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Entire article is vibeslopped
fron··on AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
Woke up to a billing alarm email. Thought I had leaked my AWS keys accidentally and somehow run up 437 billion dollars of charges. Joke's on them though, I don't have 437 billion dollars

Anyways I didn't need coffee. That produced an adrenaline release unlike any I've experienced before. Thanks AWS

fron··on Primate Is the Last Great Web Framework
Why use light gray code highlighting on a light background? Most of the code blocks are unreadable due to this.
fron··on Verizon outages reported across U.S.
Many (most?) services offer a choice between SMS 2FA and no 2FA. It's not always so easy.
fron··on Vacuum bricked after user blocks data collection – user mods it to run anyway
"Never attribute to incompetence that which can be attributed to malice" or something.

Clearly automatic beds have some degree of embedded software. The decision to put the controls in the cloud was certainly a conscious one.

fron··on GitHub Is Down
Yeah SSO is down for me too
fron··on [dead]
Come back if/when it gets announced. Until then, this is just clickbait nonsense
fron··on Show HN: TSDiagram – Diagrams as Code with TypeScript
That's super cool! Is there a way to save the editor and diagram state into a URL hash so we can share tsdiagram links with others, similar to how the TypeScript Playground works?
fron··on Apollo Back end just made public
It's more than likely that they'll inject their own softball questions and focus on those instead of addressing everyone's concerns in any meaningful way.
fron··on Atomic Wallet exploited, users report loss of entire portfolios
How many times does this have to happen before people learn that cryptocurrency is not a good place to park money?
fron··on Nike.com allows easy account take over
Can't you just call in and change it back then?
fron··on FTC fines Twitter $150M for using 2FA phone numbers for ad targeting
WebAuthn should be the default
fron··on The math prodigy whose hack upended DeFi won’t return funds
"Libertarians are like house cats: absolutely convinced of their fierce independence while utterly dependent on a system they don't appreciate or understand."

No idea who said this originally but it continues to be true. Abandon the system, and they find it was there for a reason.

fron··on Ask HN: Software Developer vs. Software Engineer
There's no difference at all, at least in the US. The two job titles are entirely synonymous. Anyone who tries to argue otherwise is just lying to themselves to feel smarter.
fron··on It is difficult for the average person to conceive of how useless NFTs are
Only because the NFT marketplace is just the Greater Fool Theory at work.
fron··on Sorry Safari Team
If the Safari team could get their shit together and ship all the features they're missing that other browsers have supported for years, then perhaps I'd have more sympathy.

All I see here is that Safari still sucks in terms of feature support and developer experience.

fron··on Rich Harris joins Vercel to work on Svelte full time
> but the idea of having to learn different language constructs for loops and the like doesn't seem that herculean of a task.

I agree. As long as you understand the basic concepts, it's only a matter of learning the syntax, which is really not as big of a deal as the person you replied to is making it out to be.

fron··on The Facebook Logout – We're over Facebook
Yeah, just log out! That'll force them to pay attention! /s

This idea could not possibly be more worthless. Delete your account if you don't like Facebook. Otherwise stop crying about it

fron··on The NSA and CIA use ad blockers
Same. I even have wireguard set up on my phone so my phone's internet connection is pihole-enabled wherever I am
fron··on Why can an ad break the Windows 11 desktop and taskbar?
The choices are to accept Windows w/ ads, or reject Windows altogether

It's not about being ok with it, it's about only having the nuclear option, switching OS entirely, as the alternative

fron··on Van Buren is a victory against overbroad interpretations of the CFAA
> then that person cannot be held criminally liable for anything they do with access to that system, even if the owner explicitly prohibits it.

They would not be criminally liable under CFAA, but they can absolutely be charged with other crimes in such a circumstance

fron··on When will virtual reality take off? The $100 bet
It's truly unfortunate. I would love to try the Quest 2, I've heard some pretty great things.

The requirement to have a Facebook account makes it a complete nonstarter by itself. The fact that I can get locked out of my hardware that I purchased because Facebook's software decides my account isn't 'legit' enough? Gonna be a serious nope from me.

fron··on Pair Locking Your iPhone
Easy to say when you haven't been detained for 12+ hours. They don't care if you're a U.S. citizen when they can just decide the law is optional. Safest solution is to just backup, wipe, enter the country, then restore.
fron··on Too Many Video Streaming Choices May Drive Users Back To Piracy
No. Everyone wanted to get rid of both the cable bundle and channels. People just want on-demand access to whatever shows.
fron··on Microsoft President: Democracy Is At Stake. Regulate Big Tech
Says the president of the largest spyware ("telemetry") distributor in the world
fron··on Microsoft’s Game Pass Is a Kafkaesque Nightmare on PC
It's post-2009 Microsoft. What did you expect, end-user software that is actually usable? Helpful information about what went wrong? Keep dreaming
fron··on Web Components could replace frontend frameworks?
......

The .ts file extension generally means TypeScript.

fron··on Show HN: Affinity.js – A simple view component library with store
Your live demo has a ts compile error.
fron··on Why Would Prosthetic Arms Need to See or Connect to Cloud AI?
What we really need is Local AI, not Cloud AI for such uses. It would suck to have to be internet-connected in order for your arm to work.

Want to take a trip into the wilderness? Lol. Power's out and the basement is flooding? Good luck, sucks to be you. I guess "lag" will become a valid excuse to being clumsy in real life.

Local vs connected is a no-brainer for this particular application.

fron··on Show HN: Xkcd mario-ish: a playable xkcd mario level
Doesn't work on desktop either
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