Hacker News: lrdd

New comment by lrdd in "Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row"

lrdd — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:25:00 +0000

As a citizen, I don’t understand what the UK government thinks they are getting here - other than the possibility of leaks of the nation’s most sensitive data.

Also is it not possible to set up my Apple account outside of the UK while living here?

New comment by lrdd in "DOGE staffer is trying to reroute FEMA funds"

lrdd — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 23:37:31 +0000

It was worse than that in the UK! The incumbent party lost 69% of their seats (20% was the vote share).

365 -> 121

New comment by lrdd in "My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2022)"

lrdd — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 21:43:53 +0000

The git "pickaxe" [0] is the canonical way of searching through changes. Probably `git log -Splumber` with narrowing down by date.

[0]: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Searching

New comment by lrdd in "PrivateGPT"

lrdd — Mon, 22 May 2023 20:53:13 +0000

I think you would be interested in Google's internal memo[0] that did the rounds here a couple weeks ago. The claim is that OpenAI and all competition is destined to fall behind open-source. All you need is a big model to be released and all fine tuning can be done by a smart, budget, distributed workforce.

[0]: https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-ne...

New comment by lrdd in "President Putin has announced a partial mobilization in Russia"

lrdd — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 19:43:10 +0000

Kyiv and Kharkiv

I think it is more correct to use Ukrainian names for Ukrainian cities over Russian.

New comment by lrdd in "Ask HN: Share your personal site"

lrdd — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 11:27:07 +0000

https://jenne.uk personal site written using my own preprocessor

New comment by lrdd in "Using hamburger menus? Try sausage links (2019)"

lrdd — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 21:33:11 +0000

See https://jenne.uk as an example

New comment by lrdd in "Ask HN: Best Tools for Technical Writing?"

lrdd — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 18:07:19 +0000

For me writing markdown using VSCode with with Neovim keybindings approaches that rich text and rich code environment.

Of course, when using markdown(/mermaid/tikz/etc.) creating diagrams is severely limited unlike point and click alternatives. I haven’t seen a good solution yet that isn’t too restrictive or slow.

New comment by lrdd in "Keyboard lets people type so fast it’s banned from typing competitions"

lrdd — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 20:45:44 +0000

Or quicker: 1000ia

New comment by lrdd in "YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Gets 'Freedom Expression' Award Sponsored by YouTube"

lrdd — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 20:15:51 +0000

Out of interest, on proposition B why can we not claim that the presence of a Y chromosome in your DNA makes you a "biological male" and the absence makes you a "biological female". That should be a binary division. (Where these terms are only used in the contexts you describe as being useful; no disagreements there).

New comment by lrdd in "Linux Touchpad Like a MacBook update: progress on multitouch"

lrdd — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 10:43:55 +0000

I think he is saying that if it is brought to X it will be easier to convince Wayland to follow suit.

We'll see if that's true, or if we will need another round of sponsorship to achieve the same thing with Wayland.

New comment by lrdd in "Biohacking Lite"

lrdd — Sat, 13 Jun 2020 10:20:35 +0000

food?

New comment by lrdd in "CNN reporter arrested live on air while covering Minneapolis protests [video]"

lrdd — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 09:59:50 +0000

It is also the header syntax for Vimwiki[0]

[0]: https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki

New comment by lrdd in "Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform"

lrdd — Wed, 27 May 2020 12:38:20 +0000

I think the mailto: link on your page is misspelt as mailt:

RMAPI: Access reMarkable tablet filesystem from the command line

lrdd — Tue, 05 May 2020 14:40:57 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/juruen/rmapi

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23080490

Points: 2

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New comment by lrdd in "Hardware Microphone Disconnect in Mac and iPad"

lrdd — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 14:56:53 +0000

I don't think caring about the user and making profits are mutually exclusive. A company that is interested in delivering what the user wants and needs will often make profit. It's not a case of 'with the user' or 'against the user'.

New comment by lrdd in "Chinese military entering Shenzen, just across the border with Hong Kong"

lrdd — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 18:47:31 +0000

Legal equality != true societal equality

New comment by lrdd in "8-Year-Old Refugee Wins New York State Championship"

lrdd — Wed, 20 Mar 2019 22:54:43 +0000

(www.chess.com)

New comment by lrdd in "WireGuard for iOS"

lrdd — Wed, 07 Nov 2018 11:27:38 +0000

From another user "reaperhulk"

>I use WireGuard (including WireGuard iOS) every day in Shanghai. It’s mostly fast and performant but nothing escapes the occasional “drop all UDP to your endpoint”. Typically this manifests as windows of time (typically a few minutes) where no traffic to the VPN gets through. However, unlike an openVPN solution WireGuard recovers without having to bounce the tunnel or constantly reconnect. The GFW is not a monolithic entity though so be aware that performance and blocking characteristics can vary widely between cities, ISPs, and sometimes even between cell towers.

>VPN on demand features are on the iOS todo list. iOS supports the idea of making a VPN on demand for cellular or WiFi so it will be able to do what you want once that feature is merged.

New comment by lrdd in "If the Point of Capitalism Is to Escape Capitalism, Then Why Capitalism?"

lrdd — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 17:15:26 +0000

Does the lack of any better solution justify it?