Hacker News: alx__

New comment by alx__ in "If not React, then what?"

alx__ — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 01:21:17 +0000

Or maybe he's just complaining about things that most people don't care about. Because they're not relevant for the day to day jobs

New comment by alx__ in "Show HN: Container Desktop – Podman Desktop Companion"

alx__ — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 20:17:07 +0000

For me, it was consuming so much memory. Switching to OrbStack helped fix that

New comment by alx__ in "Apple unveils 'Passwords' manager app at WWDC 2024"

alx__ — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 19:39:55 +0000

Is your computer managed by Jamf? I had that 1Password 7 issue because of policy issue

New comment by alx__ in "To make sure grandmas like his don't get conned, he scams the scammers"

alx__ — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 18:21:27 +0000

This excerpt from the book Number Go Up, goes into details

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-08-17/my-crypto...

New comment by alx__ in "Show HN: OK-Robot: open, modular home robot framework for pick-and-drop anywhere"

alx__ — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 19:25:40 +0000

This is rad. I would totally buy a 25k robot if I could train it to fold and put away my laundry (serious)

New comment by alx__ in "How to center a div in CSS"

alx__ — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 19:40:16 +0000

> Why haven’t these groups come together to make an easy solution to this?

https://xkcd.com/927/

New comment by alx__ in "OnlyFake: A site where ‘neural networks’ churn out fake IDs"

alx__ — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 17:56:49 +0000

Did you read the article? There's way more than "one"

New comment by alx__ in "Lowercase letters save data"

alx__ — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 10:51:53 +0000

BY THAT LOGIC SWITCHING TO ALL CAPS IS JUST AS EFFICIENT. I PROMISE I AM NOT YELLING.

New comment by alx__ in "Apple's classic Pascal poster, remade as a vector image [pdf]"

alx__ — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 06:18:19 +0000

Some background on the poster

https://vintagecomputer.ca/the-history-of-apples-pascal-synt...

New comment by alx__ in "How I made Bomb Rush Cyberfunk multiplayer"

alx__ — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 22:21:51 +0000

Oh rad. This is like a new version of Jet Set Radio with multiplayer

New comment by alx__ in "Building an occupancy sensor with a $5 ESP32 and a serverless DB"

alx__ — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 04:19:41 +0000

Uh you're over thinking it. They just have cameras in the toll booths that snap a photo when the car crosses the sensor.

New comment by alx__ in "Banks hit with millions in fines for using Signal and WhatsApp"

alx__ — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 05:17:18 +0000

Literally the only reason to use Signal is to talk about unionizing, drugs, or shady biz deals.

Texting your coworker, would the usual path, not some secondary software that requires both people to set up ahead of time.

New comment by alx__ in "Banks hit with millions in fines for using Signal and WhatsApp"

alx__ — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 04:42:50 +0000

This is a pretty weak excuse. It's not hard to keep your work comms in the approved software.

I would tell people to fuck off if they wanted to invade my personal device with work chatter. Boundaries are good

New comment by alx__ in "Techdirt has been deleted from Bing and DuckDuckGo [fixed]"

alx__ — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 19:34:16 +0000

Where have you heard this?

They build their own index: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/why-kagi/kagi-vs-competition.html

New comment by alx__ in "Techdirt has been deleted from Bing and DuckDuckGo [fixed]"

alx__ — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 19:25:21 +0000

Yeah, Kagi returns better results for me. Is free, but totally worth the one coffee ($5) per month.

New comment by alx__ in "Privacy-preserving usage data: Under the hood"

alx__ — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 17:56:53 +0000

Feels like you're making a big deal out of nothing by picking apart their language.

They're saying they've designed the system, so it's separated from access to your vault. This is their way of trying to reassure users they have considered user privacy.

Obviously, they could be secretly collecting things this entire time. But also, why would they need the telemetry system to view your vault? If they wanted to view that, they could do that "secretly"

New comment by alx__ in "Advertise on DuckDuckGo Search"

alx__ — Wed, 17 May 2023 20:36:54 +0000

Same. Kagi has better results than Google in general. Even programming ones. I don't mind paying for better

Love that it can do groupings, especially when you're searching for something that will also turn up seo garbage, like products for your home. So you can see the cluster of "review sites" and then actual product companies

New comment by alx__ in "Advertise on DuckDuckGo Search"

alx__ — Wed, 17 May 2023 20:25:54 +0000

That's the sites itself enabling that, most likely their auth provider has SSO with groogle

https://developers.google.com/identity/gsi/web/guides/offeri...

Also, you can kinda-disable this per browser

https://myaccount.google.com/security -> "Signing in to other sites"

New comment by alx__ in "Every web search result in Brave Search is now served by our own index"

alx__ — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 18:24:46 +0000

Glad there are more options for search tools. Seems pretty good!

But still very happy with how Kagi works

New comment by alx__ in "Bed Bath and Beyond files for bankruptcy"

alx__ — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 20:15:35 +0000

You're right on their cookware and bed sheets. But the rest of the store is basically Amazon trash in a retail store :(