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h4ck_th3_pl4n3t··on ‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]
I get that things are bad. But how do we fix it?
h4ck_th3_pl4n3t··on 4k NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program
Kind of funny that you specifically pointed out the "lying under oath" part. Becaause you know, the initial argument's current POTUS lied under oath, several times, about way more dangerous things.

And he fired the people that did their job at the FBI to investigate him. Out of pure retaliation.

h4ck_th3_pl4n3t··on 4k NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program
Churchill once said: "Americans will eventually do the right thing, after they've tried every other option."

Kind of fits the current administration's strategy.

h4ck_th3_pl4n3t··on 4k NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program
...and you still didn't get your Praxis nation! Ha!
h4ck_th3_pl4n3t··on Resizable structs in Zig
I am wondering if this is more of an unclearly defined memory ownership problem rather than a problem of what types you have to use to interact with C ABIs or FFI calls.

I mean you could also just abstract the allocation away and handle it after the function pointer to your bridge, right?

h4ck_th3_pl4n3t··on Do not download the app, use the website
This is an untrue statement.

Music was played by the iTunes process on mobile until 2016, and only a single audio stream at a time. How dare you wanted a fade in/out with less than 3 seconds latency!

And even then Apple was reluctant to implement a correct Promise based Audio API in WebKit, which in turn was incompatible with all other Web Browsers (up until today, btw) and also had very different audio formats supported that were only compatible with iOS due to proprietary patents.

Saying WebKit played music in 2007 is literally a worse experience than a Flash web player doing that.

h4ck_th3_pl4n3t··on Do not download the app, use the website
In this discussion, both can be bad faith actors.

It's not a defensive argument about "but he did it too"!

That's not how you get to a better solution to the problem at hand.

On iOS there is no effective way to install sideloaded apps, therefore this rent seeking behavior is even more hostile to the user.

h4ck_th3_pl4n3t··on Do not download the app, use the website
I hate imgur with their freaking redirects of deep links that have .jpg or .png in their URLs. They redirect to the HTML and then ask me to download a shitty app and prevent me from looking at the damn content.

If you cannot afford the web traffic, just shut down your webservers instead of this bullshit.

h4ck_th3_pl4n3t··on US AI Action Plan
I wonder what Chomsky would have to say about this.
h4ck_th3_pl4n3t··on I've launched 37 products in 5 years and not doing that again
Remember when memes were wholesome cat pictures? That was awesome.
h4ck_th3_pl4n3t··on What will become of the CIA?
They are working for their own black budget above all else.

Legality doesn't matter as long as the money keeps flowing.

h4ck_th3_pl4n3t··on I tried vibe coding in BASIC and it didn't go well
I just wished the LLM model providers would realize this and instead would provide specialized LLMs for each programming language. The results likely would be better.
h4ck_th3_pl4n3t··on Meta says it won't sign Europe AI agreement
An open source cocaine production machine is still an illegal cocaine production machine. The fact that it's open source doesn't matter.

You seem to not have understood that different forms of appliances need to comply with different forms of law. And you being able to call it open source or not doesn't change anything about its legal aspects.

And every law written is a compromise between two opposing parties.

h4ck_th3_pl4n3t··on Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration
Lol you never read about all the Lenovo malware fuckups, apparently.

Which basically are exactly what "infosec fucktards" as you named them warned about.

h4ck_th3_pl4n3t··on Firefox-patch-bin, librewolf-fix-bin AUR packages contain malware
Arch bugfix time is usually within 24 hours.

Not a single enterprise distro even reacts within that timeframe. OVAL advisories are weeks, sometimes months later.

As long as you don't have a virtualization approach similar to QubesOS, any linux distro will not fix this problem. Because that's not how separation of concerns works in the POSIX system. You need to have separate users for each and every program to isolate them, and that is practically unfeasible.

h4ck_th3_pl4n3t··on TCP-in-UDP Solution (eBPF)
So what are you using? Is there a softrouter using mutual TLS over IPv6 that you can recommend?
h4ck_th3_pl4n3t··on Louisiana cancels $3B coastal repair funded by oil spill settlement
This is not a defect of how you run the government.

This is a lack of controlling laws that ensure safety and compliance mechanisms for companies polluting the environment.

And why is there a lack of those kind of laws? That's something you have to remind the senators and governors of.

h4ck_th3_pl4n3t··on Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?"
Reading this from a user named "leptons" made me chuckle.
h4ck_th3_pl4n3t··on Why you should delete WhatsApp and install Signal
Delete Signal and install Molly instead.
h4ck_th3_pl4n3t··on My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]
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h4ck_th3_pl4n3t··on My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]
This incompetence excuse puts YC in a bad spotlight too, because it makes them look like they are funding people with exact zero software development experience.
h4ck_th3_pl4n3t··on Proton joins suit against Apple for practices that harm developers and consumers
You state it is trivial to use Android as an alternative.

How is the data checkout working on iOS to migrate to Android?

h4ck_th3_pl4n3t··on Microsoft Dependency Has Risks
Tell that to the ICC judges that have been sanctioned by Microsoft and Trump's administration.

Because you know, sanctioning judges in the International Crime Court in Den Hague is literally not their (the US's) jurisdiction.

h4ck_th3_pl4n3t··on Microsoft Dependency Has Risks
You could say we've been "duped".
h4ck_th3_pl4n3t··on Microsoft Dependency Has Risks
> OpenGL

OpenGL is legacy tech, just as DirectX

Vulkan is the new shader thing, and has been for at least a decade by now.

h4ck_th3_pl4n3t··on Early US Intel assessment suggests strikes on Iran did not destroy nuclear sites
Trump peddled back from the contract and negotiations of nuclear disarmament in his first term. So yeah, it plays out exactly like he wanted it to be.

Create enemy yourself, declare martial law, no re-election necessary. Easy as pie.

h4ck_th3_pl4n3t··on Few Americans pay for news when they encounter paywalls
By this logic, Twitter is truth?
h4ck_th3_pl4n3t··on Fairphone 6 is switching to a new design that's even more sustainable
I'm wondering now how much time you used to find that single one that has no headphone jack and is also IP68 certified.

Congrats, I guess?

h4ck_th3_pl4n3t··on Fairphone 6 is switching to a new design that's even more sustainable
> It's about cutting costs and having one less hole water can get in.

That's a lazy excuse. Every single IP68 rugged phone has a headphone jack. And the ones that are more waterproof even made for diving with them also have one.

h4ck_th3_pl4n3t··on Show HN: Lego Island Playable in the Browser
Note that companies usually ignore fan projects like this and don't mention them at all. If they would mention and tolerate them, it weakens their intellectual property in a future lawsuit.

Once fan projects get too much traction, companies have to cease and desist them because that's the way intellectual properties work in the law. It usually has nothing to do with whether it was a cool project or not, it's just that there's way too much money at stake when not defending your IP.

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