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ronnier··on OpenWrt 24.10.0 – First Stable Release
I just get a small x86 box and then buy stand alone POE access points for wifi.
ronnier··on A phishing attack involving g.co, Google's URL shortener
Agreed. I do not follow any links, accept calls, etc. I go to the site of origin and do what I need. Also be careful if you search for the sites name on Google, still might click a fraud site!
ronnier··on TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users
People only have so many hours in the day to consume content.
ronnier··on TikTok ban: data reveals sharp traffic decline and rapid shift to alternatives
It at least shouldn't be as easily available as it is today. I lived in Japan and been all throughout Asia, returning to the US you realize something is deeply wrong when looking at people. People are suffering.
ronnier··on TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users
I’m just happy TikTok is back. It’s a big loss for Reddit
ronnier··on TikTok ban: data reveals sharp traffic decline and rapid shift to alternatives
Even though it's banned and the app wont' work, people are constantly switching back to the app and opening it over and over out of addiction, see that it doesn't work, close it, and a few seconds or minutes later, do it again.
ronnier··on TikTok Shut Down: Data Shows 85% Drop in US Access (and Surge to Alternatives)
We aren't capable of self regulation. Just look at what people eat and the size of the general population. In general we have no self control.
ronnier··on GitHub introduces sub-issues, issue types and advanced search
I really dislike the use of former and latter. It’s confusing, people get it wrong, and it can be interpreted at least two different ways to make it ambiguous.
ronnier··on I deleted my social media accounts
I just deleted bluesky and mastodon last week.
ronnier··on TikTok divestment law upheld by federal appeals court
That's my point. Reddit is completely skewed against Trump, conservatives, the right, whereas TikTok allows this content and it thrives. TikTok was one of the few extremely mainstream platforms where pro trump content was allowed and flourished. I think for this reason Trump will fight the ban
ronnier··on TikTok divestment law upheld by federal appeals court
TikTok is why Trump won his 2nd term. TikTok did not moderate away his content or moderate away pro Trump content like the other socials and Reddit. TikTok's viewership is massive and pro trump content was getting millions of views and likes and positive comments. Reddit will moderate that content away. TikTok has diminished Reddit's influence on politics.
ronnier··on GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic
The name ChatGPT is better than the name Claude, to me. Of course this is all subjective though.
ronnier··on GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic
I think "Claude" is also a bad name. If I knew nothing else, am I picking OpenAI or Claude based on the name? I'm going with OpenAI
ronnier··on Waymo closes $5.6B investment round
It still needs to be supervised for the edge cases, but the standard city roads and highways are a solved problem. I think some of the complex roads where you have to quickly cross two way traffic that doesn’t stop can be difficult, I don’t use fsd in that situation, it’s even hard for a human. Sometimes I’ll give it a nudge when it’s being too safe. There’s a construction area that I hit which would have caused the car to take a non optimal path, so I take over there on a regular basis, those issues do get fixed though. That’s about the only issues I have. It can now do things like drive down my long private unmapped driveway without issues.

My work is about 10 miles way in the Seattle area. I can go to and from with zero interventions until I get to my works parking garage

ronnier··on Waymo closes $5.6B investment round
Waymo also has drivers. They are just remote and they intervene when needed. Waymois is also bound to highly mapped roads in a few cities.

Don’t get me wrong waymo is impressive, I use it as much as possible. The future looks amazing. Do you also agree Tesla’s self driving is impressive?

ronnier··on Waymo closes $5.6B investment round
So does Tesla’s. I use it daily. From home going through a busy city, onto a major highway with rush hour traffic, into a downtown area to work. It can do this without me touching the wheel or pedal for the entire length of the drive. I have a hw4 S plaid and it’s made dramatic improvements over this last year. I’m blown away at how good it is (also blown away by waymo).
ronnier··on Waymo closes $5.6B investment round
Google controls/dominates search, much of the mobile phone market, OS on many devices, some of our programming languages, build tools, infrastructure, maps, ads, video, email, and now transportation? Anything I’m missing?
ronnier··on Unit tests as documentation
I’d rather leave a good comment instead of good test names. I mean do both, but a good comment is better imo. All I really care about is comments anymore. Just leave context, clues, and a general idea of what it’s trying to accomplish.
ronnier··on Detailed Map of Cancer-Causing Industrial Air Pollution in the U.S.
That's not great that I grew up near a 1 in 50, in Port Arthur Texas.
ronnier··on Cancer rates are rising in young people
Driving through some towns recently I saw fast food chains as the main source of food for people. These corporations are like vultures feeding on people who are not able to control their own behavior. Looking at the people you could see years of overeating of very unhealthy food as they were extremely overweight, sometimes by hundreds of pounds. I used to live in Japan and the population looked normal and healthy. Coming back to the US and looking around me is astonishing and sad.
ronnier··on How WASD became the standard PC control scheme (2016)
Wonder why more people don't use asdf? Seems more natural. Also glad to see I'm not alone!
ronnier··on Cancer rates are rising in young people
I used to be on the freedom side. Now in some areas it's becoming clear to me that we as a population do not have any self control and both sugar addiction and drug addiction is out of control and causing mass suffering
ronnier··on Cancer rates are rising in young people
I hope things are looking better and for you and a full recovery.
ronnier··on How WASD became the standard PC control scheme (2016)
I've always played asdf, since quake 1 and until this day. Any others? Seems the most natural to me. The majority of the time my finger placement is in the most natural position.
ronnier··on NASA's Curiosity rover discovers a surprise in a Martian rock
> yellow crystals were revealed after NASA’s Curiosity happened to drive over a rock and crack it open on May 30. Using an instrument on the rover’s arm, scientists later determined these crystals are elemental sulfur — and it’s the first time this kind of sulfur has been found on the Red Planet
ronnier··on A live ranking of airlines by how much luggage they are losing
Note, the data source is social media posts.
ronnier··on Supreme Court blocks controversial Purdue Pharma opioid settlement
> Purdue made billions from OxyContin, a widely available painkiller that fueled the opioid epidemic
ronnier··on The Pumpkin Eclipse
You can tell I didn't read the article :)
ronnier··on The Pumpkin Eclipse
Ah, that's what I get for not reading the article.
ronnier··on The Pumpkin Eclipse
For a few years now I only buy a small x86 box with dual nics and run OpenWRT. I love it. It's open source, lots of support, good community. It supports wireguard. Latest version allows you to even run docker containers.
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