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jai_ | 1 year ago | on: We're bringing Pebble back

I'm somewhat confused to why Google needed to open source the original Pebble source code for this project to exist?

Was it not possible to already create a comparible e-ink screen, long life battery, smart watch without the source code? Is it the pebble branding itself that is important somehow?

jai_ | 2 years ago | on: Adobe's buy of Figma is 'likely' bad for developers, rules UK regulator

I don't think switching to the open source alternative is a viable option for many, mainly because a lot of them just don't work as well.

This article lists a large amount of pitfalls when trying to do just that: https://fasterthanli.me/articles/just-paying-figma-15-dollar...

And this isn't some esoteric use case used as an excuse. The core need the author has is "export my diagram to SVG and have it render the same in all browsers".

jai_ | 2 years ago | on: Audacity 3.4

Staffpad and Audacity are both software under the ownership (?) of Muse Group.

Staffpad is recent acquisition which is why they are now able to share technology like this: https://mu.se/

jai_ | 2 years ago | on: MDN Playground

I'm really not sure how you can argue that "AI is great at explaining code snippets" while also acknowledging that it will just give you flat out wrong answers some times.

Either it's good at explaining and is right, or is bad at explaining and is wrong.

Applying the logic of it being "right most of the time" seems really bad for a tool applied to a reference documentation website.

jai_ | 2 years ago | on: MDN Playground

I sincerly hope that they remove this feature and apologise for its integration in the first place.

I don't think a reference website should include any sort of feature that can hallucinate incorrect documentation for you on demand.

It's bad enough that they have to include a disclaimer[1] on their upsell page, which states that the "AI Help" may occassionally return incorrect results.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/plus/ai-help

jai_ | 2 years ago | on: TOTP Authentication with Free Software

This is something that's really similar to what I want.

Ideally I would like a standalone device to display TOTP codes, but the only devices I've found only have a support for a single code.

I guess a feature phone with a custom app is the next best thing.

jai_ | 2 years ago | on: The day Windows died

It feels like of bleak to discourage childish computer tinkering on a website named "Hacker News". Not entirely sure what this says about the direction of this website.

jai_ | 3 years ago | on: Debian Privacy Issues

No that is not how the GDPR works.

It would be illegal specifically if you _collected and stored_ the IP address information from the phone home requests to process in some form later.

If you simply process the web request, and don't store the IP address then there it no issue.

If you do end up storing IP address in a log somewhere, then simply having the logs deleted in a documented and reasonable timeframe will be enough.

"Documented and reasonable timeframe" is intentionally vague since business requirements are varied, but if you can justify whatever you come up with, then there is no issue.

Simply do not hold onto user data for longer that what is required for the purposes of the user request. That's it.

jai_ | 3 years ago | on: An Overview Of Upcoming Ruby on Rails 7.1 Features Part 1

I think your point (1) doesn't really match with what the rails devs expect.

37Signals have both their Basecamp and Hey.com products which act very much like a single page app but only using Turbo and Stimulus.

I think the rails devs believe that single page apps are overused and the majority of functionality can be done using just the provided tools.

jai_ | 3 years ago | on: Using rats to clear land mines in Cambodia

This may be a poor analogy:

Imagine, during a war, a missile that has been set to target a city. The casualties will be many, and random, and innocent, but this is wartime and horrible things happen.

Now, imagine that this missile is set to target the city, but will launch at a random time in the future. The missile may launch during the war, or many years after.

Now it's obvious to me that the missile that lauches at the random point in the future is more evil than the one fired immediately.

It's a poor analogy, but the random missile is how I view landmines.

jai_ | 3 years ago | on: Using rats to clear land mines in Cambodia

I think this is less about the casualties of war itself, but the effects of when trying to move on after the war.

If people die due to landmines many years after a ceasefire are they a casualty of the war?

I think landmines represent a physical device that artifically extends the destruction of war in a time that is way after the parties may have agreed to peace. In that sense, the landmine inflicts death on people with no agency. A bomb dropped on a someone has intent and an army responsible for it. A landmine planted decades ago is so divorced from its original intent that any resulting death or injury feels random and injust.

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