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I don't have a great writing style -- it's too verbose and often has run-on sentences that seemingly never end.

And I do use the en-dash / em-dash a lot -- probably incorrectly.

All flaws aside, it would be very unfair of anyone -- much less any purported expert in AI -- to suggest that frequent usage of this punctuation -- irrespective of whether it is tasteful or not -- is a sign of AI generated text (or slop).


Sorry to be pedantic

> flaunting

I believe you meant to say flouting


Make a bookmarklet to do X

Make a vbscript to toggle scroll-lock every 15 seconds ... to prevent system from auto locking

Ad hoc text processing ... like strip the HTML from this snippet (drop-down list copied from a web page DOM)


Looks Great ad a freeform note taking tool / blogging tool

I would like to understand more how this works -- where the data is stored esp if I were to self host it.


You _thought_ You disabled that setting forever.

It only takes a routine Windows Update to bring those setting back to helpful defaults.

And those updates are helpfully set to download and install by default.


OT: funny quirk in the article mark up ...

> Individual engineers don’t own software; engineering teams own software.

the portion "software; engineering" -- just because the words are adjacent here, even though they belong to separate phrases, are treated as one term and hyper-linked to articles tagged with "software engineering" :

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/software-engineering


I am sold. Sign me up.

I have never used virtual environments well -- the learning curve after dealing with python installation and conda/pip setup and environment variables was exhausting enough. Gave up multiple times or only used them when working through step wise workshops.

If anyone can recommend a good learning resource - would love to take a stab again.


The linked article does not mention Amazon S3 or AWS

Is there a different source for the "open S3 bucket" in HN title?


I had the same thought. Closest I can tell there's screenshot that looks like s3 console listing csv files if you click over far enough in the carousel.


Interesting !

I have a bunch of older android phones that could be repurposed for some tinkering.

The touchscreen display and input would open a lot more interactive possibilities.

Is there a community or gallery of ideas and projects that leverage this?


There is this repository: https://github.com/tejado/android-usb-gadget

They have some examples that emulate an USB keyboard and mouse, and the app shows how to configure the Gadget API to turn the phone into whatever USB device you want.

The repo is unfortunately inactive, but the underlying feature is exposed through a stable Linux kernel API (via ConfigFS), so everything will continue working as long as Android leaves the feature enabled.

You do need to be root, however, since you will essentially be writing a USB device. Then all you have to do is open `/dev/hidg0`, and when you read from this file you will be reading USB HID packets. Write your response and it is sent on the cable.


Excellent - Thanks!

I always wondered if we could convert an old andoid phone or tablet into a USB/wireless graphics-tablet for drawing input -- or as a live annotator for screen presentations where I can mirror the PC slideshow on the tablet and use the tablet to make annotations during a lecture say.

If there are any such projects already -- I would e very keen to take a look.


There is also support for doing this without being root:

https://developer.android.com/develop/connectivity/usb


We laugh at hollwood movies where the protagonist calls his hacker sidekick and says "get me into this building. quick." and the friend goes "one sec. done." and click! the door opens.


Try going to YouTube and look for The Lock Picking Lawyer or McNally. Both are really skilled lock pickers, but the majority of the locks they review and demos does not require anything near their skills level to break. Half of all padlocks seems to be susceptible to comb picking, which require zero skill.

It was apparently never difficult to break into buildings, physical security has always been pretty poor. Unless you have an armed guard patrolling your property, there's no real reason to believe it secured beyond the fact that most people weren't going to break in anyway, or simply can't be bothered.


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