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kalx··on What even is an OS now?
But as an AI skeptic, you optimists are the air that I breathe. So we’re just breathing each others?
kalx··on Telling a Computer to Do Things
But you’re still limited by the designer of that shell? Or userspace? Or kernel? Or cpu architecture? I mean, how deep should you go before «it’s however YOU want»?
kalx··on Netherlands pulls gold out of the US
This isn’t true. You can buy oil with other currencies. It’s just that dollars are liquid. No pun intended.
kalx··on The Graph That Should Be Front-Page News
That’s because those who (our countries that enforce it) eat less, have smaller properties, less productive cars and infrastructure etc, those are the countries that will have the short end of the stick in 10-20 years time - just look at Europe. The tragedy of the commons at a global scale.
kalx··on Parental device use and the adolescent-caregiver attachment bond
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kalx··on Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection
Thanks for this. I wish it was an easy way to market this info to the wider non technical audience. It is a huge selling point for GOS that is difficult to package and make attractive (because it is difficult to understand / care about).
kalx··on Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as Protection
Good idea. Maybe it wouldn’t be too bad to just attach the code brick to my keyring anyways.
kalx··on Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection
Well… you can run android without google? The problem is that essential security services require apple or google devices and you as a member of society need the security services.
kalx··on Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection
Would this not require some control over the hardware? Which would be difficult for the FOSS community?
kalx··on Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection
Problem is that all banks require a national centrale controlled service for login (BankID in Norway). And it is this service that I cannot get to work running GrapheneOS. It worked a couple of months ago, but not anymore. And all customer services and complaints are directed to your bank who 1) has no idea what i am talking about and 2) no control over BankID verification requirements.
kalx··on Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as Protection
Correction: i did get bank access. I just couldnt log into the bank without a google or apple controlled device.
kalx··on Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection
I tried. But then I didnt get access to essential services like banking and national resources.
kalx··on Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike
Impossible?
kalx··on Ask HN: What Jobs (Roles) are in the best position to take advantage of AI?
Pseudoproductive jobs consisting of stuff like replying to irrelevant emails, filling out unnecessary paperwork, writing reports no one will ever read. Coincidentally, people on these jobs often sees the biggest upside with AI.
kalx··on Dopamine Fracking
Great read, thanks. Just always consider what you are doing when you tag a friend in a meme: feeding your friend the internet drug. Is that what you wanna do to someone you care about?
kalx··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
I’m making a top down RPG. 16x16 pixel art. Loving it. In Godot.
kalx··on ChatGPT Images 2.0
I tricked it into making a nude. That was fun.
kalx··on Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux
Can someone explain me the so what? Like it is impressive, but why do we need it?
kalx··on Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers
Thank you. Can you stream your songs from anywhere that you have a connection?
kalx··on Thin desires are eating life
I second this. Almost like I was under a spell.
kalx··on Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?
Let’s say you’re right. Do we still want to, though? I mean. At some point we will no longer have the skill to babysit the AI agent.
kalx··on Calculus for Mathematicians, Computer Scientists, and Physicists [pdf]
How much math skills do you need to appreciate this book?
kalx··on Microsoft is turning Windows into an 'agentic OS,' starting with the taskbar
Good. Maybe then my company is happy to adopt Linux or Mac.
kalx··on Why don't people return their shopping carts?
People here too return them. It is a social class question.
kalx··on Why don't people return their shopping carts?
Wrong conclusion. Not «people», but customers at that particular store.
kalx··on Bayesian Data Analysis, Third edition (2013) [pdf]
This helped me so much during my phd
kalx··on PayPal to support Ethereum and Bitcoin
Those stones cost you a couple hundred thousand or something
kalx··on 15-Fold increase in solar thermoelectric generator performance
They both use heat. But stirling converts mechanically, whereas STEM converts energy to electricity «directly».