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Ask HN: UK based blogs on freedom and surveillence?

Hacker News - Sun, 09/08/2024 - 8:59pm

Does anyone have any good frequently updated podcasts, blogs, news, etc, focused on freedom of speech in the UK? Specifically technology focused freedoms?

I'm interested in updates to facial recognition, social media monitoring, "anti-social behavior" (AKA ASBOs), CCTV, basically all the things that scare me about the UK.

Post Snowden leaks with the GCHQ essentially devouring all internet content on the deep packet level, i've been hoping to hear more updates about the fight against that. Perhaps this is the very reason I've struggled to find resources that are somewhat from folks "on the ground"?

Thanks so much! Any leads much appreciated :)

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To Err Is Human

Hacker News - Sun, 09/08/2024 - 8:50pm

Article URL: https://toerrishuman.xyz/

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Show HN: Ki Editor - the multicursor syntactical editor

Hacker News - Sun, 09/08/2024 - 8:39pm

Hi everyone, I have been developing this editor, Ki, for over a year, and have employed it substantially in all kinds of development (including Ki itself) for at least 3 months.

I think it is mostly crystallized, thus I'm happy to share it with you today.

Its main strength is first-class multi-cursor and structural (syntax) editing, which is a rare combination in the realm of editors (TUI or GUI alike).

Hope you'll enjoy it!

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Excalidraw's AI Tool – useful and underrated

Hacker News - Sun, 09/08/2024 - 8:30pm

tl;dr Easy 10x on generating sequence diagrams, flow charts and system diagrams.

I tweeted about using Excalidraw's AI tool recently: https://x.com/olshansky/status/1824168148867629340

I have a hunch that because it's not a standalone tool or a GitHub repo, it didn't get the love it deserved.

Aside from ChatGPT/Claude and Supermaven/Copilot, this has been one of the best AI tools I use on an almost daily basis.

Anytime I need to build a diagram, the first 50% (if not more) is done with this tool. I even have the option of a mermaid diagram for our docs or a pretty diagram for marketing material.

Like any AI tool, don't expect it to be perfect or get you 100% of the way there, but it will definitely save you some time and solve the blank page problem.

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Kary Mullis

Hacker News - Sun, 09/08/2024 - 8:27pm
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