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The most useful thing I did when I started working with powershell as my daily shell was to _remove half the default aliases_

once I broke my muscle-memory by trying to treat it as a historic shell, it became far more usable. Yes, get-childitem is a little weird to remember, but once you realize what it's doing isn't what `ls` does, you get a far better grasp on the environment.

Write some cmdlets. You'll discover how useful having a sane, object-oriented shell is.

I'm not sure what you expected.

It would be nice to see how "long" -- e.g. how many self-turns/tool calls/etc the prompt takes to resolve as well.

I know that models like Gemma4-e4b will take longer self-turns but IBM's Granite models will take shorter self-turns in exchange for more tool calls.

Unfortunately, WiX is still a pain in the ass to use and there's a lot of simple tooling that makes NSIS/InnoSetup/etc shockingly easy to use while the same MSI experience is garbage.

msix is just a different beast entirely too.

This is super neat for polyglots (of which I'm not one, yet) but one little thing: My partner immediately flagged that your demo (EN->HB) flips the cursor to be in the LTR position in the run rather than the RTL one.

The most minor of things, but I now can't unsee it.

A person is not responsible for the actions of their government. All governments wage war and cause suffering.

I have many close friends who are Russian by nationality. Russian by crime of accident of birth. So many of my friends in this situation abhor the actions of their government.

The Mentor stated it best. Phrack 7, 1986:

"We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals. You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals."

Diogenes would disagree.

But I also think Diogenes would look at this whole situation and start flinging his own shit at people only to say "What, I'm participating in the same way you are" when called on it.

The author isn't talking about you.

The author is talking about the people who will inevitably email with explanations about how she's doing something wrong or things are not as bad as they seem or any number of other options.

I have asthma in a particular form, and when people hear that I get triggered by extensive exercise and hill climbs and that I have to take things slow (it's gotten progressively worse in the last two years after COVID) I will inevitably be told "well you need to exercise more."

Exercise can't fix scar tissue, bob.

Because that's what I'm fighting. I don't have a full pair of adult lungs. I have two lungs that got the shit beaten out of them when I was 3. Could I use some more exercise? Certainly. Will it magically fix my asthma? no.

This is one reason why I see companies like Gowin winning the game in the long run.

Kinda-Sorta.

If you read Proudfoot's docs [ https://www.mralligator.com/rcx/ ] you'll find that what Lego did was half VM half native half "well, it depends".

There's a BIOS/stdlib, which in turn boots a userspace OS held in RAM ("firmware") that then executes the assembled mini-VM. However, there was nothing keeping people from rewriting the in-ram OS with something else, which led to BrickOS, jeJOS, pbForth, ROBOLAB, etc.

I spent many, MANY hours of my youth hacking on the RCX and am damn sad that there isn't currently a good replacement for it.

FYI you should read Zed's FAQ on data retention.

It's very "Trust Me Bro". My workplace has already banned Zed after legal review purely on the lack of any controls over the collaboration feature that gets turned on the instant that you log into Github with it.

To be honest, I didn't see the follow up. It just incensed me enough that they would do that to begin with.

Right up there with Zed being pretty open that they siphon your code through their API surface and have a "Just Trust Us Bro" data retention policy, along with no way to turn the collaboration features off.

- OP

My uncle has lost 4 Google accounts. Two to password loss, one to a fire, one to being banned for crimes against currency (having the audacity to live in several countries with different currencies)

The issue isn't the phone, it's that a __government__ is depending on an unregulated private enterprise.

You might enjoy croc and other implementations of the Magic Wormhole.

gemma4-31b-it-claude-opus-4-6-distilled-abliterated-heretic-GGUF-q4-k-m

Skim through B&H and you'll find commercial displays but also various other display formats that are sufficiently stupid.

There's a whole team behind it running, so VNDB isn't going anywhere fast.

The founder puts regular updates on his YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/RS2igvW3DIk

Shortly put, they're going through hardware startup woes but will probably make it out the other end just fine.

This is probably a niche topic on HN, but for those of us who play Visual Novels, VNDB is a massive resource for getting the setup right for older and obscure ones that require odd hardware or configurations. The early days of VNs were all on DOS/V and Sharpx68000 systems with quirky configurations. VNDB catalogs so many of them and things that are "Mostly" VNs for historical purposes.

Without it, we wouldn't have the modern wave of VNs that have become popular today (Hatoful Boyfriend, Doki Doki Literature Club, etc.) nor some of the offshoot genres that have become popular.

It was directly a result of some of the choices made by Bell and plausibly Teletype.

Early switching computer systems that had user accounts at Bell also didn't echo back for passwords as some terminals were mixed-duplex, from what I've gleaned in the very odd corners of ESS systems. I suspect the idea is that the model they were working from were touchtone telephones and rotary phones, so numeric passcodes were the standard, and you heard & saw those already? Less noise on paper tapes? The possible list of options goes on and on.

Bell Labs was... Different than your average office or telco environment, I should add.

But that's a swag at best today, without knowing the people that worked on it.

For example ReactOS won't let you contribute if you have ever seen Windows code. Because if you have never seen it, there can be no allegation that you copied it.

I've heard this called in some circles "The curse of knowledge." The same thing applies to emulator developers, especially N64 developers (and now Nintendo emulator developers in general) after the Oman Archive and later Gigaleaks. There's an informal "If you read this, you can NEVER directly contribute to the development of that emulator, ever."

This comes to a head when a relatively unknown developer starts contributing oddly specific patches to an emulator.

Ostensibly, a mix of VC funding and that they host an endpoint that lets them run the big (200+GB) models on their infrastructure rather than having to build machines with hundreds of gigs of llm-dedicated memory.

Will be?

I've seen four startups make bank on precicely that.

Best I can do is [1] Sentient Lesbian Em-Dashes and [2] An AI hallucination made real for now.

The man's probably thinking something up though. "Pounded in the butt by Microslop Agentic Studio 2026" has a ring.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Sentient-Lesbian-Em-Dash-Punctuation-... [2] https://www.amazon.com/Last-Algorithm-Pounded-Claimed-Sun-Ti...

A friend of mine works AV at shows that have rotating DJs and one of the things she has on her mixer board is "The Suck Button."

It causes a mic at the other end of the room to get cut into the DJ's live feed monitor with a semitone shift down and some reverb. This causes all sorts of inner-ear chaos and usually clears a DJ off the stage when they're over time within a few minutes at most -- usually under 30 seconds. One time they were trying to figure out why it wasn't working and discovered that the DJ had muted their monitor feed, which explained why they were not only peaking the meters but over time: They hadn't heard the FOUR warnings from the back of house that it was time to wrap up.

Better Plex than plex for music built by people who know what they're doing that uses a common API among different servers and clients, including ones that glue to Sonos, etc.

oh my god thank you for showing me that

I had been using a combination of aria2 and a link scraper plugin for years to download bulk out of bandcamp because of how fast their API will time out.

Discussion by an author on the paper: https://unrollnow.com/status/2009340857909170395

Original: https://x.com/KeithNHumphreys/status/2009340857909170395

self-evidently ridiculous

When you have things such as Verbatim[0] that remind you that the absurdity of real life is far beyond anything fiction could ever hope to dream up.

[0](https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/times-insider/20...)

They don't teach reading comprehension like they used to.