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emayljames

298 karma · joined September 9, 2018

Software/Web Developer & sometimes designer.
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emayljames··on Show HN: Nari Qwen3-TTS and Qwen3-ASR – High accuracy, low latency and cost
The horizontal moving elements of examples become stuck and unable to be scolled once one of them is played. I'm using Vivaldi (chrome based) on Android
emayljames··on GrapheneOS' rewritten Messages app is released
The implementations of RCS servers that were being done (here in the UK) by carriers, had many issues. A lot of the time your Google messages couldn't connect to the carrier RCS server, messages silently didn't send. I don't know if that was due to something like the carriers not updating their servers, or bad implementation though.
emayljames··on Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit
Elison and Oracle are a big threat, they have an obsession with holding as much data as possible, for every single US citizen they can get their hands on, and it is no coincidence they not only sell electoral targeting demographic data, but also are trying to install dystopian level servers under the whitehouse.
emayljames··on EU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Facebook in breach of the DSA
"fatal" You are just clutching at dramatic things nobody said

Also,these studies are a search away. Fill your boots.

emayljames··on EU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Facebook in breach of the DSA
I prefer Anti-social Media
emayljames··on EU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Facebook in breach of the DSA
That is the point they are making.
emayljames··on I Changed My Name
This happens to Irish/Scottish names too, such as McDonald, Mc being 'son of' in Gaelic language; the capital letter after Mc is wrongly changed to a lowercase letter.

Another very frustrating issue I run into, is hyphens not being allowed. My firstname and surname both have hyphens, and they are very common even in English based names.

emayljames··on One million passports leaked online
This is the best one. Not a shady company website, or a paywalled site:

https://boingboing.net/2026/06/28/a-million-passports-leaked...

emayljames··on European Commission's Metsola Overrides MEPs to Force Through Chat Control
The majority is for migration, the problem is far right propaganda
emayljames··on MiMo Code is now released and open-source
I wonder what the minimum required memory specification is
emayljames··on UK PM gives tech firms ultimatum to block explicit images on children's phones
Sigh! Once again they are pushing something they don't understand the impact of.

It sounds great on paper, they can pretend they have done something. The reality is, the overreaching age gating they enforced, resulted in a lot of parents needing to set stuff to adult settings, because like this, the government doesn't have a clue what they are doing

emayljames··on Show HN: Image-3D: photo to 3D splat that runs in the browser
The local version is not able to properly 3d any image I put through it, they all just end up a random 3d mess
emayljames··on OneDrive data now has an expiry date
This will have a huge impact on a lot of organisations, for example those that have a communal SharePoint, or shared document page: files shared from ex-employees for critical documentation is going to break.
emayljames··on AI Has Come for Serif Fonts
paywalled
emayljames··on UK PM Starmer set to ban 'harmful' social media for under-16s
This is all a smokescreen, to force queer kids out of having online community. As a queer kid, it is a lifeline, the government knows this and they are bowing to extreme xtian groups.

The irony is, it is the boomers that have serious (anti-)social media problems. They are being manipulated enmass

emayljames··on Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot
Which one. They have several under their blood soaked belt now
emayljames··on Ntsc-rs – open-source video emulation of analog TV and VHS artifacts
Interlacing is synonymous with 80's/90's video
emayljames··on Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions
The YouTube app on Android is terrible, even with the premium. Autoplay has been notoriously broken for years
emayljames··on Show HN: Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave
Looks like you have a serious moderation problem, there are racists running around using n-word racist slurs
emayljames··on Google changes its search box
You don't need butter to make cake, it ends up lighter and softer without it
emayljames··on Traces Of Humanity
She.
emayljames··on Turkey unveils new missile, AI touts as able to hit US mainland
At least please put the archive link in the comments:

https://archive.ph/Qc28N

emayljames··on End of Japanese community
I am from the UK, and I also think this is true. Hop on a call and the wording sounds like they do not want to fix the issue

It comes across very condecending. Maybe it is a US problem

emayljames··on How to protect your phone and data privacy at the US border
I don't see how it is, you wont have your phone searched if you come here.
emayljames··on Ricochet: Peer-to-peer instant messaging system built on Tor hidden services
And their website is down
emayljames··on How about trailing commas in SQL?
SELECT a

       , b

       , c
 
  FROM ...
is the same as:

SELECT a, b, c FROM ...

emayljames··on Thank You Bootstrap 1
I have a very good grasp on jQuery and a good grasp on SPA frameworks, and as soon as you cross that barrier into a complex application, jQuery is completely unsuitable in maintaining a clean state.
emayljames··on Thank You Bootstrap 1
Things like Tailwind take the core concepts of bootstrap and build and improve on it on a grand scale. It is like comparing jQuery (bootstrap), to React (tailwind).
emayljames··on It feels like 2004 again
Twitter and musk are nothing but far right "political extremists and pedo's".

You are kidding yourself if you think that twitter has or is gaining relevance. It has nose dived in users and has dramatically lost revenue from advertisers.

Dont kid yourself.

emayljames··on Ask HN: Is Firefox better than Chrome when it comes to user security?
You are ignoring the elephant in the room, so to speak. Apple has a large share of mobile browser usage with Safari (a Webkit browser). Add to this also that any browser used on iOS is webkit.

That aside, what you are asking is really just you giving your personal preference of a browser and if we agree.

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