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hkt··on The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code
Talk confidently in your interview with non-technical managers when the last senior has left and there's nobody there to check your work.
hkt··on FIM – Linux framebuffer image viewer
What I wanted (and to an extent still do) is extreme simplicity and OS level minimalism. I was hoping to understand everything up to the browser, really. My interest in this has been renewed since AI: I have a sense that extreme simplicity may be the only viable approach for security in FLOSS if AI tilts the scales in favour of throwing cash (and therefore tokens) at problems.
hkt··on I am building a cloud
DevOps here.

The trouble is that we are literally expected to do this everywhere we go. I've personally advocated for approaches which use say, a pair of dedicated servers, or VMs as in GPs example. If you want it outside of AWS/GCP/Azure, you're regarded as a crazy person. If you don't adopt "best practices" (as defined by vendors) then management are scared. Management very often trust the sales and marketing departments of big vendors more than their own staff. Many of us have given up fighting this, because what it comes down to is a massive asymmetry of information and trust.

hkt··on Palantir Wants to Reinstate the Draft
> free labor

I'm not sure anywhere expects people to do their national service for free - which is to say that such a programme would also likely be very expensive.

hkt··on FIM – Linux framebuffer image viewer
This is a great tip, do you have others? I've tried to ditch graphical desktop envs and failed pretty miserably on media consumption and browsing before.
hkt··on IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark
No, IPv6 as it is supposed to be implemented gives (say) a single server a /64, which is for all intents and purposes an inexhaustible supply of IPs. You could in principle have an IP per site you visit and have plenty left to spare.

Random Google result with a bit more:

https://www.captaindns.com/en/blog/ipv6-subnet-sizes-48-vs-5...

So if I wanted to annoy GitHub, I could connect to them without ever using the same IP twice. Their response would have to be banning my /64, or possibly /56.

hkt··on Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight
Not necessarily. More cheerful examples exist, usually outside the west:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Elbakyan

hkt··on Say No to Palantir in Europe
Not before handing over an enormous cache of NHS patient data to them during the pandemic. If memory serves, this was not kept on NHS hardware or even NHS controlled compute.
hkt··on Shipment of KitKat bars stolen en route from Italy to Poland
That was me, sorry, I just love KitKats.

(So as to avoid being like the Robin Hood Airport guy, I'd like to say the above was a joke)

hkt··on Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?
They're not old enough to remember the start of the war in Iraq, I imagine. For those who aren't: it was a barrage of justifications which were found to be untrue, especially the 45 minute claim which said Iraq could strike European targets within 45 minutes with chemical or biological weapons. The UN weapons inspector said this was nonsense, and so it proved to be - after the invasion.

Iran will go the same way, one way or another.

hkt··on Our commitment to Windows quality
Honestly, pick one of the well known distros at random. Personally I use Manjaro with GNOME: up to date software and a polished out of the box experience. I never have to go to the terminal unless I want to.
hkt··on Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps
SailfishOS / Jolla are unlikely to do this. Time to switch. Google's monopoly power over android is showing, badly.
hkt··on “Your frustration is the product”
Press reader is basically this, although it lacks some of the better titles.
hkt··on The emergence of print-on-demand Amazon paperback books
It is annoying, but bookshop.org is a good alternative to both Abe and Amazon, presenting a single shop front to lots of bookshops.
hkt··on Games with loot boxes to get minimum 16 age rating across Europe
Pokémon can probably have it's immense (and insane) secondary market attributed to its gambling-esque qualities. It'd be perfectly fine if people could play with decks they chose and cards were sold at a uniform price, provided the game itself is balanced - which is to say gambling elements in these things are probably by design.
hkt··on Dulce et Decorum Est (1921)
I did it too and found it to be the same. It was years until I realised we had actually been doing rather good stuff.
hkt··on Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns
As a regular glasses wearer, I really do dread the years ahead when I get mistaken for a glasshole. I suspect it won't be pretty.
hkt··on OpenAI – How to delete your account
In the app, account deletion currently errors saying the action can't be started. Hard to believe this is coincidence.
hkt··on Spain’s LaLiga has blocked access to freedom.gov
Is this not a symptom of where ICANN sits? Subject to American jurisdiction, so domain seizures make more sense for American litigants. In Europe, litigants must chase down ISPs who are the local gatekeepers. It makes sense that it works differently.
hkt··on How Taalas “prints” LLM onto a chip?
Heh, I said this exact thing in another thread the other day. Nice to see I wasn't the only one thinking it.
hkt··on The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)
Positive results in mice also known as being a promising proof of concept. At this point, anything which deflates the enormous bubble around GPUs, memory, etc, is a welcome remedy. A decent amount of efficient, "good enough" AI will change the market very considerably, adding a segment for people who don't need frontier models. I'd be surprised if they didn't end up releasing something a lot bigger than they have.
hkt··on The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)
Reminds me of when bitcoin started running on ASICs. This will always lag behind the state of the art, but incredibly fast, (presumably) power efficient LLMs will be great to see. I sincerely hope they opt for a path of selling products rather than cloud services in the long run, though.
hkt··on Single vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus
I'll be fascinated to see how this plays out for people with autoimmune conditions - generalised heightening of the immune system feels like it would be dangerous for those people. Are any immunologists lurking who might be able to speculate?
hkt··on Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files
Why on earth does he have CPAP pipes, an oxygen concentrator, and a pulse oximeter? This is dated 2019 so I assume he was having sleep apnea, but in my nightmares I assume he's keeping someone in a coma.
hkt··on Oat – Ultra-lightweight, zero dependency, semantic HTML, CSS, JS UI library
Same here, DevOps by trade, allergic to ridiculous frontend nonsense, my comment praised the framework.
hkt··on Oat – Ultra-lightweight, zero dependency, semantic HTML, CSS, JS UI library
This is gorgeous. I hate frontend because of its sheer gratuity, and this is the kind of thing that might get me back into it. The only other contender for interactivity I'd consider is HTMX, and I'm going to boldly assume I'll be able to combine them without too much bother.

Bravo to the author, keep at it. I'll be recommending this to anyone who will listen.

hkt··on GitHub is down again
Churlish of me to say, but wasn't GH so much more reliable before the acquisition by Microsoft?
hkt··on Claude Opus 4.6
Blaming the terminal seems a little backwards. Perhaps the application could take responsibility for being compatible with common terminals?
hkt··on Show HN: Craftplan – I built my wife a production management tool for her bakery
This is why technical people make the best spouses
hkt··on MicroPythonOS graphical operating system delivers Android-like user experience
I'd use it. I'd be curious to see how close to daily driving it is for stuff like calls, SMS, and email. Something not driven by a giant data mining company would be splendid.
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