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tacker2000··on AirPods live translation blocked for EU users with EU Apple accounts
Sure, i can agree with that.
tacker2000··on AirPods live translation blocked for EU users with EU Apple accounts
That says something about Apple, doesnt it?
tacker2000··on A love letter to the CSV format (2024)
Ok thats a nice tip, but to be fair when i download some CSV report off some website, i dont wont to open it to check the delimiter, then edit it and resave it. Often I am downloading dozens of such files at a time.
tacker2000··on A love letter to the CSV format (2024)
The problem is that nobody in the real world uses tabs.

Everyone uses , or ; as delimiters and then uses either . or , for decimals, depending on the source.

It shouldnt be so hard to auto-detect these different formats, but somehow in 2025, Excel still cannot do it.

tacker2000··on Ex-WhatsApp cybersecurity head says Meta endangered billions of users
Well, FB didnt build up the initial user base, just purchased it and grew it from there.
tacker2000··on Next.js is infuriating
Yes but instead of just logging to a text file for example you need OTEL, thats my point.

The fact that Monolog has a handler for this tool isnt relevant, but it shows that there is one more layer of complexity tacked on.

tacker2000··on Next.js is infuriating
Again, why would one need such a heavyweight tool?

Most frameworks have powerful loggers out of the box, like Monolog in the PHP world.

tacker2000··on Next.js is infuriating
The perfect solution is to use React for the frontend (where its main purpose and strengths lie) and use something like PHP, Java, ruby or whatever for the backend.

This insanity of server side react introduces all kinds of unnecessary quirks.

Also, the VC-funded Vercel is of course purposely dumbing down Next.js, so that everyone pays them. Its a trap everyone should be aware of.

tacker2000··on DeepWiki: Understand Any Codebase
Hmm you are right, there is no direct link.

I seem to have found it via a google search.

So in the end people will believe that these are the official docs…

tacker2000··on DeepWiki: Understand Any Codebase
The Elkjs project uses this and im not really sure i like it. [1]

Its a bit hard to find stuff. I was looking to find the structure of the main configuration json object and couldnt find it in the deepwiki.

I found it on the “non ai created” doc page of the main Elk project[2] (Elkjs is a JS implementation of Elk)

But yes this is of course just one data point.

[1]https://deepwiki.com/kieler/elkjs/5-usage-guide

[2]https://eclipse.dev/elk/documentation/tooldevelopers/graphda...

tacker2000··on Modern CI is too complex and misdirected (2021)
Yea, thats really a pain and could be improved.

Are there any Jenkins Gurus out there who can give some tips?

tacker2000··on Modern CI is too complex and misdirected (2021)
These online / paid CI systems are a dime a dozen and who knows what will happen to them in the future…

Im still rocking my good old jenkins machine, which to be fair took me a long time to set up, but has been rock solid ever since and will never cost me much and will never be shut down.

But i can definitely see the appeal of github actions, etc…

tacker2000··on iOS 18.5 Bluetooth Privacy Vulnerabilities
At this point it doesnt really matter if its Apple, microsoft or google, etc..

These big tech co’s will harvest whatever is possible since user data equals hard cash and they will try and do it until they get found out, but even then it could take years until they actually get stopped or fined.

Its still the wild west out there since governments are so extremeley slow to react and they know that.

Also, Apples posturing as being the “privacy leader” doesnt mean anything anymore at this point.

tacker2000··on Toothpaste made with keratin may protect and repair damaged teeth: study
There was some joke where they showed a sign saying “Kinder Kebab, €2”
tacker2000··on Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything
Same here i dont really care as long as its giving me the answer and not too long winded.

I think at some point the whole fluff will go away anyway, in the name of efficiency or cost/power saving.

There was a recent article about how much energy these fillers are actually using if sum everything up

tacker2000··on Why deterministic output from LLMs is nearly impossible
I downvoted you because your tone is unnecessarily harsh and rude.
tacker2000··on GPT-5
Wow imgur has gone to shit. I open the image on mobile and then try to zoom it and bam some other “related content” is opened…!
tacker2000··on Apple announces American Manufacturing Program
They are doing whatever the guy in charge wants. They are basically throwing money around to make him happy.

There is no grand strategy here and I assure you after he is gone nobody will even know if this pledge was followed through.

tacker2000··on I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me
This guy is so full of himself, no wonder he didnt get hired. Just read the homebrew github issues / forum and you will see what i mean…
tacker2000··on Women dating safety app 'Tea' breached, users' IDs posted to 4chan
More power to app store reviewers? Please no. They already deny apps for random reasons and figuring out why is often a hair pulling experience.
tacker2000··on Global hack on Microsoft Sharepoint hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say
To be fair exchange works quite well for mail and calendar, it syncs very fast, is easy to set up and the cloud version is easy to administer (i never had to admin an on-prem exchange but ive heard its not fun).

Using this infra for teams makes sense since it already works well. As one poster said, its probably via some hidden folder.

I wonder what they did with skype, did they actually integrate any of it into teams or just dump it entirely?

tacker2000··on UK backing down on Apple encryption backdoor after pressure from US
To be clear in this case, this is not Europe or the EU, its solely the UK government wanting a backdoor for themselves.
tacker2000··on XMLUI
This stuff is not new, many React libraries have been doing since years, eg. the DataTable component of Primereact [1]

[1] https://primereact.org/datatable/

tacker2000··on Show HN: MCP server for Blender that builds 3D scenes via natural language
Why these web page animations are still a thing in 2025, i will never understand…
tacker2000··on Nobody knows how to build with AI yet
> There's no pride, no joy, just productivity.

I think it’s more nuanced than that.

Not every project one does will be or should be considered art or a source of joy and pride.

The boring CRUD apps that put the “bread on the table” are just that, a means to an end, they will not be your main source of pride or fulfillment. But somewhere in between there will be projects where you can put all your heart in and turn off that LLM.

Think of the countless boring weddings playlists a DJ has to do or the boring “give me the cheapest” single family homes an architect has to design.

tacker2000··on I Used Arch, BTW: macOS, Day 1
Yea, homebrew feels like a package manager for people who have no idea what packages or versions are.

Its doing so much hand-holding and extra stuff, it cant be really considered “pro” at all.

What bothers me the most is when they immediately remove packages because they get EOL’ed, but in the real world it doesn’t work like this.

I still have projects that use old PHP versions for example and brew just refuses to install these since they have been deprecated.

So then you have to use some finicky workaroud and download these old versions off of some repo/cask that will also probably go away at some point.

tacker2000··on Why you should choose HTMX for your next web-based side project (2024)
The problem is not the server cost, the problem is maintaining the (multiple) APIs altogether.
tacker2000··on US revokes visas of Brazilian judges after crack down on ex-president Bolsonaro
Brazilian politics are a shitshow and neither Lula nor Bolsonaro are saints.

But Trump exerting pressure like this is another level.

tacker2000··on NIH is cheaper than the wrong dependency
So after 2 mins i figured out what NIH means.

Would be nice to at least explain it once at the beginning thought.

There are many articles that use acronyms and not everyone knows WTH is going on.

tacker2000··on Kiro: A new agentic IDE
There are lots of ecosystems where pro users pay for plugins to get extra features. See the ecommerce domain, jetbrains, even ms teams has plugins that are paid.

VSCode has some popular paid plugins like LSPs or some for git.

I dont see why it wouldnt be possible to monetize a VSCode plugin.

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