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jasona123on Hackers hit French national blood bank

Or if you really really want to, make sure it’s just a read/view only architecture?

jasona123on Manifestos, Fear, and 'Loser Thinking': Inside Proton's AI Reckoning

Because straightforward and transactional doesn’t increase shareholder value.

jasona123on AI fan wikis riddled with errors are muddying the waters of games culture

Thank you for mentioning DDG - I don’t know what it is about their search algos but whenever I tried switching I found I got far less helpful results compared to Google. Like at least half the first results were total slop fest unusable.

jasona123on Tailscale SSH: Investigation and remediation update

> whether giving Tailscale two hours of notice before public release was the right call?

In my world I believe we would call that a dick move.

jasona123on Wikipedia's Cleanup of AI-Generated Content

Also happy to help - Cluebot is mostly helpful but it tends to be overzealous on reverting with new accounts or temp accounts and especially with large-scale changes made by those types of accounts.

jasona123on Security Disclosure

We are not manifesting this energy

jasona123on Security Disclosure

sighs

Thankfully I'm only using Railway for a hobby project (aptly, for a real-time transit dashboard) but still

jasona123on Google Japan shows off conveyor-belt keyboard with keys that move to fingers

Welp, (part) answered my own question:

Translated from Japanese from the announcement^:

Q. Today is October 1st, isn't it?

A. Yes, today is October 1st!

Q. What is the significance of today?

A. When we were considering the perfect day to announce the keyboard, we noticed the widespread use of the "101-key keyboard"—a type featuring 101 keys. So, we decided to launch it on October 1st as a nod to that standard.

^ https://blog.google/intl/ja-jp/products/android-chrome-play/...

jasona123on Google Japan shows off conveyor-belt keyboard with keys that move to fingers

I love Google Japan’s annual[1] tradition of releasing wild/wacky keyboard designs.

[1] Sidenote: anyone know if there’s a specific significance to September 30 or October 1 in Japan à la April Fools’ Day?

jasona123on Jellyfin 12.0

FYI: it is GA for Apple TV (so no Discord required) - it’s only iOS/iPad that’s still in public beta.

(Source: was in the Neptune tvOS beta, still am for iOS - it is a fun squad though)

jasona123on Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking

It's like the haiku says:

It’s not DNS

There’s no way it’s DNS

It was DNS

jasona123on List animals until failure

Did anyone else have the thought of “should I just list off all the Ubuntu version names that I know and start with that”?

jasona123on Ode to the AA Battery

Panasonic does have one that charges over USB (micro-USB input though) so you can use an old 5V Apple brick and only take up one spot. It also supports USB out via a full-size USB-A port. Picked one up since I liked the idea of being able to use AAs in a pinch for recharging.

jasona123on Ode to the AA Battery

The whole "everything I own just has a built in Li-ion battery" thing came to mind when I ordered my first set of Eneloops ahead of last week's snowstorm in North America - most things I own have their own batteries with a charger (right down to this decorative squishy whale lamp), and I can count on two hands the things that use AAAs and one hand the things that use AAs. It's wild.

jasona123on OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again

Apparently SmartScreen thinks the site is "dangerous" - not entirely sure why (maybe the newly seen domain) but that was funny to see on launch.

jasona123on Cloudflare acquires Astro

Only mildly surprising - Astro + CF Pages/Workers have been my go-to for when I want to spin up a static site or do anything else and it does feel like they've been really working on the integration between the two.

jasona123on Koralm Railway

And yet the Eglinton Crosstown still isn't open... I'm so close to making a site that just lists every project that's started and finished in the entire time that thing has been "under construction".

jasona123on Knotty: A domain-specific language for knitting patterns

I mean pixel Gritty is just all over the docs, it was to be expected

jasona123on Kmart's use of facial recognition to tackle refund fraud unlawful

Canadian A&W is expensive though - like "only really go for a treat" expensive. Made McDicks somehow more reasonable.

jasona123on QGIS is a free, open-source, cross platform geographical information system

Ah QGIS. Love working with it (it got me through university + 3 years of being in the planning industry w/o touching Esri)! hated managing it on the Mac admin side (no ARM native build and more importantly no notarized builds). I do hear v4 might fix both issues so I’m looking forward to that next month.

jasona123on QGIS is a free, open-source, cross platform geographical information system

Hard agree on it being odd in both GIS ways and QGIS ways. I just started a new job that pays for ArcGIS Pro and it’s wild how something that seemed intuitive to find on QGIS is buried under menus on Arc Pro, but conversely I’ve definitely seen things that I’m like “that was almost too easy why doesn’t QGIS have this”. And then you have the oddities of GIS

jasona123on API, Claude.ai, and Console services impacted [resolved]

To be fair, we did have rainy weather in Ashburn today (insert some joke about us-east-1 here).

jasona123on Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy

From the PR update: https://www.anthropic.com/news/updates-to-our-consumer-terms

“If you do not choose to provide your data for model training, you’ll continue with our existing 30-day data retention period.“

From the support page: https://privacy.anthropic.com/en/articles/10023548-how-long-...

“If you choose not to allow us to use your chats and coding sessions to improve Claude, your chats will be retained in our back-end storage systems for up to 30 days.”

jasona123on Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series?

I think the challenge is going to be software, software tuning, and (until everyone builds for both ARM and x64) - translation/emulation. I’ll admit that I haven’t had much experience on the Windows side but I made the leap pretty quickly from the early 2015 MBP to an M1 MBA (like maybe a month after the M1 Macs came out) and it very much was seamless, whereas it still sounds like on the Windows on ARM side it’s been languishing even to this day.