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ngcazz

805 karma · joined October 16, 2012

Israel is a rogue state holding the world hostage while it commits genocide against Palestinians. Consider donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, avoiding doing business with Israeli companies and lobbying your representatives. Our shared future may well depend on it, and the Palestinians' definitely does.
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ngcazz··on I'm so bad at billiards that I ended up in the hyperbolic plane [video]
oddly I felt like the compression artefacting during the hyperbolic part enhanced the psychedelic effect
ngcazz··on Lula wins election after final votes tallied
I mean, US foreign policy been supercharged with Trump, and from that perspective his leadership's been plenty adequate. Declaring war on Iran in particular has long been a neoliberal aspiration that no one had the political courage to implement - enter Trump, the nominal adversary on whom they could outsource their ambitions, and whose blunders could cynically be disavowed.
ngcazz··on Root shell on Samsung TV
way to miss the point.
ngcazz··on Apple Music 404 Not Found
Nice to find some 00s electronic classics there like Alter Ego and Âme, that really took me back to my iPod mini days.
ngcazz··on US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize
the purpose of a system is what is does.
ngcazz··on Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs
The dead accent key feature is super handy - it means I never have to leave the UK English layout to type in Portuguese. I don't know if that's available because I use the PC variant of the layout, though.
ngcazz··on Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]
*fascist. Don't sugarcoat it.
ngcazz··on Elektron Machinedrum in the Browser
I've always thought he named the act after the instrument.
ngcazz··on Elektron Machinedrum in the Browser
Not OP, but you might want to check out https://github.com/joelanders/gearmulator-md-mm
ngcazz··on Iran school bombing: grounds to believe US was behind atrocity, UN finds
It's not gonna be low-stakes protests like No Kings, I'll tell you that.
ngcazz··on macOS 27 Golden Gate – Review
Big Hammer wants to replace all your tools with Hammers and OP is right along with them
ngcazz··on I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea
one of the all time great rave tracks
ngcazz··on iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
I had a second gen iPod Touch and from what I can remember the keyboard experience was vastly superior than the iPhone now
ngcazz··on iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
I'm hit by this problem often. I wonder why UI updates which could well be incremental instead just replace the whole results from under your fingers!
ngcazz··on Steam Frame starts at $1059
The computer powering the Virtuality was an Amiga, which I've always found mindblowing.
ngcazz··on Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
the end of Electron would be a nice silver lining to the new era of coding
ngcazz··on iPhone Duo
If there's a Uno Turbo IE I'd be happy to buy it
ngcazz··on Apple Watch Series 12
... but not particularly unfair on your interlocutor, just off putting
ngcazz··on iPhone Duo
fwiw, Apple had a PowerBook Duo line in the mid 90s, so maybe that's the reference
ngcazz··on LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices
Because there's no incentive to do it. The consequences of being tracked are outta sight outta mind.
ngcazz··on Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
from a few days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49388752
ngcazz··on How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?
more consistent with? more consistent than?
ngcazz··on How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?
Those claims are warnings if you're working class, and marketing if you're corporate.
ngcazz··on “I just chose words carefully”
true/lies
ngcazz··on Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues
He supports systematic violence against marginalized ethnicities, but he also supports open weight models.

or as dril put it

drink driving may kill a lot of people, but it also helps a lot of people get to work on time, so, it;s impossible to say if its bad or not,

ngcazz··on Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues
Pragmatic Engineer too
ngcazz··on Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues
I am saying the proof is there, and I am assuming I'm being read by people curious enough to check what I'm saying.
ngcazz··on Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues
If you, having read his blog, are going to say that, then you're either epically naive, or you're deliberately whitewashing his messaging.
ngcazz··on New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health
If corporations are going to act like psychopaths, arrest the upper management and fine the shareholders.
ngcazz··on Quake – 30th Anniversary Update
FFS, I mindlessly bought it off Steam to play the new episode and probably have played it longer than the refund threshold now.
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