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Andrex··on Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
I completely forgot you could "squirt" songs to other Zune owners. What a time!

(Brown launch model here.)

Andrex··on Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure"
Speak for yourself, I don't see dairy.
Andrex··on Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
Advertisers get to pretend their ads are being seen.

Websites get paid.

Users don't see ads.

Sounds like a win-win-win?

Andrex··on Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
Exactly. The difference between the two is not qualitatively different for 99% of users.
Andrex··on Denmark Requires Oral Defenses for Students' Written Work to Counter AI Cheating
The blind aspect (I would assume) is meant to cut down on favoritism and discrimination. With the US I understand how that would come about.

Whether it succeeds in that goal is a separate topic.

Andrex··on Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs
https://youtu.be/HTpbpxNc6c0

The more things change...

Andrex··on How Hollywood stopped making movies in Hollywood
> Hollywood probably has less than three years to live.

"Probably" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

Andrex··on How to survive boiling water
Let the man dream (and possibly write interesting scifi about it).
Andrex··on Apple has decided to compete for creativity app users
This is an extremely fair judgment. I should not be surprised but it is nice.

I will turn down the snark a little more in the future. Sometimes it just sneaks in there. Sneaky snark.

Andrex··on Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber
That's true, I meant more by Google themselves. It's their first-party data, the whole set available on-demand, no scraping needed.
Andrex··on Apple has decided to compete for creativity app users
I disagree. It was relevant, succinct, and meant to inspire introspection leading to positive change.
Andrex··on Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber
I spin a mental roulette on whether the reception on a new release will be "OMG best model by far, no one will be able to catch up for months!" or "OMG this is already outdated, RIP company X, they might as well just give up now, there's no coming back from this."

It's quite a fun game. I click into the comments and see if the roulette wheel was right.

Andrex··on Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber
What's the current outlook on Antigravity IDE vs. 2.0? How long will they begrudgingly keep it going before kicking everyone to 2.0/3.0?

(I actually use a mix of both for some offline projects, nothing serious.)

Andrex··on Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber
Knowledge Graph + automated transcriptions of almost every YouTube video = giant untapped moat of data
Andrex··on Apple has decided to compete for creativity app users
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Andrex··on FreeInk: Open ecosystem for e-readers
I had a similar thought but thinking it through, would probably lose the near-zero-lag stylus stuff. That's kinda rM's whole thing, not ebook reading.
Andrex··on Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
Yeah, whatever small amount of Koolaid I was excited to drink went out the window when they ditched the charity angle. A broken clock's right twice a day and Musk is right about that.
Andrex··on Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
It isn't, but it is also still (mostly) illegal too.
Andrex··on Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
It made sense for Facebook and Amazon back in the day, too.

And they were some of the most laughed-at phones in tech for a long while. But I guess "the ChaCha" probably was never going to take the world by storm...

Andrex··on Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
There's rumors they've been planning a phone.

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/05/29/everything-we-know-abou...

Andrex··on Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
There's also the possibility it was a coincidence, and the stakeholders in the Gemini decision are breathing a heavy sigh of relief.
Andrex··on Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
2026 Wimpy would be an effective serial entrepreneur.
Andrex··on EVE Online's Carbon engine is now open source: Fenris Creations explains why
Which ones are not?
Andrex··on Nano Banana 2 Lite
Yeah I'm kinda in the same position. I pay for both One and Workspace for myself and not sure which to use for some of this stuff. I mostly default to my personal account since it has more context, but then bringing in stuff from the Workspace Drive/etc. is an extra few steps.

And some stuff like Project Genie is just flat out unavailable on Workspace which seems weird to me.

Andrex··on We Are the Last People Who Know How It Works
The thing is, yes it will still happen, but at substantially decreased rate. Groups of people banding together to solve a problem or figure a solution will slowly stop forming. Everyone will be out there learning just for themselves.

The collective knowledge of people will likely ebb. Things will be different and individuals will have to adapt.

Andrex··on Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live tokenmaxxing
It's FOMO all the way down.
Andrex··on Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days
> I don’t give a flying fuck what people think.

So all your writings are private, then?

Do you have a motivation to communicate or publish? You're posting here on HN, so I think so.

Why do you do think you do it?

Andrex··on The brain was not designed for this much bad news
> After all, it was worth no more than a hundred million other votes

Not strictly true for presidential elections.

My vote cast in CT literally matters more than someone else's vote cast in CA. Yay electoral college!

Andrex··on Iran requires insurance on ships using Strait of Hormuz, fees likely to follow
Nothing surprising ever happens in October. You're talking crazy here.
Andrex··on Running local models is good now
How long have you been using it?
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