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by criddell | 2025-10-15 15:05:00+00:00
If you aren't into drawing, what about music? You can download GarageBand for free and it's pretty great once you figure it out.

Or if you aren't a music person, are you into making movies? Final Cut Pro does have a subscription, but it's only $5 / month and the subscription is easy to start and stop. If your needs are simple, the free iMovie is pretty good.

Or maybe video isn't your thing. Are you a writer or poet? There are a lot of great choices for writing apps and the battery life of the iPad means you can work away from your desk all day.

Or if you like writing software, Swift Playground is fun. I found this to be a great resource:

https://github.com/uraimo/Awesome-Swift-Playgrounds

If you are into photography, Affinity Photo is fun. It doesn't have the AI features that Photoshop has, but for amateurs, it can get you pretty far. Plug in an external drive to your iPad and you can use it with a huge photo library.
by itsnowandnever | 2025-10-15 15:05:01+00:00
things like this are so much fun. I mess around with projects like this too. I have a little "status" app that that's a web UI embedded into a Go binary that shows my current WIP and it updates my slack status with what my WIP is. so outside of standup everyone just knows what I'm up to

I love little CLI tools for managing productivity
by fruitworks | 2025-10-15 15:05:04+00:00
>Are you claiming a lack of gun / AI control is democratizing?

This is obviously the case. It results in a greater distribution of power.

>That's not working for (the lack of) gun control in the US at the moment though.

In the US, one political party is pro gun-control and the other is against. The party with the guns gets to break into the capitol, and the party without the guns gets to watch. I expect the local problem of AI safety, like gun safety will also be self-solving in this manner.

Eventually, Gun control will not work anywhere, regardless of regulation. The last time I checked, you don't need a drone license. And what are the new weapons of war? Not guns. The technology will increase in acessibility until the regulation is impossible to enforce.

The idea that you can control the use of technology by limiting it to some ordained group of is very brittle. It is better to rely on a balance of powers. The only way to secure civilization in the long run is to make the defensive technology stronger than the offensive technology.
by bzzzt | 2025-10-15 15:05:11+00:00
It's not really added functionality, more unintended consequences of too much flexibility. Java contains JNDI (Java naming & directory interface), a very unified 'directory' system for all kinds of configuration of which LDAP is just one of the backend implementation options. The key issue is you can call into other objects which is unwise to do when used with untrusted user input.
by myrmidon | 2025-10-15 15:05:12+00:00
I personally think that AI is a realistic extinction threat for our whole species within this century, and a full nuclear war never was (and probably never will be). Neither is climate change.

Collapse of our current civilizations? Sure. Extinction? No.

And I honestly see stronger incentives on a road towards us being outcompeted by AI, then on our leaders starting a nuclear war.
by KevinMS | 2025-10-15 15:06:12+00:00
NE is starved for natural gas. They replaced the coal plants with gas and didn't bother to build enough pipelines (and even blocked them). We are getting a lot of our gas from Tankers from Europe and even Russia before the war. So now NE has nearly the highest electricity costs in the country even though we're not far away from some of the most abundant natural gas in the planet.
by franjo_mindek | 2025-10-15 15:06:31+00:00
Do note that we are moving away from the custom DSL part. We will move our configuration to TypeScript which:

1) Frees us from maintaining a DSL (parsing, LS, ..).

2) Uses something familiar to most web developers.

3) Actually expands our configuration features. E.g. with TypeScript we can change the configuration depending on env vars.

Though we want to keep the same level of abstraction as in DSL. Doing that with great DX is what we want to tackle.
by bananapub | 2025-10-15 15:06:39+00:00
they have historically had three tiers of cpus:

- normal - pro - max

pro and max had way more cores and gpus and supported way more ram. today's release is the basic version of the new cpu; if you want more ram you can get the m4pro or m4max based MacBook Pros, or wait for the M5pro/max to come out.
by kokada | 2025-10-15 15:07:01+00:00
Exactly, the post talks about this too: older browsers will be vulnerable, this probably affects only a small amount of the population and it is even lower if you limit service to accept TLSv1.3 (for this to be useful you of course need to enable HTTPS otherwise the attacker can just strip the headers from your request).

If you can't afford to do this you still need to use CSRF tokens.
by pabs3 | 2025-10-15 15:07:07+00:00
My point was that this situation doesn't allow for Software Freedom, since you the user cannot control the OS, its an unmodifiable blob unless you are either someone with a blessed key (like Google, or GrapheneOS devs), or are willing and able to to go without the apps that use the attestation APIs, or have one locked down device for attestation apps and a separate one that you can actually control. Probably the only way to deal with that is make attestation to third parties illegal, I assume governments and banks would get exempted from such laws though.
by hermitcrab | 2025-10-15 15:07:08+00:00
>I have seen recommendations from across the Internet to not bother with Google ads and other similar paid ad services. It’s basically like paying for a cold lead, you’re attracting one of the least interested types of customers.

Google Ads used to be very effective. You are catching the punter as they are actually looking for a solution to their problem. However Google have inflated bids and increased the complexity to the point where very few people can make a decent return now.

>The recommendation I’ve always seen is that it’s better to build legitimate interest in your product by producing content.

That is becoming rapidly less true as AIs steal all the traffic.

>If Tesla was able to start a massive car company without buying ads you can go without AdWords, too.

We can't all be Teslas.
by rdtsc | 2025-10-15 15:07:09+00:00
> You've got a point on RTO. Because it's a group behaviour, if you believe it will have positive effects, mandating it could be a way of jumpstarting the group dynamic.

Fair point! It was just the first recent example of "it's obviously better but we'll force you to do it" I could think of.

In case of RTO I think it should have been left to individual small team. If one is so clearly it would have been clear in a few years time which teams work better and which didn't and how it depended on them being in the same office.
by littlecranky67 | 2025-10-15 15:07:14+00:00
> Apple collects no money from Steam sales, so they don't see a reason to support it.

That is true, but now they are in a position where their hardware is actually more affordable and powerful than their Windows/x86 counterpart - and Win 11 is a shitload of adware and an annoyance in itself, layered ontop of a OS. They could massively expand their hardware sales to the gaming sector.

I'm eyeing at a framework Desktop with an AMD AI 395 APU for gaming (I am happy with just 1080p@60) and am looking at 2000€ to spend, because I wan't a small form factor. Don't quote me on the benchmarks, but a Mac Mini on M4 Pro is probably cheaper and more powerful for gaming - IF it had proper software support.
Paths To Reach 100M Before 35
by moneymanskurt | 2025-10-15 15:07:26+00:00
Saw this post on Wall Street oasis and thought it was interesting:

What are the paths to making this much money at such a young age? Having money well into your 50s or 60s is great, but at that point, you have 10-15 more years in the tank and are more focused on your family. Having an exorbitant amount of money while young would be 1000x better. I understand this post seems unrealistic, I don't care.
by kllrnohj | 2025-10-15 15:07:40+00:00
> Death Stranding on my M2 Pro looks so good it’s hard to believe,

Death Stranding is a great looking game to be sure, but it's also kinda hard to get excited about a 5 year old game achieving rtx 2060 performance on a $2000+ system. And that was apparently worthy of a keynote feature...
by georgemcbay | 2025-10-15 15:08:10+00:00
Crypto is nonsense for a lot of its stated purposes once you strip away the shared delusions that have been propped up by us living in a fairly stable global society that at least goes through the motions of supporting the rule of law (though this is obviously changing quickly in some places recently).

But then again holding some piece of paper (or a database entry) that says you own some gold that you don't actually have in your possession is equally nonsense that also works until it doesn't.
by cubefox | 2025-10-15 15:08:44+00:00
> Knowing Apple, they'll never allow a use case where you have to restart your Vision Pro or iPad to get it into Mac mode, most assuredly losing cellular access in the mean time.

They likely have enough talented developers to make iOS run Mac apps natively. But I assume they neither want to cannibalize their laptop market nor want to let people circumvent the 30% fee for the iOS App Store, which is not required for Mac software.
by superkuh | 2025-10-15 15:09:06+00:00
Human beings are not the scariest monsters in the woods. By far the most dangerous, most malicious, and most powerful monsters are conglomerate entities: the legal corporate persons. They've been absolutely ravaging the earth and societies since they achieved legal personhood and rights without any of the downsides or legal liabilities. They're much scarrier than individual actual human persons. And while most people blame "AI" for the web's current troubles AI is only barely involved. The real culprits are the corporations. Again, same as it ever was.

We really need to get rid of corporate personhood. Or at least have a corporate death penalty.
by Juliate | 2025-10-15 15:09:14+00:00
> Human cognition was basically bruteforced by evolution

You center cognition/intelligence on humans as if it was the pinacle of it, rather than include the whole lot of other species (that may have totally different, or adjacent cognition models). Why? How so?

> As soon as profit can be made by transfering decision power into an AIs hand

There's an ironic, deadly, Frankensteinesque delusion in this very premise.
by mustache_kimono | 2025-10-15 15:09:25+00:00
Check out the disclosure timeline.

> 2025-08-11 NVIDIA reiterated the request to postpone disclosure until mid-January 2026.

> 2025-08-12 Quarkslab replied that the bugs were first reported in June 18th and mid-January was well past the standard 90 day normally agreed for coordinated disclosure and that we did not see a rationale for postponing publication by, at a minimum, 3 months. Therefore Quarkslab continued with the publication deadline set to September 23rd 2025 and offered to extend the deadline an additional 30 days provided NVIDIA gave us some insights about the full scope of affected products and if the fixes are to be released as a stand alone security fix, as opposed to rolled into a version bump that includes other code changes.

Richest corporation in the world needs 7 months to remedy? Why not 4 years?
by MichealCodes | 2025-10-15 15:09:41+00:00
Or just the way the menus are on apps. Some app implement their own file/edit/view menus at the top of the app, then some will use the apple version at the top of the OS. If you plug in a TV to use as a monitor and cannot adjust the aspect ratio you're forced to blindly activate these menus as they're clipped from the screen.

MacOS folder navigation is a complete pain too, sometimes you see the list of OS folders, sometimes you see only the folder you opened in finder. If the menu is clipped due to the above aspect ratio problem, good luck getting to your home folder... No functionality to easily open a folder in terminal. Lots of basics just counter-intuitive.
by Noaidi | 2025-10-15 15:09:43+00:00
Yeah, I agree, they have a captive audience for sure. But they still need to satisfy share holders. If people are failing to upgrade that is a problem. And the battery drain on my iPhone 16e on Glass was horrific. I know casual users who did not notice until I pointed it out and they were tracking it better. This, unfortunatly, makes me think conspiratorially. Even a modest about of extra battery use and degradation will mean more upgrades in the future.

But I think $500 billion is a lot of money for AI:

Apple accelerates AI investment with $500B for skills, infrastructure

https://www.ciodive.com/news/Apple-AI-infrastructure-investm...

Imagine using $500 for the operating system and squashing bugs or making the system even more energy efficient? Or maybe figuring out how to connect to an android tablet's file system natively?
by philipallstar | 2025-10-15 15:10:23+00:00
> It is possible that there can be a gap between "the amount people are willing to pay" and "the amount artists need to live on (food, housing, etc)"

It's possible. It's possible that there can be a similar gap between "the amount people are willing to pay" and "the amount I need to live on while I pursue my career in snail sniffing". So what? That's why my snail sniffing is purely a hobby.
by walkabout | 2025-10-15 15:10:56+00:00
I'm still on an older 12.9" Pro but will definitely upgrade at some point—and may not bother with another (personal—work-supplied is another matter) MacBook when my M1 starts to get long in the tooth in a couple years, now that Preview is available on iPads.

It beats the hell out of either laptops or phones, for me, for these tasks:

- Music. Excellent as a sheet music display; can record and edit midi quite well; play tutorial videos; act as a tuner, tone generator, or metronome (my phone beats it on that front due to portability, but still, if I already have the iPad out on the stand...); plenty good enough at audio recording and editing for my extremely-amateur purposes, plus its ability to play loops and beats and such.

- Reading. It's especially amazing for comic books (in landscape mode a 12.9 incher is almost the same size as an open comic book! You can read two-page side-by-side on it, no problem) and PDFs. I prefer iPad mini sized devices for prose books in ordinary ebook formats, but the 12.9" pro is damn near perfect for those two things. Laptops and desktop computers also work for comic books and PDFs, but are a pretty big downgrade, UX-wise.

- Drawing. Obviously.

- Long-form writing. Laptops work great for this too, of course, but you still need a separate keyboard if you want decent ergonomics. iPad doesn't have an attached keyboard taking up space that I could instead use for a separate keyboard.

It's also just as good as a laptop (to me) as a remote SSH terminal, VNC terminal, video/music player, web browser et c. I can't really think of much I do on my (personal! Not work-supplied) laptop that I can't do just as well on an iPad, maybe supplemented by a headless RPi hanging off my router, or a cheap VM rental (or just the Linux server in an old desktop workstation tower that I already have anyway).
by tmuhlestein | 2025-10-15 15:11:01+00:00
Building AI Agents from First Principles at GoDaddy

Everyone’s talking about AI agents lately, and for good reason. But at GoDaddy, we’re going deeper: starting from first principles to explore what makes an agent truly robust and usable in real-world scenarios.

Instead of asking “What can we build fast?” we’re asking “What design choices make agents flexible, testable, and reliable long term?”

Core Concepts

• Tool-centric design: everything an agent does is a tool call, with precise APIs and granularity. • Decision vs. delivery: agents decide what to do; tools handle how to do it—keeping systems modular. • Structured outputs & reflection: LLMs output both the tool call and the reason behind it, making debugging and iteration easier. • Universal tools: even user interactions (inform, confirm, request) are abstracted as tools, clarifying boundaries between logic and interface.

Real-world use cases → Not just theory

• Routing and responding to support messages • Surfacing emerging trends in sales data • Automating scheduling, inventory, or operations orchestration

What we learned

• Treating everything as a tool makes systems more predictable and extensible • LLM “verbosity” is valuable—it reveals reasoning and speeds iteration • Separating decision from execution reduces fragility and simplifies updates

We’re still at the beginning, but these principles give us a strong foundation. As agents evolve, architectural clarity matters more than chasing the latest framework.

Curious about architecture patterns that scale? Dive in here: Building AI Agents at GoDaddy: An Experiment in First Principles https://www.godaddy.com/resources/news/building-ai-agents-at...
by vdupras | 2025-10-15 15:11:29+00:00
Is 2C by 2050 twice as bad as 2C by 2100, or is it worse? How "off the chart" are we w.r.t the worst of the worst predictions made by IPCC in their latest reports?

It seems to me that nowhere in any prediction did anyone say that we would get as bad an outcome as soon as this.
by corint | 2025-10-15 15:11:44+00:00
You might find the crossover for hot water heating is higher than 0p; your boiler is likely only around 70% efficient. So at 6p/therm for gas, you'd break even with resistive electric heating at around the 10p/kWh mark.

You should absolutely re-run these numbers to be sure, but you might find you can use electric heating far more often than you might currently be doing.
by alephnerd | 2025-10-15 15:11:47+00:00
Because we live in these neighborhoods.

California is not like the rest of the US. The racial dynamics are different, and immigrant families from poorer backgrounds are fine paying extremely high premiums or even rent out a garage to live within in order to send their kids to top school districts. "American" families don't do that.

On top of that, utilizing public services is viewed negatively in the American naturalization process, as it can be contested that an applicant is at risk of becoming a "public charge".

Additionally, the moment a neighborhood becomes too "Asian" or "Latino" in the Bay, all the White and Black families who can afford to end up leaving, and those who remain complain about us "changing the character" of our neighborhoods or "being too competitive".

The Western US (Dallas westwards) has an entirely different racial and ethnic dynamic from the rest of the US.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_charge_rule
by zamalek | 2025-10-15 15:11:53+00:00
This is what GitHub says about it:

> This event runs in the context of the base of the pull request, rather than in the context of the merge commit, as the pull_request event does. This prevents execution of unsafe code from the head of the pull request that could alter your repository or steal any secrets you use in your workflow.

Which is comical given how easily secrets were exilfiltrated.
by shade | 2025-10-15 15:12:05+00:00
Yep, I'm also deaf (since age 6), went through a lot of speech therapy, and have a very pronounced deaf accent. I live in the midwestern US (specifically, Ohio) and at least once a year I get asked where I'm from - England being the most common guess, but I've also had folks ask if I'm Scottish or Australian.

AI struggles massively with my accent. I've gotten the best results out of Whisper Large v2 and even that is only perhaps 60% accurate. It's been on my todo list to experiment with using LLMs to try to clean it up further - mostly so I can do things like dictate blog post outlines to my phone on long car rides - but I haven't had as much time as I'd like to mess around with it.
by quentindanjou | 2025-10-15 15:12:08+00:00
Actually they are right, while "a car today that will be updated 'next year' to be able to drive itself" is not a scam it is actually "deception" which can lead to legal consequences. And if the company knew in advance that they would not be able to deliver such updates while advertising that, we would indeed be in the scam territory.

Let's not downplay dark pattern strategies of some companies that actually do not benefit anyone in society.
by estimator7292 | 2025-10-15 15:12:15+00:00
There is a very, very good reason we don't have homebrew x86 boards. They're incredibly difficult and expensive to design, produce, and verify. Modern hardware has crazy high clock rates and even tighter timing tolerances. Beyond that, you have to convince whichever OEM to sell you the chipset in small quantities. And then you have to write miles of drivers and firmware and a BIOS.

And then you need to acquire and test every combination of CPU and RAM that any customer might conceivably use, then patch your miles of firmware to support each chip.

Oh and also you have to ensure your firmware can never, ever fail in such a way that cuts off fans or cranks up CPU voltage.

It's an incredibly involved process, which is why only big companies have the resources to pull it off. It's not impossible for a community board to be made, but it's something that would take years of work and a lot of money.
by cwmma | 2025-10-15 15:12:52+00:00
It should be pointed out that the free market and capitalism are not the same thing and accumulations of capital can distort the free market without government intervention, in other words you need a larger government if you want an actual free market else you get what's happening in America where you have monopolies everywhere acting as toll gates to nickle and dime everyone who wants to do actual business.
by adamtaylor_13 | 2025-10-15 15:12:59+00:00
> Human cognition was basically bruteforced by evolution

Well that's one reason you struggle to understand how it can be dismissed. I believe we were made by a creator. The idea that somehow nature "bruteforced" intelligence is completely nonsensical to me.

So, for me, logically, humans being able to bruteforce true intelligence is equally nonsensical.

But what the author is stating, and I completely agree with, is that true intelligence wielding a pseudo-intelligence is just as dangerous (if not moreso.)
by dylan604 | 2025-10-15 15:13:09+00:00
Apple has always? Sure, maybe today with collection % of sales from apps it looks like a software company. If there was no iDevcies, there'd be no need for app store. Your link is all about Cook, yet he was not always the CEO. Woz didn't care what software you ran, he just wanted the computer to be usable so you could run whatever software. Jobs wanted to restrict things, but it was still about running the hardware. Whatever Cook thinks Apple is now does not make it always been as you claim
by sofixa | 2025-10-15 15:13:19+00:00
> sleep works 100% of the time for days on end

In my case it works roughly ~50% of the time. Probably because of the Thunderbolt monitor connected to power it, idk.

> the basics are still rock solid

The basics like the OS flat out refusing to provide you any debugging information on anything going wrong? It's rock solid allright. I had an issue where occasionally I would get an error "a USB device is using too much power, try unplugging it and replugging it." Which device? Why the hell would Apple tell you that, where is the fun in that?

Key remapping requires installing a keylogger, nor can you have a different scroll direction between mouse and touchpad. There still isn't window management which for the sizes of modern monitors is quite constraining.

> still has UNIX underneath

A very constrained UNIX. A couple of weeks ago I wanted to test something (pkcs11-tool signing with a software HSM), and turns out that Apple has decided that libraries can only be loaded from a number of authorised locations which can only be accessed while installing an application. You can't just use a dynamic library you're linking to, it has to be part of a wider install.