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rockooooo··on Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
"The new Gemini model isn't available in Gemini, the Gemini App Gemini model is two versions behind and marked as new and the actual new model is in AI Studio" is the kind of problem only Google has though.
rockooooo··on Mexican government unveils a prototype for a new homegrown, ultra-affordable EV
These are usually called LSVs; the number of these is low but growing because in dense urban areas or planned developments (golf courses, parks, senior communities) they're far more cost effective.
rockooooo··on Introduction to Obsidian
I've tried obsidian so many times and want to love it but the sync situation - either the expensive official one, the approved options for mixed iOS/Windows clients (icloud) and third party tools like obsidain-livesync - were all way too issue-prone for me to ever trust it. I hope they figure this out
rockooooo··on US and TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1B' deal to end offshore wind projects
the dollar cost he's talking about does not include the large dollar cost the externalities burning gas creates
rockooooo··on Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android
Flightly is really popular on iOS, there's not really a comparable android version. Gentler Streak and a lot of fitness app also don't have comparable android versions - most of the examples I can think of are apps that focus (and charge for) good design
rockooooo··on Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android
There's many iOS only apps that either don't have anything comparable on android or the alternative is just nowhere near as good (a lot of it is more creative-focused stuff)
rockooooo··on The New Right-Wing Tech Intelligentsia
A lot of people question the "effective" part of effective altruism, and simply saying "we support more effective giving" is not convincing, especially when the most public figurehead of the movement is/was a convicted fraudster.
rockooooo··on My Beancount books are 95% automatic after 3 years (2024)
I don't use beancount but if you're already in sheets, Tiller might be easier to switch to to get lots of built-in dashboards/metrics
rockooooo··on Microsoft breached antitrust rules by bundling Teams and Office, EU says
1) technically? yes, absolutely- apps like explorer or photo viewer should only use public APIs so other companies can make comparable apps on the OS with 90% market share 2) these are all OS utilities, not workplace apps - there's a big difference between Adobe/Microsoft Office/Google bundling their apps where there's a very clear, very powerful disincentive to compete vs something like explorer.
rockooooo··on Microsoft breached antitrust rules by bundling Teams and Office, EU says
It shouldn't be! Forcing big companies to unbundle product pricing would give new entrants to the market a fighting change at success.
rockooooo··on More disabled Americans are employed, thanks to remote work
multiple people at previous jobs joked about how using FMLA would get you fired or at minimum banned from promotion
rockooooo··on Bossware is a big legal risk
If your company is even halfway legitimate they will have what they collect / monitor in your employee handbook or a privacy policy somewhere.
rockooooo··on The best way to have complex discussions?
Zulip is more of a Slack-like instant chat system with threading as a first class citizen; CQ2 looks like threads only exist in the context of one "root" document vs a channel in zulip where threads can intermingle.
rockooooo··on Show HN: Memories – FOSS Google Photos alternative built for high performance
$24 a year is too much?
rockooooo··on FDA clears first over-the-counter continuous glucose monitor
There are downsides to over-medicating, even if your personal budget for health is ~unlimited. Nobody wants to be a false positive.
rockooooo··on Stable Diffusion 3
no AI company wants to be the one generating pornographic deepfakes of someone and getting in legal / PR hot water
rockooooo··on Holepunch Unveils P2P Platform "Pear Runtime"
Open-source projects where all the developers work for one company tend not to do too well when that company dies, especially if there isn't a large ecosystem around the software yet.
rockooooo··on AdGuard Home: Network-wide ad- and tracker-blocking DNS server
It breaks a lot of websites, I used NextDNS for about two years but got tired of the headaches.
rockooooo··on I [Cory Doctorow] Got Scammed
They do, he says so in the article.
rockooooo··on Chrome experimental AI features
AI theme generation really seems like a solution looking for a problem
rockooooo··on Americans are spending billions on stuff they forget to cancel
I use Tiller, which ingests my transactions but doesn't categorize them for me (except by a rule set that I manually defined)
rockooooo··on Americans are spending billions on stuff they forget to cancel
sure, but when there's a dozen apps that will do it automatically, why?
rockooooo··on Building an e-ink picture frame that displays an iCloud photo album
The iCloud file syncing on Windows destroyed my files twice and I never touched it again.
rockooooo··on PainStation
I played this a few years ago, it was awesome
rockooooo··on DIY Home EV Charger
> It's funny how we reach a society where you need government as a babysitter and tell what you can do and whatnot.

every code regulation is written is blood. the inconvenience is designed to prevent people burning their house down or worse.

rockooooo··on Roundcube open-source webmail software merges with Nextcloud
There is no FOSS file sharing solution that gets close to being as usable, especially for sharing, as dropbox/drive.
rockooooo··on IKEA sensors for doors and windows, motion, water leaks
yeah, I see tons of models on aliexpress but the software support isn't there yet. an IKEA version would be great.
rockooooo··on Why do people still use VBA?
When I started work at a higher-level IT job where I can start saying yes or no like this, I wanted to say yes to everyone and never be that guy blocking people. I still end up saying no very frequently because people will not want to think about anything not relevant to their specific use case at all (how are you authenticating/who controls the app/what happens when you/the owner leave?/is there a project plan?).

I can't count the number of integrations/projects I've already dropped because I asked a few follow-up questions and never got a response. Any business that actually wants to follow the law and reduce the risk of massive data loss or other embarrassing cyber event needs to screen things, ask questions, and sometimes prevent one very smart person from setting up an undocumented rube goldberg machine that will drag down an entire team if they leave and it breaks.

rockooooo··on Ask HN: PG's 'Do Things That Don't Scale' manual examples?
I believe that for the surface line, but I mainly deal with the O365 folks.
rockooooo··on Ask HN: PG's 'Do Things That Don't Scale' manual examples?
Apple is only good compared to the total garbage fire of MS/Google, and Amazon's support has been horrible for years now. If they don't have an automated answer to your problem you're SOL.I had them ship me the wrong item with the correct item's SKU taped on it and they argued with me for quite awhile before just refunding me.
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