TekMol

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by TekMol 1y ago
No, why?
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by TekMol 1y ago
When it comes to programming, I would say AI has about doubled my productivity so far. Yes, I spend time on writing prompts. Like "Never do this. Never do that. Always do this. Make sure to check that.". To tell the AI my coding p
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by TekMol 1y ago
I find the podcast style audio it produces super annoying. Is there an easy way to simply have text read to me unaltered?
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by TekMol 1y ago
How would the email end up in the ad system? Isn't it just a library the app developer includes and that runs in the background? Does it interact with the user and ask for their email? And fingerprinting? Even if the fingerprint is uni
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by TekMol 1y ago
When an app gathers information on someone - for example via the microphone - how does it assign the data to a person? Say the person says "I will buy a new car next week". Now what? How will the ad agency bombard the person with
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by TekMol 1y ago
Yes, that might be a better example.
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by TekMol 1y ago
TFA's use-case for for/else does not convince me: for server in servers: if server.check_availability(): primary_server = server break else: primary_server = backup_server de
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by TekMol 1y ago
That would result in a string passed to get() and raise an error as get() operates on a template, not on a string.
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by TekMol 1y ago
I guess that is a misunderstanding on your side, about how templates work. Less hate and more love might help to avoid this type of hotheaded misconception ;-) Why do you think changing a letter would cause a vulnerability? Which letter do
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by TekMol 1y ago
Will this allow neat SQL syntax like the following? city = 'London' min_age = 21 # Find all users in London who are 21 or older: users = db.get(t' SELECT * FROM users WHERE city={city} AND ag
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by TekMol 1y ago
This looks like an attempt at content marketing, rather than a valid blog post. A shocking title which brought this to the HN frontpage, but then it does not hold. The characters all look legit in the position they are used.
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by TekMol 2y ago
> Because it has been widely discussed for years. That Google does fingerprinting across searches to cluster them and pinpoint them to a person? Are you sure you are not confusing this with cookies? Cookies are under my control. I can de
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by TekMol 2y ago
If it is a switch in the UI, then that is just trusting the site. If you trust companies with what they say they do, then why not enter your query in any search engine that does not require a login? Afaik none of them say that they will t
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by TekMol 2y ago
How do you know they do that? And how do you know Kagi does not? Whatever the engines secretly do, why would I use one where on top of that I have to actively tag every one of my searches with my email?
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by TekMol 2y ago
That looks super complicated. And hard to tell if the cryptography works as intended. Why would I go through all that hassle if I can just type my query directly in other search engines?
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by TekMol 2y ago
"Privacy by default" I don't know. To me, requiring me to give them my email and then having all my searches associated with that email is the opposite of privacy to me. Yes, Google, Bing, Perplexity and Co could do fingerpri
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by TekMol 2y ago
The last thing I want is a search engine where I have to create an account to use it.
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by TekMol 2y ago
Hmm.. how do the apps from the Android app store get into the alternative app stores? And how do you know they are the same app and not altered?
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by TekMol 2y ago
So I downloaded a few dozen Indian apps I could think of on top of my head and started reading their manifest files How do you download apps from the Android app store and read their manifest files? Does this mean one coul
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by TekMol 2y ago
Ok, but the proxy could insert JS code into the html page which does what uBlock Origin does, couldn't it? This would give the same flexibility without the need for a browser plugin.
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by TekMol 2y ago
For same-domain ads you could use content-inspection. That is probably how in-browser adblockers do it too.
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by TekMol 2y ago
I guess it would be easy to block ads via a proxy? An http proxy in Python is just a few lines of code. It could simply drop the requests to known ad servers. And in Chrome, there is a setting to use a proxy. So all one had to do is run .&#
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by TekMol 2y ago
Same here. Disabled it on Android. Too bad. I would use it if I could enable it only for selected users.
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by TekMol 2y ago
This is what is going on in the enterprise. I wonder why I mostly see posts from people in this type of environment here on Hacker News. I would love something like Hacker News, but for indie makers, entrepreneurs and bootstrapped startups.
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by TekMol 2y ago
That is not valid PHP code. Try making a working example of it on an active codebin like this one: https://www.online-ide.com/ And link to it, then we can discuss it.
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by TekMol 2y ago
Composer adds even more tooling around the fundamental problem that PHP does not have modules. And it does not do away with the problem that you have to preemptively wrap everything in classes and add a LongUniqueStringToHopefullyAvoidColli
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by TekMol 2y ago
PHP needs modules. The way it solves code reuse by tooling that helps making class names longer to avoid collisions is just too cumbersome. Python: calc.py ------- def sum(a, b): return a+b hello.py --------
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by TekMol 2y ago
The site says "Das Vorhandensein von datenschutzfreundlicheren Optionen steht im Widerspruch zu einem berechtigten Interesse" which means "The existence of more privacy-friendly options contradicts a legitimate interest.&quot
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by TekMol 2y ago
I was done with Ubuntu the day they started sending my keystrokes to their servers to show me targeted ads. It's been a while. Don't know if they reverted it. Anyhow, the trust is gone forever. Debian never disappointed me.
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by TekMol 2y ago
I wish it was possible to run a Debian VM on iOS. For laptops, there are many nice options. But for tablets, the latest iPads are currently unmatched at under 600 grams for a 13" tablet. So I would love to use one of those.

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