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DarthNebo··on Use of ChatGPT generated text for posts on Stack Overflow is temporarily banned
A solution should have a parallel answers thread, system-gen vs bio-gen
DarthNebo··on The future is analog: How to create a more human world
EVs kinda skipped this whole analog/robust/scrappy phase of ICE & just took the worst of non-repair friendly things like soldered NAND flash which will wear out. Non-user replaceable battery modules & completely touch based controls. Having options or atleast allowing for user/3rd party repairs, without which adoption will always be hindered
DarthNebo··on '5G makes my phone pretty worthless'
Wish Apple would put the cellular spec like iPads on MacBooks as well
DarthNebo··on CoreML Stable Diffusion
AMD dropped the ball real bad
DarthNebo··on Ask HN: Which mechanical keyboard are you using?
Keychron K2 v2
DarthNebo··on Free Tech Books
I couldn't for the life of me find a decent/updated macOS first development book. Basically ended up reading open source repos for creating a menu bar EQ visualizer & Apple documentation is just too steep to absorb.
DarthNebo··on France says non to Office 365 and Google Workspace in school
LibreOffice or pay for development of your own FOSS equivalent. Enough piggybacking on proprietary tech with tax payer money.
DarthNebo··on Stripe account suffered a card test
Hope this gets resolved, I learnt from Pierre of ScrapingBee to rate limit billing APIs as well(realistically).
DarthNebo··on India follows EU's example in requiring USB-C charging for smart devices
The sad part is that governments want standards but won't fund SIGs or FOSS projects which their digital infra runs on....
DarthNebo··on India follows EU's example in requiring USB-C charging for smart devices
Also need replaceable batteries or atleast some standardized Li-Ion flat packs
DarthNebo··on Virtual Crash Accident Reconstruction Software
This is what NTSB and other safety boards all over the world need to put humans & ADAS systems against, to see how each would behave. Like a leaderboard for safety instead of long held beliefs.
DarthNebo··on Google Pays Record $391M Fine for Tracking User Location
In Android I hate having to turn off location & then again going inside the location settings to disable the WiFi scanning once more.....smh
DarthNebo··on Show HN: DivestOS – Long-term support for end-of-life Android devices
Wish there was ROM for HID webcam behaviour or as RTSP camera with reliable battery charge cycle management due to being plugged in
DarthNebo··on Let's make the web personal again
Dunno if all this banning & suppression of folks by private entities & governments is the push towards RSS again &/or some melding with IPFS
DarthNebo··on Ask HN: How would one go about building an API for fine tuning?
You can check which of these work best for you-

1. Kubeflow pipelines

2. Cloud Run using GPU instances

3. Knative training

4. Banana.dev for launching GPU bound stuff without much cruft

DarthNebo··on YouTube confirms that it has removed the “sort by oldest/newest” option
Another thing along the 'not allowed to right click & save BS' track of unwarranted change to function
DarthNebo··on Towns are testing new ballot counting machines that use open source software
Tax funded equipment should be running open source software out of the gate. Gujarat government in India also made the push for public WiFi hotspot software to be FOSS
DarthNebo··on IKEA asks horror game to change so people stop comparing it to IKEA [update]
Could've been handled better
DarthNebo··on Twitter Suspends Kathy Griffin After She Changed Her Handle to ‘Elon Musk’
Wonder if this is the 'rationale' with which they start demanding national IDs to ensure people with same names avoid getting flagged for impersonation. Also begs the question of since when was legal name ever a requirement for social media.
DarthNebo··on The iPad Lineup Is Perplexing – Here’s How Apple Could Fix It
JM2C, Apple is probably working on that 14" MacBook X iPad device, which patents showed back in May/June 2022.

Falls in line with the recent rumour of a 25% scaled up macOS variant too. Basically like a device running macOS with a touchscreen & detachable keyboard. Battery life should be off the rails since both halves would have battery packs.

DarthNebo··on Show HN: Stable Diffusion, but Fast
Very weird behaviour after a few prompts, just keeps spinning. And what exactly is the fast part here stressing on?
DarthNebo··on Privacy respecting weather app for Android
The fact that it had to be mentioned at all for a weather app is concerning & telling of the state of tech
DarthNebo··on Apple gets $19M fine in Brazil for not selling iPhones with charger
I guess Apple just needs to put a sticker saying this is replacement phone or no charger on the front of the packaging coz this is clearly the case of an idiotic local regulator not of customers being idiots
DarthNebo··on Ask HN: What note taking websites/applcations do you use?
Google Keep & Dropbox.

But I want to transition to Markdown on GitHub (private & public via Jekyll)

DarthNebo··on Ask HN: Who are the founders / builders you follow on Twitter?
Pieter Levels / NomadList/RemoteOk/....

Jon Yongfook / Bannerbear

Pierre De Wulf / ScrapingBee

Dan Rowdwn / ilo.so

Damon Chen / Testimonial.to

Sumit Kumar / Parqet

Bhanu Teja / Feather.so

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More indie hackers on my twitter following list @DarthNebo

DarthNebo··on Potential Issues of Using a USB Powerbank as a UPS (2021)
This is something one of my side projects aims to fix. Basically make a programmable battery source out of 18650 cells, USB Type-C, with automated charge & discharge control to keep it between 30-80% for UPS or Solar augmented use cases
DarthNebo··on Google removed our website from search because it uses YouTube-dl
Would running client-side youtube-dl in WASM fix the issue since Kapwing wouldn't be invoking youtube-dl from their backend.

YouTube is in such weird spot because they want to maintain free access to content yet limit how people access it without a pay-wall which OTT players like Netflix etc have been doing since long.

DarthNebo··on US border forces are seizing Americans' phone data and storing it for 15 years
Pre-modern world having no borders is what gave birth to immigration into the said country & other parts of the world which got colonized over time. Kinda hypocritical to suddenly have everything closed up. Who knows maybe space travel or resource scarcity is what unites all countries centuries down the line.
DarthNebo··on US border forces are seizing Americans' phone data and storing it for 15 years
2FA should be TOTP not SMS
DarthNebo··on Dreamy Blur
For some reason all I can think of is Lady Galadriel
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