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Epskampie··on Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier
All the more reason to block vital stuff going to the US. They cannot be trusted anymore.
Epskampie··on €54k spike in 13h from unrestricted Firebase browser key accessing Gemini APIs
Read/write access should be frozen, data should be saved for 1 month so you have time to react to warning emails. If you didn't upgrade in that time, it should be deleted.
Epskampie··on Lenovo’s new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairability
I've got a framework 13, pretty happy with it. Everything works as expected under the newest ubuntu. Build quality is good enough for me.
Epskampie··on The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)
And then it's slow again to finally find a correct answer...
Epskampie··on Closing this as we are no longer pursuing Swift adoption
They are, as far as "Have one source of truth" is concerned. That is what parent is talking about.
Epskampie··on Ring owners are returning their cameras
Doesn't have to be. Here in the Netherlands it's actually illegal to (permanently) film public space, and people can and will point that out to any offenders.
Epskampie··on Leaked chats expose the daily life of a scam compound's enslaved workforce
Horrifying read. I recently read a book about a girl who was pressed into prostitution, and this reads much the same. [1] Before I was convinced that slavery was mostly a thing of the past, how awful to find out this isn't true.

1: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6515858-slave-girl

Epskampie··on France passes bill to ban social media use by under-15s
Starting in 2025, the European Commission is implementing a "mini-wallet" app (an Age Verification App Blueprint) designed to allow users to prove they are over 18 without disclosing their identity or exact age.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/age-verification-europ...

Epskampie··on France passes bill to ban social media use by under-15s
Starting in 2025, the European Commission is implementing a "mini-wallet" app (an Age Verification App Blueprint) designed to allow users to prove they are over 18 without disclosing their identity or exact age.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/age-verification-europ...

Epskampie··on France passes bill to ban social media use by under-15s
Even Meta's OWN research indicated social media is actively harmful to teens. That means, the people with the most to lose couldn't even escape this conclusion.

Sure, you may be able to find 1 or 2 counterexamples, big tabacco also had a lot of "doctors" who found smoking not that bad.

https://www.reuters.com/business/instagram-shows-more-eating...

Epskampie··on 65% of Hacker News posts have negative sentiment, and they outperform
Would be interesting to see this kind of analysis on youtube comments.

It seems to me they made an algorithmic change a few years back where positive comment are greatly boosted. Since then then the "top" comments are always over-the-top exuberant.

Epskampie··on Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges
This is only good advice if you're good at soldering and know details about cells like which ones have in-built protection.

Otherwise you're just creating a fire hazard.

Epskampie··on Penpot: The Open-Source Figma
Same experience here. I tried it a few months ago and even on simple use I quickly ran into so many bugs & issues I quickly gave up. I'm willing to learn a new UI, but the tool must be reliable, and it simple was not.

Hopefully they've improved a lot recently?

Epskampie··on PHP 8.5
The three dots in trim(...) make a callable out of a function, that was already in, so seem best to re-use that syntax, at least for now. [1]

As for the partial function application, there is already an RFC to add that, but it's not decided on as of now. [2]

1: https://www.php.net/manual/en/functions.first_class_callable...

2: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/partial_function_application_v2

Epskampie··on 4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC
Well, it's also what has enabled foreign nations to spread misinformation, what enabled people to disappear into their own bubbles filled with falsehoods, etc. Since these things are now tearing at the fabric of democracy, I wouldn't say it's a clean win for the internet so far.
Epskampie··on Curious about the training data of OpenAI's new GPT-OSS models? I was too
https://xcancel.com/jxmnop/status/1953899426075816164
Epskampie··on docker2exe: Convert a Docker image to an executable
> Requirements on the executing device: Docker is required.
Epskampie··on Trapping misbehaving bots in an AI Labyrinth
In line 1 of of the linked page: "waste the resources of AI Crawlers and other bots that don’t respect “no crawl” directives".
Epskampie··on Tesla loses ground as Chinese EVs dominate global markets
The robocar is bunk.
Epskampie··on Moving on from React, a year later
I'm a freelance webdev with 15 years of experience, and recently I've made some new projects with Symfony Stimulus & Turbo to great success.

A few thoughts:

I tried just htmx too, too limiting. Stimulus/Turbo combination is much better.

Use the right tool for the job. Highly interactive app, like an editor? Use react or similar js framework. Mostly page/document website? A backend framework is much faster and easier to develop, and much simpler to test.

Use what you know yada yada.

Epskampie··on Hire HTML and CSS People
I know CSS quite well, as I've been working with it over 15 years. I've been surprised that new programmers hardly know it at all, and heavily lean on component libraries or css frameworks.

Can see why though, css has become very large and complex, and it's only getting worse.

The upside is that my simple fixes sometimes seem like a superpower to others.

Epskampie··on Iran successfully launches indigenous Chamran 1 satellite into space
Do you think that Iran would do any better given the opportunity? The very fact that you where able to freely learn of these attrocities commited committed by your own leaders, is only due to you living in a democratic country. Where you to live in Iran, or China, Russia or any other dictatorship for that matter, the situation would be very different.

No one should deny that that is plenty wrong with the western world and it's actions, but to suggest that a totalitarian regime, that engages in suppression of women and gruesome violence against protestors, is somehow equal or even superior is just plain wrong.

Epskampie··on Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?
Yes, I've got a shopping/todo/whatever list app that I made for myself and my girlfriend. So far it has multiplayer editing, offline mode, suggestions when adding, scraping ingredients from a recipe site we use. I love that I can just add random things that I need like that last one. I hate the multiplayer syncing, it's kinda brittle. I guess I spent around 20 hours on it.
Epskampie··on Cyber Scarecrow
Yes very simple! Not a problem whatsoever with that. я не говорю по-русски
Epskampie··on Flameshot – Open-source screenshot software
I prefer shutter. It's way uglier, but also has some features others don't have, like a history of shots, so you can make several in a row.
Epskampie··on Googles AI overview recommends eating a small rock each day
Interesting how Google first decided to "borrow" knowledge from other pages and display it directly on their own site, but now they are also directly blamed if it's wrong.

If it was just a link, people would just think that site was wrong, now they think that Google is wrong.

Epskampie··on AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License
Smooth jazz version: https://suno.com/song/a0d2dddf-f1fe-4c6c-acac-40862dcc8d10

Eurodance: https://suno.com/song/466a9bbe-9e93-47db-98dc-3eaa64c1a175

Epskampie··on AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License
The site is full of gems. I like capybara: https://suno.com/song/b27c29f6-8ab4-47eb-81fd-efb85c848ada/
Epskampie··on Ludic: New framework for Python with seamless Htmx support
True, I can recommend hotwire turbo as an alternate similar to htmx, it has a js framework called Stimulus that integrates nicely for those instances where you need some custom interactivity.
Epskampie··on Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it a 'threat' to iOS
I switched a few years ago. The realistic non-hyperbole take is that iOS and Android are really, really similar.

Only real difference is Firefox, is that turns out nicely on iOS I might try the other side again.

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