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alt227on Attack of the Vibe Coded Photoshop Clones

So many people in that thread saying "No one is going to vibe code a Photoshop replacement", and that was only 5 months ago. What the hell is going to be happening in 10 years?

alt227on Bitwarden Dual License Model

Yeah, and at the same choose to cause other people frustration by having to wade through the negative criticisms to get to interesting discussion points. The whole world feels more and more like that these days.

alt227on 3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit

Yeah, shocking that people care about A doing something but not B doing the same thing. I think thats called hypocritical or something.

alt227on Attack of the Vibe Coded Photoshop Clones

The basic photo editing tools were set in stone decades ago. Adobe has spent years tweaking things 1% of their userbase wants like 3D manipulation. Once somebody makes a basic clone which does the main basic tools well then its game over for Photoshop.

alt227on Attack of the Vibe Coded Photoshop Clones

This doesnt result in lawsuits because nothing illegal is going on. There have been genuine Photoshop clones on sale for years (see Serif Affinity) so just because they are vibe coded now doesnt make them illegal.

alt227on Attack of the Vibe Coded Photoshop Clones

Maybe not, but after some time somebody with a brain and some decent coding skills will spend the time to make a good clone and then its game over.

alt227on A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't

I want trains to go faster because it gives me more time in my day, not because bigger numbers look better.

alt227on A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't

My job is reactive, and I often need to travel that route on very short notice. Having the daily travel time on those days go down from 4.5 hours down to 3.25 would be massive for me.

I dont care about price as the company pays, but my time is very valuable to me.

alt227on 3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit

Funny all the Americans here saying Fuck Russia, yet their own president is currently invading multiple countries per year...

alt227on 3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit

Its part of the propaganda to help the Russian citizens blame Ukraine for their pain rather than Yandex.

alt227on 3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit

If I had any data in a middle eastern or Russina data center I would have moved it all out months ago. If companies still have stuff in there which is not replicated elsewhere then they are basically asking for anything they get.

alt227on 3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit

https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots/as13238?dateRange=7d

Discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50041619

alt227on Bitwarden Dual License Model

If people dont like how something is written they can move on, they are not being forced to read it.

alt227on Bitwarden Dual License Model

Thank you

alt227on Bitwarden Dual License Model

So? It was useful information, who cares how it was written.

alt227on Bitwarden Dual License Model

Wow, another site that now refuses to play ball unless you sign in.

Guess I'll never be visiting Glass Door again then.

alt227on Bitwarden Dual License Model

> But let's be honest. "enshittification" here really means "I don't want to pay for my tools and I want it completely for free forever."

That is completely the opposite of what is happening here. Lots of us pay premium Bitwarden subscriptions and are not happy with the way the company is headed, especially for a security company that holds the keys to many of our kingdoms.

"enshittification" here means a company that we trusted is now started to make decisions which erode that trust. Its happened before and it will happen from here unto eternity.

alt227on Bitwarden Dual License Model

So if we now have Vaultwarden + keyguard can these things move away from Bitwardens api and pursue their own?

alt227on Bitwarden Dual License Model

I feel like this blog post deserves its own submission to HN

alt227on Triple-A Minesweeper

Yeah and none of them are 'AAA'

alt227on Telegram Desktop vulnerability allowed any user's file to be stolen

I would argue one of the main purposes of OSs is securing files between different users. All modern OSes do this securely if set up properly.

alt227on I tried to move my notes out of Emacs. I failed. Again

+1 for plaintext files. Nothing else gives me the flexibility and reliability.

alt227on Beauty in DVD Menus

Personally I love special features and creative menus.

alt227on Beauty in DVD Menus

I remember watching the DVD of Memento, and using the secret DVD menu button combination to enable watching the film backwards scene by scene. I remember thinking that was amazing and we were entering a new era of creative movie distribution. Shame that sort of thing didnt really catch on.

alt227on The people holding up the internet

I personally hate all sites that hijack my scroll wheel for animation purposes.

alt227on Apple and a hacker's future

Exactly. People are trained and licensed. If we trained people how to use mobile devices safely before allowing them one then none of this would be an issue, but we dont.

alt227on Apple and a hacker's future

People are licensed and tested as capable to be able to drive cars. They are not to own mobile devices.

alt227on Denmark data breach exposes 8.8M people's personal data

A lot of those things you listed the EU as doing sound like good things to me.

alt227on Apple and a hacker's future

Thank you. I see its an Apple thing which is why I guess I havent heard of it.

alt227on Apple and a hacker's future

I know SIP as a telephony protocol, what are you referring to here?