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rcruzeiro

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Software developer, geek and aspiring chef
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rcruzeiro··on AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint
I would actually love if I could have iOS prompt me to allow certain apps to use the speakers. I hate using an app and suddenly have a video autoplay loudly.
rcruzeiro··on AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint
According to their profile: Norway
rcruzeiro··on Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models
Selective Availability accuracy restrictions ended decades ago, but GPS technology is still subject to various military and export-control restrictions.
rcruzeiro··on OpenClaw is a security nightmare dressed up as a daydream
Why an agent? Why not simply filter by unread, select all and mark as read? I recently did this with my email accounts which has many thousands of unread emails.
rcruzeiro··on Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy
I do wonder if the way people speak is starting to change because of LLMs. The “it’s not just” thing (I forgot the name for it) is something that used to be a giveaway, but I am now seeing more and more people use it IRL. Perhaps I am just more vigilant towards this specific sentence construction that I notice it more?
rcruzeiro··on Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy
The hyphen instead of an em dash suggests a human (though one could simply replace em dashes with hyphens to make the text more “human-like”).
rcruzeiro··on Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down
I remember being in 20 years old, at the start of my career, and complete broke. I thought Twitter was just a toy website, until one day I radically changed my mind.

I was a customer of a bank that treated me with nothing but contempt. Whenever I called the bank because of a problem, I would stay on the line forever to eventually talk to an unbothered representative. One day, instead of calling, I complained on twitter and tagged the bank. Half an hour later the bank apologised and fixed my problem.

rcruzeiro··on Global Warming Has Accelerated Significantly
America could set the standard and then use its soft power (or sanctions if it came to that) to make India and china follow suit. The problem is that America is now hellbent on burning the world, and its soft power is all but gone.
rcruzeiro··on U.S. science agency moves to restrict foreign scientists from its labs
What specifically?
rcruzeiro··on U.S. science agency moves to restrict foreign scientists from its labs
Remind me again when was the last time congress declared war and how many other wars the US was involved in since then.
rcruzeiro··on French streamer unbanked by Qonto after criticizing Palantir and Peter Thiel
Visione TV is a mouthpiece of the Russian propaganda machine. The account being frozen was most likely the bank doing its due diligence due to the sanctions on Russia.
rcruzeiro··on Data centers in space makes no sense
You can. This is how it is currently done, but it is not easy. It needs to have a large enough surface area to radiate the heat, and also be protected from the sun (as to not collect extra heat). For a data centre, think of an at least 1000m2 heat exchange panel (likely more to train a frontier model).
rcruzeiro··on Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out
A lot of people in positions of power in the AI industry are also buying remote plots of land, building bunkers, stockpiling medicine, guns and gold…
rcruzeiro··on Amazon cuts 16k jobs
You are missing the part where we built our society on the fact that people need at least some money to exist with the basic level of dignity.
rcruzeiro··on Have Taken Up Farming
I thought about this a lot, which is why I greatly value doing the occasional electronics project, home renovation or even cooking. There is just something about working with something I can touch.

I wonder if writers feel the same.

rcruzeiro··on LLM Problems Observed in Humans
You are right to push back on that.
rcruzeiro··on Vibe coding is mad depressing
Back when I saw doing freelance work, the worst type of client was the one who was semi-technical, meaning they were technical enough to write code that they wanted to contribute to the project or to have strong architectural opinions, but not technical enough to understand the nuances and the implications of their suggestions.

I guess that, with vibe coding, it is very easy for every client to become like this.

rcruzeiro··on Nano Banana Pro
Try photocopying some US dollar bills.
rcruzeiro··on Work after work: Notes from an unemployed new grad watching the job market break
I know it’s anecdotal data, but every company that I’ve work for in the past 11 years? I’ve worked for companies in the UK, France, Portugal. If you check the job listings for remote jobs in Europe, you will find that there is rarely a constraint to where in Europe the candidate is located in.
rcruzeiro··on Work after work: Notes from an unemployed new grad watching the job market break
In Europe, what we do is usually: if the person lives in the same country as one of our business entities, they get hired directly as an employee. If they live in a country where the company does not have a business presence, they get hired through an EOR or as a contractor.
rcruzeiro··on Work after work: Notes from an unemployed new grad watching the job market break
While I think the link between birth rates declining and automation does make sense, it will take quite sometime for this to verifiable as this is a somewhat recent anxiety. The reason for the trend that we have seem over the last decades seem to mostly stem from lower childhood mortality rates, women having access to the job market, and perhaps to a lesser extent climate anxiety.
rcruzeiro··on Work after work: Notes from an unemployed new grad watching the job market break
Out of curiosity, I live in Europe where it is quite common to work remotely across countries within the EU or the UK. I have always wondered why so many US companies limit remote roles to people based in the US, and then mention a shortage of qualified talent. It feels like there is a large pool of people being overlooked.
rcruzeiro··on Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not
> Not sure what's bad about that.

Parent commenter pointed out Musk performing a nazi salute during the inauguration of the President of the United States, and supporting fascist party takeovers across the world. If you are not sure what is bad about that, then maybe you should just admit to having nazi inclinations?

rcruzeiro··on Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not
Remind me again what is the subject of this thread?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

rcruzeiro··on Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not
Maybe MechaHitler wouldn't have happened.
rcruzeiro··on Google suspended my company's Google cloud account for the third time
Have you bothered reading the post where the author stated why they cannot simply ditch GCP?
rcruzeiro··on Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition
This was it!
rcruzeiro··on Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition
> I think the OO hatred comes from how academia and certain enterprise organisations for our industry picked it up and taught it like a religion.

This, this, this. So much this.

Back when I was in uni, Sun had donated basically an entire lab of those computers terminals that you used to sign in to with a smart card (I forgot the name). In exchange, the uni agreed to teach all classes related to programming in Java, and to have the professors certify in Java (never mind the fact that nobody ever used that laboratory because the lab techs had no idea how to work with those terminals).

As a result of this, every class from algorithms, to software architecture felt like like a Java cult indoctrination. One of the professors actually said C was dead because Java was clearly superior.

rcruzeiro··on A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool
Nuclear plants follow a strict “as low as reasonably achievable” (ALARA) principle. Any intake of reactor water or radiation exposure must be reported and evaluated no matter how small.
rcruzeiro··on A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool
The water is borated and heavily purified. You don’t want stuff growing inside, but at the same time you don’t want to have chlorinated water slowly corroding the metal components.
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