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Can you please explain what Apple TV is a compromise between?

On the scale of "general-purpose-computer" Vs "applies Netflix DRM", it's at the extreme far end.

Because for most people to get any utility out of it, they need to plug in a smart device.

It doesn't matter whether you run android TV from the TV itself or an external device.

All the popular streaming services throttle or block open devices.

There's no regulation on it, because regulators want locked-down hardware that can only take actions approved by them.

LikesPwshon Websites are closing their doors to AI agents

Those are no longer useful as a "public square" because of the increasingly walled garden design.

LikesPwshon Across the Globe, People Increasingly Say Social Media Is Harming Democracy

Client-side algorithmic feed fixes a lot of that, it's not a fundamental flaw.

LikesPwshon When did Google get so weird?

One "fix" is for the caller to correctly classify those fundamentally impossible tasks and pass them to a subprocess.

Some future "AI" could be a billion benchmark-hacks and a way to tell which one is needed.

LikesPwshon Transit rewards

No need to give distant examples - the US train boom used the same strategy.

LikesPwshon Ask HN: Crooked Timber showed showed me a virus captcha, What now?

If one user makes the mistake, it would be fair to blame them.

Because thousands of users make the same mistake, blame needs to be directed at Windows UX.

MS could fix this easily by 1) moving Run to optional features and 2) removing online features from Start to make performance comparable.

The other "run" interfaces (terminal, conhost, Powershell) are sufficiently menacing to scare away non-devs already.

LikesPwshon Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore

In the infamous words of Spolsky - "It’s harder to read code than to write it."

LikesPwshon Brexit Ten Years On: The Economy

Brexit harming the growth of both UK and EU is another perfectly valid interpretation of those numbers.

I'm sure there's a little truth to both, and noise from all kinds of other factors.

LikesPwshon Agents need control flow, not more prompts

Rather than telling the LLM "loop through these files", tell it "write a script to loop through these files", then hard-code that script somewhere.

LikesPwshon Arm AGI CPU

The same people who abbreviate "generative" AI in a way that misleadingly conflates it with "general" AI.

Fraud is just the default lifestyle of marketers.

LikesPwshon Keep Android Open

YouTube on Firefox is a much better experience than the official YouTube app, so you can drop one from the list.

LikesPwshon Microsoft Office renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”

.net, dynamics, power, 365, azure, fabric, copilot.

There's always some pointless name change going on.

LikesPwshon Microsoft Office renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”

"IBM for i" is up there

LikesPwshon Sabotaging Bitcoin

Making up a bigger fraction doesn't mean that transaction fees will increase over time.

For L1 fees to actually increase over time, we need increased L1 throughput. Without that, increased demand for transactions causes more batching of transactions (mostly between exchanges).

Given the failure of BCH for pseudo-religious reasons I don't have much hope.

LikesPwshon Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates

Skiddies targeting an individual site are a drop in the ocean compared with the industrial scale LLM scraping, so blaming them for it is in bad taste.

LikesPwshon I wasted years of my life in crypto

Most token holders use exchanges, where freezing accounts and just keeping the tokens is a daily occurrence.

That's not something solved by cryptocurrency in its current form.

LikesPwshon AI agents find $4.6M in blockchain smart contract exploits

That's infamously known as the "Oracle Problem".

Blockchain can't handle external state.

Smart contracts abstract it a bit by having a trusted third party or an automated pricing mechanism, but both are fragile.

LikesPwshon Instagram chief orders staff back to the office five days a week in 2026

The stated purpose of RTO may be more-nimble-whatever.

In practice it makes more sense if you always assume the intended purpose is to thinly veil constructive dismissal.

LikesPwshon Red Alert 2 in web browser

The original release came with separate Allied/Soviet discs. You could put one in your buddy's computer.

Keygen was also easily available.

LikesPwshon Red Alert 2 in web browser

Forge is a good modern equivalent

LikesPwshon Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/s...

This one is a classic for MSSQL, most of it is applicable on postgres.

LikesPwshon SQL Anti-Patterns

"Dimension table" is the name for lookup tables in a star or snowflake schema.

LikesPwshon SQL Anti-Patterns

Some well known docs on the topic- https://use-the-index-luke.com/sql/where-clause/obfuscation

LikesPwshon ASP.NET Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability

Yes

LikesPwshon User ban controversy reveals Bluesky’s decentralized aspiration isn’t reality

Anyone can generate an NFT, including IP you don't own or existing collections.

Hundreds of wallets might contain a the same monkey picture (or same hash and IPFS link to nitpick).

What matters is that Opensea says you have the "real" one.

Their database is the real list of who owns what, the blockchain is a distraction.

You can see it in their anti-theft systems. NFTs get hidden and blocked from trading after a police report, even if it's still there on the chain.

LikesPwshon User ban controversy reveals Bluesky’s decentralized aspiration isn’t reality

To clarify, I don't see users ever leaving centralised exchanges.

That means classic claims like "bitcoin is scarce" or "transactions don't require anyone's permission" or "transactions can't be censored" or "nobody can seize your bitcoin" are generally false in practice.

Even if a person only trades via bags of cash in dark alleyways and never touches exchanges, they're affected by all this "paper" bitcoin.

If they need to touch an exchange at any point, even if holding in a cold wallet 99% of the time, that exchange can still take 100% of their tokens.

LikesPwshon User ban controversy reveals Bluesky’s decentralized aspiration isn’t reality

The users could reject exchanges and trade entirely on-chain, but that's expensive/complicated/risky.

It is a serious concern for cryptocurrency that most users don't even get the touted benefits because of reliance on exchanges.

LikesPwshon EU Chat Control: Germany's position has been reverted to undecided

This topic is undemocratic because it's part of the constant attempts to rephrase and resubmit the same unpopular proposal.

It's p-hacking democracy. If a proposal has 5% chance of passing just resubmit it twenty times under different names with minor variations.

It wastes time that lawmakers could spend on proposals that the public actually want.

LikesPwshon Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised

Nuget, Powershell gallery, the marketplaces for VSCode/VS/AZDo and the Microsoft Store too. Probably another twenty.

They collect package managers like funko pops.

I'm not quite sure about the goal. Maybe some more C# dev kit style rug-pulls where the ecosystem is nominally open-source but MS own the development and distribution so nobody would bother to compete.