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danhab99··on Things I just don't like about Git
I wish git would stash changes when I checkout uncommitted code
danhab99··on Opposites don't actually attract: meta-analysis study
My dad one time told me that the reason he married my mom was because they were opposites. He's antisocial and she is a social butterfly, he thought it would be a good idea... 27 years later, ¯ \ ( ° _ o ) / ¯
danhab99··on NetBSD improves support for the Commodore Amiga
>(in turn belonging to the Unix family), stepbrother of macOS and first cousin of Linux

To the common people this means very little

To those who understands version control this means a lot more.

danhab99··on Ask HN: More “experimental” UIs for editing/writing code?
I've been struggling with what a touch based IDE for my galaxy tab4. Right now I'm thinking about showing a drawer with token suggestions written on color coded chips. Right now I'm struggling with packing an LSP into an Android app.
danhab99··on The FBI Forced a Suspect to Unlock Amazon’s Encrypted App Wickr with Their Face
Is the horror of this situation the fact that biometric security is less secure than a memorized password, or the big-brother-esq coercion tactic they used?
danhab99··on Log4j: The pain just keeps going
I feel like if we as the open source community would require commit signing we would be in a safer position. Crypto signing doesn't block malware from being introduced, but it would make it harder to sneek under our noses.

Currently in open source, you really don't know where your code is coming from and who worked on it. Git's "commit author" fields don't require any proof of identity, that's what GPG is for.

danhab99··on Naming microservices needs to be trivial, not cryptic (2018)
I strive to follow the Apature Science naming scheme with everything I code.
danhab99··on Ask HN: Share your personal site
Works great on a phone
danhab99··on Ask HN: What bits of fundamental knowledge are productivity multipliers?
My dad is annoyingly like this. I'm so grateful that I learned vim shortly after he taught me how to code.
danhab99··on Russia Threatens to Fine Wikipedia
Oh no

anyways

danhab99··on EU is going to require interoperability between messaging platforms
Why can't we get these kinds of policies in the US? Is it because Europeans are banding together to poke at us? I feel like they're doing this against us, even though we don't profit much from these tech companies bc of their tax dodging. Who are they winning against? Are we winning? Whats going on?
danhab99··on Israel passes law denying naturalization to Palestinian spouses
> 2. Substitute "Palestinian" for ANY other nationality, ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, or other adjective describing a group to which YOU belong.

Well they're not just any other "nationality, ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, or other adjective". They started their movement and created their identity for a specific reason. I kinda feel like we should look into the reason for their identity and factor that into how we look at this law.

danhab99··on Brave Talk: Unlimited, private video calls, in browser
> is also more or less dependent on assuming no malevolence by the certificate authorities

It doesn't have to be. Nothing's stopping you from signing your own certificates, just like nothing is stopping you from trusting the certificate your friend gave you, whether its by printing out the certificate on paper and then "handing" it to you, or sending it in an email. You're also 100% welcome to trust that your friend isn't a moron and lost control of his private key. AT THE SAME TIME, nothing stops you and abunch of your friends from trusting one or 2 dudes to be a certificate authority for your group.

Cryptography wasn't (and never tried to be) ever an alternative to not being stupid. Any 2 people can setup maximum 100% encrypted end-to-end communication using tools older than I am (or about my age). I feel like we let security and centralization blind us to solutions that we already have because those solutions are hard to onboard too. IRC is free, GPG is free, TOR is free, Email is still free.

danhab99··on Nintendo is removing switch emulation videos on Steam Deck from YouTube
> But what really rubs me the wrong way is when people who have chosen to steal start moralizing their position like they're standing up for some vague rights or principles

I feel like these are the same people that haven't learned how to shut up in highschool

danhab99··on Problems with Signal Messenger App
If signal is too "centralized" then why not use matrix or irc?
danhab99··on Open Web Advocacy
Webapps are already protected with the same privacy and security protocols the browser imposes on webpages. What can a native app possibly do that's such an egregious invasion of privacy that a webpage can't do? Filesystems are encapsulated, hardware apis require permission, and cameras now have a nice active indicator. What can anything possibly do anymore that hasn't been fixed in all of web2?
danhab99··on Open Web Advocacy
I didn't even know safari can't do webm. I wonder what else safari and WebKit can't do?
danhab99··on Ask HN: How can I see my screens without needing glasses
I use accessibility features, they're not enough so that I can sit a proper distance from my laptop and work all day.

My whole issue is that light isn't getting scattered properly inside of my eye, right? Hasn't anyone looked into a display technology that focuses the light I want to see into my eye anyways? I feel like this is the kind of ground breaking research that changes the world, not how to pack 10 different cameras onto the back of an iPhone, guess that's just me.

danhab99··on Ask HN: How can I see my screens without needing glasses
> Can work in ImmersedVR with a Meta Quest 2. Need to use corrective lenses still, but it doesn't bother your ears at least.

I've tried VR (with my glasses). I can see each pixel, I feel like I'm staring at a dot matrix display. I hate VR.

> Also if you've been using the same glasses for 5 years, you might just need to get a new pair

I mean I do. I'm just dreading having to break in a new pair. Those first 2 weeks of your shit not fitting right is traumatizing.

danhab99··on Crypto Exchange Binance Says It Is Taking Steps Against Sanction Targets
Why even do that in the first place, I thought the whole point of cryptocurrency is to have possession of your money. What's the point if you let some exchange do it for you?
danhab99··on Ask HN: Is MongoDB obsolote when Postgres and SQLite provide JSON types?
I understand that JSON supporting SQL databases struggle to index and search through JSON. I've had a much better time querying JSON objects from Mongo than Postgres.
danhab99··on Ask HN: Is Reddit Becoming Dumber?
I'd rather leave the internet
danhab99··on Ask HN: Is Reddit Becoming Dumber?
Average computer illiteracy across the entire internet population is down. I never got to experience the era of bulletin services, RSS feeds, emailing your friends, IRC.

Where's the tech bro internet? Where's the cool internet with the learning curve? Where am I??

danhab99··on Ask HN: Is Reddit Becoming Dumber?
I've been reading all of your comments and there's one theme I think we're neglecting to discuss, engagement is down too. Because of it's growing popularity and the limited amount of screen real estate, the ranking algorithm has to be a lot more discriminatory. This ends up meaning that any given user posts mostly low performing posts which discourages quality. It's like YouTube, soon "redditors" will be equivalent to "YouTubers".. or maybe "tiktokers"?
danhab99··on West Virginia wants to ban sending OTA updates to customer cars
OTA updates are important for any tech product and (hot take) electric cars have more in common with phones that gas cars. They need OTA updates. I would like to see it in law that these upgrades are not required and should be the users choice. I'm pretty sure that's what this bill was supposed to be before it got politics.
danhab99··on Tell HN: GitHub Appears to Be Down
Still have access in NYC
danhab99··on Slack is down for some users
My whole team doesn't want to work today because we'll have to use MS Teams as a backup. Rip
danhab99··on ZEK: Take Roam-Like Notes in a Line Editor, Written in Zig
I think this is the first completed project I've ever seen in zig. Pretty cool.
danhab99··on Retain Highly Skilled Employees Without Increasing Pay
The subtitle said "Money alone won't do it".
danhab99··on Ask HN: Good Alternatives to VS Code?
Vim with a near vscode set of plugins https://github.com/danhab99/dotfiles/blob/master/.vimrc . I keep getting weird looks from my boss about my vim, but I produce.
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