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thire··on Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones
So that means iOS is caching the local notifications, not the push event... I wonder why it was needed to begin with, especially for a month
thire··on Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones
That's the first thing that came to mind. Glad that they already thought about it!
thire··on How Pizza Tycoon simulated traffic on a 25 MHz CPU
Is it me or the last gif actually displays a bug? there is a brown car stuck in the middle and other cars are moving through it
thire··on A tab hoarder's journey to sanity
I understand the need for hoarding tabs but it boggles my mind how people navigate tiny tabs and remember where everything is. In fact, they probably don't since I keep seeing people clicking back and forth a few times before finding the right tab.

I have been using tree style tabs on Firefox for so long, I can't function without it. I can nest tabs together and collapse them, but most importantly, I can read all the tab titles due to the vertical layout.

thire··on It's insulting to read AI-generated blog posts
Yes, I was almost hoping for a "this was AI-generated" disclaimer at the end!
thire··on Why Self-Host?
I have been so happy moving out of Google Photos and storing everything on my NAS + cloud backup. I don't have to worry about Google re-encoding my videos and not letting me get my originals back.
thire··on Proton: We're giving away over $1M to support a better internet
I was off by one digit... at least it went to a good cause
thire··on Ask HN: What are some mentally healthy apps to have?
A note about Google Authenticator. There are alternatives which imo are much better, like LastPast Authenticator or Authy. They work exactly the same but they can back up your codes securely. Big plus if you lose or change your phone.
thire··on Ask HN: Has anyone fully embraced an event-driven architecture?
I had experience with a product using an event based architecture at large scale, and to be honest, it was a pain to work with. For example, traceability, or troubleshooting in general, was very hard since events would spawn more events etc. making things much harder to track than expected.

Unless the scale is an issue, nowadays I always prefer a more state-full approach when possible.

thire··on Listen to Your Key: Towards Acoustics-based Physical Key Inference
Agreed. These features are only relevant to picking, not to inserting the actual key.