Hacker News: sieabah

New comment by sieabah in "Supreme Court leans toward web designer with anti-gay marriage stance"

sieabah — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 19:41:15 +0000

The bakery incident really made people wonder whether you can deny anyone and stay in business.

New comment by sieabah in "Hetzner continues its growth in the US with a new location"

sieabah — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 19:19:33 +0000

My big question is whether any US based companies hosted are beholden to the German government because it's a German based company.

This in turn makes everyone beholden to the EU regulations and German censorship regulations. Yeah no thanks!

New comment by sieabah in "Meta Said Damaging Internal Email Is ‘Fake’, Here's Evidence They're Wrong"

sieabah — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 01:18:00 +0000

I can hardly trust any of the journalism with a title like this. How about you just sue them in court for calling your story a lie?

New comment by sieabah in "Private profiles are now generally available on GitHub"

sieabah — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 02:35:53 +0000

Don't worry you'll be vilified for disliking features by the tech community because they can't not have social features everywhere.

New comment by sieabah in "Why to not use JWT (2021)"

sieabah — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 17:13:31 +0000

If you share the hmac key or do private/public key signing you're able to distribute the public signing keys to your infra.

In doing so you just validate the token against the public key. You can then rotate these keys and have a list of them to validate against and age off keys which would be the last tokens expiration +1 day.

New comment by sieabah in "Arduino IDE 2.0"

sieabah — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 22:35:31 +0000

There shouldn't be any reason an open source hardware company should support something like vscode themselves.

It takes one update from vscode to break everything and your SOL.

New comment by sieabah in "‘I’d rather eat an actual burger’: plant-based meat’s sizzle fizzled in the US"

sieabah — Sat, 24 Sep 2022 20:25:39 +0000

The "average" American is obese, so I'm not sure we should be encouraging this inefficient source of protein.

New comment by sieabah in "SurrealDB: Distributed document-graph database for the realtime web"

sieabah — Sat, 17 Sep 2022 07:11:24 +0000

How has your experience been with arango? I haven't had any major issues with it. It runs exceptionally well in kubernetes too.

New comment by sieabah in "Rethinking GPS: Engineering next-gen location at Uber (2018)"

sieabah — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 03:34:36 +0000

Almost like they wrote a blog article about it so others could learn from it.

If it were available to all android apps I don't know why Uber would go out of their way to reimplement it. So it must not be available to all apps and exclusive to Google maps and Waze

New comment by sieabah in "Ask HN: Why doesn’t Apple allow torrent clients on the app store?"

sieabah — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 16:23:31 +0000

I wish torrenting for general downloads was more popular. I had unstable internet that would make downloading anything over 100MB impossible.

Slap a torrent together of the same payload and it'd be guaranteed not to stall/error because of the network.

New comment by sieabah in "Ask HN: Why doesn’t Apple allow torrent clients on the app store?"

sieabah — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 16:19:30 +0000

Are you sure? VPNs probably carry that torrent traffic with encryption.

Onion sites which carry the most illegal content on Earth also use encryption.

Your reasoning is aligned with banning encryption because in all cases where something is illegal they tend to use some level of encryption.

New comment by sieabah in "Ask HN: Why doesn’t Apple allow torrent clients on the app store?"

sieabah — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 16:16:52 +0000

I've used torrents to download software so that the provider didn't need to pay bandwidth to share their software.

There are completely legal and reasonable reasons torrenting exists. They're excellent at making huge downloads possible with the more efficient bandwidth. Instead of that, we have an ecosystem of "installers" that exist purely to download massive files to install.

New comment by sieabah in "My VM is lighter (and safer) than your container (2017)"

sieabah — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 16:12:13 +0000

The headline reads like a reddit post so I'm going to assume the same still holds true.

New comment by sieabah in "Ask HN: It's Demo Day. What are you working on?"

sieabah — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 15:14:21 +0000

No, while Snyk did make it hard for SEO, I changed it from Synk so that I could do more than that idea in the long run.

My goal is to create a platform for tabletop games, not just synchronize audio.

New comment by sieabah in "Ask HN: It's Demo Day. What are you working on?"

sieabah — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 08:53:09 +0000

First time posting my own project anywhere.

D20Kit (previously Synk) has been my long time side project that tries to allow online tabletop players to experience the audio ambiance of a setting in sync with each other (within a 5 sec buffer).

It does this without a live audio stream and allows you to play/pause/loop/shuffle single track audio or playlists and maintains all participants hearing the same thing at the same time.

https://d20kit.com

I still have a lot of work on mobile parity, but I think most of the features can be accessed from mobile. It's very niche and it's got some usability issues I need to iron out. If anyone does try it out I'd love to hear the thoughts/hate mail about it.

Apologies if you don't like having Google auth be the only option.

New comment by sieabah in "Richest Silicon Valley Suburb Says Build Anywhere but Here"

sieabah — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 19:02:43 +0000

Typical HN response where you pick specifics but really ignore the crux of the issue. Thanks for perpetuating the stereotype. The _bay area_ (silicon valley), also generally known as "San Francisco". Yes we all know there is really San Jose, Oakland, SF, Palo Alto, as actual cities.

The specific geographic location is irrelevant to the discussion. I can make the same exact argument for housing in NYC or some other city. People want cheap housing where people currently live.

New comment by sieabah in "Ask HN: Anyone using Rust for server side application development?"

sieabah — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 18:36:37 +0000

I've found that rust developers are spending far too much time rewriting other applications than writing their own apps.

New comment by sieabah in "ShaderGlass – Overlay applying retro shaders on top of Windows desktop"

sieabah — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 18:33:01 +0000

Most people who attempt this effect don't have a reference CRT. They don't realize that the scan lines bleed and become fuzzy on the screen and are not perfect lines like the shader makes.

New comment by sieabah in "I recreated famous album covers with DALL-E"

sieabah — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 18:30:13 +0000

If they had bothered to read the license agreement they would know whoever generates the art owns the copyright. Since it's a pay-for action the copyright is owned by the payee.

So really they generated these and never bothered to do the research of their own question.

New comment by sieabah in "Richest Silicon Valley Suburb Says Build Anywhere but Here"

sieabah — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 16:47:31 +0000

I couldn't care less about SF or its residents. So I didn't really invest into this story. If it's a legal state law and has the backing of the state, courts, and a federal court then go ahead.

Until it is, it's just words on paper from people who feel entitled to an area they have never owned land in.

I'm not going to be empathetic with people who want to displace others who have owned homes in an area for decades just so they can be closer to the most desired location on the west coast.