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ffsm8 commented on JetBrains cancels Fleet   blog.jetbrains.com/fleet/... · Posted by u/guitcastro
ffsm8 · a day ago
A few days ago I found out that the jetbrains toolbox doesn't actually log you out when you're logging out - they just seemingly stop renewing your token

I found out about it because switching accounts isn't possible, you get logged into your old account unless some time has elapses.

Not a big security issue though, I mean after a day or so it it's actually logged out, just not within the same hour (no idea how long it actually takes - just know it's not within an hour)

ffsm8 commented on New Kindle feature uses AI to answer questions about books   reactormag.com/new-kindle... · Posted by u/mindracer
freedomben · 2 days ago
IMHO you should be able to enjoy your books however you want. If you want to run a local AI against it, more power to you.

But my opinion doesn't matter. Only Amazon's does. That's the point I was making. The premise of "my device, my content" is flawed (because of the DRM Amazon uses) and undermines the argument.

ffsm8 · 2 days ago
Right, under that argument it's their content, their rules then - making this situation even more of a non issue because they're adding this feature themselves.
ffsm8 commented on Berlin Approves New Expansion of Police Surveillance Powers   reclaimthenet.org/berlin-... · Posted by u/robtherobber
__turbobrew__ · 2 days ago
1. While waiting to be seated at a bistro, I grabbed a menu off a table to see what they had for food. Waiter who was ignoring me saw that and instantly scolded me in front of the entire restaurant saying that is their job.

2. An alpine train was coming by and I was doing the fist pump in the air to get them to honk the horn. A random stranger said that my actions were unwelcome and that trains are serious business.

3. When on bikes I did a skid stop to make my wife laugh, a random stranger said I shouldn’t do that.

4. At the airport, I had to pour out water before going through the security checkpoint. There was no bin to pour out water so I just poured it out in the garbage. A random stranger got quite upset and said the water does not go in the garbage.

Not to mention all of the very unfriendly interactions I had with locals. Honestly will probably never go back, people are so much more friendly and laid back elsewhere which is more my style.

ffsm8 · 2 days ago
As a German myself, that list is surprising. The only one I could imagine is 4., because the bins generally aren't watertight, so you're essentially spilling water on the floor which will make a mess for everyone. And there are always places to pour the water it's just usually at the entrance of the terminal ... Which is obviously dumb, cuz nobody is going to go back to them after they've already queued to get in.

But 1-3? You must've really gotten unlucky...

1 I could only imagine in expensive restaurants,

2. I am seriously surprised by, because while the person manning the train would almost always ignore you, so would everyone else - no matter what kind of gesture you do.

And 3... While I cannot fathom doing that on purpose myself, I'm extremely surprised anyone would bother interacting with anyone about that? Definitely doesn't reflect my experience living here for roughly 40 yrs

ffsm8 commented on Japan law opening phone app stores to go into effect   www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/e... · Posted by u/shlip
dangus · 2 days ago
It should be pointed out that they have way less of a monopoly on the market and way more gaming alternatives exist than Apple and Google.

Apple, Google. Two app stores that are basically necessary for existing in the modern world with a smartphone, which include apps covering Japanese government services.

In the gaming space, you’ve got PlayStation Store, Xbox Store, Nintendo eShop, Steam, Epic Game Store, GOG, a bazillion publisher storefronts, Apple and Google (again), Itch.io, physical media for the big 3 consoles at dozens of brick and mortar retailers, or even installing games directly with no store at all (Minecraft originated from its own online purchase portal).

ffsm8 · 2 days ago
> include apps covering Japanese government services.

These exist?

Honestly asking, I've never been there myself so my only contact to their government is via social media, and the Japanese people can't stop talking about how you need to go there in person for everything and how absolutely nothing official is digital

ffsm8 commented on Epic celebrates "the end of the Apple Tax" after court win in iOS payments case   arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/nobody9999
Someone · 2 days ago
> Speaking to reporters Thursday night, though, Epic founder and CEO Tim Sweeney said he believes those should be “super super minor fees,” on the order of “tens or hundreds of dollars” every time an iOS app update goes through Apple for review. That should be more than enough to compensate the employees reviewing the apps to make sure outside payment links are not scams

I would think making sure outside payment links aren’t scams will be more expensive than that because checking that once isn’t sufficient. Scammers will update the target of such links, so you can’t just check this at app submission time. You also will have to check from around the world, from different IP address ranges, outside California business hours, etc, because scammer are smart enough to use such info to decide whether to show their scammy page.

Also, even if it becomes ‘only’ hundreds of dollars, I guess only large companies will be able to afford providing an option for outside payments.

ffsm8 · 2 days ago
> I would think making sure outside payment links aren’t scams will be more expensive than that because checking that once isn’t sufficient. Ignoring the fact Apple isn't doing that anyway right now as others have pointed out: There are multiple ways to make sure of that without it costing any significant money, eg hashing all scripts that are served on the link and making sure they're the same since review.

Not that they'd ever do the review to begin with, so the hashing won't be done either, but it's something that could be done on iOS/ipados.

And if you consider that infeasible, you might want to check out current CSP best practices, you might be surprised

ffsm8 commented on Going Through Snowden Documents, Part 1   libroot.org/posts/going-t... · Posted by u/libroot
keiferski · 3 days ago
Hacker News would be better named Tech Industry Professional News. Most people here are very invested in corporations and government organizations, are very well paid for being so, and have little interest in anything “hacker” in the traditional sense of the word.
ffsm8 · 3 days ago
> and have little interest in anything “hacker” in the traditional sense of the word.

Couldn't agree more, but not for the reason you think

> The word "hacker" derives from the Late Middle English words hackere, hakker, or hakkere - one who cuts wood, woodchopper, or woodcutter.[13]

Sorry, couldn't help myself

ffsm8 commented on DeepSeek uses banned Nvidia chips for AI model, report says   finance.yahoo.com/news/ch... · Posted by u/goodway
rkagerer · 4 days ago
Google and Meta are probably the only two companies that have a right to license their training data

For the sake of someone unfamiliar... Why is that?

Did they pay teams of monkeys to generate their own, novel training data? Or gain explicit, opt-in permission from users who entrust them with their files/content?

ffsm8 · 4 days ago
The explicit opt in is only necessary under gdpr, which is a lot of data, but not a majority.
ffsm8 commented on Bruno Simon – 3D Portfolio   bruno-simon.com/... · Posted by u/razzmataks
animuchan · 4 days ago
If your game is essentially a single canvas element, having it user-selectable clearly doesn't help accessibility in any way.
ffsm8 · 4 days ago
You say that as if I've got any control over the browser on the end users device, some of which will be configured to not apply these rules globally for accessibility reasons...
ffsm8 commented on Bruno Simon – 3D Portfolio   bruno-simon.com/... · Posted by u/razzmataks
animuchan · 5 days ago
It's trivially solvable with CSS though, isn't it? See the beginning of this stylesheet for example: https://github.com/mvasilkov/board2024/blob/master/out/app.c... — this is from my small 2024 game.
ffsm8 · 5 days ago
You mean the select: none, along with the drag setting?

If so, that's not necessarily followed/applied for accessibility reasons

ffsm8 commented on Django: what’s new in 6.0   adamj.eu/tech/2025/12/03/... · Posted by u/rbanffy
akoumjian · 5 days ago
Celery is great and awful at the same time. In particular, because it is many Python folks' first introduction to distributed task processing and all the things that can go wrong with it. Not to mention, debugging can be a nightmare. Some examples:

- your function arguments aren't serializable - your side effects (e.g. database writes) aren't idempotent - discovering what backpressure is and that you need it - losing queued tasks during deployment / non-compatible code changes

There's also some stuff particular to celery's runtime model that makes it incredibly prone to memory leaks and other fun stuff.

Honestly, it's a great education.

ffsm8 · 5 days ago
> your side effects (e.g. database writes) aren't idempotent

What does idempotent mean in this context, or did you mean atomic/rollback on error?

I'm confused because how could a database write be idempotent in Django? Maybe if it introduced a version on each entity and used that for crdt on writes? But that'd be a significant performance impact, as it couldn't just be a single write anymore, instead they'd have to do it via multiple round trips

u/ffsm8

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