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phrz··on I designed a Dieter Rams-inspired iPhone dock
This is actually the iPhone nightstand mode which activates when the phone is on magsafe and in landscape.
phrz··on WebKit fix: Quirk news.ycombinator to skip TextAutoSizing
This has existed for every web engine since time immemorial, calling out Safari is misleading. Firefox calls them "site interventions" and Chrome calls them "patches" rather than Safari/WebKit's "quirks".
phrz··on J&J can contest evidence linking its talc to cancer, US judge rules
Federal Rule of Evidence 706 already provides for court-appointed experts which report to the court and the parties and for whom the costs are shared. But a battle of the parties' experts can allow the jury to weigh the credibility of the opposing opinions after the court has vetted them. J&J can afford the right experts, and the collective resources of plaintiffs (and the investment of their counsel) can easily match this.
phrz··on Monolith – CLI tool for saving complete web pages as a single HTML file
Safari does this with .webarchive files
phrz··on Better Call GPT: Comparing large language models against lawyers [pdf]
Not a reach, it's called "unlicensed practice of law" and it's a crime.
phrz··on Ask HN: Is it impossible to use Kagi as default search engine on iOS?
My recommendation: use xSearch for iOS! It's a Safari extension app so no need to use a nonstandard browser. I use it to give me custom !bang searches for various databases, but it has an option to override the Safari default search engine. It works very reliably on iOS and Mac.
phrz··on Broadband monopolies push bill that would crush the ability to stand up to them
Congress's Commerce Clause power in the Constitution is notorious for being very broadly interpreted in the modern era. Here, Congress is either regulating a "channel" of interstate commerce (the internet) or intrastate economic activity that interferes with interstate commerce (local ISP rules making nationwide ISP business more burdened).
phrz··on Docuseal: Open-source DocuSign alternative
One of the features DocuSign charges a lot of money for is batch envelopes, like uploading a CSV to fill out fields and send to different recipients (basically Mail Merge). Is this something that could work in DocuSeal?
phrz··on Every Signature Is Broken: Insecurity of Microsoft Office’s Ooxml Signatures
The ESIGN Act makes no distinction in the US between whether you cryptographically sign or digitally draw, etc., defining a signature as "an electronic sound, symbol, or process, attached to or logically associated with a contract or other record and executed or adopted by a person with the intent to sign the record."
phrz··on Replacing my MacBook Air M1 with a ThinkPad T480
The T480 with a battery is 1.6kg, or 1.8kg on the extended pack. https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/ThinkPad/ThinkPad_T...
phrz··on Kids can't use computers and this is why it should worry you (2013)
It does really set the tone as "old man yells at cloud" rather than one of valid concern.
phrz··on ChatGPT Plus
Just guessing, but I think people got so saturated with "Pro" and "Premium" that it started to leave that slimy feeling you get from "Luxury" and other pseudo-fancy marketing terms.
phrz··on New Mac Mini
Running Chrome on an Apple product is downright wasteful.
phrz··on Show HN: A color picker for named web colors
Broken on iPhone
phrz··on Texas solar and wind resources saved consumers nearly $28B over 12 years
That begs the question: if oil and gas is steeply subsidized, does government support for renewables simply create a level playing field?
phrz··on reMarkable 2
A wonderful product ruined by a proprietary cloud. The problem with the latter was very promptly proven by the unilateral imposition of a subscription. The product is useless without its cloud.
phrz··on Texas sues Google for collecting biometric data without consent
Yes, you're thinking of recordings. This suit is brought under the Texas Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier Act (Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 503.001 et seq.) [0]. At issue is the alleged unauthorized collection of face and fingerprint biometric data.

https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/BC/htm/BC.503.htm

phrz··on Ask HN: Microsoft SmartScreen is destroying our business
Have you considered that your service, unbeknownst to you, may have been compromised at some point in time, and the source of some phishing page or other malicious material?

Besides that possibility, if your business is truly being "destroyed," have you contemplated retaining counsel to escalate things with Microsoft?

phrz··on Anti-royal protesters are being arrested in the U.K. as 'Not My King' tag grows
Please read Letter from Birmingham Jail.
phrz··on Elon’s Out
Are you under the impression that judges presiding over civil cases cannot exercise their inherent power (in some jurisdictions) to jail those in (severe) contempt of court?
phrz··on The Closest Ten Airports
Very nice especially on touchscreens. Wish I could traverse the poles.
phrz··on Legends Solar – Buy operating solar panels on commercial solar farms
This is like a high-tech version of the orange grove that sold investment contracts for the harvest of oranges in the famous Howey case
phrz··on California Right to Repair Bill Dies in Senate Committee
"Dying in committee" means that the bill did not go to the entire California Senate for a vote, but that a majority of the committee to which the bill was assigned were unable to support the bill to move it onto the floor. It looks like the article links to the site that tracks bill status, but it appears that site does not record how a committee voted.
phrz··on Show HN: Redditle.com – For those of us who add 'Reddit' to every Google search
xSearch for Safari is great for this on Mac and iOS. I've made a bunch of custom !bang search engines on top of those supported by DuckDuckGo. It really speeds up research on various databases.
phrz··on Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would you save it?
In corporate leadership, homophobia is not a "personal view," it is a matter of governance and directly impacts talent acquisition. Further, Brave browser is a Chromium browser that does little to stop the browser engine monopoly at risk here—it does nothing meaningful for browser diversity. Not one comprehensible point is made here besides, I suppose, treating Eich's firing as a political issue.
phrz··on Apple M1 Max and Pro Outrun Intel and AMD in Single-Thread Benchmark Sprint
(2021)
phrz··on When the government hides spy cameras on your land, fight back in court
The current state of the open fields doctrine is that your home and its "curtilage" are protected, but the "open fields" beyond that are not. The wording "lives, farms and hunts" suggests that area is his curtilage because it is where he takes part in the activities of private life. Property bounds are not really relevant because 4th amendment privacy rights and property rights are not co-extensive.
phrz··on Snake in a block – how I ran snake on Ethereum
How many pounds of coal did this game consume? I wonder if it's possible to compare the watt-hours of a typical game of snake as compared to this.
phrz··on Chrome OS overtakes Macs for second place OS market share for the first time
The good news for Apple is most of those Chromebooks will have disintegrated or otherwise found their way to the landfill in two years, which certainly helps Apple's chances.
phrz··on Fixing the Drift in Shape Rotations
The author treats this kind of destructive rotation as a positive, but this is exactly why rotation modifier as part of the object tree is generally a good thing! There's no need to recompute a center because it's the same center, only a rotate operation has been applied on top of the node. Also, that's how rotation works in the web browser, which these design apps are often targeting.
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