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lutrinus··on Microsoft AI spying scandal: time to rethink privacy standards
As far as I‘m aware, Time Machine is a local backup which means the data never even reaches Apple‘s servers.

Additionally, you can and should encrypt your data which Apple allows to do using FileVault.

Again, the encryption key never even reaches Apple‘s servers except if you use the iCloud Keychain. And even if you do and you store your key there, Apple wouldn’t have the key for your iCloud Keychain and thus couldn’t do anything with that data.

lutrinus··on Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure
https://nitter.poast.org/matthew_d_green/status/178968789886...
lutrinus··on Germany explores 4-day workweek amid labor shortage
Interestingly, as a German who lives in a bubble where people take their jobs very seriously, I was equally surprised when I experienced pretty much what you described while visiting the US.

I guess there are “proud to be lazy” kind of people in any country. It’s definitely not a widespread German cultural thing, though, from my experience.

lutrinus··on [dead]
http://archive.today/rc5lk
lutrinus··on The Weird World in RGB (2019) [video]
Ah, Technology Connections. Such a great channel! If you enjoyed this video, make sure to also watch his video about the color brown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh4aWZRtTwU
lutrinus··on Firefox Development Is Moving from Mercurial to Git
It's right there in the first paragraph:

> For a long time Firefox Desktop development has supported both Mercurial and Git users. This dual SCM requirement places a significant burden on teams which are already stretched thin in parts. We have made the decision to move Firefox development to Git.

lutrinus··on Apple: Android is a tracking device [pdf]
It hasn’t changed though, has it?
lutrinus··on Rite Aid Files for Bankruptcy
Have a look at Hotelling’s law: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotelling%27s_law
lutrinus··on Netflix Plans to Raise Prices After Actors Strike Ends
https://archive.ph/w1M5L
lutrinus··on Meta announces new Quest 3 VR headset
> The device, starting at $499, is more expensive than its predecessor by $200

Wow, that’s quite a steep increase.

lutrinus··on Essence: A desktop OS built from scratch, for control and simplicity
> I am not working on it at the moment. But I would like to return to the project when I have more free time ;)
lutrinus··on Recursive Sans & Mono: A typographic palette for vibrant code and UI
Berkeley Mono does look great. Thanks for pointing me to this!

I'll have an inner debate on the price tag, though.. $75 for the Developer Package seems quite steep.

lutrinus··on Toyota says solid-state battery breakthrough can halve cost and size
https://archive.is/aZVks
lutrinus··on Deleting System32\curl.exe
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31248250
lutrinus··on Show HN: Generate commit messages using GPT-3
What a great way to feed OpenAI all your source code.
lutrinus··on Ask HN: What “special” app you are using?
I use that, too, but for photography. It’s a wonderful app and much easier to handle than the similar and IMHO overhyped PhotoPills.

It’s also on iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/sun-surveyor-sun-moon/id525176875

lutrinus··on You don't need live chat on your website
So, you went to the Amazon live chat. They sent you to Logitech. You chatted with their bot and had to "restart the whole long process" because of a bug.

Then you got connected to a human who asked you for a confirmation from Amazon. You went back to Amazon and asked them for a return, again.

You had a "miserable" experience with the process, there, but in the end got your return label.

Yeah, really sounds like an excellent experience.

lutrinus··on GnuCash – Open-source personal and small-business accounting software
I've been using YNAB for years now looked at the competitors from time to time.

While their pricing has increased quite a bit (by now also for long time users coming from YNAB 4), for me it is worth every penny and better than anything else out there. I can't recommend it enough and I don't even get paid to write this comment.

lutrinus··on Body Margin 8px
It's not just you. After expanding the historic base stylesheet, Chrome even crashed for me (using a Pixel 6).
lutrinus··on GitHub actions is down
The title seems to be a bit misleading as this seems to be - at least right now - not a widespread issue.

We currently don't have any issues and the status page also doesn't list anything.

lutrinus··on 4coder editor is now fully open source
Regarding your side note, they're at least transparent about that. :)

> I DO NOT recommend learning from this codebase, especially not with an uncritical eye. It may be a useful reference for certain algorithms and architectural ideas, and it certainly contains some cautionary tails. But if you are a beginner, I encourage you to aim for more than emulating the style and structure of this codebase.

lutrinus··on Netflix lays off about 150 employees
> Mine was laughter (and a little sadness)

Why would you laugh at this?