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> Maybe even make them AI generated

Pretty sure they already are--just ahead of time, not on-the-fly.

> I'm just sharing what I've observed

Can you be more specific? I'm curious about the types of "slightly right leaning" things that you think are reasonable to say in a programming language community, but that would be controversial or forbidden in a "highly politicised"/"no nazi bullshit" community.

They have "Details" for each project doing exactly that: https://isitreallyfoss.com/projects/proton-mail/

> ProtonMail, who apparently offer a FOSS mail client. They never presumed to offer mail server software

The website justifiably cites this website marketing copy as misleading: "All Proton services are open source and independently audited for security." https://proton.me/mail If that's supposed to only apply to the mail client (which isn't specifically mentioned on that page), it's incredibly unclear.

Really cool! I just watched it finish "cat saying 'hi'". It doesn't look like any new posts have shown up on @kilopx.com on Bluesky for the last 9 days though.

A few suggestions for improvements:

- After completing a submission, move the "pen" out of the way as much as possible to get a clean photo of the completed art before moving onto the next submission.

- On the website, show attribution for the currently in-progress submission.

- On the website, have a "history" gallery for completed submissions. It looks like pending submissions have permalinks that say "Timelapse will be available after this is drawn", but there's no way to discover permalinks for completed submissions (or the in-progress one).

> It's tied to vendor lock in

If you're referring to the inability to transfer passkeys across systems, that should be improving soon.

https://blog.1password.com/fido-alliance-import-export-passk...

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/apple-previews-new-...

A few pieces of additional context: It's undated but I believe that this article/essay is from 2022. There apparently is a recently released Netflix documentary about this case. James Lewis died in 2023.

> feel AI generated

The apparently-AI artwork doesn't help. From some googling it appears to be a direct rip-off of this: https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/the-great-amer...

> The 10-minute transition time will move before the hour instead of after the hour. Previously a one-hour class with an official start time of 9:00 a.m. would begin at 9:10 a.m. Under the new policy, class will begin at the official start time but end at 9:50 a.m.

https://www.michiganpublic.org/education/2018-02-20/universi... / https://record.umich.edu/articles/university-updating-start-...

Sad.

The word "affair" does not appear in the transcript of the episode; my only guess is that the commenter googled the name of the story looking for a summary and saw "love affair" in some of the results.

> it turns out it was a love affair (cheating)

I don't know where you got this idea from, but it can't be from listening to this short story.

I think the issue you're encountering is purely due to those two countries starting with a rotation, and not any incorrect handling of distortion. You can adjust the rotation of a country by clicking it and then dragging the compass rose, which will allow you to perfectly overlay them back on their starting positions.

The notice on ftp.bit.nl predates ChatGPT. Perhaps more relevant: "Beg Bounties" 280 points, Nov 8, 2021, 104 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29147555

> Want to be a bounty beggar? It's dead simple, you just use tools like Qualys' SSL Labs, dmarcian or Scott Helme's Security Headers, among others. Easy point and shoot magic and you don't need to have any idea whatsoever what you're doing!

The locations of letters on the "clocks" is clearly QWERTY-inspired, but it seems like D and V should be swapped to be more faithful to that. I wonder if different layouts (like a more alphabetical ordering) were tested as well—I was expecting to see some details in the blog post how this particular arrangement was selected.

> I didn't like the idea of a queen on one board capturing the king on another board as her first move

If you did want to experiment with supporting cross-board captures, an alternate way to address that could be by rotating the board 180° every other row, so that white pieces have other white pieces behind their home rank.

Thanks for the clarification.

Is there a use case for such a macro, or is it just a puzzle for its own sake?

iPhones have supported HDR photos for over a decade, since at least the iPhone 5S; for whatever reason, they've ignored them for at least that long.

No:

> Range is always a normal distribution, with the lower number being two standard deviations below the mean, and the upper number two standard deviations above. Nothing fancier is possible, in terms of input probability distributions.

> I'm assuming Wong 2021 has nothing to say about this other than the assertion

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-020-01808-6

> We designed a survey to compare the psychological, sexual, and childhood experiences for subgroups of men with extreme interest in castration. The survey was posted on the Eunuch Archive, an online platform for individuals interested in the topic. Data from 822 individuals were included in the analyses.

> A feature complete Python text case conversion library

I suspect you mean "featureful", "full-featured" or similar[1]—"feature complete" means that you're not going to add any more features.

[1] https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/393517/what-do-y...

> It does not support non-English title casing

Perhaps document that clearly—it's an important restriction that the library assumes English-language strings. ("no inferences on the language itself is made" isn't quite true since the language is inferred to be English, or to at least follow English-compatible rules for casing)

It's a confusingly jumbled title. I think it's supposed to mean something like "New version of Oscar-winning Blender software released" (which is still inaccurate—it wasn't Blender that won the Oscar, but an Oscar-winning film was made using it). It looks like this release celebrates that win by using art from the film for its splash image.

You might also recognize a few samples from/shared with "Groove is in the Heart" (at 0:30 and 3:39) in "GBI (German Bold Italic)" (at 0:25 and 3:19). (Timestamps are for the YouTube music videos, which have short introductions not found on the album tracks)

https://www.whosampled.com/sample/8483/Towa-Tei-Kylie-Minogu...

https://www.whosampled.com/sample/426057/Towa-Tei-Kylie-Mino...

> your device will indicate in Keyboard Settings if your audio and transcripts are processed on your device and not sent to Apple servers

I have a reasonably recent (<2yo) MBP, which feels like it ought to be "modern enough", and in Keyboard Settings, it says "Dictation sends information like your voice input, contacts, and location to Apple to process your requests." It doesn't say anything about processing happening on my device. Yes, off-line dictation does work for me (with Wi-Fi turned off), but I'm curious under what conditions Keyboard Settings would say something about transcripts not being sent to Apple.

Much more discussion in these posts, which AFAICT tend to quickly fall afoul of either user flagging or the HN flamewar detection and drop off the front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43170850 Tell HN: Y Combinator backing AI company to abuse factory workers (476 points, 163 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43175023 'Hey Number 17 ' (329 points, 125 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43180133 Y Combinator deletes posts after a startup's demo goes viral (203 points, 73 comments)

On a related note: are there any utilities that can measure disk usage of a folder taking (APFS) cloned files into account?

An employee commented on this on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/1isd0wi/aws_blocking_t...

E1337Recon 257 points 7 hours ago (Tue Feb 18 14:00:30 2025 UTC)

> Hey I’m gonna raise this internally as this is not a good change in my opinion. (Strictly my own opinion and not that of AWS)

> Edit: The change is being rolled back

The text of the email (courtesy of Firefox/macOS Text recognition):

___________________

Subject: yes, it's me, the author of "spell"

You did a nice job of gently describing "spell"s data representation. But the formula x = 2^{log_2(m)}-m is a complicated way to say x=0. Did you mean that?

When memory got bigger, I kept the literal dictionary in memory, but compressed it on secondary memory for fast transfer. The compression was trivial: store a suffix preceded by one byte that contained the length of the prefix that the word shared with its predecessor in dictionary order.

We also added one byte per enry for affixing info, e.g. whether in- (or im- or ir-) is preferred over un-, whether a final consonant is doubled before adding a suffix that begins with a vowel, part of speech, etc. Although there were lots of such attributes, the number of distinct combinations of attributes that actually occurred was fewer than 256, so could be coded into one byte, and decoded by lookup in a 256-entry table. I automated the construction of that table, which would change if a dictionary revision created a new combination of attributes.

With affixing info we could at the same time be more aggressive about affixing, and make fewer mistakes like allowing -s on a word that cannot be used as a noun or a verb.

Here's a 1988 Washington Post article about the restaurant: https://archive.is/t0CCH

And a UPI story from 1980: https://www.upi.com/Archives/1980/09/26/Eddy-Galland-Robert-...

This memorial page for Eddy has some very-low-res scans of contemporaneous articles and includes numerous citations in the body text: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/79439251/edward_scott-ga...