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ghnws··on Just got doxxed to within 15 miles by a vision model, from only a single photo
Interpol, Europol, FBI etc. find abused children by geolocating images. This could be very useful for that.
ghnws··on You can't just assume UTF-8
Everyone knowing about character encodings sounds like a lot of time wasted.

Gen Z has skills in what is available and popular today, just like the previous generation had.

ghnws··on You can't just assume UTF-8
Having worked quite a bit in b2b applications, that is exactly the kind of thing that makes customers consider other options.
ghnws··on Show HN: I built a self-hosted status page and monitoring tool for my projects
I've never seen more green checkmarks than on AWS status page during a major outage.
ghnws··on Show HN: Balancing game for the mobile browser with increasing difficulty
Nice! I would like it more without the "lives" though.
ghnws··on On Terry A. Davis
People also use extremely offensive language (including racial slurs, but not limited to them) under drugs, alcohol etc. because the words are extreme and nothing else. Using a racial slur does not necessarily make one a racist.
ghnws··on Analyzing a Baking Recipe
Reader mode saves the day
ghnws··on Problem with selling developer tools is that devs have no purchasing authority
Unlikely enough to not matter at all
ghnws··on Linus Torvalds adds arbitrary tabs to kernel code
What do you mean by reformat? Any decent code formatter keeps a consistent style. Getting conflics only happens if you missconfigure your editor or don't have checks to catch invalid formatting before merging to remote.
ghnws··on Shape typing in Python
What harm do you think typing a function, for example, would do? I'm genuinely qurious because I just can't see where the issue is.
ghnws··on Shape typing in Python
I've literally never seen anyone put types on trivial variables like that. Maybe your team is just inexperienced with types and/or python?
ghnws··on Problem with selling developer tools is that devs have no purchasing authority
My current company just has a few HR type people that take care of purchases like that. I literally email them a link to hardware or software I need and they get it delivered to me. This is the best way I've seen it done. I don't have to know anything about the order/deliver process the company uses.
ghnws··on People are bailing on Safari after DMA makes changing defaults easier
I'm using Brave on my iPhone for ad blocking purposes. Have not encountered anything shady with it so far.
ghnws··on Plex Asks GitHub to Take Down 'Reshare' Repository over Piracy Fears
It is by far the most used git host
ghnws··on Runtipi: Docker-based home server management
"Containers are silly"

What a silly take

ghnws··on German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice
Not just Americans. MS Office is the standard (at least) in the western world.
ghnws··on As obesity rises, Big Food and dietitians push 'anti-diet' advice
They specifically make you eat less.
ghnws··on Roll-Invert-Unroll: An easier way to replace a duvet cover
I refuse to buy any duvets that don't have the holes. It's too much of a convenience.
ghnws··on Doom Captcha (2021)
Doom without sound is not doom. Sound is absolutely needed
ghnws··on Doom Captcha (2021)
There is bad ui and then there is such bad ui that you lose focus on the actual thing and just wonder how an ui can be so bad. This is the latter.
ghnws··on Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison
Hopefully no-one bet their life on unregulated extremely risky investments.
ghnws··on Django REST framework 3.15.0
>I think it's a bad idea to judge tech based on popularity. It just becomes a game of high school fashion drama, instead of getting work done. I disagree. If one tool is way less popular, you risk it being discontinued. You do not want to start maintaining a web framework on top of your application nor do you want to rewrite your entire app.
ghnws··on Show HN: Timelock.dev – Send a secret into the future using timelock encryption
Death, for example
ghnws··on Icelandic Approved Names – Nordic Names
The law is to protect children from dumb parents. You can give a funny name to a dog if you want, not to a person.
ghnws··on Icelandic Approved Names – Nordic Names
Elaborate?
ghnws··on Icelandic Approved Names – Nordic Names
For adults, yeah. For children the system is great. In Finland the rejected names are published and there are many really horrible ones. A child is a person.
ghnws··on Icelandic Approved Names – Nordic Names
The rejected names are published too. Makes it pretty clear why the system is good to have in place.
ghnws··on Serverless to monolith – Should serverless lovers be worried?
And wireless devices often have wires in them.
ghnws··on MdBook – A command line tool to create books with Markdown
That looks like a great tool!

I write a lot of documentation as part of my job and having Markdown side by side with the rendered output is great. Once you get the hang of the syntax, markdown is so much faster to write than using any text editor like Word. Just writing a list in text editors is painful.

ghnws··on Apple joins opposition to encrypted message app scanning
You can not even bruteforce an AES-128 encrypted zip, let alone 7z or rar with stronger algorithms. (Given a decent length password obviously)

> There is value in introducing barriers, even when imperfect.

Not when they are completely ineffective and introduce other issues.

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