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by leokennis 4mo ago
Beautifully said. Engineering is often just a cost center and I often have the feeling management is suspicious that the engineers are just wasting time and throwing up roadblocks for nothing. This in turn makes managers always on the looko
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by leokennis 4mo ago
Always appreciate people answering their own questions in great detail!
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by leokennis 4mo ago
I bought my parents a M1 iMac in 2021. Connected a drive to it for Time Machine. Set up an admin account and wrote its password on a sticky note. Set up auto update. Gave a 5 minute instruction. I haven’t had to look at it for 5 years now.
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by leokennis 4mo ago
+1 for Fastmail. I migrated from Gmail a few years ago. Setting up your own domain is peanuts. Migrating all your mail from Gmail is literally just clicking some buttons in the UI and then it all happens in the background. The interface is
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by leokennis 5mo ago
Me too. To be honest, I am not that interested in reading the first 5-10 search results to find what I am looking for. If Google can do that for me and summarize the main points, that's another 10 minutes of my life saved.
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by leokennis 5mo ago
Apart from the tone which is not my cup of tea either, I think what these types of articles/advice try to convey is that we (the working population) are still the monkeys we were thousands of years ago. Sometimes we do stuff well becau
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by leokennis 5mo ago
I’d be fine with America not wanting the world to feel “entitled to” it, if at the same time they’d stop feeling entitled to the rest of the world themselves. Vietnam. Middle America. Afghanistan. Iraq. Greenland. Venezuela. Iran. Now Cuba.
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by leokennis 5mo ago
May the world extend Americans the hospitality that the US has extended to the world in the last year.
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by leokennis 5mo ago
All day every day my iPhone makes me feel like an idiot. I need to correct every other word I type (or at least what my iPhone thinks I typed). While correcting, autocorrect introduces new and even more baffling misspellings. Sometimes it g
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by leokennis 5mo ago
It's interesting the economic damage a few disgruntled WASP's in US swing states can do to the US economy by electing an orange toddler.
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by leokennis 6mo ago
Idea! Maybe these now redundant humans can be turned into a kind of battery, so they serve as a source of energy for the machines? Perhaps it's then smart to make the humans have a brain/computer interface, to make then dream&#x2F
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by leokennis 6mo ago
> The obvious objection is that code produced at that speed becomes unmanageable, a liability in itself. That is a reasonable concern, but it largely applies when agents produce code that humans then maintain. Agentic platforms are being
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by leokennis 6mo ago
I read ZoneAlarm and it was like suddenly a part of my brain that went unvisited for 25 years lit up...
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by leokennis 6mo ago
While Microsoft in general is a mess, this article is like saying: what even is “save”? Microsoft has 1286 save products! Save in Word, Save in Paint, Save in Notepad… Copilot means there’s a button/menu/command in the Microsoft a
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by leokennis 7mo ago
My favorite coding font is the one that is pre-installed on my work laptop because I cannot install additional ones... So Aptos Mono or Consolas it is.
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by leokennis 7mo ago
Honda seems to love pulling out of things just when they are about to succeed. Both in F1 and apparently now also in EV's.
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by leokennis 7mo ago
I admire and applaud Kagi for what they are trying to be. But on the AI front, the Assistant is simply worse than using for example Gemini or ChatGPT directly. It is slower, it cannot generate images etc.
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by leokennis 7mo ago
Every time some site or person tries to make me feel bad for using AdGuard DNS, ad blockers etc. I read an article like this and I feel fine. I see three options: 1. Show me reasonable ads and I will disable ad blocking 2. Do the crap descr
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by leokennis 7mo ago
I was about to comment this too. For someone that explicitly states: > I don’t listen to pop songs. I prefer music of the 500-year tradition (...) And who apparently wants to stream music, it is wild he's not subscribed to Apple Mus
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by leokennis 7mo ago
I have a 2020 MacBook Air M1 with 16GB RAM - for development work, there is 0 reason to upgrade it. All day battery, silent, small, no lag...
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by leokennis 7mo ago
At least in the ChatGPT app, you can set some "personality" traits. Like the style (more or les warm or enthusiastic, use more or less lists and emojis) and the tone. I have mine set to efficient, using less warmth, less enthusias
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by leokennis 8mo ago
> They will agree to make some high margin simple to assemble thing in the US to appease government I chuckled out loud at the huge-ass-safety-hazard-in-any-manufacturing-environment US flag thumb tacked to the factory wall. It's al
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by leokennis 8mo ago
This seems like a very nice project to learn stuff, including hardware design/implementation. Are there similar options on the market for "set and forget" people like me?
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by leokennis 8mo ago
Love those weather icons. Personality in software design is underrated.
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by leokennis 8mo ago
With so many apps introducing either paywalls (requiring either login or circumvention measures) or terrible RSS feeds (with content missing, images missing etc.) I have found it necessary to use a feed reader that you can configure per-fee
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by leokennis 8mo ago
Wero is very new, no wonder it’s not used a lot yet. Wero is basically a rename (and territorial expansion) of the Dutch iDeal system, which processed €141 billion Euros in 2024.
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by leokennis 9mo ago
Apple making sure to stay in lock step with the US' general decline into late stage capitalist decline.
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by leokennis 9mo ago
And the result is that for every oh-so-sustainable AirTag sold, a keyring doohickey is dieseled/kerosened from AliExpress' China warehouse to the consumer.
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by leokennis 9mo ago
Some of these bugs are more well known but for some like AirDrop not working or hotspot not connecting I always thought “well it’s probably because some power setting / DNS config / ad blocker / whatever” that I accidentally
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by leokennis 9mo ago
Not directly related, but look at this Mac OS 9 screenshot from the article: https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/macos914... Look at the contrast. Look at the buttons. Look at the scrollb

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