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TheSilva··on Elevated error rate across multiple models
So can we hire back those Oracle workers to write some code now?
TheSilva··on Lichess and Take Take Take Sign Cooperation Agreement
This is huge, congrats to the lichess team.
TheSilva··on Six ingenious ways how Canon DSLRs used to illuminate their autofocus points
hijacking the thread to ask: under 200€ DSLR to get started?
TheSilva··on What your Bluetooth devices reveal
Tangential, sort of: in the early days of mobile phones for the masses, when there was no WiFi/3G in the underground, I will often enable Bluetooth in my phone, look for nearby devices and try to match names and looks.

That was before everyone had their "John's IPhone" or "Samsung A55" boring names everywhere and some of us cared to personalise our device's name.

Anyone else played this game?

TheSilva··on Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship
Also he became a father[0] around that time. Everything adds.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikaru_Nakamura#Personal_life

TheSilva··on Hackers (1995) Animated Experience
I mean, you should totally go and rewatch it, don't let me stop you from enjoying again the movie!
TheSilva··on Hackers (1995) Animated Experience
Sadly, looking through the code, doesn't show up any "GARBAGE" file easter egg to be found.

Amazing stuff, nevertheless!

TheSilva··on Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks
Too little too late, already ditched the whole ecosystem after so many years and devices.
TheSilva··on WBlock: A New Ad-Blocker for Safari
Well, they have this list in their repo: https://github.com/0xCUB3/wBlock/blob/main/Adblock_Compariso...

Only one I can see is (slightly) less RAM use.

TheSilva··on Show HN: I built a synth for my daughter
Sanding and polishing, likely.
TheSilva··on 2025 OWASP Top
@admin, we need the 10 at the end of the title.
TheSilva··on OWASP Top
Added then deleted, but git remembers.
TheSilva··on HTML Slides with notes
Have you check https://pitch.com/ ?
TheSilva··on Show HN: Oh Yah – Routine management app I built for my sons
Yes, and I do the same. However, Kids Corner was a curated list of apps that you chose to share freely without password/FaceID.

I don't want to lock my browser, photos, maps, etc. behind FaceID. I want to hand my phone knowing they will only use one or two apps and the fun stops when they hand me over the device.

TheSilva··on Show HN: Oh Yah – Routine management app I built for my sons
That's parental control, that's not the same. I want to hand my phone to my kids and let them access only one or two apps that I have listed as allowed.

I don't want (yet, but it will come) for them to have their own device that I control as you explained.

TheSilva··on Show HN: Oh Yah – Routine management app I built for my sons
Slightly off-topic, but as this will require kids to have access to an unlocked phone...

I remember Windows Phone had the feature of "unlocked apps", which you could run without having to unlock the phone: think calculator, browser, games. It was called Kids Corner[1].

Have any other OS (iOS/Androind) copied anything similar to that? This app will (or at least in my case) live in a place like that, where they do not have access to the whole platform.

[1] https://www.windowscentral.com/kids-corner-windows-phone-8

TheSilva··on Hackers strike Harrods in latest UK cyberattack
Just two days ago the BBC published[1] a story about how a ransomware group tried to infiltrate their network by.... approaching their cybersecurity correspondent.

I wonder if it was the same group.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3w5n903447o

TheSilva··on You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here
50/50 title here: it can be the app devs or it can be the reporter.
TheSilva··on FLUX.1-Krea and the Rise of Opinionated Models
My problem with the last one is that the person is not walking directly into the door hence giving an unrealistic vibe that the ChatGPT one does not have.
TheSilva··on FLUX.1-Krea and the Rise of Opinionated Models
All but the last example look better (to me) on Krea than ChatGPT-4.1.

The problem with AI images, in my opinion, is not the generated image (that can be better or worse) but the prompt and instructions given to the AI and their "defaults".

So many blog posts and social media updates have that horrible (again, to me) feel and look of overly plastic vibe, like a cartoon that has been burn... just like "needs more JPEG" but "needs more AI-vibe".

TheSilva··on uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari
I have been using the version published in Testflight for quite a while now and I must say I haven't seen much difference from my previous setup (Firefox Focus configured as the ad blocking provider in Safari settings)

But, given their record on providing excellent software and features, I am so happy to switch to them and to see what they are capable of in the future!

TheSilva··on Steve Wozniak is not boring
But never boring! What was boring were the 10 seconds it was getting me to stop a docker container... that prompted me to check the source of these names.
TheSilva··on Rotring 600 Ballpoint Pen
I am going to derail the conversation from the pen and into the refills.

As a left-handed that refuses to twist their hand to avoid smudging everything: what refills brands offer the best dry time to avoid black or blue smudges?

TheSilva··on A literary magazine accessible only via telnet
The web version, in case you don't have a telnet client to connect: https://web.issue3.anewsession.com/
TheSilva··on Solving LinkedIn Queens Using Haskell
Anything similar with Zip? That's the one I enjoy in the mornings.
TheSilva··on Occurences of swearing in the Linux kernel source code over time
Given that it started appearing in 1995, I will assume it is because of the influence of the movie Hackers in the developers of the kernel source.
TheSilva··on Show HN: Tattoy – a text-based terminal compositor
I see you added then removed Windows from your Release plan:

https://github.com/tattoy-org/tattoy/issues/42

So, it is supported or not? Looks great by the way.