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jadayesnaamsion Technical analysis of the Signal clone used by Trump officials

Mike should have used a GDPR-enabled app.

jadayesnaamsion Show HN: My high school team’s space probe

Great project!!

Interesting that the largest section of the report is the last one called "Social Media outreach" to justify their choices.

jadayesnaamsion Ex-SAP CTO walks away with €7.1M payout after scandal

His last transaction had to match the size of his ego.

jadayesnaamsion Why wordfreq will not be updated

The year 2021 is to wordfreq what 1945 was to carbon carbon-14 dating.

I guess the same way the scientists had to account for the bomb pulse in order to provide accurate carbon-14 dating, wordfreq would need a magic way to account for non human content.

Saying magic, because unfortunately it was much easier to detect nuclear testing in the atmosphere than to it will be to detect AI-generated content.

jadayesnaamsion Apple mobile processors are now made in America by TSMC

Knowing all the efforts that the US government has had to devote in order to push Apple to bring those jobs home, for other countries that do not have as much muscle as in financial and industrial leverage, their industrial future must look quite bleak.

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

Great. I hope they find a real name to their product, that would not be an acronym.

We can critic Google as much as we want, but at least it's a bit less weird to say "Hey Gemini" compared to "Hey GPT", when you know that GPT is actually something between an abstract concept and a code implementation.

jadayesnaamsion The likelihood of unilateral solar geoengineering

Plot Twist:

- AI is not smart enough to take over humanity.

- But by playing god with geoengineering by having rain packed with sulfur on our crops, we are facing The Blight, like in Interstellar.

jadayesnaamsion Go 1.22

A good example of a Go project using embed to pack its html/css/js assets in a single binary is PocketBase:

https://github.com/pocketbase/pocketbase/blob/master/ui/embe...

jadayesnaamsion Show HN: WAYF – A Simple Scheduling App

All those are available in Rally, which is OSS. It is great that WAYF offers something completely bare bone without the features you are mentioning, IMHO.

https://rallly.co/

jadayesnaamsion Pocketbase: Open-source back end in one file

It is the first time I see that "hook" pattern in a Go API backend: `hook.Hook` and `hook.TaggedHook`.

Where does it come from?

Why is it useful here?

What are the alternatives? Advantages/Drawbacks?

Is there an article somewhere, outside of the Pocketbase docs, presenting that pattern?

- https://github.com/pocketbase/pocketbase/blob/master/core/ap...

- https://github.com/pocketbase/pocketbase/tree/master/tools/h...

jadayesnaamsion Fly Postgres, Managed by Supabase

I am particularly interested in a comparaison between this new one from Supabase/Fly and the one from Neon.

jadayesnaamsion Mastercard Should Stop Selling Our Data

I forgot to update myself actually. Last month, they chose a brand name for the service: Wero.[0]

Here [1], it says:

> strong potential for "wero" to emerge as the leading wallet for the digital euro central bank digital currency (CBDC)

Great, but I am not sure about its potential to safeguard our privacy. One can hope maybe they wont sell our data to commercial entities.

[0]: https://www.epicompany.eu/european-payments-initiative-selec...

[1]: https://payments1connectingthedots.substack.com/p/new-kid-on...

jadayesnaamsion Mastercard Should Stop Selling Our Data

The EU has something on the way called EPI for European Payment Initiative:

https://www.epicompany.eu/

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/paym/intro/news/html/ecb.mipnews23...