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mderazon

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mderazon··on Ask HN: Are passkeys just another MFA?
GitHub
mderazon··on Grafana Alloy: An OTel Collector distribution with built-in Prometheus pipelines
> Some of you may be thinking: Wait, another collector?

After reading it, I still couldn't understand what it does that otel collectod doesn't

mderazon··on The forgotten war on beepers
Everyone has a boss
mderazon··on Roll-to-roll fabricated perovskite solar cells under ambient room conditions
Mind sharing a link to buy one? Not in Germany but am in Portugal looking to buy
mderazon··on U.S. imposes first-ever national drinking water limits on PFAS
Any one you recommend specifically?
mderazon··on Big Tech passkey implementations are a trap
Banks are especially bad. I know one bank that has you memorize 7 digits access codes and for authentication asks 4 digits at random places each time.
mderazon··on Show HN: I just made my profitable online form builder open-sourced
For me too, using NextDNS
mderazon··on Roll-Invert-Unroll: An easier way to replace a duvet cover
T-shirts are the easiest thing to fold. The real nightmare is the wife's pile of clothes. Every piece of clothing is unique and different in shape and size. Some of them I wouldn't even know how to wear let alone fold
mderazon··on Roll-Invert-Unroll: An easier way to replace a duvet cover
Reminds me of these topology tricks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ebiyOtn7NA

mderazon··on U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly
Exactly, this is marketing talk. Pixel is secure, get regular updates, lesser target than iphone and in terms of privacy can be "hardened" just by going over the Google services setting menu and opting out of everything. Rest can be achieved by using Firefox (which actually runs on Android not like FF on iOS which is a shell) with ad blockers and choosing a different search engine.

I would argue it's much more secure and more private this way

mderazon··on U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly
I don't buy into this narrative. I have a Pixel phone, you can do quite a lot of privacy "hardening" just by going over the Google settings and turning off a lot of tracking (which they were probably forced to put in by regulators). The rest you can achieve by using Firefox instead of Chrome and choose a different search engine.

I get a lot of hard to solve Google CAPTCHA on many websites I visit so I know Google is having a hard time tracking me :-)

In terms of security, I don't think Pixel is less secure than the iPhone. It gets security updates regularly, Google invests a lot in security and I don't think the Pixel has more zero days than the iPhone...

So all in all, I don't buy into the "iPhone is more secure and handles your privacy better than Android" narrative

mderazon··on The Reddits
Have you moved somewhere else?
mderazon··on The Reddits
It could already but doesn't have enough users
mderazon··on Lcl.host: fast, easy HTTPS in your local dev environment
Any reason why these tools usually don't support windows ? Is it harder on Windows ?
mderazon··on Show HN: Skyvern – Browser automation using LLMs and computer vision
Two ways of looking at it. I guess what the OP is saying is that if there was an agreed upon standard for semantically understanding these pages without having to use these sophisticated methods, it would be much easier
mderazon··on Apple hit with over 1.8B euro EU antitrust fine in Spotify case
In that case, good for the EU, just another form of tax collection.
mderazon··on Apple hit with over 1.8B euro EU antitrust fine in Spotify case
What work have they done differently than Android / Google that brings the higher paying users to the platform ?

I am not sure you could find a clear line between the work they've done and the outcome of having high paying customers

mderazon··on Show HN: Aldi Price Map
Are there any regulations for supermarket chains around mandatory data exposure via API ?

And if not, why ?

mderazon··on US Government makes $42M bet on open cell networks: Open RAN dream stays alive
Honest question, if all communication is E2E encrypted (it's not, but let's assume), what's the risk of foreign countries controlling the infra ?
mderazon··on US Government makes $42M bet on open cell networks: Open RAN dream stays alive
https://engineering.fb.com/2023/06/29/connectivity/evenstar-...
mderazon··on Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced
This is what I am mostly looking forward to test today. Google Assistant does such an embarrassing job that I've already given up on it
mderazon··on UUID v7
Would you recommend starting a new project with UUID v7 ?
mderazon··on Goodbye non-KISS appliances
Same for Lifestraw pitcher https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2631/0778/files/Performanc...
mderazon··on Launch HN: Escape (YC W23) – Discover and secure all your APIs
Looks like it's limited for Graphql ?
mderazon··on Show HN: Phrasing – learn every language, to any level
Same on Android. The UI on that page is very sluggish
mderazon··on Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards
Nice site, I will try and see if I can integrate it into my flow somehow and give it words and get back sentences to put in Anki
mderazon··on Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards
I have weekly Portuguese classes in Skype. During the lesson, when there's a word I don't know, the teacher explains and writes it in the chat.

After each class, I take these words and put them in Anki. However, I feel that this is not a great system, a lot of times I need the context of the conversation, the word needs to be in a sentence or sometimes I would prefer the reverse card (English and Portuguese on the back)

Any recommendations for using Anki for learning languages that is not the basic word-translation pair ? I thought about incorporating Chatgpt in the process, and dump the chat history but I am not sure what would be a good system.

mderazon··on ICJ orders Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza, stops short of ordering ceasefire
It's not propaganda. It's a dispute about land with each side not willing to give up land because it's a holy land that God bestowed upon them
mderazon··on ICJ orders Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza, stops short of ordering ceasefire
This is looking at the conflict from western eyes. Religious fundamentalists don't think like that
mderazon··on ICJ orders Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza, stops short of ordering ceasefire
I think you have a slight misconception about living under Iron Dome.

It's not 100% effective and you still have to run to the nearest shelter. In some areas close to Gaza, you have less than 10 seconds to run to the shelter.

So I wouldn't consider that "normal life" by any standards

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