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In related news, I found this new app store in GrapheneOS's app store (dawg I heard you like app stores...). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50192083

6 cents per kwh! Can we set up some shipping back and forth for batteries, you charge them, I pay you for it and can have cheaper energy.

This is about what we pay here for delivery back to the grid, yes pay, not earn, they don't want our solar, we have too much (yes we can turn them off, and we do).

The 2 "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" books (mostly the second one) by Perkins do a good job of describing the relation between the US and the Saudis.

It does? You're talking about a country that tells its civil servants to say "Super Intelligence" in stead of "Artificial Intelligence" [0], because... It's just so Super.

Came across it here [1]: "Per Executive Order 14434, federal agencies are now using "Super Intelligence" (SI) in place of "Artificial Intelligence" (AI). You may see both terms across NIH content during this transition."

[0] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/09/inau...

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/

Have you ever experienced a "Reply-all storm"?

Yeah, I really enjoyed messing with php.ini back in the day! Setting it juuuust right for every different project on my dear pet.

Same goes for Wordpress indeed, which I'm waiting for.

    $ docker pull wordpress:fpm && docker image inspect wordpress:fpm --format '{{.Created}}' && docker run --rm wordpress:fpm php --version
    fpm: Pulling from library/wordpress
    Digest: sha256:c6d271a445510a3e08cfcc487750ac014f4464165ad6df6356da04680be8e907
    Status: Image is up to date for wordpress:fpm
    docker.io/library/wordpress:fpm
    2026-10-21T01:27:06.695704995Z
    PHP 8.3.35 (cli) (built: Oct 21 2026 00:33:17) (NTS)
    Copyright (c) The PHP Group
    Zend Engine v4.3.35, Copyright (c) Zend Technologies
      with Zend OPcache v8.3.35, Copyright (c), by Zend Technologies

I guess they were planning an update for today, for a moment the 8.2.35 threw me, but .35 is patched on 8.2, unpatched on 8.3 :)

Doing a...

    docker pull wordpress:fpm && docker image inspect wordpress:fpm --format '{{.Created}}' && docker run --rm wordpress:fpm php --version

... every now and then until that 8.3.35 turns into 8.3.36.

So far, no dice.

Yeah, on Android there used to be some parties that supported the open NFC stack, ie bunq comes to mind. At the moment there is still Curve (have it installed but need to configure it, I still forget my passes from time to time).

But this sounds much better and more "fundamental", as in, will support any bank.

I'd commit immediately to the 3 euro/month to get rid of my passes in the magnetic pouch on the back of my GrapheneOS Pixel 10 :)

I don't like meta, I avoid being their product. But this seems... meh? Given the complaints on such a topic an LLM would be likely to suggest contacting regulators, should they really get all these requests? I would also want to avoid this.

That said, to call it a bug and remove it after someone finds it flips the whole intention imho, just explain it and leave it. Way to look evil Meta.

It's about as specific as we can get atm I guess. I have no idea, I just know we VALUE human connection, there is unique human value in it. We value each-other.

Maybe we just sit around campfires and tell stories as the billionaires warm their hands on their burning data centers.

Don't forget that everything anybody owns is just a system we invented, my house, my garden, only a piece of paper that we all accept keep others from it.

We can reinvent ourselves. Idk, to me this is a comforting thought. But I agree it's still lacking. It's not simple, discussing things online helps develop language and vision around it.

From a recent post here on HN, my agent stored it without the URL, it exists just as text for me to get philosophical with, I do that with insights such as above, so here is a quote:

Derek Thompson, in "I Know Why the Mathematicians Weep": "If intelligence becomes less uniquely human, we may come to value more highly what remains uniquely human: our capacity to relate and to care for one another".

Funnily my bot was called Cladius van der Bot, nice name ;)

This is wisdom thanx.

I too have lost something I loved, I gained it after years of relentlessly focusing on maximizing what I loved and minimizing what cost me energy. And now the world flips on me.

The good news? I got pretty good at consciously finding the energy givers and drainers and optimizing for the givers, so I'll just keep doing that. I'll either start enjoying micro-managing LLMs, or find something else entirely. Or find that the LLMs need less and less micromanaging, or start enjoying whatever they need next year. (Point an army of agents in a direction?)

I came from the molecular biolab with Linux as a hobby, then when to software dev and infra. What's next ? Idk, I still love biology, keeping eyes and ears open...

I do the same with acquaintances whom I sometimes sell secondhand gear, I don't want to do any support so they get Windows. For my father it's different, I can do support, plus he really appreciates and is willing to make sacrifices for, the privacy angle.

I think they did, "You know it won't be properly reviewed and understood." This is just a lie, I review and understand LLM generated code daily. So do many others. Maybe you should be more clear?

When did you last evaluate a system like Ubuntu? I'd have agreed with you 10, perhaps 5 years ago. But things have changed.

We made the call to go Apple years and years ago when he was always fighting viruses and virus scanners on Windows. His Macbook was still (hardware-wise) perfectly functional, but does not receive security updates anymore, so he went iPad. Indeed there are more problems than expected. I expected even less IT support from me was needed. Instead he now complains about the lack of control (which I am certainly ok with btw, the complaining I mean.)

The current plan is to put Ubuntu on the Macbook, not sure what to do with the iPad but make it less "primary computer" will be one of the policies to implement indeed. Maybe he will be happy with an external disk and f-spot, and his music nicely sorted into files. Then some generic backup solution to a Synology NAS or something...

Hard to argue against X = X. Just curious, are you are including human slop in your statement?

100%. I think there are a lot of people here on HN that are very threatened by LLMs, rightly so. I'm also afraid of my future and my day-to-day work has already changed from "loosing myself in a flow state solving technical puzzles" to "micro-managing LLMs". I don't like it, but hope I will learn to, at some point, or perhaps I find different work. I feel like I don't have a choice right now but to adapt and learn.

The answer to this issue is not to equate any code generated by LLMs to slop. It is just not true. As you say, the latest models often flag things that I would definitely miss, or they simplify my code significantly with a just-released feature. I see benefits to code quality all day from using LLMs.

I'm just saying (not to you but to comments below): Lets keep it constructive, which means: lets keep it real, as in close to truth. Yes vibe coding exists, and it has it's place (ie in prototyping?). But not in the kernel, and also not in my own line of works. LLMs do have a place there though.

Apple will also use AI to make it at least as painful and as unexpected as before. It's their business model (I have come to believe).

Edit: But good point of course, but I believe it will remain cat and mouse, no idea how Apple internally sees it, whether they really don't care, or actively break stuff (break your ** face tonight).

Please stop with the "AI assisted development" = "Vibe coding slop" narrative. It comes across as pretty dumb (sorry, I mean "uninformed") nowadays. Please experiment with LLMs, find your way (or don't, but), learn to talk about it in an informed way and don't post obviously inflammatory one liners that are essentially just "AI is bad m'kay".

There are intelligent arguments against using AI, your comment is not referring to any of them.

In short: Linus feels responsible for the quality of the Kernel, he expects the same of other devs. He does not care about the tools used to generate the code. He (or some other human) will call out submitted slop, whether LLM generated or human generated.

Over my life I have found that with any Apple technology it may work great with anything outside Apple's control... Until it doesn't, usually out of nowhere.

My father is mostly on Apple and tries to use his iPad as a PC, ie with files and "the filesystem", he tries to get out of using extra iCloud for pictures (using Proton, or he asks me about Immich, or he wants to use an external HDD, or use Synology Photos and backup). He's mostly on the iPad + keyboard because it's a nicely managed device update-wise and "what I can install"-wise, virus-wise.

But I recent told him: Just give up. Buy (rent!) the storage, you are too depended on me, there is always something with the non-Apple solutions. Yes, your iTunes library is a mess on the filesystem, just don't look at it through anything else than "Music". Yes, Proton Drive eats 400 GB of your iPad storage now, I don't know how to trim that regularly. I'm sorry, it's either Linux and I can help set some things up, or full Apple. Choose. His current mixed, "trying to get best-of-both-worlds", approach is just pure unexpected pain, every time again.

Edit: I also have an iPad, it does work for me, but where my father is trying to use his iPad as a central, primary device (the hub), for me it is a client (spoke) of my own infra. Apps get access to information and I never use Apple services for anything. So indeed, Immich, Proton, Home Assistant, government and banking apps, etc. My iPad is throw-away: If it dies, it dies... I buy a new one, log into all (self-hosed) services and I'm 100% back up and running. Doing the same for my father is also pain, because his Home Assistant will have issues, or his Immich instance, and it's real work to fix, and he won't tell me for months if it does not work and work piles up. So, I tell him to surrender to Apple... It die a little inside.

100%. Too many people equate LLM assisted programming with vibe coding some slop. Which is just a weird thing to do at this point.

That's like not using an LLM for coding assistance because it can't count r's in strawberry.

For some combinations of people this is indeed true imho.

Well, I don't like it, but it feels like I have no choice, and I hope I will learn to like it or find some other aspect to focus on. I'm giving myself some time because things change so fast. It is a reset of my: "Search for the most energy-giving things in my career", tbh.

The Dutch are with 17 million people and all our stuff runs on MS. Even a judge from the international criminal court had an Amazon Echo in her living room. We, on average, don't know and don't care.

All this sovereignty stuff is still quite contained in our nerd bubble I feel.

I use ProtonPass on every device I own (religiously) and have never had an issue. But it's because I'm very careful to only deal with any credential ever via ProtonPass.

I can imagine it gets annoying very fast if you accidentally put a passkey in the wrong place, ie because Chrome proposes it's own credentials store.

ProtonPass also lets me export the private parts so I'm not stuck as with some passkey managers.

Passkeys are great but require you to understand some things about them, and you need discipline in dealing with them.

Ok, I have not seen any responses from anyone here that actually read TFA (which is almost like a fever dream, it does not deserve the A in TFA imho) but here is the whole F"A" (and it says AI did not delete material!):

The new season of TV4's reality show “The Challenge” has been postponed due to a technical failure. Large parts of the series have been deleted, Aftonbladet reports.

The newspaper reports that an edited season of the program was deleted by an AI agent, costing several hundred days of work. TV4 denies this.

    “It is not true that some independent AI agent went in and deleted the material,” says Mia Lindqvist, program director at TV4, to Sveriges Radio’s P4 Stockholm.

A backup system at the production company failed, she says.

    “This means they now have to edit everything from scratch.”

"The Challenge" was supposed to premiere on November 22. The series will now instead be shown “in late spring,” Mia Lindqvist says.

In "The Challenge", famous reality TV contestants face off in fierce competitions. The first season aired on TV4 in 2024.

Host Ahmed Berhan comments on the report in Aftonbladet.

    “Is that true?! I knew AI would be the death of me. This is just the beginning,” he says.