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eddyg··on Wikipedia: WikiProject AI Cleanup
It’s also very useful in writing skills to help avoid these kinds of issues.

https://github.com/blader/humanizer

eddyg··on STFU
At least AirPods have an excellent transparency mode
eddyg··on Ask HN: Weird archive.today behavior?
This post did in fact go through the second-chance pool: https://news.ycombinator.com/pool

(For more details on posts getting “rescued”, see Dan’s comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380)

eddyg··on Handy – Free open source speech-to-text app
There’s lots of existing work on “coding by voice” long before LLMs were a thing. For example (from 2013): http://xahlee.info/emacs/emacs/using_voice_to_code.html and the associated HN discussion (“Using Voice to Code Faster than Keyboard”): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6203805

There’s also more recent-ish research, like https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3571884.3597130

eddyg··on Show HN: An iOS budget app I've been maintaining since 2011
Wow, that is so rare these days (and not the answers I expected)! A tip of the proverbial hat to you for doing things "the right way".

(And thanks for the reply!)

eddyg··on Git Rebase for the Terrified
So many people don’t know about git-absorb! It’s fantastic.
eddyg··on Show HN: An iOS budget app I've been maintaining since 2011
The questions that come to mind for me:

1. How long after releasing the iOS app did you start on an Android version?

2. Are you using some kind of cross-platform framework, or are the apps mostly “mobile-friendly web views”?

3. How much code is shared between the three architectures?

4. How much of the app functionality is “server based” instead of “on device”?

eddyg··on Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients
He vibe-coded Clawdbot and lots of people are spinning up their own.

https://clawd.bot/ https://github.com/clawdbot/clawdbot

He's also the guy behind https://github.com/steipete/oracle/

eddyg··on You are not required to close your <p>, <li>, <img>, or <br> tags in HTML
You left out the rest of the spec:

> On void elements, it does not mark the start tag as self-closing but instead is unnecessary and has no effect of any kind. For such void elements, it should be used only with caution — especially since, if directly preceded by an unquoted attribute value, it becomes part of the attribute value rather than being discarded by the parser.

(The void elements are listed here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Void_eleme... )

eddyg··on Oh My Zsh adds bloat
FWIW, that’s not a great way to benchmark zsh.

Check out zsh-bench⁽¹⁾ for a more authoritative approach, including first prompt lag, first command lag, input lag and exit lag.

⁽¹⁾ https://github.com/romkatv/zsh-bench

eddyg··on Flock Hardcoded the Password for America's Surveillance Infrastructure 53 Times
Didn't say it was the same thing; I was linking to a recent related discussion about these cameras
eddyg··on Flock Hardcoded the Password for America's Surveillance Infrastructure 53 Times
Previous related discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46355548

eddyg··on You Need to Ditch VS Code
Same with zsh
eddyg··on Perfect Aircrete, Kitchen Ingredients [video]
https://trusscore.com/ comes to mind
eddyg··on NIST was 5 μs off UTC after last week's power cut
Be aware that there are members of the NTP pool with less-than-honorable intentions and you don't get to pick-and-choose. Yes, they all should provide the time, but they also get your IP address.

For example: unlike the IPv4 space, the IPv6 space is too big too scan, so a number of "researchers" (if you want to call them that) put v6-capable NTP servers in the NTP pool to gather information about active v6 blocks to scan/target.

eddyg··on Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves
Yes, they should be secured so they can only be accessed by law enforcement.

But if your spouse/SO/sister/mother/girlfriend/whatever was assaulted while jogging in a park that had Flock cameras, and it allowed law enforcement to quickly identify, track, apprehend and charge the criminal, you'd absolutely be grateful for the technology. There's nothing worse than being told "we don't have any leads" when someone you care about has been attacked.

eddyg··on Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem?
I had this exact thought. Unfortunately I can't find a way to check the balance of an Apple gift card without signing in to an Apple ID⁽¹⁾. So maybe you need a throwaway Apple ID...

⁽¹⁾ https://support.apple.com/en-us/108111

eddyg··on Yep, Passkeys Still Have Problems
If you created a passkey, it would be one step.
eddyg··on Yep, Passkeys Still Have Problems
iCloud Keychain (or whatever the Google equivalent is). And as I said, it's a fantastic solution for the vast majority of the population (which, coincidentally, are also not Hacker News readers).
eddyg··on Yep, Passkeys Still Have Problems
It's a beautifully simple experience for Apple users across all their devices.

I can't speak for other platforms; I stopped helping ${EXTENDED_FAMILY} with non-Apple questions because the crap I had to diagnose, debug and deal with for Windows and Android was worse than ${DAY_JOB}.

eddyg··on Yep, Passkeys Still Have Problems
Only if they're not backing up their phone, which seems insane in this day and age.

And even if they're not, if they have a computer or tablet, the passkey will still be available there assuming they share an account.

You can also recover your iCloud Keychain via a designated/trusted Recovery Contact (e.g. spouse, who presumably hasn't destroyed their phone at the exact same time), or via iCloud Keychain escrow.

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/passwords-devices-iph...

eddyg··on Yep, Passkeys Still Have Problems
Passkeys are fantastic for the vast majority of the population. They solve oodles of problems. No more teaching ${FAMILY_MEMBER} about good passwords, password re-use, trying to explain how to use a password manager, etc. Instead: create passkey, done. Then it's seamless login whether they're on their computer, phone or tablet.

As a tech-savvy user fully aware of the underlying machinations involved with passkeys, I greatly prefer their simple, fast login experience over: username submit password submit TOTP submit, and especially over the much-worse "we've emailed you a code" login slog.

eddyg··on Tell HN: HN was down
Thanks! I checked that page and wondered why it stayed green. I resorted to checking https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/hacker-news
eddyg··on Guarding My Git Forge Against AI Scrapers
Just search for "residential proxies" and you'll see why this wouldn't help.
eddyg··on Show HN: Lockenv – Simple encrypted secrets storage for Git
I’ve been using git-crypt⁽¹⁾ which is transparent (you put the patterns you want to encrypt in .gitattributes) and lets you use GPG keys or symmetric keys. And it's been around for quite a while.

⁽¹⁾https://github.com/AGWA/git-crypt

eddyg··on Kimi K2 Thinking, a SOTA open-source trillion-parameter reasoning model
Eye-opening summary... I knew China was ahead, but wow. Thanks for sharing that article.
eddyg··on Primer on FedEx's Distribution Network (2024)
Indeed…

https://www.fdxva.org/ https://www.fdx-virtual.com/ https://flyfdx-vac.org/

eddyg··on Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image
This is why Kagi exists.
eddyg··on Zoxide: A Better CD Command
Or the pure zsh version, which is superior, since it eliminates a ton of forking by eliminating calls to external tools (the original z script relies heavily on awk, sort, date, sed, mv, rm, and chown). There are also significant stability improvements to the database thanks to proper locking.

https://github.com/agkozak/zsh-z

eddyg··on Zoxide: A Better CD Command
https://github.com/romkatv/zsh-bench?tab=readme-ov-file#prom...
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