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kuba-orlik

810 karma · joined January 14, 2016

Web developer from Poznań, Poland. Frequent attendee of meet.js meetups. Co-creator of the sealcode.it/developers community

meet.hn/city/pl-Poznan

Socials:

- t.me/kuba_orlik - https://toot.kuba-orlik.name/@kuba

Interests:

Programming, Web Development

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kuba-orlik··on Show HN: I built a social media management tool in 3 weeks with Claude and Codex
I don't get it. The app is about social media, but its website is smth about YouTube Intelligence API for AI Agents. Not sute what to make of it
kuba-orlik··on Passengers who refuse to use headphones can now be kicked off United flights
How do you kick someone off a flight?
kuba-orlik··on A cryptography expert on how Web3 started, and how it’s going
Yeah... I think that one of the biggest "gotchas" with the web3 crowd is misunderstanding different levels of decentralization. Is it architectural decentralization? Institutional decentralization? Geographical decentralization? etc
kuba-orlik··on Europe's GDPR privacy law is headed for red tape bonfire within 'weeks'
The GDPR does not enforce the use of cookie banners. Cookie banners is an IAB idea. My suspicion is that they were created to make people angry at GDPR, but they have nothing to do with GDPR.

On most website that I've analyzed (and it's quite a lot - into hundreds), you can remove the cookie banner and the website would be just as GDPR (in)compliant as with the cookie banner.

kuba-orlik··on Ask HN: If you were rewriting Emacs from scratch, what would you do differently?
Concurrency, concurrency, concurrency.

And scripting with JS/TypeScript. Kind of like emacs-ng attempted (https://github.com/emacs-ng/emacs-ng/)

kuba-orlik··on Traveling with Apple Vision Pro
Why would you need to re log-in into streaming services in a hotel? How does AVP alleviate that need?

Do you mean you watch it on a smart TV in a hotel? Then I guess you could connect a laptop to that TV with an HDMI cable and not have to re-log in, right?

kuba-orlik··on Nintendo Kills Ryujinx After Yuzu
I suspect Nintendo sees upscaling od existing switch games as competition, because they plan Switch 2's major selling point to be playing the old games in higher res/fps. Just a hunch. It would explain a lot, including the fact that they keep pumping new games for the seemingly EOL switch
kuba-orlik··on Please stop putting cookie pop-ups on your website (2022)
> If a site does comply with the notice and consent requirements, it is not legally required to provide the service if a user declines tracking cookies.

That's simply not true. In order for consent to be valid under GDPR, the service should operate normally if you decline tracing cookies. Otherwise it's considered a "forced consent" and is not valid.

kuba-orlik··on [dead]
I guess it's to prevent scrapping, but good luck people who depend on a11y tools... :(

And you can't log in using a password manager

kuba-orlik··on How to stop less from waiting for more data?
Ok so here's a linux question that's been bugging me for years.

I sometimes `less` to display/paginate a streaming stdout from another program. When I press `END` key on the keyboard, it brings me to the bottom of the stream, the latest data it has.

Then it says "Waiting for data... (^X or interrupt to abort)"

I want it to stop waiting for data and let me scroll up as it usually does when it's not waiting for data.

I've tried pressing Control+X and Control+C, but it just closes less immediately instead of just interrupting the wait for new data.

What do I press to make it stop waiting for data, not just close itself?

This would particularly useful for browsing `journalctl` output

kuba-orlik··on Atrazine, an endocrine-disrupting herbicide banned in EU, is widely used in US
Not sure how well that can scale. You'd have to provide more energy per square meter of land than the sun does, it seems?
kuba-orlik··on Ask HN: What is the purpose of Closed Mode shadowRoot?
Thanks! Do you perhaps know of any records of Apple's insistence in this matter?
kuba-orlik··on Ask HN: Should I try to manufacture toasters?
I came to the comments to post exactly that link :D
kuba-orlik··on FFmpeg lands CLI multi-threading as its "most complex refactoring" in decades
I routinely use ffmpeg CLI and I see in top that multiple cores are engaged in the processing. Hadn't it been multi-threaded for years? What exactly is changing?
kuba-orlik··on Writing a GPT-4 script to check Wikipedia for the first unused acronym
Couldn't the same thing be achieved with grep?
kuba-orlik··on Ask HN: Is anyone hosting their own Jitsi server?
I seem to always have trouble with video freezing or very low quality audio+video. Jitsi just isn't reliable enough for me. We've switched to BigBlueButton on the same type of server and it runs gloriously, with HD video, crisp audio. I kept giving Jitsi a chance, but it disappointed us too many times
kuba-orlik··on Cloudflare launches easy to set up consent manager that respects users
I've seen DPOs requesting sites to not load YouTube without consent because of the cookies
kuba-orlik··on Cloudflare launches easy to set up consent manager that respects users
> I suspect the main reason why there is a "reject all" button is that Cloudflare folks rightly figured out that they are too big to get away with not providing one. Otherwise noyb.eu will say hello.

(Disclaimer: I helped deliver this feature)

We have never even for a minute considered not providing the "reject all" button. It was a user-respecting project from its conception. We actually consider being user-friendly a competitive advantage rather than something that we'd do out of fear of Noyb.

For some context, I'm a co-founder of https://www.internet-czas-dzialac.pl/, which can be described as a "Polish noyb" ;)

kuba-orlik··on Cloudflare launches easy to set up consent manager that respects users
The ePrivacy directive dictates that you need to have consent for cookies that are not strictly necessary to serve the website and its basic functionality. If you were counting pageview stats without persisting any data on the client and without using any identifiers for users, I'd say you don't have to ask for consent, even under GDPR.
kuba-orlik··on Cloudflare launches easy to set up consent manager that respects users
This consent manager does not interfere with necessary cookies. As under GDPR you don't need to ask for consent to necessary cookies, we left it out of the consent modal

(Disclaimer: I'm on the team behind this feature)

kuba-orlik··on Cloudflare launches easy to set up consent manager that respects users
The problem with the "X" button is twofold:

1. It's usually hard to find and to touch on a mobile device

2. Many websites use the dark pattern where clicking "X" is actually a way to give consent (or so they claim, as such "consent" is not valid under the GDPR rules). Due to that, many users are habitually confused about what will happen to their data choices if they press "X".

(Disclaimer: I'm on the team behind this feature)

kuba-orlik··on Death by vegetable oil: What the studies say (2020)
I think the research mentioned in this article points more to bad influence of margarine, not vegetable oils in general. In the first study, the group that did better consumed more olive oil, which is a vegetable oil
kuba-orlik··on Private and Public Mastodon
But wait, isn't Google already indexing the Fediverse? Public posts are available through http without auth... so I find it hard to understand the opposition from the admins described in this article. What am I missing?
kuba-orlik··on He’s Fired
http://web.archive.org/web/20221115075527/https://twitter.co...
kuba-orlik··on Poll: Is there a negative stigma toward articles written in Medium?
One way would be to publish on Medium but link to https://scribe.rip/
kuba-orlik··on Brave browser to start blocking annoying cookie consent banners
"These notifications are incredibly annoying but have become necessary to do business online to comply with data protection regulations like GDPR."

No, they are not necessary. Website owners can choose to use privacy-friendly tools for analytics and then a cookie modal is not necessary

kuba-orlik··on Bolt has a cool web interface and they really don't want you to use it
> Don't like it? Put your arm up and hail a cab or call the dispatch office to request a ride, that's what we had to do not even 20 years ago.

I usually do this and call taxis by phone whenever I can, but in Riga this was exceptionally difficult due to language constraints

kuba-orlik··on Bolt has a cool web interface and they really don't want you to use it
I guess one thing could be to force businesses of certain scale (or ideally, of any scale) to not offer services exclusive to a particular digital ecosystem, unless that's the only way to provide that service.

My local restaurant uses an app to do loyalty stamps... I really wish tey would come back to the traditional paper-based ones

kuba-orlik··on Bolt has a cool web interface and they really don't want you to use it
> But Bolt is not a monopoly. There are many taxi services in Riga.

My experience is that if you don't speak Latvian, Bolt is basically the only choice to order a ride in Riga. Oh trust me, how I've tried. I never use those ride hailing services unless there's no other option left.

> No thanks I will not boycott Bolt because you chose to violate some ToS and hack their product and somehow become outraged.

Well, I'm not inviting people to boycott Bolt because I "hacked their product". I'm inviting to boycott Bolt because they are using dark patterns to take control away from users.

kuba-orlik··on Bolt has a cool web interface and they really don't want you to use it
But in the context of Bolt, I believe they aren't displaying ads in their app?
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