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CMYKninja

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I do prepress and print automation programming stuff in Silicon Valley.
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CMYKninja··on Proton spam and the AI consent problem
I envy the person who has the energy to care so much while the world burns around us.
CMYKninja··on A startup’s quest to store electricity in the ocean
The maintenance on this will be a real killer and by the time you build the robotic infrastructure to maintain it you’re not a power company anymore kindof how Amazon isn’t a bookseller.
CMYKninja··on Designing for the web ought to mean making HTML and CSS (2019)
I wonder the subtlety in the understanding of this will be lost with AI.
CMYKninja··on Show HN: Tips.io – A Tailwind playground with AI, page management, and theming
I was thing this myself. Who is this for. I might recommend this for someone who needs to do a pop up concert / event venue site. Or a limited promotion for a niche presence. Any other use cases that people can think of?
CMYKninja··on Indiana police are seizing FedEx packages containing cash
It is against FedEx policy to send cash. It is a violation of the shipping agreement. the declared value coverage does not cover cash or cash equivalents. If you have more questions regarding acceptance standards it is recommended that you visit a FedEx Express Ship Station ( where your local packages are sorted) and ask to speak to a “Senior Customer Service Associate” this person is a senior FedEx agent and can walk you through the finer points of more difficult to understand shipping scenarios.
CMYKninja··on Google Chrome has an API accesible only from *.google.com
I can hear the regulators in Strasbourg typing up complaints and fines now.
CMYKninja··on Yes, social media is a cause of the epidemic of teenage mental illness
Simple switch all screens to eink Displays.
CMYKninja··on Photos of Silicon Valley
I don’t know if I’ve changed or the valley has changed but I look at all these places I’ve been over the years and I think it just doesn’t seem that way anymore. Makes me very nostalgic for a valley that seems to have died away and grown into something that I despise sadly. Mostly maybe because of Deer Creek.
CMYKninja··on Okta says hackers stole data for all customer support users
At least they disclosed this I think that’s the most important thing.
CMYKninja··on Google turns to regulators to make Apple open up iMessage
I’m going to take an unpopular side here. The type of person reading these forums is not who Apple designs these products for. I try to keep my mother in mind and the I give her an iPhone “it just works and is secure” is a MAJOR consideration. There are so many other cross platform apps that people use that I don’t think that this is really something the Feds should waste their preciously under funded and understaffed man hours on, when there’s MUCH lower hanging fruit. Like soldering ram to mother boards, and DRM for screens. Google has a lousy track record with keeping projects alive and not having them be exploited for fraud and spam so until Google gets its own house in order I basically ignore the whining of ivory tower execs working from home in Mountain View. They want to get together with Meta Samsung the EFF and make something comparable or better and when and if Apple blocks that from the walled garden then that’s a different matter.
CMYKninja··on Enshittification
There's No shortcut to profitability which is an inevitable requirement of capitalism. The age of easy money is over and sound business fundamentals and a sound business model will determine who succeeds and who does not --
CMYKninja··on Is this the end of social networking?
We already have this at least gamers do it’s called Discord. It’s invite only. Has lots of streaming and group voice chat features and it# topic or thread based around a community. Plus it’s driven by sales of extra feature sets.
CMYKninja··on Just because I have a vertical screen doesn’t mean I’m on a phone
I have one vertical one horizontal QHD it’s the perfect setup. It’s time to dump 1080p.
CMYKninja··on AirMessage – Android app to interface with iMessage on a Mac
I had a MBP iPhone and Pixel C. I loved my android tablet. However it showed it age and I got an iPad. This would have been perfect for me.
CMYKninja··on Trump signs executive order targeting protections for social media companies
This is a symptom of a larger problem. The Constitution and thusly the election system is woefully out of date and needs a formal rewriting based on a more general and modern consensus of ideas and principals. All of these issues could be irrelevant with an updated and more precise rule of law and government. I think we can all agree that any document which counts some people as 3/5s needs to be reassessed.