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recrudesceon Tell HN: Hacker News Does Not Support IPv6

Why bother with IPv6 support when IPv4 is more supported, and generally not in a state where we need to be using IPv6 as a default ?

recrudesceon Show HN: I built an offline time tracker for individuals with ADHD

Cool, but the badly looping background annoys me too much to use it. If you're trying to create a solution that allows peopel to focus, remove the badly edited thing that prevents them from focusing :P

recrudesceon Show HN: Self-extracting prompts for GPT-4

You posted the same thing 2 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35631289

Flagged as duplicate.

recrudesceon Ask HN: How do you document and organize your scribbles/files?

Easy answer - https://obsidian.md/

recrudesceon Ask HN: Where is the other ChatGPT Interface Hidden?

In the Playground, not in ChatGPT

https://platform.openai.com/playground?mode=chat

recrudesceon I quit infosec and I couldn't be happier

I think it's mostly that the echo chamber that is the Infosec world gets tiring after a while.

Let's just shout "ffs, just patch yo' shit" rather than actually trying to educate people.

Let's all go to a hacking convention, and act like children and hack everything within arms reach at all times.

Let's all belittle people who don't have the same level of technical skill as us.

Let's all be arseholes to women in the field.

etc etc. that's why I took a step back, because for all the "we want to help you fix things to make the world a more secure place", the infosec industry seems to not want to help make it happen.

recrudesceon Twitter’s Decision to Limit SMS 2FA Is Dangerous

If anything, Twitter locking an incredibly insecure method of 2FA behind a paywall is a GOOD thing IMHO, cos it forces users to use a more secure methods instead such as using an authenticator app (Authy et al)

recrudesceon Ask HN: Thoughts on using IPFS key to store an physical address in your database

Great and all, but you'd need the IPFS data pinned somewhere, else it'll get garbage collected after a while. And if you're pinning it to a specific server (such as one you're running), why not just store the actual data in the database instead ?

recrudesceon Ask HN: Do the ChatGPT Respect Privacy?

As far as I am aware, anything you send to ChatGPT is used to improve the model.

https://gizmodo.com/amazon-chatgpt-ai-software-job-coding-18...

recrudesceon Ask HN: Main link to ChatGPT is broken?

Works fine for me, no requests to this "qwe.sh" or anything at all. Probably a crappy extension you have in your browser that's broken.

Also, not hacked :P

recrudesceon Ask HN: Does anyone have a cold storage for their cloud photo backups?

I use a docker build of this on my Synology NAS: https://github.com/gilesknap/gphotos-sync

Then I have a task set to start the docker container up at 2am every morning, which then automatically backs up any new images, then the docker container stops.

Works really well.

recrudesceon Why did Google kill the Coral TPU?

I think ASUS are the manufacturers and distributors, not the owners. Google still owns Coral, they just sub the production out to a third party.

recrudesceon Why did Google kill the Coral TPU?

I bought one from Amazon a few months ago, turned up pretty quickly. Camera was available as well.

You're having issues likely due to the "chip shortage" or whatever they're calling it these days.

recrudesceon Tell HN: At least one ChatGPT submission on nearly every page of HN

ChatGPT is the new Elon Musk. POSTED ABOUT ABSOLUTELY BLOODY EVERYWHERE.

recrudesceon Which Video Games Use a Neural Network to Influence Game Play?

Maybe Echo ? The enemies learn and unlearn from your actions, but not sure it's based on a Neural Network, though.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/08/echo-hitman-preview/

recrudesceon Ask HN: How to block a specific website only at home

Network wide, or just for your own browser ?

There are a number of addons for Chrome/Firefox etc that allow you to block sites, usually for staying focused during work hours.

If you want to do it network wide, you could utilise something like a PiHole, but that's a bit extreme for blocking access to one site.

The other option would be to put an entry in your hosts file for www.youtube.com etc and point them at 127.0.0.1.

recrudesceon Elon Stops Tweeting

oh no... whatever will we do ?

recrudesceon Ask HN: What's your personal backup strategy?

Pay £1.99 a month for a boat load of space on Google Drive, back up to that, then a local Synology to pull them back down locally. All passwords and important information are stored in an Enpass vault, which is also located on Google Drive.

All photos automatically go onto Google Photos and then pulled back down to my NAS. Gmail is backed up to the NAS too. All contacts in my phone are synced to Gmail too.

Basically... Google Cloud ;)

recrudesceon Ask HN: Best tool to create a user guide for an open source project?

Github has a Wiki feature as part of the repo.

https://docs.github.com/en/communities/documenting-your-proj...

recrudesceon A brain implant has allowed a blind woman to see basic shapes and letters

implant, not transplant.

She didn't have her brain swapped out :P

recrudesceon Ask HN: LinkedIn Down?

https://downdetector.com/status/linkedin/

recrudesceon Ask HN: I bought a laptop with a glossy screen and now I'm regretting it

some 400 grit sandpaper will probably do the job ;)

(please don't do this)

recrudesceon It's against the law to register a company name containing binary characters

i'm sure you would have been fine if you hadn't have made it executable.

Companies House did the right thing.

recrudesceon Why does Google still use paging instead of progressive loading?

Cos progressive loading is literally the worst thing ever.

Have you ever tried clicking a "Contact Us" (or similar) link in a footer of a site that loads MORE CONTENT every time you scroll down to the bottom of the page ? Bloody annoying.

recrudesceon Ask HN: Does anyone use an e-ink computer screen?

Technology Connections does:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NfX0vlCa4k - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D38dcArwCNc

Also just found this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuegrU_kIq8

recrudesceon Biden Removes ‘We the People’ Petitioning from White House Website

The UK has one of these things too. 90% of the time the response is "the government has no comment on the matter" and it just gets closed.

People raise petitions purely for media attention more than anything else.

https://petition.parliament.uk/ if you want to take a look.

recrudesceon Lets talk about changelogs (how I loathe 'bugfixes and performance improvements)

As a tech person, I don't care.

Most general users of apps on phones wouldn't give an absolute crap if you "fixed a buffer overrun in the X function", because that means nothing to them. If they read that you've made performance improvements, then great they can continue to play Candy Crush but not have it crash so often. They won't CARE that you "optimised the use of the strcopy function" or some crap like that.

Remember the app stores are targeted towards consumer users of phones, not tech people that live on Hacker News websites.