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New comment by pellaeon in "Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”"

pellaeon — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 03:11:58 +0000

bing/chatgpt is already known to give false citations and not understand time in its reply, why are we thinking that its reply about its design is anything to be believed?

Guessing, reconstructing and recovering data from a partially wiped disk

pellaeon — Sat, 16 Jul 2022 06:21:47 +0000

Article URL: https://nyllep.wordpress.com/2022/02/04/recovering-encrypted-hfs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32115698

Points: 16

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New comment by pellaeon in "I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone"

pellaeon — Wed, 18 May 2022 04:16:04 +0000

Rakuten also previously released a tiny Rakuten Mini with 3.6 inch screen https://network.mobile.rakuten.co.jp/product/smartphone/raku...

Sharp also makes a lot of interesting phones: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/05/japans-sharp-aquos-r...

Plus, Xperia Compact series is from Sony.

That made me wonder: - Why does it seem like Japanese manufacturers are the only ones making "different" phones? - Many other threads are talking about the lack of components and lack of component manufacturer interest, but if so, how did the Japanese manufacturers did it? - What is special about the Japanese market that allows these phones to survive? - What difficulty would there be for let's say Rakuten to sell their phones internationally just like Sony did?

A few points of relevant observation: - Japanese consumer electronics manufacturers have a habit of keeping their best products only to Japan - such as DSLRs. - There is a strong customer base for mini devices in Japan. GPD pocket laptops are in regular stores.

UserChrome.css to restore the classic Photon look on Firefox 91

pellaeon — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 07:33:43 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/pellaeon/firefox-91plus-photon-userchrome

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28207186

Points: 1

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New comment by pellaeon in "Firefox 91 – Revert back to old tab style"

pellaeon — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 08:14:51 +0000

Here's my userChrome.css to revert to Photon: https://github.com/pellaeon/firefox-91plus-photon-userchrome

New comment by pellaeon in "Ask HN: Google Drive/Office 365 alternatives"

pellaeon — Mon, 07 Sep 2020 16:23:04 +0000

There's OpenAppStack https://openappstack.net/ . It is currently in beta but very promising.

New comment by pellaeon in "Web browsers need to stop. Enough is enough"

pellaeon — Fri, 14 Aug 2020 20:06:24 +0000

This is definitely something that should be fixed by the vendor, but as a (Firefox) user if you want a quick fix you can use https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js

Worldwide Developers Against Apple Censorship Conference

pellaeon — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 13:59:55 +0000

Article URL: https://wwdaacc20.com/overview

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23600254

Points: 2

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New comment by pellaeon in "Taiwan's digital minister on combatting disinformation without censorship"

pellaeon — Tue, 04 Jun 2019 03:18:44 +0000

This is the transcript of the original interview: https://sayit.pdis.nat.gov.tw/2019-05-17-interview-with-stev...

In the interview concerns of government over-control did turn up, but it wasn't well addressed I think. The journalist skipped this part in the published article.

Collaborative fact-checking on LINE (Taiwan)

pellaeon — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 05:11:52 +0000

Article URL: http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/08/line-is-another-chat-app-rife-with-spam-scams-and-bad-information-the-volunteer-supported-cofacts-is-fact-checking-them-in-the-open/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17816469

Points: 1

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New comment by pellaeon in "Android container in Chrome OS"

pellaeon — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 08:19:16 +0000

There's Anbox http://anbox.io/

Show HN: NoFB.pw – Block Facebook Crawlers on Shortened URLs

pellaeon — Sat, 17 Feb 2018 07:44:16 +0000

Article URL: https://nofb.pw/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16399577

Points: 1

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New comment by pellaeon in "Koel: A personal music streaming server"

pellaeon — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 15:31:37 +0000

ownCloud Music app (https://github.com/owncloud/music) contributor here, I integrated Aurora.js with owncloud music app, and created a compatibility layer for Aurora.js and SoundManager2 (https://github.com/owncloud/music/pull/416). Audiocogs's ogg.js doesn't work, so I use browser's built-in decoder via SoundManager instead.

And Aurora.js' doesn't seem to be maintained anymore, I tried very hard to make it build, finding that the build scripts was intended to work on OSX (version unclear), but the developer never mentions it. And even if it builds, the result doesn't really work, Aurora.js, ogg.js, flac.js, alac.js... none of them, as far as I remember.

So actually in the owncloud music app we just downloaded the built js files from the demo site :-p

New comment by pellaeon in "The OpenSSH Bug That Wasn't"

pellaeon — Sat, 25 Jul 2015 08:48:13 +0000

FreeBSD hasn't released a patch, so I patched it myself.

https://nyllep.wordpress.com/2015/07/25/emergency-fix-for-cv...

New comment by pellaeon in "Be Kind"

pellaeon — Thu, 14 May 2015 19:31:33 +0000

It leaves me great ponder after reading the comments. After all, is "being kind" the general rule? Should it be a general rule? Or is it just an attitude towards certain kinds of personality (or the belief by people who have these personalities)?

Recently read about the 16 personality types of psychology http://www.16personalities.com/personality-types, I guess Boz is more of a "debater", like myself, who doesn't care much about the attitudes, instead we focus on the idea itself that is being conveyed, to fully understand it, and to dig out all implications and foundations.

The article seems to encourage us to become more like the "diplomats", to understand people's feelings.

Should I change? should we change? or should we just "be kind" to the sensitive people, and be ourself, ie. direct, honest but probably not kind, around other people?

The doubt I have on being kind boils down to overhead, it leaves a huge hole to misinterpretations, and just as people say in the comments, sometimes people see your kindness as unimportance.

For myself, I'd rather be offended then to be "protected by (mis)interpretations" of others on me. I hate to find out people specially crafting their speech in order to convince me. I am intelligent and mature enough to seperate the attitudes and the ideas of speech.

Nevertheless, I do see the value of what's Boz suggesting, I guess being kind is maybe an overstatement, instead, being thoughtful is more conservative, and thus, a more general rule.

New comment by pellaeon in "Be Kind"

pellaeon — Thu, 14 May 2015 18:44:27 +0000

I've also been holding the same view as you since teenage, I believe the world operates by continuous contradictions and compromises or amendments. I expect myself to honestly directly pointing out the wrong of others, but also to proactively recognize and amend my own faults when others point out.

From my own recent experience and Boz's article, I am forced to realize that not just all people operates this way, I should simply adjust. Though I still genuinely believe this is the most efficient way for people to grow and improve, because this way eliminates all the overhead of misinterpretations.

I guess Boz's personality is close to "the debater" http://www.16personalities.com/entp-personality and so do you and I.

New comment by pellaeon in "Be Kind"

pellaeon — Thu, 14 May 2015 03:46:48 +0000

Good point on caring differently about the outcome, you reminds me that I might be caring too much on winning the conversation much of the time.

> it might not matter all that much if you can't get your ideas across to the other person this particular moment.

Yeah, I have always been eager to get my ideas through (because I want to get things done), with your words I see now I don't need to rush getting ideas through all at once, it should be done in a timely manner.

I guess this is why some people describe me as being too eager or impetuous, I see the reason now.

Socratic approach really seems to be a good suitable way around this, thanks a lot for the tip.

New comment by pellaeon in "Be Kind"

pellaeon — Wed, 13 May 2015 09:53:17 +0000

> Many conversations we are planning our next point rather than really deeply observing and listening to the other person

I often hear similiar suggestions to be empathic on others, but I find it difficult in practice too. To deeply observe others and to understand their points and to accurately express my points all at the same time is hard for me. Simply considering phrasing and planning my points alone is mentally exhausting enough. (I admit my verbal skill is not that good.) Let alone to mention considering others' feelings.

I did try to think about others' feelings, then I found myself having to pause and think (which is not so good for a conversation), sometimes forgetting others' points, and sometimes making less clear, reasonable, persuasive points.

Just sharing my experience, I guess this all could be improved by practice. Though I'd be thrilled for some tips.

New comment by pellaeon in "DigitalOcean now supports FreeBSD"

pellaeon — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 12:52:31 +0000

As one of the authors of bsd-cloudinit, it's super cool to see the project being used by other people.

http://pellaeon.github.io/bsd-cloudinit/

New comment by pellaeon in "Intel Compute Stick"

pellaeon — Wed, 07 Jan 2015 03:04:06 +0000

It's already on sale in Taiwan for 1 or 2 months. (with a different case though) http://www.mobile01.com/topicdetail.php?f=514&t=4112495 (specs inside)