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There was indeed a lot of blockchain bullshit, but Bitcoin had and still has its usefulness. Though not necessarily for you and many others.

Well, it's called Hacker News after all :-)

Since you can configure it with a 16TB SSD, I wonder, is it QLC or did Apple manage to make it TLC?

dang this is a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50243061

Because it's hard to trust something. After all that's why you trust a brand more than others without trying all the products every single time. You can thank all the AI slop and kool aid promotion for the lack of confidence.

I don't find it tangential. If AI is so good with complicated software, it can deal with a simple website, right? Or then maybe it's not that great.

By the way, I'm still waiting for Meta and Google do something about Instagram and Chrome so that my CPU usage doesn't go to the roof. They're front runners in the AI race, so it should be easy for them, right?

Isn't Anthropic on some sort of a blacklist?

Good to know since I was thinking of using it as an access point.

... and kind of slow. I've recently looked at Mikrotik hAP be lite (A42G-HbeP ) [1] and noticed only 2315.1 Mbps for 25 bridge filter rules or 1430.3 Mbps for 25 ip filter rules.

I also heard a horror story about RouterOS coming with an insecure configuration by default, lots of open ports and services running which were recently affected by a vulnerability. Speaking of RouterOS do I have to also buy a license along with the hardware? How about updates?

[1]: https://mikrotik.com/product/hap_be_lite

You misunderstood me. I wasn't saying they didn't break the law, I honestly have no idea if they did. I was only saying that some people like the law because it makes people/companies which they hate (possibly for valid reasons) suffer. In other words they like only the sentence.

If you are talking about judges, prosecutors or sheriffs I could understand your opinion, but we're talking about a political function here.

How many people are using those AI slopware reimplementations? If only a few, I think the "traditional" companies will be safe for a while.

Why are you saying it will be way better when American companies asked their government to hit the breaks?

"NetBSD may have found a new role: The AI-free FOSS OS" (https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/10/13/netbsd-m...)

This sounds like one:

    C++ leads to really really bad design choices. You invariably start using
    the "nice" library features of the language like STL and Boost and other 
    total and utter crap, that may "help" you program, but causes:
    
     - infinite amounts of pain when they don't work (and anybody who tells me 
       that STL and especially Boost are stable and portable is just so full 
       of BS that it's not even funny)
    
     - inefficient abstracted programming models where two years down the road 
       you notice that some abstraction wasn't very efficient, but now all 
       your code depends on all the nice object models around it, and you 
       cannot fix it without rewriting your app.

If I'm not mistaking, you can put public domain or at least BSD/MIT code into the Linus kernel which is licensed under GPLv2. Other people are then free to use that specific code under that specific license instead of GPLv2.

Also, Linus Torvalds wrote long time ago (before v2.6.12) some simple assembly routines in linux/include/asm-i386/string.h [1] which are public domain:

    NO Copyright (C) 1991, 1992 Linus Torvalds,
    consider these trivial functions to be PD.

[1]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/v2.6.12/include/asm-i...

If I don't like the product because of its charging mechanism, not reporting battery level etc, I don't buy it.

> USB-C tongues break sometimes

Unlike barrel chargers which are also simpler. No need for fancy electronics and protocols. Let's not forget non-compliant USB chargers. I remember reading about a Chinese mini-PC manufacturer that sold a computer with a charger which provided 19V or so from the start without any negotiation. Hopefully no one tried to use it with another device.

Most people don't read any law their entire lifetime and hope for the best. But are you willing to risk it, if you're trying to do something? It does not even have to be complicated, it can be something as simple as having a website. Suddenly you have to deal with GDPR and it's not an easy task, otherwise we wouldn't have so many discussions and consultants, not to mention the fact that some websites prefer to just block European users.

The PDF for GDPR has 88 pages [1]. And it's just one thing. The AI act has another 144 pages [2]. Who's gonna read them?

[1]: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELE...

[2]: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:L...

Except that DMA didn't do anything for more fundamental problems like the email problem.

No, they just want to have something to brag about or think they know better (Soviet/communist style). Like, we're lazy and tired of having to carry our proprietary iPhone chargers, we know you're too, let's make USB mandatory.

Not quite. There's more and more you have to deal with instead of less. I don't want more laws to read and comply with, I want less.

Because the European Union has come up with shitty laws and regulations.

It mandated USB for charging everywhere, but didn't do a thing about driving on the right side of the road.

We have the digital markets act, yet when someone tries to send emails to some big American email providers, they have to register first, otherwise they don't even make it to the spam folder. But hey, let's have a big round of applause for fining X/Elon Musk and Meta because we hate them. Who cares about decades old protocols and ways of doing things?

What a waste of resources (yet AI seems to take all the blame nowadays). So he can login to the server in order to run curl, but he can't use scp/sftp?

Download over four parallel connections to the same server?!

Why don't you download directly from your server using say scp/sftp? Why are you using Tailscale?

> While they may be known across the world as ‘French fries’, there’s nothing French about them. The name ‘friet’ comes from patates frites, Belgian-French for ‘fried potatoes’. One possible explanation for the association could have been formed in the First World War, when American soldiers were introduced to ‘fried potatoes’ in Belgium, but thought they were in France because that was the language spoken in that region. Whether you call them Flemish or Belgian, our delicious fries are made from bintje potatoes per tradition, and are the tastiest you’ll find anywhere on the planet.

Source: https://www.visitflanders.com/en/discover-flanders/culinary-...

> ethernet usb card

Are you serious? It's going to ruin the performance or efficiency.

> you can create mental models with compilers, not so much with agents

I think you meant using a programming language.

> Autonomy: of you understand the code, you can always jump in to do fixed yourself if needed

Assuming you know how to code and the programming language which some vibe coders don't. There was someone bragging that he writes a ton of Rust without knowing the language, perhaps it was the creator of Bun or Redis, I'm not sure.

Anyway it's like Assembler can't have any structure and can't be read. After all Lotus 1-2-3 was written in Assembler until version 3.0.

While costs and availability are valid concerns, I find them somehow orthogonal.

There is also the issue of cooling. The iPhone will need extra cooling in order to function at full speed for more than a few minutes.

I understand what you're saying, yet I've tried running on Linux

    env LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1 python3.8 -c "import locale; print(locale.getpreferredencoding(False)); print('€urope'); print('STOP')"

and it worked fine.

And Linux would like to present you bubblewrap [1][2][3][4] or the infamous SELinux.

[1]: https://github.com/containers/bubblewrap#usage

[2]: https://man.archlinux.org/man/bwrap.1

[3]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Bubblewrap#Usage_examples

[4]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Bubblewrap/Examples#p7zip

I would ask the employee, the school whatever to stop using them. Or at least inform me somehow about what's going on.