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taikahessu··on A useful front-end confetti animation library
OP script feels way more performant on mobile.
taikahessu··on Yes, social media is a cause of the epidemic of teenage mental illness
I found solace knowing (reading about) that blaming yourself is a part of the process. Thanks for sharing. Now, time for me to go outside. It's spring.
taikahessu··on Midjourney v6
They have asked feedback some time ago what users would want from a dedicated app. So I'm sure that is on the works.

On of the reasons I think is their statement on making it publicly available. In order to make your images private, you have to pay a hefty monthly fee. It levels the playing field as most of the prompts are public and you can learn from others.

taikahessu··on Finland's largest data breach's pretrial material includes failed tar command
Largest crime in Finnish history, involving 30 thousand accusations. Case against Julius Kivimäki. Includes a failed tar command. Text is in Finnish.
taikahessu··on Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas
> * Some games displaying the nickname "Nasser" as "N*er", suggesting that it is the n word.

This actually looks like it removes "ass" and not related to n-word? Nevertheless, rather assumptious!

Edit: Oh I misread the post. The new name is even worse... That is rather hilarious and sad at the same time :/

taikahessu··on Unity's oldest community announces dissolution
I have a hard time coming up with a worse decision in the history of game industry.

Why did it come to this? Just more profits? I mean the landscape is highly competitive with free tools getting better and Unreal Engine eating all the highlights. Unity's stock price was even before this decision a third of it's all time high.

I mean there must've been a dramatic cultural twist quite some time ago. That would've lead champions to leave and the codebase comes crashing down. This will be a great lecture material for business schools, goes in the same bucket as Nokia.

taikahessu··on Apple clarifies why it abandoned plan to detect CSAM in iCloud photos
Sorry for my previous posts' hostile nature. Thank you for clearing up the actual proposed implementation details. It sounds like I came to pretty much the same conclusion as you did. I might have been quite unclear, but I was actually referring to (in my mind) the inevitable stage 2 of the implementation, if you give the little finger here ... theres no stopping. When I read about this, I was feeling sad, frustrated and a bit angry too. I like my iphone, i switched from android because they aged too quickly. Given the nature of Apple ecosystem, I took this as crossing the line. And i would have to strongly look for alternatives, since this scanning is not something i want to accept and i would vote with my money elsewhere.

Yes, i know they scan all photos already. But to scan MY photos and hold me accountable, that is something i am not okay with. Yes, its only icloud, for now, but i dont see the point of using some 3rd party cloud, i used to, but in apple device it would be suboptimal for my daily use etc etc.

My point was of the original case of protecting children. That is what the advocate groups want. That is what I want. But I just draw the line there what i feel is my personal space, that you don't scan my photos or files, and that is not the answer. Since there are these few behemoth FAANG companies ruling the ecosystems and impacting our lives, the battle of privacy needs to be fought right there. So, for me that would be the line as I see the progression of that path is much worse. That is where I raise my hand and say, I'm out, what next? No smartphone? Maybe. :) Peace.

taikahessu··on Apple clarifies why it abandoned plan to detect CSAM in iCloud photos
You might've read the spec but you're missing the point and your approach is naive. For me it's about crossing the line. If you want to be snooping around my phone or my house, you need a warrant and go to official channels provides by my gov officials. And you really think it's as simple as picking apples from oranges? I mean come on. Yes, it's easy to implement hash check to see if u have some known child porn in your cloud. But was that the use case for the advocates? No. Their use case was to try finding abuse and that would need a more thorough scanning. And once we're there, we have to make hard decisions on what is porn or abuse. If u think it's easy, then you need to it through harder. Think of some picture from sauna where there are naked family, might be harmful? But normal here in Finland. What about a stick figure cartoon what depicts a some shady sexual positions with a smaller child-like figure in it? Or what about grooming, asking for naked pics? How is this system going to prevent that? I mean, I get why ppl would want something like this. But it isn't the right solution imho.
taikahessu··on Try: run a command and inspect its effects before changing your live system
Pretty please, put a real description in first. This should be the first thing I read:

"try lets you run a command and inspect its effects before changing your live system."

And put snarky one-liners somewhere later. I only noticed what this project actually is after HN had changed the title of the post. And I had even opened Github page before as I usually do.

There are two very good places, at the top in project description and top of readme. I know the temptation to get noticed using a meme, but let me judge the meme after I've made the decision if this is something I would want to use my precious time for. Thanks.

taikahessu··on We need to tell people ChatGPT will lie to them, not debate linguistics
How can ChatGPT ever be worse than let’s say Donald Trump?
taikahessu··on Docker is deleting Open Source organisations - what you need to know
You’re missing the mark. It’s about risk and expectation management and one the risks just blew up in an unexpected way.
taikahessu··on I worked at LastPass as an engineer
If you create some new account on mobile, the workflow is messy. If you are on schedule like ordering a ticket, you just quickly try to get the job done.

You need to know the specific order how to create the password for a new site. Otherwise it was just easier to plow through with your favourite memorised combination.

At least I found it hard to do with Lastpass on mobile. Now I’ve tested it with Bitwarden and 1Password 8, they seem to do a better job with it.

taikahessu··on Bunny AI
You put AI to create some shit for you. Sell it. Hire a cleaner, lawnmover whatever. Or better yet, make AI to sell that shit and let it hire those people.

We’re not very far from some Satoshi putting it all together.

taikahessu··on Show HN: WebStickies – Sticky notes for the internet
Feedback: I instantly tried moving a note around on my phone. Did not move. Then I tapped a note and it opened fullscreen and the closing x supersmall at the edge of the screen. Instantly left the site.

I read the comments, oh this is for websites. Cool idea. UX just needs to be top notch.

That security issue (requiring all data) is a bit too much, dunno if you can do anything about it though.

taikahessu··on Show HN: FIFA Interactive Bracket (World Cup)
- Thousands of workers have died in the building process. I mean really FIFA?

- The cost of the carnival is over 200 billion usd (compare it for 0.5 billion in US 1994)

- Sexual minorities are persecuted in Qatar and FIFA completely downplays this, making the whole organization look ridiculously corrupt.

That should give you a headstart.

Of the actual app/site: Thanks, bookmarked! I also want to see the scores, but dont want anything else to do with this sh*tshow.

taikahessu··on Reactive Clojure: A web language
This is exactly what I've been thinking of lately. I started web development in 1998 and in 2000 I got searching for some way to store data.

At first I tried Macromedia Coldfusion, later acquired by Adobe. Now that I checked on it, it seems to be going strong, to my surprise. It was too hard for me. And it was closed software. There was no way for me to learn it without spending money on it. And it wasn't what I was really looking for.

But I just needed something simple. Something to tinker with. So I found PHP. It was exactly what I needed at the time. Later I also found MySQL.

The amount of garbage required to build a single website is enormous. So enormous that we have gone a full circle and people start using static site generators to create pure HTML sites. Because of speed and few other reasons.

So I got to thinking, why is it that we're building webshops with all these open source technologies, with a huge amount of overhead and "bloat", when all you really need is a few simple things.

Well, as the creator said it, there are a lot of unknowns. Huge learning curve etc. But that's how Linux got started, as a tinkering platform. I really think this is the right path to take. Making an open source web programming language, that handles all the needs directly built-in. I totally agree with the philosophy and if you will, proposed abstraction, of the problem at hand.

But also, it makes me shiver to look at the code and not understand it. So much to learn. But it gives me hope to see, that other's have come to the same conclusions. Looking forward to hearing more!

taikahessu··on Names.io – Global Exhaustive Scraped Name Db
Also I found the first names consist of names that are most likely, in fact, lastnames in ascii. Heikkila is most probably, really, only, a common Finnish surname Heikkilä. This makes me wonder how much overlap and discrepancy the lists might actually have.
taikahessu··on The Catch-22 of Building a Business on Apple’s APIs
A good reminder. It holds true with any vendor.
taikahessu··on What the f*** is the edge?
I totally agree with your points here. But just as few others have pointed out, it looks more like a "shiny object syndrome" or it could also be a bit of that the customer is not an expert of the software field and feels like he/she's gotta bring something to the table to sound credible.

Your blog post sent me far into memory lane. I still remember a case where I was a starting entrepreneur and I was selling a website remake. The customer asked me if our CMS's database was relational. He clearly did not even have a clue what that actually meant, but neither did I :) I knew it was "most probably totally irrelevant" to the whole case (just as you seemed to ponder), but my uncertainty showed. I was maybe under my 20s then, though I was very confident I could deliver. But I was no salesman, more of an enthusiast geek with a vision.

What he was basically asking me was "why should I pick your product instead of all the others? Is this person credible?". It caught me so off-guard, that I kind of froze back then and wasn't able to bring the conversation to a level where our product would be compared to the competitors. Focus on the good things etc. Maybe he did it just check, if I was actually aware of any competition!

I didn't get that contract. I still remember it as a lesson learned in many levels and your blog post somehow reminded me of that moment. Can't really say if they are comparable, but there you have it :)

ps. My first thought today could be more like "what is this person scared of the most in this situation, where does this kind of question stem from?". A great sales rep might ask that question directly back. Cheers!

taikahessu··on What the f*** is the edge?
I think OP is missing the point here. As he being the sales rep, the only valid answer would have been "Yes, it's on the edge.".

It is a question dedicated to find out if you yourself think the product is good enough or how well you think it positions itself with the competition. Maybe it's just me being stupid here, but I find it funny how the whole discussion here has turned into a technical debate, which the original customer's point IMHO clearly wasn't.

There is no edge. You define the edge by what you believe in.

taikahessu··on End of the conference era?
Open Space anyone?

http://www.openspaceworld.org/files/tmnfiles/2pageos.htm

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