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Heading says "no sintering". Text says "...lasers. Metal powder in, metal parts out"

ItsABytecode | 2 months ago | on: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

I don't really understand the distinction here. Are you saying that it's not possible to harm someone by damaging their property?

Sure I destroyed their car and they weren't able to go to work and got fired, but I didn't physically attack them so no harm done.

ItsABytecode | 4 months ago | on: Valetudo: Cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling local-only operation

I had a hard time parsing the title at first. I was like “I’m pretty sure vacuum robots have to be locally deployed”

ItsABytecode | 7 months ago | on: GitHub pull requests were down

I didn’t think the code I just merged was that bad

ItsABytecode | 1 year ago | on: First chip-based 3D printer is smaller than a coin with no moving parts

I think still need some moving parts for the build plate if you want to cure more than 1 layer of resin

Edit: from the MIT article, it sounds like the goal is to eventually use a hologram to cure the entire print at once. Related video: https://youtu.be/Ha0QA7iLGy8?si=wWSqex16ybyUDWxE

ItsABytecode | 2 years ago

AWS is pretty aggressive about banning senders with high bounce/report rates. I know from working in an industry where customers had terrible email systems

ItsABytecode | 2 years ago

This looks pretty neat. When I used SES at a previous company we had to do a lot of stuff like bounce tracking and monitoring ourselves so I definitely see the value.

One recommendation would be to use have customers create an IAM role and use cross-account role assumption to access SES on their behalf. That way you don’t have to deal with handling long-lived credentials

ItsABytecode | 2 years ago | on: Beeper – Moving Forward

I think iMessage is a great example of “Embrace, Extend”. Apple didn’t build a standalone chat app because everyone (in the US) was already using SMS on their phones and “hey if you happen to be SMSing another iPhone user you get these extra features”

ItsABytecode | 2 years ago | on: Beeper – Moving Forward

This hacking is more DMCA than CFAA

ItsABytecode | 2 years ago | on: Beeper – Moving Forward

By “private API” do you mean undocumented public API?

ItsABytecode | 2 years ago | on: Beeper – Moving Forward

So no 3rd party client software unless the company running the service gives explicit permission?

No 3rd party batteries in devices or 3rd party ink cartridges either

ItsABytecode | 2 years ago | on: Cautionary tale about letting big companies on federated communication protocols

I feel like “email is dead as a decentralized protocol” is paradoxically a meme among Gmail users. Counter-anecdote: I haven’t touched Gmail in years and I still send and receive email fine

ItsABytecode | 2 years ago | on: Can we deter tech monopolies through reformed open source software development?

I’ve never really understood the difference between a gift economy with the expectation of reciprocity and a regular non-gift economy

ItsABytecode | 2 years ago | on: Why Mozilla is betting on a decentralized social networking future

“From a content discovery standpoint, I’m really interested in how we can seed conversations and seed experiences with really high-quality content — certainly, editorial publisher content”

I’ve been waiting so long for my mastodon conversations to be seeded with high quality editorial publisher content

ItsABytecode | 2 years ago | on: Encrypted traffic interception on Hetzner and Linode targeting Jabber service

> Also, Let's Encrypt security is a joke - they issued fake certificate without serious checking. Using unencrypted HTTP for confirmation is a vulnerability

They can’t use HTTPS if you don’t have a certificate yet

ItsABytecode | 2 years ago | on: WordPress Core to start using SQLite

They’re probably thinking of shared hosting environments that don’t have the SQLite library for PHP installed. That seems like a concern you could raise about any database connector, though

ItsABytecode | 3 years ago | on: Amstrad Emailer, the UK’s first smartphone

I do love telling users to RTFM as soon as they open the box. In some way I'd prefer that to today's "What manual? You don't need a manual"

ItsABytecode | 3 years ago | on: Rust Is the Future of JavaScript Infrastructure (2021)

Wait, to install this python package I have to have a working c, rust, and fortran compiler?

ItsABytecode | 3 years ago | on: AI teaches itself to use an API

I can't really infer much from this demo since the documentation it reads and the API it calls aren't public

edit: I was wrong. The site just doesn't have a http -> https redirect

https://sampleapis.com/api-list/wines

ItsABytecode | 3 years ago | on: Differences Between iOS and Android Mastodon Clients

I just use a web browser