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digianarchiston Just let me select text

On iOS you can create a shortcut to push a screenshot through the built in OCR and copy to clipboard. You need to crop beforehand if you don’t want all the text on the screen.

https://imgur.com/a/NctIGsK

digianarchiston Be careful with Go struct embedding

golint possbily?

digianarchiston Be careful with Go struct embedding

I'm surprised this wasn't in the recent post submitted here: https://blog.habets.se/2025/07/Go-is-still-not-good.html

It's a one of a few rough edges in Go.

digianarchiston Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says

Visa fees can't be transferred to employees.

digianarchiston Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says

Employers aren't allowed to pass visa fees straight off to an employee.

digianarchiston Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says

That's about to speed up when H1-Bs drop to the hundreds next year.

digianarchiston Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says

They should cap visas issued by sector or DoL job families. It's way too skewed towards tech.

digianarchiston Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says

This was clarified today as not being correct.

> Lutnick also repeatedly said on Friday that the fee would be annual for companies, while the White House official said Saturday that it’s a “one-time fee that applies only to the petition.”

> In her Saturday afternoon post, Leavitt clarified that the payment would only be a “one-time fee” — not an annual one.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/20/donald-trump-h1b-vi...

digianarchiston Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says

AP is reporting the amount as an annual fee

https://apnews.com/article/h1b-visa-trump-immigration-8d3969...

Reuters

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/trump-mulls-a...

digianarchiston Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says

They'll still end up in the US as they can work a year abroad and come in using L1-B program for 5 years (3 + 2 years on renewal).

L1 has no PWD, no min wage requirements (beyond min wage law in US) and is completely uncapped.

digianarchiston Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says

The final scenario you describe already happens with immigrant visas. Once you have your Green Card you are free to quit the sponsoring employer and work for whoever you want.

digianarchiston Are Rolex watches cheaper at an airport?

I can’t justify $12k+ on stainless steel.

digianarchiston Are Rolex watches cheaper at an airport?

I'll stick with my $500 VFS clone. Nobody in my social circle can tell the difference anyway.

digianarchiston Denmark close to wiping out cancer-causing HPV strains after vaccine roll-out

Rick Perry?

digianarchiston Scammed out of $130K via fake Google call, spoofed Google email and auth sync

1password + hardware keys - I am not a large target though and use crypto transactionally.

digianarchiston Scammed out of $130K via fake Google call, spoofed Google email and auth sync

Any check mark?

https://www.thesslstore.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/...

Edit: I searched my email and it doesn't look like they are doing this at all with their accounts.

Edit II: Looks like it's on hold: https://blog.kickbox.com/gmail-bimi-exploit-what-you-need-to...

digianarchiston IBM Technology Atlas

It’s funny working for IBM as we’ve somonehow gotten a reputation as an AI innovator despite internally using the products of the competition.

In addition to that, the products internally developed like AskHR are awful obstacle courses one has to scramble through to reach a human.

digianarchiston Bank of Thailand freezes 3M accounts, sets daily transfer limits to curb fraud

Sounds like a feature not a bug.

Thailand doesn't want foreigners holding accounts. They've cranked up the requirements over time. It used to be possible to open an account as a tourist and now you're lucky to be able to get one on any visa that isn't attached to a work permit or PR.

digianarchiston UTF-8 is a brilliant design

I read online that codepoints are formatted with 4 hex chars for historical reasons. U+41 (Latin A) is formatted as U+0041.

digianarchiston Gaggiuino

I upgraded my GCP with a PID kit I bought from a UK vendor that changes the analogue temperature readings to digital along with the 9 bar OPV mod to bring the pressure of the brew head down.

This project goes a lot further and I would love to do it one day.

digianarchiston Next.js is infuriating

From their blog post:

> Previously, Next.js middleware only supported the Edge Runtime, which provided better performance and isolation but had limitations when integrating with Node.js-specific libraries and APIs.

That's not something that can be resolved with a library abstraction. That was an architectural decision.

digianarchiston Next.js is infuriating

They validated this on the thread. They made an architectural decision to run middleware only on edge.

digianarchiston Next.js is infuriating

I can’t help but feel some of these decisions are made because it’s what is best for Vercel and not what’s best for the framework.

digianarchiston What Are Traces and Spans in OpenTelemetry?

I've been tasked with adding telemetry to an AWS based service at work:

CLI -> Web API Gateway -> Lambda returning a signed S3 URL S3 upload -> SQS -> Lambda which writes to S3 and updates a Dynamo record -> CLI polls for changes

This flow isn't only over HTTP and relies on AWS to fire events. I worked around this by embedding the trace ID into the signed URL metadata. It doesn't look like this is possible with all AWS services.

I wonder if X-Ray can help here?

It can also be tedious to initialize spans everywhere. Aspects could help a lot here and orchestrion [0] is a good example of how it could be done in Go. I haven't found an OTEL equivalent yet (though haven't looked hard).

[0] - https://datadoghq.dev/orchestrion/docs/architecture/#code-in...

digianarchiston Jujutsu for everyone

Adoption probability without git squatting would be virtually zero.

digianarchiston Jujutsu for everyone

If you use asdf mise is worth a look. I use uv directly.

digianarchiston Nick Clegg: If the people who ran FB were monsters, I wouldn't have worked there

Supporting a referendum on EU membership and advocating for Brexit are not the same thing.

digianarchiston Nick Clegg: If the people who ran FB were monsters, I wouldn't have worked there

Hung parliaments are not a "1 in 100 electoral quirk" they've happened multiple times in the last 100 years.

digianarchiston Nick Clegg: If the people who ran FB were monsters, I wouldn't have worked there

Liberal Democrat Nick Clegg author of "How To Stop Brexit (And Make Britain Great Again)" was a Brexit advocate?

digianarchiston Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?

True. Proposal not law mind.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/174...