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Re:GitHut – Programming Languages and GitHub (2014) on Thursday November 20, 2025 @07:01PM (#45999617)
This may be a stupid question, but if most iOS apps are written in Swift, why isn't Swift more popular? Is it just because most Swift projects aren't FOSS?
> [M]ost of the rhetoric for personal liberties revolves around being able to do illegal things.

What are you basing that on? Conjecture?

It's not the technical difficultly, it's the increased risk.
I really tried my best with Immich, but because I didn't want to open a port on my home firewall it made syncing kind of a pain.

I ended up going with Ente and have been pretty happy with it.

Re:GrapheneOS and Forensic Extraction of Data (2024) on Thursday September 11, 2025 @11:58AM (#45213102)
FWIW, the UK recently cited the Investigatory Powers Act of 2016 in an attempt to force Apple to create a backdoor, but Apple refused
Re:First attempt will be 95% garbage: 6 weeks with Claude Code on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @06:56PM (#45110191)
I'm doing a project in a codebase I'm not familiar with in a language I don't really know, and Claude Code has been amazing at _explaining_ thing to me. "Who calls this function," "how is this generated," etc. etc.

I'm not comfortable using it to generate code for this project, but I can absolutely see using it to generate code for a project I'm familiar with in a language I know well.

Re:Ask HN: What are your current programming pet peeves? on Thursday July 17, 2025 @12:46PM (#44595294)
This feels like an urban legend designed to scare kids
It looks like the woman in the third photo is wearing AirPods and holding an iPhone