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xdon Apple Photos app corrupts images

Bit of context. Deleting after import is unlikely to have zero'd out the data on the SD - so using photorec would have allowed them to quickly and easily recover their pictures from the SD card.

xdon UK VPN demand soars after debut of Online Safety Act

The new legislation likely won't apply to you: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cdp-... - the section "Threshold conditions for categorisation of services".

xdon I tried to make something in America

A very relevant recent story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43692677, the top comment especially.

I'm not American, I'm from the UK, but it's the same in regard to putting value in to people.

xdon Phptop: Simple PHP ressource profiler, safe and useful for production sites

From a quick skim of the repo it looks to be injecting phptop_hook.php into any call to a php file with auto_prepend_file in php.ini. phptop_hook.php generates some stats on how long it took the php file to process and stores this via error_log() which can then be queried with the perl script phptop.

xdon Promising results from DeepSeek R1 for code

The thing with programming, to do it well, you need to fully understand the problem and then you implement the solution expressing it in code. AI will be used to create code based on a deficit of clear understanding and we will end up with a hell of a lot of garbage code. I foresee the industry demand for programmers sky rocketing in the future, as companies scramble to unfuck the mountains of shit code they lash up over the coming years. It's just a new age of copy paste coders.

xdon SQL nulls are weird

To me, "Unknown" almost implies the possiblity of a value, whereas I've always thought of NULL as being an absence of a value.

edit: an empty string, false, 0 are all values.

xdon Why are UK electricity bills so expensive?

I'm not sure where you've got this idea from. Even "new builds" in the UK, with there questionable building methods (which you may be referring to?) are mostly insulation and incredibly efficient to heat.

xdon BareMetal OS

I used https://wiki.osdev.org/Resources back it the day and it looks like it's still alive and well!

xdon SQL as API

The way the JSON filters work would be directly coupled to the JSON fix notation and SQL infix notation so it's directly coupled to SQL and doesn't really require a standard, imho.

xdon SQL as API

It's "prefix" notation .. if you search something like "prefix vs infix vs postfix programming languages" it should return a decent explanation. For my case it's personal choice more than anything.. also easier for me to write a VM for.

xdon SQL as API

I've a similar way of interacting with the API of my product but instead keep everything prefix notation (lispy) so for example;

"and": [ { "property": "material", "operator": "equals", "value": "carbon" },

Would be;

["and", ["=", "material", "carbon"], ...]

xdon YouTuber who staged plane crash faces up to 20 years jail

He ditched a plane on purpose for youtube likes and you think he paid the price through ridicule - but I'm not making any sense, OK.

xdon YouTuber who staged plane crash faces up to 20 years jail

My empathy is with the people who have their lives destroyed by reckless idiots pulling these "stupid prank"s for likes.. common sense says society doesn't appreciate this nonsense so deterrent is the only way to deal with it - but if you have as better idea I'm sure myself and the world are listening.

xdon YouTuber who staged plane crash faces up to 20 years jail

Only terrorism if his intention was to cause a fire for some pollical influence.

xdon YouTuber who staged plane crash faces up to 20 years jail

Someone crashing a plane on purpose doesn't amount to terrorism - there would need to be a political motivation as well.

Edit: Also the post says up to 20 years .. not sure why you've become fixated on it being simply 20. People dropping planes out of the sky for likes need to be made an example of imo, and I personally would be happy to see him locked up for life as a deterrent to others. The lengths people are going to for likes is frightening.

xdon UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate in over 45 years

A lot of the inflation on food is increasingly feeling like businesses cashing in. For instance my old go to brand of breed increased by over 50% months ago.

xdon The Io Language

It's a good point you have .. I've looked up Io over the years and funnily it did use to show the code on the homepage: https://web.archive.org/web/20100923042106/http://www.iolang...

xdon RapidSlide Adjustable Wrench

Biggest worry would be smashing your knuckles on something when it gives up not the thing exploding.

xdon Amiga Forever

Probably not; if the disks exist they're almost thirty years old, and probably best kept running in some corner of my memory.

I came across an old box of 3.5 discs a few years back that I had stored away since the early 90's. I recovered them using ddrescue to create images using a cheap USB floppy drive.. was great fun.

xdon What happened to the first cryogenically frozen humans?

Without age related death people would be terrified to experience anything incase it lead to their death.. crossing the road would be an incredibly high risk activity in such a future.

xdon How you would die on each major celestial body in the solar system

Flagged as it's nothing more than a political swipe and has no real science basis or value.

xdon How you would die on each major celestial body in the solar system

It's been thrown together for no other purpose than a political swipe .. in this case towards a UK political party the Tories.

xdon It’s not Tourette’s but a new type of mass sociogenic illness

"For the last several decades society put massive pressure on kids to conform to heteronormativity. With these pressures lessening more and more people are feeling empowered to explore their sexuality."

He talks about society putting pressure on kids to be straight and then talks about people and sexuality in the same damn paragraph; are you being purposefully obtuse?

xdon It’s not Tourette’s but a new type of mass sociogenic illness

I've never known a kid to not ask for toys they prefer.. you make the simple act of giving a child a gift sound sinister.. what a world we live in.

xdon It’s not Tourette’s but a new type of mass sociogenic illness

Yes and me and my wife laugh about it but there is an obvious distinctive preference for kids male and female which will play into sales .. no one is forcing anyone to buy anything and even back in the 80s growing up I knew kids that would buy toys you'd associate with the other gender.

xdon It’s not Tourette’s but a new type of mass sociogenic illness

As a parent I have no idea what you are trying to say with this idea of pushing "heteronormativity" - I don't and don't know any parents that push anything sexual let alone encouraging kids to explore sexuality .. they are kids and will be kids until they mature and begin to feel the urge to explore. This normalising of sexualising of children is abhorrent.

Edit: the voting on this comment is crazy.. the number of HN users that feel sexualisation of children isn't bad is utterly shameful.

xdon Britain is sleepwalking into censorship?

I've never had an issue accessing archive.org and I've lived in Britain my entire life and accessed it from all kinds of locations / devices.

xdon Lufthansa has not banned AirTags

Scary.

xdon Lufthansa has not banned AirTags

Did you even read my comment.. or did you see Apple product under attack and went for me.

xdon Lufthansa has not banned AirTags

Yeah they have I don't disagree .. kids growing up need trust was the point I failed to make.. they need to be able to do things without the fear of being tracked (the adult over the shoulder).. imagine for a second your parents putting an air tag on you as a kid.. depresses me at least.

Edit: I'm sorry, you've called me "sus" because of what exactly? I never said I couldn't reason with my kids school.