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piperswe··on As Wisconsin cities flee Flock, its shared camera network loses value
Can the police log in to your cameras at any time and pull footage? Because they can with Flock cameras.
piperswe··on Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3
Snapshots are the weekly (at least they used to be, I think they're less frequent now) development snapshots - they are explicitly pre-beta versions that you have to opt in to.
piperswe··on “Beyond the limit”: Satellites and mirrors in space pose threat to the night sky
If politics were trending left I’d agree with you, but as-is the bourgeoisie are the only ones that will get any upside from modern tech.
piperswe··on Dangerous hormone-disrupting chemicals found in US breast milk samples
Typically, blood work at the beginning of hormone therapy shows sex hormone levels that are normal for the AGAB
piperswe··on Major P2P issues in Israel and possibly other Middle East countries
That would be the “Linus Sebastian misconception”
piperswe··on Motorola effectively bricked its entire line of WiFi routers without explanation
I don’t think I’ve ever _needed_ to use the Unifi mobile app. When I connect something to my network, it shows up in the Unifi controller web app ready to adopt.
piperswe··on Texas is America Inc's new centre of gravity
Texas charges quite high property taxes compared to many other states
piperswe··on Coreutils for Windows
Isn’t Win32 also implemented as a subsystem?
piperswe··on Coreutils for Windows
Then in this hypothetical world you could mount \\0010-somehost.win.site1.mycorp.local\Share01 to /Share01 rather than T:
piperswe··on Robinhood now lets your AI agents trade stocks
I feel like you could probably have the AI write a script that uses the API to do the same thing, except this time you have code you can test rather than relying on the probabilistic machine every time you do a trade.
piperswe··on Modern Blu-ray drives can now rip GameCube, Wii, and Xbox 360 games to PC
I'm assuming this firmware also functions as a LibreDrive firmware for use with MakeMKV?
piperswe··on Anna's Archive hit with $19.5M default judgment and global domain takedown order
But those libraries have to pay each time they loan those digital goods. It's not the old "pay once loan until it's dust" model they use for physical goods.
piperswe··on 'No way to prevent this,' says only package manager where this regularly happens
A lot of it ends up bundled to run in a browser though, and doesn't end up running in Node.js
piperswe··on Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce
Thank you, I picked it myself :)
piperswe··on Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce
I don't have a particularly good idea of how much others were using it, unfortunately.
piperswe··on Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce
I can't see or reply to the original comment since it's been nuked, but I can infer what it was saying.

I actually started studying part-time for a mathematics degree earlier this year, and I don't plan on stopping that now. Having a degree does open doors at more traditional companies and government jobs, and it would also make immigration to another country sometime in the future a lot more straightforward. There are definitely benefits, even though I'm established in my career!

piperswe··on Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce
I'm honored you're responding! I've received a few leads from this comment that I'm chatting with, and it's been a major morale boost for me.

At this point in my life and the economy I'm not particularly looking for such early-stage startups like Magnetic (especially w/ relocation to SF), but thanks for giving me the heads up!

piperswe··on Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce
I had OpenCode doing most of my substantial code changes for me, once I figured out what the code changes had to be. (so, it saved me typing but not thinking) I also vibe-coded (really slop-forked TBH, that's the Cloudflare way after all) an internal tool that our team used. I definitely was not a small user of our AI tools, though I know that there are others with significantly more.
piperswe··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)
Location: Austin, TX

Remote: Remote/Hybrid/On-Site

Willing to relocate: To California, Massachusetts, Canada, or Europe for the right opportunity

Technologies: Go (Golang), Rust, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, SQLite, NixOS, Cloudflare (everything, the whole Cloudflare Developer Platform - I would call myself an expert at this, as I've dogfooded most new developer platform products as they released), Kubernetes

CV: https://piperswe.me/cv.pdf

Email: [anything]@piperswe.me

I just got laid off by Cloudflare, looking for a position doing infrastructure & backend work. I spent my time at Cloudflare working on the Waiting Room, Health Checks, and Load Balancing products, three distributed systems which crunch global data to make decisions globally. I'm happy to move down-stack as well (e.g. to systems programming, especially in Rust).

piperswe··on Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce
oh indeed it is! thanks for the heads up!
piperswe··on Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce
CV link: https://piperswe.me/cv.pdf
piperswe··on Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce
Welp, looks like I’m affected. If anyone is looking to hire a systems engineer with distributed systems and load balancing experience, shoot me an email at <anything>@piperswe.me :/

I’ll update this with a resume link tonight…

piperswe··on iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet
It's stored in Wallet so you can access it through the Wallet shortcut (double-press power button), when you open it the screen automatically brightens, and it's a perfectly clear QR code rather than a picture so it'll be easier to scan.
piperswe··on We stopped hiring engineers for coding ability
Not surprising for an "AI" company to be on-board the hype train
piperswe··on Online age verification is the hill to die on
I'm a functional and successful adult despite doing plenty online behind my parents' back as a kid. I don't think that part of our upbringings had as much of an effect on us as you suspect.
piperswe··on Dutch central bank ditches AWS and chooses Lidl for European Cloud
They're probably not wrong, if they're talking about hypermiling a Prius
piperswe··on Magic: The Gathering took me from N2 to Japanese fluency
Spoilers:

Question 1 had such different styles. I preferred the style the AI was using, but that was purely a stylistic preference.

Question 3 was a toss-up. They both felt fine, and funny enough they both had a "not just X, it's Y" pattern.

Those were the only two where I clicked the AI version - for the other three, it was obvious which was AI.

piperswe··on Mise-En-Place
Correct, for the most part it uses the binaries distributed by the upstream project.
piperswe··on Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model
Didn’t the major American labs pirate a whole bunch of their training data?
piperswe··on Bitwarden CLI Compromised in Ongoing Checkmarx Supply Chain Campaign
It would be strange if Android locked that down further than even iOS - Keepassium on iOS can open files from any sync app IIRC
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