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reactormonk

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Co-Founder of https://family.cards Reach me via simon@family.cards
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reactormonk··on Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border
The fake SINs from Shadowrun come to mind: https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/System_Identification_Numb...
reactormonk··on The August 17 outage
ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoor
reactormonk··on Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction
And some hijacking of the old DotA forums to advertise LoL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13439036
reactormonk··on Mayor of Paris removed parking spaces, reduced the number of cars
I have bad news for you: https://old.reddit.com/r/RentnerfahreninDinge/comments/1qtsg...
reactormonk··on France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc.
> They act like we’re going to war with them when we’re asking for parity and for their self reliance to increase.

Threatening to take over Greenland by force isn't considered "going to war" for you?

reactormonk··on Why I think Valve’s retiring the Steam Deck LCD
That'll only support L3 DRM, so you'll only get horrible quality and are better off sailing the high seas.
reactormonk··on Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10
Shoutout to https://localsend.org/ - it can even open a local webserver if needed.
reactormonk··on Accents in latent spaces: How AI hears accent strength in English
Swiss-German accent doesn't seem to be on the list, so it guessed mostly Swedish.
reactormonk··on Web Server for AoE 1, 2 and 3 DE supporting LAN multiplayer 100% offline
Vikings are a very good archer civ, full tree and the free handcart is a top-tier eco-boost.
reactormonk··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2024)
family.cards | Senior Android Engineer | Berlin, Germany | hybrid (50% per month) | full-time | https://family.cards | 60k-85k + ESOP

We're a startup building a device which gives seniors access to the digital world, with a card-based interface. We're looking for help with our main product, which is based on Android. Everything's built on Kotlin, rabbitmq & multiplatform compose for the companion app. Bonus points for experience with: BLE, IR, HDMI CEC, NFC, Swift (for the companion app), ansible, German.

If you're interested, send me an email at simon@family.cards

reactormonk··on America's commute to work is getting longer and longer
Population density: - Germany: 239 people/km^2 - Switzerland: 563 people/km^2

Public funding per citizen per year: - Germany: ~200€ (2013, so 250€ with inflation) https://www.bmuv.de/fileadmin/Daten_BMU/Pools/Forschungsdate... - Switzerland: ~750€ (2024) https://switzerlandtimes.ch/swiss-public-transport-revenues-...

So you have a third of the money, and about half the population density.

reactormonk··on Web Environment Integrity API Proposal
tl;dr: DRM for websites
reactormonk··on Tell HN: People forget that you can stick any data at the end of a bash script
Or a malicious server trying to detect if you're using `curl | sh` https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17636032
reactormonk··on Ask HN: Any hardware startups here?
We're working on a device to allow seniors to access the digital world with a haptic interface. We support video calls / photo sharing / content / telemedicine / exercises to bridge the generational gap in digital services.

https://family.cards

reactormonk··on Ask HN: Any hardware startups here?
I'd also be interested in picking your brain. If you happen to have time, send me an email.
reactormonk··on IodéOS Is Open Source
I installed iode onto my FP3, and I could relock the bootloader.
reactormonk··on Intercal, YAML, and Other Horrible Programming Languages
I formatted

  { foo = 3, bar = 4, baz = 5, verylongproperty = 6, dunnoneedsmoremore = 7, howmanytoforcealinebreak = 8 }
And it forces the comma at the beginning of the line, Haskell-style:

  { foo = 3
  , bar = 4
  , baz = 5
  , verylongproperty = 6
  , dunnoneedsmoremore = 7
  , howmanytoforcealinebreak = 8
  }
reactormonk··on Intercal, YAML, and Other Horrible Programming Languages
You can have trailing commas just fine: https://github.com/dhall-lang/dhall-lang/pull/956

However, `dhall format` is _very_ opinionated, and will remove it.

reactormonk··on Intercal, YAML, and Other Horrible Programming Languages
It's great if the system is built directly on top of it, e.g. spago. Not so much if you're trying to type yaml. Dhall is very opinionated, so trying to use it like TypeScript to type an untyped structure is... interesting.

E.g. for Kubernetes: https://github.com/dhall-lang/dhall-kubernetes

reactormonk··on Debian project has plenty of money but not enough developers
> Federal Job Guarantee

Job Guarantee isn't as good of an idea as you'd expect: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/05/16/basic-income-not-basic...