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250 karma · joined September 10, 2019

I'm GitSquared on GitHub.

See https://gaby.dev for links to other accounts.

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_squared_··on Mistral reports on the environmental impact of LLMs
France has a pretty low-carbon grid (relatively) already, this doesn't fix the water consumption issue though, which is getting more problematic as climate change cause droughts all over the country.
_squared_··on Show HN: HN Avatars in 357 bytes
love my little alien.
_squared_··on Web Workers API
If you're interested in leveraging web workers easily for repetitive compute-heavy tasks in a webapp, i've built a little library that takes care of launching and managing worker threads for you: https://github.com/GitSquared/rinzler
_squared_··on My Room in 3D
If you're looking to learn how to make this kind of scene, I highly recommend Bruno's Three.js Journey course.

Disclaimer: I had the pleasure of having Bruno as an IRL teacher for some time ;)

_squared_··on List of Special Elevator Modes
You should have explored a bit, might be cake down there
_squared_··on Purism – Fund Your App
Flutter+Dart is a bad choice for this because both projects are managed & funded by Google.
_squared_··on Netflix stops charging customers who never watch
Netflix joined the Motion Picture Association not so long ago. I'd recon they are well into the transition from startup mentality to dominant bureaucracy-driven business mentality.
_squared_··on End-to-end encryption in the browser
It's not just "some out of date bits", 90% of this post is ridiculously outdated.

Making an end-to-end encrypted web app with WebAssembly, WebCrypto, Service Workers and free TLS by Let's Encrypt is totally viable nowadays. Also, the Web userbase is largely using evergreen browsers like Firefox and Chrome.

_squared_··on Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days
$3? Where I live (in Europe) the 4K plan is 15.99€ a month. That's $17 USD. I pay less for my phone's data plan!
_squared_··on This PIN can be easily guessed
Interesting study. Do we know who else than Apple implements PIN blacklists?

Also, this lego iPhone testbed is glorious.

_squared_··on Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing – Google Cloud Run
Running side-projects at a loss prevents you from keeping a lot of them around, and might make it harder to decide to create a new one - "I want to do this cool project, but i already spend $X a month in hosting and I don't want to spend more".
_squared_··on Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud
> Also desktop apps are becoming super slow and bloated now thanks to electron.

The people who build slow electron apps would have built slow native apps, if they could build one.

_squared_··on Just how fast is too fast when it comes to web requests?
> It's a link in the SF Bay Area, and the server is in Texas, so it has to get out there and back. That's at least 50 milliseconds right there when measured by a boring old ping.

Am I the only one surprised by this 50ms ping? I can reach cloud servers in the SF Bay Area from Paris in 50ms - and I'm on wifi. Surely SFO-TX should take much less time..?

_squared_··on They Might Never Tell You It’s Broken
Also, "I couldn't see any reason why it wouldn't work" seems to me like a very dangerous assumption.

I personally try my hardest not to declare that X works on/with Y until I've seen it with my own eyes. Not 2 computing environments are the same, and everything receives updates all the time.

_squared_··on Show HN: uPlot.js – An exceptionally fast, tiny time series chart
As an open-source maintainer, helpful error/debug messages is the key to reduce the number of GitHub issues, mails and all the other way people will track you down to ask for your help.

Ultimately spending an hour writing helpful errors can save you hundred of hours in support.

Of course you can just ignore everybody asking for help, but then if people aren't going to be able to use your project why make it open-source in the first place?

_squared_··on Handshake: Decentralizing DNS to Improve the Security of the Internet
Mainstream OSs are slow to evolve. While I agree that embedded DNS resolvers in browsers and the like should have an off switch, I think embedding in widely adopted software is the only solution to push adoption of these new privacy-focused protocols.

Pushing updates to ever-green browsers is the key to change how millions of people use their computer - since browsing the web is almost all they do!

_squared_··on Show HN: Cyberpunk web design made easy, really easy
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_squared_··on Show HN: Cyberpunk web design made easy, really easy
Hehe, thanks.

I don't think I'll change much things but augmented-ui styles on some elements here and there should give the UI a nice facelift.

I'll make sure to credit you for that really cool package.

_squared_··on Show HN: Cyberpunk web design made easy, really easy
This is really cool, great job!

I'm thinking about integrating this in edex-ui ( https://github.com/GitSquared/edex-ui ), here's how it looks like so far, redesigning pop-ups: https://imgur.com/a/4oABPAT

I use viewport units (vh, vw) in my CSS to ensure everything scales to different screens/resolutions; so far augmented-ui seems to handle that very well.