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mgarciaisaia··on How to find a lost phone in a no-cell-coverage camping site?
(I've just asked my cousin, and he says Google Assistant is not enabled)
mgarciaisaia··on How to find a lost phone in a no-cell-coverage camping site?
The hotspot didn't provide real Internet connectivity, since there was no service - only the places' WiFi, but out of reach, and the phone can't connect to the WiFi and provide the hotspot at the same time.

So probably not. But if the lost phone was an iPhone, walking around with another iPhone would have reported it (once the walking one was connected to the WiFi back again).

mgarciaisaia··on How to find a lost phone in a no-cell-coverage camping site?
This, but without the "Find my". Not sure if my cousin would have been able to log into his account from another phone (maybe MFA would be a blocker if he tried), and my hotspot didn't actually provide Internet anyways.

I thought about "relaying" the place's Wi-Fi connection through a chain of phones sharing via bluetooth and Wi-Fi, but luckily we could find the phone without having to try that. The setup would have been something like:

Router <-Wifi-> Phone <-Blutooth-> Phone <-WiFi-> Phone <-....

mgarciaisaia··on How to find a lost phone in a no-cell-coverage camping site?
Rationale is "I will be offline, so don't even try to connect". When I'm hikking in the mountains, maybe spending a couple of days up there, I only use my phone for GPS and/or photos - so everything else goes off.
mgarciaisaia··on How to find a lost phone in a no-cell-coverage camping site?
Whenever I go to big concerts or gatherings, I set my lock screen to a screenshot of a WhatsApp story (that I never publish) saying something like that.
mgarciaisaia··on How to find a lost phone in a no-cell-coverage camping site?
WOW. I love this approach. Didn't think of it since I don't usually use Siri (nor Google Assistant, since I'm on Android - as my cousin).

SO steampunk to see a group of adults shouting around "HEY GOOGLE" in the woods to find a lost phone.

mgarciaisaia··on How to find a lost phone in a no-cell-coverage camping site?
The place had Wi-Fi, but the phone was just enough apart from the router to not reach it. The calls were WhatsApp Calls because we knew there was no cell service to make a standard call (don't know if the phone has VoLTE).
mgarciaisaia··on How to find a lost phone in a no-cell-coverage camping site?
There were only one or two iPhones among the 12+ people party we were - and this specific phone was an Android one.
mgarciaisaia··on How to find a lost phone in a no-cell-coverage camping site?
It was dark already. We did a lot of grass-searching with flashlights - but the phone was on top of the ATV, in a tough-to-spot location (by the handlebar or something, between some cables).
mgarciaisaia··on How to find a lost phone in a no-cell-coverage camping site?
> WiFi network mirroring is smart

Thanks!

I don't usually use bluetooth _that much_ so I didn't think about it. My cousin's truck was around, which was indeed paired with the phone - but it would have been a bit more cumbersome to use in the search anyways.

mgarciaisaia··on How to find a lost phone in a no-cell-coverage camping site?
Here in Argentina people sometimes leave inside the freezer an ice cube with a coin on top of it, so they can check if the power went off for a long while - because the coin would be lower in the cube even if it froze back.
mgarciaisaia··on JavaScript-Is-Weird as a compressor
Author here! I've just enabled Issues & PRs in the repo if you want to chime in there.
mgarciaisaia··on A peek into Argentina’s video game scene
I'm waiting on Fanny Pack to finally release Runna[0] - which I know has been developed in Godot. Some members of the team ran a game development workshop last year, I'd love to see what they came up with.

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/app/2283470/Runa__the_Chaikur...

mgarciaisaia··on Instagram’s co-founders are back with Artifact, a kind of TikTok for text
> "Every time we use machine learning to improve the consumer experience, things got really good really quickly."

[Citation needed]

mgarciaisaia··on Yerba Mate – A Long but Current History (2021)
They mentioned Syria in the proposal to add a Mate emoji
mgarciaisaia··on Stable Diffusion forming images from text: image snapshots at each step
Do you have a diff/patch of the change to do this?

I may try understanding both StableDiffusion and Python enough to do it, but if you already solved it - that'll be appreciated :)

mgarciaisaia··on Crystal Programming Language
(Manas.Tech employee here)

Back when I joined Manas.Tech and learnt about Crystal, THE wow factor for me was the way `if` constraints optional types when you check it: https://crystal-lang.org/reference/1.5/syntax_and_semantics/...

That provides you the flexibility of having union types (variable may be `Thing1` or `Thing2`) for generic purposes, AND type-safetiness (is that a word?) when dealing with specific paths of your program that apply differently to some of the subtypes of the variable.

I think Swift and Kotlin support (some of?) that now. It was really new for me back in the day (around 2014?).

But that's from a coding point of view - not that much about niches, as you talk about.

mgarciaisaia··on Why don’t we do email verification in reverse?
I'd argue the crux is about proving that Me The Service can send You The User whatever info is needed (password reset, notification of planned downtimes, pricing changes, warnings about service abuse) to this address - and you'll get it.

I don't care about you "controlling" an email address - you can easily get fake ones for free. It's about both parties having agreed _at least once_ on a way for the service to communicate important stuff to you.

mgarciaisaia··on Tooth Fairy Index
US fairy tooth index is around 5.5 USD.

Argentina's largest bill (1000 ARS) is between 3.6 and 7.8 USD (depending on the exchange rate you want to use).

Are you up for imports?

mgarciaisaia··on Ask HN: What is your Kubernetes nightmare?
2025. 3am. Clear night. Full moon shining, many stars around.

I suddenly wake up, covered in cold sweat. My heart is pumping so hard.

I take out my phone. I search the internet. Kubernetes still reigns, no simpler approach made it.

The end.

mgarciaisaia··on Show HN: Spanish Basic
Here's a really interesting talk (in Spanish) about programming in one's (natural) language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ2ZGNUqWXg
mgarciaisaia··on Tunneling Wikipedia through WhatsApp to (maybe?) get around WiFi restrictions
I always thought WhatsApp published their list of IPs (segregated by standard chats vs media), but it seems they only share CIDR blocks with operators privately: https://www.whatsapp.com/cidr.txt

And you say there's no segregation between chat and media - and I trust your out of date info more than my completely made up guesses.

mgarciaisaia··on Tunneling Wikipedia through WhatsApp to (maybe?) get around WiFi restrictions
The real, important value of implementing IP over WhatsApp (in a proper, transparent way as other commenters are stating, and not from a chatbot as in the article) is not to avoid paying $5 for WiFi on a plane, but to protest the lack of net neutrality in an effective way.
mgarciaisaia··on Apple is discontinuing the iPod
I understand it's really carefully worded, but I tend to feel insulted by a press release that says everything _except_ the message, to make it less harsh.

Be honest.

mgarciaisaia··on Grafana Mimir – Horizontally scalable long-term storage for Prometheus
The thing I need most right now is a confirmation that it's named after this tweet: https://twitter.com/mmoriqomm/status/1272552214658117638
mgarciaisaia··on Toll signs on 101 report your transponder setting
In Buenos Aires, the northern, suburban, tolled highways have a non-tolled two-lane alternative that go side by side. Going west or south - some of them have a speedbump-filled alternative street, others don't even have that.

They don't ask which brand of car you're driving, but there's a really high correlation between income level and living area - northern parts being the richest.

mgarciaisaia··on Traffic Simulator
I totally agree with the elephant racing. If we saw traffic as team-play, things would be much easier.

A similar case, more frequent case here in a touristic place with single-lane routes is lines of vehicles right after each other, that don't know how to overtake the one before, but neither leave space in between so someone else _can_ overtake them.

In a complicated mountain road, I _may_ be able to overtake a truck once in a while (depending on incoming traffic, turns, and going uphill/downhill) - but the effort required to overtake 2, 3 or more vehicles at a time is almost impossible.

mgarciaisaia··on How illiterate people use their mobile phones (2012)
Japanese was something we Argentinians really didn't know back in the 90's when I was a kid (we still don't usually know it, but now I know some people who are picking up classes).

But then there was Captain Tsubasa's FamiCom game, which some friends had, only in Japanese - and it amazed me how easily they went through all of the menus to change whatever settings they wanted.

Kids, spare time, the desire to play some videogames, and a country whose market wasn't that attractive - an awesome combination.

mgarciaisaia··on Red Light Green Light
"A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points" - Alan Kay
mgarciaisaia··on Charm – Tools to make the command line glamorous

    ssh whoami.filippo.io
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