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ijhuygft776on Apple confirms it's breaking iPhone web apps in the EU on purpose

I always knew Apple was an evil company... glad to see them finally admitting it...

ijhuygft776on Show HN: I made a Pinterest clone using SigLIP image embeddings

nice, we always need more clones and improvements.... hope you get traction.

I never click Pinterest links because the experience is too bad.

ijhuygft776on Happy Birthday Lemmings

a classic.

ijhuygft776on Nextdoor's Heisensubscribe (and Other Dark Patterns)

I always thought that gmail ignored you when you marked emails as spam... lately I have gotten loads more spam too

ijhuygft776on Who Killed Twitter?

I did help a VERY LITTLE BIT by stopping using it.

ijhuygft776on Nextdoor's Heisensubscribe (and Other Dark Patterns)

I agree with your last statement, but for the structure, I think it needs to be something else... maybe something like CAN-SPAM, but adapted for a wider range of conditions.

ijhuygft776on Nextdoor's Heisensubscribe (and Other Dark Patterns)

They need to make dark patterns illegal, somehow, maybe.

ijhuygft776on Indian government moves to ban ProtonMail after bomb threat

> it's not clear if that's regulatory capture or for similar "national security" grounds

The reason given doesn't matter that much... they give whatever reason they think most people will approve.

ijhuygft776on Apple confirms iOS 17.4 removes Home Screen web apps in the EU

native apps are potentially much less secure... why don't they also remove them?

ijhuygft776on Feds want to ban the Flipper Zero – Experts say it's a scapegoat

The Flipper Zero is a nice device but are there any cheaper alternatives?

ijhuygft776on OpenAI – Application for US trademark “GPT” has failed

the worst part is that he owns x.com and is not using it.

ijhuygft776on OpenAI – Application for US trademark “GPT” has failed

Twitter went the extreme way... they hijacked a letter... Alphabet is not much better.

ijhuygft776on Indian government moves to ban ProtonMail after bomb threat

you used to be able to create a protonmail account using Tor.... so I guess it might be easier

ijhuygft776on Google is making a map of methane leaks for the whole world to see

I wonder about cow farms too

ijhuygft776on Browser bookmarks is NOT a thing of the past

> "The internet is a network. Don't organize your bookmarks in folders. Organize them in (network) connected dashboards".

I don't use folders, I use tags

ijhuygft776on Indian government moves to ban ProtonMail after bomb threat

Why don't they ban phones too?

ijhuygft776on Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox

There's a few other posts about this... this one has the most points: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39368678

ijhuygft776on On using milliseconds as a measure of network latency

not sure what you exactly mean, but they even remove the firewalls to improve pings

ijhuygft776on Ask HN: Why Are the Layoffs Happening?

> Also, for whatever reason this is happening, will it ever stop?

layoffs will never stop... hirings also probably won't.

ijhuygft776on Why do we subsidize fiction?

they also create fiction.... and subsidize corn. I would not say "we" because it is only somewhat true.

ijhuygft776on On using milliseconds as a measure of network latency

I thought we entered the nanosecond range a long time ago, at least in the financial world

ijhuygft776on Should I record my life?

probably not

ijhuygft776on USB memory sticks are getting worse

> and the manufacturer's logo removed from the chip

pretty sure they are fake chips that never had a logo... usually they print a fake logo though, don't they?

ijhuygft776on How to copy a file between devices? (2022)

I still wish Google would allow adhoc Wi-Fi on Android...

ijhuygft776on World's Biggest Gear Ratio

That seems useful, just can't say how.

ijhuygft776on Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork

Because they aren't short sighted like some others?

ijhuygft776on Amazon Sued over Prime Video Ads: Class-Action Suit Alleges Deception

"Went back" to piracy years ago... I actually pirated movies even when they were available on my Netflix subscription. I unsubscribed from Netflix when they started their descent into Netflix-only content.

ijhuygft776on When did a rejection of an already accepted article become a thing?

Ever since people make mistakes (since forever).

ijhuygft776on What made Earth a giant snowball 700M years ago? Scientists have an answer

None of the videos are available for me on that page...

ijhuygft776on How to center a div in CSS

> Nice article, the comments here are kind of amazing for a nominally technical audience. It is almost as if people have no idea how difficult automatic page layout and formatting is.

It's nuts that this is true after so many years of HTML and CSS.... software sucks any way you look at it.

Why we still can't get a bug-free OS is beyond me.