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tendencydriven··on [dead]
AWS failure perhaps? V. interesting
tendencydriven··on Show HN: Broken iPad Screen Salvage and Pi Zero Magic Mirror
This is great, do you know if it will work with an iPad 3 screen?
tendencydriven··on Show HN: Aidmin – Web-based database GUI
I think the main difference between SaaS companies that require a database connection and Aidmin is that (from what I can gather) Adimin requires root credentials whereas other SaaS tools can have limited access to DBs.
tendencydriven··on 'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker
It is more than likely not moving anywhere.
tendencydriven··on Show HN: We created a hexagonal keyboard made for smartphones
I just wish that keyboard vibration wasn't a pro feature. As great as a keyboard is / can be, I will likely never pay monthly for one, and I find keyboards almost unusable without some form of haptic feedback.
tendencydriven··on Show HN: Non-grid-based path finder
Any writeup / explanation available? This is really great!
tendencydriven··on I'm resigning from my job at Facebook
Currently he's leaving his ~250k job with no other job lined up. I don't think it lessens the value of his stance at all.
tendencydriven··on Simple Personal Finance Tracking with GnuCash
I've never heard of that being an option at any bank. Who are you with? Sounds really useful.
tendencydriven··on Adult site leaks data of cam models
If you're changing the permissions to public just to work with the data, there's your problem. Proper access policies solves all of this - the bucket should never have had public access enabled in the first place as there is literally zero need for it, just sloppy work.
tendencydriven··on How a Chinese Company Built a $250M Search Hijacking Empire
We have no idea what data they're actually storing, and everything the extensions does is stated in the description of the extension, I'm not a lawyer but I don't think the Computer Misuse Act is being broken here. We have no idea on the data they store so who knows if GDPR is.

But there's also the fact that they are not a EU or UK company, they are Chinese. Where the laws are far more relaxed about things like this.

tendencydriven··on Ask HN: What are some examples of well-designed personal sites?
What's strange about hosting on github?
tendencydriven··on Ask HN: How many email addresses do you actively use?
I use three emails.

I have my personal email, which is in gmail

I have my website email, which is in gmail for business

And I have my work email, which is also in gmail for business.

I add all three to my laptop and only the first two to my phone.

I use the + feature a lot, for example tendencydriven+github@workdomain.com - they still get arrive in my regular inbox but I can easily see who is sharing my email, and block certain ones if I start getting spam on them.

tendencydriven··on Ask HN: What are your favorite tools for windows and mouse management on macOS?
yabai (and chunkwm before it) with skhd key shortcuts without a doubt. I thought sip only needed to be disabled for certain features, such as window transparency and changing window chrome?
tendencydriven··on AI Dungeon 2 costing over $10k/day to run on GCS/Colab
Why is Cloudflare a dirty word around here? I'm afraid I'm out of the loop
tendencydriven··on Ask HN: Quitting Big Tech, what is it like?
Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google

Some people drop either Amazon or Apple, I guess.

tendencydriven··on Emacs: The Editor for the Next Forty Years [video]
I'd consider startup time the least important metric for measuring speed of a text editor - as long as it's not ridiculous.

Important speed metrics for me are: Switching between buffers

Scrolling up/down a page (vim used to be terrible for me before i switched terminals to Kitty)

Substitutions

Search

tendencydriven··on Emacs: The Editor for the Next Forty Years [video]
Is this due to some notion of it being slow? VSCode is fast, native-fast. With a fantastic plugin ecosystem

I've been a full-time Vim user for the past decade (now NeoVim) but I've seriously considered switching, VSCode with vim mode turned on is truly fantastic, it's just not portable enough for my needs.

tendencydriven··on Instagram is deleting the accounts of hundreds of porn stars
You'd never get an app like that onto the iOS App Store - you can't distribute NSFW content.
tendencydriven··on Volatile – A key-value pair API
While it's just a key-value API it still incurs costs to the developer, there has to be some way for them to recoup that. Whether it's through advertising, or through donations (how likely are people to donate).
tendencydriven··on Unfork()
I don't know why spoon would be a better name, but I massively approve of it
tendencydriven··on Fancy Zones, a tiling window manager
Have you tried chunkwm[1] on Mac? It has it's issues but it has served me fine for the last few years.

[1] https://github.com/koekeishiya/chunkwm

tendencydriven··on Picking the FB50 smart lock
Why? You looking to make it 5 times?
tendencydriven··on Millionaire hacker gets 9 years in death of man building nuclear bunker tunnels
Your mirror doesn't seem to work for me, here's one that does https://outline.com/XNGEDx
tendencydriven··on Katie Bouman, the computer scientist behind the first black hole image
Does it really matter if its a TEDx or TED talk? It just appears like you're trying to diminish her achievements for literally no gain.
tendencydriven··on Julian Assange arrested in London
I'd massively disagree with the statement "You don't need to know more than that.", and I'd love to see some sources to back this up.

Randomly spewing "facts" with no evidence to back up your claim can be quite damaging.

tendencydriven··on Ask HN: Was GitHub Hacked or Me?
Google translate says "budding goblin" ... I'm just going to use that in English
tendencydriven··on Show HN: Thoughter
anxiety intensifies
tendencydriven··on Show HN: Thoughter
I'm fairly certain you'd need a user base before Snap were even remotely interested, or at least prove the idea.

Build an app, get it out there, see whats up

tendencydriven··on Reducing notification permission prompt spam in Firefox
I'd imagine a lot more than 1-2%. Watching my Father use his phone the other day and he just says yes to every single thing that pops up without reading it first. I imagine a lot of the older generation are like that.
tendencydriven··on SleepyHead Project Is Shutting Down
Read into this more, here http://www.cpaptalk.com/viewtopic/t174687/SleepyHead-Project... and here http://www.apneaboard.com/forums/Thread-SleepyHead-version-1...

Its not as black and white as it seems

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