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by netsharc 27d ago
As a thought experiment, perhaps someone there thought not fulfilling the Indian group's request would be seen as insensitive. I suppose the decisionmaker needs to know what societal values one has to uphold, and in which order of impo
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by netsharc 27d ago
Probably not HN-relevant... But I find it flabbergasting that in 2026 someone in the management thought it'd be okay to tell female staff to hide, just because some delegation demanded it. But for the tech-relevancy angle; They could&#
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by netsharc 28d ago
I've read that if you give FB/IG/WA access to all files/photos, and you have GPS metadata for photos (I do, hey it's useful to know where I took a pic), it can trawl that data to see where you've been and when.
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by netsharc 28d ago
My suspicion is that things like URL previews, or when the app calls a handler to open a link (YouTube, browser), are still monitored. So e.g. opening a link to an Amazon product that a friend sent makes you a target for ads in that categor
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by netsharc 29d ago
If Russia financed a German who's fed up with his government, is it Russian sabotage? Seems there's plenty of those around, on the left and on the right.. (there was a left-anarchist sabotage of power distribution in Berlin in win
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by netsharc 1mo ago
Faith that the blog poster chose carefully to convey meaning, including with images. A huge image, 95% of it white, just for "I want to show you the address bar" is incoherent communication. Technical issues like "It's b
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by netsharc 1mo ago
As far as I can tell it's not AI slop, but I wish this author had asked one LLM if his example is A/B testing, because the AI would've told him no, and we wouldn't have to have read this garbage.
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by netsharc 1mo ago
Somehow it feels like social media spread ever more FOMO for this year's eclipse, there were long queues for eclipse glasses at local opticians, although where I lived we only had 90% totality (people think each person needs a pair, no
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by netsharc 1mo ago
The fact that the first screenshot is a totally empty browser window (just to show the address bar) made me lose faith about reading the rest of your writing...
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by netsharc 1mo ago
Well, that reads like the justification you want to give to yourself after the fact.. the interesting question is what's the real reason...
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by netsharc 1mo ago
"Both sides are just as bad" is copium for when the guy from "your side" is revealed to be a corrupt piece of shit. You don't like it, so you justify to yourself that the other party is also full of creeps and assho
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by netsharc 1mo ago
So, are any of the sane-ish governments of the world preparing for the upcoming disaster? Maybe prepare for international deployment of help? I guess the Chinese government would do it quietly. Maybe Australia, Japan are doing something...
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by netsharc 1mo ago
A universal tool (well, since I use Windows, a Windows tool) to modify the clipboard would be cool. So, copy text to clipboard, press a hotkey to popup the menu, and it'll offer options depending on the detected text. For example chang
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by netsharc 1mo ago
I want to laugh at an "IT professional" not doing backups, but hmm, the article turned to a mirror...
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by netsharc 1mo ago
Hah, what a timeline, that the makers of entertainment like The Godfather series, Forrest Gump, Ferries Bueller's Day Off, Star Trek, Transformers (1) is now part of a genocide-supporting mahinery. But this is barely "hacker news&
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by netsharc 1mo ago
I suppose the only good solution is like those "game streaming services": move all the logic to the server and use the client only as a rendering device. Even sending metadata so the client can use local sprites to render the enem
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by netsharc 1mo ago
Duh and duh... You're commenting on a comments thread about the possible desertification of Europe, a conversation we're having in the context of the record hot summer. The extremist parties offer scapegoats and solutions for the
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by netsharc 1mo ago
As Oscar Wilde didn't say: "Patriotism is a virtue of the vicious": https://quoteinvestigator.com/2019/06/28/patriot/ How do you have pride when the leader of your tribe is a liar, swindle
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by netsharc 1mo ago
The Github page has a link to a Discord chat. Hah, where's the dogfooding?
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by netsharc 1mo ago
I like low prices, but I'm not looking forward to the chaos (political, social, what else) and deaths which I'm guessing will affect me within in the next 10 years.
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by netsharc 1mo ago
If it's not significant, can I have 5% of your net worth? If the EU mandated that products imported are made in a carbon neutral fashion, then importers of products will pay attention. Unfortunately it means higher prices, and the gove
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by netsharc 1mo ago
I like to rant about "journalists" just copy-pasting Apple's claims that it's recycling program retrieved "more than 2204lb of gold". So is it no more than 2205lb? And why the specific number? Oh is it because
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by netsharc 1mo ago
The app I use is gone from the app store, but like Spotlight or the Windows Start Menu > type-to-search (before it got utterly shittified with web search/does it have AI now?), I have an Android app called App Search+ on the bottom
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by netsharc 1mo ago
Happening at "Cité Descartes". I see what you did there.
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by netsharc 1mo ago
Fuuuckkking hell, is the Carlinesque "average person"(1) restaurant operator blind to how ugly these fucking things look? At least give me some obviously painting food images like https://www.etsy.com/listing/
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by netsharc 1mo ago
Huh. Might as well make it skinnable like Winamp. Ask Claude to do that, why don't you, Dave? Title should be "Self-promoting YouTuber refers to himself in video title in third person".
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by netsharc 1mo ago
I googled "web page as screensaver", saw results for Windows. But I get the impression you want a ready-made solution for you, not do your own plumbing...
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by netsharc 1mo ago
Flag the article to hell, please..
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by netsharc 1mo ago
And they're also wrecking shipfuls of seamen...
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by netsharc 1mo ago
From a book review of about corruption, including in Afghanistan, written by Sarah Chayes https://archive.is/E6zXj : > In the face of flagrant misappropriation, she found, ordinary citizens could experience a sense of gr

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