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zeeed commented on I found a vulnerability. they found a lawyer   dixken.de/blog/i-found-a-... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo
vaylian · 24 days ago
How do you generate the email addresses? Do you run your own e-mail server or do you use a third-party service?
zeeed · 24 days ago
If you’re on Gmail, there’s “plus addressing” - this allows you to append any term after your email - and then sort accordingly.

So if your Gmail is foo.bar@gmail.com you can use foo.bar+servicename@gmail.com and the mail will still end up in your mailbox. Then you can create a rule that sorts incoming mails accordingly.

zeeed commented on The silent death of good code   amit.prasad.me/blog/rip-g... · Posted by u/amitprasad
amitprasad · a month ago
There's an opportunity-cost here. I use agents to be more productive. As many have noted, "Good Code" doesn't rank highly compared to actually shipping a product.

The tragedy, for me, is that the bar has been lowered. What I consider to be "good enough" has gone down simply because I'm not the one writing the code itself, and feel less attachment to it, as it were.

zeeed · a month ago
Doesn’t the question then become “is there still an objective advantage to good code”

If the answer is yes then it’s a tragedy - but one that presumably will pass once we collectively discover it. If not, then it’s just nostalgic.

zeeed commented on The silent death of good code   amit.prasad.me/blog/rip-g... · Posted by u/amitprasad
thenanyu · a month ago
Agents can write good code. If you don't like the way that they write code, tell them to write it differently. Do that until you think the code is good.
zeeed · a month ago
This. There’s no limitation to your prompting. If you feed rules and patterns for clean code to a bunch of agents they’ll happily work on that level.

Just right now no one cares enough yet. Give it a year or two.

I could conceive something evolving on a different abstraction layer - say, clean requirements and tests, written to standard, enhanced with “common sense”

zeeed commented on LG TV's new software update installed MS Copilot, which cannot be deleted   old.reddit.com/r/mildlyin... · Posted by u/bj-rn
phoronixrly · 3 months ago
Just did that yesterday because it disables updates. I had stopped updating and disconnected my TV from the Internet completely in 2021 in fear that an update will bring ads, and in hope that a jailbreak will come around eventually.
zeeed · 3 months ago
Was that an LG?
zeeed commented on Show HN: Explore what the browser exposes about you   neberej.github.io/exposed... · Posted by u/coffeecoders
zeeed · 4 months ago
Is it possible and cost-covering to create an ad-sponsored service that discloses what ad networks collect about users - i.e. age, location, preferences, interests, pregnancy, illnesses etc?

Because let’s be honest - all of us know that a lot of data points are being collected about us, countless articles have been written about the insanity of cookie and user-data monetization networks - still it appears to be a privilege to few to tap into that data trove.

I personally haven’t seen an effort to try and make this transparent. Efforts like this page are commendable and informative, much like amiunique or other services - still they lack the tangible information that sharing this information with “the world” reveals about an affected individual.

Why hasn’t this been done yet? Why is this seemingly not trivial?

zeeed commented on French train passenger fined €150 for using phone on speaker   thelocal.fr/20250206/fren... · Posted by u/speckx
lokimedes · a year ago
Awesome. We need that law in Denmark. Uh, perhaps we already have, thank you, EU.
zeeed · a year ago
Even more than that, we need the people that hold people to the rule. While it’s nice to have a law, you need someone who cares enough to enforce it.
zeeed commented on Life lessons from the first half-century of my career   cacm.acm.org/opinion/life... · Posted by u/zdw
mandmandam · a year ago
Glad someone said it (lesson 4!).

Trite, insipid, self-centered, self-congratulating; and wholly lacking in perspective or self-awareness of where computing, academia, Google, the US, and nature really are right now.

> Embracing these 16 life lessons and remembering to say (all of) the nine magic words may, and hopefully will, help you have a blissful, lifelong relationship and a happy, successful career.

Ignorance is bliss - but only for the ignorant. Glad Jack's alright, but he might do well having a look outside his bubble.

zeeed · a year ago
Care to elaborate what perspective the author has been missing and why these lessons or words are ignorant?
zeeed commented on Meta under fire for making users follow Trump and Vance   techissuestoday.com/meta-... · Posted by u/ungut
zeeed · a year ago
Why isn’t this higher up on HN? If true that feels like an unprecedented influence over socials
zeeed commented on Mercator: Extreme   mrgris.com/projects/merc-... · Posted by u/bschne
zeeed · a year ago
Finally! I’m a kid of the 80s and I’ve been waiting for this for so long! Thank you!

u/zeeed

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