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Is Okta supported for auth, and how does bring your own cloud work? Can you limit it to only being able to deploy certain things, within a particular VPC?
Re:Bet on German Train Delays on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @06:56AM (#47246219)
Re:M4 MacBook Pro on Wednesday October 30, 2024 @02:07PM (#41998349)
I have exactly the same experience, usually after 3 years I'm desperate for new Mac but right now I genuinely think I'd prefer not to change. I have absolutely no issues with my M1 Pro, battery and performance is still great.
I had the opportunity to try this last month, it worked really well!
I expect the majority of people really aren't bothered about this though - just a vocal minority, so although maybe a bad ad for some, I expect the benefits of the publicity of this ad far outweight the downsides.

I wouldn't have paid any attention to a new iPad launch or known that it was the thinnest one yet, without this 'bad' press.

If anything, I'd say I'd be more likely to purchase a new iPad as a result

Is SGE any good? Would love to try it, but I'm in the UK. Did try enabling it with a VPN a few months ago without any luck.
Revanced on Android can patch the Reddit apk to remove those ads.

https://revanced.app/

Re:Jeff Lawson Steps Down as CEO of Twilio on Monday January 08, 2024 @10:14AM (#38913094)
Bloomberg said:

"Twilio Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jeff Lawson is stepping down from leading the software company he co-founded amid slowing sales growth and pressure from activist investors."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-08/twilio-ce...

Re:X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com? on Friday December 08, 2023 @09:07AM (#38569181)
I personally like brand names that _look_ like they could be words, but aren't like Spotify, Twitter, Monzo, Reddit, Google etc.

Believe they need to be short and easy to Google even if you don't know how to spell them (not saying the above brand names are perfect). Find it annoying hearing Xero having to be spelt out on the radio to stop people going to zero.com.

Not particularly a fan of combining two English words together like Facebook, Freetrade, GitHub etc. but the worst is when companies try to own a common word like Apple.

Re:X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com? on Friday December 08, 2023 @08:56AM (#38569064)
What meaning do they infer?
Re:Google Drive has lost user data on Monday November 27, 2023 @04:47AM (#38430333)
Has anyone with a Workspace contract had this issue?
Re:Google Calendar Service Disruption on Thursday September 21, 2023 @11:56AM (#37599572)
Back up now for most of us
Re:Bard can now connect to your Google Apps and services on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @03:10PM (#37574851)
Are you in the US? I'm in the UK and have had an ad for it in the Google app for a while, but it always errors when I tap it on my phone.

Believe it's US only which is why it won't work, but would love to give it a go. Did try a VPN but no luck still!

Re:Bard can now connect to your Google Apps and services on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @03:07PM (#37574799)
Just tried it out, it pops up and asks you to approve the connection when you go to Bard.
Re:Obsidian 1.4.10 Desktop (Public) on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @05:49PM (#37488978)
What's the general consensus on Obsidian?

I've been using Notion on/off for a while and remember reading a lot of people were migrating to Obsidian as I believe it had two features Notion users have been begging for if I remember correctly - offline mode and encrypted at rest (although I believe Obsidian is self hosted?)/

Re:Show HN: Host a Website in the URL on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @06:36PM (#37412373)
I was fully expecting to see Rick Astley!
Re:Sync for Lemmy on Sunday August 06, 2023 @12:41PM (#37023799)
I've tried moving to Lemmy, but as you've said it's less populated, significantly less from what I've seen. Almost to its detriment.

What makes Reddit great is the niche smaller communities and the historical data they have (despite the search being awful). Lemmy sadly doesn't have this, small and even some big communities aren't there - wallstreetbets for example. Even subs with 100k+ users have low hundreds of members on Lemmy.

Re:Ask HN: Is Slack having some trouble? on Thursday July 27, 2023 @06:07AM (#36891354)
Seems to have recovered for me now.

Latest status update:

Slack experiencing an outage across the app. Users may be experiencing trouble with sending messages, using workflows and various other actions in Slack. We’re investigating and will let you know as soon as we know more. We appreciate your patience in the meantime.

Re:Ask HN: Is Slack having some trouble? on Thursday July 27, 2023 @05:44AM (#36891162)
Status page is now acknowledging the issue:

Users may be experiencing trouble with sending messages in Slack. We’re investigating and will let you know as soon as we know more. We appreciate your patience in the meantime.

https://status.slack.com/2023-07/08e3781ccbef33d5

Re:GPT-4's Has Been Revealed on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @11:58AM (#36602300)
Yes, to be honest I think they should be banned. Only post mirrors of the content bypassing the paywall.
How much is it costing you out of interest?
I don't think they should - I'd be happy if they served ads over the API. I use a third party app because I prefer the interface, not purely because it's ad free although that is obviously a nice benefit.

I wouldn't personally pay for Reddit Premium so if ads are the only way to keep third party apps viable then so be it.

Re:I booted Linux 292,612 times on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @12:06PM (#36328015)
Reminds me how cosmic rays were noted to have caused computer glitches. [0]

Impressive that they managed to discover this bug.

[0] - https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221011-how-space-weathe...

Is this similar to how hardware wallets show the true addresses on their displays?
Re:Show HN: YouTube Summaries Using GPT on Friday January 27, 2023 @12:46PM (#34549200)
Hey Alex, this is really cool. I've used ChatGPT quite a bit and Stable Diffusion in the past but still feel like I've only scratched the surface of what's possible. Great to see lots of projects popping up using the tech in new innovative ways!

Please could you give an overview of how this actually works? Have some ideas of where the tech could be useful but not sure how I'd actually go about implementing it. Do you have a GPT model on a server and code to transcribe the video then summarise the transcription. Or do you use one of the APIs from OpenAI?

If you use their APIs:

* How costly has it been to run your service? (If you don't mind answering)

* Is it customisable? If you wanted to run a chat bot for example, would you be able to make it understand the request (I'd assume something similar to an 'intent' when developing Alexa skills) and give it data so it knows the answer?

Sounds a little invasive asking for the login?

If that's genuinely what they do, would be nice if Apple implemented a police version of 'Find my Friends' to let you give them permission to track the device rather than the password.

Ask HN: How can self-custody of identity and digital assets go mainstream?

I'm not looking for a debate on crypto, I know there are arguments for and against it.There are risks involved in holding assets in centralised locations. I do like the idea of us being able to 'own' our own identity online, maybe that's a digital password, driving license or just as a login to a website.I just don't see how this can ever go mainstream though. Hardware wallets are great, but...

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Re:Certified 100% AI-Free Organic content on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @01:53PM (#34508210)
I've started to 'learn' the ChatGPT tone (you can even give ChatGPT some text and ask it if it thinks it was AI written). Now I know the general structure and language it uses I've been spotting it all over Reddit, HN and some blog posts.

I have noticed it makes me get bored of reading content, and I start to skim through it assuming it's just AI generated waffle.

It's a DJI Mini 3 Pro. Never had any experiences with other drones, so can't compare it to others - but I love it!

The new DJI Mini 3 does look good too if you're on more of a budget.

I have a DJI Mini 3 Pro, it has a feature called Active Track[0] where you highlight a subject on the screen and then select how you'd like it to follow you. It can go alongside you or behind you - can follow things like cars too. Despite the sensors, it can be a little scary getting it to follow you when there are trees or telephone lines nearby, but in a lake or the sea it should be great. There are safety features where if it loses connection to the controller it can hover in place, land or return to home (where it took off from).

[0] - https://store.dji.com/guides/film-like-a-pro-with-activetrac...

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