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Niet Tim.
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NietTim··on The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel
So let me get this straight:

- Currently travelers to the US need to give biometric data each time they enter

- New DB connection between EU and US for this purpose

- People will _still_ need to give biometric data each time they enter in order to validate that they carry valid information

Further more, they claim that _the US_ will only request data from travelers. But, my country doesn't know if I travel and where. So the supposed privacy guarantees are empty claims. It's not 2012 anymore. Everyone knows better, as soon as they get access to that DB, they will start working on scraping all data from it.

There is 0 upsides to this.

NietTim··on The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel
Supposedly it will be only requested for people crossing into the US. But it's not 2012 anymore and we all know better.
NietTim··on The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel
So let the people who want to go to the US do that and don't send data from the vast majority of people who will never visit the US there. It's claimed that only data of traveler's will be retrieved by the US but it's not 2012 anymore, we all know better.
NietTim··on Teardown: A Generic 7-Port USB 3.0 Hub That Wasn't
I used to have exactly one like that but without all the bogus 3.0 printing on it.
NietTim··on An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop
Oh, duh, of course. One of those "how did I not think of that" moments
NietTim··on An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop
> It turned out that my subscription, which had been going since 2013, was on an “Annual Paid Monthly” plan. Even though I was getting billed monthly, I couldn’t actually cancel any time I wanted.

I've been wondering for a while what happens if you just block the transactions on your credit card. (Can't test it myself because I'm not an adobe customer and never will be)

NietTim··on A game where you're an OS and have to manage processes, memory and I/O events
What a fun idea for a game!
NietTim··on Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities
Oh no, the thief is mad they get "stolen" from? I've had to hard block all of anthropic's scrapers because they seemingly ignore robots.txt and every other unwritten rule about 'polite' webscraping. They were so aggressive that they made up 90+% of our traffic + pulled the website down at times. And that's not even mentioning their other immoral practices + what they are claiming here is questionable at best. Anthropic is _not_ the good guys, they do not get to be upset over this or claim any sort of moral superiority over 'China'.

Can't wait for the new Chinese models.

NietTim··on Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see
Just use the browser, it's fine 99% of the time.
NietTim··on Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see
> Apple added these restrictions because installed app lists can be used for fingerprinting and privacy invasive profiling.

And this was heavily exploited by Facebook before Apple patched it

NietTim··on The Last Surviving Japanese Porsche 912 Police Car
The police of the Netherlands had them, Amsterdam is only a city in the Netherlands.
NietTim··on Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026
Properly euromaxxing, this is the way.
NietTim··on Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with agents
This is not a proper black-box reimplementation, I doubt they can get away with that. And that's not mentioning all other obvious ethical concerns of course.
NietTim··on Apple bets cheaper AI will woo small developers
The issue with those solutions is that it would balloon my app size because I'd need to embed the model, or add a mechanism to download the models afterwards, for something that is essentially a note taking app. But maybe I can make it an option and word it effectively, that is an idea! Your idea for doing a context aware correction pass on STT is very interesting and something I hadn't thought of yet. Thank you for your thoughts!
NietTim··on Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
Thanks for the reminder, I made a very simple and small mac os guitar tuner and intonation app (all others are either paid, have in app purchases or are outdated) that I still need to publish!
NietTim··on Apple bets cheaper AI will woo small developers
Yes, small developers.
NietTim··on Apple bets cheaper AI will woo small developers
It's 15% for small developers
NietTim··on Apple bets cheaper AI will woo small developers
Can't wait to try it. Made a small log app for my IBS which allows free text input and uses LLM to create JSON. If that could be done on device with a foundation model, it would be awesome. (and also completely bomb my income model)
NietTim··on Is AI causing a repeat of frontend’s lost decade?
I am not Meta, neither are you, nor are we doing things on their level. You can just build small things for you and your friends that fits your specific usecase that other tools do not fit yet, it doesn't need to be a world changing idea.
NietTim··on Is AI causing a repeat of frontend’s lost decade?
That just means you lack creativity, exploring new ideas and building new interesting things is easier then ever, all you need is an idea.
NietTim··on Can we have the day off?
Planning is the same, implementation time is just way shorter, so we can spend more time on things that are fun. The barrier to see if some outlandish idea works is also nonexistent now, you can generate a (non production ready, of course) MVP in an hour, where before it would take a few days.
NietTim··on Can we have the day off?
I've never had this much fun at work. There was nothing more that I disliked in my job than months long projects with everything already planned out in advance. It made work extremely predictable and boring, the project was already fully thought out, all that needed to be done was the boring bit of writing all the code that you already know how to write, all the fun of exploring different ideas and implementation directions was already done.
NietTim··on YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos
Meanwhile you probably use Spotify or other streaming platforms without issue.
NietTim··on Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier
This is not some sort of company making unique tech, it's a company handling some of the most the vital infrastructure for our government, you can imagine the privacy concerns. Completely different case
NietTim··on Shunning AI is the human choice
Absolutely not, it's a display of you not understanding my argument which spawned this comment chain.
NietTim··on Shunning AI is the human choice
Toxic person uses any excuse to be toxic, more breaking news at 11.
NietTim··on Shunning AI is the human choice
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NietTim··on Shunning AI is the human choice
Such a weird, non HN worthy, type of comment. Just pure personal attack while they said nothing weird. Why are you here?
NietTim··on Shunning AI is the human choice
Weird responses you're getting, I agree with you fully, if someone is constantly putting on display what they hate I'll keep as far away from them as I can be.
NietTim··on Shunning AI is the human choice
Your argument clearly comes from a doomer perspective, your employment will be gone (Maybe, but you will find new employment), your community will be gone (?), your ability to own anything will be gone (?????)

> your favorite spaces on the internet and your power and voice in society(??), you can't just turn away and say that you'll just ignore tha

I've clearly been on the internet longer then you, all of my favorite places are already gone. It's completely fine. Life is finite and there is something beautiful about that.

I wish you too will find the beauty in life at some point.

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