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jonesy827··on Unlocking any car from X brand in most of the world
Usually the most practical thing to do is to remove the antenna. The car just thinks it can't get a signal, instead of missing one of its radios if you unplugged the cellular module.
jonesy827··on Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth
I know it's a bit insane, but I do daily LTO-6 backups of my workstation. I was able to get a working setup for around $250 since I was willing to work with an "autoloader" drive, but honestly it works great and is really nice peace of mind to have my critical stuff protected. I keep banking to my iPhone these days -- though I can't say it's for sure safe. I probably should add that to the backup.
jonesy827··on Jailbreaking the Switch 2
One of the first in-browser vibe coded game demos I saw was Half-Life 2, fwiw. Not sure if it was decomped.
jonesy827··on Show HN: Pippin – macOS High-Performance Screen Sharing Client for Linux
One interesting thing that is relevant today -- I generally write drafts of READMEs in whatever model I am developing with, and end up rewriting almost all of it. Today I pasted my readme from claude into Gemini 4 Argon, and asked it to rewrite for natural reading and clarity, and got the current README. I'm impressed!
jonesy827··on Gemini 4 Argon
Interesting, Google's own article says it's rolling out today to Ultra subscribers. No mention of Pro.

https://antigravity.google/blog/gemini-4-argon-in-google-ant...

jonesy827··on Apple and a hacker's future
>These permission prompts are a part of a macOS subsystem called Transparency, Consent, and Control (TCC), although Apple doesn’t seem to use this name anymore.

I have a PiKVM on my Mac Mini for this reason, and I bet the author would be well served by one as well.

jonesy827··on Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy
Yes, it does work with Fairydust, but you do need to use a USB-C cable in place of the included thunderbolt cable at the moment.
jonesy827··on Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy
HDMI out works great on M1 and M2 chips, and DP alt mode output is nearly ready, and works if you compile an experimental kernel. I daily drive an Asahi Linux ALARM M1 Pro macbook, and I have almost zero complaints.
jonesy827··on Asahi Linux on M3
The Asahi installer does this automatically, it guides you through sizing. You run it in a macOS terminal. By default, Asahi will be the default boot option, and to get to macOS you hold the power button on boot until it says "Loading startup options..."

I have two M1 pro asahi macbooks, and I only use macOS for VirtualDJ or AirPlay.

jonesy827··on Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
Unless you run overnight, you could schedule a cron job to send a basic claude -p prompt such as "reply with hello" using haiku to align your usage windows. That's what I do.
jonesy827··on Ornith-1.5: From Self-Scaffolding to Self-Improvement
I've been using the 35B-A3B today for some web scraping work, and it has been on par with Qwen3.8 27B at a much higher speed and at a higher quant (q4 vs q8). I'm impressed.
jonesy827··on uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook
Craigslist?
jonesy827··on I'm Scared a Stranger Will Call My Novel AI, So I Built GitHub for Words
Relevant -- https://psychotechnology.substack.com/p/em-dashes-are-fuckin...
jonesy827··on Show HN: Name100Challenge – name 100 famous women in 12 minutes
I found more that weren't accepted than I did that were in the couple minutes I played -- Michelle Obama, Melania Trump, Kate Middleton, Rosa Parks, Marie Curie, Ada Lovelace

Cool idea!

jonesy827··on Agent-Manager: A Tmux TUI for Running Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode
I started using herdr last night, and was able to get a workflow I've wanted to set up for a while working, which is to be able to talk to a managing agent in my car and check on / update claude sessions. It uses Telnyx SIP and LiveKit cloud, and I'm using Qwen3.6 35B-A3B quite successfully as the voice layer router. It's still very early but it works quite well.

If you decide to try it out, please make sure to read the security implications. There is no sandboxing added as of yet, and guardrails are pretty minimal.

https://github.com/jonesy827/mate

jonesy827··on Show HN: OpenNutrition – A free, public nutrition database
It's still erroring in Firefox on macOS and Windows. I see a CORS error on the XHR request