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sergimansilla··on AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late
No, they are destroying them because that’s the way that they can keep a digital copy legally.
sergimansilla··on DaVinci Resolve – Photo
As a Capture One user, I wish Capture One had NN denoising. It is one area in which it can’t touch Lightroom.
sergimansilla··on Using extra Firefox profiles to make my life better
This works for me, I use it a lot, same environment. Check that your keyboard shortcuts haven’t been assigned to something else.
sergimansilla··on Ask HN: How do you manage photos, philosophically?
Current Photos app can actually import these libraries. Click on “import” and select the aperture file. It should keep all the albums, metadata, etc.
sergimansilla··on I Am Leaving
In my experience, Telegram excels at speed and bad connection situations.
sergimansilla··on Firefox address bar
Ha, I've been using these for years, I thought it was better known!
sergimansilla··on Thunderbird 115
I’ve been using the beta for some weeks, and it’s fantastic. snappy fast, and makes me feel in control.

I’m not using (and probably never will) any of the non-email features like the calendar, or the chat. But they are relatively hidden away, so they don’t bother me.

sergimansilla··on MacBooks from 2020 Are Being Sold for Scrap Because of Activation Lock
Working as intended.
sergimansilla··on European Parliament approves mass surveillance of private communication
It mentions in the article that even apps like Signal would have to install backdoors that they can use.
sergimansilla··on Up to 1,500 businesses affected by ransomware attack, Kaseya CEO says
I think the problem here is with the definition of “secure system”. What is “secure enough”? Considering we’re talking about groups that have resources to buy 0-day exploits, if they want to get in, they’ll eventually will.

Sticking with your analogy, we could probably define a set of standards for baseline IT security for all IT systems…but it probably wouldn’t be very useful. Systems vary so wildly in complexity and scale that coming up with the equivalent of a “code” that fits most systems like we have with electrical installations is impossible.

sergimansilla··on Google Issues Quality Warning for Millions of Google Photos Users
PhotoSync is actually very good: https://www.photosync-app.com
sergimansilla··on “This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server”
Looks great, but it's suspicious that is free. What's their business model?
sergimansilla··on This Page is Designed to Last
Doesn’t seem like you know what you’re talking about. API changes? Sure, if you’re referring to the HTML language changing. The content does not depend on the browser being there. It’s just “dat” addresses. Dat is a public p2p protocol with good success stories, especially in the scientific community.
sergimansilla··on This Page is Designed to Last
It sounds like the perfect case for the Beaker browser (https://www.beakerbrowser.com), which is backed solidly by the Dat protocol.
sergimansilla··on This Page is Designed to Last
Sounds exactly like what the Dat protocol and the Beaker Browser https://www.beakerbrowser.com/ offer.
sergimansilla··on Switch to OpenStreetMap
Unfortunately it looks like they may share your data with third parties, which includes their parent company, mail.ru. I personally don’t trust them.
sergimansilla··on Try OCaml
It's very good right now, especially with .NET core the new dotnet command, and VSCode's great support it's easier than ever to develop in F# on any platform.
sergimansilla··on Firebase hosting has been down for more than 2 hours now
4 hours now 0_0
sergimansilla··on Firebase hosting is down
1.5 hours down and 45 minutes with no updates, that's really bad.
sergimansilla··on Efficient music players remain elusive
I find Vox (https://vox.rocks/) for Mac to be pretty good. I certainly haven't found anything better for OSX.
sergimansilla··on Telegram Desktop reaches version 1.0
Um, secret chats have been there for a long time.
sergimansilla··on Apes may be closer to speaking than many scientists think
I read this first as "Apples". I was very confused.
sergimansilla··on Firefox disabled my extensions
It will be an issue nevertheless, though.
sergimansilla··on Firefox 42 will not allow unsigned extensions
I recently made an update my own Firefox extension, called Tab Grenade. It took them 4 months to review. 4 months. And that's for a (very) minor update.

Because of that, I was definitely considering to start releasing it on my own, instead of through Mozilla's add-on website. It looks like I will be able to do that, but I'll have to use the signed extension process.

I'll believe this system works when I see it. After my experience with add-on reviewing, I am very skeptical.

sergimansilla··on Safari is the new IE
Agreed. However, it still has the best perceived performance. Just open a page with a heavy layout and scroll up and down, or type an address or search term in the location bar and "feel" how fast it loads. Apple really put some effort in making it "feel" extremely fast.
sergimansilla··on Spain is trying to get rid of Uber: drivers will face fines up to €18K
I take a fair amount of taxis and Uber. Except on some cases*, my experience with Uber is always vastly superior than it is with taxis: from the conversation to cleanliness, efficiency, etc. Specially in Spain.

I agree that Uber needs to have the same fiscal treatment as taxis do, but making the service illegal is beyond ridiculous, and a very sad way to try to stifle innovation (which will end up finding its way anyway).

sergimansilla··on Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice
Some time ago I made a very (very) light-weight extension for myself that works well for situations in which I have hundreds of tabs opened. It closes them all and stores the linked titles in a simple HTML page (thus searchable), ordered by tab session. It is inspired by OneTab and it is open-source.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-grenade/

sergimansilla··on Extending JavaScript with inline unit tests
Cool, nice and clean :)

As I mention in the post though, mine is just a very simple macro. But it is enough to show how easy is to modify the language to fit different scenarios, such as testing. The macro could probably be expanded and improved a lot to fit much more complex scenarios like real Contract-based languages have.

sergimansilla··on Extending JavaScript with inline unit tests
Given the simplicity of my macro, I didn't call this 'contract programming' on purpose. For real JavaScript Contract Programming, check out contracts.js (from the same author of sweet.js).
sergimansilla··on Extending JavaScript with inline unit tests
Sure. And so it would in Pyret. It is just some sugar to make it more clear that this code belongs to a particular function. It can also be much more improved and coupled to the 'owner' function, but that's just a simple example of how to make a macro that emulates in part Pyret's inline tests.
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