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cianmm··on OUI-1: world's first model for Generative UI
I actually thought this was OpenAI until I read your comment
cianmm··on OpenLogi
I've had a paid licence for it for many years but I have ended up shying away from using it because the UI is just so cumbersome. An incredibly powerful piece of software though.
cianmm··on I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers (2013)
What a lovely surprise to see EscapePod. One of the early early podcasts. If you search through their backlog along with the backlog of their sister podcasts, you’ll find some narrations from a much younger, less tired, me.

I miss that age of podcasting. I’m glad EscapePod is still going.

cianmm··on Dirty Little Zine – a tool for making an 8 page printable Zine
I won't be clicking on that first link because I'm on a work machine but is that _Limewire_?
cianmm··on Dirty Little Zine – a tool for making an 8 page printable Zine
I didn't make this, but came across it and though it felt like the kind of thing HN would appreciate
cianmm··on The Future of Email
As a Proton user - the main trade-off for me is that you are forced to use their apps on mobile, and those apps are pretty barebones and (on iOS at least) have none of the bells and whistles of a modern iOS app, such as Home Screen widgets.

Since I use my own domain for email, I am considering moving over to another provider once my subscription term is up. I really miss widgets.

cianmm··on Tesla Solar Roof is on life support as it pivot to panels
My solar install took about 4.5 years to break even, which I understand is maybe a bit below average for where I live (Ireland).
cianmm··on MCP Hello Page
I have spent ~3 months working on various aspects of an MCP server builder at my day job and I hadn’t considered this solution to the nightmare of getting non technical end users connected. I shall be borrowing it next week!
cianmm··on Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act: Dangerous backdoor surveillance risks remain
Reading what Restore Britain stands for just makes them seem like another set of MAGA wannabes rather than the saviours of the UK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restore_Britain

cianmm··on France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US
Why would a private company deciding to release a Linux version of their product signal a government's follow-through? As far as I can tell, there is no current connection between Solidworks and the French government.
cianmm··on Rentahuman – The Meatspace Layer for AI
View on GitHub link at the bottom of this page https://rentahuman.ai/mcp
cianmm··on Rentahuman – The Meatspace Layer for AI
Is this real or a satire? The link to GitHub 404s.
cianmm··on Alaska Airlines' statement on IT outage
There are also firms that handle all of this for you for a % (in the region of 20%). They validate the claim and threaten ti take the airline to court if they don’t pay out.

I generally go direct to the airline these days but if I get pushback beyond what I’m willing to deal with myself, I’ll use one of those services.

cianmm··on EU Chat Control: Germany's position has been reverted to undecided
Here’s some data. Skepticism is pretty low and approval is pretty high

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1360333/euroscepticism-e...

cianmm··on Eye drops could replace glasses or surgery for longsightedness, study says
The issue is getting the lenses in and out of my eyes. I simply can’t. I tried really hard for about 4 hours with a consultant and I think that I got it in successfully once, and she had to remove it for me while I held my eye open.
cianmm··on Eye drops could replace glasses or surgery for longsightedness, study says
If they invented this for shortsightedness, which I have very slightly, I would pay a huge amount of money (in European medical cost terms) for it.

I mildly dislike wearing glasses but need them or I have a headache within an hour, I can’t overcome my blink reactions to put in contacts (after several hour long sessions with my optometrist) and my shortsightedness isn’t strong enough to convince myself to go for laser eye surgery.

cianmm··on Whatever happened to cheap eReaders?
I remember some blog (maybe HackADay?) suggested sanding the back to give it a brushed aluminium look and that ended up looking so cool. Those early iPods were all-time-great products.
cianmm··on Kagi – Introducing Fair Pricing
Is Kagi getting better for places outside the USA? Last time I tried to use them (in Ireland) all of the results were US focused, while Google would realise that I'm in Ireland and prioritise Irish businesses/sources and so on. I needed to include the word "Ireland" in any search phrase like "curtain cleaners Dublin" or otherwise I'd get curtain cleaning companies in a Dublin somewhere else, with no Irish results until the 2nd page.

Also, there was significant latency in searching compared to Google.

cianmm··on Apple acquires Pixelmator
Canva owns Affinity as of March https://www.canva.com/newsroom/news/affinity/
cianmm··on Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid
I went through my drawers and I have a bunch of black nylon Joseph Joseph spatulas and fish slices and things [1]. ChatGPT tells me that nylon is not frequently recycled because it's tough to do so - so I'm hoping that these are safe. They also say:

> All of our food contact products comply with EU regulations which states that materials do not release their constituents into food at levels harmful to human health. [2]

and they aren't some no-name brand that wouldn't suffer from lying about that.

[1] https://www.josephjoseph.com/products/elevate-carousel-utens...

[2] https://us.josephjoseph.com/pages/faq?search=recycle

cianmm··on I designed a Dieter Rams-inspired iPhone dock
I am extremely interested in this. I’ve got a new iPhone 16 and I’d love to use it in its case with this stand.
cianmm··on Apple unveils 'Passwords' manager app at WWDC 2024
I have this same issue. I've got to unpause the app multiple times, and wait for upwards of 15 to 30 seconds before the app actually unpauses.
cianmm··on TfL's simple pop-up message led to a significant drop in paper ticket sales
In Farrenfore you just get on the train. It’s a toss up on whether anybody will check your ticket on your journey to Dublin.
cianmm··on Roll-Invert-Unroll: An easier way to replace a duvet cover
Please share!
cianmm··on Show HN: Glossarie – a new, immersive way to learn a language
This [1] help article says that it's free. Not sure how much we should trust that though. Did you find a better source?

[1] https://support.babbel.com/hc/en-gb/articles/13752043233170-...

cianmm··on Glassdoor added real names to supposedly anonymous profiles
Glassdoor have a GDPR Data Deletion Request Form here: https://help.glassdoor.com/s/privacyrequest
cianmm··on Irish State announce plan to build a porn preference register for most of the EU
The article clarifies that this would cover pretty much any website which allows you upload video, so minors would have to take part on YouTube, Facebook, etc.

I guess the opt out would be to not use those platforms, but that seems unlikely.

cianmm··on Cleaning up my 200GB iCloud with some JavaScript
Interesting article. I have my own problem, that caused me to have to upgrade my iCloud plan, and thus may not be a high priority fix for Apple.

If you shoot RAW+JPEG (not a super-rare thing to do, for photo enthusiasts) then Apple Photos links the two images. Which is useful, rather than having a bunch of kinda-duplicates littering your library you can easily toggle between RAW and JPEG.

But this combining, along with the file system design described in this article, makes it impossible (as far as I can tell, anyway) to easily separate them and delete the RAWs. So years later, I have HUGE RAW files that I'll never touch that I can't delete, because I want to keep the much smaller JPEGS.

Any method that I've found to clean them up (exporting the originals, deleting them from the library, and then re-importing the JPEGs only seems easiest) will lose all of the years of metadata that I've built up in the library.

So I have to upgrade.

cianmm··on Omg.lol: An Oasis on the Internet
I actually don't really use the social stuff all that much. I already have a mastodon account on a country-specific server, and I'm not much of an IRC/Discord user
cianmm··on Omg.lol: An Oasis on the Internet
I argue with computers for my day job, I don’t want to do that after work hours too. I’m happy to pay somebody else (especially Adam who is just so active with the community) a fairly paltry sum to do it for me.
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