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acd··on Sony Deletes a Bunch More Movies from the Accounts of People Who 'Bought' Them
Isnt there an issue with "Buy" and different countries marketing laws? Ie it implies "Hold" or "TemporaryKeep".

Guess it will be an upswing of BlueRay movies. Already happening with LPs and CDs

acd··on Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers
Code that is written will have to maintained often by someone else than who wrote the code. So if one write code nobody else understands its an eventual maintenence failure.

You could optimize for different things. Code understandability by the team, speed, technical brilliance.

If you optimize for technical brilliance but nobody else on the team understands the code its still a failure.

Seen over engineered code

acd··on EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products
Big corp penny slap on the fingers. I dont this amount will change behaviour or incentive to make larger profit.
acd··on Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools
Actually with data fusion VPN does not fix privacy. Ad networks does data fusion of Javascript browser finger print. So you are de cloaked any way on a VPN
acd··on I love Linux, but I can't quit Windows
Use Winpodx and run Windows apps as a container in Linux

https://github.com/kernalix7/winpodx

acd··on Waymo updates 3,800 robotaxis after they 'drive into standing water'
But as soon as what happens is an unusual event that is not in training data it get dangerous.

Think of any abnormal weather events that would make news headlines such as Lightning, blizzard, snow storms etc

This need to be simulated

Or the litmus test would the developers ride in such a product at such an event?

acd··on NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers
Sounds useful for display purposes
acd··on Foxing aspires to be an eBPF-powered replication engine for Linux filesystems
How does it compare to drbd?

"Distributed Replicated Block Device (DRBD)[3] is a distributed replicated storage system for the Linux platform. It mirrors block devices between multiple hosts"

Which I think may be technology used by clouds

acd··on Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March
Go Linux. Gamers will have a better experiance in Linux. Predict that Windows will become an legacy emulation layer.
acd··on Philly courts will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week
The problem is when people wear "smart" aka dumb privacy glasses in public restrooms. Should be banned or geofenced
acd··on Wired headphone sales are exploding
Will wired speakers make a come back? Stereo separation vs mono pods?
acd··on You can turn Claude's most annoying feature off
Claude code once said verb it was "Slithering" I then changed the verb.
acd··on GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple
I want to break free - Queen :)

Lyrics https://genius.com/Queen-i-want-to-break-free-lyrics

acd··on Why is Singapore no longer "cool"?
I think low fertility rate is related to high Internet use. You could argue its about high education.
acd··on Volkswagen Brings Back Physical Buttons
The aviation industry has spent decades researching cockpit design, running simulator studies, and learning from accidents. They still use physical buttons for critical controls. If touchscreen-everything was safer or better, they’d have adopted it by now. The main reasons cars are removing buttons are cost savings and aesthetics—not driver safety.
acd··on Tell HN: Azure outage
Putting all your eggs software in one basket
acd··on Kagi News
Any payments to journalists and news sites?
acd··on Denmark's Justice Minister calls encrypted messaging a false civil liberty
Universal Declaration of Human Rights

"Article 12

No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks."

acd··on Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion
Social media is actually anti social. Meeting real people and making real connections is social.
acd··on Lenovo Legion Go S: Windows 11 vs. SteamOS Performance, and General Availability
When gamers get better FPS on Linux they will switch os.
acd··on Kiro: A new agentic IDE
Not amazed! Tell me one good reason I should use it?

Lets see EU US data privacy shield gone. Aws a bunch of open source tools gobbled together with proprietary source. Trust in made in US cloud platform tools is gone!

acd··on Proton joins suit against Apple for practices that harm developers and consumers
No the US Sherman anti trust law prohibit monopolies. Its not a corporate right but right by citizens not to be affected by monopoly by rule of law or until tried.

"The Sherman Act broadly prohibits 1) anticompetitive agreements and 2) unilateral conduct that monopolizes or attempts to monopolize the relevant market. " source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Antitrust_Act

acd··on Data centers contain 90% crap data
Thats why human brains forget
acd··on Framework Laptop 12 pre-orders open next week
Framework fells more hacker friendly than macbooks which solder dram, cant upgrade storage cant easily swap battery, glued screen etc etc
acd··on Ask HN: Why can't Mozilla offer a paid privacy tier?
Mozilla need to remove Javascript finger printing identity from the browser

Try it from a VPN https://amiunique.org/

acd··on Rethinking Zoning to Increase Affordable Housing 
While zoning restrictions can limit housing supply, the dramatic house price increases observed globally are better explained by monetary policy, particularly historically low interest rates. This is evidenced by simultaneous price increases across jurisdictions with vastly different zoning laws. When interest rates fell to historic lows, monthly mortgage payments became more affordable, leading to increased buying power and competition across all markets - even those with flexible zoning. The rapid price changes following interest rate shifts, compared to the gradual effect of zoning policies, demonstrates that monetary policy is the dominant factor in recent price trends.
acd··on Vanilla OS 2 Orchid
Vanilla os is awesome! Thanks to the developers!
acd··on Love being interrupted when my monitor asks me to accept user agreements
Have your pet accept the EULA :)
acd··on Americans' love affair with big cars is killing them
Let's consider the energy efficiency of moving a vehicle weighing about 2000kg to transport a person who weighs around 100kg. That's a ratio of vehicle to person of about 20:1.

A potential solution would be to give heavier cars worse crash ratings. This approach would take into account not only the safety of the occupants of the car but also the occupants of other vehicles.

acd··on Dear AI Companies, instead of scraping OpenStreetMap, how about a $10k donation?
Content attribution where content providers get paid.
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