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gazby··on Show HN: Flipflop – Iroh-powered persistent tunnels for filesharing
There are many, many ways for a corporation to express its hatred of the world. There's only one way to become a platinum member of the Rust Foundation, and Microsoft finds that in its couch cushions.
gazby··on Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP
> I suppose the heyday is over, it's time to migrate to something else. Oh, I won't be able to POP push gmail to my new email address, nice. > > There is an opportunity for someone to make a low-friction service which does server-side forwarding via IMAP with decent anti-spam. If done right, you could soak up a significant chunk of the Internet email biz.
gazby··on LinkedIn is the worst social media I've ever seen
Depends where you are. LinkedIn is absolutely the only place to go for tech jobs in Australia for example.
gazby··on NIST to forbid requirement of specific passwords character composition
They've been working on just this bit for the better part of a decade. It'll happen (passkeys I imagine), just slower than most of us would like.
gazby··on WhenFS: Calendar Is Now a File System
Ah Syncany. Good times <3
gazby··on Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech
I've often wondered why Discord is the only major platform client that provides an option to play gifs only on mouseover. It's incredibly effective at solving for the problem you describe.
gazby··on Google Drive scans files for copyright infringement
Are you using this technique successfully? I'd assumed they were using phashes or similar.
gazby··on There Has Never Been a Better Time to Switch to Linux
Thanks for the reply :)
gazby··on There Has Never Been a Better Time to Switch to Linux
You didn't mention your distro, which I think is very relevant when discussing upgrade failures and GPU issues.
gazby··on Redis Renamed to Redict
Two reasons I can think of: 1) It involves Drew DeVault who isn't well liked on HN, and 2) the title implies Redis changed its name which it didn't.
gazby··on Ask HN: What is your go-to stack for the web?
Hey, you dropped this: /s

But more seriously, given this is HN, I honestly can't tell anymore.

gazby··on 23andMe risks public relations disaster as it blames customers for data breach
Pharmacies in the US have just recently been caught giving law enforcement warrantless access to their records, and it's not even illegal. This plan would need some stronger guarantees IMO.
gazby··on Ask HN: What is a quote that permanently changed the way you think?
Such a good character is Thrawn, love this.
gazby··on Ask HN: Best modern file transfer/synchronization protocol?
Because the transfer will happen faster if you're copying more than one file at a time.
gazby··on Midjourney v6
I'm desperate for another player to outdo them so I can take my money elsewhere. It feels like I'm being treated like an infant using this absurd Discord UI.
gazby··on Ask HN: Best modern file transfer/synchronization protocol?
RCX is approaching abandonware status (last release 2y ago). Round Sync is worth a look.
gazby··on Ask HN: Best modern file transfer/synchronization protocol?
I'd argue the opposite. Rclone's parallelization options are unmatched.
gazby··on OpenAI suspends ByteDance's account after it used GPT to train its own AI model
There are stories all over the web of content houses locking down their stuff after they found out OAI was benefitting commercially from harvesting it. This hasn't been true for at least a year. See Reddit.
gazby··on Leaving F-Droid
Yeah that makes sense. One of those things I'd love to see play out both ways and watch what happens lol.
gazby··on Leaving F-Droid
I would indeed expect a community-run project to have been better (at evaluating the trade-offs of access logging [which occurs on every other web property F-Droid users utilize]). If only because there would have been more than one voice that mattered, and thus consensus would be required rather than unilateral dictation.

Is the confusion a result of disagreement, or of my explaining my perspective poorly?

gazby··on Leaving F-Droid
I'm talking literally just access logging though. Expecting even an individual, let alone a business, to run a publicly accessible web service without any form of access logging is just absurd IMO.

I'd expect privacy-inclined people to care vastly more about detecting and tracing indicators of compromise or similar over avoiding access logging on the open internet.

Edit: Use actual English.

gazby··on Leaving F-Droid
I briefly joined some F-Droid Dev rooms in hopes of helping with their speed/capacity issues by chasing some CDN sponsorships or expanding the mirror list, however the possibility that any commercial provider or user-provided mirror might have access logs enabled was enough to end the conversation. I 180'd after that. Never was a community-run project IME.
gazby··on Stripe live dashboard
Is it just me who'd prefer they just didn't take my money in the first place...?
gazby··on Show HN: HyperDX – open-source dev-friendly Datadog alternative
I believe so, but have recently stumbled upon Netdata which scratches the "I don't want to maintain an entire monitoring stack for these few boxes" kind of itch. Need to work with it some more to nail down the trade-offs.
gazby··on PSA: Don't base your business around Discord.7yr account banned for posting ASNs
N of 1 of course, but the moment there's an alternative of sufficient quality I will ditch Midjourney and never look back, for the sole reason that I need to use their service via a Discord bot.
gazby··on Prisoners of Google Android development
The section that's quoted here made me briefly wonder if GP was satire. As someone with no Android Dev experience: WTF Google?!
gazby··on Reddit alternative Lemmy needs SQL optimization help
The federated Reddit alternative Lemmy is being attacked[1] by bots abusing the lack of Postgres query optimization in what is still the early days of the platform. Any assistance with query analysis and optimization would be most appreciated <3

[1] https://lemmy.world/post/2923697

gazby··on Canonical LXD forked by former project leader stgraber
Can you elaborate on how the manner in which software is distributed has nothing to do with the software?
gazby··on Ask HN: In which areas have you compared 3+ tools and formed strong preferences?
Where IaC is distinct from configuration management, what would be your preference for that?
gazby··on Senate votes to let people who’ve used marijuana work at intelligence agencies
In addition to the rules being applied fairly indiscriminately, "past" is doing some pretty heaving lifting here. Last I knew six months was the most recent it could have been used if you were extremely lucky/valuable.
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