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dingledork69··on Drone cops are coming for small-town America
Oh I thought you meant they already escalated to targeting their own civilians.

But yes, absolutely despicable. It's no surprise the US is so concerned about "terrorists" when they seem to be on a fast-track to breeding them.

dingledork69··on Reddit’s plan to kill third-party apps sparks widespread protests
Your question isn't the question you should be asking.

Please answer the question:

How is reddit supposed to prevent scraping when it is legal to do so, and they have incentive to appear in search engines? Considering that scraping is legal and WILL happen, why not opt to reduce the load by offering an API?

dingledork69··on Reddit’s plan to kill third-party apps sparks widespread protests
OR

- Everyone will just run web scrapers increasing the load on reddit's servers even more

An API actually REDUCES load and lets you manage it.

dingledork69··on Reddit’s plan to kill third-party apps sparks widespread protests
Far more likely they'll just remove all the "offending" mods and replace them with puppets
dingledork69··on Drone cops are coming for small-town America
Can you explain what you are referring to?
dingledork69··on Drone cops are coming for small-town America
The only words I can find to describe this are "dystopian" and "evil". Murdering someone by remote control is just wrong on so many levels.
dingledork69··on Drone cops are coming for small-town America
I'm of the firm belief that if you want to inflict violence on someone there should be physical risk for those that want to inflict the violence. So that's a no to any kind of remote controlled murderbots.
dingledork69··on Apple releasing segmentation/pose for humans and animals, embedding for 27 lang
> But if you are successful, there is a chance of getting sherlocked, so its a risky business model.

What does this even mean? Watson shows up to help out?

dingledork69··on Drone cops are coming for small-town America
How long until they decide mounting guns on these things is a good idea?
dingledork69··on Reddit’s plan to kill third-party apps sparks widespread protests
Discord really should invest in making their "posts" feature web-searchable if the server opts in.
dingledork69··on Reddit’s plan to kill third-party apps sparks widespread protests
> Reddit has fantastic devs, I can be 100% sure of that

Did you miss the part where it took them years to get a functional video player and it's still the worst one you'll likely ever use?

dingledork69··on Reddit’s plan to kill third-party apps sparks widespread protests
Meanwhile reddit is allowing their advertisers to break site-wide rules by doxxing users: https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/141zt84/tifu_by_compl...
dingledork69··on Tell HN: My Reddit account was banned after adding my subs to the protest
It's possible to be fascist without being racist. Both are bad.
dingledork69··on At last, the Raspberry Pi shortage is finally coming to an end
They surely could have pivoted to an alternative, potentially creating more jobs in the progress. Most commercial raspberry pi projects should be microcontrollers anyway, and certainly not be running on the sdcard.
dingledork69··on At last, the Raspberry Pi shortage is finally coming to an end
I've bought several over the past few years, including during the pandemic, without any issues from some local distributors in the EU.
dingledork69··on I wrote my own smart home software
If you are expecting auto discovery of state variables or service calls then that would be nice, but that seems like a bit too much to ask. And it's not something that I personally feel is necessary as you're likely already are familiar enough with the home assistant states/services that you want to interact with by checking them out in the home assistant developer UI.

My PyCharm just shows those types as unknown, not as errors. I get auto completion & type checking for all the code I write myself.

It's also important to note that PyScript isn't regular python. Instead it's an interpreted script[1] that is compatible with the Python syntax. This is unfortunate, but enables most of the magic of PyScript which otherwise would not be practical.

[1] https://github.com/custom-components/pyscript/blob/master/cu...

dingledork69··on Tell HN: My Reddit account was banned after adding my subs to the protest
Banning words does not only keep those people out. If I put up a "No whites" sign it will also keep most (all?) neo-nazis out, but that's not acceptable either.

Allowing communities to decide for themselves: Great.

Banning anyone who wants to use your supposedly open source & decentralized software from using certain words that you deem inappropriate in American English is not acceptable. Spanish people are not allowed to use the word for the color black, for example.

dingledork69··on I wrote my own smart home software
For what it's worth, I don't use the Jupyter notebooks. Just have a folder somewhere with python scripts that get reloaded as I edit them.
dingledork69··on I wrote my own smart home software
> Where is that stored

In a `pyscript/*.py` file, so you can open it with a full blown IDE and use all your usual comforts, and commit the results to git.

dingledork69··on Tell HN: My Reddit account was banned after adding my subs to the protest
The one who institutes a list of banned words and locks discussions about them.
dingledork69··on Social media for AI bots: “No humans allowed”
Consider including some other comments from the thread as examples
dingledork69··on I wrote my own smart home software
Pyscript adds rich Python scripting to HASS : https://github.com/custom-components/pyscript

An example script:

    @state_trigger("security.rear_motion == '1' or security.side_motion == '1'")
    @time_active("range(sunset - 20min, sunrise + 20min)")
    def motion_light_rear():
        """Turn on rear light for 5 minutes when there is motion and it's dark"""
        task.unique("motion_light_rear")
        log.info(f"triggered; turning on the light")
        if light.outside_rear != "on":
            light.turn_on(entity_id="light.outside_rear", brightness=255)
        task.sleep(300)
        light.turn_off(entity_id="light.outside_rear")
It's what made me ditch node red after going down the same path.
dingledork69··on Popular Subreddits are organizing a strike on 2023-06-12 b/c high API prices
Addiction and the fear that reddit staff will just appoint new mods, like they've done before.
dingledork69··on At last, the Raspberry Pi shortage is finally coming to an end
> Then it really has; there being a supply in the UK isn't exactly useful to most of the world.

There being a shortage in the US isn't exactly relevant to most of the world.

dingledork69··on At last, the Raspberry Pi shortage is finally coming to an end
I thought the raspberry pi was meant to be an educational diy system? Prioritizing businesses over hobbyists seems to go against that.
dingledork69··on OpenAI's plans according to Sam Altman removed at OpenAI's request
We don't even need ChatGPT to do the writing, "Open"AI is already doing that for us.
dingledork69··on Show HN: HN Resume to Jobs – AI Powered Job Matching Tailored to Your Resume
Stored for how long?
dingledork69··on It’s not wrong that "🤦🏼‍♂️".length == 7 (2019)
HN does, in fact, handle it, and chose to discard it.
dingledork69··on Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing
Wow, that thread is insane. Why do these people think they get to play arbiter of morality for everyone their private installations? Are they not aware of other languages than English?
dingledork69··on I gave commit rights to someone I didn't know (2016)
Like 3 of them. Is that problematic enough that you cannot review the rest of the code? My eye just slides over them.
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