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pnikosis··on Changes to Sourcehut's terms of service regarding LLMs
I don't know how this can be enforced, there's a lot of room for interpretation, making projects at risk to be banned.

> - original content written with or which facilitates the use of LLMs (large language models) or other generative AI technologies

and

> Moreover, the use of AI for purposes other than co-authoring code, tickets, emails, and so on, is discouraged but not prohibited. If you use LLMs privately to review your work, to ask questions of, to perform security analysis, and so on, and then write original code to push to SourceHut, your use-case is aligned with our policy.

So from what I understand it is OK to use AI for security reviews privately but is not cool to host a project that allows to do that?

Also, what does it mean "and so on"? Like "anything we consider we don't allow at some point?"

pnikosis··on Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?
There's hope for the extinction of Electron based apps.
pnikosis··on Tesla has used space characters in internal emails to identify leaks
Funny I've never posted anything very interesting here in Hacker News, but a Tweet of mine made the frontpage.
pnikosis··on The open calendar, task and note space is a mess
I love Org mode but the fact that relies on emacs can push some people from using it.

I've been using lately [logseq](https://logseq.com/) and it's fantastic. Has the features I love from Org mode, plus what I like from Workflowy, stores the data in plain text in Markdown and supports cross references, images, and more.

I love it.

pnikosis··on 640k Really Is Enough for Anyone
I love the idea that there's still an active community developing for old hardware. Specially on videogames since many times they apply modern design ideas in very old hardware.

As a dumb example I saw a platformer for the ZX spectrum not long ago, where the falling speed was not linear but accelerated, which may seem trivial now but back then was something really unusual and I didn't realized how big was the difference after watching it. Then you have stuff way more complex such as the RTS for the Commodore mentioned by the author.

About the quote. Bill Gates said once in an interview:

> I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time.

pnikosis··on Open Source .NET three years later
I learned C# a while ago when started a project in the now defunct XNA. I loved how I felt like home when moving from Java bit with some really nice differences.

I thought that after open sourcing .Net the C# adoption outside the MS ecosystem would be wider by now, but I feel it's not the case. Or am I missing a trend I'm not aware of? (which is very likely too)

pnikosis··on Waterfox – Firefox fork retaining XUL support
I'm going to give it a shot now, thanks for the suggestion
pnikosis··on Waterfox – Firefox fork retaining XUL support
You are right, and in fact is vim-vixen what I'm using right now, I guess after trying so many alternatives after updating to FF57 I just got confused about what I finally had installed.
pnikosis··on Waterfox – Firefox fork retaining XUL support
I used Waterfox long time ago, as a fast 64bit alternative to Firefox (although never noticed a significant speed difference). Now I think the only reason I'd still use it is because add-ons such as Vimperator, but I already switched to the less powerful Vim-fx.

I love the idea that projects such as this one or Pale Moon exist, but I find it hard for me to use them as a regular user, apart from sentimental reasons.

pnikosis··on AWS Pinpoint Launches Two-Way Text Messaging
Delivery rates on AWS are not great in my experience, and there's no easy way to automate some kind of event triggering when a delivery has failed (ended up creating a lambda that reads the fail events from cloud watch). Plus, you have to specify a monthly spending limit that must be manually reviewed and enabled by Amazon, if you go over the limit, Amazon starts failing the SMS delivery, even when SNS responds with a successful status.

AWS is great, but the biggest advantage of Twilio and other SMS providers is that they are way easier and straightforward to integrate.

pnikosis··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)
Schibsted Classified Media @ Barcelona, Spain http://www.schibsted.com/

# Senior iOS developer [ONSITE]

We are looking for senior iOS developers (full time) for building a unique project focused on building state of the art mobile services that power digital marketplaces worldwide, with data and traffic from 30+ of diverse sites. This is a unique opportunity to help design, build, and scale the mobile and multi-channel aspect a brand new service oriented platform powering great user features for our sites. The services are ranging from ad management and fraud detection to personalized, data-driven search and recommendations, and user to user communication.

Great environment, awesome city and no need to speak Spanish (English is a requirement)

For more info contact me at nicolas.hormazabal@schibsted.es