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reversethreadon Potatoes in the Mail

It turns out there are only two houses in my zip+4. But I don't have much confidence on my mail reaching me with just that...

reversethreadon GPT-4o with scheduled tasks (jawbone) is available in beta

Does the world need another reminder/todo app?

Many existing apps (like Todoist) have already had LLM integrations for a while now, and have more features like calendars and syncing.

Or do I completely not understand what this product is trying to be?

reversethreadon More telcos confirm Salt Typhoon breaches as White House weighs in

Poachers and illegal fishing vessels are better PR than foreign dissidents. :9

The federal government wouldn't pay hundreds of millions of dollars[0] to catch one or two fishing boats.

[0] https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_N6600122C0065_970...

reversethreadon More telcos confirm Salt Typhoon breaches as White House weighs in

https://www.he360.com/ Has been doing this for a while.

reversethreadon U.S. Army Soldier Arrested in AT&T, Verizon Extortions

Funny looking back on all the comments about how it was potentially a false flag.

reversethreadon CEO Jack Altman’s email to Lattice employees

So did I. Keep in mind Lattice Semiconductor is also incredibly lean, with only around 900 employees.

reversethreadon Starshield: Secured satellite network for government entities

I'm not sure how you came to that conclusion. Neither Tim Cook or Elon Musk would really say "No" if the government asked them to do something, both are business-motivated people with the ability to ignore morals.

reversethreadon Amazon’s New Chip Moves AWS into High-Performance Computing

https://mvdirona.com/jrh/talksandpapers/JamesHamilton2022101... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33522499) is a good write-up by the person behind a lot of Amazon's ASIC stuff.

reversethreadon Lightweight Alpine VMs on macOS

I don't see the point of a dedicated tool for this when it is easy enough just to start a Alpine docker container with a couple commands. As this project is just a wrapper for docker and LXD[1] and those tools are already easy enough for the average SWE to interact with, the project seems to just over-complicate an already existing workflow.

[1] https://github.com/beringresearch/macpine#motivation

reversethreadon FCC Bans Authorizations for Devices That Pose National Security Threat

Not to mention Amazon's lobbying efforts.

reversethreadon FCC Bans Authorizations for Devices That Pose National Security Threat

In reality, Chinese manufactures will just ignore FCC licensing requirements. A good amount of cheap Chinese electronics on Amazon are already unlicensed, so I doubt any new changes will affect them. Online marketplaces like Amazon really need to crack down on products and make sure they are properly licensed.