Hacker News: marvindanig

New comment by marvindanig in "FLOSS.fund: $1M a year for FOSS projects"

marvindanig — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 17:18:57 +0000

The submission form has quite a few bugs. It doesn't accept a valid funding.json [1] that has been validated on the tab next to the submission form.

[1] https://github.com/Toucaan/toucaan/blob/master/funding/fundi...

New comment by marvindanig in "Ask HN: Is there a MIT-like FOSS license that prevents LLMs from scanning?"

marvindanig — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 15:27:21 +0000

I want to create a bubble of a space that’s free from the direct influence of AI. I believe that choice should exist, just like the choice to not be indexed by search engine bots over the web.

Ask HN: Is there a MIT-like FOSS license that prevents LLMs from scanning?

marvindanig — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 16:47:58 +0000

Basically, keep the repository and the knowledge within available only to humans who like to work with the tools and concept directly—without external assistance.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38142722

Points: 6

# Comments: 9

New comment by marvindanig in "Blue-light filtering spectacles probably make no difference to sleep quality"

marvindanig — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 19:51:56 +0000

Have you ever noticed that B(lue) and G(reen) are the center most frequencies of the visible spectrum—VIBGYOR? If the human eye is naturally adapted for blue skies and green forests, how could the blue wavelength ever be harmful to our eyes? Those are the healthiest frequencies our eyes “consume!”

So much bullshit is marketed these days that it is impossible to sleep well.

Overdrive and Libby Ban in Mississippi

marvindanig — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 16:39:28 +0000

Article URL: https://bookriot.com/hoopla-overdrive-libby-now-banned-for-those-under-18-in-mississippi/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36646075

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Pastoral Care

marvindanig — Tue, 23 May 2023 07:41:05 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/13p8gcp/texas_forced_this_woman_to_give_birth_to_a/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36041171

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Accept Defeat

marvindanig — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 17:16:25 +0000

Article URL: https://fosstodon.org/@nilesh/109648346203636325

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34290182

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by marvindanig in "Things Silicon Valley gets wrong about agriculture"

marvindanig — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 19:33:32 +0000

i’m not sure if silicon valley is great at technical prowess anymore. the hype machine has run its course and the tech is more proliferated and distributed than ever before.

New comment by marvindanig in "React Native is not the future"

marvindanig — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 17:09:24 +0000

i absolutely agree 100%

New comment by marvindanig in "React Native is not the future"

marvindanig — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 06:10:11 +0000

This is bad advice and just plain wrong.

There are horrible slow or just badly built apps written with native stack as well.

Native is worthwhile for “appstore only” businesses. Mostly. For everyone else, a universal web app is the recommended path forward. Anyone who has a web app should absolutely avoid rewriting the same business logic three times over in native languages just for the appstores. It’s a nightmare to maintain and sync up three teams and codebases, not to mention also insanely expensive.

The future is pwa + webassembly + webview, and there’s no advantage of native over web whatsoever.

New comment by marvindanig in "React Native is not the future"

marvindanig — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 05:58:40 +0000

pwa+webview+webassembly is the future of everything.

New comment by marvindanig in "Ask HN: Help – Locked out of 10 years Gmail account"

marvindanig — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 13:24:46 +0000

Google's strategy of locking out people from "everything" is just insane!

Someone needs to lawyer up and make them pay through the nose for stealing access to individual’s personal data that doesn't even belong to them.

New comment by marvindanig in "Apple considering dropping requirement for iPhone web browsers to use WebKit"

marvindanig — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 18:45:19 +0000

precisely. and we see a lot of similar behavior from Chrome now as it helps them replace the good old search form with a url bar as the main driver of their ad dollars.

this unsolvable battle is exactly why I opted for the Brave [1] browser. all the better if they’re able to use alternate engine under the hood next.

[1] https://brave.com/

New comment by marvindanig in "Facebook tracking is illegal in Europe"

marvindanig — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 16:38:37 +0000

oh yes, absolutely. fixed my comments above.

New comment by marvindanig in "Facebook tracking is illegal in Europe"

marvindanig — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 16:15:40 +0000

ah, but flat design is also skeuomorphic. methinks it was just some strategic intellectualism with no legs to look down on everything else that people made. clever tricks of the hive mind.

New comment by marvindanig in "Facebook tracking is illegal in Europe"

marvindanig — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 16:11:21 +0000

oh, yes! i remember those angry troll comments on HN as well. as if flattening all UI was the only thing that mattered and everything else was skeuomorphism.

no sweetie, not everything needs to be a pictogram. and everything you see or use online is skeuomorphism off of something in the physical world at some level. yeah, that flat design also.

Edit: Added "at some level" after helpful comments below.

Quality of Google results for basic questions

marvindanig — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 01:55:17 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1304093800474636288

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33860443

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Decimation of Twitter Eng

marvindanig — Sun, 27 Nov 2022 04:19:38 +0000

Article URL: https://mastodon.social/@danluu/109352263627030234

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33760300

Points: 53

# Comments: 20

New comment by marvindanig in "Ask HN: Alternative ways to make money with coding and system skills?"

marvindanig — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 19:24:44 +0000

Red Goose uses a Swift WKWebView wrapper for iOS (fairly latest) and Kotlin for Android. It’s stable enough but also just a step behind the bleeding edge.

I like to keep all my app specific developer controls (UX/UI, functionality etc.) in my web-app and put in only very specific native modules that an appstore forces me to use.

NoiseBlend should be an easy conversion from what I can see prima-facie.

New comment by marvindanig in "Ask HN: Alternative ways to make money with coding and system skills?"

marvindanig — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 01:27:03 +0000

building for app-stores is also kinda niche sorta these days. most businesses want to be on the web mainly with a presence the app stores. i make about $10k each month with Red Goose [1] with focus on the app stores.

[1] https://goose.red