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nickthegreek··on Show HN: WalletWallet – create Apple passes from anything
and they are accessible without unlocking your device.
nickthegreek··on Show HN: WalletWallet – create Apple passes from anything
I don’t believe the apps do it local either. They need to send to server to properly sign the pkpass. A server is being used regardless.
nickthegreek··on Backing up Spotify
and you can upload 100,000 of your own tracks to the service for your private use as well. It is a great service considering I am getting it as a side effect of youtube premium. Single handedly the last subscription I would cancel.
nickthegreek··on Mozilla's New CEO Confirms Firefox Will Become an "AI Browser"
Probably librewolf. I use zen as it has a nice ui, vertical tabs and isn’t overly hardened.
nickthegreek··on Show HN: Stickerbox, a kid-safe, AI-powered voice to sticker printer
No it’s not, and you know it. If a child wants dino stickers for something they are doing, I see no difference of them obtaining those stickers from Walmart or from a printer in their house. In both scenarios, the dinosaurs were not designed by the child. at least in the AI example they can customize to their wants. You don’t seem willing to thoughtfully engage in conversation. Why even post here in first place?
nickthegreek··on Show HN: Stickerbox, a kid-safe, AI-powered voice to sticker printer
Is your issue with stickers robbing kids of creativity or do all the licensed IP stickers that fill the stores that children buy immune from this criticism?
nickthegreek··on Show HN: Stickerbox, a kid-safe, AI-powered voice to sticker printer
I have a bluetooth thermal printer and the mobile app has this and other ai features available as a subscription option.
nickthegreek··on Mozilla's New CEO Confirms Firefox Will Become an "AI Browser"
firefox has several privacy focused forks. waterfox, librewolf and zen are options.
nickthegreek··on Mozilla's New CEO Confirms Firefox Will Become an "AI Browser"
I recommend you check out Zen.
nickthegreek··on Mozilla's New CEO Confirms Firefox Will Become an "AI Browser"
there are forks of firefox that are privacy focused. personally, I use zen.
nickthegreek··on Ask HN: Does anyone understand how Hacker News works?
like many things in life, timing is an important variable.
nickthegreek··on Ask HN: Does anyone understand how Hacker News works?
Agreed. Simonw comments and posts are always on discussion and insightful. Never once have they come off as some sort of linkedin influencer bs.
nickthegreek··on A16z-backed Doublespeed hacked, revealing what its AI-generated accounts promote
Immorally.

Probably moves like affiliate/referral linking, client paid campaigns, cpa lead generating arbitrate at scale, product seeding.

nickthegreek··on Even in a Populist Moment, Democrats Are Split on the Problem of Corporate Power
While breaking the 2 party system seems unimaginable, I do feel like rank choice voting can do a lot to get us on a better path in the short/medium term.
nickthegreek··on Id Software devs form "wall-to-wall" union
I’d entrain notions past certain thresholds (60+ hr weeks for months on end seems excessive for instance) should come with certain protections/minimum extras of some sort. A few guardrails, even if only to protection extremes seems pragmatic and not too controversial imo.
nickthegreek··on Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options
Provide any evidence at all that this is happening.
nickthegreek··on Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options
you can see no privacy differences between an appletv and a roku or fire stick?
nickthegreek··on Benn Jordan’s flock camera jammer will send you to jail in Florida now [video]
magnetic bumper stickers are the way to go.
nickthegreek··on Benn Jordan’s flock camera jammer will send you to jail in Florida now [video]
Directly from the serpent's mouth:

"No more gaps – just evidence.

A license plate is just a start. Flock’s Vehicle Fingerprint® tech turns footage into evidence that solves cases by pinpointing vehicles by make, color, type, and unique characteristics like decals, bumper stickers, and accessories. This capability proved to be instrumental in a recent case in Catoosa, OK where police were able to track down the suspect connected to a mass murder after their vehicle was spotted by a Flock camera."

https://www.flocksafety.com/blog/6-benefits-of-lpr-for-law-e...

nickthegreek··on Id Software devs form "wall-to-wall" union
You’re reading an extra claim into it. It’s not saying “all post-union failures prove exploitation.” It’s saying “if survival requires unfair exploitation, then losing that advantage exposes an illegitimate model.”

I see no implication that all failing businesses after unionization is due to exploitation.

nickthegreek··on Id Software devs form "wall-to-wall" union
Pay is a but a single way in which an employer can attempt to unfairly exploit you.

The rest tends to hide behind culture and opportunity. Unpaid overtime framed as dedication, scope creep framed as growth, on-call expectations framed as ownership, understaffing framed as efficiency. You might find these game developers being abused by a few or all of these examples.

Exploitive companies can borrow against your pride, your fear of falling behind, and your desire to be seen as competent until your baseline becomes always available.

nickthegreek··on Self-hosting my photos with Immich
In a similar situation and it just drained all my excitement for immich after I spent so many hours cleaning up and deduping photos. This content is too important to me have to deal with these issues, especially with how immich chooses to store its internal library photos.
nickthegreek··on Self-hosting my photos with Immich
This is my main issue with Immich. I had 300gb of local photos organized into folders from digital cameras. Then I wanted to move google photos into it. Ran the scripts only to discover that the imported images were in a rats nest of folders in the immich internal library. I loathed this fragmentation keep hoping for a solution. It looks like I could maybe use PhotoSync to dump everything to folders and just keep everything as an 'External library' in immich, but this is not ideal,
nickthegreek··on Why isn't online age verification just like showing your ID in person?
> Ad hominem attacks

Grow some skin. I used that ad hominem in response to your false dilemma/no true support comment of "If you truly believe what you're saying, then you'd agree with me". This comment ignores the obvious 3rd option that we can share underlying values (parental controls are helpful) while disagreeing on details, tradeoffs and the responsibility that comes with parenting.

> So you're admitting that parental controls are ineffective?

I never stated anything of the sort. I specifically pointed how they could be effective for you in the examples you brought forth. I think they could be made more effective, not that they are ineffective.

> And those laws are enforced through what mechanism?

If this is how you feel, than no solution you put forth is valid either.

At this point, I've stated how current parental controls can solve some of your issues, parental controls can be strengthen, outlined an implementation that does not disrupt the lives of Adults on the internet while also pointing out that parents are not immune from blame and are bare the majority of control over their childs lives. Ive engaged with you in good faith.

You just keeping shitting on everything. All because I stated that parents are not immune from blame. I stand by the ad hominem.

nickthegreek··on Why isn't online age verification just like showing your ID in person?
> Instead you're nitpicking my ability to parent my kids.

You willingly invited that conversation. I obliged.

> If you truly believe what you're saying, then you'd agree with me.

Get over yourself. You have not made an attempt to ask for a solution from me to find common ground. You keep trying to remove yourself from the responsibilities of parenting in the modern world as shown in the examples you put forth and your initial post asking that parents not shoulder the blame for what is happening under their nose. Surely they have some level of culpability.

I believe that it would be good for Parental Controls on devices to have a toggle to say that the phone is being used by someone in under 13, or someone 14-18 (whatever bands you want). When enabled, this flag should be available to locally installed apps and remote connections. Laws can be passed that tell remote connections how they must act when receiving this flag. This keeps me, an free adult, from being subjected to more corpo/govt tracking.

nickthegreek··on Why isn't online age verification just like showing your ID in person?
> But when your kid needs Internet access to do their homework, and you forget to turn off the WiFi to their device after they're done... then they sneak that Chromebook to their room and watch videos all night, you lose.

You are at fault.

> When you have a extra phone that was sitting on your desk that you were preparing to resell and your kid sneaks that to their room to watch a few hundred YouTube shorts before you catch him, you lose.

You are at fault.

> When you have parental controls set up on your wifi network, but it's trivial to shut the wifi off and use the cellular network instead, you lose.

This can be controlled via Parental Controls on iOS via Screen Time. If you chose not to, you are at fault.

> When your friends all have personal cell phones but you don't, you lose.

Not sure what you want anyone to do about this. I recognize that life isnt fair.

> Parents have their hands full enough. Make it easier for parents, don't poke at them with a pointy stick.

No one is arguing against this. They are arguing how to implement this.

nickthegreek··on Why isn't online age verification just like showing your ID in person?
> Can we please stop blaming parents??

No? They are surely somewhere in the top 3 influences that can actually have a meaningful difference here.

nickthegreek··on Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options
Maybe some brands do (feel free to name them). My Samsung does not.
nickthegreek··on Show HN: WhatHappened – HN summaries, heatmaps, and contrarian picks
What BS.The contrarian view listed on the site is based off of the comments from HN. Throughout this thread, your brand new account is posting nonsense.
nickthegreek··on Yadea is coming to the Western market
One the primary reasons I have a vespa is that in my big city you are allowed to park them for free on the sidewalk as long as you are not blocking the main flow of traffic. Never having to worry about parking gets me out and about when I never would have due to the headache before. It is so convenient and the gas mileage is nuts.
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