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nerdsniper commented on VS Code deactivates IntelliCode in favor of the paid Copilot   heise.de/en/news/VS-Code-... · Posted by u/sagischwarz
SPICLK2 · 11 hours ago
I refuse to use VS Code on principle. It has captured a staggering percentage of software development, across many software disciplines. Somehow ARM/Keil has been persuaded to go all-in on VS Code and will deprecate their "legacy" IDE, which will cause trouble for any hold-out embedded firmware developers.
nerdsniper · 10 hours ago
I believe their legacy IDE was a fork of Eclipse.
nerdsniper commented on It seems that OpenAI is scraping [certificate transparency] logs   benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h... · Posted by u/pavel_lishin
Eikon · a day ago
Shameless plug :)

https://www.merklemap.com/search?query=ycombinator.com&page=...

Entries are indexed by subdomain instead of by certificate (click an entry to see all certificates for that subdomain).

Also, you can search for any substring (that was quite the journey to implement so it's fast enough across almost 5B entries):

https://www.merklemap.com/search?query=ycombi&page=0

nerdsniper · a day ago
Thank you!!! Needed exactly this at work.
nerdsniper commented on “Super secure” messaging app leaks everyone's phone number   ericdaigle.ca/posts/super... · Posted by u/e_daigle
nerdsniper · a day ago
Take a look at this comment section. None of the other comments are making this political. The rest of us understand it’s not a “MAGA thing”.
nerdsniper commented on “Super secure” messaging app leaks everyone's phone number   ericdaigle.ca/posts/super... · Posted by u/e_daigle
nerdsniper · a day ago
> Now let's look at left-leaning apps and how insecure they are and how quickly they patch vulnerabilities.

Your point stood fine without this. It might make sense for a different audience but this audience understands all of that.

nerdsniper commented on A Chinese whistleblower living in the US is being hunted by Beijing with US tech   apnews.com/article/whistl... · Posted by u/alsdkfjas
codeddesign · 4 days ago
In September 2025, he failed to show up for court.

https://www.lawinfochina.com/Search/DisplayInfo.aspx?id=3786...

I am all for political asylum, but traveling to the other side of the world, entering a country by declaring you are a visitor, then filing for asylum to stay, all while being a fugitive for embezzlement in your own country is nothing less than fraud.

nerdsniper · 4 days ago
So let's say I'm in charge of $COUNTRY_A, and `codeddesign is in charge of $COUNTRY_B. Every time someone tries to go to $COUNTRY_B to get political asylum from me, all I have to do is claim that they should be found guilty of embezzlement and that's enough for you to return each and every person to $COUNTRY_A to face trial?

You say that you are "all for political asylum". What's a good example of how political asylum should be used, or has been used in the past that you support?

nerdsniper commented on A Chinese whistleblower living in the US is being hunted by Beijing with US tech   apnews.com/article/whistl... · Posted by u/alsdkfjas
nerdsniper · 4 days ago
> After Li quit the party, auditors trawled through his finances — usual practice for departing officials. Three years later, in 2017, they declared him clean.
nerdsniper commented on Show HN: Automated license plate reader coverage in the USA   alpranalysis.com... · Posted by u/sodality2
autoexec · 6 days ago
> Surveillance is generally a net negative, but it's also bad when you see people speeding around schools, rolling through stop signs, and running red lights.

The fact that these cameras are already pervasive and the problem of bad drivers hasn't been solved anywhere doesn't give me a lot of hope that these cameras are the solution to that particular problem.

It seems like police can do a lot to increase enforcement without the need of these devices. We have evidence that they've been doing less traffic enforcement so maybe start there. Increasing our standards for driving tests (some of which were eliminated entirely over the first few years of the pandemic) would probably help. Automatically shutting off/disabling or limiting the use of cell phones (all of which come with sensors that can detect when you are going at speeds you'd expect while in cars) might help. Bringing physical buttons and dials back to cars instead of burying common functions in touchscreen menus might help.

There's a whole lot of places to look for solutions to safer roads before we have to resort to tracking everyone's movements at all times.

nerdsniper · 6 days ago
> Automatically shutting off/disabling or limiting the use of cell phones (all of which come with sensors that can detect when you are going at speeds you'd expect while in cars) might help.

I can’t think of a way to implement this that wouldn’t ban passengers from using their phone while riding in a vehicle. Which could be even a bus or limousine.

nerdsniper commented on The Big Vitamin D Mistake [pdf] (2017)   pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/arti... · Posted by u/felineflock
nerdsniper · 7 days ago
I’ve always been wary of overconsuming fat-soluble vitamins (ADEK). Seeing strong medical consensus that 6000IU/day of Vitamin D is safe and even desirable gives me confidence to supplement more liberally.
nerdsniper commented on Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain   repebble.com/blog/meet-pe... · Posted by u/freshrap6
Bolwin · 7 days ago
Wow I was just looking for finding like this, but.. can't be recharged? It would be one thing if it had like 500 hours of recording, but this has 12-15.
nerdsniper · 7 days ago
The article says the battery lasts for years. Is that a misleading claim?

Edit FTA:

> How long does the battery last?

> Roughly 12 to 15 hours of recording. On average, I use it 10-20 times per day to record 3-6 second thoughts. That’s up to 2 years of usage.

nerdsniper commented on XKeyscore   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XKe... · Posted by u/belter
Sniffnoy · 9 days ago
Then edit it, it's Wikipedia!
nerdsniper · 9 days ago
Because Wikipedia. My edit got immediately auto-bot-reverted[1] by some anti-vandalism crusader. Insert bell-curve meme[1] where "just edit wikipedia" is the middle of the bell-curve.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Discospinster#WTF_ed...?

[1] https://imgflip.com/memegenerator/533936279/Bell-Curve

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