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aquatica··on Ask HN: Do we need a support group for developers alienated by LLMs?
I'm feeling the same. I'm 21, basically just started my career.

Nothing felt better than writing code, and feeling proud of what I had built. Now I am being forced at work to use AI/LLMs because "it's faster" and I feel like my whole life, the career I fought for, has been sucked away.

Idk, might switch to driving trains, if they don't automate that too...

aquatica··on Germany's identity crisis: The trains no longer run on time
It does. Open your train ticket from the app, then the "i" next to "On time"/"+X MIN" text, and it shows the list of all train stops and where the train is. Next to the train stop you find a number which is the platform
aquatica··on All Garmin Connect services are down
> It is not even possible to see local data on the phone.

I can still see and navigate through everything

aquatica··on Joint Declaration by Ministers of Germany, France, Poland, Italy, Spain, UK
Bullies don't care about diplomacy.

If you expect Russia to be willing to find an agreement that does not restrict Ukraine's freedom or take its territories, you are wrong, or such a war would have never begun in the first place.

aquatica··on Italy's Piracy Shield just blocked one of Google's CDN
TIM and WindTre have overridden the block, don't know about the other ISPs.
aquatica··on Italy's Piracy Shield just blocked one of Google's CDN
Your browser shows a TLS warning saying that the certificate doesn't match. If you override it, it brings you to that page.

This is not a DNS block, the IPs are owned by Google, Italian ISPs are forced to forward the traffic of a blocked IP to AGCOM's servers.

aquatica··on Italy's Piracy Shield just blocked one of Google's CDN
If you are connecting from an Italian ISP to https://mil04s43-in-f1.1e100.net you're going to be greeted by a message from AGCOM telling you the website has been used to spread copyrighted content.

This already happened with a Cloudflare CDN before. https://community.cloudflare.com/t/blocking-of-my-website-vi...

https://imgur.com/a/EKFHROX

aquatica··on The Optimus robots at Tesla's Cybercab event were humans in disguise
Because it didn't. There's videos where people ask and the "robot" replies with "I can't disclose how much AI there is in me"
aquatica··on Tesla's value drops $60B after investors fail to hail self-driving 'Cybercab'
https://gizmodo.com/elon-musks-beer-pouring-optimus-robots-a...
aquatica··on Let's talk about Frame.work's Customer Experience
This is my experience with frame.work's customer support, and how things should be improved.

One of the things I think is dangerous about the current state of their official communications channel (Discord, Reddit, etc) is that the moderators (which are volunteers but still overseen by framework employees) close conversations when people complain (as seen at the bottom of the linked post).

The other, even more dangerous thing, is that they've created and push an attitude of "don't care about the issue even if it's bad, I'll just buy a replacement instead of making a warranty claim" that makes users question their choice to contact Support. An example here: https://imgur.com/OLFJITP or straight up defending some the company's shady behaviour [1]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/framework/comments/1drjp5w/comment/...

aquatica··on Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?
Only 1-1 calls are encrypted, voice chats (group calls) are not
aquatica··on Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport
Goole Translate works good enough for this article, there is also one from "FiloSottile" but I haven't read it and iirc it still references this one, it's called "The most backdoor-looking bug I have ever seen"
aquatica··on Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport
Which is what the author of the article I linked did. The backdoor wasn't hypothetical, Telegram had to patch the protocol.
aquatica··on Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport
> "I can easily guess that assholes in secret service would probably like very much to use that to blackmail him to add backdoors to telegram. So sad."

Telegram is a backdoor by design. The server has complete access to all your messages, they can do whatever they want with those.

And they even had a backdoor in E2EE chats, see: https://habr.com/ru/articles/206900/

aquatica··on Syncthing – A decentralized continuous file synchronization program
It's important to say that data cannot be decrypted by the relay
aquatica··on Using alternative browser engines in the European Union
It's not like it would be illegal to distribute the apps outside of the EU, it's that Apple doesn't want to.
aquatica··on Proton is transitioning towards a non-profit structure
> However, the mailbox as a whole is encrypted at rest

The server still receives from other servers and from the client (if the email is not going to a proton account) the plain text, so nothing prevents them from making a copy.

aquatica··on Telegram founder claims Signal has a US government backdoor
Says the guy who had a backdoor in their super-secure e2e secret chats

https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/telegram-ecdh/

aquatica··on Telegram's peer-to-peer SMS login service is a privacy nightmare
What's the point of buying it from fragment (which is basically Telegram's way of using their scam currency) and spend at least €50 when you can just buy one for a few cents on websites such as smspva?
aquatica··on The Corvette that Windows zip folders bought
Is this the case for Europe too?
aquatica··on Apple hit with over 1.8B euro EU antitrust fine in Spotify case
Their response is the kind of arrogant that makes me want to see them get fined for the entirety of their cash reserve.
aquatica··on The KDE desktop gets an overhaul with Plasma 6
We won't. We'll get it with Fedora 40.
aquatica··on PyPy has moved to Git, GitHub
iirc GitLab is trying to federate using ActivityPub

Edit: yes, https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/architecture/blueprints/activity_...

aquatica··on Mozilla 2023 annual report: CEO pay skyrockets, Firefox market share nosedives
As for the password vault, I suggest you switch to Bitwarden. But for browsers? There isn't really much of a choice, it's either Firefox or Chromium-based.
aquatica··on Chat Control 2.0: EU set to approve end of private messaging, secure encryption
> Signal and Telegram do not have cash revenues from the EU

How so? Don't Telegram Premium and Telegram Ads count as revenue?

aquatica··on How Telegram Messenger circumvents Google Translate's API
Yes.

https://imgur.com/a/7UIFLxT

aquatica··on Dutch forensic lab says it has decoded Tesla's driving data
> The NFI said the decrypted data showed Tesla vehicles store information about the operation of its driver assistance system, known as Autopilot. The vehicles also record speed, accelerator pedal position, steering wheel angle and brake usage

Aren’t these the same things twitter.com/greentheonly publishes very often?

Example: https://twitter.com/greentheonly/status/1431094320296235008