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freitasm··on US tells France and Germany to release diesel stocks or face US export ban
Start a stupid war, then try to exploit allies.

Masterful gambit.

freitasm··on US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS
Wait a bit and the US government will try to say *nix is a communist woke OS and try to kill it...
freitasm··on An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot
It's a marketing race, to show off what they can do. So they seem to let these things happen.

At this point I am not even sure Hanlon's Razor applies.

freitasm··on An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot
"The task asked for information about a specific person who had published a blog post and the agent was provided with a set of biographical details and clues from the person’s public blog post."

Who initiated the task? An OpenAI researcher or a user?

freitasm··on Gemini hacked three companies in first known breakout by Google's AI
Short comment: "Hey, look at us! We had our 'event' too. Don't keep us out of the club"
freitasm··on US diplomat secretly flown home ‘had child abuse images at flat’
From the BBC article "It is understood the individual worked at the US embassy in Vauxhall, south west London, and though not a diplomat, he enjoyed the umbrella of diplomatic protection."
freitasm··on US refuses payout for soldiers who died in Iran 'because it isn't a war'
The grifter not paying?

What a surprise.

freitasm··on Vancouver strip club's Instagram taken down over sign featuring lake joke
Right. Freedom of expression when MAGA, but not for others.

Who is the snowflake now?

freitasm··on Get ready to flee, Americans in ten countries warned
So much winning. So much peace. This president should get another FIFA Piss Prize.
freitasm··on Kalshi attacks a Wisconsin law banning election bets as 'voter suppression'
Probably because the grift never stops.
freitasm··on An ESP32 based plane radar for my desk
Well, a radar-like display, then. But not a radar.
freitasm··on Trump Media to sell instant access to 'market-moving' social posts
The grift. It never stops.
freitasm··on Microsoft has released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes
I wonder how many bugs will be introduced with these fixes...
freitasm··on UEFA slams FIFA's 'unprecedented, unjustifiable' Balogun decision
The corruption is everywhere, small and large. You can't trust the game is not fixed now and you can't trust the government either.
freitasm··on Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't
This is the New Zealand model. Multiple ISPs but only a few fibre providers - the largest one is Chorus, with a few that are very localised, but follow the same rules.

The ONT is accessible to all ISPs, and you can provision both available ports with different ISPs if wanted. Usually, a change from one ISP to another happens within the day, like number portability.

freitasm··on Bring back crappy forums
I run a forum site. It's been going on for 23 years now, and over that time, it has reflected the country's technology adoption history.

We still have new signups every day and a community that helps others when needed - not only online but in real life too.

The structured discussions and the focus on topics make this type of site a lot easier for some people when compared to platforms like Discord.

freitasm··on Show HN: Hacker News on a train station-style flip board
Sounds cool. Couldn't see it though. "Rate limited" on my first visit. Using a static IPv4 and IPv6.

Unless your host is limiting number of requests, indiscriminately.

freitasm··on Texas man sentenced to 30 years for transporting pamphlets
Meanwhile, the Epstein files continue to be ignored.
freitasm··on Iran requires insurance on ships using Strait of Hormuz, fees likely to follow
So much winning.
freitasm··on Babel-USB: USB drive with every file
So you get a file. Any file. Not necessarily the file you want, unless you already know its contents and how to traverse the folder hierarchy to get to that specific point.
freitasm··on Babel-USB: USB drive with every file
So in theory you could have War and Peace somewhere.

Each folder represents the file content so far. So how to find a specific file without knowing its contents - by its title for example?

freitasm··on Thiel moves family to Milei's libertarian Argentina
Well, rather him and family go to Argentina, than come to New Zealand, where he's got his citizenship for doing... nothing.
freitasm··on After 20 years I turned off Google Adsense for my websites (2025)
I joined AdSense in 2003. At peak it was generating US$15k a month.

Nowadays it will be a miracle if it passes of US$800 a month.

I think the shift to a more localised audience (NZ), diversion of ad spend to large social networks are responsible. Our traffic is similar in volume but nowhere near as "valuable" apparently.

freitasm··on Setting up phones is a nightmare
Another annoying thing: very few apps are copied from old device to new devices and bring their settings and most importantly login. Of about 80 apps on my device, only five or so are ready to use after a migration.

Going through dozens of apps, doing logins, 2FAcand changing settings is a PITA.

Devs do a poor job on that front.

freitasm··on Setting up phones is a nightmare
Another thing that annoys me on Android is the setup experience itself. All my recent device presentcthe same behaviour: login with a Google account, transfer data, setup voice assistant and some other defaults,done.

Then after the first app updates is done, a notification comes with "let's finish setting up your phone" and again asks to setup voice assistant, check defaults and whatever else is in the flow.

Has no one noticed that the setup flow seems to run twice?

And it's not one specific device. I do it with eight to ten devices a year, from different OEM, writing reviews and testing. They all have the same behaviour.

freitasm··on Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran
Subscribers can share the link as a gift, so readers can see the original, not the proxied version.
freitasm··on US Gov Deploys Grok as Nutrition Bot, It Advises for Rectal Use of Vegetables
Their consitution says elections can't be hold in times of war.
freitasm··on US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere
"Portal team includes former DOGE member Coristine"

"...user activity on the site will not be tracked."

Ok, stopped reading right there.

freitasm··on Microsoft guide to pirating Harry Potter for LLM training (2024) [removed]
And the original is gone.
freitasm··on Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years
The rates are so low that they don't need to measure anymore. That's what they were told, probably.
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