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MiscIdeaMaker99··on Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads
> No one makes Apple release new products.

Their shareholders sure do.

MiscIdeaMaker99··on Will Open Source Survive the Agents That Replaced It?
What does it mean for open source to survive? Exactly what software are we talking about here?

I don't know about everyone else's experiences, but the AI agent that I use every day at work would rather install a tool or library than spend tokens recreating software that already exists out there. As such, the argument doesn't make much sense to me, personally.

MiscIdeaMaker99··on Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
I read that book earlier this year and really enjoyed reading it. The audiobook was also spoken by the author.
MiscIdeaMaker99··on Taste Is All That's Left
Considering all the minor grammatical issues I'm seeing, I think it's very much written by a human.
MiscIdeaMaker99··on GLM 5.2 Is Out
I don't know what you consider to be safe, but I assume you're talking about privacy and data retention.

You can pay someone like Ollama, which is US-based, which runs those models in their cloud. You can also download many/most of the models to run them locally on your own computer, although the performance depends entirely on your hardware capabilities.

Ollama has their own policies about privacy and data retention here:

https://ollama.com/privacy

That's just one third-party doing this, and there are many others.

MiscIdeaMaker99··on GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits
The optics don't look good for Microsoft, but we don't know their side of the story.
MiscIdeaMaker99··on The worst job interview I ever had
Same.

I left a really good job for a year, to go work for a company CEO'd by a buddy of mine. I had a bad, sinking feeling in my gut from the very beginning when In interviewed with my new boss (not my buddy). Sure enough, I fucking hated working for him, and quit after a year.

When I was leaving my old job, I remember rationalizing it to myself that I would regret not doing it if I didn't try. I have mixed feelings about that job -- not necessarily regret for taking it, but definitely some regrets for how things went down at the end.

With that being said, if I had turned down that job, I don't know if I would regret it now or not. Who's to say?

Anyway, I got my old job back, and lasted there for several more years. It's still the best place I ever worked.

MiscIdeaMaker99··on The worst job interview I ever had
I remember having this interview with an HR person several years ago (like in the early 2010s) where she asked me all these vague, difficult to answer questions. None of them were technical, and I can't remember a single one of them now, but they reminded me of the vague questions we get from various IT audits.

<< insert "dodged a bullet" comment here >>

MiscIdeaMaker99··on Tesla Wall Connector bootloader bypasses the firmware downgrade ratchet
I can confirm this. Our Model 3 doesn't charge as fast using a NEMA 14-50 plug connected via the Tesla-provided mobile charger.

When we moved to a new house, we bought a Tesla wall charger, and it indeed charges at higher amps, but I don't know if the extra speed has necessarily been worth it since we primarily charge the car overnight.

MiscIdeaMaker99··on The Onion to Take over InfoWars
And I'm _still_ laughing. LOL
MiscIdeaMaker99··on IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark
Since when was there ever a plan to disable IPv4 on the Internet? Just because IPv6 is around doesn't mean that IPv4 is going to go away.
MiscIdeaMaker99··on Artemis II crew take 'spectacular' image of Earth
What a gorgeous sight to behold!
MiscIdeaMaker99··on Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025)
Where was that coal coming from?
MiscIdeaMaker99··on Addressing Antigravity Bans and Reinstating Access
I feel dumb. I've never heard of Antigravity until now.
MiscIdeaMaker99··on A list of fun destinations for telnet
BatMUD is the one I played a long time ago, and has been around for 35 years now. I honestly don't know how active it is these days.

https://www.bat.org

MiscIdeaMaker99··on A list of fun destinations for telnet
During the Summer of 1997, I stayed at my university and had a job at the computer lab in the basement of the library. We had four Windows 95 PCs, four Mac Quadras, and then tons of VT terminals. I specifically remember the one at the lab assistants desk being a VT-320. Anyway, it was enough for me to telnet to BatMUD. I got all the way up to level 32 or so (and made some friends!) before I stopped playing. Man, that was a great Summer. Well ... it was great until I got cheated on but that's a whole other story. :-p
MiscIdeaMaker99··on YouTube Is Degraded
I just went to the site and started watching a video -- seems to be working for me, at least. YMMV
MiscIdeaMaker99··on Apple Maps claims it's 29,905 miles away
Except this one is not on the windshield.
MiscIdeaMaker99··on Apple Maps claims it's 29,905 miles away
Looks like a bug that I hope someone will have a fun time fixing.
MiscIdeaMaker99··on What will enter the public domain in 2026?
Which constitution would that be, again?
MiscIdeaMaker99··on Show HN: I made a down detector for down detector
Maybe? Maybe not? It depends on the nature of the outage and how motivated their customers are to switch over to a new service.
MiscIdeaMaker99··on Six months into tariffs, businesses have no idea how to price anything
Market forces will prevail.
MiscIdeaMaker99··on Discord Is Threatening to Shutdown BotGhost
We definitely had bots on IRC in the 90s.
MiscIdeaMaker99··on Why don't Americans trust experts? Just ask a paranormal investigator
I agree. Lots and lots of them died, as result.
MiscIdeaMaker99··on Medical aid in dying, my health, and so on
What constitutes a sound mind?
MiscIdeaMaker99··on Sneakers (1992) – 4K makeover sourced from the original camera negative
This came out when I was in high school and it's been one of my favorite movies ever since. I still watch it from time to time.
MiscIdeaMaker99··on Whisky is no longer actively maintained
Yes, CrossOver (which is mentioned in the article) works on Apple Silicon.
MiscIdeaMaker99··on Wikipedia is struggling with voracious AI bot crawlers
> Why would you crawl the web interface when the data is so readily available in a even better format?

It's entirely possible they don't know about this. I certainly didn't until just now.

MiscIdeaMaker99··on Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones
> The 3rd parties are not getting anything out of it.

Except all the profits from selling all those cables, connectors, and converters.

MiscIdeaMaker99··on Steam Networks
Indianapolis also has a large steam network, with a prominent steam plant located in the southwest corner of downtown proper -- just down the street from Lucas Oil Stadium.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_K._Generating_Station

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