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blaze33

2,003 karmajoined 14 lat temu
(Full-stack Web) Engineer, Entrepreneur & UX designer in Paris, France.

I talk to machines in Python, Javascript and binary. I talk to humans in French, English, Spanish (mainly). Always looking for a good balance between these machine and human interactions.

Looking for new opportunities in 2024 :)

- https://blog.openbloc.com/author/maxime/ - https://twitter.com/maxmre - max at openbloc dot com

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/maxmre; my proof: https://keybase.io/maxmre/sigs/fjPxknRyKz4k4fPi5sQBRnBKt-6y2mg_AFGBEp9I-A8 ]

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blaze33
·11 godzin temu·discuss
I once worked with smart meters for electricity consumption that do run 24/7. Leap seconds were not an issue but we had a very similar one now that I think about it: DST shenanigans!

Like how much time is there between 2 and 3 am? Usually one hour, but sometimes 2 and also sometimes 0. It looks simple at first but it creates a lot of edge cases that your business logic now needs to handle and we had a fairly complex system for this.
blaze33
·18 dni temu·discuss
> age verification doesn't have to be a nightmare dystopia

But I feel there's not a lot of trust that whatever implementation we could end up with wouldn't be such a dystopia. The real world equivalent would be checkpoints at every intersection verifying the driver's age, the cashier who carded the 20 yo with a beer now does it for everyone, makes a copy of your ID and stores it in a big folder shared with their 427 "business partners".

Imo we should scrap the whole idea of age verification. Kids get a kidPhone with kidOS, whitelist of age-appropriate resources & capabilities. You wouldn't let an 8 yo drive on the highway, yet they can have a supercar to drive unsupervised on the information highway, no biggie. Internet is full of adults doing all sort of stuff while kids need supervision and education: design safe spaces for children, not checkpoints at every corner.
blaze33
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
The Man vs Horse marathon is interesting but in a real race we have no actual chance of winning.

There are horse endurance races where the winner arrived in 7,5 hours after 160km[1]. That's a sub 2-hours marathon almost 4 times in a row (not to mention with a guy on your back).

[1] https://eatnstays.com/uaes-almazrouei-wins-almutadil-cup-at-...
blaze33
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
It doesn't seem like owls have infrared vision, in that case an IR camera looks like the easiest way to go.
blaze33
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
I understand the moral argument, yes tell me about your product or company from time to time, can be interesting or even funny sometimes but it should stop there.

I always use an adblock where possible. 1. I've seen too much ads trying to straight up serve malware. 2. I'm definitely not okay with the ad-industry data aggregation tracking my every move online.

Plus the algorithm is kinda dumb: I see you bought a mattress, how about another one, every day, for the next months? I was curious once about a product I would never buy but now, weeks later, I still have ten companies paying ads for the same product, each one claiming to be the real deal.

I still use google news on mobile, no adblock there, some publications are okay, others are, well... I take a screenshot when there's 0% of content on the screen → OnlyAds/NoContent folder.
blaze33
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
Previous discussion (2017): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15772065
blaze33
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
Someone, somewhere, probably has a "% of commits co-authored by copilot" KPI.
blaze33
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
> My NFC chip data — the digital info stored on the chip inside my passport

Do we know how they get that? Because my fingerprints are also in there, so...
blaze33
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
I love the logo, go ahead and click it!
blaze33
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
As much as we speak about slop in the context of AI, slop as the cheap low-quality thing is not a new concept.

As lots of people seem to always prefer the cheaper option, we now have single-use plastic ultra-fast fashion, plastic stuff that'll break in the short term, brittle plywood furniture, cheap ultra-processed food, etc.

Classic software development always felt like a tailor-made job to me and of course it's slow and expensive but if it's done by professionals it can give excellent results. Now if you can get crappy but cheap and good enough results of course it'll be the preferred option for mass production.
blaze33
·7 miesięcy temu·discuss
Ah nice to know! In my defense I only searched for the English version.

That being said, Robespierre was a key participant of 'La Terreur' where tens of thousands of people where hastily judged and executed and he himself ended up executed 4 months after that speech. [1]

[1] https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Discours_lors_de_la_s%C3%A9an... (French version)
blaze33
·7 miesięcy temu·discuss
Ok so this "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" argument is so recurrent I once went looking where it came from.

The oldest account I found is in a religious book from 1832 [1]: "We must have nothing to hide, nothing to fear", but, and this is the important bit, this is in the context of your relationship with Christ.

Later accounts are mostly from judicial documents like "well tell us what happened, if you have nothing to hide, you'll have nothing to fear".

And later on we start to see the current form of the argument related to privacy, except now this argument is never directly used to erode it. It will always be in some form of "ok now we have to do this collective thing because of criminals, because of terrorism, because of protect the children, etc.". If you search "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" 100% of the results are about how it is a logical fallacy, nobody at all seems to defend the argument and yet, here we are!

Food for thought:

- this argument may well be stuck in the collective unconscious of lots of people (albeit in the religious context)

- many governments, organizations and in any case the people in position of power and authority can develop a god complex (power corrupts etc.)

So unless I end up dealing with an all-loving and all-forgiving entity I could fully trust, I'd like to keep my right to privacy, thank you very much!

[1] https://www.google.fr/books/edition/Sermons_on_the_Spiritual...
blaze33
·9 miesięcy temu·discuss
Pretty sure virus creators could just pick a real ID leaked by the "adult only logins" shenanigans, whereas legit app developers probably wouldn't want to commit identity fraud.
blaze33
·9 miesięcy temu·discuss
Nice project! Reminds me of a startup whom I met the founders several years ago: they had a system of hexagonal wooden tiles you could put on a device to play a specific songs (also maybe videos). I'm not sure the project is still alive but I found an article with pictures of what I saw: https://competition.adesignaward.com/ada-winner-design.php?I...

While digital files are obviously very practical and efficient for our pictures/audio/video I can't help but see how different our relationship to them is when a physical object embodies the data.
blaze33
·10 miesięcy temu·discuss
I understand but frankly "doesn't do anything if there is no illegal material" reminds me too much of the old anti-privacy argument "nothing to hide, nothing to fear".

It is about control and purpose, "my OS watches my communications" is true but weird to say because there's an expectation, unless compromised, that the OS is under my control so no problem. A third-party controlling the local scan of all my data specifically to report whatever it wants is a huge problem.

Too often are some specific issues left insufficiently addressed for too long and it seems like the answer ends up like, ok we give up, here's some collective punishment, that should do the trick.
blaze33
·10 miesięcy temu·discuss
I regularly see similar articles with similar comments here, but there's one thing I still don't understand:

From the European Convention on Human Rights[1]:

  ARTICLE 8
  Right to respect for private and family life
  
  1. Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family
  life, his home and his correspondence.
  
  2. There shall be no interference by a public authority with the
  exercise of this right except such as is in accordance with the
  law and is necessary in a democratic society in the interests of
  national security, public safety or the economic well-being of the
  country, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection
  of health or morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms
  of others.
So I wonder, what is the legal argument solid enough to justify interfering with everybody's right to privacy?

My layman understanding of the usual process is like, we want surveillance over those people and if it seems reasonable a judge might say ok but for a limited time. Watching everyone's communications also seems at odds with the principle of proportionality[2].

[1]https://www.echr.coe.int/documents/d/echr/Convention_ENG

[2]https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:12...
blaze33
·10 miesięcy temu·discuss
> It is the most technological color, and I’m willing to claim that this is why it is usually, in science fiction and elsewhere, used to represent the future.

For me it is because of red- and blueshifting[1]. Far away galaxies appear both older and redder the further away they are, so red is the past. And if you go really fast, the forward view will be bluer, so in the sense that it is where you go, blue is the future. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshift#Blueshift
blaze33
·10 miesięcy temu·discuss
Ok, now if we took a picture of all the food in the world, a more accurate caption would be:

"The staff threw away 30 to 40% of it and ate the rest later."