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anaganisk··on India cuts internet for 27M people amid search for fugitive
Not sure what to make of that statement, but the majority of people and shops prefer cash. Yes we have instant payment apps, but shops hate them. Also banking is not exclusively online, But, cutting off access is still bad.
anaganisk··on Altstore: Home for apps that push the boundaries of iOS
You you ++ has sponsor block and feels most polished and feature rich(though it's just built on official client) even compared to revanced or official YouTube app. I use them both.
anaganisk··on Altstore: Home for apps that push the boundaries of iOS
Altstore can now be run on docker, running it on a PI right now.
anaganisk··on Nations reach accord to protect marine life on high seas
I don't even have words to that, while a top western nation has multiple states banning birth control rights, they say another country irresponsibly has a large population. Without any consideration on why a certain social group prefers a certain food, why the demographic has multiplied so huge etc. The HN crowd seems to be the wrongest place when it comes to discussing politics. People tend to apply their tech thinking and suggest a bugfix without understanding what leads to a particular situation and what repercussions of their bug fixes might be, while having no problems exploiting the same abundant cheap labor to manufacture the latest gadgets, encouraging those countries to build more workforce at cheap rates.
anaganisk··on Blockbuster Video's website is suddenly active again
But they would essentially be more diverse in their ventures, isn't it so? Like they generate revenue from steaming and TV, if TV does they have a product to fall back on.
anaganisk··on Fake Samsung 980 Pro SSDs are spreading around
They are not so different from Amazon, Etsy or wish in terms of scams.
anaganisk··on Google says hackers could silently own your phone until Samsung fixes its modems
I mean that's exactly the point of phone cameras, each year phone companies are pushing the edge to get the best on board image processing to do more and more with the limited camera hardware options, it would be naive to expect commercial level control (composing) on the camera and expect it to sell to masses.
anaganisk··on How to politely decline a take-home test task
Why the assumptions? Not everything is a docker run. I can think of several well documented setups that can take upward of 2 hours, especially if you dont have high-speed internet or not so powerfull computer at home.
anaganisk··on Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work
Im sometimes feel bad when people say, "wish they solved X before Y." Why should product enhancement stop because of some bug/feature request. Arent bugs given some kind of priority status? I mean, Microsoft is not like a startup with a small team, right? And afaik windows and MS365 teams are not even related. So we can have both things at once. You could leave feedback, and maybe if MS deems it's what they want, probably in a future update, you will see them.
anaganisk··on ‘Old-School’ Signature Bank Collapsed After Its Big Crypto Leap
Even that has an ad at the end, lmao.
anaganisk··on Twitter’s $42k-per-month API prices out nearly everyone
In India, 420 is generally used to refer to a person who is a cheat/dishonest. Still fits guess. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_420_of_the_Indian_Pe...
anaganisk··on Young people in 13 EU countries refuse surveillance of online communication
Decentralized alternatives are primarily built by developers, Im not sure if Matrix employs specialized UI/UX teams. But at least a lot of attention is definitely paid in designing UI/UX for apps like Whatsapp, Discord, etc. They have cash to employ designers. Developers gain a good amount of knowledge, popularity, and skill, maintaining open source code, but for UI/UX, there is not much to gain for designers unless paid for.
anaganisk··on Dragon Programming Language
Where is the github/gitlab/bitbucket link? Where is the source to even look what it does and how it does? Also, from the wikipedia page

Some things that Dragon is often used for are:

Desktop applications development Internet of Things programming Android applications development Web applications development

Not one example or libraries provided on how it does that. Because the inbuilt packages for sure do not have many integrations, which make many of things possible in the usecases above. The website and Wikipedia page look pure marketing rather than any useful info. Is this just a DSL that calls native libraries of JVM or C??

anaganisk··on The floppy disk just won’t die
The real question is, do shareholders see it as an advantage or profitable?? Isn't that the final question for every industry? We can't even have good things that are relevant today because of unlimited growth expectations.
anaganisk··on GPT-3 will ignore tools when it disagrees with them
GPT doesn't like diversity, confirmed? Or more like Microsoft/Github doesn't want to accidentally add fetch master data and perform operations on slave data in such context :p
anaganisk··on Show HN: Total.js – Low-code development (Node-RED alternative)
With no offense intended, I've never heard of it, but. I would say, compare Luna Park with node red and compare the difference with total. Because this application is an alternative to Node Red.
anaganisk··on Nalanda University flourished for more than seven centuries
Normally, I would agree with you, but in this context, I would say it's abad faith argument. 1. Hindus never claimed they were better than any race. They say they had an advanced understanding of science back in the days. which, in many cases, have archeological recorded evidence. 2. Northern India was plundered by invasions, which got looted of its wealth and knowledge, many temples were shut down. In those days temples played multiple roles. They played the role of banks, seed storage, schools, medical centers etc, and there were massive drives of indoctrination and destruction during that time. Which also has recorded evidence. Why do you think southern India has more Hindu cultural heritage than Northern India? There are multiple nations that have some kind of relation, ties or roots with Southern India. 3. There were several recorded attributions of scientific contributions made by Indian region scholars. 4. I read your other comment saying, we whitewashed Nalandas History, let me ask you this, why does a place of learning have drawbacks. Its a place of learning designed with a certain curriculum. You are always free not to join it if the curriculum doesnt suit you. Its like saying Havard has drawbacks because it doesnt offer Tamil Litterature degree. 5. There are several recorded interactions by scholars from foriegn regions for Nalanda. Calling Nalanda university an attempt of propganda is self hate and self depreciation. I call out propoganda always, see my comment history against govt moves, but this aint it.
anaganisk··on Show HN: Llama-dl – high-speed download of LLaMA, Facebook's 65B GPT model
I mean highseas, adblockers, bypassing paywalls, each one of them is theft. But on the flipside, companies are constantly trying to keep the ownership of data we paid for full price, scooping up personal data, selling low quality work behind paywall.
anaganisk··on Show HN: A HN clone writen in Go
But who is going to visit your site? I dont mean to make a snarky comment, but I am curious as to how data is generated?
anaganisk··on Show HN: A HN clone writen in Go
Throw in some cloudflare, google, and AWS customer service responses while you are at it to make it realistic.
anaganisk··on T-Mobile Blocks Firefox in Private Mode
https://fingerprint.com/blog/incognito-mode-detection/

Fingerprintjs is a tracking company, so if you have adblockers, it might not allow you to visit the link. But this is the other side of the story.

anaganisk··on Amazon is closing its cashierless stores in NYC, San Francisco and Seattle
You would be so disappointed to know that people value their convenience and 5 minutes of fame more than anything. See TikTok, it captures so much data, and it's publicly known, Even TikTok doesn't deny it. Yet people dont stop using it. Companies are just taking advantage of it. See the positive comments here. It almost boils down to I hate checkout lines, so I want the convenience of being tracked, let my face expressions/action on seeing a product be allowed to train some Ad engine etc etc. We trade off a lot of personal data for transactions we conduct daily using tech, yet we are utterly surprised when that is used against us. Amazon bought One Medical. Buying cheese every day? Guess who is gonna soon get pre diagnosed with heart issues or marked with higher premiums. Others will laugh at my comment, but I won't be surprised, at least.
anaganisk··on Amazon Basics CPU Cooler Is Its First Foray into PC Components
Gravitron is Amazon basics? It's a different segment entirely. Amazon basics targets low-cost consumer devices and items. Im not targeting amazon here but the segment.
anaganisk··on Boeing Engineers Set a New Record for Paper Plane Distance
I can understand "cheapest" but why "hell hole". Are you trying to say countries like India, Vietnam, etc, only have bad engineers? Or do you mean the organizations that employ them use very harsh practices, or are you calling out the entire country? Depending on your stance, you are either being racist or talking with limited knowledge. I suggest you watch this.

https://youtu.be/naopd2d_dCM

The actual hellhole is the bean counters in Boeing, who willfully ignored a lot of things.

anaganisk··on Amazon Basics CPU Cooler Is Its First Foray into PC Components
Just rebranded chineese low quality BS. So, probably, we will never see Amazon Basics GPU/CPU.
anaganisk··on EU will require Apple to open up iMessage (2022)
If stars align right for Apple, this can at least with some probability that they can kill WhatsApp in a few countries. If they implement a few features.
anaganisk··on Future Fords could repossess themselves and drive away if you miss payments
Initiating VTOL sequence...
anaganisk··on Amazon removes books from Kindle Unlimited after they appear on pirate sites
Is that an /s or we are opening up floodgates of HN to become CS as a service.
anaganisk··on US Embassy in South Africa issues alert to stock up on food and water
mybroadband.co.za Warning iconYour browser is out of date! Update your browser to view this website correctly. More Information

Who builds these systems, im on the latest chromium.

I hate when government or corporate sites go out of the way to block anything that isn't Chrome or IE. Most laziest way to ensure compatibility.

Edit:

Ah, my bad, it's cloudflare. Congrats to cloudflare for blocking anyone who won't allow you to run your scripts from accessing information. archive.is it is.

anaganisk··on Wolfram Language and Mathematica Free on Every Raspberry Pi
Wow, did Freecell, solitaire, and Pinball in windows cause addiction to gambling in children? That's how it sounds. Me and brother were into RPis since 2B and always used Raspbian. Never did we once even clicked on Mathematica, I know many people in the community who never clicked Mathematica. Rpi also has a good Python integration, which is very well endorsed by the community and and obvious choice for many.
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