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As a European and Fastmail user, this is great news.

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One thing to flag from Europe and GDPR is all the malicious compliance of companies and governments using the law as an excuse to not meet some basic obligations to users like stor…

I understand why forums don't expose user IDs for scraping, but man it would be nice to just be able to tag users online with accounts created after the introduction of ChatGPT.

People have already tried this with C2PA, and it's not a perfect system. The main problem with these systems is that you risk certifying fake media, which is worse than uncertified…

This would also work amazingly with https://beliapp.com which is a tool for - only - sharing restaurant reviews with your contacts to serve as a personal graph of trust. Or you cou…

I forget the name, but there's also a company that does physical mockup of your house's floor plan that you can walk through, kind of like Von Trier's Dogville, but at least with s…

Definitely. I think the appeal to some isn't GenAI per se but image-to-image generation like "make this item look like a talented photographer shot it". But I can't imagine that yo…

It's not great as a Mullvad user: YouTube constantly complains and also shadowbans some of my livestreaming functionality, and my X account has now been flagged as a bot, which req…

Swedish politics aside(!), I'd love to have other VPN services as exit points for Tailscale. More choice is good, and hopefully that becomes an option one day.

People also generally use Violentmonkey ( https://violentmonkey.github.io ) instead nowadays.

Well this almost seems to be to good to be true. :) I assume this is going to make maintaining SubtitleEdit a lot easier from now on, too: https://github.com/SubtitleEdit/subtitlee…

It got particularly bad with SPACs in the last few years.

There's also the weird scenario of a reporting bias where instead of admitting to a bunch of vulnerabilities, you can frame it as "look at how useful AI is". We even have companies…

I've always loved Samsung Magician (for drives), whose Windows installer always asks something to the effect of "Do you happen to live in Brazil or the EU by any chance?"

The acoustics of homes with clean walls and floors can also be absolutely miserable. Some small dining rooms amplify all the worst noises and make it terrible to be in, drains your…

In my experience, every good paid iOS app eventually gets copied by someone who releases the clone for free; with games, this was basically a given even eons ago. That being said, …

Children aside, this is just an absurd amount of data to hand over. At least people will realize that age verification is something everyone will have to do to prove they're >16 - …

What's the deal with all the new accounts posting on this submission?

The year is 2030. Content's been blocked by age verification and overreach, but the ads still remain.

A lot of the iPhone design decisions have generally had the nature of something I didn't like that some market research must have shown to be in demand. And so the iPhones have kep…

Even worse when you're on Windows. What's the point of the cloud if it only works halfway decently on Mac. Makes me feel like an idiot for doing something as outlandish as paying a…

People might be more prone to referring to "submarines" on HN: https://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html .