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sli··on Hue Light Hack
I could have done with them not removing the perfectly functional and reliable Apple Watch support that I paid for just to update their app to shove ads about other products in my face. I spent too much on this setup to get spammed and lose features.
sli··on How to make buttons in VR (2017)
I regularly do sessions of 8 hours and just making sure that I move around a lot in my playspace helps a lot. My legs will be pretty tired by the end, because it's still standing for 8 hours, but it's helped a ton with the foot pain.

I still think I'd like some kinda lightweight, supportive indoor shoes for VR, especially if they have spots for foot trackers on them.

sli··on Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote comments on piracy
Freedom was long bought and paid for, this is just a natural consequence of not reigning in corporate power.
sli··on Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote comments on piracy
Any good account scrubber for reddit will edit your comment to some pre-defined text before deleting it, shreddit is no different.
sli··on Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote comments on piracy
Uneddit and Reveddit, at least, do not archive comments deleted by the user that posted them. They archive comments deleted by moderators and admins.
sli··on Clean front end architecture with SvelteKit
This tracks for me as well. Very quickly, you start having to manage 10, 15, 20, or more places where data in a store is being manipulated from outside the store and it quickly becomes unmanageable on anything beyond a toy-sized application. It almost feels like a rite of passage to decentralize like that and then start to pull back when it becomes a nightmare to debug and maintain.
sli··on ManyCam dishonored my lifetime license
Some companies already do a credit check on you during hiring, even if you're not handling money. It's already here and three private companies get all the say. It also disproportionately affects low earners, who are also more likely to have bad credit due to the nature of the cycle of poverty.
sli··on YouTube-DL Hosting Ban Paves the Way to Privatized Censorship
ytp-dl is also many, many times faster than the original, in my experience. youtube-dl is almost unusable for mass downloading by comparison.
sli··on Displaying my washing machine's remaining time with curl, jq, and pizauth
This is a much better idea, if you ask me. It also automatically adjusts for variable length runs of the washer or dryer. Very clever.
sli··on Displaying my washing machine's remaining time with curl, jq, and pizauth
I never know how long my washer of dryer is going to take. An event-based alert system seems way more reliable and convenient to me.
sli··on YouTube is giving Premium subscribers higher-quality video than everyone else
ytp-dl seems to work fine, and is faster than youtube-dl.
sli··on Htmx 1.9.0 has been released
It seems to just be a simulated delay and should probably mention that if that's the case. Running the first example locally does indeed attempt to send a network request when clicking the edit button.
sli··on Ask HN: Is the job market brutal? or is it just me?
It's depressing for the same reason why the military getting pushed onto people as a way to afford college, and the way that frequently works out in reality, is depressing.
sli··on Sponsor the open source projects you depend on
A service that alleges to support open source projects and developers deciding to block VPN users sure seems like an interesting choice.
sli··on Sponsor the open source projects you depend on
The service also completely blocks VPN users with a 403. That seems like blocking a pretty good chunk of your target audience to me. I will absolutely be looking elsewhere to support projects I benefit from.
sli··on Why and how we retired Elm
Because if there was something more concrete to offer that isn't done better, either from them or from the firm they represent, they'd go with that instead.
sli··on A hacker ripped me off. The scam turned out to be brilliant and terrifying
I would love to stop using SMS-based 2FA, but nobody really has any agency in that decision if a service they rely on doesn't care to switch away.
sli··on Experts warn yearly checkups carry risks and do not reduce mortality
The obvious result of an aggressively for-profit healthcare system: aggressively squeezing profit out of everything it can and let then let the doctors take all the heat for it.
sli··on Giving kids no autonomy at all has become a parenting norm
That still seems like a number of assumptions to make about the general population that just doesn't ring true in my experience. I have quite a handful of friends that grew up on the internet same as me and yet are just not all that internet savvy. They just don't really care enough. It's not uncommon and it's not even bad, some folks just don't think about it.
sli··on Italian government seeks to penalize the use of English words
Homographs.
sli··on Giving kids no autonomy at all has become a parenting norm
You're very much overestimating the average persons knowledge or ability to care about the internet beyond their relatively narrow use of it. It's hard to think critically about things that one takes for granted, and non-tech people frequently just take tech for granted. Tech people frequently do the same thing and appear completely out of touch with the average person's needs, but we call those "disruptive startups" instead.
sli··on Managers, stop distracting employees
Yeah, I've been there, too. Daily standups start out as standups but then turn into 1-2 hour long meetings first thing in the morning. Consequentially, those meetings had negative effects on productivity, because the entire team would be stuck there on the call while the manager talks to one person at length. Usually the same one person, at that. I don't miss that place at all.
sli··on XUL Layout is gone
I'm confused. This seems to just refer to XUL layout and not XUL as a whole, but this entire thread is discussing it like XUL as a whole is completely gone. Am I missing something?
sli··on Llama.cpp 30B runs with only 6GB of RAM now
More saliently, the overwhelming majority of the Linux kernel's direct and extended userbase has contributed nothing at all directly to the Linux kernel, as just one example.
sli··on K: We need to talk about group
Unicode support doesn't really seem that uncommon, in the grand scheme. Rosetta Code's wiki has a page for languages that support Unicode variable names[0] and some of them were surprising to me (e.g. AppleScript).

Of course, supporting Unicode variable names doesn't mean a language supports Unicode anywhere, but it's a starting point for historical research at least.

[0]: https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Unicode_variable_names

sli··on GM plans to phase out Apple CarPlay in EVs, with Google's help
> Buyers of GM EVs with the new systems will get access to Google Maps and Google Assistant, a voice command system, at no extra cost for eight years, GM said.

The lede is buried as usual.

sli··on SheepShaver: macOS run-time environment for BeOS and Linux
> for BeOS and Linux

And also for OS X, Windows, and BSD.

sli··on The Age of AI has begun
Massive net negative for anyone who can't afford a new car once those become required. Without expansion of public transportation basically everywhere, self-driving cars are a money making method that will lock out millions of people, not a real solution.
sli··on Tell HN: MailChimp blacklists your IP if you open the browser's dev tools
I remember discovering the BBC one because that's how I found out you can use CSS to style things in the console.
sli··on Tell HN: MailChimp blacklists your IP if you open the browser's dev tools
That is exactly what ends up happening when you detect a viewport resize without a window resize and immediately assume it's the devtools. A user opens their bookmark sidebar and gets blacklisted, because the code simply assumes what's happened.
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