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vinnymac··on Should GitHub be sued for training Copilot on GPL code?
Precisely. I don't see a difference between what Google indexes on its search engine, and what CoPilot can recommend. Google has been and still does get slapped on the wrist when they don't respond to take down requests. It seems this is missing from CoPilot currently, and will open them up to a number of lawsuits in the future if it continues to operate as it does.
vinnymac··on Ask HN: What do you use VMs for regularly?
I appreciate the heads up, but I specifically put this VM on hardware I don't use for anything else, just in case it has more access than it should. I also blocked as much outbound traffic as I could.
vinnymac··on Ask HN: What do you use VMs for regularly?
I use them for many things, but most recently I found myself using a VM to avoid installing tracking software (essentially malware) required by my employer. I don't turn it on unless someone asks questions, and otherwise can go about my business without fear of being monitored.
vinnymac··on Sex is going out of fashion?
I am genuinely unsure, and had to google it. Is RT supposed to be the abbreviation for Rotten Tomatoes?
vinnymac··on Don't use Kubernetes yet
I am doing the same at my current company. We have a small team of 10 engineers, and DNS for discovery on AWS has been enough for us for the last 5 years. There hasn’t been a single issue for us in that time.
vinnymac··on GitHub actions is down
Almost as simple as Quality > Quantity.
vinnymac··on Quick fixes to your code review workflow
This is actually a requirement on my team. If someone does not do a self review, I leave a comment explaining that I won't be reviewing the work until the decisions that were made are explained.

This helps understand the justifications for the change, and prevents unnecessary feedback loops to an incredibly high degree.

vinnymac··on Quick fixes to your code review workflow
I rarely see this mentioned, but one thing that has made a huge improvement to my day to day, is enabling scheduled reminders for code reviews. I have it configured with email and Slack right now, and never miss a review. Rather than having to keep tabs on the state of reviews, or synchronously discuss a review request, I can just wait until I get a review request in my notification tray. It's been the most seamless experience I have found so far.

I am not sure if Gitlab or Bitbucket offer similar functionality, but you can configure it here on Github. https://github.com/settings/reminders

vinnymac··on JavaScript Containers
Yea, I believe they made that fairly clear in this paragraph of the article.

> Instead of invoking Linux executables, like shell does, the JavaScript sandbox can invoke Wasm. If you have some computational heavy lifting, like image resizing, it probably makes sense to use Wasm rather than writing it in JS. Just like you wouldn’t write image resizing code in bash, you’d spawn imagemagick.

I agree with you all. WASM should be the solution to the problem in this space.

vinnymac··on Yacht – A web interface for managing Docker containers
I have used portainer in the past to manage containers, curious whether this offers something different or if they are fairly similar.

https://www.portainer.io/

vinnymac··on Show HN: thin.dev, back end for making realtime, typesafe React Apps
All I see is “502 Bad Gateway”. Too much traffic or a bad deploy?
vinnymac··on 5G is a joke and the iPhone is the well-timed punchline
Without a doubt.

I recall in 2011 using a 3G tethered connection to play low latency games with people across the world. It worked incredibly well, and never failed.

Nowadays, that’s not possible. I am not even sure how well it would work on 4G in some areas, given how congested a lot of networks are.

vinnymac··on New on Reddit: Comment search, improved search results relevance, search design
In other words, the most valuable dataset (the majority of the data) is not yet searchable.
vinnymac··on Create hand-drawn GIFs on paper
Reminds me of Flipnote Studio on the Nintendo DS. Had a large active community with a lot of creativity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipnote_Studio

I am sure this will get used in a similar way. I’d be interested to see a platform like deviantart, join forces with a new form factor like this.

vinnymac··on Some interesting malware I found
Could you not use your significant others browser history to find the malicious url visited?

I imagine that would provide further insight, such as the files you inadvertently removed.

vinnymac··on My own phone number is now spam texting me
I received this exact text message today. I’ve since deleted it.

Additionally hours later I received a text about smoking weed.

Both links in these text messages, after further investigation, brought me to Russian owned sites as the article described.

vinnymac··on Complaints mount after GitHub launches new algorithmic feed
If I go to a taco shop but order fries instead, and eventually they focus more on tacos and change the recipe for their fries, I would certainly be mad about it. If you are doing a good job for a domain, folks are going to inevitably be bothered when you do worse by that domain, for whatever reason.
vinnymac··on ECMAScript Proposal: Types as Comments
Most applications are certainly not staffed by large teams, but the advantages would be best seen in large codebases. Most solo developers are working on much smaller TypeScript codebases, and won't experience many issues with the build system.

TypeScript is the main language that I program in every day, and I don't see the advantages of this proposal outweighing the disadvantages.

vinnymac··on Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other offices from April 4
From my visits to Google's offices in Manhattan, I don't expect many who reside within the city, to resist this change. People will accept leaving their small city apartments and visiting the vast offices, with a plethora of services available as a welcome alternative after two years. It's those who've moved on from that lifestyle, and may have physically relocated, who will resist this change. They will be inclined to make an argument for working remotely, or work elsewhere, whatever works.
vinnymac··on White hat hacker awarded $2M for fixing ETH-creation bug
Thanks, I only read the article linked and had not yet dug any further. I appreciate how much work you put into this!

For anyone who may have missed the link in the article or thread, this is it: https://www.saurik.com/optimism.html

vinnymac··on Ask HN: What are your contrarian views?
As someone who doesn’t write C regularly, or work in those areas, I am curious if you wouldn’t mind explaining how you arrived at this conclusion?

Are you just hinting at the fact that these industries are slow to evolve, or is it something specific about the languages?

vinnymac··on CORS is not meant to secure an API endpoint
You and OP make a good point. In that most people I’ve come across don’t understand how the Same-Origin Policy and Cross-Origin Resource Sharing differ and relate.

I believe it’s important developers learn the nuances, otherwise we will likely see more faulty implementations.

vinnymac··on White hat hacker awarded $2M for fixing ETH-creation bug
> Had the issue not been promptly resolved, malicious users on the chain could have exploited the flaw. This means a cyber actor could have gained access to the unlimited generation of fresh ETH tokens.

I am curious, would it be easy to detect an individual who was exploiting this vulnerability?

vinnymac··on OpenDrop: An open Apple AirDrop implementation written in Python
It would be great to see something like OpenDrop garner more support and unify AirDrop usage across all major operating systems. Unfortunately for now it is only available for use with macOS and iOS.

Edit: Apparently some support for linux is possible.

> As AirDrop exclusively runs over Apple Wireless Direct Link (AWDL), OpenDrop is only supported on macOS or on Linux systems running an open re-implementation of AWDL such as OWL.

vinnymac··on OpenDrop: An open Apple AirDrop implementation written in Python
Yes, thank you for this! I honestly couldn't remember the name, and found the other one and was surprised it said it was closed, as I thought I remembered it being open. Appreciate you providing the original.
vinnymac··on Gameboy CT scan – design lessons learned
I completely agree. I think this would've been more impressive if they left the DSi and Switch out of this.

You could dedicate an entire thesis worth of information to the DS section alone. This page should've focused on the Gameboys legacy, but I imagine it was difficult to obtain devices to scan, they likely used what they had on hand, and am glad they did create it.

If anyone wants to work together to make scans of more devices, I own a very large number of these handheld devices and would be willing to have them scanned.

vinnymac··on Gameboy CT scan – design lessons learned
If anyone has a scanner who is interested in doing this, I own every model available and am willing to lend out devices to have scanned.
vinnymac··on Gameboy CT scan – design lessons learned
I find this very interesting, do you have any sources you can share, related to this, where I could read more?
vinnymac··on OpenDrop: An open Apple AirDrop implementation written in Python
I would be interested in an overview and comparison of all the available options to solve this kind of problem. Here is a list of some services I’ve used successfully in the past.

SnapDrop

- Site: https://snapdrop.net/

- Source: https://github.com/RobinLinus/snapdrop

ShareDrop

- Site: https://www.sharedrop.io/

- Source: https://github.com/szimek/sharedrop

FilePizza

- Site: https://file.pizza/

- Source: https://github.com/kern/filepizza

Wormhole

- Site: https://wormhole.app/

- Source: Closed (for now)

vinnymac··on Safest mushrooms to forage and eat
I got into it from hiking. I enjoy the outdoors, and eventually discovered some mushrooms when I was younger. Over the years, I began to become familiar with the differences, and more courageous with what I was willing to explore with them.

I imagine most become fascinated with them because of how different they are from other food, and how they can be a rare and interesting find.

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