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by bityard 7mo ago
I worked on military avionics in a previous life and all of the planes I worked on had miles of white wires. The reasons given to us were: 1. Cost savings when buying. 2. There are hundreds to thousands of wires in an aircraft, but there ar
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by bityard 7mo ago
Hmm. Thanks, I'll bookmark it but the cadence of the narration is VERY monotone and uneven. This makes it hard for me to focus on what is being said because my OCD brain keeps tripping over the lack of pauses between sentences (and ina
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by bityard 7mo ago
It's hard to call Mozilla "independent" when so much of their cash literally comes from their biggest competitor in the browser space (Google). Chasing mainstream users is a lost cause at this point, they are happy with with
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by bityard 7mo ago
Which video did you watch?
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by bityard 7mo ago
This is no longer just a Windows feature. The same thing happened to me the other day on MacOS. They recently shipped a "background" update to fix a security issue and it quite unceremoniously rebooted the machine to apply the upd
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by bityard 7mo ago
For fun, I will sometimes buy trivial positions in solid companies whose stock price falls 8-10% or so due to some minor temporary bad press and then resell in a month or two when the news cycle forgets about them and price rebounds. I make
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by bityard 7mo ago
I came to the conclusion a long time ago that early browser developers must have really been on quite a lot of drugs.
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by bityard 7mo ago
Have you tried saying "shibboleet"?
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by bityard 7mo ago
"Need" might be strong, but I am okay with music players. My ADHD self is able to focus many times better if I have certain kinds of music playing to block out nearly talking and other distracting sounds.
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by bityard 7mo ago
Yeah I guess you're right.. Rock-N-Rye and Cream Soda are actually pretty great.
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by bityard 7mo ago
Welp, I guess my current Android phone will be my last one. At least half of the apps I use on a daily basis come from f-droid. This enforced 24-hour wait is simply not acceptable. Android has always been a far inferior overall user experie
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by bityard 7mo ago
I installed the latest Fedora Server on my Framework Desktop and noticed that Cockpit was enabled automatically. Overall impression is that its pretty good for getting a quick overview of things and you can certainly do _some_ administratio
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by bityard 7mo ago
Most grocery stores still sell Faygo in Michigan. But you rarely see more than the most popular 3 or so (boring) flavors. I remember there being at least a half-dozen different Faygo flavors at every kid's birthday party in the 80&#x27
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by bityard 7mo ago
This is unfortunately becoming more common. Just yesterday, I went to try out some cool new AI thing that was here on the front page of HN. It's written in Python. Great, I thought, that means I can put it into a virtualenv and just rm
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by bityard 7mo ago
I recommend installing uv first, then you can install any Python code you want inside a virtual environment to keep it isolated from the rest of the system.
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by bityard 7mo ago
Hybrids are just amazing and SHOULD have mostly replaced ICE-only a long time ago. I'm going to cry the day the midwestern winter road salt takes my Prius away from me.
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by bityard 7mo ago
I don't think most maintainers are opposed to LLM-generated bug fixes or solutions _in general_, just the ones that are pure slop: Generated end-to-end by a Claude-maxed computer enthusiast who thinks that enough green boxes on their G
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by bityard 7mo ago
I work at a large company with a global workforce and it would not surprise me in the slightest if some number of my coworkers were spending this weekend trying to figure out how to secretly automate their entire job with openclaw and the c
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by bityard 7mo ago
Yeah, this site is iffy at best. I didn't even see Strix Halo on the list, but I selected 128GB and bumped up the memory bandwidth. It says gpt-oss-120b "barely runs" at ~2 t/s. In reality, gpt-oss-120b fits great on the
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by bityard 7mo ago
"Available to userspace" is a much different thing than "available to every website that wants it, even in private mode". I too was a little surprised by this. My browser (Vivladi) makes a big deal about how privacy-cons
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by bityard 7mo ago
Ah, it's interesting but if you really want the cable TV experience, there is pluto.tv which works in a browser, and is generally installed on most streaming boxes/sticks/TVs. Does this avoid YouTube ads or pass them through?
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by bityard 7mo ago
Well, I've seen a few romcoms that started that way...
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by bityard 7mo ago
C) Adguard Home
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by bityard 7mo ago
Github has been very anti-scraping lately, to the point that I can't even browse it in my browser's private mode. This seems to be impacting your implementation as well: "Well, that didn't work API rate limit exceeded fo
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by bityard 7mo ago
No, it's a joke
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by bityard 7mo ago
"...in software" should have been appended to the title. Back in the day, I was quite heavy into the x0xb0x. ( https://www.ladyada.net/make/x0xb0x/ ) It's an open hardware 303 clone by Ladyada and was
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by bityard 7mo ago
I'm not a Lego nerd, but I recently saw a really sweet Lego DeLorean in Walmart priced at almost $200. Now that I have disposable income, I would have impulse-purchased that thing so hard if it would have been closer to $100. But I can
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by bityard 7mo ago
> because the alternative is to ban submissions from people without reputation, and that'd be very harmful to open source. Hmmm, no? That's actually very common in open source. Maybe "banning" isn't the right wor
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by bityard 7mo ago
I hear KDE Plasma is nice this time of year. Computers should adapt to fit the user, not the other way around.
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by bityard 7mo ago
I have a theory (and I'm sure I am far from the first one to voice it) that the number of useful open source projects released to the public will be on the decline now that anyone scratch their own itch with a few hours of vibe coding.

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