Hacker News: webmobdev

New comment by webmobdev in "Omegle: "How I got the dangerous chat site closed down""

webmobdev — Sat, 02 Dec 2023 15:16:18 +0000

Huh? Where did you get the idea that she didn't get any money? The article says - "But she now says settling out of court for an undisclosed sum earlier this month was better for her and others."

Pornhub just randomly shows up on my screentime?

webmobdev — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 15:00:33 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/1850sl2/pornhub_just_randomly_shows_up_on_my_screentime/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38432990

Points: 1

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New comment by webmobdev in "Daily coffee habits may affect brain plasticity and learning"

webmobdev — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 15:08:08 +0000

And how late afternoon / evening coffees maybe preventing them from getting a good sleep - https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/05/30/coffee-ca...

New comment by webmobdev in "Omegle: "How I got the dangerous chat site closed down""

webmobdev — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 12:01:10 +0000

Never realised that Omegle had become a platform for the creeps. She sued for $22 million. I don't see anything heroic in that, despite her tragic circumstances. But I really wonder what the authorities where doing - if paedophiles were using the platform, sounds like it would have been easy to identify and trap them.

New comment by webmobdev in "Omegle: "How I got the dangerous chat site closed down""

webmobdev — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 11:46:46 +0000

The deal required him to acknowledge the lawsuit publicly. He chose to be polite about it:

> The acknowledgment with a link to the lawsuit was also part of his settlement agreement with Alice.

How to use piracy data to make your product sell better

webmobdev — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 12:36:17 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/17zzkfl/how_to_use_piracy_data_to_make_your_product_sell/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38362796

Points: 1

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New comment by webmobdev in "Biden Uses War-Time Law to Fund Heat Pumps Citing Climate Crisis"

webmobdev — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 13:29:13 +0000

Oil and gas can be stored and also acquired more easily. It just seems prudent to rely on more than 1 source of energy.

New comment by webmobdev in "Biden Uses War-Time Law to Fund Heat Pumps Citing Climate Crisis"

webmobdev — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 08:55:59 +0000

While I understand that electricity (depending on how it is produced) is a "clean" energy, isn't it better to hedge your bet and rely on oil or gas heaters in case the electricity conks out? Imagine being stuck in a blizzard with the grid knocked out, in freezing temperature. With an electric heat pump, you'll need to buy a generator as a backup safeguard.

New comment by webmobdev in "Apple has a memory problem and we're all paying for it"

webmobdev — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 21:03:44 +0000

> ... it has never done a thing to change their strategy nor sales.

Look up their Mac sales figure - it's down. And I do believe it is because consumers aren't stupid and recognize that the new Macs have planned obsolescence built-in with their soldered RAM and SSDs.

The Gaslighting is also high with Apple claiming that their "8GB equals 16GB" because they are Apple:

> Comparing our memory to other system's memory actually isn't equivalent, because of the fact that we have such an efficient use of memory, and we use memory compression, and we have a unified memory architecture. Actually, 8GB on an M3 MacBook Pro is probably analogous to 16GB on other systems. We just happen to be able to use it much more efficiently. - https://www.macrumors.com/2023/11/08/8gb-ram-m3-macbook-pro-...

8GB RAM on M3 MacBook Pro 'Analogous to 16GB' on PCs, Claims Apple

webmobdev — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 22:11:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.macrumors.com/2023/11/08/8gb-ram-m3-macbook-pro-like-16-gb-pc/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38197857

Points: 23

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New comment by webmobdev in "Adobe is selling fake AI images of the war in Israel-Gaza"

webmobdev — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 12:53:11 +0000

What's the difference between using Stock images (generic photographs / graphics) vs Fake Ai images in a news story? Traditionally stock images have been used to add more "impact" to a story. If the Fake AI image can do that better, obviously they will be preferred.

I understand that readers need to be informed. But to be fair, (c) Gettys (or some other stock photo dealers) below a photo never made me aware that the photo used was a stock photo until I learnt about stock photos one day. Also, would marking a photo as AI really reduce the impact of a well-written news story?

Emails sent with Epyrus are scoring low according to SpamAssassin

webmobdev — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 10:55:28 +0000

Article URL: https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?t=30476

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38139839

Points: 1

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New comment by webmobdev in "Medically assisted deaths constituted 4.1 per cent of all deaths in Canada"

webmobdev — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 10:54:45 +0000

No, unfortunately psychological treatment are neither easily available or popular in India. There is also a cultural aversion in the previous generation to availing such treatment. (On SSRIs note that the medical community is increasingly of the opinion that SSRIs don't help with depression in the long-term and may even be responsible for suicidal tendencies in those who never even had it in the first place. Cognitive Therapy is now the gold standard for the treatment of depression.)

New comment by webmobdev in "Medically assisted deaths constituted 4.1 per cent of all deaths in Canada"

webmobdev — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 05:45:26 +0000

It's rare. The answer would then depend, I guess, on how comfortable are you in allowing mentally troubled people to opt-in in for suicide.

New comment by webmobdev in "Medically assisted deaths constituted 4.1 per cent of all deaths in Canada"

webmobdev — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 09:32:11 +0000

I came to post a similar thought too. I meet and help 4 old couples occasionally - in my neighbourhood, and some of my friend's parents - who now live alone. And all of them are physically healthy (as much as 70+ years old can be), and economically well off, but feel depressed due to crippling loneliness. Two of them openly tell me that they curse God for giving them a long life and just wish for death. If India had assisted suicide for old people, these are the kind of people who would be in front of the queue.

And that's one issue I have with such programs - one of the symptoms of depression is suicidal thoughts / ideation, which tends to disappear when depression is successfully treated. And depression also manifests itself in people with other illness. At the very least, these kind of assisted suicide programs should screen for depression in individuals opting for the program, and deny it to those depressed. They should instead be alternatively treated for depression.

New comment by webmobdev in "Apple's Blue Ocean"

webmobdev — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 03:59:45 +0000

More so when the RAM remains limited on Macs as it too is integrated with the CPU and hence is non-upgradable. This is even worse than soldered SSD, as we can still make an attempt to replace the SSD chips with new ones with careful soldering, but nothing can be done about the RAM. These deliberately irreparable new Macs are just shitty products.

New comment by webmobdev in "Show HN: OpenSign – Open source alternative to DocuSign"

webmobdev — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 01:43:53 +0000

True. Someone here in another comment has already pointed out that this project's CLA demands that all submissions have to be under the MIT license! This seems shady and can be perceived as an attempt to "steal" code in the future (MIT licensed code can be incorporated into xGPL license code, but it doesn't prevent the original license holder of the xGPL product to close source the product in the future. If the contributed code was also AGPL, the project managers would have to get permission from all submitters to close source a project or would be forced to remove their code from the product).

New comment by webmobdev in "Friend's Chandler, Matthew Perry, died at 54"

webmobdev — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 01:32:10 +0000

That's US healthcare for you.

New comment by webmobdev in "Tor Browser Security Audit"

webmobdev — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 01:23:43 +0000

I am speaking as a user of the product and offering feedback - the whole point behind Tor is to protect your anonymity and that's hard to do when the browser itself is leaking your IP (and other data) to some service you don't even care about. At best, such kind of integrated services should be opt-in only by default. (Note that Firefox services are now opt-in too in Tor).

New comment by webmobdev in "Show HN: OpenSign – Open source alternative to DocuSign"

webmobdev — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 01:15:16 +0000

Shouldn't be surprising as it is the only OSS license that protects your right to repair by guaranteeing source code availability. FSF doesn't get enough credit for their foresight.