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ShakataGaNai··on Show HN: After a decade of reversing, I got co-op working in DOS Wing Commander
Oh man. Blast from the past. I loved wing commander back in the day.
ShakataGaNai··on CorridorKey 2.0
A beta price of $50 or full price of $100 is really a steal. If you do ANY sort of video production work, this is an amazing tool. The more casual of a green screen person you are, the more impressive this is.

This is like Magnet Mask for Final Cut, but probably better. I haven't compared/contrasted the two yet, but I have faith that Corridor has knocked this one out of the park from the demos I have seen.

(Yes, you can download it for free. You're paying for the pre-packaged convenience. I 100% paid them to support the work they are doing).

ShakataGaNai··on OpenSSL 4.1.0
Guys, after this week, can we make sure to have more details in the title? Like "Look! Cool new OpenSSL features" so we're not PTSD'ing our way into release notes expecting it to say something about patching critical CVEs?
ShakataGaNai··on New Withings Users Must Pay $99/Year for Apple Health Syncing
I agree, that's a great use for AI.

As for the timing... If you BOUGHT the product before October 13th and simply didn't activate an account yet - then it might still be worthy of a complaint. I'm not saying they are actively false advertising, I haven't checked every one of their store fronts after all. But it is a valid path for someone who did get swindled.

ShakataGaNai··on New Withings Users Must Pay $99/Year for Apple Health Syncing
#1 - If you bought the product with Apple Health sync in mind and it doesn't do that for free, file a complaint with your OAG. It's false advertising.

#2 - If you have the apps today, you should warn other users with a review (which may or may not be 1 star).

#3 - If you haven't reviewed the product on Amazon, you should warn other users with a review (which may or may not be 1 star).

ShakataGaNai··on Passkeys are not a trap
Passkeys are FINE. The implementations suck.

The entire thing where some websites let you set them up, some force them on you, and some just surprise you.... sucks.

The fact that Passkeys don't have an easy migration path between secret storage tools is also a problem.

But if you know what you're doing they are not only perfectly safe, but REALLY safe. Much safer than any other option we have. And seriously way more convenient as well.

ShakataGaNai··on Apple HomeView
Its the same price as an Apple TV 4K, 4th gen. Which is twice the price of the previous generation.

RAMpocalypse sucks.

ShakataGaNai··on Once: Cache CLI commands
I 100% love this idea and example and I very much appreciate it.
ShakataGaNai··on Once: Cache CLI commands
OMG. `op read` with agents. Holy shit.

I first clicked this with just a mild curiosity. But as soon as I saw the 1password example. Lightning.

I try to do everything "the right way", no secrets on disk, gitops, the whole shebang. Even for my personal projects. But when working with API keys and agents it can get so frustrating. I refuse to admit to the number of times where I've told the agent "Please write the 1Password creds to .env and use .env instead because I'm tired of clicking approve on my watch 15 times for every test run."

ShakataGaNai··on Sorry, I'm in a meeting
This is a hysterical idea and I love it. I have no need for it because wfh, but its so funny.

It made me realize how easy to would be to build your own custom version of the audio. Feed your corporate approved LLM some content to generate a script on, to mention your company name, your products, your stupid internal codenames because some exec thinks they are clever. Nothing secret of course, and have it generate a bunch of mindless chatter. "Ah yes, lets circle back about Project Panamax, the expected delivery in Q2 is pushed back to Q3 due to the release of the new Guard feature".

ShakataGaNai··on Show HN: CUA-S1 – A System One Model for Computer Use
I think this is the logical next step in AI. There will be a few large "smart" AI models, but mostly smaller more hyper-specialized. In large part because they are faster to build....and faster/cheaper to run. As the model this post is about shows - you don't need to be able to write the works of shakespear to be able to run a computer.

The frontier models are already getting STUPID expensive. More than the average person certainly can reasonably afford for any use case. And even the business users are having a hard time justifying the prices for anything other than the most bleeding edge, "big picture" things (like creating a huge project plan).

ShakataGaNai··on .name Termination
Yea. Super confused.

I have myname .name - so I thought that was going away. Granted I barely use it, but still it would be annoying. I didn't recall there were 3rd level domains there.

ShakataGaNai··on Redis 8.8: New array data structure, rate limiter, performance improvements
Are we still using Redis? License change, no more Kube operators.
ShakataGaNai··on Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3p2F5HWdSY -- BSidesSF 2026 - Your AI Agent Has Production Access: Now What? (Jack)

> The parallels between AI agent security and human insider risk are remarkably strong -- @5:15

ShakataGaNai··on Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability
AirTags have always been "meh" about "finding" anything in motion. And by that I mean the up close "locate this device". I ASSUME it has to do with the fact that its trying to create a multiple point triangulation using only a single device (eg the phone you are on).

Even an airtag moving a little bit, will give you warnings in find my.

ShakataGaNai··on Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability
The better solution is the route that Insta360 took with the Go Ultra. The camera has embedded "Find My" technology. No Airtag or hiding things required, the entire camera is the tag.

All we need to do is get more camera companies to follow suit.

ShakataGaNai··on ChatGPT Health
AI in health - makes sense.

OpenAI in health - I'm reticent.

As someone who pays for ChatGPT and Claude, and uses them EVERYDAY... I still am not sure how I feel about these consumer apps having access to all my health data. OpenAI doesn't have the best track record of data safety.

Sure OpenAI business side has SOC2/ISO27001/HIPAA compliance, but does the consumer side? In the past their certifications have been very clearly "this is only for the business platform". And yes, I know regular consumer don't know what SOC2 is other than a pair of socks that made it out of the dryer.... but still. It's a little scary when getting into very personal/private health data.

Gattaca is supposed to be a warning, not a prediction. Then again neither was Idiocracy, yet here we are.

ShakataGaNai··on ChatGPT Health
Unfortunately I don't think that's a good solution. Memories are an excellent feature and you see them on.... most similar services now.

Yes, projects have their uses. But as an example - I do python across many projects and non-projects alike. I don't want to want to need to tell ChatGPT exactly how I like my python each and everytime, or with each project. If it was just one or two items like that, fine, I can update its custom instruction personalization. But there are tons of nuances.

The system knowing who I am, what I do for work, what I like, what I don't like, what I'm working on, what I'm interested in... makes it vastly more useful. When I randomly ask ChatGPT "Hey, could I automate this sprinkler" it knows I use home assistant, I've done XYZ projects, I prefer python, I like DIY projects to a certain extent but am willing to buy in which case be prosumer. Etc. Etc. It's more like a real human assistant, than a dumb-bot.

ShakataGaNai··on Eat Real Food
Its unfortunate the way modern politics has gone. I see this site and am immediately suspicious. What bullshit is there? What ulterior motive should I be concerned about?

Rather than reading it, assuming it was fact based science. Maybe not the best because governments never get things 100%.... but at least able to trust it. Now specifically because this is RFK's MAHA world, I assume everything on this site is a lie.

After reading through it I don't see anything terrible or stupidly over the top. Yes, more proteins and vegetables good, less heavily processed foods.

ShakataGaNai··on A Safer Container Ecosystem with Docker: Free Docker Hardened Images
> Open Source

Where? Lets take a random example: https://hub.docker.com/hardened-images/catalog/dhi/traefik

Ok, where is the source? Open source means I can build it myself, maybe because I'm working in an offline/airgapped/high compliance environment.

I found a "catalogue" https://github.com/docker-hardened-images/catalog/blob/main/... but this isn't a build file, it's some... specialized DHI tool to build? Nothing https://github.com/docker-hardened-images shows me docs where I can build it myself or any sort of "dhi" tool.

ShakataGaNai··on $50 PlanetScale Metal Is GA for Postgres
More importantly, no bandwidth charge penalty. As leaving AWS isn't inexpensive.
ShakataGaNai··on Carrier Landing in Top Gun for the NES
My friends owned it (I was never allowed to have a NES myself). Not once did ANY of us ever manage to land the plane. We tried MANY times. This blog makes it seem so easy I want to be angry at it :-)
ShakataGaNai··on Why Twilio Segment moved from microservices back to a monolith
Too much of anything sucks. Too big of a monolith? Sucks. Too many microservices? Sucks. Getting the right balance is HARD.

Plus, it's ALWAYS easier/better to run v2 of something when you completely re-write v1 from scratch. The article could have just as easily been "Why Segment moved from 100 microservices to 5" or "Why Segment rewrote every microservice". The benefits of hindsight and real-world data shouldn't be undersold.

At the end of the day, write something, get it out there. Make decisions, accept some of them will be wrong. Be willing to correct for those mistakes or at least accept they will be a pain for a while.

In short: No matter what you do the first time around... it's wrong.

ShakataGaNai··on Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free
Probably a lot of overlap in the venn diagram of people who would like the two things. Mostly the "Early Adopter" circle.

Also a lot of cars have a lot of limitations with comma.ai. Yes, you can install it on all sorts but there are limitations like: above 32mph, cannot resume from stop, cannot take tight corners, cannot do stop light detection, requires additional car upgrades/features, only known to support model year 2021. Etc.

Rivian supports everything, it has a customer base who LOVE technology, are willing to try new things, and ... have disposable income for a $1k extra gadget.

ShakataGaNai··on Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free
I would wager that's because there isn't a lot of existing silicon that fits the bill. What COTS equipment is there that has all the CPU/Tensor horsepower these systems need... AND is reasonably power efficient AND is rated for a vehicle (wild temp extremes like -20F to 150F+, constant vibration, slams and impacts... and will keep working for 15 years).

Yea, Tesla has some. But they aren't sharing their secret sauce. You can't just throw a desktop computer in a car and expect it to survive for the duration. Ford et all aren't anywhere close to having "premium silicon".

So you're only option right now is to build your own. And hope maybe that you can sell/license your designs to others later and make bucks.

ShakataGaNai··on Steam Machine
Their "launch trailer" shows the Steam Machine running Windows.
ShakataGaNai··on FreakWAN: A floor-routing WAN implementing a chat over bare-LoRa (no LoRaWAN)
Temperature Compensated Crystal Oscillators (TCXOs) is what they should be looking for. And to be clear you can get SX1262 variants with such, eg: https://wiki.seeedstudio.com/wio_sx1262/

For the detailed run down, see https://cdn.sparkfun.com/assets/f/f/b/4/2/SX1262_AN-Recommen... page 14

> In the case of an SX1262 operating at +22 dBm in the US 902 – 928 MHz band, the frequency drift measured during the maximum LoRAWAN™ packet duration stays below the maximum limit, provided thermal insulation is implemented around the crystal during PCB design.

> At extreme temperatures (below -20 °C and above 70 °C), it is recommended to use a TCXO.

> For any other frequency bands corresponding to longer RF packet transmissions at +22 dBm, it is recommended to use a TCXO.

ShakataGaNai··on Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade
I have to agree that there were a lot of good options, but uv's speed is what sets it apart.

Also the ability to have a single script with deps using TOML in the headers super eaisly.

Also Also the ability to use a random python tool in effectively seconds with no faffing about.

ShakataGaNai··on DuckDuckGo Donates $25,000 to The Perl and Raku Foundation v2025
People are still using Perl for large project in 2025?

Look, I don't hate Perl. It was my first real language beyond basic that I used for a long long time. But Perl's popularity peaked in the late 90s? Early 2000s? The failed Perl 6 adventure was about the time that people started fleeing elsewhere, like PHP.

ShakataGaNai··on What if I don't want videos of my hobby time available to the world?
> Another fun one, while I'm here. C. 2010, we're shooting a music video in central Melbourne. We're on the public pavement. There's a bank ATM waaaay in the background. Bank security come out. Sorry mate, you can't film here.

> We told them, we can. We're on public land. So they call the cops. We politely wait for the cops. The cops turn up.

Heh. As a photog I've have plenty of similar run ins with people...but only when wielding an SLR (or similar). Was once standing on a sidewalk, saw a building that looked cool, took a picture. I'm more into architecture than people. Security comes out from the lobby to accost me. I very politely told them "Dude, I'm on the sidewalk, you can't do shit"

I also had the local transit agency threaten to call the cops on me for taking photos. Literally of just the platform and rails (without people) when I was trying to document the system for Wikipedia. Even though on their website it EXPLICITLY states that what I was doing was within their rules. Ignoring the fact that it was totally legal regardless.

That time I just (metaphorically) ran away rather than dealing with a belligerent station agent. Was what I was doing wrong? No. Was it legal? Yes. But did I want to deal with the transit police? Nope.

The thing that drives me batshit nuts is no one seems to care if you're taking a picture with a phone. The latest iPhone have megapixel counts in excess of many DSLR and mirrorless cameras. I can be way more sneaky with my phone. By using a DSLR type camera I'm being very public that "Hey, I'm taking a picture here" that should assure people, rather than scare them.

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