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subscribed··on Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB
So what official API call recorder app can use?
subscribed··on I Tried Building a Real App with AI. It Took a Year
As a someone who's fixing my own slop from the all the past years and with the help of the good coding agent, no less, no, human slop is not enjoyable, it's embarrassing.
subscribed··on Self-host your mail server
Nah, thanks.

I've been doing it since late 90s for several domains, servers run in DCs.

Deliverablity wasn't a problem once I set everything well (and I forwarded most, including received phishing/spam, to my big provider account), but constant fight with incoming spam and effort to keep the servers safe, secure, updated, monitored and finally paid for, weren't really worth it.

For unlimited aliases I bought the service that lets me use my domains, for smtp for servers I was using sendgrid and ses anyway.

The effort is not worth that, especially not with the powerful LLMs looking for vulnerabilities.

I can spend the time I was sinking into keeping it afloat on something more creative.

subscribed··on Self-host your mail server
If you want to do it as a learning experience, do it, but if you just want a domain with catch-all addresses, don't.

You can get a solution like SimpleLogin (don't get actual SimpleLogin, they don't do SRS) in minutes without the headache of having to configure, administer, secure and patch all that.

subscribed··on Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey
Ah, okay.

> I'm not condoning this but what would you suggest they should be doing to keep people safe?

That led me to believe you consider request to ban the app as an action in the interest of the general public, making them safe.

I appreciate your response, thanks!

subscribed··on Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey
Are you suggesting that taking down an application is making people safe?

People are making independent communication networks using reticulum, LORA devices and hold tight - unregistered radio transmitters.

You can't seriously argue trying to take down ONE app is acting in the interests of national security?

subscribed··on Claude Opus 5
I've seen in some random comments an URL thrown around, supposedly allowing to subscribe to their biosecurity programme.

Apparently this is the way - if you know, you know :)

subscribed··on Claude Opus 5
In my long and quite happy and successful career in the adjacent field none of the actually good jobs were the posted.

Specialist headhunters handle that.

subscribed··on Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new way to access your Google Account
KYC for financial institutions is orthogonal and stems from different laws.
subscribed··on Making
That's pretty much what they said: unless you "make" something, preferably by hand and without using advanced tools, maybe you didn't make it at all.

They were using restaurant and customised burger example to refute the claim that using LLM to assist with building solutions (applications) is building and making.

I only dialed their extreme to the further extreme, just on the adjacent plane.

subscribed··on Making
So you did not build a wardrobe unless you cut, dried and sliced your tree yourself, and used muscle powered tools.

Power tools or buying kiln-dried planks is forbidden, you might as well go to IKEA, buy you set and claim you "built" it.

You cannot also claim you built a custom sensor for your smart home if you based it on ESP32 and any of the ecosystem tooling. You might as well buy it from Phillips or Siemens if it exists, or just sit in the corner and sulk. Using advanced tools is forbidden.

I swear luddites are going more and more extreme in their analogies.

subscribed··on Code mode yields a 99.2% cost reduction in our systems
Indeed it's the HN variant of "I asked ChatGPT and it said...."

I wish there was a way to tag this type of the posts, but at least my HN client allows to tag the authors.

subscribed··on Code mode yields a 99.2% cost reduction in our systems
Mine is forced to always start with writing tests (unit, e2e, smoke), then the script (with eager/early fail modes). I have yet to see this approach to fail.

That's obviously a part of the broader picture Claude always runs inside bwrap sandbox, any work involving python/nodejs must happen in the dedicated devcontainer, standard operations are reused via Makefile, Ai can use dedicated account in the developed $thing for testing in live, hooks governing tool calling are brutal, but it works.

For me at least.

subscribed··on So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe
> GP

The one recalling an event with their mother.

Your experience with a old person is not their experience with their mother.

Can you not project your own experiences on someone's else's?

You claim someone's else's reasoning is wrong based on *your* opinion and past, without anything that would support the relevance in *their* case.

Your experience is valid but irrelevant in that case. Don't project.

subscribed··on The Vibe Coding Trap: Why AI-Assisted Projects Still Fail
> treat AI output exactly like any other PR.

And maybe also use my poor, fragile human eyes to read AI generated "articles" too? :)

Not worth writing? Not worth reading.

subscribed··on So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe
I choose to not call a GP a liar or too thick for being unable to differentiate between apps :)

I also chose their presumed first hand statement than your unrelated experience with unrelated third parties.

Your point re: having to subscribe to WhatsApp notifications, if we're staying in the realm of "what ifs" and looking for the awkward but possible ways to discredit the claims, I can believe that she was enrolled without being asked. I've seen at least one person complaining about that exact scenario.

Cheers!

subscribed··on So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe
> "WhatsApp on her phone"

GP clearly said she doesn't have WhatsApp.

subscribed··on Roblox Officially Supports GrapheneOS
Great news! I never had problems running Roblox on my GOS, but it's nice to to see the explicit, official support.

Snowball effect (for both sides, software publishers and OS vendors).

subscribed··on AliExpress hit with record $629M fine for counterfeit and illegal goods
I get exactly the same response from ebay when I report counterfeit/fake items. Takes much more effort to get through the reporting process too.
subscribed··on AliExpress hit with record $629M fine for counterfeit and illegal goods
More like you can get $5 in the class action lawsuit settlement, after 5 years :)
subscribed··on US health agency says cyclospora finding at produce company was false positive
Tell me more about trust into the current administration.

Reflect on how trusted and fact-based are they.

To me (who was growing under the Soviet puppet government), it's pretty much the same, up to and including secret prisons, the killings and kidnapping for wrongthink.

There's a chance we will go back to normal - the way New Yorkers respond to Mamdani gives me hope.

subscribed··on Painting the sides of railroad rails white to reduce derailment
Cobblestones?

They're very slippery when dirty or wet. Seems like a much worse option.

subscribed··on Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?
For me coros are non started because of lack of the NFC payments. I'm not even looking beyond that, it's a dealbreaker.

It's brilliant coros sticks to MIP though - the moment I cant buy MIP Garmin when I update the watch next time, I don't buy Garmin.

Good watches, Coros, though, I wish them success.

subscribed··on LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent
It does have Linux support, mostly, it's just that the nvidia support is not good enough if someone doesn't want to run Bazzite or Arch (I don't want to).
subscribed··on UK to Scrap Digital ID
Public and legacy media loves and strongly prefers the guy buying houses with unexplained money or failing to report weird "gifts" that influence his activity.

I'm afraid people of Clacton will have to share the news of the Count, to actually make an effort and vote.

subscribed··on Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model
That might be me getting paranoid but I actually see it above 200k (with Opus 4.8), but more often and MUCH more pronounced in the afternoon UK time.
subscribed··on Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model
I'm an amateur so it influences my setup a lot, but Opus 4.8 above 250k context in my experience with planning and implementing its own plans gets much dumber than fresh Sonnet 5, to the point of forgetting / ignoring things in the last prompt, forgetting half of the convention for the (very small and simple) codebase, etc.
subscribed··on London Underground users should know about toxic dust risk, whistleblower says
When I breath in face mask clings tighter to my face, meaning the air gets filtered, meaning that unless this dust is smaller than viruses, they'd help.

Of course depends on what face masks you'd be using. Surgical are of not much help, but other than that efficiacy has been studied and confirmed very high in that last pandemic, which spread mostly by airborne particle, not droplets (so contrary to your claim they protect).

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10446908/

subscribed··on Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? (2025)
If I not misheard (I don't know, just remember it), even the fetus development basically starts from the butthole.
subscribed··on LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent
Eh, kinda. I have new-ish MSI laptop with nvidia and it's still not good enough. I tried on the spare nvme and it just doesn't work well enough with these few games I want.

Close but still not there. And Plasma has its own problems (I have it on my work laptop with Fedora).

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