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oidar··on Get Ready for Touch on Mac
This is how it works with voice over on ios devices, and it’s pretty natural after you use it for awhile.
oidar··on America has lost 200k of jobs in media, film and the arts. How much is AI?
I haven't investigated it much, but I imagine that LLMs have made it easier for japanese culture products to release products in English language. Is industry in Japan taking advantage of nearly free translation for it's print products?
oidar··on No Source Code? No Problem
Did you implement bank sync for you quickbooks replacement?
oidar··on Investor-owned utilities charge 23% more for electricity than public providers
Gainesville?
oidar··on Tiny Little Office
After exploring it a bit more, I also found that there is no way to load a document that you ask the app to save to your browser IndexDB.
oidar··on Why We're Banning AI
> I get all my news now from Gemini.

Wow. I think it's easy to replace search engines with LLMs (it basically has for me), but I never considered that "News" with a capital N - would be replaced by an LLM. Do you just ask it for news directly, or do you have it collate different sources?

oidar··on Tiny Little Office
My disagreement is about the usage of the word, not about whether marketers or politicians have used it for other purposes. Sure, using “democratize” to mean “make broadly accessible” has bleached its political force, but that sense has been attested since the late 1700s to the present. Prescriptively, you can argue it shouldn’t be used that way. Descriptively, it has been, for a long time.
oidar··on Tiny Little Office
Historically wrong. https://www.etymonline.com/word/democratize

> We teach the population at the cheapest possible rate; and the aim all the democratization (if we may use the word) of literature proposes to itself in this country, is to store the minds of the many, of the anonymous multitude, with a large portion of valuable, because practically useful, facts. [Meliora, vol. ii, no. 6, 1860]

oidar··on Tiny Little Office
Is there no way to open saved documents? Like it won't open a .csv, .txt or .ics file for example?
oidar··on Show HN: An experimental pattern-first DAW that supports MCP
nobody is downloading this w/o a video showing how it works friend.
oidar··on Show HN: A simple to-do app for iPhone, Mac, and your agent
This UI is a straight up copy of Things.
oidar··on OpenSSH Ships on Every Mac, Linux Server and Windows. Its Creator Trusts No One
I understand if people use LLMs to help them write, but damn make the sentences yours. Please don't have the LLMs write the sentences for you. Use LLMs for outlining, brainstorming, critiquing, grammar, etc. But write your own sentences. This could have been a good article.
oidar··on Getting the most out of Opus 5.5 in Claude and Claude Code
I do like Opus 4.6, but I think 5.5 on medium or low is a better value. I have to steer 4.6 more and build more scaffolding around the tasks. 5.5 just does what I ask. Visual spatial reasoning greatly improved in 5.5 as well.
oidar··on Tiny Brutalism
Steam has some helpful features for game buyers. I can buy the game without installing it, steam keeps my save data and allows it to easily move between computers, steam allows me to keep a library of games without having to manage them on disk, and I only have to share payment info with one processor. I think these features are some of the main reasons people use app stores.
oidar··on The AI Race Just Got Awkward
What are you thoughts on it's performance compared to 4.6?
oidar··on AI 'kill switch' may need to be mandatory, Anthropic co-founder tells BBC
> Well, that’s because that’s not how it went.

Oh, you mean the one where OpenAI deliberately disabled the safety protcols? Where the point of the experiment was to see if it could break out of it's container? Yeah, how you describe it isn't how it went either.

oidar··on AI 'kill switch' may need to be mandatory, Anthropic co-founder tells BBC
Like a power cord? or a network connection? You don't use those already? Also when people talk about LLM escaping - where exactly would an LLM escape to? Cancún? Ridiculous.
oidar··on Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?
> on a GB10 cluster

I'd love to hear more about your setup. I have a single GB10 and am thinking about adding an additional one.

oidar··on Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026
It also blocks my ability to talk about Emily Dickinson in other languages/scripts. Apparently,the poem: "Because I could not stop for Death" is too dangerous.
oidar··on Armed man attacks Ohio governor candidate Amy Acton, several injured
non paywall story: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/amy-acton-ohio-armed-man-attack...
oidar··on Armed man attacks Ohio governor candidate Amy Acton, several injured
archive.is is more hostile than twitter now. It wants me to scan a QR code with my phone to prove I'm a real person.
oidar··on Bob and Van
>you're dreaming up edge cases

Are you saying that bigots are edge cases?

oidar··on Poetry book that Anthropic tried to censor
Earlier this year, i turned some of Emily Dickinson’s poems into Shavian script. When i asked Claude to make sure i was doing the transcriptions correctly, it stopped responding. Her work is plainly in the pd, I’m not sure what would cause Claude to stop working with it.
oidar··on Burnt out on a three-day week
Hey Claude - The information in this essay is fine, but you have got to stop leaning on correctio as a rhetorical device. The whole essay is built on it. We've talked about this before and it's grating because you use it in every piece of writing you produce. It's just not how people write.
oidar··on Audacity 4.0
>> The following Audacity 3 features are not available in Audacity 4.0, but we're working on adding them in future releases.

Time Tracks Note/MIDI tracks Mixer Macro Manager and the scripting pipe VAMP and LADSPA plugin hosting Play-at-speed Sync-Lock and the old tool modes were replaced by the workflows described above.

>>Additionally, Audacity 4 ships with some missing exporting and rendering features, analyzers, and effects.

oidar··on The Lost Art of Carrying Loads
Thanks for the essay Claude. It’s good info, just something feels off. It doesn’t feel like a person wrote this article… what are 10 options to fix this?
oidar··on StemDeck, a free, open-source and local AI stem separator
Look pretty. Can we load alternative stem separators like Spleeter, MDX-Net, and RoFormer implementations? I'd like to be able to AB them for different stems types.
oidar··on Show HN: Pause – weekly curated 1:1 coffee matches for London professionals
interesting idea, you should update the copy to have non-AI like writing though. It reads very AI generated atm.
oidar··on Vintage Artificial Intelligence: Before It Got Awkward
My favorite old AI named Tik-Tok - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tik-Tok_(novel)

>Tik-Tok finds that he can do as he pleases, and he secretly commits various hideous crimes for his amusement. After manipulating both robots and humans to cause chaos and bloodshed, Tik-Tok becomes wealthy (partly through health care privatization) and is finally elected Vice President of the United States.

oidar··on Opus 5.0 drives incoherence into the stratosphere
A big part of it is just the thinking tokens leaking into the main output. Imagine how weird it would be if our "thinking" was evident to the people we are having a conversation with.

Just with those two sentences above, there were about 10 different considerations that if typed out would have resulted in a jumbled mess.

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