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theawlesson When an app asks for permissions, it should have a “feed fake data” option

For microphone access:

```Turn off Microphone access? All apps will be blocked from using the microphone Apps will still work, but they won't be able to access any sounds from the microphone. For example, you can still make and receive calls, but the other person won't be able to hear you.```

theawlesson When an app asks for permissions, it should have a “feed fake data” option

Samsung phones have a camera access and microphone access toggle.

Here's what I get when I turn it off:

``` Turn off Camera access? All apps will be blocked from using the camera. Apps will still work, but they will only be able to access an empty black screen. For example, you can still make and receive video calls, but the other person won't be able to see you. ```

theawlesson Maintain consistent styles for developers working across various editors

Java for sure. I don't think Google style is good enough to be called the default.

theawlesson Ask HN: What is the best advice you received in 2022?

“The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph!” -Ted Jr.

theawlesson Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years

Every two months my company disables work access on my android phone because it doesn't have the latest security updates. That's one reason why I'm considering an iPhone in the future.

theawlesson IMGZ – Paid image sharing

Nightmare fuel

theawlesson Why we're blind to the color blue

Blurred red and blue look similar but blurred green is absolutely blurred to me.

theawlesson Mice fed fast food get noticeably stupider, scientists warn

And the alternatives that do exist are too damn expensive. Like celebrities hiring professional chefs for their ultra diet. Or healthy food subscription services that often have questionable quality.

I was really hoping that with food home delivery startups this situation will be solved. But alas, most restaurants optimize for cost as you mentioned.

theawlesson Lossless Text Compression [pdf]

d way v used 2 txt b4 on fb

theawlesson Ask HN: What is the oldest image online in which the link is not broken?

No. 6 definitely is an anime.

theawlesson Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

I was building a small library [1] for WebRTC signalling by sending the signalling messages over Matrix (or Signal or Discord in future). Once the signalling is completed, the connection could be utilised for anything like peer to peer games, drawing boards, or just plain old chatting.

[1] decent-signal: https://github.com/theawless/decent-signal

theawlesson Ask HN: Which tools have made you a much better programmer?

I'm dependent on Jetbrains IDE for most of my work. It really shines in showing the user best practices and recommendations. A lot of the programming concepts are same across languages and this IDE helps you find the right function/method with its suggestions. And at least for java it'll suggest you variable names, it'll suggest you if a loop can be converted to a stream, it can generate templates for unit tests, it can tell you if a variable might be null, etc. There are a ton of small small features that all add up to a great experience. 10/10 would recommend for a new programmer.

theawlesson Don't set the language of your website based on user location

Seriously. I'm a Hindi speaker living in South India and I keep getting Google search results. Facebook also thinks I must understand the language.