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FerretFredon GoPro warned it may not survive

Quik is an abomination. I have 3 cameras including the Mission 1 Pro and am satisfied with them. I go on long mucky country dog walks and they've never let me down. Getting the content off the cameras is horrible though: no, I don't want to upload 16Gb of data to your cloud using a poor, 2-bar 4G intermittent phone connection. No. I don't want special editing effects that an only be done in app. Ultimately I pop the card out and use a USB adapter to transfer for editing, but what a pain: surely they could have produced something more user friendly?!

FerretFredon AI sticker shock hits corporate America

Was that at Microsoft by any chance?

FerretFredon Oura says it gets government demands for user data

"I see Mr Smith was running in [street/location] when the explosion occurred - we'd better bring him in for questioning". Maybe the Oura doesn't record that, but if they can match other metadata with Smith's ring it could put him firmly in the frame.

FerretFredon Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%

>I’ve watched engineers use AI to ship in days what used to take a team weeks. Non-technical teams are now shipping production code

Good luck to those (human) teams when the briefness stuff hits the fan thanks to an AI hallucination... oh wait, the Active Individually-contributing leaders will be there to lend a hand, right?

FerretFredon Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons

Great, but what they haven't told you is that they'll probably create a subscription for the buttons. Gotta recoup those R & D costs!

FerretFredon NHS goes to war against open source

That almost how you spell "palantir"...

FerretFredon When the cheap one is the cool one

I always wanted one but could never afford it. Now I can afford it, they're not available

FerretFredon When the cheap one is the cool one

I got the citrus version because it made such a change from the usual. However, I'd love it if Apple could make some truly vibrant non-pastel colours like tangerine and lime devices they did in the early days.

FerretFredon Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock

I agree! Having seen how some of the police operate in parts of Europe I wouldn't want to upset them especially if I don't speak the language. I have a burner tablet and can always keep stuff I need in the Cloud.

FerretFredon Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock

I agree.. having to spend longer than necessary at UK's Manchester Airport would have me singing like a canary!

FerretFredon Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock

The middle finger could be the emergency use one ...

FerretFredon Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock

I'm reading this nervously on my MacBook Air, but chuckling quietly with my cheapest Mac Neo (my new travel companion).

FerretFredon Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock

Sadly yes. IANAL but under the Ripa Act they can issue a section 49 notice and you risk imprisonment for not complying. However, they need proper authorisation to do so, and the notice must be lawfully issued, so presumably a magistrate. This is all part of our famous British Justice!

FerretFredon Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why

Someone, somewhere has an unwatched phone waiting for an authorisation code response...

FerretFredon America tells private firms to “hack back”

If a company's already been hacked, what makes them think they have the knowledge/expertise to fight back?

FerretFredon Juggalo makeup blocks facial recognition technology (2019)

Similarly, I could be the first (known) Jugallo in West Yorkshire. Who knows, we might spark a new trend!

FerretFredon The truth that haunts the Ramones: 'They sold more T-shirts than records'

Fascinating! Always love these backstories. The Ramones were brilliant - I don't have a favourite album but my most-watched DVD is The Ramones Story

FerretFredon Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?

Someone leaked this to POTUS and he based his whole strategy on it!

FerretFredon "That Shape Had None" – A Horror of Substrate Independence (Short Fiction)

I need to read more of that! What's the copyright on the files? I run a public-access gopher server with a small eBook section and that's the kind of material that I'd like to feature.

FerretFredon Monitor your world with one daily report

Could be interesting but how about telling me what I'm actually signing up for and what PII you want me to supply - before I click Sign In?

FerretFredon The collapse of white-collar work as the most hopeful catastrophe of our time

Well, all that leisure time, and no spare money to buy anything with! Should be interesting.

FerretFredon Silver plunges 30% in worst day since 1980, gold tumbles

I watched in amazement as the price tickers for gold and silver shot off the screen and then crashed mightily a day later. What surprised even more was that Bitcoin decided to join in - something I'd normally expect to rise as gold and silver fell.

FerretFredon Show HN: StormWatch – Weather emergency dashboard with prep checklists

Haha! Me too! Based in the UK it's one the few ZIPs I know by heart . It's a great site though!

FerretFredon Ask HN: Share your personal website

https://petergarner.net

Also has a partial interface to my gopher server on the same machine:

gopher.petergarner.net

FerretFredon The unbearable joy of sitting alone in a café

"So, I took long walks with my dog.

What used to feel like 10 minutes between breakfast and lunch while working became a full-blown day. Even though I was spending two hours walking my dog instead of a 30-40 minute rush, it felt like an eternity"

My dog has a way of slowing down time, although he won't tell me how. I think as humans we know what we expect from this other species, but they have a way of reorganizing the walk to suit themselves. I do it largely to bond with my best bud and get some exercise. He on the other hand goes out to catch up on doggy social media, with endless sniffing and donating further smells. Every walk is different - the route's the same but the sensory part is constantly changing. All this takes place, silently. We go back home satisfied but I know my boi gets the most satisfaction from it!

FerretFredon Poor Johnny still won't encrypt

Issue 3.. most/many governments are taking active steps to discourage this practice or better still (for them), stamp it out completely.

FerretFredon Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now

Great fun! I was hoping to see "Perl 6.1 goes live" though. Maybe later eh? ;)

FerretFredon Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of whole drive

I went by the definition:

misanthropic /mĭs″ən-thrŏp′ĭk, mĭz″-/ adjective

Of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.

Characterized by a hatred or mistrustful scorn for humankind.

Hating or disliking mankind.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

FerretFredon Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of whole drive

Remember that Anthropic is only 3 letters away from MisAnthropic: did the designers think of this?

FerretFredon Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of whole drive

I always use "rm -rf*v*" so that if I do screw up I can watch the evidence unfold before me.