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degif··on Fossify – A suite of open-source, ad-free apps
More power to it! I do agree on the other selling points (privacy focused and open-source) for the Fossify, just was wondering about the ads.
degif··on Fossify – A suite of open-source, ad-free apps
Genuine question – do Android people get ads in their OS default camera, calculator, calendar, phone, file-manager or SMS messaging applications? Or do have these Fossify application some extra privacy features that do not come with the default ones?
degif··on Show HN: Synesthesia – Visual Website Builder
So it is not a next generation editor at least yet? I personally do find this kind of marketing language off-putting – if the main promise is basically a false one, I immediately get suspicious of the whole product in general and dismiss it without even trying it out :/ I would rather read a honest "simple to use" even it is not that loud or unique. Note that this is not a critique on the product itself, just the landing page.
degif··on A candle produces roughly the same amount of energy as a resting human
Oh my house is pretty well passively ventilated. Not sure what has my house to do with the fact that lighting a candle consumes oxygen though.
degif··on A candle produces roughly the same amount of energy as a resting human
Air quality in this context is not about smells or the sterility of the air, but simply just about the oxygen level.
degif··on Imagen Video: high definition video generation with diffusion models
The difference with this technology are the unlimited possibilities to generate any type of video content with low knowledge barrier and relatively low investment required. The ethical issue is not about how this technology could disrupt the video job market, but how powerful content it can create literally on the fly. I mean, you can tell it's computer generated ... for now.
degif··on Russia to legalize software piracy
The statement "Not that you asked my opinion, but $23/year for screendimming software--its no wonder people crack this." does not make any sense. If this is an application that only dimms the screen (which you can do multiple ways without any application) why would anyone make an effort of creating and distributing it and why would anyone make an effort on searching for a cracked version of given application? Surely there is some added value to it.

Also "if you can detect that someone is cracking your software or doesn't have a valid license, put a donation link in the shape of a coffee cup in the corner of your software. At least people have the option to support you." I have no data to back this up, but I really doubt that the people that are money-limited or just don't want to pay 20$ for an application will suddenly support a developer voluntarily.

degif··on Make Front End Shit Again (2018)
Nor is it fun to visit (more than once).
degif··on The Kodak Brownie changed privacy rights
Kodak M35 or the slightly updated M38 model come first to mind.
degif··on The Kodak Brownie changed privacy rights
You can get an equivalent of enabling folks to take (only) photos ad nauseum at $34 also today.
degif··on Ask HN: How to get started with audio programming?
That is how I learned the very basics of web audio and modular synthesizers at once (here's the result https://github.com/spectrome/patchcab). Setting a clear goal makes the learning much easier.
degif··on Demonpore 64 – The first molecular gaming console
Is this targeted only to people knowledgable in chemistry and "nano stuff"?

I feel like I would be a target audience (games that do real world science and a greater good mixed with some cool looking hardware gadget, hell yeah) and I have children that would probably be interested in such thing.

But even after this extra explanation I don't understand what is the thing actually doing. What is the exact game mechanism? Do I only observe things; do I score better if I am fast or smart; what is the bio stuff in those things and how does it affect the games?

Could you maybe explain it like I'm five? Without using the words nano and molecular and bio and dna :)

degif··on Bitcoin is now worth $50k – and it's ruining the planet faster than ever
What are some examples contrary to Bitcoin of human made things that are high in monetary value, but low on total (creation, distribution and maintenance) environmental impact?
degif··on Show HN: Patchcab – Modular Synthesizer Made with Web Audio API and Svelte
Hey, author here. Thanks for the great feedback! I totally agree on all of the points. I've already considered the global play/volume controls with a main output patch point and will redo the slider to look more as an actual slider. The presets and tutorials/documentation is something that just needs a lot of time, which is really limited for a side project :)

Patchcab started as an exercise for myself to learn the basics of modular audio and music theory. Working with tools I already know seemed the best idea and the Tone.js was a prefect fit for this. The exercise then turned to an idea of a modular (code and audio wise) Javascript/Typescript synth that would resemble VCV visually. Porting VCV itself to a browser is a really interesting idea and has been done to some extent https://github.com/miRackModular/Rack, but is really out of scope for what I wanted to build :) That said, I feel like porting some open source Eurorack modules (Mutable instruments, https://github.com/pichenettes/eurorack, I'm looking at you) would be a really nice next step.

degif··on Ubiquiti Networks Breach
I'm a developer from one of the cheaper engineering countries to where Ubiquiti has moved to. I'm not sure what are you implying with your comment and I hope it's not "the company is declining because the company moved talent to countries where developers are cheaper". I do personally have friends working there and they are top class developers. Living costs don't necessarily correlate with talent levels.

That said I don't hear the best about the company (long working hours, not the highest pay) and have declined a job offer there myself.

degif··on TailwindCSS v2.0
Can you elaborate on what you mean by "it's not free"? Based on Github, Tailwindcss is open-source and MIT licensed.
degif··on Universal Paperclips
My favourite - Trimps https://trimps.github.io. Playing the same game almost daily for more than two years and no plot end in sight.
degif··on Svelte Is Unappealing
Yeah, I do agree. That was not a critic of Svelte, just a comment about that there is a difference between compilation (Svelte) and transpilation (Babel). I do use Svelte in every day job myself and prefer it to React (which is also great) just because writing Svelte "feels" like what Javascript has intended to be.
degif··on Svelte Is Unappealing
You can write and run React/Preact based applications "as is" without using a transpiler like Babel (you just typically do to minify code and use more fancy javascript features). You can't run a Svelte based application without precompiling it using the Svelte compiler.
degif··on Using ‘switch’ to match arbitrary logic instead of string or number literals
The same is in JavaScript:

  return (twitterUrl && config.twitter) || (githubUrl && config.github) || default
degif··on It's Time for a DevTools for Designers
A problem I and my friend are tackling from a different perspective - what happens to the Web, when it's already out there and a designer wants to introduce some new changes. This process is still in the stone age of internet - emails and screenshots are the rockstars here. As the title of this blog post says - we are also trying to come up with a "DevTools for designers" with https://finch.io - a web fine-tuning toolkit for live or development websites that tries to balance between a "designer tool" and a "devtool".
degif··on Fog.sh – decentralized content publishing on the IOTA ledger
To check the data authenticity it's connecting to a node server for the data synchronisation, the data encryption happens on the client side. Client side nodes are on IOTAs roadmap as it's a technical challenge to synchronise with the network by just storing a small chunk of it.
degif··on Fog.sh – decentralized content publishing on the IOTA ledger
It's not because of Apples and Oranges :)
degif··on Fog.sh – decentralized content publishing on the IOTA ledger
Right now IOTA works as a content storage and distribution "database" regarding to what we are building, so it's more simple than Ethereum smart contracts and their own language. The API SDK's are all there and are working great for us!
degif··on Fog.sh – decentralized content publishing on the IOTA ledger
Hey, one of the developers here! Happy to see this on Hacker news, thought the CMS is still in heavy development. Happy to answer questions and I hope we can stay on the problem/technology/product topic and oversee all the crazy speculation stuff ;)
degif··on Fog.sh – decentralized content publishing on the IOTA ledger
Hey, one of the authors here. Short answer - yes. Together with some meta data, the published content is signed by the author, encrypted (read more here on how exactly https://blog.iota.org/introducing-masked-authenticated-messa...) and stored on the Tangle.

Fog CMS helps with the content publishing and is one of the ways on how to read and display the content from the Tangle.

degif··on IOTA: A tangled mess
Communication is possible if you talk to the right people. Keep in mind that the people who are actually working on the technology itself or it's adaptation and implementation are not hanging all day around on reddit or #speculation channels. I'm running an iota network statistics page, so people assume i'm more educated about iota and I receive clarification, technological or simple development questions on Slack on daily basis. I do answer all of them as best as I can, a lot of them have been evolved in pretty long discussions and I have received the same attitude from other iota community members.
degif··on IOTA: A tangled mess
One of the developers for the UCL wallet here. Can you elaborate more on how did you lose money using a wallet that is not released publicly yet and is available only for a closed group of alpha testers who all have been instructed not to use the wallet with their accounts holding significant amount of iotas?
degif··on Show HN: Hackerhunt – categorised curation of Show HN submissions
Initially we used all Show HN posts pointing to github repos as training data and the tags that are available at github.com, but that did return pretty noisy data.
degif··on Show HN: Hackerhunt – categorised curation of Show HN submissions
Yes, Hacker Hunt indexes all Show HN submissions, including those who never make to the main page. Actually - that was the whole reason to make Hacker Hunt happen.
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