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erremerreon Basically no one is using AI agents for their DoorDash orders

In this case, the problem is at the search bar. Because if there is no cable extension for what I want, the search should show me no items. But that is not good for business, so instead, it shows me crap tangentially related to my search.

None of the IA were useful to work against that anti-user pattern, so at the end I just lost my time, and confidence in assign search task for certain products to IA chats.

erremerreon Basically no one is using AI agents for their DoorDash orders

Because they dont work. End of the story.

The other day I want to have a 1m cable extension male/female for a XH1.25 It is impossible to find one, because you only find kits to make your own, or a 20 or 30cm one.

I tried with several free LLM, so that they can likely watch much more than I can do and filter all kits, and give the cable I want.

Not a single one was able to provide with a link I could use from my location. They kept suggesting that I shall try these "searches", or products, that were not exactly what I asked.

It is a very simple query, and to be fair, it should be solved at the search box, but it isn't.

The truth is that, if I would let it do it without checking now I would have paid for a kit to make the cable or something else that is not what I want.

erremerreon Hackers hit French national blood bank

I think this is probably something good to happen because what it is not normal, is that a company, any company, can sell you a half assed product, call it End Of Life with flagrant issues still happening, clean their hands, and leave you with the problem or having to buy another product, with the environmental cost of it plus the economical cost of it.

And the only solution, it is to enforce company to offer updates and support a product for at least half a century, and enforce that any code of that product must become available and modifiable in case the company is unable to provide with such support.

If that means that company produce less products, so it is. I am tired as a consumer of having to throw away completely good products just for this reason, from ASUS routers, to car. Hopefully whatever legislation that happens to solve this situation with the industry will also affect consumer products (or at least, we could adquire industrial products instead).

erremerreon Tcl/Tk 9.1

I like using pygubu to have gui with python. but tends to create 300mb apps when compiling. So not much better than Electron...

erremerreon How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs

Hyped by those stories, I connected an agent to my old Chinese xiaomi phone and asked to install lineageOS on it.

After several days, it managed to brick it and unbrick it. The boot loader is still locked.

erremerreon Heretic removes restrictions from language models

I have attempted to use an agent to try to unlock the boot loader of an old xiaomi phone to install lineage OS. It managed to brick and unbrick the device, but there boot loader is still locked.

erremerreon France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls

At least most of the Spanish one can be banned by blocklisting a whole company. which is what I did following a guide I found, and have reduced my Spam calls from 2 per day, to 3 per year.

However, the only way to solve this I believe is that you could once you get an unsolicited call to press a combination like ##01, and automatically this is passed to an agency that deals to punish whoever is behind the call in real time. At least if they call from a national number.

erremerreon It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership

It does not rally matter if there is a conspiracy behind or not. You can't buy a phone that has a new powerful processor, dual-sim, sd-card and 3.5mm jack. It is just does not exist.

As user I don't care if it is a cartel or just "more profitable", but if this situation destroys companies that makes business from consoles or pc-gaming. Then it will be the colapse of the industry. First will be the hardware, once the hardware is gone, will be the software...

erremerreon OpenPrinter

Ramson notes must be coloured so that it is clear it isn't a scam.

erremerreon Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions

Not sure what country are you from. Last time I tried to make a throwaway account to sell something in Facebook Marketplace I was welcome with a submit picture to test if you are real which when uploaded with a IA generated picture got blocked.

erremerreon What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard

Would not make more sense to install a traffic light with a button, press button, goes red for cars, kids cross. They could also have the button deactivated at school hours and work with a time counter.

erremerreon VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS

I am in the same boat, every time I like something, it is a commercial failure. They should really hire me to check if I like whatever project they got in mind and if I do, cancel immediatetly and save the losses from being a failure.

erremerreon Kagi Small Web

I like the idea, but would like to be able to select a language and see the small web of that language. There are more languages than English, and this tool could make them thrive.

Also somehow if they are clever, they could use this for those translation system they are using, but please let us select our own language without feeding automatic translation like youtube does).

erremerreon Hisense TVs add unskippable startup ads before live TV

That is what I meant, they are no different from any other brand. But they could be. They could guarantee no enshitification, or an open platform.

erremerreon Hisense TVs add unskippable startup ads before live TV

Exactly that is my point. They could be. There is no incentive to buy Philips over any chinese brand if they all are going to spy.

But it could be different. Like how Oneplus allowed Cyanogen on their devices.

erremerreon Hisense TVs add unskippable startup ads before live TV

Here could some European company that already makes tv to step in and create something good, with no ads, and even better if they promise to open the sourcecode, bootloader etc... Something like Philips for example. But I guess they are too busy making lightbulbs to notice that they could fill that gap on the TV market space.

erremerreon The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection

What about the "App and device verification based on Google Play Integrity API and Apple App Attestation" that was in the readme?

Was this discarded? Is it not necessary anymore? Can someone without writing their own implementation use the app without using any of those two?

erremerreon The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection

You mean that system that requires either to use an original unmodified Android phone, or a iOS phone and it does not work in absolutely anything else?

erremerreon PayPal discloses data breach that exposed user info for 6 months

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-22/samsung-mobile-device...

We don't know also most of the software failures that cause death.

Pretending that bugs don't kill people is not the way forward to solve the issue of having bugs in absolutely everything we have to deal with, sometimes by force.

erremerreon PayPal discloses data breach that exposed user info for 6 months

Bridges are expected to stand, for example, a lorry hitting at 120km/h speed a pile. Which is "a plausible attack".

erremerreon FreeCAD

I do, it is indeed. I'm always surprised that a single developer in javascript managed to do it.

erremerreon FreeCAD

Adding a text that has a couple of pixel white borders is something possible in GIMP, yet a nightmare compared with photopea which just copy cs2 way of doing it.

And that is without having to edit the text in case you made a tipo.

Now, if we are talking about doing batch image editing in python. Gimp us the best tool I've found.

erremerreon PayPal discloses data breach that exposed user info for 6 months

When a bridge falls, there is a case in the courts, and sometimes engineers go to prison.

Why shall be different with code?

erremerreon FreeCAD

I never understood this UI problem.

Because... You can copy the UI of the leader and problem solved.

There you have GIMP with an absolute nightmare UI to use, but people keep saying, just get used to it. On the other hand, a single developer, in javascript, made a copy of photoshop, and most people I know prefer to use that over GIMP...

Just copy the UI that works, if you can't research your own UI.

erremerreon GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple

I believe (as it's open source) there is nothing impeding anybody else to compile grapheneOS in a samsung S10, which would not be as secure, but should still work as any lineage

However I haven't seen anybody try

erremerreon The WiFi only works when it's raining (2024)

Here you have another one, although is not named like that: https://web.archive.org/web/20241112052925/https://cohost.or...

erremerreon Asahi Linux with Sway on the MacBook Air M2 (2024)

Dealing with Honor support is a pain. They don't understand absolutely anything and is impossible to get them out of their script if you have a problem.

I have a Honor 200 pro, and the software is buggy and constantly replaces user configurations with their defaults every 3 or 4 days.

I would avoid anything Honor in the future at any cost.

erremerreon How to repurpose your old phone into a web server

Asking from ignorance here.

Assuming you are using an old phone with termux to serve de webpage. What could be an attack vector?

The phone will be running Android 7.1

erremerreon Writing FreeDOS Programs in C

What do you hobby code? Can we have a glance at it?

erremerreon JupyterGIS breaks through to the next level

Where I work, I can't give anything is not a word document to anybody else in the company. A python notebook might help at creating the figures for example, but I can already do that with QGIS layouts.

If the working environment allows for checking/reviewing within the notebook, I guess this could help automatise things.