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I've lived in SA for about a year. I would have paid a lot of money for something like Starlink a couple of years ago.

Where you have internet it does not work while the local power is out. And it was not that stable and at times we were sitting 10 hours without power a day. And that's in Joburg. And 5g was hard to come by.

So I can only imagine that locals are happy to see such a thing. Especially if you can run it from a car charger or something.

The argument about manned vs robotic missions is kinda like a good comparison of a capybara to an orange juice.

The guys who do those robots are real studs. 13 years on 64 megs of ram, remotely rebooting and formatting drives. One has to have a steady hand to do such operations. I can only imagine how much time, study and planning any command takes on such a mission. I'll bet they are not allowed to run a `pwd` without a full test and permission check.

Guys who do manned missions to space stations and the moon are also epic. The same amount of prediction while being human. It's quite a show of excellence in training and study. The human won't need a new mission to Mars should he find a new type of rock. Humans can solve problems the rover was not designed to solve in the first place.

So there will be manned and unmanned versions of those missions. Which one - is a tough question depending on myriads of factors that will be decided closer to the time when we are ready for said mission.

Anthropic is desperate for the IPO and will release a half-baked product that they are so afraid to release, you can literally feel the shiver through the text of their press-release.

Now they want to have any way of either fixing it, or in case someone will actually make a big boo-boo with their model, to be able to blame the guy in the end.

I've started getting traffic on my website only after I re-build it with a locally-brewed MD parsing engine that uses Astro to spit out the final version of the site.

I guess the main argument is how easy it is for an LLM to ingest the content, since I can bet all of the crawlers are llm-enabled one way or another.

This is exactly what LLM designed to do. Double up a lot of data and find connections and patterns in it.

So no wonder on this point.

One thing I want to mention: Law != Justice.

So while LLMs are awesome at the law study they will suck at justice. Just because one has to solve very emotional problems with it at times. And LLMs are not that good at finding the correct emotion.

An utter mis-understanding and incompetence in running AI agents can lead to starting results that then being blamed on some "God of AI" instead on the fact that the user allowed some blackmail to come in on the data feed and did not check it earlier.

I'm actually fear some will start praying "AI Gods" to "Give a good output" or something in 5-10 years.

I think you severely underestimate the power of Copilot. It's the absolute worst thing for windows.

(I've been using Microsoft since Windows 3.11, till Windows 10. Windows 11 was the last drop for me.)

The best company to do Microsoft in is Microsoft.

They are responsible for awesome sales of MacBook Neo.

I love those "A coring drill is dead?" article.

"We've done extensive renovations in our apartment and while the coring drill was essential to install electrical conduits it's pretty useless in making furniture installations".

In the world of AI development we are jumping from tech to tech every 20 minutes. I'm in shivers every time when I see "A new claude version was released, do you want to update now?"

The moment you kinda automate something with the AI, the process breaks and you have to build the new thing.

So don't blame a coring drill.

I mean, switching back to 4.7 does not work either. So console it is. But vibe release - for sure.

And I'm paying money for this.

Ugh...

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I would rather not. 4.6 was fine. 4.7 got to be fine 1 week after the release. Now 4.8. No difference, same thing.

But the app is broken and nothing works. So now I have to regress to different clients and wait it out while it becomes workable again.

This “Ouch” moments when Apple does not want to stand in the front of the Congress trying to prove that they are in fact preventing bad people from abusing kids on one side and try to convince us that they do in fact keep our data secure.

It an interesting place to be in logistically. A very thin line to balance between two very bitter ends.

A very simple handling:

Buy a domain. Get Proton, or Apple, or any other custom-domain email service.

Setup catch-all incoming mail.

Every merchant receives an email like merchantname@donotwriteto.me

Then you can either sort those out, or if they are malicious and not deleting you from your email lists, you can block the incoming traffic on that email.

This way you still can verify your email, comm stays private and you can have your own peace of mind, but you don't have to keep the spam in your primary inbox.

It's fun to watch how a thing that can potentially create an immense surge of economic development is being vilified. Yes, true, you can't just take and build a data center without having the power and water and all the rest of the things. So fine, make investors to come and build new power plants and get more water lines. This is going to handle a lot of current problems in the infrastructure.

We could have used the momentum to build new work opportunities and resources.

Instead we managed to mis-represent the thing so much that people won't even consider having a data center in their vicinity.

It COULD have been a good thing. It became a bad thing.

I bet in a couple of years you'll have to go straight to the dealership to fix your car, because it won't start.

On the other hand, as mentioned by others: Why bother if you use CarPlay?

Damn it! Can you please stop thwarting my company release cycle? Now the entire dev team is playing this!

Good thing that I'm winning. Everyone who looses his tank goes to do the deploy.

I wish to bring up the issue of mutual respect on HN. The thing that does not help here is a paywall that I see no easy way of bypassing it.

But nevertheless:

Both firms emphasize that their capability rests on fusing together massive collections of data of different types and scales rather than exploiting any vulnerability in Starlink.

So this is a data collection agency that tracks starlink receivers on statistical data. I could imagine they can estimate starlink terminals and see who is using starlink to connect to the internet, but not to pinpoint the location of a terminal.

Just as anyone else can figure out my ISP if they wish to do that.

I've checked the article. It's written by a credible creator who has not been caught in a lot of BS. At the same time the article is quite wordy and states that the software does not track the terminals. It can't.

I can bet the math on this project is beautiful.

Oh my. I've spent waaay too much time trying to figure out how does the Ladder works. Still was unable to play that one.

And I won't even mention that I have no idea how to use ED.

As a person who has been working in payment processing for the past 5 years, I can definitely say: a total norm. I'm impressed they allowed that in the first place.

The adult category is a very touchy one. When one get's an OK to connect to the credit card network he has to go a very arduous procedure of being approved by a CC provider. Because the worst thing that can happen from a viewpoint of a payment provider is a return. At the exact moment when someone asks for a return on a credit card, the provider is the one who is responsible and has to revert the transaction instantly.

(That's why Banks are sooooo lengthy and pushy about you filing those claims. They don't want you to initiate the return.)

Now, if you sell weed, do gambling, sell crypto, do porn or anything else of that sort, you have to pay extra for your card processing, to offset all potential problems for the payment provider.

Problems? What problems? Well, a LOT of transactions for adult content and toys happen on stolen cards. And those cards are not stolen per say. It's just a kid taking parent's CC card, or your SO is using it without your knowledge. Once found, this results in a lot of scandals and quarreling. Followed by a return request. And those returns are very annoying to that. The service "technically" was delivered. But now you are loosing it. And the payments provider does not want to be hit by that.

In fact, this is not a news in the first place. When Kickstarter sign their agreement with the card provider, they specifically stated categories of services they will be responsible for. And I guess porn was not one of them. So what? Now the provider saw a chargeback because of the adult content and did the most standard thing: Went back to the documents, noted the fact that Kickstarter not suppose to be doing adult content, and went back to Kickstarter to tell them to stop.

I handle 2-3 of such cases per month. It's called routine.

But now, enter the world of entertainment. A quick search shows one that Kotaku is a subsidiary of a larger conglamerate G/O Media (Gizmodo - Onion). A private equity company that bought out a bunch of entertainment websites like Gizmodo, Lifehacker and Kotaku. It started in 2019, and went basically bankrupt by 2023. They have been selling their websites to different holdings. In 2025 Kotaku was sold to a Swiss conclamerate that put it into a line of similar useless media resources. And if you check the author - you'll find out that he is a well-established gaming reporter. With little knowledge of the money business.

And then this article makes it to HN.

I don't think it's about AI. It's about the success of the MacBook Neo. Google kinda missed the point that at this day and age you can take a huge cut of the Windows market share just based on the fact that your laptop pairs up with your phone.

That's the killer feature of the Neo. This is going to be the killer feature of this one. Working alongside pixel. You have some sort of a platform.

What are they after? Your data, obviously. I doubt they have such a success, I don't see THAT many Pixels around.

I mean, the good approach was always "How do I spin up the business that sucks the money out of this pipe?"

I mean, those are the people who will pay $500k per year for a dev, just to make sure that their problems are out of their way.

Just use it, and win on it.

Oh don't tell me about Nero, Winamp, eMule, Download managers, auto-dialers, free internet on Saturdays after 2am till 9am, miranda NG, PHPBB, etc.

The internet was awesome.

This was the MOST confusing release I've seen in years.

Okay, it took me some time that the mail client is called "ThunderBIRD", not the BOLT. Not that I've used it much. But why the logo in github still shows TunderBIRD?

It looks like Mozilla is trying to catch the band wagon for no particular reason. They don't need it AT ALL. But they just jumped in along for a ride.

https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share#monthly-2009...

Yes, I've just checked, even in 2009 you still have IE over 64% of browser usage.

It was not that bad. I remember when SP fixed a bunch of issues with bluetooth, and windows CD burning program was better than any of the Nero Burning ROMs, cause those became unusable overbloated.

Boy oh boy, have we forgotten the Maxthon? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxthon

I remember the times when IE passed ACID test? Do we remember the ACID? http://acid2.acidtests.org/#top

Ah, what the times were those. Firefox was just gaining traction.

And I agree. Slack is sitting there, consuming over gig of memory on my computer, and Miranda NG was able to do the same functionality with cool skins and just 30 megs of ram.

Skins... Skins... We've lost even those...

I remember the times when Microsoft had a lot of problems 20 years ago because of Sasser and other viruses that were taking over Windows. They did not have any contenders. Yet they have stopped any software development for 9 months just to re-work their entire codebase to prevent things like direct memory execution and stuff like that. The result of that was Windows XP Service Pack 2. After that thing windows XP became a legend.

Now, when Linux is slowly creeping on one side, and Mac NEO on another they keep releasing this AI-slop.

By the looks of it they make most of their money from the cloud and other software things nowadays. And Windows has become a sidekick in their processes.

Good take, and most of the data in the article is quite correct. The problem is a total mix up of cause and effect. The US has had a decent communication network since way back. We had telegraph, telephone and telex. Bell and AT&T and all that stuff. We've invented and piloted modems, T1 and cable TV.

Our infrastructure at times goes back 200 years old. We have rules and words in today's networking linguo that go back 70 years old. You can't just go and tell that it would have been better this way. It absolutely would. And I'm happy for Swiss people who can have 25gpbs at a fraction of the cost. But you can't do that with an emerging tech that is trying to replace existing architecture.

Swiss guys built all that after the tech was wide-spread in the world, and they have built it over a very outdated infrastructure. It was a breeze.

US just unable to use this approach. We can't.

Should we come up with a new one? Yes. Should we look at the Swiss solution and try to replicate it. Yes. Is it awesome? Yes. Would it work here? No.

Sadly, but the whole buzz about social networks is built around the community. And any of federated networks require some technical knowledge that is over the head in 99% of regular users.

I wish this could be a bit more user-friendly, like p2p networking that does not require any user configuration, just install a client and it will p2p automatically.

There are magnitudes of mistakes. I can drop prod 4 times a day on a project that's being used by 4 old grannies to sync their excel file and get away with it. I can get scolded for 5 minutes of downtime at 6 am.

There is a point of responsibility in here, and it is up to the management to triage the fallout of this "mistake".