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bguebert··on The smart home graveyard is getting crowded
I like the shelly's too. I have one controlling my garage door opener and its been working out there without any air conditioning for maybe 5 years now and still going great. Our summers get to 90-100 F for a couple months too.
bguebert··on If AI coding is lowering your code quality, you're not managing quality right
I feel like this is the deal. If you already have a revolving door of tons of entry level developers you hire to churn code then AI agents are no difference to your process. The thorough approval and testing process you already have from that works the same.
bguebert··on Disney+ changes subscriber agreement to allow ads on every plan
I got tired of the price hikes of the ad free netflix and finally canceled. Since they added the ad tiers it got too expensive for what it was worth to me and I won't pay someone to watch their ads.
bguebert··on ER visits for gambling disorders doubled after expanded online gambling market
Illinois has a bunch of these too. They would always sell expanding what gambling is allowed by saying that the proceeds were going to go to pay for public schools, but its hard to say if that is true or not. Even if the gambling money goes to schools seems like it just frees up other tax money for whatever else. Now here its like a town of 4000 will have over a dozen places offering electronic slot machines. It's like every gas station and bar has them now. And then you can also have stuff like draft kings and fan duel on your phone. It seems like it would be inescapable once you fell into the habit of gambling.
bguebert··on Every invoice in Brazil's economy runs on SOAP 1.2
I dunno, looking back I don't think that soap was really the problem. I'd see people complain about how complicated soap was while not using a library for it. Then say REST was so much easier as they piped the JSON through eval to get things working.
bguebert··on Built a Lego minifigure configurator. Shuffle until something makes you laugh
I've always found it kinda annoying when using a SPA for a bit and wanting to go one page back and then getting taken out of the whole site. If I want to close a site I usually close the whole tab. Maybe its just wanting what you are used to and now the SPA way is the "default" for most people?
bguebert··on The two Christian saints who are the Buddha
Not all protestants were trying to change the church in a new way. The Lutheran reformation was an attempt to correct drift from papal decrees from the original christian doctrine so I wouldn't say the Catholic Church is the closest to the early church. I could see how something like the Latter Day Saint movement to be something way off the original track though.
bguebert··on Choosing a Public DNS Resolver
I've seen some routers that will just silently redirect anything on port 53 to their own idea of the best dns server to use. That would probably "fix" this problem, but I always thought it was a little shady to redirect stuff like that. Makes troubleshooting problems difficult if you don't know it is happening.
bguebert··on F3
I mean json might not be the best example since for a long time people would run json through a javascript engine to parse it but I can see your point.
bguebert··on F3
I mean I disable javascript embedded in pdf and feel like it would have been better to not have that feature. It would spare people from the invoice.pdf email attachment viruses because most people had assumed pdf isn't going to be as bad as an exe.
bguebert··on Help Keep Thunderbird Alive
calling it garbage seems kinda harsh, but I think they are moving more to using a javascript rendering method instead of xul. I remember reading about it a while back. I don't really like it either and one of the first updates from back then broke a lot of UI that had been working ok. I am not really sure what the problems are with working with xul though, but I think firefox moved off it a long time ago too. I feel like thunderbird's user base is more the type to want to use thunderbird because it runs like a local first desktop style app as an alternative to using a web interface to their email. At least that's what I like about it.
bguebert··on Git commands I run before reading any code
Sometimes its nice to have a history like that because then maybe you are thinking of trying the thing they tried that wouldn't work and it would save you some time trying it if you can tell from those commits that it didn't work.
bguebert··on Running out of disk space in production
This saved us a couple times. At least until I had time to add monitoring to their old system to track disk usage. It was also helpful to use a tool called ncdu. It helps you visualize where most disk space is getting used up to track down the problem.
bguebert··on I Won't Download Your App. The Web Version Is A-OK
I feel like its because other than the user, the people involved have a benefit to running native instead of as a webapp. The phone OS companies get their percent of apps developed in their stores and the app developers get better access to your data to resell. Apple in particular has been really hostile to webapps.
bguebert··on America's never had such high national debt heading into an economic shock
There might have been a budget surplus but we were still in debt.

https://www.investopedia.com/us-national-debt-by-year-749929...

Here they show the debt increasing through the 90s but by less than most other decades. I don't know if it takes into account inflation though so maybe that would have made the debt have less value. Seems like they didn't use any of the surplus to pay off the debt.

bguebert··on Claude Cowork exfiltrates files
Adobe added embedded javascript to pdfs. Its an option to turn it off but its enabled by default. I turned mine off a long time back and never notice any problems but I don't use a lot of pdfs with interactive forms.
bguebert··on Show HN: I built a tool that texts you if your server goes down
This is cool. I did something similar at my work using smokeping and the #@vtext.com to send the texts.

https://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/

bguebert··on Frustrated YouTube viewers seek explanation for hour-long unskippable ads
It does seem like they have destroyed most of the competition. I was frustrated with the ad-blocking the other day and looking for a video but the whole first page of links was all youtube. I guess that's why they are starting to crack down on adblockers since people don't have as many other places to go now.
bguebert··on Farmers are abandoning their land. Is that good for nature?
I mean I don't know if I would say the land is just abandoned. Some farmland that people let go back to forest can also have the trees harvested from it periodically so its still productive in another way. The land can still be valuable.
bguebert··on Ask HN: It's 2030 – JavaScript has been deprecated by a new language. Which one?
It's kinda ironic to post that on a site that uses var in its javascript
bguebert··on Firefox removes "do not track" feature support
I always though something like ublock origin should be built in with a standard format for the block list rules so people could just use different rules lists if they wanted to.

It would be nice to have a feature for enable/disable javascript per site also.

bguebert··on Show HN: High School Student's First App – NWS Weather Report
The NOAA has an api here:

https://www.weather.gov/documentation/services-web-api

It's free to use, but they have rate limits. I was always wanting to set up something like that too, but I never got around to it.

bguebert··on The World Is Watching the U.S. Deal with Bird Flu, and It's Scary
https://archive.is/N9WLx
bguebert··on Developer pockets $2M in savings from going cloud-free
They don't mention any extra costs for people to manage the on premise setup. I mean its probably still a savings for them but it seems weird to leave that out.
bguebert··on Gamma radiation is produced in large tropical thunderstorms
yeah, its pretty cool how most of these photos they were trying to take a picture of something else and the red sprites just happened to be in the right place because of a storm front moving in.
bguebert··on Gamma radiation is produced in large tropical thunderstorms
Here's an article with some pictures in case anyone else was curious about red sprites like I was.

https://earthsky.org/earth/definition-what-are-lightning-spr...

bguebert··on California Bans All Plastic Bags After Its First Effort Backfired
https://archive.is/R6x7s
bguebert··on Discord Reduced WebSocket Traffic by 40%
Probably not for live shared audio/video
bguebert··on Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon
Hezbollah has been warning its members not to use cell phones because they get targeted by using them too. Seems like the pagers were supposed to be the workaround for that.

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/sya00qlswa

bguebert··on "Tinyboxes finally have a buy it now button"
On their site they say it can run at 220V 15A if you got that.

https://docs.tinygrad.org/tinybox/

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