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ivan888··on Turn off and restrict access to Apple Intelligence features on Mac
How about removing the Siri button from the menu bar? This doesn’t seem possible anymore (it reappears some time after dragging it out)
ivan888··on ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs
New OEIS entry: numbers used in names of startups followed by “labs”
ivan888··on I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases
> when a carrier does an ENUM lookup for one of these numbers, they're essentially asking "where do I route this call?", and I could answer with whatever I wanted. I could point it at my own SIP server, accept the incoming call, and then place an outgoing call to the real destination with a spoofed number

How would the “outgoing call to the real destination” avoid this same lookup? Directives to route around the ENUM system?

ivan888··on Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like nothing matters anymore?
At some point (soon), the massive inefficiency of this system will stop being subsidized. Also, it’s nondeterministic and unreliable.
ivan888··on How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots
> The “Follow” button is visible when I take the screenshot mid-switch.

Does this indicate that the privacy feature has a gap, where you could reveal the length of your password if you take a screenshot mid app switch?

ivan888··on Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code
I would love an agentic tool that simply finds code locations and opens them in my editor, so that I can write the implementation. I find this to be the most tedious and disorienting part, especially in languages without strong typing, that de-emphasize navigable references between classes. For example, wouldn’t necessarily need this tool for Java. Would like it for Ruby.
ivan888··on What's the largest software project AI can complete on its own?
Is it like self driving cars, where 100% non-human code would be arguably safer?

But then it always comes down to having some human who is accountable for verifying the behavior. I think ultimately we just need a better set of languages and frameworks to minimally encode the types of applications we want to build today, so that human comprehension and verification of the source code becomes easier.

ivan888··on Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects
It’s probably not too important to choose a service that you think you can trust fully, because that trust might be broken at some point. But having an identifier that can be swapped to different backends, so people can find you again when the host inevitability changes, is a stronger strategy. I think the importance of owning domain names will increase, and using those as the canonical identifier of a project will give it more permanence. The procedures for seizure and censorship with domain names are better established and understood.
ivan888··on Businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns
But consider how, in just a short few years, tools will have changed so much that even achieving this specific look will not even be possible (everything is in the cloud and normal users can’t even run them locally)

We’ll inevitably end up feeling nostalgic for these mid-2020s AI slop menus, much like how graphic design of the 90s and 2000s is revered (see other comments on this post) even while during its making was regarded as garish

ivan888··on Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting
Ah yes you are right. The policy I am referencing is for the Free or Pro tiers, Business is different
ivan888··on Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting
That's a good operating assumption, and I usually think this way too.

It turns out Slack actually requires legal process or consent of parties to provide private messages to admins: https://slack.com/help/articles/204897248-Guide-to-Slack-imp...

But of course yes, another party could simply take a screenshot

ivan888··on Moist Towelette Museum
I find myself holding onto and preserving general ephemera and just happened to scan a moist towelette package over the weekend. My collection mostly consists of business cards and dry cleaning type carbon copy receipts. I need to better catalogue these and share online. A few business cards: https://ivan.sh/biz-cards/
ivan888··on The Doorman's Fallacy in Action
Going to "modernized" restaurants is just a drag. I don't want to touch your tablet or scan your code. I much prefer the restaurants which only accept cash
ivan888··on .gitignore Isn't the only way to ignore files in Git
There's also the global gitignore configuration (core.excludesfile=~/.gitignore_global), which for me contains things like: *.swp, .DS_Store, scratch, etc.
ivan888··on How did Atari apply side art to Arcade Cabinets?
This seems very low. I have not worked in professional screenprinting environments, but all resources I have seen indicate potential for hundreds or thousands of high quality prints from a well prepared screen.
ivan888··on Cannibalistic attacks between gray seals leave telltale “corkscrew” injuries
The ending reminds me of the “Americans are obsessed with protein” article
ivan888··on AI-Driven Facial Recognition Leads to Innocent Man's Arrest (Bodycam Footage) [video]
This is too close to Idiocracy
ivan888··on E-COM: The $40M USPS project to send email on paper
Yeah I’ve had this same idea for the same reasons, and came to the same conclusions that without legislation, no incentive exists to send statements as attachments in emails or to store them with a 3rd party where they can’t be tampered with when a mistake is discovered
ivan888··on A 2FA app that tells you when you get `314159` (2024)
> Dubs

Not sure if anyone else noticed the item id of this comment does indeed end in 88?

ivan888··on Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'
I'm interested to hear more about this. I think I have a tendency to want to do this myself. Any additional reading on this concept?
ivan888··on Maybe You're Not Sick of Programming
Taking real disconnect breaks (more than one week) also help a lot. Some people, including me until recently, don’t seem to do this often or at all
ivan888··on IBDNS: Intentionally Broken DNS server
To be pedantic, its purpose is for verification testing of systems that allow for testing of the type you describe
ivan888··on Hotel WiFi JavaScript Injection (2012)
I think this is still possible with access points that require installing and trusting a custom certificate. The example in my mind is WeWork's WiFi
ivan888··on Want to start a startup? Meet all the YC partners in Boston – Apr 20th
It seems like even the Startup School signup is limited to students. I applied anyway, and will comment again if I receive a response
ivan888··on I built an autonomous software engineer that runs in the browser
Can it do React yet?
ivan888··on Show HN: Auto-generate an OpenAPI spec by listening to localhost
I think going from code to OpenAPI makes a lot more sense, at least for strong typed languages. And even if not directly translated from code, at least closer to the actual code, in annotations or something. Generating the spec from code removes a step, where you simply need to update code, rather than update the spec then update the code
ivan888··on Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)
vim-rest-console[0] has been my Postman alternative for years. It basically wraps curl and makes it super easy to make different requests from a single text file. Can even write YAML and have it converted to JSON before being sent in the body. Really great tool

0: https://github.com/diepm/vim-rest-console

ivan888··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2023)
Location: New York (NYC)

Remote: Yes, but prefer hybrid

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Java, JavaScript, React, Spring, Postgres, Neo4j, Kafka, Microservices, TypeScript

Résumé/CV: https://ivan.sh/resume.pdf | https://ivan.sh/ | https://www.linkedin.com/in/ivangreene/

Email: ivan@ivan.sh

Experience as lead software engineer at an early stage startup, as well as experience in larger organizations. Prefer early stage startups in NYC

ivan888··on Modern work requires attention – constant alerts steal it
So get rid of the stupid persistent red dot on review queues on Stack Overflow
ivan888··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2023)
Location: New York (NYC)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Java, JavaScript, React, Spring, Postgres, Neo4j, Kafka, Microservices, TypeScript

Résumé/CV: https://ivan.sh/resume.pdf | https://ivan.sh/ | https://www.linkedin.com/in/ivangreene/

Email: ivan@ivan.sh

Experience as lead software engineer at an early stage startup, as well as experience in larger organizations. Prefer early stage startups in NYC

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