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dc3k··on Apple's smart home camera reportedly won't record video
it has also been available on apple home for 10 years
dc3k··on Mother convicted of: her 5 yo walks short way to pond alone in Virginia
in addition to the absolute lunacy of the charges in the main article, the list of similar cases where parents were charged/convicted for letting their children walk a short distance alone is absurd

america really is a backwards place

dc3k··on French musician Kavinsky found dead
> Hundreds of musicians died today.

source?

dc3k··on git's –end-of-options Flag
I also appreciated that the site didn’t give me a popup asking me to sign up to its newsletter.
dc3k··on HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88
Disregarding the fact that this thing is completely broken, its grading rubric is ridiculous to begin with (as was mentioned in the article itself, but I must reiterate how completely stupid this is):

> 35 points for open source contributions

> 30 for personal projects

I don't contribute to open source or have personal projects because I don't spend my free time doing what I do 40 hours a week to make a living. My 15 years of work experience is worth a maximum of 25%, so any company using this idiotic system would pass on me immediately. Open source and personal projects are fine, but in no sane world are they worth 65% of a resume's score.

dc3k··on PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies from Customers' Accounts
it should not be legal for the product page to say “purchase” or “buy” when in reality you’re only renting it with a to be determined end date
dc3k··on [dead]
this news article from the catholic church is surely going to be objective and free of bias
dc3k··on Show HN: I built 80 mini-games using Fable before it was shut down
> I built

Seems more accurate to say “an LLM ripped off”

dc3k··on Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges
https://archive.ph/7DyNA
dc3k··on Sinaloa cartel used phone data and surveillance cameras to find FBI informants
i am pretty confident that at least 99.99% of people dont put their phone in airplane mode when not actively making a call
dc3k··on Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System
im running a pihole so i take advantage of lighttpd that it uses, with the mod_proxy configuration. i can then do something like the following to have a friendly url on my local network

$HTTP["host"] == "jellyfin.dc" { proxy.server = ( "" => ( ( "host" => "192.168.1.99", "port" => "8096" ) ) ) }

dc3k··on Google Maps now shows the 'Gulf of America'
> Gulf of America is a more inclusive name anyway since both USA and Mexico are part of North America

gulf of america is not more inclusive. the "renaming" was not meant to be inclusive, it was very clearly meant to be divisive.

this is a similar argument to one often used when people call canadians americans: "umm, ackshully, canada is in north america, so it's correct to call them americans"

and of course the flaw in that argument is that literally nobody on earth considers canadians to be americans except people on the internet trying to sound smart.

dc3k··on Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch
i'm playing around with your onshape document and learning a lot of things for my own projects. thanks! (also, amazing work of course)
dc3k··on Ads chew through half of mobile data
i’ve been doing the same for a few years now. wireguard’s “on demand” feature is perfect for this. the odd time i’ll have to shut it off to get through a captive wifi portal, but otherwise it (along with browser ad blockers) has made mobile browsing significantly less terrible
dc3k··on South Korean Lawmakers Vote to Defy President, Demanding an End to Martial Law
https://archive.is/5XdjW

i am really really tired of having to close 3 pop ups before finding out i can only read the headline of the article before hitting a paywall. wish hn would have a rule against unusable links like this, or a bot that automatically swaps to an archive link or something

dc3k··on Man dies after being knocked down by woman on scooter
we have these scooters in my (very touristy) town. they make an annoying “bing bong avoid sidewalks” sound when driven on the sidewalk, but that’s it. they don’t limit the speed to something annoying/reasonable like 3-4kph. tourists constantly blasting by people on the sidewalk, it’s not surprising to me that this sort of thing happens.
dc3k··on Firefox update added more sponsored content on new-tab page
no, i have the weather thing now and i am not in the US
dc3k··on iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max
it is likely that they are disabling it in software as it is only missing on the product page for the usa
dc3k··on The Santander UK iOS app is 613 MB and 35% of it does nothing
Material design components maybe?
dc3k··on Freetube is the best way to watch YouTube
Oh no, not a DMCA violation
dc3k··on More Americans are searching online about moving to Canada. But will they?
Which carrier? Presumably they’re an MVNO? That price is what I’m looking for.
dc3k··on Voice Isolator: Strip background noise for film, podcast, interview production
i think i’ll stick to nvidia broadcast for this
dc3k··on Big Things in Small Packages: The Charm of Japan's Kei Truck
there are (were?) italian variants from piaggio
dc3k··on You Need a Backup Bank
Who uses cards anymore? I don't even carry a wallet. Everything has been tap to pay on phones for years now.
dc3k··on Ask HN: Tell me your stories of taking lower paid work to be happier
i left a high paying tech job in san francisco, mostly because san francisco is a terrible place to live and i hated the constant tech culture. i took a 60% pay cut (even more when factoring in equity) and moved to a smaller city in canada. quality of life is significantly improved, and with the raises i’ve gotten over the years i’m living a very very comfortable life
dc3k··on Linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky dies at age 95
the link also contains no content whatsoever. there is no article, only links to other parts of the website
dc3k··on Apple announced RCS with a whimper when it should have been a bang
i’d guess that a very very very large majority of people don’t know or care what RCS is. i certainly don’t. i can’t even remember the last time i used an sms or mms. most likely people use whatsapp or telegram or signal or whatever if they’re not using imessage
dc3k··on Google CEO Sundar Pichai takes a look at a sample Google search [video]
I opened this link on my phone. Only like 25% of the video is even visible. The rest is covered by UI elements and text.
dc3k··on 120cm to inches
I used Bing’s co-pilot the other day to ask “if I travel 1km in 6 minutes how many kph am I going?” and it told me that I would be travelling at 600 kilometres per hour.
dc3k··on Stop Using Discord
The way this was written and presented makes me want to buy Nitro out of spite.
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