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elaus··on Whistleblower: DOGE Siphoned NLRB Case Data
They probably do, but those instances are not noticed and therefore don't make the news.
elaus··on Adobe deletes Bluesky posts after backlash
It doesn't seem to me like the linked page contains "hallucination ridden bullshit".
elaus··on Why I'm Boycotting AI
How is stocking shelves more fulfilling than being a cashier? Cashiers at least interact and talk with people.

I have nothing against people using self-checkout, but making it sound like you're doing something good for people seems absurd and is only there to make oneself feel better when, in reality, jobs WILL be lost because of it. No need to sugarcoat it.

elaus··on Tech terms I was pronouncing wrong
I feel like hardly anyone in Germany knows how to pronounce Azure (myself included for the longest time). There are no other common words like it, and what feels like the most obvious pronunciation is far from the correct one.
elaus··on iPhones were being stolen off porches right after delivery, and now we know how
I have only ever seen this for goods bought at Amazon and delivered by Amazon logistics.
elaus··on FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies
And if they want me as a customer, they have to follow _my_ rules.

Obviously the restaurant has enough other customers and I have enough other restaurants to go to, so we both will be fine.

elaus··on Tesla drives into Wile E. Coyote fake road wall in camera vs. Lidar test
Sorry, but did you even watch the video? I found the tone to be quite neutral, and he gives Tesla credit where credit is due. Besides, the video isn’t even about Tesla or “Elon”; it’s just one of multiple applications of LIDAR discussed in this video.
elaus··on Military grade sonic weapon is used against protesters in Serbia
Even without knowing the background of those protests: It is heartbreaking to see a crowd of peaceful people (seemingly during a moment of silence) being attacked by their own country and fleeing in panic and pain.
elaus··on Canadian Devs Are Backing Out of Attending GDC
I think the community still does its best to downvote low-effort comments like that (independent of the political position). But as a non-American it sure is annoying to see more and more of them.
elaus··on Svelte5: A Less Favorable Vue3
I think people usually only talk about "Svelte", but that doesn't really imply a "Svelte v1". So it's very plausible to miss the existence of major versions of not working with it.
elaus··on Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord
A benevolent assumption would be that GP tries out a lot of stuff (according to their other comments) and therefore mixed something up, unwittingly spreading FUD about Revolt
elaus··on Jeep owners fed up with in-car pop-up ads
Not sure if they are a reality or just a MBA's wet dream yet: TVs with integrated eSIM to not even require WIFI for transmitting usage data and ads.
elaus··on Blender-made movie Flow takes Oscar
And the value of Blender (or any 3D rendering software) is not only the fidelity of the rendered result, but the tools it gives artists to transform their vision into something that can be rendered by a computer.
elaus··on Ente: Self Host the Google Photos Alternative and Own Your Privacy
Very happy with using Immich[1] for self-hosting a Google Photos alternative. Feels good to not push all those private memories to big tech.

What would be the main differences to Ente Photos? The on-by-default encryption?

[1] https://immich.app/

elaus··on HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to 'feedback'
It worked great until the information about the policy got leaked AND made headlines around the world. I'm sure a lot of this stuff is going on which doesn't make it to the HN front page and therefore goes on for years, marginall increasing profits while actively harming customers.
elaus··on I pulled data on 1378 restaurants from Google Maps to rank them in order
There are companies that remove bad reviews as a service. The most popular way seems to contest that the user really was a customer, which forces Google to request a proof (e.g. a receipt). Most users either don't have the receipt anymore or don't care enough, so the review gets deleted.
elaus··on Associated Press Barred from Oval Office for Not Using 'Gulf of America'
I have not seen any claims that this move is against the law?
elaus··on Fake VS Code Extension on NPM Spreads Multi-Stage Malware
Worst of all: the article never explains what npm has to do with it. Vscode extensions are not installed via npm, so at least part of the malware depends on the Vscode extension store.
elaus··on Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI
Reading the other comments in this Twitter thread it seems like it's gotten much worse than in the years before. It's seems so much more political and radicalized now.
elaus··on Google says it will change Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' in Maps
> it’s a bit hypocritical to expect companies to ignore the government now

Not an American, but my impression has always been that the right expected companies to ignore "ideological partisan positions" as well when they came from the left?

So it seems fair that the roles are reversed now: the right is pushing for positions and the left wants companies not to follow.

elaus··on Google open-sources the Pebble OS
I prefer to shit on companies that don't even do "the bare minimum" and never publish source code of their dead products. Today, this is not Google.
elaus··on Nvidia’s $589B DeepSeek rout
Grab for the falling knife
elaus··on Show HN: DeepSeek My User Agent
> Roasting your Firefox 135 on Linux setup from <redacted>—because nothing says "I have opinions about open-source" like a 16-core CPU crying over hckrnews.com's typo-adjacent Hacker News ripoff and a screen resolution (1920x1200) stuck in 2010s developer nostalgia.

I feel called out - well done.

elaus··on DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL
Oh wow, o1 really refuses to answer that, even though the answer that Deepseek gives is really tame (and legal in my jurisdiction): use software to record what's currently playing on your computer, then play stuff in the YTM app.
elaus··on Canon wants us to pay for using our own camera as a webcam
I mean why invest $70 (and a lot of ressources) in hardware when, in theory, you have everything you need, the software is just locked behind a paywall?
elaus··on Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]
There are 24 starting positions visible while MK8 only supported 12-player races.
elaus··on Man trapped inside driverless car as it spins in circles
What a sensationalist headline. The car slowly drives around in circles on a parking lot and the passenger apparently does not feel in danger (being on the phone with CS and taking videos for social media).
elaus··on Show HN: Counting Tap Toy
Yes, by level 12 the audio was still counting up the stuff from level 9. Actually exciting to outrun the speech by clicking faster.

(I didn't know the goal/purpose of the game at that time, so I just clicked through, hoping for something to change)

elaus··on 1-800-ChatGPT
> Google is crushing it with releases. Gemini 2.0 is great, […]

Isn't that exactly (part of) what they were saying in the comment you replied to?

> […] building better tech. Gemini will be faster/better and it will have more features

elaus··on Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History
I'm also puzzled by many of the comments that are (for HN standards) exceptionally angry and dismissive.

Yeah, apparently the data is incomplete and there are some errors/disputes. But that will always be the case when processing huge amounts of data in a way that's never done before. I'd hope we could provide more helpful feedback (what _exactly_ is incorrect and what is the source of the correct information).

Edit: upon closer inspection I found many of the comments originating from the same users, so maybe it's just a very passionate topic for a small but vocal group.

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