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ameesdotmeon I rebooted my social life

I can really relate to this post, celebrating my birthday with a party for the first time in 10+ years in 2025, it truly had a massive impact on my mental health and it made me realize I should throw little gatherings much more often.

Great write-up and encouragement on the author's part.

ameesdotmeon Researchers run high-performing LLM on the energy needed to power a lightbulb

Just because the carrier of energy is source independent, doesn't mean the consumer of that energy is not responsible for the carbon emissions of its production. Since we're talking hundreds of TWh[1], the policies of those consumers can have a massive impact on global emissions.

[1] https://www.iea.org/energy-system/buildings/data-centres-and...

ameesdotmeon Show HN: Billard – Generate music from ball collisions in 2D space

Had a lot of fun with this. Also a good laugh when trapping some balls and hearing the midi-engine go apeshit and eventually crashing.

ameesdotmeon Sex worker-led payment platform shuts down after being cut off by processor

This is true in many situations, but setting up full self-maintained payment processing isn't really a feasible option for small or even larger development teams. Payment processing is heavily regulated with many legal requirements, not to mention the countless security threats.

ameesdotmeon Show HN: Salesforce Announces Einstein GPT

The cringe is real with this naming choice.

ameesdotmeon Bob Cassette Rewinder: Hacking Detergent DRM

Bob- and apartment-owner here. We have a small kitchen and just don't have the space for a full-sized dishwasher. Bob fits snugly in the cabinet under the sink and runs once a day for a 2-person household.

It's perfect for our needs and saves us a lot of both time and water.

ameesdotmeon WhatsApp to move ahead with privacy update despite backlash

I found the most easy way to motivate people to switch, is to just remove your WhatsApp profile-picture and set your status to something like "Find me on Signal".

The amount of people reaching out via WhatsApp lowered drastically, all (but one) of my main contacts are now also on Signal.

ameesdotmeon Show HN: Load that 30 year old ROM and boot this Pinball Machine

Incredibly cool project with a really nice artistic touch as well. Great work!

ameesdotmeon Ask HN: Is Edge any better or worse than Chrome on privacy?

Not based on actual research, but my guess is that with Edge, you'll now have Google phone-homing combined with Microsoft phone-homing. Unless Microsoft actively went out of their way to remove calls to Google, there may still be many present, as found in many reports about Chromium.

ameesdotmeon Show HN: HTMLie is a command line HTML Parser

Does it use regex to parse the HTML?

ameesdotmeon Show HN: GDPR templates to request/erase personal data

As pbarnes_1 said, I'd recommend adding some form of authentication. Perhaps you can instruct the service to send the requester instructions to provide proof that they are the owner of the account.

ameesdotmeon Getting Google to ban our entire company

Google's ToS state otherwise.

> Our automated systems analyse your content (including emails) to provide you with personally relevant product features, such as customised search results, tailored advertising and spam and malware detection. This analysis occurs as the content is sent, received and when it is stored.

https://policies.google.com/terms

ameesdotmeon Show HN: Cargo – A minimal browser with almost no UI. Contributors wanted!

Reminds me of the Min-browser. It has a similar goal and is also built with Electron. Perhaps there's some useful stuff for you!

https://github.com/minbrowser/min

ameesdotmeon Show HN: Sniffgit – A Python lib to find sensitive files and information in a repo

Interesting project! Perhaps you could add a return value depending on whether results were found (using sys.exit or something like that) so it can be integrated in CI-pipelines.

ameesdotmeon “Adobe Flash Player is required for interactive charts”

Off topic: That beta is very buggy and you should consider updating to a more recent one.

ameesdotmeon Apple MacBook Pro lasts 135 minutes longer on battery in full screen mode

> Use Invert Colours to save battery life. It takes less battery to display black pixels than white ones.

There's a lot of junk and mostly obvious stuff in the second article.

ameesdotmeon Fukushima disaster: Robot finds possible melted nuclear fuel

I'm interested in how this robot "survived" the radiation levels that many previous robots did not [1]. I know little to nothing about radiation hardening, but this seems like an almost impossible task, considering it being exposed to more than 530 sieverts per hour [2], which is the highest radiation level ever recorded.

[1] http://gizmodo.com/excessive-radiation-inside-fukushima-frie...

[2] https://www.sciencealert.com/radiation-levels-in-the-fukushi...

ameesdotmeon Minimap plugin for Atom implements ads, refuses to revert, resulting in a fork

https://github.com/Uberi/Adwear

You can even monetize your terminal applications!

ameesdotmeon Ask HN: What is your password management solution?

Keep in mind that enabling the LastPass Accessibility service in Android disables device protection features (like storage encryption).

ameesdotmeon EU Prepares "Right to Repair" Legislation to Fight Short Product Lifespans

I've had similar experiences with electronic shops. One thing that's really helped me is legal counsel insurance. It's about €5,- a month for the entire household and if a shop doesn't offer a fair solution, I just give the insurer a call and they take care of everything. It's saved me a lot of time and headaches.

ameesdotmeon Show HN: EverydayCheck – A minimalist app to help you form new habits

I use Loop[1] for something like this. It's an Open Source Android app that looks and works pretty nicely, it doesn't have a web-view or sync capabilities though.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.isoron.uha...

ameesdotmeon Node v8.1.2

I just regularly run `yarn upgrade-interactive` in my projects.

I was thinking of making dependency-updates part of the CI-pipeline, using a 'allow_failure'-flag. However, if you decide not to upgrade a dep for some reason, this will cause each and every build to throw a warning.

ameesdotmeon Musician’s hand injured after UA supervisor wrestles away antique violin

Is this a follow up to injuring a woman in a wheelchair yesterday?

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/woman-confined-whee...

ameesdotmeon Show HN: Wall of Stickers, hexagonal sticker for your laptop

Hate to be that guy, but PayPal?

ameesdotmeon Show HN: Hello – Video chat with upto 8 people from browser

Really cool and simple! Love it.

ameesdotmeon Show HN: An audio only social network

Next to the comments made by other users, it seems like the app just uploaded my address book without explicitly asking me. This was a really scary situation and resulted in an instant uninstall to hopefully stop it from uploading.

Not the way to handle this.

ameesdotmeon Ticketmaster is a horrible company

Well said. It's a shame TM has a monopoly when it comes to the larger events in my country.

ameesdotmeon Show HN: Razorframe – A Node.js module for empowering real-time apps at scale

Really interesting. I still have some doubts on Socket.io on large scale though!

ameesdotmeon Show HN: CakeResume – Drag and drop resume snippets to build a unique resume

Pretty interesting concept! I'd like to be able to add variables that are used throughout snippets, so changing designs doesn't require me to re-enter a lot of information.

ameesdotmeon A $900B Oil Treasure Lies Beneath West Texas Desert

First we brought JavaScript to the back-end, now we're bringing JavaScript to shale gas extraction.