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uxhacker··on Amazon to buy satellite firm Globalstar in $11.57B deal
This link works, on the original I am getting a 404
uxhacker··on Ukrainian launch test military-purpose communications satellite into orbit
See this previous story from the 4th of October for more details on Ukraine’s ideas for an alternative to StarLink https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2026/10/04/8056442/
uxhacker··on How to grow a cacao tree at home (2024)
Then should it not be Ghanaian chocolate rather than Swiss?
uxhacker··on How to grow a cacao tree at home (2024)
Until I saw this I was wondering where Switzerland and Belgium got there cocoa from, because I have never seen a tree growing in either country, and one is always hearing about Swiss and Belgium chocolate.
uxhacker··on Citi becomes latest US bank to restrict AI agents from accessing accounts
What is interesting is that the reason "US lenders fear chatbots could shift billions of dollars in deposits to higher-yielding accounts", and not securitty fears.
uxhacker··on AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software
Just to back you up most surveys say only 10% to 20% of programmers time is coding.

Microsoft study of 484 developers, published in 2025 says 11%.

Another Microsoft study where programmers had telemetry installed showed 21%

https://gwern.net/doc/psychology/writing/2017-meyer.pdf

uxhacker··on Scandinavia's first farmers slaughtered hunter-gatherer population, DNA suggests
Food. In Arable societies children could be weened onto porridge or milk from cows. Food that hunter gatherers survived on is less digestible for babies.

So you would get higher population growth in Arable societies but not necessarily healthier.

uxhacker··on 3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit
I have done a lot of work with KOLO Foundation - run by the Ukrainian tech community https://www.koloua.com/en/

Including KOLO dispersing medical equipment that I donated, and I can vouch that they are effective and very efficient.

uxhacker··on Scandinavia's first farmers slaughtered hunter-gatherer population, DNA suggests
Yes, as I understand it the population growth of the arable community is far faster than the hunter gatherers. This is because hunter gatherers often did not wean children off breast milk until they were 5, whilst arable farmers breast fed there children only up to 1 year.

Breastfeeding is a natural contraceptive.

uxhacker··on Former German spy chief arrested for attempted treason
A link to a non paywalled version of the Süddeutsche Zeitung article on archive.is https://archive.is/sJkwC
uxhacker··on Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch
So what does the ecu actually do? Can teams use any technology as an advantage?
uxhacker··on The problem is not AI code, but not knowing about system architecture or intent
So AI is already in control with humans just rubber stamping the output?
uxhacker··on Tells of a Slop UI
So what is the best way of stopping this to happen?

I am doing some experiments in forcing the LLM to use a process.

Start with a brand guidelines, followed by building wireframes, followed by merging the two together.

Think of it like chain of thought but for something visual.

uxhacker··on US Military disables ad trackers amid concerns over troops' safety
What is amazing is how long it has taken them to realize that this is a serious security threat, especially as Strava exposed the issue of devices tracking service people all the way back in 2018.
uxhacker··on The AI Takeover Checklist: A Devil's Advocate Audit
Some people are already controlled by Large Language Models, as they are so reliant on them, and blindly follow the LLM’s advice

So maybe we become the Robots AI controls?

Edited for clarity

uxhacker··on AI Can Make You Suck Faster Too
Is the issue that nobody has come up with the idea for the great ground breaking ideas?

Or B that the ideas are there but are not get released as the code is ai slop?

uxhacker··on 'Mad honey' that can stop your heart is being sold online
But the risk is actually more broad than the article points out. Any honey where enough of the nectar comes from rhododendrons could be dangerous.

Grayanotoxin containing Rhododendron occur not just in Nepal, but in Turkey, North America, and Europe.

I think there are other plants that the bees concentrate the toxins of.

uxhacker··on 'Mad honey' that can stop your heart is being sold online
I know of rhododendron honey from killing Pompey’s army in around 60bc.
uxhacker··on Iceland rejects reopening talks on EU entry
And not just city versus countryside, but the people most likely to benefit voting against.

The EU needs to get better at marketing it self.

uxhacker··on Iceland rejects reopening talks on EU entry
One benefit would have been that Iceland would have got to vote on EU Single Market legislation, which it currently has to incorporate into its laws without any say.

Iceland would also benefit from trade deals with non EU countries (currently it is excluded).

It also would have joined the Agricultural policy, which would have meant better access for its farm produce.

uxhacker··on Iceland rejects reopening talks on EU entry
The vote was for negotiations and not actually joining. Presumably there would have been another vote on joining the EU later.

The telling sign is that the capital Reykjavík voted in favor of negotiations, but rural areas voted against.

uxhacker··on Was modern art a CIA psy-op? (2020)
And the CIA actually had rather good taste
uxhacker··on How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
What is amazing is that this goes so much against the concept of the EU. The EU was founded on the principles of four freedoms, Free movement of goods, Free movement of persons, Freedom to provide services, and Free movement of capital.

The EU even have a SME Test to maker sure small business are not overburdened by regulations.

Also there are thousands of lobbyists fighting for small businesses. Yes, this law will probably eventually be thrown out for small businesses but after how many years is a big question, and how many small businesses have lost there businesses.

And the law was devised by Ripa di Meana, who had been a member of the Italian Communist Party and the green party.

uxhacker··on Marketers are Addicted to Bad Data (2020)
You competitors?
uxhacker··on No one can afford to make Myst games anymore
But the original game was very playable and fun. There are plenty of modern games that only have a tiny bit more game play.
uxhacker··on No one can afford to make Myst games anymore
I think out of the original team there where only 1 and half developers.
uxhacker··on No one can afford to make Myst games anymore
What the article misses is that the first game was made by just roughly 6 people on the development team.

What has happened is the number of people working on games has become ridiculously large.

uxhacker··on What is a product?
I hate the ‘product’ word. In the 90’s I was involved in a travel startup, and the software people would be talking about ‘product’ meaning the website that we where building, and the travel people meant what we where offering in the way of hotels, insurance, flights and excursions.

The word ‘product just left everyone confused.

If one uses a word like platform, application, prototype, offering, ‘products’ this makes it clearer than just the generic ‘product’. It’s even better if goal is applied as well. For example Flight finder Application, or Video Playback Platform.

uxhacker··on Third Drone Shot Down in Three Days in Romanian Territory
Ukraine is using old training aircraft with a guy with a shotgun in the back shooting the drones down.

Just think the small Cessnas and pipers littered around that could be used for a similar task.

https://youtu.be/GrzzYTXgnMQ?is=zChAgYfc5ZEi25gt

Edited out bad grammer

uxhacker··on Why this philosopher turned down Anthropic
The author states that he did not join because he did not believe he would have influenced them.

I feel from reading this that Anthropic would benefit from the work of the Nobel Laureate Herb Simon and his book the Philosophy of the Artificial.

So Simon argues that whilst traditional Meta Physics is about physical properties, with artificial creations it is different, what they do is more important than how they are made.

It more important that a watch tells the time than that it contains cogs and crystals.

A computer is defined not by the silicon that it made of but by the software it runs.

So with AI what is important is its function. We don’t need understand how the neurons are wired together

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