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An important skill to develop is determining whether somebody is bullshitting you. Because it would be impossible for any one human to perfectly understand all of these concepts, right? So when I read this person's blog post, I felt I could trust him, based on what I know about work he's done previously. I'm not saying you should trust me on this, or even blindly trust him, but look at his body of work, and the sources he cites, and make the call for yourself: https://words.filippo.io/crqc-timeline/

the fact that some nebulous "group of companies" still uses typewriters does not mean that all modern cryptography is flawed

For the vast majority of services, yes

Also so sick of the "it's not x, it's y", like stop fucking telling me what it's not! just get to the point!

` The mini PC's slowness is not a driver problem or a weak chip. It is arithmetic on the bandwidth number. `

It's easy to tell imo in part because of how terse the sentences are:

`Obvious in hindsight.`

`The clock never jumps.`

`No lookahead, no undo.`

`A real kick pattern is not a clock.`

Larger point: I am so sick of HN comment sections filling up with obligatory comments speculating about whether a post is AI-written.

Gotta disagree wholeheartedly with that - using AI to write for you is really fucking annoying as a reader. It screams to me that the "author" feels the reader's time is worthless, and it homogenizes language in a way that is troubling to say the least.

No worries - the crappiness of snapbridge has certainly made me think twice about buying a Nikon in the future. I typically pull directly off of the SD card instead anyways.

WHAT? This is news to me. Does this apply to newer cameras as well? I have a CoolPix P950, and I'd love to ditch the Snapbridge app

Here are the relevant passages: https://i.imgur.com/cIMIyao.png

For a very limited subset of Android devices

https://support.google.com/android/answer/9286773#zippy=%2Cf....

This is mentioned within the first quarter of the article

ime DeepSeek v4 Pro is great for cybersec/netsec, I have not tried GLM though

Yup, this has been a known issue forever - I recall streaming game services like Amazon Luna specifically warning about this if it detected you were on a Mac and wanted to play a game.

Yeah and my understanding of Iroh wasn't quite right either, it sounds like it's positioned to be more of a library to use in code, rather than a VPN solution like Tailscale.

I love MagicDNS - A long time ago I wrote a stupid Python script to have it continually generate MagicDNS names until one of them contained a word I was looking for.

Tailscale is OSS AFAIK. Not their backend of course, but if you use Headscale then I believe every part is OSS.

Their use of addressing by keys instead of by IPs seems to be the main differentiator. Also the support for custom transports (BLE, LoRa, Tor) which appears to be in progress and not yet fully implemented.

I love Tailscale, it's deployed on all my devices. But I might check this out for the transports part in particular.

lmao I was thinking the same thing. If this article tells me one more time that "the idea is simple/straightforward" I'm gonna punch my monitor.

edit: OP if you're reading this, I made edits for the first 2/3rds of your article https://i.imgur.com/KW2RqZN.jpeg

I only stopped because I got annoyed at the fact that I probably spent longer doing this than you spent "writing" this article.

Interesting... I thought Anthropic and Amazon were pretty invested in each other. I wonder what prompted this from Jassy

wrong thread?

I'm using "Music Decoy" and I don't see one. Possible noTunes has one.

When you first launch it, you'll notice a pop-up saying that this will automatically run when you login. There's no dock icon or menu bar icon. So no configuration changes needed.

For me, this constantly happens:

- I'll pause a podcast I'm listening to on my iPhone or iPad, or just take my AirPods out of my ear for a moment

- Like 5 minutes later, I'll squeeze the AirPod stem to resume playback. It will instead think that I want to play Apple Music on my Mac for some fucking reason.

I don't think this behavior can be easily customized (somebody let me know if it can!)

Thanks, I use DeepSeek and Gemini mostly so I was looking for something that isn't tied to Anthropic. I'm mostly covered by pi.dev but want to try out a GUI to see if they're worth my time. This looks surprisingly feature-complete, too bad it's only "Free for personal use in beta", but I'll definitely give it a spin.

yeah, that's a good point...

man, my opinion of Lenovo has tanked in the last decade and I'm only just realizing it now. I always thought of Dell as kinda shitty, but Lenovo had a great thing going that just kinda atrophied in some cases, and actively got worse in others

honestly eBay and FBMarketplace are the only two places I would even consider using. The worst part of FBM is dealing with flaky buyers, and the worst part of eBay is their fees.

Thanks, I thought I was going crazy but yeah, I feel the same way. There are soooo many links in the article, and they're almost entirely irrelevant. It feels like browsing the web with adware installed on your computer in the early 2000s

I've had Gemini help me with my Plex server multiple times. I've asked it pointed questions about strategies for getting specific encodings of movies and TV shows via Sonarr/Radarr, and it is happy to help - to my surprise I don't recall a single time where it has even included a caveat about only downloading media that's not copyrighted.

In my experience, ZLibrary was far more aggressive about monetizing (or is, haven't used them in a while)

You were on the money with the Cynical take lol:

https://rosmine.ai/2026/05/18/fixing-llm-writing-with-distri...

the very last line of the article:

"If I were to do this again, I wouldn’t do a custom build like this. I would buy a standard datacenter server and rent space in a colocation center. But then I would miss saying Hi to grumbl once in a while."

I think their retrospective at the end of the article is grounded and logical:

"If I were to do this again, I wouldn’t do a custom build like this. I would buy a standard datacenter server and rent space in a colocation center"

I'm sure there are use cases when renting makes sense, but it can get crazy expensive really fast if you're not careful.