Hacker News Reader

em-beeon Buyer cancels showing after Deflock shows two cameras utilized by the HOA

HOAs have become defacto governments.

exactly, and they should be forced to operate like one, with democratic elections, and the same checks and balances like any other part of the government.

em-beeon Buyer cancels showing after Deflock shows two cameras utilized by the HOA

Not sure how you could write a law that would get rid of the kind of HOA

you make HOAs be part of the government and follow democratic rules like any government, ie. they are just a smaller form of a municipality, or a subdivision of one. you do not allow the government to delegate responsibilities to private organizations. you guarantee everyone inalienable rights regarding their property that no HOA is allowed to override.

for example, even if the whole neighborhood agrees to surveillance, the right to privacy in your home/property and in certain places (like public pools) should be absolute and it should not be possible to take it away.

em-beeon Buyer cancels showing after Deflock shows two cameras utilized by the HOA

Not all neighborhoods are in a municipality either.

why is that? and why is the county or state government not taking over the responsibility then? for example in germany a democratic local government is guaranteed by basic law, so a neighborhood outside of a municipality is practically not possible and considered a violation of basic law.

em-beeon Buyer cancels showing after Deflock shows two cameras utilized by the HOA

you place the camera in such a way that it only covers your own property. in germany having a camera that goes beyond your own property is even illegal, so that's the only way to place cameras there.

em-beeon GIMP Development Update

ok, fair point. i agree, that's a bit annoying. and ideally it should also tell whether changes are made after exporting.

em-beeon GIMP Development Update

how does the save/export distinction result in extra clicks? they are in the same menu right below each other. pick the right one. if you don't know you may pick the wrong one the first time, but after that you know. i find it faster than having to choose the format i want from a "save as" dialog

em-beeon GIMP Development Update

you haven't heard about it because it's no longer commonly used (for good reason), but it's there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimp#Other_uses

em-beeon A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better”

D, A and CH are the international vehicle registration codes for those countries among other things. and "dach" as a word means "roof", which makes it memorable. some more fun facts here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical_distribution_of_G...

em-beeon A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better”

i don't know how trustworthy rateships.com is, but according to them shipping costs to nigeria and trinidad are similar. and as for the last mile, the cost probably goes up because local shipping is rather unsafe (higher rate of theft of packages).

em-beeon 'Not acceptable': Judge orders Google to make rival app store installs easier

most if not all apps on f-droid are not going to be verified mostly because many of the developers are unlikely to be interested to submit those apps to google for verification.

em-beeon 'Not acceptable': Judge orders Google to make rival app store installs easier

the whole point of using an alternative app store is to be able to install apps that are NOT approved by google. if google is the only allowed arbiter of what may be installed then we are no better off then using the google play store, because i find it highly unlikely that google would approve an app that it would not allow on the play store as well. (ok, sure, an alternate app store would also get around google taking a 30% cut, but that's less important for me)

em-beeon Phones should have a 'guest lock' feature

in response the all the comments that state that this feature already exists. i didn't know about that, and it's also not the kind of feature that should be obvious so i would not think to search for it, so i am very glad to find this here.

needing this happens rarely and in most cases where i needed it i actually wanted to show a static screen and not even give access to the whole app. for that i found an app that can show an image on an otherwise locked screen.

em-beeon Phones should have a 'guest lock' feature

in RMS mode you would also share the source of all the apps the guest might be using.

em-beeon Phones should have a 'guest lock' feature

android has a guest mode

em-beeon Can I use my Outputs to train an AI model?

MIT doesn't bar additional restrictions, so you could say this is MIT except you can't train on it. GPL on the other hand does not allow additional restrictions and therefore the code would not be compatible.

but you can't copyright the output anyways. which either makes the restriction on training void or, it means the owners of the model own the copyright, and they only transfer some of the ownership to you. is there such an ownership transfer statement? i haven't seen one yet.

em-beeon Can I use my Outputs to train an AI model?

not being able to train in it is a restriction on using the data though.

if i publish that data, and someone else trains on it, am i liable? am i responsible to ensure that noone trains on that? how am i supposed to enforce that?

em-beeon If I own Claude's outputs why can't I train my own model on them?

so if i publish that data, and someone else trains on it, am i liable? am i responsible to ensure that noone trains on that? how am i supposed to enforce that?

em-beeon It's time Amazon played by the same rules as everyone else [video]

the video is all about the subcontractors, so i guess they are the ones being hurt.

i suspect the problems are:

subcontractors are small businesses that don't have the resources to cover those liabilities or fight lawsuits from customers, nor do they have the resources to fight amazon to make it pay their share.

maybe getting insurance is not enforced, so those who don't pay for insurance are cheaper.

amazon uses their negotiation power to demand favorable conditions for themselves from subcontractors.

em-beeon Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's

i loved myst online, the multiplayer version. it's still going actually. game preferences vary.

em-beeon Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's

there is a correlation though, given the same material

em-beeon Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's

it's sugar. sugar provides energy. used carefully, it can have its place. it's not good for casual/mindless snacking, but i'd eat a candybar when i need some quick energy and can't get something better. i avoid coffee or sugary drinks instead. the sugar content of both is almost the same really, so it actually doesn't make a difference in that regard.

em-beeon Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's

the sugar content is to high. sugar does not rot. that's why it's used as a preservative. it might get moldy on the outside if wet. otherwise it would just dry out.

em-beeon Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's

yeah, this looks like an internal project page. not something meant for the public. what i would do is to create a different page specifically for contributors that has instructions on how to add products, and ways to look at the lists of products. by name, by category, by year, etc. also a search field to look for specific products.

em-beeon New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replace it

naturally. as in any space that has people doing it for love but also has people paying to participate. in FOSS too. see also my other comment...

em-beeon New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replace it

of course. that's the point. what matters is that there still is enough money in it that enables some people to make a living of it. and that's great. since we are discussing a decline, people no longer being able to make a living are the first casualties. being able to do get paid for that work is a sign of health.

as someone involved with Free Software and Open Source, i can sympathize. the number of people who can get paid while at the same time doing it for the love of it is very small. i love to work on FOSS too, but i can't afford to do it without getting paid.

em-beeon New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replace it

but if you are not volunteering then your ability to do it still depends on there being money in it.

em-beeon Linux Desktop Market Share Surpasses 10% in North America

they are not thinking running linux in a VM is a good answer, but that it is the only option they have to keep windows relevant for developers, short of porting windows itself to run on top of linux. i am confident that day will come.

em-beeon Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours

actually given the nature of the project i would suggest an entirely different name: woosh. wsh for short.

em-beeon Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours

how about tree letters? sht?

em-beeon Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick

if proxies are legal, then i am not associated with what goes through my proxy. ISPs ate not associated with the activity that goes through them either.

and what about tor? should that be shut down too? or is there a legitimate reason for it to use residential proxies?