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teekert··on Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils
Yeah, shouldn't have called it legacy, perhaps OG would have been more appropriate.
teekert··on Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils
Yes, sorry and thanx, I played a bit with the sentence, not happy with the first thing I submitted -> Corrected now.
teekert··on Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils
Rush? This is an interim release (95% or so only tracks LTS's) that is not even out yet... Go file a bug reports if you have some time.
teekert··on Data collected by cars and sold to third parties
Right?! There is so much of this! In my country, for financial products, there needs to be a very clear label with some obligatory fields (we don't allow pharma commercials, but I think Americans know this as the details rattled off after a pharma commercial). It's time we get this for any tech. Companies just let you opt-out, but some weasel words in the terms and conditions let them still do 90% what they did before you hit the switch.
teekert··on Data collected by cars and sold to third parties
It's a complete shadow economy, users don't want it and mostly don't know it. But sometimes it surfaces, ie we had a public gathering in my village about the plans to restructure one of our main streets, since people don't feel safe walking an biking there naturally we want it 1 way or 30 km/u. In response rhe person from the municipality whipped up some graphs with speed profiles along the street as it is now. Naturally I ask how they get that data and he says "you can just order it online, I think from Google and Apple originally? Oh, yeah sometimes you can identify things, like a cop once speeded along this road and he could see his datapoint (a far outlier)!" Nobody saw any problem with this. And it's such a small step away from direct actions based on this data (although people would probably take action themselves the moment they understand there are direct downsides for them.)
teekert··on Everyone should slow down AI development except for me
So you’re saying the people should be aligned with the government?
teekert··on Show HN: Bodily Oddities
When I slowly shake my shoulders I feel and hear air going from one lung into the other. But not 100% sure if that is what it is.
teekert··on Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
I am inclusive in that sense and enjoy both AI and non-AI content, and will post both.
teekert··on Nine coding harnesses vs. your laptop
Fun reference I tested on 32 GB ram laptop with no extra GPU: llama.cpp: “what is ls”, almost immediate starts answering at one ~word/sec. Ask opencode with same model (some gwen e4b or something) to check what’s in its working directory: 20 min to response.
teekert··on Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?
On some more testing, I don't seem to alter direction, just suddenly start to accelerate again. Ah well, it worked mostly.
teekert··on Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?
Hmm, by some bug my back arrow first slows me down from approaching c, but then will sudddenly spead me back up (while going backwards), so I get stuck in a dark world. (Firefox on Linux).

Edit, maybe it's because the speed shift is so coarse I cross past 0 km/h from back to forwards and reverse too fast...

Other than this, very very nice. Love this kind of thing for developing intuiting outside the normal range in which we experience the laws of Physics. Well done.

teekert··on iPhone Duo
Looking forward to the first broken screens, and Apple's official reply:

"You're folding it wrong."

teekert··on We have a year to fix security everywhere
Hey that’s a Fermi Paradox solution.
teekert··on Every Novel Is Boring–Until It Isn't
I’ve had that as well haha. I have read many books for about 50%. I try not to feel guilty about it. Glass half full, right?
teekert··on GrapheneOS Overhauled Default Apps and Secure Clipboard
They are really creating a lot of buzz recently. I love it, I hope they succeed beyond just us geeks here. It is imho imperative for a fair and balanced technological society that it retains the means for truly private and secure communications.

My devices help me think, and my thoughts are my own. That is a fundamental condition of human-hood. Sure we can change that, if that's what we want, but do we? If we do, do we make it a conscious choice per person? Or do we let big tech/corporatocracy dictate what it is to be human?

teekert··on Every novel is boring until it isn't
For me there are novels with such big pay-offs that they are worth 100s of pages of setup to me. I usually only start them when I read online that they are worth it. I had this with Atlas Shrugged (500-600 pages of setup?).

Some are simply such a nice world (and indeed writing style) that they don’t even really need a Volta. I had that with the Commonwealth Saga by Hamilton. I just wanted it to go on and on (and it does for >2400 pages). (I was sadly disappointed by the follow-ups which are much less "sci"). Same with the Bobiverse books, eagerly awaiting part 6, although I still want to be in that world, it also feels like it should come to some beautiful end before dragging on too long...

teekert··on Every novel is boring until it isn't
Yeah same. I recently read the whole series to my son after he had begged me to stop after a couple of pages about 2 years ago. I told him: just keep your mind open for 100 pages.

The start is so cold, and weird. You can only feel the warmth and beauty that is coming on your second read, and part 1 takes some time to pay-off. What I like about Harry Potter is that many things are not what they seem when later looking back. It's clever like that.

On my own, 20 years ago, I couldn’t stop after starting. Sure the first chapters are a bit boring and different from the body of the books, but I have always given books about 100 pages to grab me, never consciously though about a Volta though, just almost always started to enjoy books after some time.

The follow-ups in a series can be enticing because of part one, but sometimes, as I had with 3 body problem, they disappoint so much or are so different that I just stop.

teekert··on The pencil case model of creativity
Yeah. Was hoping Strange New Worlds would be more TNG like but with ethical dilemmas of our time (ie black mirror but much more optimistic) but, meh. Not as meh as Discovery, but the Orville does it better.
teekert··on A/I shuts down
I think everybody should read the two Economic Hitmen books by John Perkins.
teekert··on QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes
It’s mostly the anti AI crowd that thinks that people that work LLMs think this way. I’ve never met anyone that actually does think this way.
teekert··on Git hosting that never leaves Europe
I don't like vibe coding myself, but I love AI assisted development, my new bottleneck is no longer the search for syntax and features but my understanding. Am I welcome on your platform?
teekert··on How Fairphone built the Fairphone Gen 6+
Thanx for the thoughtful reply. You’re pulling me off the fence.
teekert··on Mom gets 6-month suspended sentence for letting 5-year-old walk to the pond
Yeah bit strange remark. Many people I know drive thousands of km for their summer holiday.
teekert··on How Fairphone built the Fairphone Gen 6+
The GOS people really spend a lot of time of energy showing the worst sides of FairPhone to the world. I think it is because the conscientious technology user is really interested in the combination of ethically sourced, repairable hardware and a security and privacy (from big tech) focussed OS. Tbh I also like that sliders to switch to a simple mode. A well, we can’t have it all. I do prefer de-googled + freedom to do what I want over security (to a degree). So… I’m on the fence. As many vocal people are. A second hand pixel 10 is also a “green” choice.

I do have the feeling that many non-nerds can express the difference between all mentioned attributes, many just like FairPhone as an ethical phone. It’s not that simple, I agree.

teekert··on “Next-token predictor” is the wrong mental model for LLMs
It’s written in Claudish, or perhaps a human who has been reading too much Claudish recently. I am starting to become allergic to Claudish. Not there fully yet — but it’s at a tipping point genuinely worth exploring and worth being precise about.
teekert··on Ask HN: Advice on Migrating from 1Password?
I've been off vaultwarden for 2 years now I guess, but I remember that having to share cedentials with my wife I had to make an organization in the admin interface. Then add us both to that org. There was no sharing of just 1 credential, or a group or something like that. It feels like a more formal system, perhaps better at home in an enterprise.

But maybe that has changed in the meantime.

teekert··on How Fairphone built the Fairphone Gen 6+
Someone from GrapheneOS was very active in this thread: [0], here is a response the GrapheneOS person links to themselves: [1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49344811

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49355122

teekert··on Statement from Polarsteps on Follow-the-Money data leak claim
Some context (almost all news so far is in Dutch though) [0]

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/Polarsteps/comments/1w6zli1/datalea...

teekert··on How Fairphone built the Fairphone Gen 6+
Privacy and security from what is the question. From big tech or from criminals and governments that take your device and plug it into cellebrite machines?

I for one prefer to be protected from big tech. Sure GrapheneOS does both, but Apple does not.

teekert··on Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?
Just now the sentence:

“Vibe (Teams): Administrators can disable data training usage for the entire organization.”

Was added to tfa. And I now see an org wide toggle where there was none before! Sadly it was on so I hope no users submitted stuff in the mean time, but it’s something!

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