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thiscatis··on Gnutella: A Protocol Outliving the World That Created It
Lmao, I’m not even in the US. I just know that advocating against child vaccinations is objectively a bad thing.
thiscatis··on Pike: To Exit or Not to Exit
I would have loved this for my road trips in the US. From the other apps it was never clear whether this was a restaurant or a gas station where it's next to the highway (a quick stop) or I had to drive a mile into a town and find it. Perhaps it has improved since then (this was 2015-ish). Congrats on building this!
thiscatis··on Cloudflare was down
Somebody at Cloudflare is stretching that initial investigation time as much as possible to avoid having to update their status to being down and losing that Christmas bonus.
thiscatis··on Microsoft is killing Skype
"Teams for Consumers" The product name already is an omen on how "successful" this will be.
thiscatis··on U.K. demand for a back door to Apple data threatens Americans, lawmakers say
It's only a threat when non US countries demand it, otherwise it's just a safety measure.
thiscatis··on Software development topics I've changed my mind on
On Serverless since 2018 and we still love it. One thing it had helped us with is deploying and managing customisation for some clients without affecting the wider product.
thiscatis··on AI Brad Pitt dupes French woman out of €830k
From Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/UpliftingNews/comments/1i1uvjq/scam...

    French start up Find My Scammer carried out the investigation pro bono as the victim has literally no money left in her account, not even a cent.

    Victim had no experience whatsoever with social media before creating an Instagram account in 2023 to share holiday pictures.

    Victim was targeted after liking pictures related to Brad Pitt on Instagram.

    Victim was in the midst of a divorce before being contacted by scammer.

    Victim was groomed for months and months by scammer passing themselves as Pitt's mother, agent, etc, in addition to Pitt himself, using American phone numbers, fake articles, etc.

    Victim had no knowledge of technologies such as deepfake.

    Victim was lulled into a sense of security as grooming lasted for many months before she was asked to send money for the first time, thinking that such a scam would be more immediate.

    Victim has HIV and cancer, tried to end her life three times.

    French TV program which revealed the story accused of manipulating the subject matter and misrepresent facts to encourage ridicule against victim, has been pulled off all platforms.

    Scammer found in Benin, was tricked into clicking a link which gave start up full access to his computer, phone, information, living address, etc. Crypto wallet where the stolen money is stored found. All information in the hands of authorities investigating the crime.

    Scammer has over 30 victims. Also poses as fake Keanu Reeves.
thiscatis··on The Battle Line at Louvain
The correct name of this city is Leuven.
thiscatis··on The Battle Line at Louvain
They are wrong. This is like calling Gdansk, Danzig.
thiscatis··on I Lost $210 to a Stripe Dispute Despite Proof
Stripe notifies you of an issuer dispute raised through the respective scheme. They have no control except being a messenger back and forth between you and then customers issuing bank and the scheme. So not on Stripe this one. And this is coming from someone who absolutely despises Stripe. Especially you, Alan from Stripe.
thiscatis··on Chromium uses web search for .internal TLD instead of opening URL
The “also requesting you to share” clearly reads as an expression from a certain part of the world with a lot of outsourced tech.
thiscatis··on Show HN: ts-remove-unused – Remove unused code from your TypeScript project
Ah the typical “here’s a cool thing OP build but I’m using something better-reply”
thiscatis··on Google gave investors a $70B buyback,and laid off 12,000 people
Not to go full ad hominem but the author of this tweet is Dan Price, best to do some background research on him before trusting him to be calling out others for “don’t be evil”.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/18/technology/dan-price-resi...

thiscatis··on CFPB Takes Action Against Coding Boot Camp BloomTech and CEO Austen Allred
Not just pg, also the stripe founders have been fawning over Austen. They all knew it was a predatory “school” but backed it anyway.
thiscatis··on Launch HN: PointOne (YC W24) – Automated time tracking for lawyers
> Your entire day captured, task by task.

Scary.

thiscatis··on Sora: Creating video from text
Have you ever danced or even just enjoyed listening to Daft Punk?
thiscatis··on Epic vs. Google: Google Loses
Whether they are right or wrong… after another setback how long do we think Sundar Pichai will stay in place.
thiscatis··on Silicon Valley's Laundry-App Race (2014)
Style Theory still very much in business.
thiscatis··on OpenAI's board approached Anthropic CEO about top job and merger
I’m voting for Dan McCrum, Elliott Brown, Maureen Farrell, Duncan Mavin and Bethany McLean to team up and write the book to end all books about corporate stupidity.
thiscatis··on Mass producing the most expensive rice cooker [video]
In that case it’s a pot you use as a rice cooker, not a dedicated rice cooker ;)
thiscatis··on British Airways B789 smoke in cabin, phone stuck in seat
Less of an issue in economy seats seats but in new business class seats or suites there’s the possibility for a lot of crushing and grinding of the battery of the phone with the mechanical moving components of the seat.

I had it happen to me once but as instructed didn’t move the seat (had to move to another one for landing as it was stuck in the lie flat position).

After landing the maintenance crew had to completely dismantle the back of the seat but they found the phone. The pilots and crew were obviously a bit annoyed as they couldn’t disembark the aircraft with me still on board. But much better result than having to declare PAN PAN.

thiscatis··on Airtable Lays Off 27% of Firm, Shifts Focus to Big Clients
I think you missed some layoffs news about Stripe.
thiscatis··on Ask HN: What's the best CLI installation experience you've ever seen?
The symfony-cli is pretty sweet to setup new projects and add dependencies.
thiscatis··on Bolwoningen: Living in spherical homes
This website is as unusable as the spherical houses the article is about.
thiscatis··on WhatsApp corrupts DB, breaks App
Have you even read the comments?
thiscatis··on PhpBB
Wow, thank you.
thiscatis··on PhpBB
Modding phpBB and starting new forums using phpBB (and later Invision Community) got me into php dev and basically the job and career I now have.

Such a great product for building communities. It would be so good having this feeling again browsing forums on this software. The Subsilver theme was iconic and legendary.

thiscatis··on Nordstrom to Shutter Both Downtown SF Stores, Citing Difficult Conditions
Yes, let's keep ignoring the issues and point to something else, that will solve it! Not saying it's not part of it but let's not pretend downtown SF is a utopia.
thiscatis··on Nordstrom to Shutter Both Downtown SF Stores, Citing Difficult Conditions
Let’s also just be frank and just say the atmosphere there is also not helping and made any decision even easier.
thiscatis··on The man who didn’t invent Flamin’ Hot Cheetos (2021)
“Yeah totally Dr. Einstein, cool story and lecture but what new things have you created recently?”
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