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bastardoperator··on New Apple TV 4K
But more conversational AI, that doesn't inspire you?
bastardoperator··on Show HN: Microsoft Office running with Wine on Linux with no virtualization
I avoid both like the plague. These apps make me feel less productive and the docs they produce always look ugly to me. I would rather md, html or latex.
bastardoperator··on Apple Maps Renames Lake Ontario 'Lake America'
Why? Just looks like they're caving to a despot.
bastardoperator··on uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook
Crazy, I do all of that and more without Facebook and I don't find it difficult or manual at all. It seemed like you were implying people who use Facebook to plan tiny events are somehow more social. Maybe I read that wrong.
bastardoperator··on uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook
What's your favorite type of event to plan on Facebook?
bastardoperator··on Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK
This is far more likely to happen in a corporate setting with competent engineers who want to build/solve now versus relying on others. I've seen it 100% of the time with varying results.
bastardoperator··on Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
Court monitor that ensures compliance. It's not that hard.
bastardoperator··on Zed DeltaDB
It also feels like his former company could implement his new company in a couple of weeks if they choose to.
bastardoperator··on Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search
How do the municipalities "own" this data if anyone from any agency outside of a jurisdiction is allowed to access the data?
bastardoperator··on Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots
These robots are unusable in their current form. Slow and expensive, humans perform this work better and cheaper. Looks like every other robot before it, a bunch of servos and no brain.
bastardoperator··on GrapheneOS Defends Data-Wiping Function That Blocked US Border Search
Executive war making, overgrown militaries, debt, party politics, concentrated power, corporate power, and foreign entanglement.

The framers did not invision America in its current state, to state otherwise would be nonsense because we can just read the words they wrote.

bastardoperator··on OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened
I don't think it's just hacker news. I'm looking around and it seems to be widespread.
bastardoperator··on Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
Mandatory spending, they have obligations to Americans. I'm sorry veterans, seniors, poor people, and the disabled are such an inconvenience for you, or that you don't know what the word entitlement means.
bastardoperator··on Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
Maybe Apple lawyers can figure this out in discovery.
bastardoperator··on Stop Telling Me to Ask an LLM
Agreed, you can also preface the question. I've checked A, B, and C with AI, curious to get your opinion/thoughts?

I don't think anyone in any industry regardless of seniority would redirect you back to AI assuming you're having a genuine conversation.

bastardoperator··on Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
Agreed, we are giving an absolute load of welfare to billionaires. From tax breaks to bailouts, and to your point, it's sucking the life out of the American economy.
bastardoperator··on Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development
I have a bunch of computers and gadgets, why settle on one?
bastardoperator··on U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6
I remember when Republicans told us they want less regulation and smaller federal government. Now they want their dementia riddled god king to control everything from pool liners to the information you're allowed to see, which is all in books and readily available online.
bastardoperator··on Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society
Nintendo, Capcom, Activision, Konami, Sega, Bandai Namco, EA, Sunsoft, Atari, Taito, Bethesda, Tecmo and Naughty dog

All found in the 80's or earlier and still pretty well known today. It could be argued these are different companies today, but they exist.

bastardoperator··on SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
Wait, you think Elon solved these problems?
bastardoperator··on GitHub and the crime against software
Agreed, this is kind of the perfect use case for AI. I can see the prompt now "using css, make this website readable and use a proper color scheme"
bastardoperator··on SQLite is all you need for durable workflows
Are you one of my enterprise customers? What if your workload does not require write concurrency?
bastardoperator··on Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection
I can't speak for Utah, but I sued a valet for crashing my car in small claims. I was given the option for an additional fee to have the subpoena served by the Los Angeles Sheriffs Department. I think you're better off getting police involved if you can when it comes to serving people. In the case of the video I'm pretty sure he hired a certified process server and the police shut it down.
bastardoperator··on Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection
I recommend watching the videos and deciding for yourself. They've already won in court and nobody has paid them. How are they in the wrong at all here?
bastardoperator··on Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection
The best part is when the officer takes the process server's subpoena, says he'll serve it, then walks back and says the defendant isn't accepting it while refusing to allow her to serve the subpoena.

The search of his person over a call to police is a clear violation of his rights, a phone to call to police is not PC or RAS. The fact they held him for three hours will to be to his benefit in court. Arresting him for starting a gofundme, a clear violation of his first amendment rights, I mean they're just digging that hole. Then they raid him, dislocate his arm, and now he has a warrant out for physical threats?

This story is not blowing up because because of Legos or stealing from old people. It's blowing up because we're watching a corporation and a police department abuse their power and we're all grossed out by it.

bastardoperator··on 1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries
It's famous for being toxic and unmoderated. You can do anything... want to be racist, cool, doxxing people, cool, targeted harassment, you bet your ass.
bastardoperator··on Google I/O
I actually love this. They think they'll be able to control this tech and be lords over everyone. In the meantime everyone is replacing them with homegrown solutions.
bastardoperator··on Grafana says stolen GitHub token allowed attackers to download its codebase
GH provides an IP allow list and corp proxy capability to enterprise users. Unless the attacker pwned the entire corp network which is worse than leaking a token, these types of issues can mitigated. Tokens are useless if they don't originate from a specific IP space or contain the proxy header, but you have to set them up.
bastardoperator··on Grok Build
LOL
bastardoperator··on Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions
Wrap it up, this guy doesn't like the database (they use two), azure is terrible despite being the cash cow for msft, and OP could easily build a more scalable scm service with their pinky and half their brain because they know better then thousands of engineers. I don't know whats more comical, GH going down everyday, or watching bros trying to flex.
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