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by voakbasda 2mo ago
They will ignore you right up until precedents are establish for a process to effectively prosecute any holdouts. Sure, first they will come for bigger fish, but then they will come for you.
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
I would love to understand his motives, because my first impression is not a positive one. This is not freedom-loving behavior of a patriotic US citizen.
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
“Style over substance” sums up one source of the enshittification of everything.
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
It is not always immediately obvious when someone is wearing a pair versus normal glasses. Certainly not from any real distance.
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
Recently bought a Sovol SV08 printer. It comes with open source binaries, but there is no source code. Turns out they are a known to be violating the GPL. Looks like it can be rebuilt from other sources, so I have started to put together
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
He should not be believed. That’s the consequences of perjury: one lie disqualifies all other testimony.
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
Yeah, most modern scarcity is artificially induced by producers, who will limit their supply to ensure their margins stay healthy. However, land is one case where they aren’t making more of it. So, you are both right?
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
One hundred years ago when humans started pumping oil out of the ground and burning it, nobody cared about it. Should a century of infrastructure investment be thrown away because cooking the planet has recently become fashionable to hate?
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
Some of Schneider Electric’s software is a house of cards. Source: I maintained some systems for them a few years back. Never will they ever get my money again for anything. To wit, I miss the days when APC was a brand that I could trust.
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
Wow. I’d kill for even a guy running my hardware tests. Most of my jobs barely seem to leave time to write the code, before it needs to be scraped off my monitor and poured into the customer’s systems. The ones like you describe with ac
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
Embedded means different things. Personally I have a hard time calling anything that runs Linux as embedded, having cut my teeth on microcontrollers.
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
Not just HOAs. Talk grass allows insects and vermin to move more freely. In cities, this contributes to their spread, so some places have city-wide ordinances that require lawn maintenance.
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
Small farmer here: it’s true. Supermarket food is horrible in terms of nutrition and taste, but it’s laden with literal shit too. For example, milk is pasteurized because dairies are too lazy careless to keep literal shit out of the milk.
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
No, you’re wrong. I think everyone should be forced to remote work, and all offices should be closed forever. … See how it feels to have someone make absolute claims that tell you how to live your life?
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
FWIW, they put a header in the message that you can spot from a thousand miles away. That is how they get past the filters. I used to work for a company y that used them, and this trick was passed around between engineers as a way to tell.
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
> I don’t want to sell stuff, I just want to build things. While this resonates with me and probably the majority of the HN readership, I also want to be paid (handsomely) to build things. But in every case where someone pays me to bui
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
> Not since the DC-10 have I been so incensed at an institution for its pettiness, personal vanity, and bureaucracy as I am with Congress, the FAA, the NTSB, and the DoD right now. Hate to break it to you, but this is just the tip of tha
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
To be fair, the problems you describe existed before AI, though I concede it has gotten worse. What baffles me is why anyone would think it a good idea to post and host these images? What’s that upside?
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
Great example of a technical solution for a real world problem… which simply won’t work as intended. Aside from the obvious use as a tool of repression, the real problem will be one of adoption: the only way everyone will adopt this is wit
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
In general, I think the barrier to entry to providing goods and services is now high enough that it discourages ever larger numbers of businesses from ever being started in the first place.
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
I would rather food vendors have the right to refuse service than be subjected to laws that effectively squeeze out smaller operators.
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
I am a gray beard and still use Kermit regularly for embedded development. It’s very handy for automating things over a serial port console. I wonder how much adoption it sees with the younger crowd.
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
Nice idea but… keys can be stolen. I don’t really see a way to get around the fact that someone could steal that identity and use it to cause mayhem that traces back to an innocent person. But computer is always right, so this effectivel
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
I bet it still can’t hide from a shotgun blast.
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
And probably only after members of the public vocally complained.
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
Let the best tool win.
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
The US does not want to compete with China. There’s no profit in it when compared to the riches available from having a captive marketplace.
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
For a variety of reasons, we no longer cultivate long term familial bonds or friendships, employment, or even product purchases. If you ask me, the world has increasingly become a series of short games that are being exploited by bad actor
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
Nearly a million users? Bah, small fish…
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by voakbasda 2mo ago
Given the context of a vibe-coded project, would it be reasonable to assume the example outputs are outright hallucinations, without seeing indisputable evidence to the contrary? Sad that’s where my mind goes, but this is what the world has

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