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pfoof··on Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work
What? Clippy is evolving! Clippy evolved into Clippilot!
pfoof··on My Failure Resume
So much persistence, be my focusmate
pfoof··on How to politely decline a take-home test task
Ask for a Docker/VM image, some build script like Gradle or Makefile and .editorconfig. Without that, the actual job might be just as frustrating
pfoof··on Why Apple and the Carriers Want Your Old iPhone
it's not about history API being bad, it's about misuse to push the same url 1000 times onto the stack to the back button doesn't work
pfoof··on Ask HN: Any solo game developers here?
I used to focus myself on game development, mostly mobile, several times, then I joined a game studio as a DevOps engineer and I'm not looking back, backend and scripting life is way easier but sometimes I feel that I should make an update or join a jam.

Well, the creative process for games is much broader and freeform but it's like with every art.

pfoof··on Map of an Insect’s Brain
A large digression:

"In 2015 researchers Limb, Limb, Limb and Limb published a paper on their study into the effect of surnames on medical specialisation"

pfoof··on Show HN: Hacker News LCD Badge
Despite you can tether WiFi from a phone, it drains a lot of battery: what about phone<->badge Bluetooth pairing to switch for example to another WiFi? That would be very cool to walk around on a neck during a conference
pfoof··on Privatizing our digital identities
Fingerprint + iris scan + vein scan
pfoof··on Ask HN: Is Pascal any good for modern programming?
As a hobby: go for it, FLStudio, early Skype, Dev-C++ were all made in Pascal/Delphi. Check out also Hedgewars: https://github.com/hedgewars/hw

For a job: no way.

pfoof··on Tell HN: A government ID card is required to use ChatGPT in Germany
The title is clickbait. Phones are only used to keep spam out or create quotas. OpenAI is far from being the first one doing it. Some services even use the number only once and then keep a hash of it
pfoof··on Ask HN: Are a lot of books just useless?
If you are an author of a book on a subject, even if it's not great, your resume gains a lot of value.

Also, YMMV, but for me, repetition in books causes to remember much more, shape and use the knowledge. Unlike a random blog post from HN ;)

pfoof··on The AI hype bubble is the new crypto hype bubble
Not the new crypto hype, rather .com hype, and only if investors start throwing money at "AI Metaverse Pet Generator Deluxe"
pfoof··on Mullvad's campaign against EU chat control
We will then go and use GPG and Tor, where's the problem
pfoof··on Rotating Sandwiches – That's It
That's why I pay for the internet
pfoof··on YouTube is killing one of its most annoying features in April
So, no chance of YT banning ads that have double the video's volume?
pfoof··on X12: Requirements for a successor to the X11 protocol (2013)
wanted to see if it was committed on april 1st
pfoof··on Show HN: Convert sketches into images using ControlNet
Very cool tool but the public feed looks like every day on 4chan.
pfoof··on Show HN: Convert sketches into images using ControlNet
By looking at public prompts, I believe the reason is different...
pfoof··on Reverse engineering a mysterious UDP stream in my hotel (2016)
The question is: why? Why distribute the music that way, why not just attach it to a radio directly, or some RPi that will pull the stream, or just have it prerecorded.

Despite its simplicity, seems to be overengineered.

pfoof··on Disqualified from a National Web Design Competition for Using GitHub
It's funnier when you realize Markdown parsing is basic feature of every other repo hosting like GitLab or Bitbucket
pfoof··on Amazon will require employees return to the office 3 days a week
Easy, use Tim's Ferris technique - perform less in the office on purpose, perform better at home on purpose.
pfoof··on Web Push for Web Apps on iOS and iPadOS
By looking at App Store and Google Play policies, reviews* and putting the big companies at the storefront, PWA should become the default. It can also minimize planned obsolescence (as long as CA certs are valid).

*Not to be confused with users' ratings and reviews

pfoof··on Ask HN: Whatever Happened To Freelancing?
I would trust AI more than a lot of people
pfoof··on Scheduling SSLScan with Gitlab CI
This is not my first post on the blog but my first ever on HN.
pfoof··on Yes, Crypto Is All a Scam
Crypto is just as scam as US dollar. A try of giving it into "control of the people". But Satoshi overestimated human nature.
pfoof··on Finland’s most-wanted hacker nabbed in France
For real, someone who has OpSec of his level (pack home directory to dark web) does not deserve to be named a hacker
pfoof··on Stop the proposal on mass surveillance of the EU
Don't you worry, one or two exploits by a black hat and "Johansson tapes" will be torrented around
pfoof··on Calmira Reborn – a Windows 9x-inspired shell for Windows 3.1
Forget your i3s or dwms, this is the desktop environment we need.
pfoof··on New Distro 'BlendOS' Combines Arch Linux, Fedora Linux and Ubuntu
Is Rudra the new Bellard?
pfoof··on Ask HN: Why Is Everything Declining?
Inflation, easier access to negative information, sped up automation, fear of replacement by robots, military tensions, global warming. It's not every 5 years, more like long phases when superpowers become like supermassive blackholes and implode.
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