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slykar··on USB-C was supposed to simplify our lives, but instead it’s a total mess
If you ignore laptops, then Micro-B basically did charge everything in my house. The introduction of USB-C made things worse, because now I have to deal with both connectors.
slykar··on MacOS-like Fonts on Manjaro/Arch Linux
I'm using Linux distros for like 10 years now and recently I (again) didn't even know how to close a window. Is it Super+W? Super+Q? Alt+F4? All of those 3 might work. How do I access app preferences? Ctrl+Alt+P? Ctrl+Alt+O? Ctrl+Alt+S? You know, because "preferences", "options" and "settings". All those shortcuts work depending on the app.
slykar··on It was more efficient to blow up a real 747 than to use miniatures or CGI
It's just an ad.
slykar··on Web Clipper Browser Extension with Automatic Content Extraction, Now Open Source
Wouldn't it be possible to support any video by simply scanning for <video> tags and getting current playback information from there? I'm not sure, but is the extension able to control he video playback in order to navigate to the right time?
slykar··on TikTok reveals details of how its algorithm works
> Provide clear option to opt-out

I would say there's a very good option to opt-out of TikTok - don't use it.

Facebook is much harder to opt-out, as they can track you even if you don't have an account.

slykar··on Optimize Onboarding
From my experience onboarding means showing you where the bathroom is, giving you credentials for your new emial account, pointing you to a company wiki and introducing you to your new team and then you are at the mercy of your team to "get you up to speed". Stories of some fun activities sound like some sort of novelty to me.
slykar··on The social and economic costs borne by young people without offices
> I talk to people all day long, the kind of discussions you don't plan and send invites with an agenda upfront

For what reason? You say it's a total waste of time productivity wise. Imagine having this all the time, because it's how it looks like in an open space office.

This might be the reason why we are expected to work 8h/day. We simply waste most of our work time. It would be much better to be paid 2x more per hour and only really work 4 hours a day.

Also, working remotely does not mean my meetings have invitations or an agenda. You can call someone anytime. We have webcams on all day. I only have a calendar event if it is a planned meeting, like an interview with a new candidate, daily stand up, brainstorming session.

slykar··on The social and economic costs borne by young people without offices
So make it necessary by refusing to work without being paid for utilizing your space and equipment. It's a thing of culture. You are paid based on supply and demand mostly. Devs should be on the front of this movement. Anyone who is able to generate any kind of financial pillow.

If you are a pizza boy where I live you get paid extra if you use your own car. It's not a law. It's expected. That's the work culture. No one will drive for you otherwise.

slykar··on The social and economic costs borne by young people without offices
> For the small company CEO who relies on force of personality and everyone in the same room urgently working to get something done, WFH might be terrible.

Working remotely for a small company with a few people from around the world and it's going fine. We are in contact when we have to be. I can cut distractions when I need to. No open space office bulshit.

I was raised on IM. I'm fine communicating like this. If I need to talk I can always call someone.

In any case, you need a space to work. If you WFH you should have a space for work. I strongly believe that employers should pay you more so that you can afford an additional room. This should not be a cost cut for the employers. They should just pay you instead of paying the insane office rent.

WFH is simply different from working at an office. It will be hard for some people to learn a new way, but this major change could even redesign our cities.

slykar··on Gitlab reducing free tier CI/CD minutes from 2000 to 400 minutes
For 150$ I have the most expensive option with 20 cores and 256GB of RAM. o.O
slykar··on Gitlab reducing free tier CI/CD minutes from 2000 to 400 minutes
The feature that sold me GitLab was the ability to run your own runners. It's basically 10x (source needed) cheaper than other hosted CI/CD services. Most basic setup is like 3 commands.
slykar··on Show HN: InstaNote – notes in a simple chat interface
Feels weird. I often send a message to myself using Facebook Messenger in order to take a quick note. I do this because I can easily access it on any device and I generally have the Messenger opened in the background. I'm not sure if I want to have filtering and searching in a chat style note taking app. I don't care for organization of those quick, ad-hoc notes with short lifespan. If I want something persisted, I'll probably use a more dedicated, organized place.
slykar··on Launch HN: GitDuck (YC S20) – Zoom for developers with real-time code sharing
I guess they are probably just starting and the claims on their website are too far-fetched. I might give it a try if they come up with integration for JetBrains IDEs.
slykar··on Ask HN: How do you switch off from work, particularly when working from home?
Environment pays a big role. I have a separate room just for work. Some of my friends work in the kitchen. Maybe you can try with changing your background view or move some objects around when there's a work time. Move a big plant into your vieport when you are working and move it to a different place when you are supposed to end your work day.
slykar··on Umami: Self-hosted open-source alternative to Google Analytics
I've listened to a podcast interview with a lawyer specializing in EU privacy laws and he said that it does not matter if the personal data is hashed or encrypted. It's still personal data. This was about data stored in a database tough, but browser local storage is a database.

This was mentioned when the guest spoke about right to be forgotten. The law is really weird, because you need to delete user's data from your database, but it's OK to keep backups.

> It is the same data that is found in server log files. In the strictest interpretation of GDPR, I don't think any analytics product can exist.

It can exists as long as user agrees to be tracked. There is a category of "metrics" "cookies" user needs to agree on before you can track him for metrics. That's the whole point of the law. You need user's permission.

slykar··on Launch HN: Sidekick (YC S20) – A hardware device to connect remote teams
Did you try something else before? We are all sitting in a Jitsi Meet conference all day and it works fine so far. We even added a "private call" button on the video tiles in order to quickly initiate a 1-on-1. How is the "select person to talk" feature working for you?
slykar··on Launch HN: Sidekick (YC S20) – A hardware device to connect remote teams
I guess the same reason why companies lease hardware like laptops for their employees.
slykar··on Launch HN: Sidekick (YC S20) – A hardware device to connect remote teams
Looks like it's still an early stage. Nice to see that it has something I wanted to implement in Jitsi Meet - "select person to talk". Other than that I don't see the appeal other than the subscription model for the hardware if you are an employer. Would be nice to see something like Facebook's Portal, so that it could be also placed in bigger rooms, where it could follow the speaker.
slykar··on PurritoBin: Ultra fast, minimalistic, encrypted command line paste-bin
> When you visit the html webpage the key is in the hash property of the webpage, which is never sent to the server.

So it's only safe if you trust the server, which kind of defies the purpose?

slykar··on An understanding of AI’s limitations is starting to sink in
I'm always disappointed with Google Asistant. When I say "navigate back home" it tries to route me to a company called "Home". Great job. I've included a hint "back". I've never been to a company called "Home". I'm after work. This is a fun example, but I never get good results. I say "weather" and it shows me the weather, just in a different city. FFS. Maybe in the next 5 years I'll be finally able to do something using voice commands. Right now I just want to smash my phone.
slykar··on JavaScript Growing Pains: From 0 to 13,000 Dependencies
It gets better when you read the repo description.

> I created this in 2014, when I was learning how to program.

Someone probably just did this for the fun of learning and somehow it got adopted elsewhere.

slykar··on Analytics Without Google
The thing I'm interested in when using Google Analytics is tracking user path to see the bounce rate in a checkout process for example. You can calculate conversion rates for different user segments. People who just want to see "how many visits I got" don't benefit from GA. Developers often miss the point of GA, because they do not work in sales.
slykar··on With remote work plan, Facebook dashes hopes of paycheck arbitrage
To be fair, you should be getting a proper adjustment for working from home, because the cost of the office is now on you. You use your own chair, desk, computer, living space, etc. So a % of your rent monthly + few $k on start as a care package.
slykar··on Programming Inside a Container
Docker for MacOS is a joke. You need to start using docker machine again with rsync for file sync (eg. via Vagrant) or you can try docker-sync: https://docker-sync.readthedocs.io/
slykar··on A Facebook Bug Exposed Anonymous Admins of Pages
In Poland some politicians admitted that the leaks were true.
slykar··on Story of Mattermost: Open-Sourced Competitor to Slack
I love Zulip but the concept of topics is repelant for (lazy?) users.

When you chat on a channel (Slack, Mattermost) and people start fragmenting the discussion into several topics that interlace... Ugh! I yet have to meet people that would at last utilize Threads.

slykar··on Two Las Vegas Men Plead Guilty in U.S. Criminal Streaming Piracy Case
I guess Netflix needs their developers for all the random UI changes nobody is asking for and some "unrelated recommendations" engine.
slykar··on Cache Poisoned DoS Attack: Shutdown any CDN Website with One HTTP Request
It's only "dangerous" because the cache server does not care about headers. I don't see how this could affect security without broken cache server in place. If you are using the framework you should know how the dispatching works. I agree it could be disabled by default tough.

It's just an information for the routing system to dispatch a different method on a controller. You could implement a way to use a query string to pass this override too. An API framework does not have to be RESTful. It could work with POST requests only and simulate deletes with something like ?method=delete.

Edit: I saw a GitHub comment that actually says it is possible to use query string to override the method in Play 1.

https://github.com/playframework/play1/issues/1300#issuecomm...

> We've found that although the header is disabled, its still possible to use X-HTTP-Method-Override by passing as a query string

slykar··on KaiOS
If only there was a nice feature phone with KaiOS in Europe.

Nokia 8110 sucks because of the sliding panel which makes it much harder to type on the bottom key row. T9 seemed to be worse than on other Nokia phones.

I would love to see a new Nokia 3310 with KaiOS.

slykar··on Drawbacks of Python
Using python for about 5 years or more now and never had an issue with the indentation.

If you are using notepad as an editor then maybe this could be an issue?

Every other editor I've used validates the syntax and quickly catches misaligned statements. Auto formatting works too.

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