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_blk··on Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you "verify" the bug remains unfixed
The replies here suggest that many of us have been on both sides and that Apple's behavior it's a great way to trade bug triaging time on the org side for a few frustrated reporters on the customer side. The problem is it frustrates the most diligent of bug reporters who put time into filing high quality issues resulting in overall lower bug submission quality.

A good compromise might be select high quality bugs or users with good rep and disable auto-closing for them. In the age of AI it shouldn't be too hard to correlate all those low quality duplicates and figure out what's worth keeping alive, no?

_blk··on GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone without requiring personal information
Not yet ;)
_blk··on Vatican Rebukes Peter Thiel's Antichrist Lectures in Rome
I don't know much about all this but skimming the article, I doubt that that the author has treated his acute TDS. I know this is a rather left leaning crowd but I can't believe that smart people like here all believe Trump leads a fascist regime.. Please enlighten me ar what makes this article so popular?
_blk··on Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional
...and just like parking tickets they shouldn't exist on govt property
_blk··on A CPU that runs entirely on GPU
"Result: 100% accuracy on integer arithmetic" - Could someone with low-level LLM expertise comment on that: Is that future-proof, or does it have to be re-asserted with every rebuild of the neural building blocks? Can it be proven to remain correct? I assume there's a low-temperature setting that keeps it from getting too creative.

The creative thinking behind this project is truly mind boggling.

_blk··on Don't become an engineering manager
I'm a freelance interim EM and I do it for the same reason the article explains: I genuinely enjoy it.

I love engineers and I love tech. I still code daily but I'm not the guy that delivers at the pace of some of the amazing engineers that I had the privilege to work with. I love putting others ahead of myself wherever I can and it's never cost me anything, so I'm not afraid to do it again. I love telling the engineers how what they do actually matters because they're too focused on the work to sometimes see why changing goals doesn't mean their work and efforts were wasted and I also love shielding them from the corporate mess upstairs (that I somewhat masochistically don't even dread being part of)...

So, yeah, I really love my job and if one of my guys (or gals) wants that too, the more of a joy it is to me to mentor them into that process.

_blk··on NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed
Absolutely but I stop YouTube consumption if it's not through NewPipe, so a little productivity boost here and there is not too bad ;)
_blk··on Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you
I was gonna tip the developer but it feels like losing now
_blk··on A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content
Seems like a good idea then
_blk··on A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content
I agree in general and that should be the position but it's probably more nuanced than this in practice: who published it when it's a dev that writes a script that just spits junk into the wild or reinforces someone else's troll-speech?
_blk··on A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content
Yup. Or like "necessary cookies" that aren't all that necessary when it works just fine without.
_blk··on Starlink updates privacy policy to allow consumer data to train
"Good luck" [in Russian accent]
_blk··on Starlink updates privacy policy to allow consumer data to train
No, only Skynet
_blk··on Starlink updates privacy policy to allow consumer data to train
Take your RV for an extended stay at the National Parks. RV parks are full of Starlinkers and I *love* the service. Roadtrips with kids are so much better too. The residential dish's in-motion performance is phenomenal and it's not even made for that.
_blk··on Show HN: We Built the 1. EU-Sovereignty Audit for Websites
.onion might be exempt but while the TLD "." is anycast worldwide for the actual DNS service, Verisign still signs the cert. Isn't that a show-stopper for dependencies on dns-over-https or https altogether or do .cn, .ru, .ir etc all add/replace with their own independent signatures ?
_blk··on Show HN: We Built the 1. EU-Sovereignty Audit for Websites
This is more of an attempt at a political stunt. The CCP's website gets a perfect score, admin.ch also gets a perfect score while Switzerland is most-definitely not in the EU.. non-US is more accurate than EU but you only see that when stars start flying.

IMHO: Just scrap the politics and show what regional deps a site has - that'd actually increase value quite a bit.

_blk··on Things I've learned in my 10 years as an engineering manager
As a leader, it's important to provide not just the meat but also the veggies. What people end up eating is up to them, but serve the full course! If as a ME, I start deciding who needs to know what, information will be perceived as incomplete because people always talk and engineer are often smart enough to read between the lines. So the transparent umbrella is a great analogy. Communicate bad news as fast and coherently as possible - group meeting with open questions works well for me but be ready to address the potential fears: "In my current assessment, that's not going to be a problem, I'll let you know if that changes." and of course "Thanks for asking, I didn't consider that and I don't know yet. I'll clarify" is a valid answer, if you do indeed clarify.

If you're genuinely stressed with that, talk to your lead about it and they'll find a way to filter a little more while not giving you the feeling of being left out.

_blk··on Microsoft will give the FBI a Windows PC data encryption key if ordered
Thanks, that's good to know. I suspect WhatsApp's "we're fully E2E encrypted" would be similar too.
_blk··on Microsoft will give the FBI a Windows PC data encryption key if ordered
A Proton model makes this very simple: full cooperation and handover and virtually nothing to be extracted from the data. Size is somewhat of a metadata, ip connection points and maybe date of first use and when data changes occurred... I'm all for law enforcement, but that job has to be old-school Proof of Work bound and not using blanket data collection and automated speeding ticket mailer.

But I guess it's not done more because the free data can't be analyzed and sold.

_blk··on Proton spam and the AI consent problem
Kudos to Proton for how they handled it. Granted the email was wrong, and I'm sure they'll fix that process. But most companies don't even bother to write back when you bring something like this to their attention, much less issue an apology.
_blk··on Comma openpilot – Open source driver-assistance
What's different? From the README I only get that it's trying to match comma's safety as closely as possible - whatever that means
_blk··on Level S4 solar radiation event
Yes! Absolutely, but only if you want to drive it.
_blk··on Level S4 solar radiation event
Nice. And it's somewhat relieving to read this over a Starlink connection.
_blk··on Show HN: Xenia – A monospaced font built with a custom Python engine
Nice variant to the otherwise sharper or edgier mono fonts (pardon my ignorance for terminology). Personally it feels too "girly" for my taste. Nothing wrong with that - just a personal preference. I'm sure others will like it. Reminds me of wwii-era typewriter fonts and it also has a touch of "comic sans" to it. Thanks for sharing.
_blk··on ThinkNext Design
Me too, don't like it though. The x1 carbon felt sturdier. The keyboard is average and I already had to replace the touchscreen twice on warranty. Just went out while sitting on the desk.. Battery is OK even after 5 years of almost daily use (I keep it at 80%). The flip feature is cool but I honestly haven't used it as much as I thought I would. Probably used the pen more to sign stuff. As a coder, the x series is probably the better choice. I've owned X and T series laptops over the years and one HP that was somewhere in the middle of the X range happiness wise.
_blk··on ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering
Wow. Pretty cool. Now just replace the characters with the set from the Matrix and swallow the blue pill.
_blk··on Roam 50GB is now Roam 100GB
I agree that no person should be offended. Obviously that's not ground truth..

If we could all agree that life would be easier if people were offended less, then instead of only trying to get people to offend other people less by telling them what is acceptable to say we could also get people to try to not take offense as much when they hear what they don't want to hear we'd have solved the offense problem from both ends.

TL;DR: Just be nice. Life's easier when you're nice even when people aren't nice to you but it does take effort.

_blk··on Roam 50GB is now Roam 100GB
I just checked my Starlink app and if I wanted to downgrade mine it says the change would be effective at the beginning of the next monthly billing period.

So looks like you can downgrade every month and upgrade any time. Sounds fair to me.

_blk··on Roam 50GB is now Roam 100GB
Awesome news. When we started RV traveling we wanted to do the 50G plan whenever we were out of cell-range but it turned out to be such a convenient service that 50G didn't last us more than 3 days so we switched to unlimited and haven't regretted it. Absolutely worth it because even the residential dish works flawlessly while driving and the kids can game and stream all at the same time from the pickup.

I put some more details on my blog if you're interested in power specs or DNS options on the router, etc. https://bitcreed.us/bitblog/starlink-on-the-road

You can also start on the 100G plan and when you run out of data switch to unlimited right from the app. That'll bring down the first-month bill a tad and give you a chance to gauge the "slow speed" option.

_blk··on No management needed: anti-patterns in early-stage engineering teams
Did I miss the article mentioning to ask the eng staff how they actually like to work? I get corporate culture and all but engineers like having their subculture and that's fine. As a manager, it's my job to make sure my ppl feel equipped (schedule included) and to keep upper mgmt happy and convinced that it works even if work hours don't match other jobs. So I don't thinly it's ever too soon to hire a manager, as long as he thinks of himself as part of the eng team. Concerning motivation, you can absolutely motivate people by explaining why their work matters and by helping them with the corp paperwork. Example: engineers don't like SAP, I don't like it either, but the project we're working on is so cool that it's worth the 30min hassle per week and I'll sit with them until they get it.
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