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..really useful on a Mac. FTFY

apples_orangeson Here Be Monsters: What Do You Still Need to Know When Agents Do the Work?

Guiding works as long as the agent is neutral or on your side but if it’s secretly an adversary ..

apples_orangeson AI promised less work. I've never worked more

YMMV but for me it’s the opposite

apples_orangeson Behind the scenes at the NeXT Computer office

I remember Next only from using their classes in Mac/iOS Development. For example NSString, where NS stands for NextStep.

apples_orangeson Tell HN: I unknowingly broke the PHP RCE embargo. I am sorry.

Oh just imagine if politicians talked like that.. (off topic I know)

apples_orangeson AfD Leak: What 421,179 Hacked Emails Show about the German Far Right

On Mac one can create throwaway iCloud email addresses for such cases, but yeah..

apples_orangeson The Tao of Backup

Loss of hard disk is a great way to declutter your system just saying

apples_orangeson Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe

Something changed and adjusting is slow

apples_orangeson Qwen 3.8 Omni Flash

Why not just ask Google AI or ChatGPT to help with choosing?

apples_orangeson Data collected by cars and sold to third parties

Politics should put it on the agenda. It would influence my vote

apples_orangeson DeepSeek v4.1 Flash

Marketing, like Volvo cars being safer etc

apples_orangeson Smartphone LED detects hidden cameras with AI

that would be bad for their reputation

apples_orangeson Smartphone LED detects hidden cameras with AI

I would assume most Airbnbs have hidden cameras, but that's just a feeling

apples_orangeson Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU

The arguments that some put forward against the eu are as educated as the people declaring fiat money a scam back in the Bitcoin hype phase.

While there are reasons not to join, most commenters against it have no clue what they are talking about.

apples_orangeson 9th Circuit sides with states in Kalshi gambling fight

I see a lot of questions here that can be googled or asked with AI chat. Good question, but I also think, why didn’t that person just find out themselves? It’s so easy..

apples_orangeson Europe's last regular standard-gauge steam passenger service

I also think there must be more

apples_orangeson Small, native web tricks worth remembering

please don't hide scrollbars :)

apples_orangeson Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things

Yes but investors and users seem to react well to it. Opencode for example gets mentioned more often than Cline even though it’s arguably inferior, openclaw is another example. Just name your stuff openX to win..

apples_orangeson Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things

Idea: Qwen should change its name to OpenQwen - this would probably 10x their usage. :D

apples_orangeson SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop?

Would be nice to get high karma commenter votes count only ..

apples_orangeson Ron Gilbert started production on Thimbleweed Park 2

People keep saying that about Atlantis but why can’t the game be enough without a movie remake .. don’t you all want new stories? Isn’t that why Disney star wars sucks?

apples_orangeson A Trampoline

You can buy parts to make it as new again

apples_orangeson User Interfaces of the Demo Scene

This reminds me why I studied CS. I planned to do something else but one day in school we got the assignment to write a computer program and I wrote an ascii scroller game instead and I realized how fun that is and changed my plans to become a programmer.

apples_orangeson So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

I always surf in anon windows that forget all cookies. Works since 2010 without any plugins. :)

apples_orangeson The lost joy of music piracy

Now music pirates itself.

(Thinking of AI generated music which doesn't get more than a few % of total listening time, but give it some time..)

apples_orangeson Tiny Emulators

Good strategy, I tried that, too, but unfortunately on my laptop I need to press Fn+F1 to get F1 and that I did not hit randomly :D

apples_orangeson Tiny Emulators

Ah thank you!

apples_orangeson Tiny Emulators

How do I play Boulderdash on C64? Stuck at the title screen..

apples_orangeson Immich 3.0

Does it have image editing tools like rotate and crop and is it aware of basic exif metadata?