bound but they do not capture new Carbon from the atmosphere since they already reached a steady state between growth and decomposition.
exitheone··on Google cracks down on VPN based adblockers
I don't understand this stance. They intentionally degrade the service to make it profitable. Video serving is incredibly expensive and YouTube is no charity. They have a premium tier at a very competitive price so what's the issue?
exitheone··on Recommended settings for Wi-Fi routers and access points
From my experience, both Android, Linux and Windows consistently fail to use the faster 5ghz WiFi when starting out on the 2.4ghz. That's why I still have two separate SSIDs at home.
exitheone··on An ex-Googler's guide to dev tools (2020)
I'd rather say that they are far more likely to help improve your tooling and productivity because they have been exposed to Google tooling and know what development _could_ be like. Even if they just do incremental improvements that others would not consider.
exitheone··on An ex-Googler's guide to dev tools (2020)
They will probably be just as productive as all the other employees but they will be sightly unhappy about how incredibly lacking the non-google tooling is because they know how productive someone could be.

Source: Googler but still writing lots of code outside of Google and constantly think to myself "why is this so needlessly hard? Why does nothing integrate well?"

exitheone··on How the Colosseum was built and why it was an architectural marvel
The inside of the st Peters basilica was probably one of the most awe inspiring things I have ever seen. And I'm saying that as an atheist purely appreciating the architecture and scale of the insides.
exitheone··on Japanese researchers propose a concept for making artificial gravity on the moon
There is help and it's not looking quite so grim.

See one of the latest Real Engineering videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k9wIsKKgqo

Dust buildup can be significantly decreased by weaving conductors throughout the outer shells and applying a current to it.

exitheone··on The Webb Space Telescope’s profound data challenges
That's 100Gigabit/hour or 12.6Gigabyte/hour or 11.7Gibibyte/hour
exitheone··on Low-code online store builder
Quick feedback:

German translations are pretty bad and sound like they are done by Google translate 5 years ago :-\

exitheone··on A single memory is stored across many connected brain regions
Keep in mind that this comment is in no way even a tiny bit compatible with our current understanding of how the brain works. Treat it as a good sci-fi plot.
exitheone··on Advantages of Monorepos (2015)
That's factually untrue. Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, Airbnb all have a huge monorepo. Splitting it out is obviously not necessary with the right tools.
exitheone··on Ask HN: Beating depression with or without anti-depressants?
Antidepressants saved my marriage and the early development of my daughter.

My wife suffered a combination of depression and PTSD caused by a very bad childhood since basically middle school.

Under the stress of a newborn child it started to escalate to dangerous levels so she seeked help. After many failed therapy attempts she landed on Sertraline, which caused her symptoms to almost completely vanish and had only very mild side effects.

In the beginning she could not believe that neurotypical people feel like that all the time because she could not even remember a time anymore without depression and anxiety.

It fundamentally changed her and after 2 years of taking it, for the first time since she can remember, she is worried about the future and looking forward to it instead of hoping that she may die soon.

Talk to your doctor, get good advice, but don't be too afraid to try medication because it could potentially vastly improve your quality of life.

exitheone··on Mealie – a self-hosted recipe manager and meal planner with a RestAPI back end
Another very similar alternative is https://docs.tandoor.dev

I have been using it for the last months with family and friends and it works great as well.

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