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My small data point:

A few days ago I wanted my obsidian notes on a linux machine. Well, the files are synced via iCloud Drive (no Linux), so I asked it to solve it across my devices. It used Syncthing which has been working great.

Then yesterday obsidian desktop stopped loading (probably a bug in a plugin?). I’ve always wanted to do my notes in the browser, so it forked https://files.md and set it up on my home server pointed at my sync folder.

I was of the mindset that I’d not want to self host my day to day tooling, happy to pay, but it seems having the ability to run open source tools where I can say “just fix it” is too convenient to ignore.

reustleon We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians

Humans (IQ of X, non deterministic) can write deterministic code.

AI (IQ of Y, non deterministic) can write deterministic code.

Y is going to keep increasing, while X will not.

reustleon Turn off and restrict access to Apple Intelligence features on Mac

Love or hate Omarchy, it's movements like that which are finally going to convince diehard macos users to consider a more open and controllable OS. Small annoyances can be ignored, but after a while, there is too much noise.

I am sure my Macbook uses a RNG to decide whether or not I can use touch ID to unlock.

reustleon LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/1/codex-libreoffice/

To better parse office file formats

reustleon Chestnut – eGPU dock with open-source firmware

The direct eGPU link if you're curious https://comma.ai/shop/chestnut

reustleon You can't buy 20 pieces of aluminum tube online

Seems inspired by https://noxmetals.co/quote which is great. We need plenty more suppliers like this around the US.

reustleon Why the future is local app

Obsidian is just one example of how powerful local apps can be with a generic sync behind them (icloud sync, gdrive, obsidian sync, etc)

reustleon I Have Thoughts on the iPhone Air

https://www.inkcase.com/inkcase-for-iphone/

A few options exist in the market

reustleon 7.1 Earthquake in Japan

You can keep an eye on this english tracker in the browser too https://earthquakesjapan.com

reustleon Wind and solar generated more power than gas globally in April 2026

Curious, when you calculate 8-10yr payoff, are you taking into account the last 10-20 year kwh cost inflation trend as well?

reustleon OpenGridWorks: The Electricity Infrasctructure, Mapped

Yeah. I get that adversaries can capture their own high res satellite photos and determine this, but this is just handing it to them on a silver platter.

reustleon Apple's intentional crippling of Mobile Safari

Firefox on iOS is just a wrapper around Safari, since that is all Apple allows.

reustleon Nanobot: Ultra-Lightweight Alternative to OpenClaw

For the curious

https://github.com/gavrielc/nanoclaw

reustleon Vibe coding kills open source

There is a reasonable argument that there won’t be many new languages now that models are sufficiently trained. If anything, we may see languages optimized for models and not humans.

reustleon Nike's Crisis and the Economics of Brand Decay

Same for me and a particular North Face light jacket. I’ve purchased the same model about 5 times, with noticeably lower quality materials in the more recent years. Faster wear, quicker fading colors, thinner.

reustleon AI employees don't pay taxes

Maybe we should tax computers entirely

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_(occupation)

reustleon 'Ghost jobs' are on the rise – and so are calls to ban them

I think there’s a good chunk of the SF tech event scene built around pulling in qualified email addresses, too. “Apply to attend”

reustleon Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psychotic episode

Reddit was originally built using fake accounts, who’s to say it ever really stopped.

https://venturebeat.com/ai/reddit-fake-users

reustleon Cloudflare was down

Maybe centralizing the internet wasn’t a great idea after all, huh

reustleon Bureau of Meteorology's new boss asked to examine $96M bill for website redesign

> but so many people have a religious level hatred of public employees

Are you sure this is the issue here? Seems there are lots of regulations around how much public employees can be paid (usually too low for skilled IT), how easy it is to move or fire them, etc. Sounds much easier to just hire a contractor.

reustleon Aggressive bots ruined my weekend

Cloudflare is not a solution. Only leading to a further centralized internet.

reustleon Tell HN: OpenAI now requires ID verification and won't refund API credits

Also terrible that purchased credits expire after 1 year. Not sure how that is legal.

https://community.openai.com/t/api-credits-amount-get-expire...

reustleon MinIO stops distributing free Docker images

Render also pushes MinIO as their recommended equivalent to S3 for their customers (using docker), similar to Bucketeer on Heroku.

https://render.com/docs/deploy-minio

Hopefully this will finally push Render to build their own S3 wrapper.

reustleon America is now one big bet on AI

> Do people actually buy into the absurdity of humanoid robots and robotaxis?

Have you ever taken a Waymo? You see them on every street in SF now.

reustleon A New Internet Business Model?

I too miss the days of phpBB an IPB forums. Circle.so has come the closest to replicating some of that interface / vibe, but as expected, their pricing has crept up beyond a reasonable point for small projects / communities. The answer seems to be something self hosted.

reustleon US to rewrite its past national climate reports

On a similar note, does anyone notice the issue of most official temperature readings in different climates often reading 5+C lower than what is actually observed locally?

reustleon Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features

Not sure why you're downvoted, it's an entirely valid question.

What we'll probably see is, celebrity look-alikes will be contacted to license out their own "features".

reustleon Coding agents have crossed a chasm

Just remember, you can continue to do artisanal programming as a hobby or for your own projects. But if you have an employer, they're paying you for functional and secure features, not lines of code.

reustleon Mullvad Leta

A simple explanation of what this does, shown somewhere on the page, would go a long way.

reustleon Lieferando.de has captured 5.7% of restaurant related domain names

GrubHub did exactly the same in the US.

Up to 23,000 domains [1], and listed some restaurants on Google Maps without their permission [2]

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/grubhub-registered-23000-dom...

[2] https://www.wired.com/story/ghost-kitchens-mystery-grubhub-l...

GrubHub was purchased from Thuisbezorgd.nl (Dutch) by Wonder Group (Marc Lore) a few months ago.