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lrdd··on Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row
As a citizen, I don’t understand what the UK government thinks they are getting here - other than the possibility of leaks of the nation’s most sensitive data.

Also is it not possible to set up my Apple account outside of the UK while living here?

lrdd··on DOGE staffer is trying to reroute FEMA funds
It was worse than that in the UK! The incumbent party lost 69% of their seats (20% was the vote share).

365 -> 121

lrdd··on My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2022)
The git "pickaxe" [0] is the canonical way of searching through changes. Probably `git log -Splumber` with narrowing down by date.

[0]: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Searching

lrdd··on PrivateGPT
I think you would be interested in Google's internal memo[0] that did the rounds here a couple weeks ago. The claim is that OpenAI and all competition is destined to fall behind open-source. All you need is a big model to be released and all fine tuning can be done by a smart, budget, distributed workforce.

[0]: https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-ne...

lrdd··on President Putin has announced a partial mobilization in Russia
Kyiv and Kharkiv

I think it is more correct to use Ukrainian names for Ukrainian cities over Russian.

lrdd··on Ask HN: Share your personal site
https://jenne.uk personal site written using my own preprocessor
lrdd··on Using hamburger menus? Try sausage links (2019)
See https://jenne.uk as an example
lrdd··on Ask HN: Best Tools for Technical Writing?
For me writing markdown using VSCode with with Neovim keybindings approaches that rich text and rich code environment.

Of course, when using markdown(/mermaid/tikz/etc.) creating diagrams is severely limited unlike point and click alternatives. I haven’t seen a good solution yet that isn’t too restrictive or slow.

lrdd··on Keyboard lets people type so fast it’s banned from typing competitions
Or quicker: 1000ia<esc>
lrdd··on YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Gets 'Freedom Expression' Award Sponsored by YouTube
Out of interest, on proposition B why can we not claim that the presence of a Y chromosome in your DNA makes you a "biological male" and the absence makes you a "biological female". That should be a binary division. (Where these terms are only used in the contexts you describe as being useful; no disagreements there).
lrdd··on Linux Touchpad Like a MacBook update: progress on multitouch
I think he is saying that if it is brought to X it will be easier to convince Wayland to follow suit.

We'll see if that's true, or if we will need another round of sponsorship to achieve the same thing with Wayland.

lrdd··on Biohacking Lite
food?
lrdd··on CNN reporter arrested live on air while covering Minneapolis protests [video]
It is also the header syntax for Vimwiki[0]

[0]: https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki

lrdd··on Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform
I think the mailto: link on your page is misspelt as mailt:
lrdd··on Hardware Microphone Disconnect in Mac and iPad
I don't think caring about the user and making profits are mutually exclusive. A company that is interested in delivering what the user wants and needs will often make profit. It's not a case of 'with the user' or 'against the user'.
lrdd··on Chinese military entering Shenzen, just across the border with Hong Kong
Legal equality != true societal equality
lrdd··on 8-Year-Old Refugee Wins New York State Championship
(www.chess.com)
lrdd··on WireGuard for iOS
From another user "reaperhulk"

>I use WireGuard (including WireGuard iOS) every day in Shanghai. It’s mostly fast and performant but nothing escapes the occasional “drop all UDP to your endpoint”. Typically this manifests as windows of time (typically a few minutes) where no traffic to the VPN gets through. However, unlike an openVPN solution WireGuard recovers without having to bounce the tunnel or constantly reconnect. The GFW is not a monolithic entity though so be aware that performance and blocking characteristics can vary widely between cities, ISPs, and sometimes even between cell towers.

>VPN on demand features are on the iOS todo list. iOS supports the idea of making a VPN on demand for cellular or WiFi so it will be able to do what you want once that feature is merged.

lrdd··on If the Point of Capitalism Is to Escape Capitalism, Then Why Capitalism?
Does the lack of any better solution justify it?
lrdd··on A brief history of the peace symbol
Also, as a result of MAD the main risk of nuclear weapons would be operation by a terrorist group as opposed to a nation - who wouldn't be affected by a national nuclear disarmament and wouldn't be able to have retaliation in the same way
lrdd··on The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user
But if just the email validation problem were addressed - you wouldn't accidentally pay for someone's rides. Their account would never be created as they don't have access to the email they provided. Just dealing with email validation solves both problems.
lrdd··on Ask HN: How to self-learn electronics?
+1 for Ben Eater - super solid explanations, really enlightening even right at an early level.
lrdd··on IKEA Effect
The fact that there are some people who enjoy walking round the IKEA stores window shopping with no intention of buying anything is testament to how well designed their stores are.
lrdd··on A newly discovered moon tunnel
I think the short answer is we don't really know, but the simplest explanation is muddy icy comets colliding