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For those like me wondering if he's also the creator of the Dvorak keyboard, no but close!

He is a nephew of sociologist August Dvorak, creator of the Dvorak keyboard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Dvorak

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

I can easily sign in to Amazon on my mac or iphone with zero friction.

And Windows, you need Bluetooth enabled on both devices, on Linux you need Chrome (and presumably bluetooth enabled). It makes you scan a QR code.

Copy and Paste too, and its because if you hit Ctrl + C (copy) by mistake, when you actually meant to hit CTRL+V did you know, that Teams, Discord, etc will copy a completely empty text-input box AND WIPE YOUR PASTE HISTORY WITH IT?

This is why copy and paste is broken for so many years, because devs at these beautiful companies, decided to let you wipe your end-user's clipboard when chatInputText.length === 0 or whatever. I noticed people having consistent issues with copy and paste when Teams became more prevalent, and it made no sense, until I realized.

If you work for one of these chat companies, for the love of GOD make an internal ticket, this is embarrassing.

Heck, abandoned means those power generators are ripe for it, and that power plant you want to build? You've got the room!

As a Puerto Rican with plenty of family still there I would rather we just fix the issues before someone just leaves the island to fend for itself without a fighting chance. Right now we still have a weird benefit of being American, one thought a relative shared with me, it would be a great time for CORCO to come back and start refining Venezuelan oil, this could boost the local economy of the island drastically.

Crime is also insanely rampant on the island. It got to the point they changed the laws around owning guns so law abiding citizens can conceal carry (you need a license to buy / own a gun, they recently merged the concealed carry license into this same license).

Personally, I would much rather fix the issues there first. The other elephant in the room is the power grid, some people have wanted it privatized, and that finally happened in 2021 and continued in 2025, though I would like to see more companies in that space, maybe even see towns have their own grids ultimately, but the government still owns all the equipment as far as I know.

Mind you, when Puerto Rico had a better economy it was #1 at production quality, above Japan and the US, this all kind of faded after the tax incentives for having your business there went away, Puerto Rico does incentivize lax taxation for companies that choose to migrate to Puerto Rico on the other hand.

Fun fact, if your income is locally sourced in Puerto Rico, you pay no income tax for it to the US, you still pay for Social Security / Medicare though.

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

Puerto Rico refining more oil makes too much sense when you look at a map and see where oil flows through by boat, Puerto Rico is at the heart of all those paths throughout the Caribbean.

I wonder how long till they start scooping up old abandoned towns?

And when I do have Claude create something for me, I just can't say that I made it. Other people can, but I just can't.

This is basically me. I still love having Claude build things for me, a lot of it is just things only I will ever use, but it fulfills my needs, and that's worth it for me.

I use it two ways I guess: to get unstuck while coding something myself, and to automate building side-projects I have no time for but that linger in my head for years.

It is not Apple's job to implement Passkey into Linux, that is up to the Linux community to build up and figure out, and then for Firefox to implement it on Linux. On the other hand, Chrome just works with it, so maybe Firefox either implements it for Linux in-house, or figures out an existing initiative they could invest resources towards and help to prop up so they can integrate against it on Linux.

AI fatigue is one thing, what I'm seeing mistaken for fatigue is AI prejudice, whereby they don't care if it's high quality output, you could have had literal human experts certify it, because it is AI, they just call it slop and walk away. There is no standard or reasoning with these people about AI at all, they've written it off in the most ignorant of ways. I care about the quality of the output, and if its been human vetted.

Edit, adding more:

If its an AI video, I don't care depending on what its supposed to be, I've seen people upset a literal meme AI video was AI, that was the point, it was supposed to be a ridiculous meme, it was on purpose, some of them aren't even as bad as the person dismissing them make them out to be.

Intellectual laziness, worse than the laziness of some people who lean way too much on AI (some people cannot have a conversation with you, without prompting a model every few minutes, its getting ridiculous).

AI has become the next stage after social media, whether you like it or not. It has taken over human interaction in ways we are still learning more about every day. All the "normies" I know use ChatGPT like they would have used Facebook.

I didn't realize this was supported, I'm kind of favoring Apple's Passwords app since you can lockdown your account and they are very on top of someone accessing anything of yours. Any time I power on an iPad I havent used for months they tell me a new device can read my texts type of thing, which is a nice paper trail.

Firefox just didn't support it cleanly, I think Chrome did, I don't remember. Apparently it's just due to Linux not having a native passkey implementation. Dang.

Edit:

Apparently BitWarden should work, but my particular passkey was not on there.

If you save it via Passwords app, it'll be iOS / macOS mainly, but you can unlock with any Apple device that supports Passkey / Passwords app (so likely modern + reasonably updated) the easiest. If you want it to work "everywhere" then you CAN use your iOS / MacOS Passkey, it will show you a QR code, some places poorly support this, I believe both devices need bluetooth, and then it will authenticate it.

Linux is the only oddball here, I had issues getting this flow to work.

If the UX for Passkey improves, I will go all-in on it, I'm at the point I'd love to just completely block passwords from accessing my account, unless I explicitly enable it temporarily by logging on via passkey, I wish some sites would let me lock my account to this level, it would be better. Passwords feel like they just wind up all over the web.

Weirdly enough you can store multiple passkeys for a given domain, which can get confusing in some cases if they dont have normal names tied to them.

Edit: Originally I thought Passwords from Apple was iOS / macOS only, but its not! So I have been editing my original message, sorry for the confusion, I had forgotten that I can login on Windows with my Passkeys from Apple's ecosystem.

As another poster noted, you can transfer them out of Apple's ecosystem too!

Open as in "The door is open come in and give us your money"

I'd rather see AI studios do the same as the film industry, pay a one-time up front cost per major model (or major.minor?) depending on how they contract it out. This also allows smaller startups to license books for less than a larger frontier studio would. In theory and hopefully, the pricing would not be too insane per book, you want them to rent more books and spend more, not go back to pirating right?

I assume they are being screen scraped by LLMs even though you can find exports of reddit posts elsewhere. I can't blame them for trying to charge for API usage, it was never a cheap cost to them to begin with.

I dont use it anywhere near as much because it felt like I was hitting their limits too quickly, not sure if that has changed.

I would like to replace a few CIOs or CTOs at some companies, software quality has been down the drain since before AI. It's just terrible. Stock market pricing driven development is a detriment on software quality.

I was never a "fanboy" of Jeff Bezos, but I do admire when people do or take the correct approach, I say that to preface that I admire that early on he would tell investors that he's only to be considered as a long term investment, which I wish the stock market had some way to protect these sorts of stocks from the whims of people who quickly crash the value of a company on speculation or other meaningless metrics when you're heavily investing in R&D and have one bad quarter, maybe two, but your third quarter will yield results, but oh no, you have to fire people to make the market happy, so your efforts are ruined.

They focused a little too much on Grok Imagine.

I don't know why I'm impressed that huggingface has its own AI that detected it considering they house so many models.

He deleted everything ultimately. He printed it out in ultra tiny font in order to comply, but it was nearly impossible for law enforcement to use it. The FBI never decrypted the files.

I heard one argue that "zooming" on an image by adding pixels with an algorithm is normal, and he's had such "evidence" used in court before. I was a little horrified as someone who has worked on digital forensic software at a former employer. Adding pixels to an image is not evidence, you're fabricating something out of thin air, especially if its drastically smaller, its even more likely to be BS.

The XKCD version of password cracking works no matter how secure your hardware.

Lavabit would like to enter the conversation.

Anyone using forensic software can dump an image of your entire drive including all partitions, byte for byte copy. Just because you got away with being careless once doesn't mean this will work every time. If you don't want your files to be copied in encrypted or plain unencrypted form, don't bring them with you. You're better off re-downloading them over the web at that point.

I trust Google to:

* Abruptly ban me and all users from a Google Workspace for no reason whatsoever.

* Abruptly shut down a service.

I'll never give Google my direct money.

And I think OpenAI has solved more open math/ stats/ CS problems.

Still surprises me that OpenAI seems to lead in this one weird niche, I wonder what causes GPT to be able to routinely pull this off, there was one instance where some random 18 year old broke some mathematical question without knowing more than high school math if I remember correctly, all because of GPT.

Starlink arguably is not the rocket part and its the most profitable piece, it held together the rocket side of SpaceX and he expanded research and development.

I always chuckle when someone makes a GitHub alternative, and the code is hosted on GitHub. Kind of shows that replacing GitHub isn't just about replacing the code.

Back in like 2017? or 2018 when Containers came out for Firefox, I used the Multi-Account Containers Extension to manage QA testing of web apps, I'd have a container labeled for the user I wanted to log in as and test. It's insanely useful for the web.

What's also interesting is Tor Browser could probably take full advantage of containers later on, but I'm not sure if they would come up with a specific way of using it or just disable it.

not on whether the current proponents happen to have ulterior motives.

Even if the current proponents have no ulterior motive, and in fact live and die having done nothing negative with such power, it does not stop the next group in power from extending and abusing power, don't base laws on temporary trust of politicians.

I still wonder why some of our key universities in the US aren't building Open Weight Models. To this day we have "BSD" and "MIT" as key licenses for a lot of software (I know weird tangent but still... this emphasizes how significant these institutions were once!), but these top schools don't really build anything the way they used to anymore.

I'm sure someone will say students build LLMs all the time, and this and that, but there's no reason these universities cannot build their own LLM "labs" and work on a common LLM that their university builds, maintains and students and faculty can manage, and release, maybe even sell API access to.

It would be a key selling point for any student who wants a serious job in AI to work on such a project too. Universities could easily sell access to pre-hosted models mostly at-cost maybe a smidgen on top of costs, and fund the project as it gets better over time.

Any university doing this would prepare students for real software jobs mind you. Maintaining, building and supporting real infrastructure during your college years sells better than no experience.