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thi2on What I Self-Host

I always love reading other peoples self hosted stacks. I never heared of SnapCast but it sounds interesting! Will check it out.

thi2on Creating a Garmin "MCP"

This does not work for golf, I tried to get the activity but could not find it.

thi2on How to Build Wealth as a Career Person

Be sure to talk about your achievements. As important as making things work is making sure the right people know you did that.

thi2on The art of defusing a second world war bomb

https://www.bundestag.de/resource/blob/909216/a5448dd84ac14a...

I came across this paper last week. It was quite an interesting read, it is in german but I assume translations will work fine.

thi2on The art of defusing a second world war bomb

You dont live in a country that got bombed do you?

thi2on `123456' password used in Danish CPR data breach

Maybe I'm missing the point but isn't the parent comment asking with the admin accounts had no 2FA?

thi2on Show HN: Sigabrt.dev – cronjob monitor with an SSH TUI

It seems closed source and comes with a pricing model, seems reasonable to show alternatives.

thi2on If coding is solved, what now?: Measuring the sloppiness of code

That is very true and with llms someone who wrote low quality code can now output a whole lot more code. Maybe in better quality, maybe not.

thi2on Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin

> React Native was always about making app construction easier for people who don't want to learn ObjC or Swift.

There are more OS than just iOS, depending on the app a lot of shared logic has to be written only once with RN.

thi2on Building a Wall Lamp from Scratch

Do you have examples? I have seen a few US woodworking/carpentry videos and the tools seem pretty much the same.

thi2on Shutting down our public encrypted DNS

German courts and technology are not always the best friends

thi2on GPT-6 Astra

I work for a larger german retail chain and agentic shopping is already on the "near future vision". No one thinks this will be used but somehow shareholders love it.

thi2on Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat

Reading some of these comments is really depressing. Since I can remember we talk about climate change and it's still not in peoples head.

When will it be real? When your home burns down due to a forest fire? When there is no water? When there is no food because everything is too dry? When a storm destroyed your home?

thi2on Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat

It really is not but I'm glad it works for you today.

thi2on Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat

AI is another symptom, adding up with everything thats wrong.

thi2on Hacking IKEA Furniture

Five years is not much in terms of a furnitures lifespan, i own some pieces my grand grandmother already used that got passed down the generations.

I highly doubt this will happen with ikea furniture. But thats the tradeoff for cheaper and affordable stuff i guess.

thi2on Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI"

How is it different to hand written code if the author doesnt care?

thi2on Software engineering is about managing complexity

I started to look around the site and opened this: https://hack8s.com/409/ziglings-all-exercises-solve-v0-16-0

The site just goes into a reload loop on iOS?

thi2on Don't Wordle

No reject all button means a closed tab.

thi2on Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's

In germany you had to do an exam to prove your local knowledge before driving a taxi, this did not apply to uber which pissed the taxi drivers off.

They got rid of the exam in 2021, now you only need an navigation device in the vehicle.

thi2on Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's

I wonder if the usage of mobile navigation will increase Alzheimers for our generations.

When driving I either now the way or use maps, there is rarely any guesswork or active thinking involved, maybe running is helping but even there I sometimes run routes navigated by watch.

thi2on Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

Metas ads are all over the place. Thomas Kehl, one of the founders of "Finanzfluss" (a german site/content creation company about finance) is currently suing meta because scammers keep using his picture.

There really needs to be some harder punishments for this kind of behavior, after all meta profits by selling scammy ads.

thi2on I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel

> > "On my visits to the Bay Area, I would ask AI researchers or interns why they are doing their current research or projects, when in a year or three agentic LLMs could probably do them; they rarely had a good answer, or any idea what they would be doing in 3 years"

I heard this already when ChatGpt came up. Still waiting to be fully obsolete.

thi2on Vehicle Motion Cues

At my first job our project manager was colorblind (red-orange/yellow). One day he dropped a photo of his cars dashboard at a red light with an orange "check engine light"

> "Quick, is this red or orange I need to know if it'll blow".

I'm sure it's a really annoying condition but at the time it was pretty funny and he joked around with it a lot

thi2on Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise

> “Vulnerability-Trust exercise”

Sounds like an awfull time.

thi2on Pizza, pasta, potatoes, protein – how Italian children became so overweight

I'm not sure nutri score is helpfull, most people don't understand how it even works and whats actually being compared for the rating.

thi2on Writing by hand is good for your brain

I started doing this in cookbooks, less of this, this needs longer time in the oven, etc.

The first time it felt like a crime.

thi2on Show HN: HN Hall of Fame – browse 3,100 legendary Hacker News links

There is a code freeze coming up at may job, I'll probably browse through some of the links in the spare time. So thanks for curating this.

thi2on Show HN: HN Hall of Fame – browse 3,100 legendary Hacker News links

And yet the search on mobile opens half cut, the dark mode icon isn't centered like the search icon and in the resurfaced section are overlapping texts. And thats just from glancing through the page on my phone.

Maybe I'm too picky but it gives a sloppy, unpersonal feeling.

thi2on Filmgrab: Films A-Z

Can't seem to change the cookie preferences to avoid sharing personal data with 1175 partners to see a list of movies (?). Real modern web experience.