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frandroid

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react, node, rails, zine hound, social justice slacktivist.

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frandroid··on A Cop Searched 19,000 Flock Cameras Across 1,558 Cities. His Reason: 'LMAO'
Yeah but they changed it to a dropdown now so others won't be able to follow in his footsteps.
frandroid··on Show HN: Automatically detect and patch walking-dead states in Sierra games
LucasArts kept them alive for a few more years :)

But also, you die aplenty in a FPS game.

frandroid··on uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook
Blocking ads should not make my fans spin at full blast.
frandroid··on Decades-old fish sauce at abandoned factory in Canada finally being removed
oh, a stinkier compost? sign me up!
frandroid··on OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom
Who's IPO? Broadcom and Google are already listed, obviously.
frandroid··on Understanding the rationale behind a rule when trying to circumvent it
So we can call this one Chen's Fence
frandroid··on Show HN: M. C. Escher spiral in WebGL inspired by 3Blue1Brown
what could go wrong
frandroid··on Every layer of review makes you 10x slower
For all the people talking about 5 hour PR review delays... This reminds me of some teams that rotate the "fire extinguisher/emergency bug fixer" duty every day/week/sprint to a different developer. One could rotate a dedicated "first review duty" person. That developer would be in charge of focusing on rapidly starting PR reviews as their priority, with option to request other reviewers if necessary. Spreading the duty around would make people be respectful of the reviewer because if they send unreviewed slop to the reviewers, it's likely that people will send them slop too.
frandroid··on How to hack Discord, Vercel and more with one easy trick
> alongside, we can poison the nextjs cache for everyone for any site,

What??

frandroid··on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android
Oh so that's why my bank app said it thought my old device was rooted when it wasn't...
frandroid··on Using NASA’s SMAP satellite to detect L-band interference
It's not impossible that the Pentagon could have thought "alright, we want these readings. is there a civilian use for this kind of data and decided to see if a civilian project could be sprung up... Though that's more of a Cold War conceit. These days they would just do it themselves, it's probably an easy and cheap project.
frandroid··on Is there a purely technical term for 'monkey patching'
On the origins of the term "monkey patching"
frandroid··on Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more
Imagine the chaos if English had a phonetic spelling reformation like Spanish had a while ago...
frandroid··on Show HN: Hacker News frontpage as a print newspaper that you can personalize
Blame HN users for upvoting the story, not this chrome page...
frandroid··on Gladiators in ancient Anatolia lived to entertain the masses
So, WWE more than war-like fighting
frandroid··on Make invalid states unrepresentable (2023)
Okay but the solution here is to identify and parcel your cases into discrete entities. The article doesn't say "don't accept anything odd", it says "clearly identify what you accept". If you have to accept odd cases, identify them so it's clear what's happening.

So this isn't about purity, it's about being declarative. i.e. make your code say what it accepts, instead of writing board/implicit acceptable inputs that inevitably forget cases and crashes.

If you limit what you accept as inputs then you can stop worrying about downstream error handling and debugging.

frandroid··on Macs can now inform Apple if any liquids have been detected in the USB-C ports
It's probably worse in warm climates, but macbook cables were disintegrating everywhere for the longest time.
frandroid··on Macs can now inform Apple if any liquids have been detected in the USB-C ports
Half of developers in North America, and especially those at top tier companies, use Macs. You can't buy that kind of top tech mindshare with marketing. Also now with the M-series CPUs, Macbooks aren't PC Clones anymore, they're back in the game of being an exclusive platform, which will get even more exclusive as they add other specialized chips. Their sales share of the market and as you mention, their profit share of the market keeps increasing, so even on that alone, why would a bean counter decide to drop them?

Don't forget Apple's size... the AirPod business, stood alone, would be a Fortune 500 company. Even if an Apple business is a bit small compared to the iPhone, it's still a humongous business by any other comparator.

I'm not an Apple fanboy (e.g. I use an old Chinese Android phone) but I'm still awed by their business.

frandroid··on New PFAS discovered with novel testing method
Okay but if I was living downstream from these plants, I'd still take my chances on bottled water that's coming from elsewhere. :P
frandroid··on After Boeing declines to pay up, ransomware group leaks 45 GB of data
So lesson of the story, avoid the AAA named companies because they've been in the respawning business for a long time
frandroid··on Firefox got faster for real users in 2023
I wasn't asking about your feel of things. I was asking about whether you're serious about thinking that no one cares about page load speeds.

Anyway, it was a rhetorical question, not one that needed an answer.

frandroid··on [dead]
That's not "lab-grown meat" means, course. Count on a headline writer to muddy any issue for attention...
frandroid··on Firefox got faster for real users in 2023
Are you serious?
frandroid··on Wait, what's a bookmarklet?
I post to Facebook and Twitter using bookmarklets and i just made a bookmarklet to use newsproxy.ca to get around Facebook's news blockade in Canada.

These you posted are really great

frandroid··on Nvidia to make Arm-based PC chips in major new challenge to Intel
You stopped hearing about it because the chips Qualcomm made were dreadful.
frandroid··on Mozilla.social mastodon waitlist
> (despite them doing their best to squander their reputation with releases like this)

...how?

frandroid··on Nearly 500 brands exited smartphone market during 2017-2023
Not to mention GOOGLE

Back in 2000/1, I had such trouble taking them seriously, with that name and that colourful logo, I was like, whuuuut? But then I started using it and obviously it was miles ahead of everything else. That taught me a good lesson on whether you need a clever brand name or not. The product makes the brand name, not the other way around.

frandroid··on Patience for after-hours work socializing is wearing thin
> “The flake-out rate is so much higher at events now,” says Gretchen Goldman, a research director in Takoma Park, Md.

> This summer Goldman sent an invite to 100 colleagues for casual after-work drinks at some picnic tables just outside the office as a goodbye party. She was taking a new job with the federal government. Fewer than 10 showed up.

Maybe don't have an event where people have to BYOB at work?? If I'm doing a going away thing I'm going to a pub.

frandroid··on Apple ditches the Lightning connector in favor of USB-C after 11 years
You... know about the iPhone SE, right? https://www.apple.com/ca/iphone-se/
frandroid··on The global trading system is starting to rearrange itself
Is this the first time you see a substack page buddy
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