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ikidd··on Show HN: I created a project management system
Wow, what a ignorant response to someone that was giving you genuine feedback.

Do better.

ikidd··on ESP32-C3 SuperMini antenna modification
HAM-is-not-ham

And your example must be one of those weirdos on 80m. What a pack of crazies.

ikidd··on Zitron: "Everyone Has Been Sold a Lie" on AI [video]
I don't think Zitron has been right about anything in the last 5 years. But he talks a good talk.
ikidd··on Hunter-gatherers introduced fish to a mountain lake 7000 years ago
Did they have writing and kept records that we've found? That's the "recorded" part.
ikidd··on Elevated errors on Claude Opus 5
Hermes seems to pick up after a stoppage. At least I've never had to push it again, it might just take a long time to finish a task and then I'll see the messages in the transcript.
ikidd··on Show HN: Proxmox -> Share your host's Bluetooth with a VM over the network
Exactly like all the "community-scripts" that were started by a fellow that passed away a couple years ago.

I've been railing against the install one-liners for years to obviously poor effect.

ikidd··on Stripe in talks to buy OpenRouter for ~10B
Nothing about this bubble makes sense. Why should this?
ikidd··on LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent
You could exhaust Windows networking or filesystem features in an afternoon. Linux could give you a career.

I spent 20 years supporting Windows server and server applications like Exchange, SQL Server, IIS, etc, etc, and when I left that industry and got back to Linux, I was absolutely floored about what I had been missing. No wonder Windows had it's lunch eaten in virtually every facet by Linux server applications.

ikidd··on LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent
I've gotten to the point that if you're trying to show me something and I see you're using Windows, I just assume you're an unserious person and it's worthless.

All the major tools for advanced work are Linux-based, and there's maybe a Windows version, but it's probably a kludge like Docker Desktop.

ikidd··on Microsoft deleted my account and OneDrive
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ikidd··on Umuganda
Eek, that doesn't have pleasant past.
ikidd··on Ente – Opening Our Books
>Businesses don’t operate based on revenue

Well, you have that right. But apparently they IPO based on even less.

ikidd··on You're Not a Better Engineer Because You Type Git Commands by Hand
Maybe it does make you a better engineer because when you look back on a commit that you were rushed on, you don't see a commit message of "Fixed it".
ikidd··on John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement
It astonishes me how aggressive people are on this issue that have never turned a wrench on a Deere machine.
ikidd··on John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement
In the last decade, on a fleet of almost 30 Deere machines from lawnmowers to high-clearance sprayers and combines, I could count on one hand the number of times I've needed the Deere laptop to diagnose a problem to fix it.
ikidd··on Tenda firmware (multiple versions) contains hidden authentication backdoor
Man, I remember doing this in the late 90s with ipchains as the only way to get a router that didn't cost an arm and a leg. Eventually consumer/prosumer routers came out.

What's old is new again.

ikidd··on Tenda firmware (multiple versions) contains hidden authentication backdoor
It would still be wiser to tie your own router into the hotel system as a gateway, and keep your own PAN behind that.
ikidd··on Footage Shows Cop Stalking Woman After Surveilling Her with a LPR
Worked well enough for the Catholic church that the cops decided to adopt it.
ikidd··on My dad helped build North America's oat supply chain: Can it be remade?
As long as corn and soybeans are subsidized via crop insurance, and propped up by biofuel mandates, oats will not be a popular crop in the US.

Canada doesn't do any such subsidies so oats make a lot of sense. In fact, some years it's our most profitable crop, even outstripping canola.

ikidd··on AI can't be listed as inventor on patent applications, Japan's top court rules
Wouldn't that just immediately get it thrown out as non-cleanroom invention considering the source of the weights is extremely public-domain heavy?
ikidd··on Most arguments are about ego, not ideas
I waver between "I'm not going to convince anyone anyway, and they'll retreat to their echo chamber and be right back where they were" and "The world would be better if we fight for what's right, and speech is the only ethical way to do that".

I'm tired, Boss...

ikidd··on Migrating from Proxmox to NixOS and Incus
Good lord, if how they were managing Proxmox with an agent was essentially using Playwright, no wonder they thought there was a problem.

I don't even do that, I go into a shell and run qm commands for more complicated things. And for anything I ask an agent to do, it goes straight to qm and other CLI tools as well.

Weird.

ikidd··on AI Under Trump's Control: Can France Still Avoid Digital Dependence?
If they keep persecuting Anthropic as they have, I wouldn't be surprised to see them move offshore. If there's ever been an industry that is mobile, it would be AI.
ikidd··on Feds freaked over Fable 5 after 'fix this code', not jailbreak, say researchers
Seems like a poor place to invest if you have to worry about a corrupt government pulling the rug out from under you at every opportunity if you don't play along. Sounds quite third world, actually.
ikidd··on I'm So Tired of Ads
The thing is, and the article said it, I'm not going to click your ad. Period. That's why I have an ad blocker. So there's no lost revenue, because you'll never, ever get a clickthrough from me.
ikidd··on GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits
Especially since the only explanation for why this exists is as a backdoor.
ikidd··on GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits
The bug this guy brings up is very obviously a Bitlocker backdoor and raises very serious questions about what Microsoft is doing with the encryption. Pretty certainly they're able to decode the volumes without the user's key, which is extremely concerning.

Looks like they're trying to make it disappear, but it's in the wild now.

ikidd··on The seed oil panic is hurting my cardiac patients
I've known people that think switching to fruit juice from sugar sodas was going to fix them; very much not. Doesn't matter where you get the sugar, sugar is sugar and is not good for you or your arteries or weight loss.
ikidd··on Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter
Actually, figuring it on generating tokens 24/7 is the best case scenario. if you figure it at 8 hours a day of actual use, you still have the fixed cost of the hardware being the highest portion of the budget, but now you generate 1/3 the tokens so you triple that cost per token.
ikidd··on All my clients wanted a carousel, now it's an AI chatbot
I had a company trying to sell me some farm management software, looked good, but every page had a chatbot window that hovered in the bottom middle and could not be dismissed. Took up like 20% of the readable area. Sales guy called me up to see how the trial was going and I said I wasn't going to continue with it because of the chatbot. He tells me I wasn't the first person he'd lost sales to because of it, but the owner was married to having that always visible as it was.

I have no compunctions about using AI, frankly, but when I don't need or want it, it needs to fuck off.

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