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tapland··on Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys
I mean. The side voting while knowing they can't stop it that way, the definition of optics, thought this was worth it to not cater to their anti-war voters, no?

Both side bad yeah, you seem to think the solution is still to cling to the lesser of two evils. Hell, dem presidential candidates were praising Trumps Iran policy up until the bombs started falling. There is no evidence they _actually_ care about a war with Iran outside of, just as you do, saying OH this is THEIR doing.

tapland··on Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys
Yeah but tons of things are awful. For me I couldn't keep doing things I knew caused immense suffering in other beings, be it humans or animals. (Sourcing things from ethical whatever and reducing consumption in general the last two decades, I'm sad my iPhone 6 isn't supported for banking so have to go android 10 etc).

Vegetarian options got cheap, and I still eat locally produced eggs and some milk products.

But like, awful can be coped with. Everyone thinks factory farming is awful. Few give a shit.

tapland··on Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys
Might want to go back and check on the Dems. It bad > it's the ones I don't vote for is easy to say.
tapland··on Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight
Google Music had my own digitised records, and helped me move away from my physical media. Now I have to find another cd player since something broke in the one I dug out after they removed my shit. This whole ecosystem is rotten
tapland··on Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play
Binding of Isaac runs great via steam/Proton haven't even thought about if its native Linux or not.
tapland··on Glassworm is back: A new wave of invisible Unicode attacks hits repositories
Tldr: Yeah it would make it better!
tapland··on Will vibe coding end like the maker movement?
I've had plenty of use for mine, but I wish I had a library of mechanisms that work well that I could put together to build easily.

Learning modelling is a huge time sink, learning to make threaded parts, or anything modular to not have to re-print everything for changes. It's great but the printing is the easy part

tapland··on The Internet Is Becoming a Dark Forest – and AI Is the Hunter
Is this an AI generated response?

Attackers have always been ahead. Its been reality since we've been permanently online

tapland··on Just the Browser
Doesn’t Brave has their own ‘Leo’ AI built in?
tapland··on Just the Browser
Yes, if someone wrote a guide on how to do it and why, that’d be great.

Knowing where to look and which settings are relevant, for yourself, is a crazy ask of even very computer savvy users.

tapland··on TP-Link Tapo C200: Hardcoded Keys, Buffer Overflows and Privacy
P. Sure the camera in question breaks in fun ways. From my observations because it can’t update it’s time, so messing with it a bit leaving to a need to update, downgrade, block from the web again.

But it’s worth trying

tapland··on Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm
So it’s more like the top 0.001% who have the voting majority in this wonderful democratic system we all have our life savings dumped into.

What was your attempted point? Or did you not understand the issue that was brought up?

tapland··on Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm
:)

You still don’t have a say and the investor is also the customer. How is it democracy or keeping companies to being good for society.

tapland··on Show HN: I built a synth for my daughter
This is great. I’m going to start making something like this, but with some cut apple wood knobs, for my birds.
tapland··on Steam Machine
It’s a few games, but a few very important ones.

GTAVs online ecosystem with custom servers. Rust hasn’t enabled Linux Battleye support. Valorant

Some releases that are temporarily popular like BF6, playtest of Battleye games where Linux support isn’t enabled (Fellowship, Exoborne). All games in this paragraph also by Swedish developers. Kom igen, linuxstöd

tapland··on Launch HN: Hypercubic (YC F25) – AI for COBOL and Mainframes
I’ve seen a few, 9 figure projects to replace essentially 6 devs and three sysadmins.

Another proposed replacement about to fail now, after half the COBOL devs were laid off.

So if anyone needs a remote openvms/hp nonstop or junior z/os dev :D

tapland··on Launch HN: Hypercubic (YC F25) – AI for COBOL and Mainframes
And insurance, and there are telcos still having boxes spinning. And places dealing with inventories or airlines and whatever, or healthcare. If databases helped and it was around before 1992 it might still be running some cobol.
tapland··on Two billion email addresses were exposed
Anyone who’s looked at breach data knows to try yourname+service for any service.

This does help in filtering spam though

tapland··on Tech companies are firing everyone to "fund AI", spending money on each other
Probably just trying to save face after having to close down/scale back the startup to zero.

You too can be a 1 man startup founder.

tapland··on A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool
Doesn’t seem like the same pool if you measure 300 counts/min from their hair afterwards.
tapland··on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account
For me it's been on and off, sometimes a windows installer manages to detect network cards and sometimes it doesn't.

I think I've been blocked from continuing an installation once, so I assume you'll just have to plug something in that it can detect or grab an install image which has the drivers.

I swapped over to primarily use linux a while ago, but was surprised that they've made windows 10 look like (what I think is) windows 11. When did that happen?

tapland··on iRobot Founder: Don't Believe the AI and Robotics Hype
Creative writing sites without anti ai rules are getting swamped. Disheartening looking for people to read and provide feedback when hundreds of users churn out 40k word stories on a daily basis.
tapland··on Nvidia buys $5B in Intel
The lastest Arc GPUs were doing good, and were absolutely an option for entry/mid level gamers. I think lack of maturity was one of the main things keeping sales down.
tapland··on StarDict sends X11 clipboard to remote servers
For me it’s been about 25, but since this is the opening premise, and a throwback to the opening scene I think it’s probably one of the most memorable.
tapland··on GPT-5
Ugh. Could they have their expert make a website that doesn’t crash safari on my iPhone SE? :)
tapland··on GPT-5 leaked system prompt?
I think getting a JSON formatted output costs multiples of a forced plain text Name:Value.

Let a regular script parse that and save a lot of money not having chatgpt do hard things.

tapland··on You know more Finnish than you think
And condiment labels from reading them during dinner. That’s 90% of the Finnish I know.
tapland··on Telo MT1
People using their trucks for truck stuff know most others don’t. They don’t have to make shit up
tapland··on Every satellite orbiting earth and who owns them (2023)
SubEarthOrbit for the dwarves
tapland··on Bus Bunching
That’s usually how they’re scheduled though, and it’s printed that way to make the timetable shorter and much easier to read.
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