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FBISurveillanceon MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max

Note: no power adapter included.

FBISurveillanceon UK Government’s ‘AI Skills Hub’ was delivered by PwC for £4.1M

Terrible take. Would you be up for paying for groceries based on "value" you get?

FBISurveillanceon South Korea – A cautionary tale for the rest of humanity

Say what you will about Hungary but I think it came up with some great incentives for future parents: income tax cuts. If you have 4 kids you don't pay income tax for life.

FBISurveillanceon Using UUIDv7 with Ruby on Rails Without PostgreSQL 18

Another option is to use `SecureRandom.uuid_v7` like this:

    # app/models/application_record.rb
    class ApplicationRecord < ActiveRecord::Base
      include PrimaryKeyGenerator
    end

    # app/models/concerns/primary_key_generator.rb
    module PrimaryKeyGenerator
      extend ActiveSupport::Concern

      included do
        after_initialize :generate_id
      end

      def generate_id
        return if self.class.attribute_types["id"].type != :uuid
        return if id.present?

        self.id ||= SecureRandom.uuid_v7
      end
    end

This also gives you the advantage of having your PK known before record persisted (maybe it's just me but I like my UUID PKs generated in app instead of db)

FBISurveillanceon Migrating from AWS to Hetzner

We scaled to ~1100 bare metal servers with them and it worked perfectly.

FBISurveillanceon macOS Tahoe

I have 5000+ git repos locally that I grep through regularly and I have to admit my hopes for ASIF being faster were busted. It is faster than sparsebundle, but nowhere near native, unfortunately.

FBISurveillanceon Hand: open-source Robot Hand

Great stuff. So 2x$135 and I'll finally get my t-shirts folded for me in the laundry room.

FBISurveillanceon Show HN: underattack.txt Internet Standard

It looks to me like a stretch to call it an Internet Standard since there's no RFC. Out of curiosity: why not use `/.well-known` namespace for this?

FBISurveillanceon Ruby 3.4.0

I love Rails and spent a good chunk of my career using it - and I'd recommend it more if only the frontend story wasn't that bumpy over the years with all the variations of asset pipelines.

I wish the TypeScript/React integration was easier. Say what you will but there's no way you can achieve interactivity and convenience of React (et al) UIs with Turbo/Hotwire in a meaningful time.

FBISurveillanceon Ruby 3.4.0

Since when contributing back to the community is considered a bad faith move?

FBISurveillanceon Ask HN: Why is Next.js so popular?

I think they meant that chatgpt.com itself is powered by remix now, not the marketing website

FBISurveillanceon Ask HN: Why is Next.js so popular?

I wonder why they decided to make the move, so curious.

FBISurveillanceon Plasmo – A framework for building modern Chrome extensions

I also suggest checking out WXT (https://wxt.dev/) as an alternative (it's also faster using Vite and supports more frameworks).

FBISurveillanceon Apple users are being locked out of their Apple IDs with no explanation

Adding to that, also suggest having a self-hosted Immich on a home server.

FBISurveillanceon Ask HN: Why does VSCode fully drain MacBook Pro (M2) battery in 2hrs?

I suggest you to check your extensions. Local LLMs, language server bugs, maybe even a compromised extension that mines crypto?

FBISurveillanceon DL 1 (JFK –> JFK)

Probably a bird strike or something and they returned? This should have been a JFK-LHR flight IIRC.

FBISurveillanceon Ask HN: What is your new year's resolution?

At least 4k, getting old for staring at low-dpi screens all day.

FBISurveillanceon Show HN: DataSheetGrid, an Airtable-like React component

This. I'm giving feedback, it's because I care about the person and this community. It could be considered mean by some but I genuinely do my best to deliver it in good faith. I also understand that "my best" could be not good enough though!

FBISurveillanceon Ask HN: Would you use a service to unfollow everyone on your social media?

Me personally (sample size 1) - not really, but my social network usage is non-existing. I only have X where I follow tech folk and that's it. Not a user of FB/Instagram/etc.

FBISurveillanceon Ask HN: Would you use a service to unfollow everyone on your social media?

Maybe I'm an outlier, but I'd just create a new account.

These days, every time I have to pay for something online I ask myself: is it worth 5.5% per year guaranteed no-risk that i'm losing out if I'd buy bonds instead?

I know it's offtopic, but I did a review last month and stripped down number of subscriptions:

* Replaced Dropbox with GDrive that I already pay for as part of my personal Google Workspace subscription (email on my domain).

* After recent Apple One price hike I couldn't justify it canceled and got _exactly what I need_ (just 200GB iCloud and Music), 3x cost reduction.

* Started transferring my soon-expiring domains from Gandi to Porkbun (I was too lazy before).

And so on, there were some more and I trimmed my online spend down significantly.

Out of curiosity, anyone else is doing this sort of optimization? During ZIRP I never cared much.

FBISurveillanceon AI.gov

Reminds me of healthcare.gov.

By the way, we've seen it years ago:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27048048

* https://www.nextgov.com/artificial-intelligence/2019/03/whit...

Still coming soon? Kudos to OP for submitting this as a reminder.

FBISurveillanceon 1Password detects "suspicious activity" in its internal Okta account

They print money at -111M loss per quarter; I wouldn't say they are succeeding at that either, technically speaking!

Edit: when time comes rolling their debt at a higher interest rate (post-ZIRP) I expect them to trim down their workforce and start costcutting. They currently have 6k+ employees.

FBISurveillanceon Ask HN: Can Vercel launch open-source versions of applications hosted on Vercel?

Thanks for this response, appreciate it and it means a lot for me to get these clarified (I admittedly struggled to find it on X so asked here).

FBISurveillanceon Ask HN: Can Vercel launch open-source versions of applications hosted on Vercel?

Hey, thanks for jumping in. I personally don't see anything wrong with cloning and open sourcing projects for educational purposes.

However, one thing that is concerning for me is this:

> The employee used his access at Vercel to find his personal email, location, and the list of his projects.

(from https://twitter.com/nico_jeannen/status/1713139186474406206)

I'm unsure if this tweet is 100% truth, and I certainly don't believe it's "normal" as the tweet implies at the end - but it would be nice to get some sort of feedback on this, ideally. (e.g. "the employee was let go" + "we've reiterated internally that this is absolutely not something anyone at Vercel should do").

Last piece of thought - maybe the ToS need some clarifications to see if you could make it less permissive w.r.t. data and content? I understand you need to distribute it etc but would it be an option to e.g. rephrase "you hereby grant right to distribute data and content [...] only to provide you the customer with Service".

Note that I'm typing all this in good faith and I appreciate the work you folks do at Vercel.

FBISurveillanceon Cloudflare Sippy: Incrementally Migrate Data from AWS S3 to Reduce Egress Fees

Data point: They call you once you hit 300TB egress per month on a _free_ tier and ask to start paying (nothing wrong with that, just a data point).

FBISurveillanceon Ask HN: How do you organize your life?

Email + Calendar on my own domain, with Google Workspace.

Edit: domain is .com (I don't trust ccTLDs) and paid for 10 years.

FBISurveillanceon Rails 7.1 Released

I've been doing Rails since 2005 and love it, but - and that's just my personal preference! - I wish they'd have a stable release cadence (calver like vscode maybe?) and a clearer roadmap/governance.

Maybe it's just me but I just don't like DHH's governance lately. Not in a bad way, but following him on Twitter I just no longer respect him.

FBISurveillanceon US Senate’s email system melts down in face of security test and reply-all chaos

Context:

At amazon in 2010, it started with a meeting invite that was accidentally sent to everyone. The meeting was for the Amazon Wallet team for whatever work they were doing at the time. A reply-all storm ensued, and despite several people asking to stop hitting the reply-all button, it continued for several days. The management had to chime in and sometimes threatened people with punishment if they continued participating to the reply-all storm.

If you ignored the conversation you may not have seen it, but most reply-all storm ended up with someone saying something the line of "we don't care about your wallet".

Anyway, asking people to stop hitting the reply-all button is far from being the latest reply-all on these kind of things...

FBISurveillanceon Ask HN: Do rich people worry about their personal security?

I'd downvote twice if I could.

I genuinely hope you'll feel better eventually, will think about your and your loved ones' future, and finally enjoy the now - the best time to live in in human history.

FBISurveillanceon Apple to Limit iPhone 15 USB-C Cables to USB 2.0 Speeds: Report

Note that this is regular iPhone, not the Pro one that is _rumored_ to have Thunderbolt 4. On a Pro one, getting a 2TB model and getting 480Mbps transfers is not something Apple would do, my prediction.