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mccorrinall··on Ask HN: Advice that changed your life?
This would have broken my neck when I had zero to none self-confidence a few years ago :‘)
mccorrinall··on NEOM has nothing to do with 3rd parties claiming to offer a NEOM cryptocurrency
I always thought they are caucasian descendants (or whatever the right word is); Saufi Arabia is also not too far away from Georgia and Russia.

Anyway, I’m mad at my government (Germany) that we deal so much with the Saufis and Qatar, while also trying to show everyone that dealing with killers is a bad idea.

mccorrinall··on Meta Earning Results Q3 2022 [pdf]
Mark doesn’t give a shit about share price, otherwise there would be buybacks right now. Meta still has a donkey which shits gold: even facebook still had 4% DAU growth yoy, while people make fun about fb using users to tiktok.

No, Mark wants a war chest and will increase investments for his meta verse.

But I would never bet against Mark.

mccorrinall··on Ask HN: Is DRM on firefox another nail in the coffin of free internet?
Without DRM support much less people would use firefox because they actually want to use the netflix and prime subscriptions.

As I haven’t seen other websites than such movie streaming sites using DRM, I don’t think it’s another mail in the coffin. It doesn’t actively hurt anyone, and it does not stop shows to be ripped and released on tpb. It’s just an alibi for movie makers.

So, what’s the fuss about it?

mccorrinall··on Facebook warns it could block news in Canada over proposed legislation
> Facebook built a for-profit Skinner box on the backs of commercial and user-generated content

Like reddit, youtube, tiktok twitter, google any many more?

Anyway, if I was big tech, I would just ban all domains from those publishers who demand part of my revenue and watch them quickly die.

mccorrinall··on Kill Bill – Open-Source Subscription Billing and Payments Platform
Oh, heck, you are right! I mixed up react and react native.
mccorrinall··on State of CSS
The still don’t support web push & notifications on ios and ipados. Even when you enable push api and notifications in experimental settings of safari it just doesn’t work.

Or am I doing something wrong?

mccorrinall··on Kill Bill – Open-Source Subscription Billing and Payments Platform
Even when using semver it just means that there were never any major breaking changes. React is also still 0.x :)
mccorrinall··on Running a VPN server on iOS is against AppStore's Guidelines
Okay, I just dove into wireguard‘s source code and it looks like I made wrong assumptions. When I used mullvad or wireguard, it always showed „127.0.0.1“ as the server, however, according to wireguard‘s source, this is just set as a placeholder. I assume that mullvad used this code to implement their app too.

https://github.com/WireGuard/wireguard-apple/blob/13b720442d...

https://ibb.co/x5kwxZW

mccorrinall··on Running a VPN server on iOS is against AppStore's Guidelines
I think they are actually asking for a server. I used mullvad vpn in the past, and it looks like it creates a local ipsec server, and than tunnels that traffic through wireguard to mullvad.

The user is probably looking for something similar, as ios only supports ipsec/ikev2/l2tp natively. If you want to use wireguard or openvpn you have to get creative.

mccorrinall··on GitHub Copilot, with “public code” blocked, emits my copyrighted code
If they’d open source their software I wouldn’t have to wait two months till they finally release the pdbs for the kernel after every 2XH1 / 2XH2 update.

It’s so annoying that they are sooooo slow at this and we have to keep our users from upgrading after every release.

mccorrinall··on Disposable Root Servers
When there are no tos defined, the tos is usually an implicit: don’t abuse and don’t be an asshole
mccorrinall··on Meta, aided by Apple and Google takes down an ad-free Instagram clone
Looks to me like a patched client a la vanced: https://www.theogapp.com/
mccorrinall··on Infosys asked HR not to hire 'Indian-origin candidates', 'women with children'
Depends on who you ask. The following graphic is on the article about developing countries and includes emerging markets in the „lesser developed“ category: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IMF_advanced_economi...
mccorrinall··on 4x4 ASCII Font (2016)
Nope. Take a look at lowercase j.
mccorrinall··on Lufthansa bans AirTags in checked luggage
I have an AirTag which turns off during flights and powers itself on after 24h. Hah. Compliance!
mccorrinall··on Tether ordered to produce documents showing backing of USDT [pdf]
USD.
mccorrinall··on Tether ordered to produce documents showing backing of USDT [pdf]
That’s more than an actual spot margin loan.
mccorrinall··on Tether ordered to produce documents showing backing of USDT [pdf]
Take a loan in tether, sell it for real USD. Wait for tether to crash. Buy tether back and pay back your loan.

Why should I care about BTC when shorting tether?

mccorrinall··on RootMyTV is a user-friendly exploit for rooting/jailbreaking LG webOS smart TVs
I have exactly one reason to fiddle with my smart tv: to use an youtube app with adblocker and sponsorblock. The first could also be achieved by buying premium. But sponsorblock? No, I need to be able to sideload apps for that.
mccorrinall··on Matrix: Third Room Tech Preview [video]
Try cinny.in

It’s much better than element. It implements stickers, custom emojis and just feels much better than element.

mccorrinall··on Google postpones MV2 shutoff in Chrome stable to June 2023
I never liked chrome because it required me to set a proxy via command line arguments or system wide. Never understood why they don’t give me an option like firefox within the settings to set a proxy, but at the same time chrome allowed *extensions* to set proxies.
mccorrinall··on The End of My Crypto Explorations
Check out webauthn, it’s awesome!
mccorrinall··on Dear Chess World
Then they should just provide evidence instead of allegations. Innocent until proven guilty.
mccorrinall··on Nvidia in the Valley
> crypto decline caused by the russian invasion

What? One of the biggest recent decline in crypto happened when LUNA foundation dumped multiple billions as BTC in order to keep terra stable (didn’t work out). The other dump is caused because borrowing money for leverage won’t be as cheap as it was for at least the next 4 years (taking bloomberg projections of Fed rates here).

How is the invasion related to the dump at all?

mccorrinall··on Dear Chess World
Didn’t we just learn that Hans Niemann is apparently just a front-end for a chess engine? ;)
mccorrinall··on When did POP and IMAP become a “legacy protocol?”
If someone wants to track you, they can just mark the frame. Marking packets isn’t anything new,
mccorrinall··on Hackathon finds dozens of Ukrainian refugees trafficked online
> Online platforms probed during the hackathon included "a wide range of websites" and "social media, dating platforms, advertising and aid platforms, forums and messaging applications."

That’s pretty broad. Would like to go them into further detail.

mccorrinall··on The End of My Crypto Explorations
After checking their github repos I’m only seeing a web mail client with metamask for auth instead of user password. It’s using a normal graphql api. Very decentral. I guess web3.0 only requires a „login with metamask“-button now.

Oh, and about the cool, very decentral drive on IPFS thing: the drive is still only on a single server, pinned by a single server. That’s how IPFS works. It it would work otherwise and they didn’t have to actually pay their storage bills, they wouldn’t limit the storage to a mediocre 10GB less-than-gdrive shit tier.

mccorrinall··on The End of My Crypto Explorations
Yea, who would have thought that you don’t want to build a venture on top of a currency. There is no other use case in blockchain than transferring wealth plus some quality of life features like time locks, multi signatures etc.
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