Hacker News: j5155

New comment by j5155 in "You cannot have our user's data"

j5155 — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 16:36:56 +0000

Use of published information is still always constrained by copyright law. If I had a copyrighted movie playing on my television visible through the window, and you recorded that, redistributing that recording would unambiguously be a violation of copyright law and piracy.

I’m also a little confused by what you’re saying here; are you asking whether scraper bots are illegal, or whether they’re immoral/unethical?

New comment by j5155 in "But good sir, what is electricity?"

j5155 — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 18:41:23 +0000

Yes. As a more common example, fiber optic cabling is known to transmit information significantly faster then copper.

New comment by j5155 in "Campsite switches to Creative Commons Non-Commercial license"

j5155 — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 08:15:49 +0000

Campsite team, if you happen to be reading this: consider whether a more permissive license still meeting the FOSS definition, like GPL or AGPL, would better fit your needs. GPL means that anyone who modifies the source code, or integrates it into a larger work, has to release the modified version.

So this would ensure that everyone’s contributions continue to help the wider community. As a side effect, it would also prevent anyone from using your work without releasing the source code for their project or product, benefitting open source as a whole.

The choice is obviously ultimately yours. I personally didn’t realize the benefits of GPL until recently.

Any Percent

j5155 — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 20:40:23 +0000

Article URL: https://giganotosaurus.org/2023/05/01/any-percent/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42129743

Points: 4

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New comment by j5155 in "Cops suspect iOS 18 iPhones are communicating to force reboots"

j5155 — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 00:31:07 +0000

Not an audio command, but even just holding down the volume and side buttons to open the power off menu, without actually powering off your phone, triggers the same behavior.

New comment by j5155 in "One Square Minesweeper"

j5155 — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 07:07:27 +0000

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-REcpPz3vw It causes some strange bugs to occur!

New comment by j5155 in "Apple releases Depth Pro, an AI model that rewrites the rules of 3D vision"

j5155 — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 09:01:35 +0000

No. You’ll want a photogrammetry or LIDAR app for that.

How the Keyword Magic Tool made my life a living hell

j5155 — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 07:24:31 +0000

Article URL: https://jackyan.com/blog/2024/09/on-the-semrush-subreddit-how-the-keyword-magic-tool-made-my-year-hell/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41576792

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by j5155 in "Google is the only search engine that works on Reddit now, thanks to AI deal"

j5155 — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 05:11:56 +0000

1. That’s kind of the point of free software, is it not? If you don’t want people “leeching” off of your software for free, don’t make it free. 2. Reddit is an amazing source of coding information and general Q&A on an extremely wide variety of topics. I would not characterize all of it as chitchat.

Jigsaw Puzzle Robot, Or: How We Solved a Puzzle in 15 Months

j5155 — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 06:58:19 +0000

Article URL: https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1BUCGdZCe8JevGYF3pJ4ZjPqpcSgA7LF0kV6sWbHrT1Q/mobilebasic

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41043314

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by j5155 in "When ChatGPT summarises, it does nothing of the kind"

j5155 — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 21:50:10 +0000

If that secretary’s summaries were as consistently wrong and unhelpful as those ChatGPT generates, they would be fired.

New comment by j5155 in "X.com refuses to open with Firefox strict tracking protection enabled"

j5155 — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 07:24:30 +0000

Strict tracking protection mode does not block third party JavaScript. Are you referring to another extension you have enabled?

New comment by j5155 in "USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn and Snap"

j5155 — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 02:57:33 +0000

Sure, basic analytics is not objectionable. The issue comes from the analytics not being limited to basic things, as this post shows.

New comment by j5155 in "OpenAI slashes the cost of using its AI with a "mini" model"

j5155 — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 15:54:19 +0000

How much did the server hardware cost?

New comment by j5155 in "Git-PR: patch requests over SSH"

j5155 — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 17:39:13 +0000

Some IDEs actually have GitHub PR integration (JetBrains ones) with full comment support. It is amazing and one of my favorite features by far.

New comment by j5155 in "Annual pre-pay and marketing budgets"

j5155 — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 17:18:11 +0000

Yes, I believe all of those services have gift cards in stores.

New comment by j5155 in "Second factor SMS: Worse than its reputation"

j5155 — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 01:34:57 +0000

Modrinth’s ads are this way.

New comment by j5155 in "Second factor SMS: Worse than its reputation"

j5155 — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 15:44:14 +0000

They are rare but do exist, see ethicalads and Modrinth’s ad program

New comment by j5155 in "Why privacy is important, and having "nothing to hide" is irrelevant (2016)"

j5155 — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 19:51:49 +0000

“If you’re doing nothing wrong, what is there to fear?” “I’m fearing your definition of wrong.” - Mon Mothma (Andor, 2022)

I think this sums it up perfectly.

New comment by j5155 in "Microsoft removes documentation for switching to a local account in Windows 11"

j5155 — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 03:39:29 +0000

As a younger person I’d say I really enjoy debugging tech issues, enough that I actually go out of my way to do it for other people (active on support forums etc). That’s a lot of the reason why I run Linux actually