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can16358p

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JS, React, Solidity coder. Design enthusiast, crypto/web3 evangelist.

If I stop responding to your comments it's usually because you aren't worth responding, not because I don't have a counterargument.

Time is precious.

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can16358p··on Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc
I hope they don't turn Liquid Glass into Aqua... which I hated. The only time I started to like the iOS interface was iOS 7 with flat design. I hope they don't turn this into old, skeuomorphic, Aqua-like UI by time.
can16358p··on WeatherStar 4000+: Weather Channel Simulator
It literally couldn't find my city nor the most popular city of my country.
can16358p··on Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?
While I haven't used Windsurf, I've been using Cursor and I LOVE it: especially the inline autocomplete is like reading my mind and making the work MUCH faster.

I can't say anything about Windsurf (as I haven't tried yet) but I can confidently say Cursor is great.

can16358p··on Firmware update bricks HP printers, makes them unable to use HP cartridges
I'd have water resistance which benefits me A LOT, over user-replaceable battery that I never needed on any device I owned my entire life.
can16358p··on Apple introduces iPad Air with powerful M3 chip and new Magic Keyboard
3D design/sculpting, Procreate with many layers, intensive gaming, video editing.

Though I agree most workflows aren't remotely capable software-wise compared to Mac counterparts.

can16358p··on Copyright reform is necessary for national security
I honestly don't understand why this is not the case already. Actually copyright should be even less-enforceable.

Information/access to data/works should be totally free and there should be other ways to support the creators.

For example I could easily download MP3s of music and MP4s of series/movies but I don't: simply because of two reasons:

- I want to support the artist (to an extent as possible) - Using Spotify/Apple Music/Netflix is much more convenient with a totally acceptable monthly fee.

I know the article is not about entertainment but a library, same rules should apply.

And if one wants to train an LLM, let them: at its essence it's just a person who has read all the books (and access to information should be free), just the person is a machine instead of a biological human being.

can16358p··on How to turn off Apple Intelligence
Interesting.

My impressions are the exact opposite: it perfectly summarizes everything to the point like 98% of the time at least.

can16358p··on How to turn off Apple Intelligence
It's not only available in US. It might be only available in US English language, but regionally I'm in Asia and have been using it since day one.
can16358p··on Do Insects Feel Pain?
I never intentionally harm a single insect... except flies and mosquitos. I hope they do feel the pain as they deserve it!

Other than that I respect all of them.

can16358p··on Show HN: Cs16.css – CSS library based on Counter Strike 1.6 UI
For a better experience, please clean the rubber mouse ball and put it back and set your browser window to 1024x768 resolution for the ultimate experience.
can16358p··on Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search
Honestly I wouldn't be surprised that if Google requires some Proof-of-work done on browser's host's CPU/GPU to validate search results and make it infeasible for bots therefore.
can16358p··on Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app
Congratulations!

The app and the site looks really cool. A very very small issue on website. In the FAQ section it says "Every files gets processed on your device only" I think "files" should be "file" there. Nothing really important, just my perfectionism :)

Keep up the good work!

can16358p··on Diagnosing an Unusual WiFi Issue (2020)
I have a completely unrelated issue: since switching to a new iPhone, only my iPhone occasionally can't access anything on Wi-Fi.

All my other devices, including a MacBook and iPad connected to the same network work fine. My previous iPhone also worked just fine, it's just the new phone.

I know how annoying these can become, and glad to hear that you could pinpoint it down.

can16358p··on YouTuber won DMCA fight with fake Nintendo lawyer by detecting spoofed email
Probably YouTube scanned it, found something potentially actionable, automatically informed the representatives. The video was unlisted, which is not private, technically totally accessible to anyone with the link.
can16358p··on From Pegasus to Predator – The evolution of commercial spyware on iOS [video]
Yup, the audio was so bad that it started to hurt my ears and had to stop. Would love to watch/listen to a version with fixed audio though!
can16358p··on New 'OtterCookie' malware used to backdoor devs in fake job offers
Yes, while this is not exactly the same, the code and general logic is eeriely similar to what was sent to me. One of them is likely a fork of the other.
can16358p··on New 'OtterCookie' malware used to backdoor devs in fake job offers
Something similar happened to me: got a job offer many months ago from someone on LinkedIn that I don't know... though these things happen a lot. My title back then had web3 and Solidity developer in the name. He sent me the link to a Git repo for an NFT marketplace, a simple React app. He told me that the previous dev quit and someone needs to complete the unfinished project. I downloaded the code but opened in a VM, which turned out to be one of the best decisions of my life without even realizing it.

When I ran the app some parts seemed broken as expected everything was otherwise normal. He then asked me that whether I'm running in a VM or not and some features wouldn't work in a VM and I should have ran on my actual computer. It was an immediate red flag (why would a React app need that?). I checked running processes on the VM and saw a Python instance. When I examined the opened files it pointed to a suspicious file, and it was a fresh VM and nothing in the project setup needs Python for anything. Then I zipped the project, sent it to ChatGPT and asked about malware, and it found a totally obfuscated dev-targetting malware-downloading script disguised as error handler middleware. If I ran it on my machine, it could have stolen at least a thousand bucks from my local crypto wallets: I checked the payload code via HTTP interception and realized that the script sends any private keys for crypto wallets to its own server, and I'd never be sure of my system again anyway.

I've warned the hosting company (though it seemed like a very cheap and sketchy one anyway), and I found out that the person on LinkedIn has blocked me in the meantime.

These are very real threats, be careful.

can16358p··on Spotify Shuts Down ‘Unwrapped’ Artist Royalty Calculator with Legal Threats
I'm not a Spotify user, I'm an Apple Music user, though if there wasn't Apple Music I'd use Spotify.

The reason that I'd never use YT Music is that I never trust anything from Google: their interfaces are ugly, everything's user-unfriendly, and they have the habit of discontinuing a service at any time. Also it has the impression of not really being well-thought as a product: why name a music service after a video service? I know it's not the case but it always reminds me of those low quality music playlists where people collected low quality unofficial music videos back then in YT just for the music: simply not the right tool for the job.

can16358p··on How to lose a fortune with one bad click
While this is devastating, the lesson that we should all remember:

Never, ever, no matter the circumstances, store private keys (or seed phrases) on photos. Especially if those photos are synchronized to the cloud.

Hand-write them, store them in a safe and secure PHYSICAL location.

Of course we're humans, we make mistakes, and we usually start with small amounts of money that we can lose where it would be unnecessary to take all these precautions, but we still need to regularly remind ourselves to avoid disasters like this in the self-custody world.

can16358p··on Show HN: Spotify and Apple Health data as art
I'd love to be able to pick data input myself! For example I swim and I might want to see my swimming pace or total distance for each month like a high score chart. Though many people are into different sports so being able to iterate all available Health data and having a dropdown would be great.

Keep up the good work!

can16358p··on Veo 2: Our video generation model
Same here. Well, Google being Google, not surprised.
can16358p··on Veo 2: Our video generation model
It crashed Safari on iPhone 16 Pro Max, I doubt it's the device.

The website is horrible on resources.

can16358p··on Most iPhone owners see little to no value in Apple Intelligence so far
Notification and mail summaries definitely nice to have, thought I can live without that.

What I'd really love to have is Siri superpowered with contextual natural language capabilities and multi-commands in a natural sentence. It _is_ getting there: Siri is better than it used to be and has somewhat of a contextual knowledge so far (compared to zero, before the update) but it's not there yet. It sometimes fails miserably. It should get to LLM-level contextual "memory" to be acceptable IMO.

can16358p··on 25 Years of Dillo
Good to know I'm not alone :)
can16358p··on React 19
I get NextJS but how does React itself try to screw devs with PaaS?
can16358p··on Bitcoin price hits $100K for first time in history
...just like, fiat money.

At least, Bitcoin can't be printed and not centralized like a government-controlled money.

Bitcoin is not perfect, also not fully decentralized either, but still much better than more-centralized fiat which are government-controlled and are still used for all the harmful purposes already.

can16358p··on No Nat November: My Month Without IPv4
IPv4 isn't going anywhere soon. I live in a country with 80 million people and a very Internet-using population, yet no ISPs currently offer IPv6, and I'm sure there are many more similar countries.

I wish I could use it though.

can16358p··on Automat
It was lovely until I double tapped and accidentally zoomed in with no apparent way to zoom back out again.

Otherwise, lovely.

can16358p··on Ask HN: What would you preserve if the internet were to go down tomorrow?
I agree with you, and it's not only about rich and Western countries: you might be rich and have a stable Internet connection, but would like to stay totally offline too, which is very hard (if you just want to watch YT videos on something when offline etc) nowadays.
can16358p··on ToolGit: A collection of scripts that extend Git with various sub-commands
"git-delete-gone-branches" is exactly what I've been needing, will give it a try soon!
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