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gbil··on The Real Kevin Bacon
John Candy #2 in 1993! Makes his loss hit hard even after all these years.
gbil··on Used Processor Leads to Game Ban
Link to Slashdot since original is in German
gbil··on macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess
While generally happy with the speed improvements it brought, I can't back question the presence of testers on Apple side. Sure they are a small niche company (/s) but they can do better. Major example, desktop switching shortcuts are borked after device comes up from sleep! >https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1whtmc3/macos_27_mis...
gbil··on CEO of Mistral: AI is software. It can be controlled
unwall.app does miracles

on the topic, raising concerns that we “could” be doomed is different than we “are” doomed. I don’t see that the people who raised the concerns want to stop development of AI, they are not pessimists or something, so I read their warnings as warnings trying to raise attention. Ideally they could propose and implement ways to control AI and this guy here also doesn’t really provide something towards that direction but talks in a generic way

gbil··on Creatine uptake enhances antitumor immunity
Did you read it at all?

> Notably, creatine uptake similarly boosted the activation and immunostimulatory function of human monocyte-derived DCs.

gbil··on Creatine uptake enhances antitumor immunity
I mean the summary ends with pretty clear message

> …and support the use of creatine supplementation as a strategy to augment DC-based cancer immunotherapy.

So it seems that from this research the outcome is indeed creatine = good

gbil··on PS5 Linux lead quits: "a bunch of noobs using LLMs" that "they don't understand"
>I asked them to at least wait for GTA 6 to come out so that people would have the opportunity to legally purchase the game and also enjoy linux. They agreed to wait, but not a day passed and they decided to waste it instead.

This guy has used on working with people that understand the scene, it seems that they were in contact, they agreed on something and then the next day they did something different.

This is really important in the context of what happened and probably the cherry on top of the current "hacking" cake, with the bar being lowered so much that anybody can jump in with some minor skill and luck and get something just for themselves.

gbil··on Volkswagen Just Built an EV That Can Go Nearly 900 Miles on a Charge
It is stated that this was a single charge trip

>It’s also the most efficient EV in its class, consuming just 6.89 kWh/100 km without charging losses. >The VW Mission Efficiency covered 1,278 km (794 miles) on a single charge and still had 164 km (102 miles) of range left at the end of the trip.

But at 6.89kWh/100km for a 1278km trip equals 88kWh battery and it is stated later that the battery is a 54.9kWh one and that was recharged during the journey.

> The 54.9-kWh net battery was recharged only once during the journey....

It would be nice to have an article that makes sense from time to time...

gbil··on Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full
Ah Phantasmagoria, that was an interesting case with my CDROM drive at the time, I think it was a Mitsumi one and there was a compatibility issue with specific discs from the 7disc bundle, so I buy the game, going home and start playing with some friends - that was common practice back then - we finish day 1 and I enter the 2nd disc and the FMV is choppy as hell! Try again and again and again and I assume the disc is problematic, so we go back to the shop and they ask what CDROM drive I have, I say Mitsumi and they tell me that it is a known issue with some drives and there is no workaround, so they offer to exchange the game for a different one, oh this "Harvester" game looks intriguing :) Fun times!
gbil··on Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly
Talking about a 6s pro and got at the beginning around 10 days without much GPS enabled exercise, after 6 years I get about 9 days!

Good thing with the Fenix line is that you stop the updates which I did a year in so I don't really care about them, but I do think they stopped firmware updates for the 6series about a year ago.

gbil··on Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly
The title is misleading at least, to compete with garmin you need the similar offering, with swimming/waterproofing being the huge outliar here but also the ecosystem and like it or not features like the notifications.

Very valiant first effort for sure but after 6 years with a Garmin Fenix still holding 90% of its battery (and being able to replace it), I'm not their potential customer.

gbil··on German battery maker Varta files insolvency applications
You forgot the new US tarrif because of "forced labor"! At least in China things are much better on labor side!

Sorry couldn't resist....

gbil··on The Corporate Creep of Plex: Why it may be time to move to Jellyfin
The main drawback of anything other than plex is that you can’t simply install it on some major TV brands.
gbil··on Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera
Annoying for sure but on VWs you should be able to add lane assist and speed limit assist as shortcuts on the screen and click on them to turn them off. Again, annoying but I would like drivers that have been caught speeding to have them turned on permanently as punishment for X months.
gbil··on Google's New reCAPTCHA Wants Your Camera Access and 21 Points of Your Hand
I've already dropped sites/services where annoyance-invasion/usefulness ratio is above 50% but I'm afraid it will be unavoidable in some cases.

At least I know what kind of hand gesture they will get first :)

gbil··on Sony Launches Bravia 9 II and Bravia 7 II with 'True RGB'
I got a lot of ads related messages and I can tell you, this site works much better by actually disabling javascript!
gbil··on Danish pension fund excludes SpaceX citing governance and valuation
More than 10times higher (possible valuation), 10+ years of Musk showing what kind of liability he is and at that time Zuck didn't have all the main CxO positions.

I don't think it is similar therefore.

gbil··on Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'
>Akademikerpension also said the governance structure of SpaceX was "extremely deficient", adding that Elon Musk is expected to control more than 80% of the voting rights while simultaneously serving as chief executive officer, chief technology officer and chair of the board.

Their skepticism seems pretty valid to me

gbil··on The Problem with the Ferrari Luce EV Offers a Lesson for Every Leader
I hope that at least they keep the one great thing from this exercise, the controls-UI bundle. Looks really great, intuitive and unique enough for the brand
gbil··on An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below
> Now let's work together and improve the tooling at Railway b/c I have always LOVED the service stack and tooling

He learned NOTHING, that is my take. If he learned something it would be to have people that know how their provider works, that know how their API tokens work and above all to have people - starting with him - that acknowledge their mistakes so that they learn from them!

gbil··on Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine
I use an Android tablet with detachable keyboard and works great also with Samsung DEX if you want something more for basic multitasking and there i want the shortcuts, I actually used it a lot, before firefox switched to Fenix base, for navigating tabs, opening closing them really really smooth but then....
gbil··on Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine
If this means that they release a iOS version with the same Adblock features as brave then I’m sold. I use essentially all OSs and I want a browser with basic features like adblocking/custom filters on all the platforms and currently Firefox fails this on iOS devices. Still I believe the Firefox sync is much more robust than eg. Brave one , among various platforms. But then I will also need Firefox to fix keyboard shortcuts on Android which they had until the Fenix rebase some years ago and still haven’t fixed since
gbil··on Why Not Venus?
This really struck a chord for me. The majority of the people I know - including me - want to be drawn into a topic somehow and that somehow is story telling. People like Sagan and Tyson are amazing story tellers, they will draw you in with their use of language, their voice and pace and will open the doors for everything else. This is how great teachers do it and this is what is missing for most of the people to be interested into a topic, no matter how basic it is.
gbil··on Some iPhone Apps Receive Mysterious Update 'From Apple'
I saw this the other day in a couple of apps, I've checked other apps and didn't have that, did a quick check on HN frontpage and saw nothing and said wth I'll update to see if something changes in the app or there is a message. Got nothing, and didn't think more about it but I'm not sure why, is it the "trust in the process" thing or what?
gbil··on Run Linux containers on Android, no root required
I can find it on my S25fe with exynos android 16/oneui 8.0 if I search for it in the setting but is greyed out. I wait for 8.5 to see if it is enabled then and is the only time I'm happy to have an exynos device!
gbil··on Run Linux containers on Android, no root required
My understanding is that the integrated linux terminal is not supported on all processors like snapdragon ones and also is not available on all manufactures like Samsung. Therefore this approach covers a much bigger audience.
gbil··on U.S. stocks are set to deliver their worst quarter in nearly four years
Sorry guys I don't follow US politics in such depth to get the sarcasm here. Well played by the OP in this context.
gbil··on U.S. stocks are set to deliver their worst quarter in nearly four years
it was 50k in February but 45k today, S&P down to 6300 from almost 7k in February and the latest 401(k) reports are from Q4 2025 so your numbers are based on months ago before the Iran war.
gbil··on HandyMKV for MakeMKV and HandBrake Automation
> Storage is relatively cheap

was! Even a plain - non NAS - HDD has increased 40%+ since 6 months ago

gbil··on Nova Launcher added Facebook and Google Ads tracking
What is your experience from a performance perspective? Nova Launcher was pretty light on that front, I'm using smart launcher since a few months and it is ok but Nova was lighter.
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