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by bityard 11mo ago
That's not quite the kind of thing I was talking about. I think that is generally already covered by current laws in most places? The right-to-be-forgotten advocates argue that everyone should have the right to demand that any trace of
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by bityard 11mo ago
I don't agree with it myself, but there are people who seem to want to frame "the right to be forgotten" as a privacy issue.
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by bityard 11mo ago
To me, it just reads like their marketing person's first language is not English. Which tracks because I believe the whole company is based on France.
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by bityard 11mo ago
OTOH, empty human-generated marketing slop has been around for a LOT longer than empty AI marketing slop and also reads exactly like this.
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by bityard 11mo ago
Oh man, this is so good! I wanted to build this exact thing but never could find the time. LLMs are actually pretty good at satire once they've had a few drinks! I particularly enjoyed https://news.ysimulator.run/item&#
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by bityard 11mo ago
You would be amazed how many fortune 500 companies are still using RHEL/CentOS 7 in business critical systems. (I was, anyway.)
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by bityard 11mo ago
If you are not a journalist, and AI is your editor, then you should remove the statement on your site that calls itself a newspaper. Newspapers have journalists and editors. What you have, sir, is a blog.
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by bityard 11mo ago
Do not voluntarily engage them. No matter how well intentioned you think you are, they can probablyfind a way to use it against you. A legal claim demands a legal response, there are no shortcuts here. Your lawyer will advise you further.
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by bityard 11mo ago
If you think publicly-held companies are bad, wait until you see what private equity gets up to.
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by bityard 11mo ago
Do you believe new releases don't introduce new bugs?
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by bityard 11mo ago
I know, I'm talking about the rest.
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by bityard 11mo ago
As a maker, I've been following Adafruit since they sold a handful of products, probably assembled and boxed on Limor's dining room table. Adafruit has forked microcontroller libraries and toolchains before, and a huge chunk of th
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by bityard 11mo ago
ESPs are great, but their hobbyist ecosystem ultimately relies on the goodwill of a Chinese company that could just as easily decide they want to go the way of Qualcomm, or worse.
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by bityard 11mo ago
> Whether you’re an experienced developer or a vibe coder I absolutely LOVE that Google themselves drew a sharp distinction here.
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by bityard 11mo ago
I have a recent-model Highlander and I hate the headlights on it. As you say, the sharp cut-off is terrible. Bendy roads I don't mind, but anyone driving anywhere that has even the smallest amount of hills is going to get this: 1) Appr
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by bityard 11mo ago
I had a car with a Hyundai engine. We loved that car. Unfortunately, we did not love the engine. At only 90k miles, it started burning 1 quart of oil every 1000 miles. I want to be clear that I know what I'm doing around cars and an me
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by bityard 11mo ago
I think most hams (myself included) are the type of people whose favorite hobby is collecting more hobbies. Plus, ham radio pairs nicely with tons of other hobbies like electronics, kit building, hiking, solar power, space weather, and (as
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by bityard 11mo ago
The two-party political system is the most successful sham that the US's aristocratic class has managed to pull off in the last 100 years. (A close second is the intense tribalism fueled by hot-take-heavy social media.)
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by bityard 11mo ago
I'd say it's medium gray on white, which is not too bad in my subjective opinion. I have seen far worse. Light gray on white was "trendy" for a while and dark gray or dark green on black has always been popular among the
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by bityard 11mo ago
To me, that just looks like what happens when I try to play HDR content on a system that doesn't know about HDR. (It looks like you're watching it through sunglasses.)
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by bityard 11mo ago
Social media is the online content equivalent of sugary breakfast cereal. It's engaging, but toxic for you in just about every possible way, no matter which end of the political spectrum you have chosen. People who are addicted to soci
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by bityard 1y ago
I think one thing you are running into here in the HN comments is that ligatures as they relate to source code editing can be somewhat controversial among developers who are especially vocal about their preferences. Some people believe that
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by bityard 1y ago
I've taken to calling this the ad machina fallacy.
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by bityard 1y ago
From the pictures, this is the kind of vehicle that you would gladly pay extra to have delivered to your second vacation home so you can park it next to your 6 other semi-exotic cars and drive it half a mile to the country club on Saturdays
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by bityard 1y ago
Oh, yet another luxury EV. Wake me up when a manufacturer finally commits to making an EV that everyone can afford and isn't a cloud-connected privacy nightmare.
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by bityard 1y ago
Jupyter does not have (or need) a successor.
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by bityard 1y ago
Thanks for the unnecessary insult--you asshat--but it's not a "skill issue," it's how I am built. As took great pains to explain.
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by bityard 1y ago
The thing that kills me is that Nextcloud had an _amazing_ calendar a few years ago. It was way better than anything else I have used. (And I tried a lot, even the calendar add-on for Thunderbird. Which may or may not be built in these days
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by bityard 1y ago
So, I'm going to challenge you on that. First, let me describe myself. I'm not always great at explaining my thoughts to others in a meeting. The output peripheral bus has a lower clock speed than the CPU, if you catch my drift. I
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by bityard 1y ago
Okay, TFA uses handbrake as an example, but there are probably hundreds of other attempts at a simpler ffmepg front end. Handbrake is only popular _because_ it is so powerful, not in spite of it.

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