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fchicken··on When electric cars were for women
They aren't?
fchicken··on Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains
Not joker, porkbun*

Joker has no 3rd party scripts on their website, porkbun uses gstatic

fchicken··on Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains
I'm seeing a lot of recommendations for joker, but they have 3rd party google scripts on their site
fchicken··on U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective
And 8chan did that, or its users?
fchicken··on iPhone Duo
Wait for 2nd gen, always
fchicken··on iPhone Duo
Have you seen how the average person uses their phone?

You want what, a terminal that you type on w/an onscreen keyboard?

fchicken··on iPhone Duo
> Instead, they just hand you some poorly documented loose parts in a box and tell you, “good luck” and you’re on your own to fill the gaps.

Google is fundamentally a spy company, not a product company

fchicken··on Shopify acquires Tailwind
I read this as "Shopify acquires Taiwan"
fchicken··on U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective
Poor government has to fight crime the old fashioned way.

Ridiculous.

fchicken··on U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective
It's just incredible how spiteful the federal government is towards its constituency
fchicken··on Freevalve: The camless engine, told properly
Deeper dive into the often ignored nuances of freevalve engines and why they're not in production yet
fchicken··on FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels
Any word on how it works? Couldn't find any info
fchicken··on A brief history of federal lift ticket regulation
Wow.
fchicken··on A brief history of federal lift ticket regulation
Not true. If you're on vacation looking to ski for 3 days, you're right in the crosshairs of the ski resort's price model, and you're not getting around it.

I also don't see how the product is superior to what was offered prior

fchicken··on MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID
tbh so is circumventing those dots.

It doesn't make it any better

fchicken··on Oceans hit highest temperature on record
Spoken as if climate engineering were an established science with no potential pitfalls or downsides...
fchicken··on MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID
It'll literally be like printers "cannot print this black/white document, low on cyan".

"Cannot run local AI model, no network connection".

The more you think about it, the more it really is the same: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_tracking_dots?useskin=...

fchicken··on MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID
It's like Snowden said (paraphrasing): "If privacy comes from policy, the policy can be changed on a whim, and in effect you have no privacy at all"
fchicken··on MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID
I'm disturbed by everything.

Prompt moderation, GUID insertion, watermark insertion; track anything and everything, probably done in the name of "protect the children".

fchicken··on MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID
Fucking spyware.

Soon it'll literally be "you need a license to use this technology" if we're not there in some form or another already.

fchicken··on A network smuggling Starlink tech into Iran to beat internet blackout
We are not the good guys in iran
fchicken··on Investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns
Color me shocked
fchicken··on Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price
Life-sphere will learn a valuable lesson
fchicken··on John Ternus to become Apple CEO
Don't "Wow." out of context.

The smart move is further development of the Mac to explore ways to bring new features to the iPhone or future apple devices. To simply go "this = profit = all development goes there" personifies a lack of wisdom.

fchicken··on Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price
Tech will consume itself.

It is with glee that I will watch it burn.

fchicken··on Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything
I have a tech support buddy who, while good, allows himself more arrogance than his skills deserve. I asked him what CRC errors, and he said to ask AI, kindly providing me its output:

> CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check) errors on Wi-Fi indicate that data frames were corrupted during transmission, often caused by high electromagnetic interference (EMI), physical layer issues, or faulty hardware. They cause packet loss, slow speeds, and intermittent connectivity. Common solutions include replacing cables, reducing interference, updating drivers, and adjusting radio power

This is all well and good except: read the prompt carefully. It never actually says what CRC errors are. This is the average AI user: literally work on, build, and fix things without the slightest clue about what it is you're actually working on.

He makes >6 figures lol

fchicken··on John Ternus to become Apple CEO
Everything (or 90%) on the iphone was taken from the mac and put into the iPhone. The software dvelopment for the PC environment, then stripped down and streamlined for the phone is why the iPhone was the revolution that it was.

Apple, like you, can only think in terms of revenue and profit generated. "iPhone makes this much profit = iphone gets this much development".

That thinking has led us into this stagnated crap, because it's a terrible way to do software. Worse, what's happening now is apple is taking its iThing software and trying to migrate it to the mac. The Mac is now getting destroyed by the iPhone development.

That is the reason why.

fchicken··on John Ternus to become Apple CEO
The numbers don't tell the full story.

The development of Mac OS X was the development of iOS, and it was one-way.

fchicken··on John Ternus to become Apple CEO
Chairman Cook was a hardware guy, and is why apple's hardware is excellent.

This just suggests him holding on to more influence. What apple needs, badly, is a software and tech guy (Cook is not a tech guy).

fchicken··on John Ternus to become Apple CEO
I mean...

Really what apple is doing is putting a spin on their core business model of selling users the technology rather than renting it to them by subsidizing its development through spying.

It's not so much that privacy is apple's goal, but rather privacy is inherent to apple's business model (unlike google, which has always been spyware).

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