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Croftengea··on Restoration of an IBM Thinkpad 701C Butterfly-keyboard laptop
I love the last photo. AOL, chef's kiss.
Croftengea··on Essential AI
They have LLM mentioned on the front page. Whatever they're building it's 10x better with LLM.
Croftengea··on Threads Software Limited gives Meta 30 days to stop using the name Threads
I remember Microsoft having a clash with ASDA over the name of underwear "microsoft": https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-everywhere-except-un...
Croftengea··on Coolify – Self-Hosting with Superpowers
It was: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26624341
Croftengea··on Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month
Lycos anyone? :)
Croftengea··on Degraded performance on ChatGPT
SLAs is what enterprises care about. But how you frame it in public communications affects share price.
Croftengea··on Degraded performance on ChatGPT
Couldn't agree more. OpenAI can afford such messaging. But it's more nuanced when a company is public.
Croftengea··on Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Win11 to get people to ditch Chrome
I wonder where the DOJ is looking. MS barely avoided breakup for just bundling IE with Windows in the 90s.
Croftengea··on Why is DNS still hard to learn?
DNSSEC was already mentioned, but yet another dark corner of DNS are wildcard records.
Croftengea··on First 'tooth regrowth' medicine moves toward clinical trials in Japan
This is the key sentence, IMHO:

> Once confirmed to have no ill effects on the human body, it will be aimed at treating children aged 2 to 6 who exhibit anodontia.

This greatly limits usefulness of the whole enterprise. The problem is that this condition is not likely to be found at that age, it's found later when the problem is evident to parents. What is actually needed is some treatment for teenagers or young adults.

Croftengea··on Lesser known tricks, quirks and features of C
> Compound literals are lvalues

> ((struct Foo){}).x = 4;

Do such lvalues have any real use?

Croftengea··on Apple wants rights to the image of apples in Switzerland
I bet the lawyers at Apple have some weird KPIs related to number of cases.
Croftengea··on Sennheiser HD 555 to HD 595 Mod
The parent comment probably referred to the headphone eq settings that can be exported from AutoEq into Equaliser APO. AutoEq deals with headphones, not amplifiers.
Croftengea··on Pixelfed Introduces Import from Instagram
Point taken, thanks for explaining!
Croftengea··on Pixelfed Introduces Import from Instagram
TIL Pixelfed exists. It's a pretty small network though, they say they have 163K users. They need some stupid Instagram policy change to get more traction.
Croftengea··on A Tale of Unwanted Disruption: My Week Without Amazon
I don't think the customer would be able to stand against Amazon's legal machinery on their own. But EFF could be interested to take this case.
Croftengea··on Reddit.com appears to be having an outage
Thanks, I didn't know about it, will give it a shot.
Croftengea··on Reddit.com appears to be having an outage
Reddit is still a vast archive of valuable advice on many topics. I developed a habit of adding "reddit" to my search requests whenever I want to get unbiased user opinions or product recommendations.

For me, today is not only the day when the most of reddit is down but also web search experience is significantly degraded.

Croftengea··on Learn x86-64 assembly by writing a GUI from scratch (2020)
TL;DR: the article explains how to open a new window in X11 and print "Hello, world" in assembly. The asm code to achieve this is 618 lines long.
Croftengea··on Zeal is an offline documentation browser for software developers
It’s not widely advertised (probably this is the deal) but Zeal works fine on macOS, see this: https://github.com/zealdocs/zeal/wiki/Build-Instructions-for...

You don’t need to build it yourself, there is a brew formula.

Croftengea··on Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira
This! Jira works ok and gets job done, like the UI and the default workflows or not. But for those who are not willing (or required not to) outsource all their business to the Cloud it just doesn't exist anymore.
Croftengea··on Ask HN: Should I leave and start my own thing?
Go your own way if the lost salary is not an issue. But make sure you don't have a non-competing clause in your contract if you leave and start your own thing.
Croftengea··on Salvador Dalí is the most faked artist?
Did you read the article? It's just one quote that shows the scale of his "art" production. It also shows he cared more about the output and money flow than what is actually printed and distributed under his name and signature. If it's not enough here is more:

> “(Dalí) was completely money obsessed, to the point of a mania,”

> The artist’s appetite for money ... made him a black sheep to many colleagues.

His greediness is the main reason the market of the fake lithographs exists in the first place.

Croftengea··on Salvador Dalí is the most faked artist?
That's an interesting take on Dali's art. The article portrays Dali as a greedy businessman first, an artist second:

> Dalí ensured a steady flow of prints by signing his name on thousands of blank sheets of paper before he knew what would be printed on them.

Croftengea··on An Example of a Sad Google Account Recovery Failure and Its Effects
Exactly. And Google is very quick to kill free products that are not generating good revenue for them.
Croftengea··on Tell HN: DuckDuckGo's privacy extension is adding an inline popup to web forms
It looks so weird! Especially when you see it on an email search field of a private CRM system.
Croftengea··on The sarcastic fringehead's broad-mouthed display is reserved for fighting
Thanks, this saved me from figuring how to bypass their "free article limit".
Croftengea··on Why is Snowflake so expensive
I was wondering the same thing. This sums up pretty good I guess:

> The best way to describe Snowflake is that it is a brute force method to run complex queries without creating indexes.

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32554072)

Croftengea··on Tell HN: Google Cloud suspended our production projects at 1am on Saturday
Thanks for this very detailed explanation, much appreciated!
Croftengea··on Tell HN: Google Cloud suspended our production projects at 1am on Saturday
When was the last time any big company was split? AT&T 50 years ago, any newer examples? Nowadays big tech is too influential to allow politicians to make such decisions.
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