This article provides no additional value to the splitlines() docs.
For all of us that don't read all documentation for every single method, tool, function or similar, it is, by awarenes, very useful.
Readit Newsfelipelemos commented on Python's splitlines does more than just newlines yossarian.net/til/post/py... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
felipelemos commented on Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year mahadk.com/posts/slack... · Posted by u/JustSkyfall
You would think that making your users hate you is shortsighted, yes. But does it really matter?
I urge every user of Hacker News to read Peter Thiel's book, Zero to One. It's the definitive statement on software capitalism.
The goal, which Thiel embraces unabashedly, is to use technology to create new and unique monopolies, and once you've created them, extract as much rent as possible from the users. Obviously the users hate that part once it kicks in.
Thiel really seems to believe this is a good thing and there's a sense in which he's right: the tech industry has created more gadgets and created (or consumed?) a level of economic activity on par with industrialization itself. We have been introduced to all manner of innovations and conveniences, and the winners at this game have won bigger than anybody else.
But it is undoubtedly anti-consumer and anti-user. They give you something good, you get hooked, and then they enshittify it once you can't get out, and it's all part of the plan. Again, and again, and again, for more than 40 years now.
That's why once you're done with Thiel, you should read the GNU Manifesto. Richard Stallman identified the basic dynamics here as far back as the 1980s, and started his movement from the perspective of a user of computer systems who didn't want everything to be trapped and enshittified once again. By encouraging programmers to adopt the GNU license he aimed to prevent the rent seeking stage of this process.
Both camps succeeded partially. Thiel's camp succeeded more, especially economically. Which camp you join is up to you when you write a line of code or you use a piece of software. I personally think the world is complicated and there are elements of value in both. Regardless these are the two written works which together will give you the full context about the software industry, how it works, how it got this way, and even why modern life is the way it is.
And then you will see how it is by design for Salesforce to fuck nonprofits because it works. It was in the plan from day one. They knew. They will do it again.
> But does it really matter?
I am pretty sure - if his theories works - it would be really good for accumulating even more capital for the shareholders.
And I am also pretty sure it, at least for me, will not matter at all, and it will be really bad for everyone else involved.
felipelemos commented on Wttr: Console-oriented weather forecast service github.com/chubin/wttr.in... · Posted by u/saikatsg
This is a web API that does not have access to your local computer.
AND you can disable the ANSI control code:
```
To force plain text, which disables colors:
$ curl wttr.in/?T
```
felipelemos commented on Replace Philips Hue Automation with Home Assistant's blog.frankel.ch/home-assi... · Posted by u/Tomte
I feel like the point of buying Philips Hue products and paying 4x the normal price is that everything is mostly set up out of the box and the app is very intuitive. All the non technical people I know use them and have no problems. If you want to go the Home Assistant route, you may as well go all the way and get a Zigbee/Matter hub and off-brand bulbs. That way you keep full control of the ecosystem and pay a fraction of the price.
Maybe the point is for the people who already have it and want to avoid being locked in on proprietary ecosystem.
felipelemos commented on The size of BYD's factory twitter.com/taylorogan/st... · Posted by u/elsewhen
I agree that cars are at least double the mass they need to be. The size of cars needed for a school run or to drive to work are generally quite small, but most people seem to have giant trucks for the occasional times they go camping or carry something large.
> but most people seem to have giant trucks for the occasional times they go camping or carry something large.
This is the reality in United States, but not in most of the world.
I wonder if Pontifex Maximus is the oldest title still in use.
Pharaoh predates it for some thousand years.
felipelemos commented on Microsoft didn't sandbox Windows Defender, so I did (2017) blog.trailofbits.com/2017... · Posted by u/LorenDB
Defender slows down build times significantly.
You can set exclusions of course, but it does get tedious because every time you have a new project you need to add exclusions for its folder and the toolchain. Then every time a toolchain is updated (eg .../gcc/11.5 changes to gcc/11.5.2 you have to enter the 20 new exe exclusions and of course windows won't let you mass delete the old ones so it's click->confirm->click->confirm x50).
I might not do it myself but I can see why someone would just say "enough is enough".
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Exclusions\Paths
felipelemos commented on Did Sandia use a thermonuclear secondary in a product logo? blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2... · Posted by u/terryf
> at someone had posted on Reddit late last night (you know, as one does, instead of sleeping)
After a couple of decades of internet I was expecting people to realize other timezones exists.
felipelemos commented on Apple might be implementing a VPN censorship order in Brazil status.proton.me/incident... · Posted by u/davikr
Playing devils advocate for a moment: One reason why is that many app developers truly do not have your best interests at heart. Taking heat for being a gatekeeper sucks, but the downsides of the alternatives are potentially limitless.
Random example: the fuss about the facebook advertising/tracking SDKs back in the day. When apple started giving unique device IDs to each app, this cross-app tracking mesh imploded and they were screaming about lost revenue. Maybe you find billions of dollars worth of tracking to be creepy, maybe not. But if facebook had the option of getting that functionality and revenue back via an easy sideloading or some other frictionless alternative mechanism then the entire app ecosystem that was even remotely related to facebook tracking would have been off the app store in a heartbeat. Instead of being at the mercy of apple, you, and your extended tech-support family would have been at the mercy of facebook.
Apple is no angel, but the potential downsides are limitless. Instead of the facebook tracking example, consider partially or overtly malicious apps that your parents are now installing on their phones (as well as their malware-ridden PCs).
On the other hand, sideloading is a fairly low barrier for technically competent folks. Stuff like iResign and other tools have been around forever. You can grab any pirated/hacked/etc app package, sign it yourself, and sideload it via your dev credentials. But at least you don't have to worry about your parents doing that. Or facebook telling your parents to do that.
Anyway, that's a "for some reason" example. The readership of HN are not the target audience that the app store gatekeeping is there for.
(But don't get me started on fees/commissions/etc - that's indefensible IMO)
> Playing devils advocate for a moment: One reason why is that many app developers truly do not have your best interests at heart.
You are right, and neither Apple does.
> apparently the Google Authenticator doesn’t back something up.
This is widely known and IMO a very good argument to use a different TOTP/2FA app than Google Authenticator. There's plenty out.
Personally I use Bitwarden pro, which lets you add TOTP keys directly to the account you're using it for, integrating it into the login-process. Very smooth.
And it sync/backs up across all my devices.
One could say you shouldn't store the 2FA along with your password.