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* Name: Jake Achée

* Location: Pittsburgh, PA

* Web/Résumé: https://jake.achee.com

* Bio: Network-Engineer-turned-Linux-Admin-turned-SRE, Platform agnostic, not-quite-entrepreneurial. Also: I like python and awk.

* I literally grew up between a trailer park and the landfill. I know my privilege got me out. What's yours gotten you?

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jachee··on Arc Browser 1.0
> Enter your email and we’ll send you a download link

No. Never. Put the download link on your website.

jachee··on Show HN: Marsha – An LLM-Based Programming Language
So, Magic: the Gathering (being Turing complete[0]) is a programming language?

[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.09828

jachee··on Shopify employee breaks NDA to reveal firm replacing laid off workers with AI
“It’s less smoggy in LA.” Is the “it works on my machine” of climate change denial.

It’s a global problem, and acknowledging that isn’t moving the goal posts. It’s reminding you that a first down is not a touchdown.

jachee··on U.S. Senate bill crafted with DEA targets end-to-end encryption
Best case scenario, they don’t.

Worst case scenario, they can arbitrarily ruin people’s lives.

Hoping for the best, but planning for the worst in this case means fighting it tooth and nail.

jachee··on Shopify employee breaks NDA to reveal firm replacing laid off workers with AI
Now do Beijing.
jachee··on Big Tech as the New Big Tobacco
You and the author are both lumping all of Big Tech in together with Big Attention-Exploitation.

The latter is the subset to which people’s ire should be directed.

jachee··on Official Chrome extension to use iCloud Keychain Passwords
I want the one that stores the passwords securely in my devices’ secure enclaves whenever possible.

I also prefer the native OS browser without extra reskinned chrome (not Chrome) wrapped around it.

Firefox can’t do that.

Don’t get me wrong, I like Firefox, but I trust Apple more. Also: Firefox can’t afford to say no to the FBI.

jachee··on Johnson and Johnson sues researchers who linked talc to cancer
Preserved Shareholder Value, and another middle finger from the Invisible Hand.
jachee··on Forget Spotify for news – let's fix the real problem (2017)
> On YouTube, I follow about 120 different YouTube channels... regularly, every week. On Twitch, I watch some other channels. In my Inbox I get about 25 newsletters per day, and on Feedly, I follow about 100 more sources, regularly.

Holy crap. How do you have any time for anything else?

I sub to 3 YouTube channels, never watch twitch, avoid email newsletters like the plague, and still don’t have time in my day to keep up with it all. Especially while I have actual work to get done.

Used to rely on Reddit for sip-of-the-firehose news acquisition, but they screwed that up. Now it’s mostly HN, and even here I miss tons of things.

jachee··on How to register a Kei truck in Pennsylvania
Hmmm… I wonder where that org gets their funding.
jachee··on Underground heat is shifting Chicago’s foundations
And just where is the phrase “climate change” specifically limited to only “greenhouse-gas-induced”?

The entire climate of the planet is being affected by human development, and amalgamating its effects under a single term has more value than segregating the disparate areas, just to satisfy the semantically nitpicky.

jachee··on Apple plans a slow, appointment-only rollout of Vision Pro
Yeah, this is where the Vision Pro has most of my interest and excitement. The reported[0][1] 3400PPI resolution on the thing is going to be next-level. My main use-case for it will be as a productivity device, and everything else will be a bonus.

[0] https://www.tomsguide.com/news/apple-vision-pro-display-spec... [1] https://spectrum.ieee.org/apple-vision-pro

jachee··on Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says
Surely. I imagine it's just like their iPad apps. Should be here any day.
jachee··on Stable Diffusion XL technical report [pdf]
Given the models’ propensity to being able to fairly-regularly reproduce gettyimages watermarks, I’d imagine putting a mark in the same place, at the same size on all the training images would train it that the mark must be there.
jachee··on Threads, an Instagram app
Twitter got great by serving their users. They observed behaviors and canonized them. Using @mentions, the word “tweet”, hashtags, re-tweets, quote-tweets were all emergent user behavior that twitter codified and amplified. All without getting in the way of the interactions.
jachee··on Ask HN: Is GitHub down?
Also (2b) convince their boss that the “optics” are better to update sooner than later.
jachee··on Ask HN: Is GitHub down?
Keep in mind that downdetector can be brigaded and/or show knock-on problems instead of root causes. e.g. A couple weeks ago there were fairly major spikes across a rather huge variety of services on there, but it turned out that it was actually Comcast that was having trouble, rather than any of the “down” services.
jachee··on Ask HN: Is GitHub down?
As the person in charge of one such page, I’d like to take the opportunity to remind folks that many— if not most—of these status pages are hand-updated, and most bosses absolutely hate anyone having to update them to anything but green.
jachee··on Ask HN: Is GitHub down?
I’m no mental health professional, but that sounds like literal PTSD, to me.
jachee··on Harvard’s new computer science teacher is a chatbot
Original Source:

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/6/21/cs50-artificial...

jachee··on Every Mastodon user has an RSS feed
And you’re merely fueling the narrative of “everything is simply fueling someone’s narrative.”
jachee··on Ask HN: Is GNU pass and Yubikey (via NFC) supported on iPhone?
Short answer: no.

Longer answer: iCloud Keychain is end-to-end encrypted credential storage, and its workflow is:

Need password -> Secure system hook to Keychain -> Keychain requests unlock via (face/finger/passphrase as appropriate) -> Password decrypted and auto filled.

There are also third-party options, which can nominally use NFC keys[0] as auth factors, but I’m not currently aware of any that actually do.

Personally, I use 1Password, because I’ve still got a Windows box in my world, and need something cross-platform, and since I’m paying for it, I know it’s the product and not me.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/authenticationserv...

jachee··on The rule says, “No vehicles in the park”
Are ravioli sandwiches?
jachee··on EVE Online: Add-in for MS Excel
I’ve been “winning Eve” (the only way is not to play) for nearly a decade, and the “used to” bit of this fact made me a bit sad.
jachee··on EVE Online: Add-in for MS Excel
I’ve only dealt with a couple of ERP systems briefly and at the lowest levels, but they both felt like an incredibly inefficient undertaking that is ripe for some disruption.
jachee··on Debris found came from missing Titan sub, says friend of passengers
These aren’t people who applied to immigrate, following the prescribed process. They’re desperate people who are being literally smuggled across the Mediterranean to seek refuge in Europe.

How are they not refugees?

jachee··on LCD TVs won’t see any further development
It’s amusing that you want more dynamics to your visuals, but fewer dynamics to your audio…

Why the disconnect?

jachee··on Ask HN: Why Discord instead of a public forum?
Also: any discord mod worth their salt will have set up a #faqs channel with the most-frequent questions and their answers.

We went a step further on the iRacing community discord and wrote a bot that will search that channel and spit out answers.

…because users will nearly always just ask a FAQ instead of reading one.

jachee··on I don't trust Signal
How about something like NoNoise?

Or Beacon.

Or Flare.

Or FOSSE2EEMsgApp.

jachee··on Ask HN: Why does Apple refuse to add window snapping to macOS?
> it's hard to pick out your foreground window from 20 other background windows of varying shapes and sizes and positions

I’d argue this probably means you have too many windows open. Part of the abstraction for macOS programs is that the program isn’t the window, and vice versa. You can close all of a program’s windows without closing the program itself. This frees you up to close windows willy-nilly and know that you can just open them back up again if you need to. Keep just what you need for the current task-at-hand open on your desktop and close everything else.

Personally, I’ve actually been using Stage Manager, which takes rapid-unitask- switching toward its maximum level. Just one app open on each screen at a time. Other windows hanging out in-sight, but not cluttery. Switching’s just a click away, and of course all the keyboard shortcuts work nicely, too.

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