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BikiniPrince··on Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers
The rest api was taken apart years ago for my old Sonos. They had originally promised to add AirPlay support later said, “Just kidding. Why don’t you brick it instead.” At that point I was finished with closed ecosystems for audio. At least someone made an AirPlay agent that lives on the home server. That speaker has survived many years too.
BikiniPrince··on The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup
Yes/no. Regardless of the code complexity reduction there is still architecture, planning and implementation. Could someone come by and clone my work afterwards? Absolutely. Will they retain customers with only a little understanding of the product or model? Questionable.
BikiniPrince··on Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com
Broken? They curbed abuse and view botting while increasing their user base. Working as intended.
BikiniPrince··on Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings
I disable all video processing features and calibrate my sets. Bought a meter years ago and it’s given me endless value.
BikiniPrince··on It's Always TCP_NODELAY
Everyone is forgetting the no delay is per application and not a system configuration. Yep, old things will still be old and that’s ok. That new fangled packet farter will need to set no delay which is a default in many scenarios. This article reminds us it is a thing and especially true for home grown applications.
BikiniPrince··on You’re not burnt out, you’re existentially starving
Burn out is the second or third year of non-stop fires and you are the one to solve all of the problems. Meanwhile the company is busy creating more fires because they haven’t finished burning that sweet sweet engineer candle.
BikiniPrince··on Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help
Oh I doubt it was his fault. I had something similar happen setting up a phone for a neighbor. Apple decided it was fraudulent after I added her address to the account. It was now dead with no recourse. At least I didn’t spend much on a used phone. Picked up an android and said it’s time to adapt.
BikiniPrince··on $1900 Bug Bounty to Fix the Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16IAX10H's Speakers on Linux
Yes, when my org needed a very specific feature from an open source project the company reached out to the authors. I don’t know the terms, but they dropped a chunk of cash. No strings either on the new feature and everyone benefited in the end.
BikiniPrince··on Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders
Well you can get closer with custom build tools and tools to gut features. Ms is acutely aware of these third party efforts and they are working diligently to stop them from working in each release. They are not interested in making a prosumer release, but harvesting the customer. One of you is the matrix and the other is the human battery. I leave it to the reader to determine where they fall in those categories.
BikiniPrince··on Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders
It’s intentionally obfuscated because the product developers don’t want to share profits with brokers. They also do not want to compete on in the open because that too lowers odors Otherwise, we would have a system where it would be insanely easy to monitor and alert for price breaks. Hidden cities is probably the best example of how it could work and easily presents the price charts over time. Yet they too were cut off from some providers.
BikiniPrince··on Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders
Not to derail but there are issues with kernel patching. If it does work you start building a very large matrix of various levels of hot patches and then sometimes it just doesn’t.
BikiniPrince··on Asus Ascent GX10
With a little tinkering we can just have the AI gaslight us about it’s capabilities.
BikiniPrince··on DNS Provider Quad9 Sees Piracy Blocking Orders as "Existential Threat"
I just run my own name server. DNS blocking is no longer an issue unless they get to the root name servers. With a little domain warming from the top 5000 domains it’s pretty snappy most of the time.
BikiniPrince··on Ask HN: Our AWS account got compromised after their outage
Bezos will get to Mars at any cost!
BikiniPrince··on Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site
That’s entirely true for manufacturing at scale. I really doubt they are selling a lot of these.
BikiniPrince··on I am a programmer, not a rubber-stamp that approves Copilot generated code
Yeah, it’s just horribly wrong in my experience and a complete distraction. Code completion for functions in the project is another story and that has been around for ages.
BikiniPrince··on Self-hosting email like it's 1984
I know right. It’s like, “what did they do to my boy?” as to huddle over the bullet ridden corpse of your son.
BikiniPrince··on Self-hosting email like it's 1984
I at least maintain administrative control while using free resources. I looked at the completely self hosted route a long time ago and didn’t want to deal with that. Fast forward to today and I’m dealing with a friend who has the polar opposite. Now their mental faculties are reduced and they lost devices. Couple this with not paying previous management entities and it’s a digital lock out. Recovering from this is a nightmare and I’m operating blind. For a normie this would be impossible.
BikiniPrince··on Scammed out of $130K via fake Google call, spoofed Google email and auth sync
In the rare case something worms it's way to collections I just ask for the certified letter. Now in ten years that only happened once. I even called the hospital asking where my bill was and they said I didn't owe anything. Three months later collections!
BikiniPrince··on Setting up a home VPN server with WireGuard (2019)
I just run a dynamic dns client on OpenWRT. I’ve never had an issue reaching the joke server.
BikiniPrince··on I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D
I pick up old serves for my garage system. With edac it is a dream to isolate the fault and be instantly aware. It also lets you determine the severity of the issue. Dimms can run for years with just the one error or overnight explode into streams of corrections. I keep spares so it’s fairly easy to isolate any faults. It’s just how do you want to spend your time?
BikiniPrince··on Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company
Vimperator plugin used to do the rest, but maybe that is no longer needed or working.
BikiniPrince··on Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March
TSA and all of its security theater is going to get the boot. Airports can manage their own security. That won’t change international customs which is still managed federally.
BikiniPrince··on Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age
I’ve found AI tools extremely helpful in getting me up to speed with a library or defining an internal override not exposed by the help. However, if I’m not explicit in how to solve a problem the result looks like the bad code it’s been ingesting.
BikiniPrince··on In the trenches: on being an Engineering Manager
Welcome to being a line manager.
BikiniPrince··on Suspension of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong
It’s cheaper because USPS has been subsidizing the costs. That’s why a lot of small packages were shipped with usps.
BikiniPrince··on Suspension of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong
Yes, private shipping is perfectly fine. This is not a shipping embargo. USPS is just not taking packages. Letters and flat rate will continue to be processed.
BikiniPrince··on The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE
Furthermore, very likely any such contracts have language around the cancellation.
BikiniPrince··on How I Use Home Assistant in 2025
This is my next adventure because somewhere someone had left a light on! Those esp32 relays can fit right in a work box.
BikiniPrince··on Show HN: Interactive systemd – a better way to work with systemd units
Only failure is rewarded!
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