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zenmac··on Show HN: VidStudio, a browser based video editor that doesn't upload your files
Wonder this guy is doing it? Or is it also not open sourced?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42207002

zenmac··on Stealth signals are bypassing Iran’s internet blackout
>NFP’s solution was to add redundancy, similar in principle to a data-storage technique called RAID (redundant array of independent disks). Instead of sending each piece of data once, we send extra information that allows missing or corrupted packets to be reconstructed.

A bit disappointing TBH if that is their solution. Seems like everything is trying to pigeon hole everyone into the proof of work scenario. If we have more power/energy then we will beat you in everything security, coding and censorship circumvention.

zenmac··on Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight
Also onion doesn't require a domain register
zenmac··on Open Source Isn't Dead
Thanks you. This is what the parent post was trying to say. Don't know why it is down-voted. AI or not, if the API end points are well secured, for example use uuid-v7, then their is little that the ai can gain from just these points.
zenmac··on Can Claude Fly a Plane?
It would be interesting to see if Claude can land and take off. Don't think the autopilot can do that yet.
zenmac··on Android now stops you sharing your location in photos
Nice drunk theme! All web site should have one.
zenmac··on America tells private firms to “hack back”
>https://archive.ph/vwuA1

Link seems to be down ATM. Is this caused by that cloud flare issue affecting archive.today that was just posted recently?

zenmac··on Migrating to the EU
>For a long time, I was a satisfied Namecheap customer. They offer good prices, a wide selection of available domains, their DNS management has everything you need, and their support team has helped me quickly on several occasions. But now it was time to look for a comparable provider in the EU. In the end, I settled on hosting.de. Some of the reasons were the prices, reviews, the location in Germany, and the availability of .is domains. So far, everything has been running smoothly; support helped me quickly and competently with one issue; and while prices for non-German domains are slightly higher, they’re still within an acceptable range.

Have you tried zone.eu? Think they are related to the Nodemailer people or they acquired them. Would fit the whole Migrating to the EU theme of the article. And it is in English ;-) Couldn't really navigate the hosting.de site without using Google Translator.

zenmac··on iPhone 17 Pro Demonstrated Running a 400B LLM
> First, in a watertight plastic bag and then in the water?

Was wondering, but this the most duct tap hacker solution!

zenmac··on Man pleads guilty to $8M AI-generated music scheme
>And I would be much happier if my money went to struggling artists I like and support, rather than to the global top 10, of whom I never played a single song.

Why don't we have a platform like that?

zenmac··on PgAdmin 4 9.13 with AI Assistant Panel
It is nice that they have the default set to "None". However to have this feature in pgAmdin is as distraction from the project.

If it is just calling API anyway, then I don't want to have this in my db admin tool. It also expose surface area of potential data leakage.

zenmac··on Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable
A non rooted device is NOT really my device, just seems like a leased device.

If we want to use banking app we have to use a non-rooted/leased device. That is what is really messed up. Personally I only use bank now that has website for banking. If they don't have a web site only app, then it is a red alert for the company.

zenmac··on Don't use passkeys for encrypting user data
>If I had any discipline around this it would make sense but if I accidentally double tap on the screen I've got a passkey and it's stuck on my phone.

The problem is not with passkey rather system such as iOS keeps a tight lid on how files are uploaded and retrieved from the device. There is a real disconnect between desktop and mobile file system now days.

zenmac··on Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down
Should have stuck with NemID a previous paper alternative or only offered MitID as a digital alternative. The rush to go all digital is coming back to bite them in the .....
zenmac··on TinyIce: Single-binary Icecast2-compatible server (auto-HTTPS, multi-tenant)
Dose it work behind a reverse proxy such as nginx? Especially for the m3u8 files?
zenmac··on The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else
>I've given up tbh. It's like the apathetic masses want the billionaires to become trillionaires as long as they get their tiktok fix.

Especially at cost of diverting power and water for farmers and humans who need them. And the benefit of the AI seems quite limited from recent Signal post here on HN.

zenmac··on A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw
easier to type without using the shift key, and in pg you can just use LIKE not ILIKE to find the word.
zenmac··on AliSQL: Alibaba's open-source MySQL with vector and DuckDB engines
Thanks for providing this from PG perspective. Also wonder if storage engine such as OrioleDB would be better suited for FDWs to handle consistency between copies of the same data between DuckDB?
zenmac··on Deno Sandbox
>Deno Sandbox gives you lightweight Linux microVMs (running in the Deno Deploy cloud)

The real question is can the microVMs run in just plain old linux, self-hosted.

zenmac··on Deno Sandbox
Saw quite bit on HN.

A quick search this popped up:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45486006

If we can spin up microVM so quickly, why bother with Docker or other containers at all?

zenmac··on Celebrities say they are being censored by TikTok after speaking out against ICE
Left vs right distinction is not accurate nor does help us to reflect the reality of our current world any more.

Fascism and authoritarianism can come in both left, right, color, sizes, sex and age.

zenmac··on ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download files
>the few Go binaries I've used also installed a bunch of random stuff.

Same goes for rust. Sometime one package implicitly imports other in different version. And look of rustup tree to resolve the issue just doesn't seem very appealing.

zenmac··on BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp
While I agree with you, and there should more diverse members than just the people from Element.

What I do like about them is the zero server trust stand they are taking on their clients which makes migration a pain in the butt, but that is what one would expect from a true e2ee chat app.

And now they have two stable servers in rust. The French and German government including military are using the protocol to make their own apps. Maybe it should be something the EU should put some more resource into it?

zenmac··on I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?
All this just seems like a slippery slop on the road to censorship to free speech and behavior control.
zenmac··on Show HN: Synesthesia, make noise music with a colorpicker
What is the LICENSE?
zenmac··on A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth
Went down that rabbit hole a while ago. iOS works fine, but think they may have discontinued ad-hoc, or at least on macOS. Android has a bit issue with ad-hoc hot spot at that time. [1] But theoretically it should be able to do that.

https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/28551/why-cant-a...

zenmac··on Unconventional PostgreSQL Optimizations
>I think a stored generated column allows you to create an index on it directly. Isn't it better approach?

Is it also possible to create index (maybe partial index) on expressions?

zenmac··on A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth
but having the bluetooth part working on iOS should not be an issue right?
zenmac··on A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth
One of these bluetooth messaging app was made by a developer who was on a cruise ship with family, and the Internet over satellite costs an arm and leg. So he wrote an app to communicate with his families over bluetooth.

Also why would one want to have the data go over some servers thousands miles away when the device is right next to you? Seems like bluetooth is the perfect way to communicate for devices that are close to each other.

zenmac··on Text-based web browsers
Best thing about sites that works in TUI browser is that it can also work in Tor Browser "Safest" mode. In fact to those who are saying that these text based website are anti feature. I would argue that it is a safety feature to be able to browse and work in Tor Browser "Safest" mode. In fact ALL web page should strive to work in "Safest" mode, and only throw in bells and whistles when needed. As one can see just by turn on JS the site is NO longer really safe.
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