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offbeatport··on Roblox downloaded 145GB models from us (including adult content) without asking
They didn't do it in the intended manner.

> The crawler did not respect our robots.txt, (which it did retrieve), ignored our Terms of Service, (which forbid scraping), and defied the creators' licenses: 423 of the 712 projects are licensed for non-commercial use only.

offbeatport··on Borland Turbo Basic
Amazing times, amazing interface for the time.
offbeatport··on The Legend of von Neumann (1973) [pdf]
Books from before the age of AI will only become more precious over time. This is great.
offbeatport··on Show HN: ReadMini – read only what matters from an article
Here are a few examples of the problem in the wild: https://burningdemand.com/demand/evt_hd5p575npv9ah4tw45xe8

Hope you find this useful.

offbeatport··on A Case for an Autonomy Kernel
I've been thinking about autonomous/agentic systems from an operating systems perspective rather than a model or framework perspective.

This is an attempt to sketch what an autonomy kernel might look like and where its boundaries should be.

Where would you draw the kernel boundary?

offbeatport··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
https://VoteFeature.com - An open catalog of products and features where users can vote to help build what matters.
offbeatport··on "The Linux Phone You've Been Waiting For"
Thanks, I think I can relate.

For me, the camera gets more important as I get older. I realise that, althougth I'm not into photography either, it's very easy to capture day-to-day memories.

However, I'm one of those people who would never buy a dedicated camera. I'm just not into it that much.

I'm courious to see if the hardware would be OK. If so, how much more can we get by writing good software. After all, there's only so much we can improve with hardware until it becomes irrelevant!?

offbeatport··on "The Linux Phone You've Been Waiting For"
I guess it's a vicious cycle with open / linux-based. Although not impossible, it's difficult to get good grade apps with slow capital. E.g. It seems to me that the appstore is one of the main arguments for choosing iPhones.
offbeatport··on "The Linux Phone You've Been Waiting For"
Is this not a good enough camera? Is the problem with the hardware or software?
offbeatport··on Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell
https://switchcenter.app/

SwitchCenter aims to improve the experience of managing your opened apps/windows on macOS.

With this, you can display your opened windows grouped in columns (by application). You can also also display the minimized windows in the same column as the opened windows and allows you to pin applications so they always display in the same order. On top of that, it allows for (arguably) better windows control (close, minimize, full-screen, Zoom In / Out, etc.).

It started as an experiment because I was looking for a cleaner, more organized way to arrange the (many) opened windows.

I'm thinking of adding browser tabs somewhere in there (maybe).

offbeatport··on SwitchCenter: an OSX Mission Control alternative (invite-only)
I agree. For me, I tried to use reduce motion and turn off most of the animations in OSX (this is how I did it https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/142734). It didn't completely remove the animations but it went from "slide in/out" animation to "fade in/out". It felt like a better experience.
offbeatport··on SwitchCenter: an OSX Mission Control alternative (invite-only)
Good idea. I'll make a video and upload it to the page.

Unfortunately, the first version will not support spaces. I tried to add that functionality as part of the MVP but as it turns out, working with OSX's private functions for spaces is not straightforward. However, I do appreciate that you (and probably other people too) use spaces, so I'll add it in at some point in the near future.

offbeatport··on SwitchCenter: an OSX Mission Control alternative (invite-only)
Thank you for the feedback. Very good advice. I just didn't want to mislead people into thinking that this is ready for general use.