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hosteur··on Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM
Indeed. And a rare one at that.
hosteur··on Who's afraid of Chinese models?
> There's just no trust in a country that is digitally totalitarian and hostile towards its own people.

Are you referring to USA, China or EU here?

hosteur··on Should a smartwatch track the user's emotions?
Hard no!
hosteur··on The bottleneck might be the air in the room
In lots of modern office buildings you can’t.
hosteur··on A Day in the Life of an Enshittificator
What do you find tricky?

Of course these decisions make sense for the business making them. That does not make it less unethical nor does it change the fact that what these decisions are doing is in fact making products/services worse and in turn making the world a worse place.

hosteur··on TinyRetroPad – Notepad.exe in pure asm – 2686 bytes
Dave Plummer's post on X: https://x.com/davepl1968/status/2071697469122257110

Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG91c7xsNMc&feature=youtu.be

hosteur··on Flock cameras track more than your license plate, and they're spreading fast
> Speeding things up is one of the ways to deal with it.

Making it a well-paid, high status job is another way to deal with it.

Not easy. Not cheap. Involves fixing quite a few incentive structures as well and weeding out corruption... Yeah, I guess you're right, speeding things up a bit at the cost of everyone's privacy and liberties is going to be what they go for.

hosteur··on LastPass notifies users of yet another data breach
I am not sure what you are saying, really.

It is a tool that does one thing really well.

It is trivial to sync the password db. You can use whatever you prefer.

> "I have a working, synced password manager across my devices with good security practices."

Well, using Lastpass or any other third party to store your passwords was never good security practice.

hosteur··on LastPass notifies users of yet another data breach
How does anyone trust ANY third party with all their passwords and encryption keys is beyond me.

Setting up KeePassXC is trivial.

hosteur··on We’re making Bunny DNS free
As I understand it, it is $1/month minimum spend. Big difference between a one-time cost vs. a recurring cost. No matter how small.
hosteur··on Show HN: TikZ Editor – WYSIWYG editor for figures in LaTeX
Wow. I would have loved something like this when I was studying in University.
hosteur··on In praise of memcached
> What are you using Celery for?

Things like provisioning, deploying, and eventually destroying cloud instances (VMs) on-demand when a user buys a specific service.

> Do you need to be able to recover from a reboot or crash with your queues intact?

Yes, I expect the queue to be durable.

> Is it a distributed system as opposed to a single machine?

Currently, everything runs on a single machine. But I expect it will eventually have to be split up. Although I do not expect it to be massively distributed or very complex.

> Do you have complex multi-step workflows?

Depends on what you mean by complex but Multi-step, yes.

hosteur··on In praise of memcached
I am currently in the process of starting a project with Flask, SQLAlchemy, Celery. Say more about why I should avoid Celery and what to use instead.
hosteur··on Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability
I do a bit of amateur photography and I have my photo collection in subversion today. Would Lore be a better fit for a photo collection with hundreds of thousands of binary files and almost a TB in size?

I have considered git many times but i have effectively one user and what I have now works. And I did not see any benefits in git for this use case.

hosteur··on OneDrive data now has an expiry date
Just came back to work today to find that OneDrive lost me almost all of Friday’s work. My changes are nowhere to be found in “previous version”. OneDrive is such a mess.
hosteur··on Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'
Well, often you don't get to "dump" your pension fund. In Denmark, it is your employer deciding what pension fund to use, and you will then have to use it. It is kinda ridiculous.
hosteur··on Stripe is friendly to “friendly fraud”
Why do you not want to name them?
hosteur··on Ferrari Luce
Looks more like a computer mouse than a sports car.
hosteur··on I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis
May I ask what tools did you make so far? And what is on your roadmap?
hosteur··on Leaving GitHub for Forgejo
I have been self-hosting Forgejo for some time now. It is impressively easy to maintain and operate. I can highly recommend giving it a spin.
hosteur··on Let’s Encrypt – Stopping Issuance for Potential Incident
Related Cloudflare issue: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/z3vgxxfvt3yb
hosteur··on Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce
> What's really happening is that a few employees realized they can game the system by turning on a firehose of AI slop and pushing 10x the LOC than any other engineer (with or without AI)

Did they figure out how to game the system? Or was the system set up exactly with incitaments to produce exactly this outcome?

hosteur··on Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions
The article you are thinking of was likely written by Axel Rietschin who worked on Azure core compute team.

https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporize...

HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616242

hosteur··on Show HN: Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions
Yeah me too. I moved all my public projects to codeberg and my internal repos to self-hosted forgejo.

Hosting forgejo is really easy as well. It being a single binary makes it really easy to handle with almost zero maintenance.

hosteur··on Show HN: Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions
Well, outages seem to be distributed across all days except weekends. So this seems like people fucking around with stuff being a major factor.
hosteur··on Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs
Why is there even a “ moderation queue”? Isn’t this people’s private recordings?
hosteur··on Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained
databasus does not do PITR.
hosteur··on Machine Learning Reveals Unknown Transient Phenomena in Historic Images
Where do they state it is aliens?
hosteur··on Ask HN: Chrome, Brave, Firefox or Something Else?
I prefer Firefox as it is still the only feasible non-chromium alternative.

I have been a firefox user for more than two decades - since it was called Pheonix and later Firebird.

hosteur··on Tell HN: YouTube RSS feeds no longer work
I almost never use YouTube anymore. They seem less and less relevant.
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