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The pot calling the kettle black.

Meta hasn't corrected it and there's absolutely no way I give Meta the benefit of a doubt.

tat n.

  anything that looks cheap, is of low quality, or in bad condition:
  * Like most souvenir shops, it sells a lot of old tat.
  * I'm not spending fifty quid on a piece of tat.

Meta has spent $2B on verification lobbying. Very successfully it seems.

In 1-2 years, you won't be able to browse the internet without scanning a body part and providing a ID for your ass.

https://www.gadgetreview.com/reddit-user-uncovers-who-is-beh...

https://archive.is/guCz9

That headline was a lie.

Kinda agree but let's call it "misinformed" or something, instead of a lie.

If you need 8 MI300X's for a month to do ROT13, then you're doing it wrong.

Chrome (which I don't use) provides a really good profiler that can give you answers down to the milliseconds on what's happening during page load and also actions. Web tech provides so much functionality but web dev often don't bother optimizing their sites. I'm not saying browsers are blameless, but at least you get good tools that'll give you hints.

That's not a fair comparison. The first one gives you space to stretch your legs, the other once stretches your legs on a medieval rack.

We've seen before how companies fall in line:

Of the 4,700 newspapers published in Germany when the Nazis took power in 1933, no more that 1,100 remained. Approximately half were still in the hands of private or institutional owners, but these newspapers operated in strict compliance with government press laws and published material only in accordance with directives issued by the Ministry of Propaganda.

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-press-...

I have a dirty mind, but I don't agree that all of them look like that. Claude is definitely looks like an external rectal sphincter. Grok is a ring that men have used for erectile dysfunction.

A monitor cannot install software on your computer by the way.

I think everyone in the HN crowd knows that.

the blame should be on Microsoft

No, they blame should ALSO be on Microsoft, they are the enablers.

Peaked in 2014. That coincides with my experience. Something went wrong:

* Moderation went bad. I stopped moderating/flagging after it was deemed unhelpful?! I know it's hard to moderate a platform like that, but giving me a slap in the face when I volunteer my valuable time is not the way to do it.

* Questions closed because they weren't "programming questions", but obviously about tools devs use every day. Again and again, they were the TOP google results. You'd click on it and found a old question closed because it was considered off topic. As a business, you seriously need to ask yourself some hard questions when you fend off users like that.

I'm interested in your thought process. How did you get from his initial statement opening of "A friendly reminder ..." to thinking that this was a scandal?

Lot of kubernetes hate here, which is surprising

It's easier when you think of it using cats. A person wants a cat. They want a big one to deal with their rodent problem. They've heard that tigers are really big cats and extremely efficient in dealing with unwanted biomass around them.

Said person gets a tiger. They get an impromptu expedition to hell and barely make it back. Person hates cats, buys a poodle and advocates for mouse traps.

No, it's best to write the data on a USB stick and see the person in real life. Ask for ID and do a retina scan. Then you can be pretty sure that you give the file to the right person. Make sure to cryptographically sign the data so the recipient can be sure it's you.

It's crazy that in 2026, transferring files between two random, willing, devices is still a hassle.

I use mkosi: https://github.com/systemd/mkosi

Which is just a front for systemd-nspawn. It's annoying you have to edit the config.nspawn to mount a directory if you start it with the "shell" command, instead of booting. But apart from that, it's brilliant.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_consensus_effect

I don't know what's the default, but you basically just have to pick the FSRS algo and you're good. That one is actually based on scientific research: https://github.com/open-spaced-repetition

Arrows need to be thicker. "Bold" doesn't work. Nitpick: "bold" doesn't really make sense in opacity settings.

In addition, Sensory Processing Sensitivity/Disorder (SPS/SPD) tends to go with ADHD or people on the spectrum. Personally think those people are over represented in our line or work (IT/Tech).

The headline picture in that article is pure hell for me.

Looks really good on the surface. But if you really want to sell it, link to a comprehensive benchmark suit and more comparisons. Because if you don't, people tend to (subconsciously) apply adverse inference.

Yes

Flashcards are brilliant. Anki is finally usable after they ditched the hot garbage algorithm they were using. Previously I've used the Leitner method and I stil think that's the best one for me.

Nigel Farasshole is really pulling UK politics into the dumps

WebGL disabled? Devs really need to get better at notifying the user instead of just crashing.

I was a fan until I learned that I couldn't copy the audio I recorded, as an audio file from it. Sony intentionally prevented you from doing to to "prevent potential copyright infringement".

When I see a random German phrase in the wild, I always think of Günther: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUYpIyWPKGk&pp=ygUOZGluZyBka...

As a kid back then, floppies were expensive if you were using your pocket money or hard earned side hustle stash. Floppies were used, abused and reused until that dreadful bad sector. Even after the bad sector if you knew its location. But you knew the floppy time was up.

Kids today will newer know the feeling of unwrapping a fresh package of 10 floppies. The sound, the smell, the texture, the stickers, the formatting, the wast free space, ... as much as retail therapy is a thing, I think that was floppy therapy.