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by ValentineC 12d ago
Would be nice if Tesla, SpaceX, Cursor, former Twitter all rotted with their stock prices plunging to zero, but fElon fanpeople and the AI sheep still only posting on former Twitter will keep them afloat.
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by ValentineC 12d ago
I jumped from Ventura to Sequoia when 26 was first released, and I can safely say it's been around the same. I'd probably make a similar leap to 27 when 28 gets released.
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by ValentineC 12d ago
I'm still on Sequoia (which took me ages to jump to from Ventura). :) For anyone jumping versions: remember that Apple messed with the login keychain not being able to be backed up in the most recent Tahoe release [1], which means that
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by ValentineC 12d ago
I was just in Hanoi, and some of their roasters are incredible value for money. Lots of co-fermented specialty Vietnam-grown Robusta and Liberica at incredible prices, far cheaper than what people would find from roasters that import their
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by ValentineC 13d ago
One really annoying thing that I just found in practice is that this change breaks copying and pasting links directly from the Google search results. Now, I need to click on the link and access the page to “unfurl” the URL so that I can p
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by ValentineC 14d ago
I rotate my watch between wrists so the skin gets some rest. Left wrist in the day, right wrist while I'm sleeping.
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by ValentineC 14d ago
I'd have expected some gesturing to the AirPods or to a phone, and not assuming that the flyer person would know that those magical earbuds would translate everything he said.
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by ValentineC 15d ago
> Disturbing if true, as it suggests my "everything" backups aren't really full backups at all. Randomly, Chromium-based browser profiles can't perfectly copy across macOS machines either, because of some HMAC hashi
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by ValentineC 15d ago
Day One was acquired by Automattic in 2021 [1]. The move to a subscription model happened in 2017 [2]. [1] https://dayoneapp.com/blog/the-next-chapter-of-day-one-at-au... [2] https://medium.com/day-one&#
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by ValentineC 15d ago
> Look at what happened to Automattic’s legal counsel, one HN comment that didn’t align with Matt’s world view and he was canned post haste. I remember this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41789765 According to t
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by ValentineC 15d ago
I remember seeing that on his avatar since the early days of the WP Engine drama.
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by ValentineC 15d ago
I've never seen this, but that comment at the end is priceless.
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by ValentineC 15d ago
> Like him or hate him, he grew WordPress to be one of the most popular open source projects of all time. It seems fair to call him a key advocate. As someone who has contributed to WordPress: WordPress grew on the back of volunteers.
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by ValentineC 16d ago
I wish AI companies wouldn't post their primary announcements on fElon-enshittified Twitter. Use Bluesky or, I don't know, have a news site. They could vibecode one in minutes.
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by ValentineC 16d ago
Thanks for this. I try not to waste my time on WordPress drama anymore, but it's sad reading his tweets from today and thinking how someone I used to respect for supposedly being kind and generous (or just good at writing well to get w
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by ValentineC 16d ago
They'll continue to have plenty of existing passive revenue as long as WooCommerce users continue to use Stripe, and large enterprises continue to buy in to WP.com VIP.
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by ValentineC 16d ago
Not the parent, but Google Photos has been decent as a secondary backup. They even backup Live Photos now. The two formats I've found that they don't back up accurately are rotated photos (if one's a stickler for "origin
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by ValentineC 16d ago
Which country are you in?
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by ValentineC 16d ago
> My wife just preordered an 18 pro. I guess this is from a reseller, and not from Apple.
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by ValentineC 16d ago
Musk also stole @valentine from me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47856983
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by ValentineC 17d ago
I'm shocked. I always thought that Matt held the majority of the voting shares, and that the board of directors was mostly there as a rubber stamp.
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by ValentineC 17d ago
My iPhone 14 Pro is almost 4 years old and at 65% capacity. I don't know how everyone else is (not) using their phones.
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Apple Adds AppleCare One Family Plan for Up to Six People(macrumors.com)
1 points by ValentineC 17d ago|0 comments
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by ValentineC 17d ago
As a forum administration enthusiast, I still remember the fiasco when Invision rugpulled "lifetime" and "perpetual" licence holders by saying that it was only for those major versions. I was so glad when XenForo came ab
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by ValentineC 19d ago
Looks like this was covered by Eclectic Light: https://eclecticlight.co/2025/02/28/friday-magic-how-to-make... Yeah, I wonder what's going on within the macOS division, but then again Liquid glAss is a t
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by ValentineC 19d ago
> Hotmail was an unusable product, it was so painful to use it and Gmail took over the entire market in a year. Nobody ever said: "oh, I miss X about Hotmail" Hotmail was a 1997 acquisition: https://en.wikipedia.or
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by ValentineC 19d ago
I thought Windows 7 was a sweet spot. Windows 10 was acceptable too. I abandoned Windows almost entirely for macOS and server Linux before 11 was forced onto everyone.
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by ValentineC 19d ago
As another thread has made it clear, Bill was no longer CEO at this point. His role was pretty much the biggest shareholder having direct access to some of the company's top executives.
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by ValentineC 19d ago
I read this somewhere else in HN (possibly in one of the Azure threads): Microsoft's moat continues to be in the number of enterprise contracts that have already been signed. It's easy for someone to get access to Copilot Copilot
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by ValentineC 19d ago
> When I look at the blatant bugs MacOS and iOS had in the last years, I also think that the current Apple big shots never use their stuff or they would have noticed. The crazy thing is that it's more likely that most people in Ap

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