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New comment by tisdadd in "No, everyone is not using AI for everything"

tisdadd — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 17:53:13 +0000

I believe that I must be truthful because of my faith, though I understand people feeling pressure otherwise. I have had to quit places that I found lying to part of the employees before.

It is very sad to me that people do feel that pressure, and how the current job market is.

On topic with the article, I would love to be able to trust AI with more, but have found that I have some useful moments with it, but more because of Internet search not being how it used to be for quality.

New comment by tisdadd in "The Smart TV in Your LivingRoom Is a Node in the AIScraping Economy"

tisdadd — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:54:30 +0000

There could be better, but this looked reasonable at first glance if you also have a Mac.

https://www.thequantizer.com/tutorials/wireshark-iphone-traf...

It has been a while since I personally did such traces, but Wireshark was very simple to use and once the network is exposed, it has lots of information available online if you need more.

I found bypassing your VPN particularly appalling, as is the whole thing. Personally, it would be amazing if there were a limit on how much can be in Terms of Service, as no one wants to read that much anymore.

New comment by tisdadd in "Retro-Tech Parenting"

tisdadd — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 02:54:07 +0000

This was a fun read, as I am planning things for my daughter I love to see other people's ideas. I am actually thinking of using one of my old XP desktops and game tote with offline when she gets older for similar reasons. Watching my nephew with a tablet, I see many bad habits. One thing I appreciate with older tech is the lack of instant gratification so you must learn patience and to think what you really want.

For phone, we might use a Bluetooth to home phone adapter I had got my uncle in the past, not sure yet how things will look in a few years. Then we can have a shared family phone when home was my thought.

New comment by tisdadd in "Flipper One – we need your help"

tisdadd — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:37:51 +0000

I mean, I got about half way through before going blah. But it is a fun looking project and it is great that they are pushing for an open platform.

I like to read, but some writing is more enjoyable than others. If you want to contribute to their wiki, you can do so.

New comment by tisdadd in "Agentic Coding Is a Trap"

tisdadd — Mon, 04 May 2026 03:15:26 +0000

I had it throwing in free advice on my code working as intended, but not a normal pattern. It was something like:"Bonus! This bug exists!" And I had to tell it stop doing that. Or, for generated SQL renaming to keep deeply linked table columns human readable via comments it was - "You can't have a comment of this style here." It works perfectly so yes, yes I can.

I can certainly get it to do things that are reasonably common it seems like.

As for the article itself, I can agree with much of it.

New comment by tisdadd in "What AI coding costs you"

tisdadd — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:00:03 +0000

It also used to be an indicator that potentially someone was outsourcing their work overseas.

Edit: I had an instance once where about once a month another developer would ask me about workplace setup, mentioned it to someone and was told maybe they were the English speaker of the group. Upon further investigation, that seemed to be the case.

New comment by tisdadd in "Google API keys weren't secrets, but then Gemini changed the rules"

tisdadd — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:07:47 +0000

As long as you are over a certain spend. I started something for my own project and went to apply the recommended architecture, which does not work without a quota increase. As it was from a fresh account, the email was we won't look at this until you spend or pre spend so much money. Frankly, for a trail period when evaluating at prior enterprises, that would have made me just say no to their cloud. One expects that the recommended architecture can be deployed in the trial run without hoops.

New comment by tisdadd in "CSS Web Components for marketing sites (2024)"

tisdadd — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 05:20:20 +0000

I haven't played with the Shadow Dom since Polymer one, but we had defaults and variables to address this that worked amazingly, and helped standardize it with other teams far better than other css things we had done at the time. It looks like that is still a thing - https://shadow-style.github.io/ - without which people injected things through the CMS that were not fun to deal with.

New comment by tisdadd in "Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?"

tisdadd — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 03:18:47 +0000

Space base works well for this for up to eight people with the expansion. I have a friend with a very tiny apartment we have done that in, and while others are buying cards you can enjoy conversation. I used to host a lot when I was able to keep a dedicated hosting area at the one house, but recently not as much unless it's outdoors mainly. If you have a grill you can let people know to bring what they want to grill, and popcorn and some seasoning makes an affordable snack, and if you project a movie somewhere people can disconnect if needed. But yes, I usually use my social energy with family in the area now.

New comment by tisdadd in "Every country should set 16 as the minimum age for social media accounts"

tisdadd — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 04:42:45 +0000

I have been building a library for some time as well, and am ready to learn and teach once my child is ready. Frankly, the internet experience when I was young vs now is crazy. For me, it was dial up with some forums and RuneScape open, chatting via texts in game with my buddies who were considered long distance even though we all went to the same church. The pauses in loading gave time to think up good discussion, and playing things took patience. Now everything wants your attention scattered everywhere, and is flashing in your face. I love having ad blockers because of that. Social media has done nothing good for our world I feel like. Yes, connecting is nice but when you are fed things off of not your actual interest or easily searchable same results but instead whatever drives engagement for ads I like to stay well away.

New comment by tisdadd in "Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids"

tisdadd — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 05:06:15 +0000

This is a fun setup, I have a child due in March and have been thinking through all the things to help make things not instant for learning patience as well. While I may still to DVDs for viewing, as I kept my collection building. I do have a floppy drive available and like this idea.

For those talking about not using TV much, or that the UI is slow, my setup is a cheap projector hooked into my sound system and hooking up a laptop when streaming as necessary. Really dislike the smart anything that can be used in other ways for the reasons I already saw mentioned, but it is hard to lag something that has no Internet by looking for ads and updates for sure.

New comment by tisdadd in "AI is a business model stress test"

tisdadd — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 21:24:27 +0000

This is why I loved polymer 1 and it's adoption of the shadow dom.

New comment by tisdadd in "Show HN: DoNotNotify – Log and intelligently block notifications on Android"

tisdadd — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 16:24:17 +0000

I agree, this is an excellent idea and I am excited to try it.

New comment by tisdadd in "A faster heart for F-Droid"

tisdadd — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 04:02:26 +0000

I concur, and given the amount of apps they build it makes sense to spend the money on a good build server to me, especially if it is someone with experience hosting trusted servers as mentioned as well as a contributor already. If people do not want to use it, the source code to build yourself is still available for the apps they supply.

New comment by tisdadd in "Tell HN: Merry Christmas"

tisdadd — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 15:46:53 +0000

Merry Christmas to all. On the note above, there is not a lot of Biblical Christianity seen today, as many do not read the Bible. It is very sad to me, and why I like to make a distinction. It is lovely to see such cheer in this thread overall though, and if you are a professing Christian I would urge you to be reading and studying your Bible.

New comment by tisdadd in "Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges"

tisdadd — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 15:05:39 +0000

I know we have older models for upstairs and down, and saw a newer one with camera at a thrift store. It could have been a different brand, but I saw camera facing up at about 30 degrees and thought to myself, nope. There are reports of it sending revealing pictures I read, and am quite happy that the bump and go ones keep down dust and fur overall. Most of my wifi gadgets have cameras not moving on their own.

New comment by tisdadd in "The joy of recursion, immutable data, & pure functions: Making mazes with JS"

tisdadd — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 01:53:01 +0000

Indeed to both. I enjoyed it greatly. It was well written and on something that I think about someone's but never implemented.

New comment by tisdadd in "How we made JSON.stringify more than twice as fast"

tisdadd — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 02:01:17 +0000

I will need to check this vs the usual safe-stable-stringify package I usually use in my projects now when I'm back on the computer, but it is always nice to see the speedup.

New comment by tisdadd in "Fossify – A suite of open-source, ad-free apps"

tisdadd — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 14:03:15 +0000

You can use f-droid game category. It will say anti-features if it has ada, but don't think many did when I loaded an older tablet for the kiddos.

New comment by tisdadd in "Next.js 15.1 is unusable outside of Vercel"

tisdadd — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 12:03:10 +0000

This - I spent quite some time fighting the new Next.js conventions not working for me making a legit web app instead of traditional site, switched to vite and was like yay, things work again and so fast. Normally I am all about embracing the framework, but kept thinking for what was happening I could use PHP instead and host anywhere.