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New comment by xcambar in "Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell"

xcambar — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 22:35:53 +0000

I was expecting Rihanna or Gizeh, not Zizek ans the Berghain, and I love every bit of the surprise!

Congratulations!

New comment by xcambar in "Show HN: Names"

xcambar — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 07:38:15 +0000

Best unexpected use of the tool. I'm less impressed by the achievement than by the time and energy you used towards it. Well done!

New comment by xcambar in "Monochrome terminal setup for an E-ink monitor (2022)"

xcambar — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 14:28:03 +0000

Would you share a screenshot, I'm really interested and I must not be the only one.

New comment by xcambar in "Yams – Yet Another Media Server"

xcambar — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 12:47:03 +0000

Thanks for the effort to package together what is otherwise a pretty standard combination of tools and services.

I would have switched Emby for Jellyfin but everyone has their opinion on the matter I guess...

New comment by xcambar in "Game that promised no paid DLC ever, getting paid DLC 'to fund the development'"

xcambar — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 19:20:21 +0000

The problem with DLC is the abuse of manipulative techniques on immature audiences.

In other words, micro transactions targeted at kids and teenagers.

New content? Fine. Fancy outfit sponsored by the latest brand? GTFo

New comment by xcambar in "The Quest for a Dumber Phone"

xcambar — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 18:51:31 +0000

> Disclosure: Every [the website every.to] co-founder and CEO Dan Shipper is an investor in Light.

I do appreciate the disclosure.

New comment by xcambar in "Names should be cute, not descriptive"

xcambar — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 16:24:22 +0000

In this occurrence, I couldn't measure the benefits of that specific element of culture.

It may have been silent and powerful, I'll spare you the extra comment ;)

New comment by xcambar in "Names should be cute, not descriptive"

xcambar — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 12:42:25 +0000

A company I have visited had, for some obscure reason, decided that teams should have their own fun/memorable names. Almost 2 years after implementation, every new hire's first comment was: "it's impossible to navigate the org with those names, we have no idea of what each team is doing".

I could live with funny+descriptive, but for all that is good, funny only just does not work.

New comment by xcambar in "Having friends in HR is fine, but HR is not your friend"

xcambar — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 19:48:13 +0000

> HR that are completely oblivious to the idea that people have about them.

I can't imagine that's the typical HR pattern. That's certainly not better but I tend to think that they appear oblivious by design, or rather, by education.

Since HR must keep their smiling poker face and their never-promising aleays-optimistic discourse no matter what, they fake this seemingly oblivious character. I guess.

New comment by xcambar in "Easy, alternative soft deletion: `deleted_record_insert`"

xcambar — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 11:05:27 +0000

If this ils well documented, I don't see how this would be a problem for GDPR. Can you elaborate?

New comment by xcambar in "Tell HN: Happy New Year"

xcambar — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 23:33:58 +0000

Happy new year from central Europe!

New comment by xcambar in "The Linux Command Line"

xcambar — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 22:30:33 +0000

> Everything has to be spoon fed and if it isn't they are paralyzed.

Fixed it for you: [...] and WHEN it isn't they LEARN.

New comment by xcambar in "The Linux Command Line"

xcambar — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 18:35:05 +0000

What's so wrong about easy mode?

For me, it's hard to make good software today because the bar is actually higher, in the sense that it must be usable by a much wider audience and I can't be lazy about usability or even worse, let it unnecessarily complicated because "people should know about it or learn".

New comment by xcambar in "The Linux Command Line"

xcambar — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 17:06:10 +0000

Because developer tools are increasingly polished and easily accessible without in-depth knowledge of the arcanes of the command line. And that's great to welcome more people in our field.

The downside is that once they're welcome, the climb of the learning curve is barely started.

New comment by xcambar in "Freedom to Roam in Scotland (2019)"

xcambar — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 11:26:15 +0000

I don't speak English natively, I am much more used to roaming when referred to telco usage abroad than when referred to its original meaning.

I doubt it's just me, but I'll be quite happy it is.

New comment by xcambar in "Freedom to Roam in Scotland (2019)"

xcambar — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 07:30:44 +0000

To clear out the possible confusion: it's not about cellular network roaming.

It's about the freedom to navigate freely on private land because most of Scotland is privately owned.

New comment by xcambar in "US Government demands direct police access to European biometric data [pdf]"

xcambar — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 18:11:03 +0000

That's a surprising statement to read. All your examples allow for statically significant unique identification (of a person).

I think that's where the threat actually lies. I'm equally worried about traces I leave with my Visa/MasterCard than those I leave with my uncovered face or fingerprints.

The main difference being that I can easily control the traces I leave with my cards, less so the traces I leave with my ohone, and it takes a significant effort to lkit traces from my face or fingers.

New comment by xcambar in "Show HN: Dog API"

xcambar — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 12:55:13 +0000

Excellent. This goes straight into my list of nice APIs for student work and coding exercises. If there's any way to contribute or support, you should advertise it.

New comment by xcambar in "CCC captures U.S. military biometrics database"

xcambar — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 10:45:13 +0000

Also, the Weltrechtsprinzip doesn't seem to be specific to Germany. Is there something in its German flavor that is remarkable?

New comment by xcambar in "Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now"

xcambar — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 20:05:34 +0000

You're a rare person, in 2022.