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frmrtntnon Frustrated ranchers want people to quit 'rescuing' their working guardian dogs

Ask them if they're vegan.

frmrtntnon OpenAI to acquire Pierre Computer Company

Site currently seems to be broken, as it eventually just returns a "Dang" error message with a picture of a tombstone. How quirky and cute! Just like the insufferable po-mo marketing on the twitter account.

frmrtntnon The Other Epidemic: Trying to get off benzodiazepines

Cocaine. It means the same thing here in Canada, despite plenty of skiing going on.

frmrtntnon FingerWorks iGesture Pad (2005)

Yes. Apple eventually bought them out and used their tech as the basis for the iPhone's screen.

frmrtntnon Major ICQ security hole (1998)

In the early 2000s a lot of people rolled with no encryption at all! In high school I'd drive around the nearby neighborhoods at lunch until I found an open wifi network so I could browse the net. Never took long to find one.

frmrtntnon How tabasco became the hot sauce

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frmrtntnon New Apple TV 4K

Last time I tried the Media PC thing it ended up being somewhat of a nightmare. Had to spend significant amount of time setting up MadVR with my video player and get HDR HDMI passthrough working, but it was always very flaky. Occasionally an Nvidia driver update would break it completely. Dolby Vision wasn't even an option.

I really wanted to make it work, but it ended up being an annoying hassle. I got a Shield TV and it has been a much better solution.

Not sure if things have changed since then (~5 years ago).

frmrtntnon The Corporate Happiness Treadmill and the Case for Doing Less

Did ya show this post to your boss and get your gold star?

frmrtntnon Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]

There's a great SMBC comic about that: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-03-21

frmrtntnon Yes, and

Basic programming classes are like the baby steps of programming. Huge gulf between that and being able to write and understand complex software.

frmrtntnon Reverse Engineering of the M-VAVE FM-1 Pocket Synthesizer Firmware

Yeah I'm a bit puzzled myself. I can see why developers would be interested, but not so much musicians. As someone who owns a decent amount of hardware synths and Eurorack I know this thing would be gathering dust after a day or two.

frmrtntnon I think I found a planet nobody knew existed. I used Claude Code to find it

It's interesting that a few months ago your sentiment would have been upvoted. I've noticed recently that things seem to be flipping around. Sadly, I think it's inevitable that people will accept a form of communication that consists of people trading slop. Even worse, the author lies about using AI for the writeup in the comments.

frmrtntnon Account bans on Reddit

It's the auto-moderator. For example, I got my first multi-day ban for quoting this line from the film Commando: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrsE2Qg50qo

The automod interpreted this as a threat of violence. My appeal was ignored.

frmrtntnon Account bans on Reddit

Yup, lost a 15 year account for multiple Rule 1 violations. All were either quotes from of a film, or obvious jokes. I got the final perm ban removed on appeal, at least allegedly, but my account remains banned and further appeals are straight up ignored. To add insult to injury, I made the mistake of logging in to an alt account on my phone and then that was banned too for evasion!

Reddit has already become an LLM-ridden cesspool as of late. What do they hope to accomplish by getting rid of long term users and making it difficult to onboard new, actual humans?

frmrtntnon Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery

Consultants are for decision based evidence making.

frmrtntnon Toronto-Based VPN Provider Plans to Quit Canada over Lawful-Access Bill

Funny how all the Carney glazers seem to be MIA in this thread.

frmrtntnon Sharing AI progress in mathematics

The information needed to build a basic nuclear explosive device is rather easily available. Now go build one.

frmrtntnon Canada fast-tracks Pacific oil pipeline to reduce US dependence

Because I coincidentally lost access to my main account recently (never put in the e-mail field lol) and had to make a new one. This is the same name with the vowels removed - so not just keyboard-mashed username.

Better to just believe everyone who disagrees with you must be a bot, though.

frmrtntnon Canada fast-tracks Pacific oil pipeline to reduce US dependence

Century Initiative. Been living under a rock? Go check out who Mark Wiseman is, his relationship to Carney.

frmrtntnon Guitar amp and effects pedal built on the Waveshare ESP32-S3-Touch-AMOLED-2.06

Have you ever used a Digitech Whammy pedal? I can definitely notice the latency on that. It's low enough to be playable, but the difference when A/Bing is stark.

frmrtntnon Reddit is putting more limits on old.reddit.com

Just had a 15 year account get permabanned for repeated auto-moderator false positives. For example, quoting an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie being interpreted as a "call to violence". Most appeals get ignored. The permaban appeal was approved, but the ban remains in place and I can't seem to reach anyone there to look into it.

I was pretty upset at first, but I'm starting to see the positives of no longer being able to comment. I spent way too much time getting worked up over pointless arguments. For whatever reason, Hacker News doesn't seem to produce the same impulse.