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Reminds me of this small post, which I found here on HN, and someone suggested the author was trying to define the concept.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230926225119/https://www.koopu...

Well, software already had a ~25% repricing last February, and plenty of SaaS names were down 30–50%. Now for that to hit the whole stock market at once (not just the Nasdaq), I guess you'd need some sort of macro / liquidity event or black swan. High valuations alone just won't do it.

Hope sanity prevails and printers stay free, don't give Europe ideas.

Nice, Noisetable is so relaxing. Reminds me a bit of those generative music apps from Brian Eno.

x86 only tho

When you have a flow well defined, like transactions going on, it simply doesn't scale. But AI can then be used for analysis, alerts and investigating failures of such processes very nicely. Agents can also be used to prepare a transaction package that needs more human input, like a customer service case, but again with clearly defined outcomes. At least that's what I've seen in my limited experience consulting for a local online retailer.

I'd be a bit more humble rather than terrified, because I enjoy some AI slop too, especially funny animals that remind me of my old pets' antics. There are levels of slop. But tasteless stuff with crap graphics plastered all over, loud edits or badly calibrated tts voices were already all over reels/tiktok long before AI, and people still liked that.

The unsettling thing on social media is the mind hijacking with the recommendation algo and scrolling motion that resembles a slot machine, more than the content itself.

I still use the Little Rat extension, it shows a little notification when an extension does a network request, and lets you see quickly what type and where. It can also block requests (doesn't seem to work all the time in Brave now, even with the flag on), activate and deactivate extensions:

https://github.com/dnakov/little-rat

There's also this site that I've used from time to time to audit extensions quickly:

https://chrome-stats.com/

Also didn’t these guys buy Zetaoffice?

Where are we? Probably talking to AI instead of posting, of course, getting our dopamine kick out of an autotelic dialogue, then moving on to the next thing.

But seriously, I haven't seen actual back and forth exchanges between bots, maybe those don't make it to the front page or get downvoted to death quickly? Some people do proofread their comments with AI before posting though.

Deleted my previous comment, but as they say on X/Twitter right after a banger drops: “I am never deleting this app.”

Well, at least I learned a thing or two from this, or more like, to keep in mind for my next time messing with lights.

On diffusing them, I've had lamp shades that were adequate on paper but still didn't feel right; one eye would hurt and a headache would start (it has its own cause, after getting lasik a decade ago, I still see great but uneven light triggers a migraine) couldn't pinpoint until I started playing around this, rather than just limiting myself to intensity, temperature and the standard diffusion.

The Berlin airport fiasco was absolutely on the left-wing government.

Yup, they love their rules and procedures.

And it's funny, because the first thought they have if you get fined (say you didn't include the impressum in your personal website, or nosy neighbor found you mowing the lawn on sunday), it's that you must have done something wrong, not that the law is unfair.

It’s a Rechtsstaat with hardcore legal-positivist brain. Rules aren’t guidelines, intent doesn’t matter, context doesn’t matter, fun definitely doesn’t matter.

Yeah, pretty much.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42022905

And it's still strange that after a year, it only sometimes picks it up, depending on how relevant it thinks your location is.

For me it's a coin toss whether the answer tailored to my location is useful or not; I'm often following up with something like "do not show local results, I'm shopping in the US".

But this also happens with other features: the other day it was telling me it won't access a link I pasted. Next message, I ask why. Chat answers that it can't, it has no way to browse the web. I see Web Search wasn't explicitly turned on in the conversation (not that it has mattered before anyway). Turn on for the next message and tell it to try again, voilà. Didn't try just regenerating the answer, but that also works sometimes.

This one was nice, pity it was never updated: https://github.com/dwarvesf/blurred

I’ve picked up a few boards from the Waveshare and Spotpear storefronts on AliExpress:

https://wvshare.aliexpress.com/

https://spotpear.aliexpress.com/

There you can find the latest launches and different versions depending on your use case. Also, checkout the Luckfox Pico.

Yup, I had massive success with a theragun around the traps, and gentle massage around the SCM area for the ocassional flare up. Also caffeine use, vigorous exercise, loud fans, teeth clenching and sleeping on the side with the neck bent almost reliably triggers it back. But interestingly, after the initial flare during the pandemic and allergy season, the noise subsided with oral steroids. Now it's the occasional reminder maybe a few times a month, always the right ear, then it goes away.

Nice! Bookmarked. I know this one, it's been useful to me before: https://serverhunter.com/

For anything serious I'd still double check, but my go-to strategy of googling expressions in quotes isn't that useful anymore. Here in HN (or any other forum), I've only done it very few times, because the thing rewrites it in a voice that doesn't sound like me, which I don't like. Plus I don't aim to keep a polished identity here, so I'm fine with the occasional mistake. Also I've been like 10+ years with this account, but lurking since 2011 or so... I guess what would offend me the most is someone treating me like a bot because I end up sounding like AI-slop in the future.

I like words that weren't part of my speech, which I now use quite often, because of the context in which they were introduced to me by ChatGPT, they felt like a natural addition. Like intention, as in living with intention; before I'd rather use having a purpose or direction, but this captured something else, mind that english isn't my native language.

I hated the 'vibing' thing, 4o for some time started to use it on any given text, about the time vibe coding and the zoomer revival of the word was a thing last year.

Another one that I've seen pop up, and on a proofread comment of mine right here I let it slip (sorry, will keep doing it when I feel lazy) was that thing where you lead with a question "...the result? this happened".

I try to calibrate on NOT introducing them even if I like the expression, if I see it repeated too often throughout my chats or elsewhere in social media (X usually, esp. with foreign elonbux grinders), because then it feels cringe.

I'd say more the opposite; when driving alone I have ideas that pop up and sometimes entertain, I can rehearse conversations or thoughts out loud, because of the privacy, and maybe the fact of having the other half of the brain focused on the road. I don't recall doing much of that in my mind when taking the subway or riding a bus, especially since I was already expecting the moment to combine stations or walk away. It did however, bring a different sense of freshness to start my workday, already with some physical activity. Fun drives or going on walks intentionally, not as part of the commute, hit different though.

Yeah, I'm appalled a line of thinking this naive (because let's face it, it's not just idealistic) is making it to HN.

Windows Recall is just the proof of concept and boiling the frog on what's to come later down the road.

The problem is that the whole virtualization situation was left as an afterthought in the Apple ecosystem, and it got worse during the Apple Silicon transition years.

Just now things are starting to catch up, but there's still a wide gap in features; Apple Virtualization Framework is still very limited. And a personal limitation I hit recently, no USB4/Thunderbolt passthrough anywhere, not in UTM (which uses AVF), not in VMWare either.

Also remember the final Apple Silicon version of VMWare supporting M1/M2 wasn't available until November 2022 (it was a tech preview before), while all the Broadcom situation was ensuing. And I think only as of 2024 it runs smoothly. So far it's still the most reliable for desktop Linux VMs for me. Windows 11 for ARM runs very well too, and it does x86 emulation transparently, even 2010s games run well.

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Nice work! Will try.

Also just dropping a Winamp-like app I use on the Mac, it has quick access to AU Audio Units, which I like:

https://github.com/kartik-venugopal/aural-player

UPDATE: Oh, the developer discontinued it.

I noticed, but carried on given how the topic was treated. Made an exception, only this time. Next time I'm calling it out.

Fun little post. An Arc & Notion early adopter right there. Probably using Dia now. Also the short phrases, and lowercase writing. I know a few like that, toned down over the years but still a pretty consistent subset: The ones that were doing hyperdetailed skeuomorphic iOS icons in Omnigraffle or Sketch back then in 2010, but suddenly remembered how they always loved minimalism when iOS 7 came out. Or Rails early adopters.

I do observe their workflow and tools as some sort of vibe check every few years, don't agree on everything; they don't seem to favor solutions that seek to remain stable over time, but also aren't full tinkerer experimental. They also avoid the design-experimental part, kind of like the weird yet productive nadir, like tools that resemble the AmigaOS times.

The Obsidian comparison was a cheap shot, compare to Vim? Come on. I wonder where does this person stand on other stuff like Vivaldi or Brave. Or notetaking apps like Affine or Anytype. Or Reflect, Recall, Rewind. Or Screenpipe. Whatever.

There's been an uptick in the adoption of these ID verification platforms in the last 2 years across the Americas, complete with several recent legislation updates to local cybersecurity and governance frameworks, trying to harmonize or seeking compliance to NIST 800-63, CSF2, ISO 27001, etc. All pushed for during COVID times, and now culminating into new laws and industry frameworks.

Companies pushing for this already have all the onboarding flows there. Big 4 and legaltech firms already lobbied for. Banks through their smaller fintech outlets, mobile service providers and pretty much any service you could externalize ID validation that used to be in person, are ramping up adoption.

They are applying it across the board to anything that allows user-generated content under your real name, to prevent impersonation/fraud. Why do they do it with other non-essential services, like social media that doesn't take payments, I'm not sure. But there's indeed regulatory pressure across the board, which will give way into more surveillance down the road.