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mac-attack··on Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing
Please read the article before commenting. It actually references the tenets of Unix and how it is ideal for tool calling
mac-attack··on Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing
Definitely searched apt on Debian before I installed the pip pkg. On a somewhat related note, I also thought something broke when `uv tool install mansnip` didn't work.
mac-attack··on Spam and Scams Proliferate in Facebook's Political Ads
Traditionally, of the big 5, Facebook has always been the most amoral. ie their leaked rules around AI flirting with kids.
mac-attack··on Codeberg Reaches 300k Projects
I self-host forgejo locally and use Codeberg for my blog and finding good FOSS projects. Here's to 300k more!
mac-attack··on Economics of sportsbooks and why they ban the best bettors
> Haralabos Voulgaris for example is likely one of the most successful sports bettors. Very interesting guy imo

Anyone whose name sounds like a Harry Potter spell is bound to be an interesting person. I'll have to dig into him some more

mac-attack··on Android 16 public tags don't match security patch level
At what point does incompetence start to look like malicious intent?
mac-attack··on Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia
Poking fun at Winnie the Pooh feels less funny now
mac-attack··on Kagi News
This presupposes that you have an informed population that already knows the facts and context
mac-attack··on Kagi News
Big news junkie but I don't feel the need to buy into Kagi's ecosphere personally as a SearXNG user. The article touches on signal over noise and I have found two solutions that work for me as a news junkie:

News Minimalist [1] and Boring Report [2]. Both aggregate news and (IMO) most importantly provide links from multiple outlets for the same stories. Really made me notice the clickbait and allows me to be more selective in choosing reputable sources.

Both use AI, with the former ranking news based on importance, while the latter summarizes articles. (That doesn't feel useful for supporting journalism as a whole so I typically click through and read the articles unless I don't like the outlet reporting)

[1] https://www.newsminimalist.com/

[2] https://www.boringreport.org/app

mac-attack··on FBI ex-chief Comey criminally charged as Trump targets critics, source says
When what-aboutism is the hammer, everything looks like a nail
mac-attack··on The story of DOGE, as told by federal workers
People call Elon a Nazi because of the salute he did, stuff he has said about Jewish people, pro-white nationalist dog whistles, etc.

I feel like you also overlooked the context of Obama's severe cuts and reorg... it was coming out of the Great Financial Recession which was the worst economy the US had seen in ~100 years...

mac-attack··on How did sports betting become legal in the US?
Good to see Dolan is not the only one corruptible by power
mac-attack··on NYC Telecom Raid: What's Up with Those Weird SIM Banks?
I do not think that the blog is the reason why the practice exists. I am stating that the blog's framing of the issue is a counter-productive way to cover an illegal activity that 99% of citizens actually hate.
mac-attack··on NYC Telecom Raid: What's Up with Those Weird SIM Banks?
I can do a google search for ghost guns too, but once I compile my information and it goes viral on an unrelated site, isn't that still contributing to the visibility (and potentially distribution) of ghost guns?
mac-attack··on YouTube says it'll bring back creators banned for Covid and election content
The issues you are bringing up don't highlight that they stuck with the wrong decision, but rather that they didn't pivot to the right decision as fast as you'd like... yet your solution is bottom-up decision-making that will undoubtedly take much much longer to reach a consensus? How do you square that circle?

Experts can study and learn from their prior mistakes. Continually doing bottom-up when we have experts is inefficient and short-sighted, no? Surely you would streamline part of the process and end up in the pre-Trump framework yet again?

Also, I'm curious why you have such a rosy picture of the bottom-up alternatives? Are you forgetting about the ivermectin overdoses? 17,000 deaths related to hydroxychloroquine? The US president suggesting people drinking bleach? It is easy to cherry pick the mistakes that science makes while overlooking the noise and misinformation that worms its way into less-informed/less-educated thinkers when non-experts are given the reins

mac-attack··on YouTube says it'll bring back creators banned for Covid and election content
It's poorly thought out logic. Everyone sees how messy and how mistakes can be made when attempting to get to a truth backed by data + science, so they somehow they conclude that allowing misinformation to flourish will solve the problem instead of leading to a slow decline of morality/civilization.

Very analogous to people who don't like how inefficient governments function and somehow conclude that the solution is to put people in power with zero experience managing government.

mac-attack··on NYC Telecom Raid: What's Up with Those Weird SIM Banks?
At what point does an article shift from giving insights -> giving a step by step to start your own spam farm?

Praising the device and stating how cool it is? Highlighting how inexpensive it is? Screenshots of how it works? Saying where you can buy it from?

The line is blurry but this article has all of that. Here's to responsible journalism and being inundated with more spam on my phone so that a newsletter gets more clicks.

mac-attack··on Source code for the X recommendation algorithm
In the same way that someone speaking on behalf of the White House is held to a standard whenever they speak, the same applies to journalists that are representing a newspaper.

Making everyone 'equal' is a political heuristic that IMO presupposes that journalists can't be trusted and are as useful as a random person paying $20/mo.

mac-attack··on OpenWrt: A Linux OS targeting embedded devices
https://youtube.com/watch?v=DWmLVDAV5kY His content helped me when I first made the plunge into OpenWRT earlier this year and realized I knew next to nothing about networking. He also has a video on policy-based routing that is cited in the PBR documentation as well.
mac-attack··on OpenWrt: A Linux OS targeting embedded devices
My uneducated guess is that that people that want this kind of symbolism aren't willing to actually become a maintainer and invest time in niche code for a declining user base?
mac-attack··on Navy SEALs reportedly killed North Korean fishermen to hide a failed mission
The lung puncturing was especially brutal. Literal hitmen actions
mac-attack··on Lumo: The least open 'open' AI assistant
No it isn't, that is the code for their android and iOS wrappers
mac-attack··on What If OpenDocument Used SQLite?
I'm a fan of both as a Linux user. Interesting thought experiment.
mac-attack··on Removing Guix from Debian
FYI, privacy questions are here if you ever get the time: https://popcon.debian.org/FAQ
mac-attack··on Ask HN: How do you fight YouTube addiction and procrastination? I'm struggling
This is a good post, thanks for sharing.
mac-attack··on Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy
What sane person would downgrade to Grok
mac-attack··on VIM Master
The required login/sign-up, privacy policy and lack of apparent open-sourcing seems antithetical for the average Linux user. You're going after a niche of a niche of a niche with this one, good luck lol.
mac-attack··on VIM Master
Played around on the official website until i tried to delete a word and closed the tab by a mistake. Saved it for future reference.

Edit: Went down a rabbit hole and see pacvim (https://github.com/jmoon018/PacVim) is in the official Debian repo as an option as well.

mac-attack··on Framework Laptop 16
I'm guessing/hoping Debian 13 now meets the requirements and can be added?
mac-attack··on 'Crazy conspiracist' and 'unhinged comedian': Grok's AI persona prompts exposed
I'm assuming they are talking to the people that still use the platforms...
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