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by shevy-java | 2025-10-29 06:43:05+00:00
> we’re in a recession of mischief

I don't think this is true per se. It is more that a lot of things are censored or tailored into a specific direction now. The Trump administration shows this - see how recently the Python Software Foundation came to the conclusion that they could not ethically sign a grant proposal that was modified by the Trump administration seeking to manhunt down any LGBT supporter upon entry into the USA (once found they "abused" or rather misused US grants, which was the logical implication to follow-up on that clause the US government tried to sneakily add). Things became more uniform also because of Google search sucking now. How can we find alternative views? It is much harder than before. The world wide web has been turned into a nerfed variant by Google and co. All "AI summaries" show this - Google hallucinates to the user a variant of the web they control.
by itissid | 2025-10-29 06:43:36+00:00
I've spent an inordinate time tuning my home nas to what I want to do. e.g. NPM reverse proxy with all kinds of docker apps and configuring it securely made me appreciate how tough cyber security is. My latest venture was to create several docker images for whatever environment I want: VsCode Remote SSH server, a docker image with a custom LLM, sync thing for obsidian notes across all devices

My goal is to de Google with home nas hosting a bunch of services. I want to take all my Dropbox photos and recreate what Google memories does using off the shelf AI tools on my nas. Then email and finally maps with great PoI data.

Probably not all of what I did is a differentiator that put my learning beyond mediocrity. But a good yard stick is if what I built is useful to someone and even better if one would pay me for something.
by dannersy | 2025-10-29 06:43:46+00:00
While I would like to champion AMD a bit more because Nvidia has been doing some anti consumer shenanigans, I have to say that at this point, the Linux support is good. It is a bit of a myth or perhaps just outdated info that if you want to have a headache-less experience, you need to use AMD. For new hardware, it may even be a bit better than AMD to be honest.

The only difference is that updating is a bit easier on AMD, after all, mesa just updates with your OS. But this is merely a note on convenience.
by vitorgrs | 2025-10-29 06:43:49+00:00
Especially considering how much software these days on Windows are all Electron/Web. So is not a hard switch as it once was.

I switched from Windows to Linux it's been 2 years. One of the few things I missed on Windows, was the native WhatsApp app, as the Web WhatsApp it's horrible. Then a few months Meta killed the native app and made into a webview-app :)
by kuhsaft | 2025-10-29 06:44:28+00:00
> I can't help but think there might be some effect here that's locking us all in similar to how the U.S. healthcare system can't seem to shake for profit insurance.

Yeah. It's called capitalism, where the reasoning behind everything is "How can businesses make a profit?". And in the U.S., it's also, if the business doesn't make a profit I'll starve.
by BrenBarn | 2025-10-29 06:44:42+00:00
> Maybe in the quarter, but not long term. It's a sustainable strategy if you've monopolized the market though...

It's also a sustainable strategy if the market has become so distorted that it's difficult for consumers to distinguish the good products from the bad. This is a pervasive problem these days. It may still be the case that a good pair of boots will last you 10 years, but how can you tell which pair is the good one? There are 10,000 brands, all of them have 4.7 star ratings because of bots, most of them have a picture that looks nothing like what you'll receive, and if they wear out in two years you'll have no recourse because the brand was just a facade over a "ghost workshop" that's now producing the same crap under another name. Trying to vote with your dollars is like pushing on a rope.

> When in reality, if you have a lot of "rockstar programmers" they should be able to mostly manage themselves.

I'm not so sure about this. There are many people who are good at doing things but not at organizing that activity in a coherent way (especially across a team). Also when the people doing the "real work" are also managing, they often have a tendency to give the managing short shrift because they'd rather do the "real work".

I agree we could do with a lot fewer managers than we currently have, but I think we do need some. (And this isn't just about software, it's about companies and organizations in general.) But I think we would be better off with more democratized company structures where the managers' power ultimately rests on the consent of the workers, so that when you have these clashes that currently result in "half the staff resigned in protest" they would instead result in "the CEO was fired due to lack of support from the staff".
by tetha | 2025-10-29 06:44:43+00:00
This is how I have it with my guitar. It's a simple Ibanez Gio from a starter kit, probably coming in at 150 Euros - 200 Euros or so, with another 40 Euros spent on a guitar tech to set it up properly.

I'll replace it once I know how it is holding me back. At least that's the plan I've had for the last 4-5 years. But it has low action, fairly low-noise pickups, holds tuning. So no need so far.
by johncoltrane | 2025-10-29 06:44:47+00:00
Very satisfied owner of a (smaller) PRW-30Y, here (with a matching after market "oyster" bracelet).

Always on time, always charged, always precise, highly readable, packed with useful features… that thing went through a lot without any issue whatsoever. It only leaves my wrist when I feel like cleaning it.

Highly recommended.
by AnicetN | 2025-10-29 06:45:07+00:00
It means they better fill a niche. We ourselves built our own twist on cc web and we found differentiation that they couldn't. For instance running claude in real VPSs in which you can run docker & docker compose, connect to via SSH or even host stuff. We also made our own file sync so you start on web, continue on desktop in your IDE, run code locally, go back to web & mobile...

I think IDEs we're gonna see Vims, Emacs, Jetbrains, Vscode. For now CC web seems to be the sublime text of that world, and Terragon/Sculptor are yet to differentiate enough like a jetbrains

We try to be the jetbrains of this, which is not a smart move for a bigger co like Anthropic to take

https://ariana.dev
by dtj1123 | 2025-10-29 06:45:15+00:00
There's no good reason to believe that quantum computers will break modern cryptography.

Shor's algorithm requires that a quantum Fourier transform is applied to the integer to be factored. The QFT essentially takes quantum data with a representation that mirrors ordinary binary, and maps it to a representation that encodes information in quantum phase (an angle).

The precision in phase needed to perform an accurate QFT scales EXPONENTIALLY with the number of qubits you're trying to transform. You manage to develop a quantum computer capable of factoring my keys? Fine, I'll add 11 bits to my key length, come back when you've developed a computer with 2000x the phase precision.
by willtemperley | 2025-10-29 06:45:28+00:00
Looks like GrapheneOS will be available on another "major Android OEM” soon [1].

Regulation should prevent Google from subsidising manufacturers to use Android. Arguably the recent antitrust legislation [2] applies in this case because they're effectively paying manufacturers to place that horrendous and impossible to remove search bar on the home screen.

[1] https://www.androidauthority.com/graphene-os-major-android-o... [2] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-wins-signi...
by lern_too_spel | 2025-10-29 06:47:19+00:00
You can still run an Android build that doesn't require a Google signature for apps. You'll just lose access to Play Integrity APIs, which you wouldn't get from non-Android Linux phones either. A better technical solution is to set up a federated replacement for Play Integrity that third party ROM developers can opt into and a library that can use that or Play Integrity for app developers that want it to use.
by keiferski | 2025-10-29 06:48:01+00:00
I just prefer the taste and it reminds me more of Turkish coffee, which is my favorite way of preparation. And also black coffee reminds me of various cultural things like diners, detective fiction, etc. Like this quote from Phoenix Wright, the game:

“Blacker than a moonless night. Hotter and more bitter than hell itself… that is coffee.”

Lighter roast coffee just isn’t a thing I generally enjoy, to me it feels like a different drink, an over-complicated consumer product, not the kind of thing one would write quotes like the one above about.

A bit like grilling vs. sous vide with meat. Grilling has a whole culture to it, whereas sous vide feels soulless and overly technical, even if it produces great flavors.
by boardwaalk | 2025-10-29 06:48:08+00:00
How strange to come across someone whose medical stuff so mirrors my own. I was just a decade older and don’t have epilepsy symptoms with meds. I can get behind all the advice here. Running out of “juice” and needing a break is very much thing. Before too but more so now. And taking a lot of semi stream of consciousness notes to help my more limited memory is too.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-29 06:48:13+00:00
Why are we pretending that other currencies also aren't falling? Those charts don't negate that suggestion.

I'm no expert myself, but feel free to argue with them if you are:

https://www.morganstanley.com/insights/articles/us-dollar-de...

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/d... (note: This one comes from Paul Graham himself).
by positron26 | 2025-10-29 06:49:07+00:00
The problem is not demand going away. No margin in a late stage company goes unassailed for long. Intel has nothing to lose. AMD has everything to gain. Untold other players are finding oxygen in various places. Nvidia is smart to use their spotlight as long as it lasts, but in their pitch, they're saying, "this will put you ahead," not "this will last forever."
by Frieren | 2025-10-29 06:49:51+00:00
> (I can imagine LLM operators jumping on the opportunity to sell some of these new barriers, to profit from selling both the problematic product and a product to work around those problems.)

That is their business model. Use AI to create posts in LinkedIn, mails in a corporate environment, etc. And then use AI to summarize all that text.

AI creates a problem and then offers a solution.

My current approach is to look at new sources lie The Guardian, Le Monde, AP news, etc. I know that they put the work, sadly places like Reddit and such are just becoming forums that discuss garbage news with bot comments. (I could use AI to identify non-bot comments and news sources, but it does not really work even if it says that it does, and I should not have to do that in the first place either).
by qwerpy | 2025-10-29 06:51:34+00:00
I did the same, and switched to Apple Music. Soon after that, Apple Music started injecting their F1 movie soundtrack into suggested music for me. There really is no escape from this. They haven't done it since, so at least it's not as bad as what Spotify does. If I come across a good offline music player for iOS I will probably cancel my Apple Music subscription.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-10-29 06:51:44+00:00
A number of translations specifically say "hastening the coming of the day of God" (https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/2%20Peter%203%3A12). You may have one of the ones that doesn't; there's an underlying dispute about the meaning of the Greek verb σπεύδω that I'm not qualified to weigh in on.
by globular-toast | 2025-10-29 06:53:19+00:00
You're describing the hedonic treadmill. But I think you are missing something.

The thing is it does feel good to fix things and upgrade. The treadmill just says your baseline reverts back to where it was. So yeah you're just as happy with the expensive TV as you were with the shitty one, but it did feel good to upgrade, if only for a little while.

So the key is to introduce tiny upgrades and often. If you blow your budget for the whole year on a TV then you only get to be happier once. If you tinker and introduce tiny, sustainable upgrades you can be happier every day.

The sustainable part is important. You can only afford something if you can buy it twice. Don't ever take out a loan to buy anything (apart from a house).
by mmooss | 2025-10-29 06:54:49+00:00
The Washington Post has its own ownership problems, as you probably know. The NY Times is an obvious option (that I assume you've considered). If you want a signal of trust, look at their opinion section which is spread across most of the spectrum, unlike WSJ and Wapo; they do have their own biases IME - anti-Trump, anti-progressive, pro-Israel.

The Financial Times is good but insanely expensive. The Economist has a clear bias they are open about and is excellent but not really journalism - they don't give both sides a voice, dig up facts; the provide (succinct, sophisticated, lively) analysis. The Guardian obviously has a leftward bias but seem intellectually honest to me.

The Associated Press and Reuters, but they output too much. Curated news feeds can be very good, especially at finding a range of sources.
by ewoodrich | 2025-10-29 06:55:07+00:00
It’s less rigid than a command line but much less predictable than either a CLI or a GUI, with the slightest variation in phrasing sometimes producing very different results even on the same model.

Particularly when you throw in agentic capabilities where it can feel like a roll of the dice if the LLM decides to use a special purpose tool or just wings it and spits out its probabilistic best guess.
by vntok | 2025-10-29 06:55:12+00:00
No. "Pro" subscriptions have nothing to do with AGI, my pet GPS tracker sells those.

We're talking about things that would make AGI recognizable as AGI, in the "I know it when I see it" sense.

So things we think about when the word AGI comes up: AI-driven commercial entity selling AI-designed services or products, AI-driven portfolio manager trading AI-selected stocks, AI-made movie going at the boxoffice, AI-made videogame selling loads, AI-won tournament prizes at computationally difficult games that the AI somehow autonomously chose to take part in, etc.

Most probably a combination of these and more.
by Frieren | 2025-10-29 06:56:56+00:00
> You can be anywhere (on a boat, train, lying on the couch, in a stadium watching 18 innings of baseball) and using Claude Code on the web on any mobile phone (in a browser.) As it builds stuff, it's instantly deploying a review app for each update and so you can see the changes and then give it another request. Also makes it easy to just drop that review app into a groupchat to get feedback from other people who are also not at their computers.

Remote work has been a thing for more than a decade now. I always have the feeling that most of the people commenting on the web are new to the industry.

More than 10 years ago we had the same setup. We will say "deploy app_name" in the chat and it will just do that. With a VPN we worked like if we were in the office from anywhere in the world (but most people, to be realistic, just worked from home).

To need a web-based IDE seems a step backwards. You are already connected to the internet, any IDE will have access to all the needed services thru an internet connection.

Our world is becoming more and more fragile as corporations look to concentrate all services in just one place. I do not see a good ending to all this.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-29 06:57:30+00:00
New grads have an absurd unemployment rate, so I'm sadly not surprised. And this is still hiding the true economic disparity since we can't see the quality of the jobs.

I'm "employed" but am doing part time work with no benefits. It's dreadful but I still contribute to the "low unemployment". As does others who defer to Uber or Doordash for quick cash. We need a complete overhaul of job numbers down the line.
by mmooss | 2025-10-29 06:58:03+00:00
> IMO, the rules haven't changed at all, shit has always been bad. Ask any Black American.

What, of the things I described, have Black Americans experienced more than others?

> even the most milquetoast centrists of 2020 are turning into people calling for actual consequences for the corruption going on in our government.

I see the opposite: Look at congressional and other Dem leaders - they talk about economics and healthcare despite everything else going on.
by deanc | 2025-10-29 06:59:01+00:00
EDIT: apologies I misunderstood that this is limiting third-party distribution. I am of course, in favour of this.

Original comment:

I don't want this. The App Store on iOS has its flaws, but it's a curated system that has a lot of checks in place to prevent malware. I have never felt unsafe on iOS and it's the primary reason I've not joined Android and the Play Store's wild west.
by pfannkuchen | 2025-10-29 06:59:08+00:00
The fact that you felt the need for that long preface (rightly so, I might add) demonstrates the real root problem. If everything we’re doing is right and true, why can’t we even talk about it directly? The truth doesn’t really mind being talked about, because after you’re finished talking it’s still the truth.

(Which isn’t to say I agree with your take, I haven’t given it much thought. But anything to do with feminism potentially having negative effects is verboten).
by charlitos | 2025-10-29 07:00:03+00:00
I have tried Bitchat, an application recently launched by Jack Dorsey , the brain behind Twitter, now X.

The app's simplicity evokes the IRC channels of the 90s and the chat rooms of those years where we would meet in a forum with a lot of text and few images.

We could say that it is also a nod to hacker culture , austere in design, direct, encrypted and based on privacy.

Because Bitchat is completely anonymous.

It's downloaded from the App Store for both Android and iOS . There's no registration required or anything like that, and in no time at all you're connected to a mesh network based on Bluetooth connections.

And this makes it an interesting tool for investigative journalism, citizen communication networks, and even political activism in countries where those who think differently are censored and persecuted.

Why would it work in a regressive scenario?

Firstly, through end-to-end encryption and Bluetooth communication, i.e., peer-to-peer, one-to-one chat, if so chosen, or a controlled multi-party chat that only authorized users can access.

There are no names and if you decide to use the internet to chat with people anywhere in the world, the application uses the so-called Geohash and activates the Nostr protocol that pulls the already known networkTORto route traffic, an extra layer of privacy.

This versatility in security makes Dorsey's creation a very powerful technology that can help protect against surveillance by totalitarian regimes.

In Venezuela for example, security checkpoints were recently established on the streets and WhatsApp chats were required to be read to punish anyone who was an opponent of the regime.

Anyone found with compromising or critical messages was at risk. Several were eventually prosecuted.

Journalists are persecuted and imprisoned , and their communications are often monitored and targeted to violate their privacy.

Some sensitive communications from reporters and politicians were moved to Signal. Through it, I discussed newsworthy topics and political issues with friends in the industry and opposition leaders.

Bitchat now presents itself as a truly secure communication opportunity for that and similar scenarios.

It even has an option straight out of a spy movie: triple-tap the app icon for an emergency wipe of any data immediately before the bad guys get their hands on your phone.

Of course, it was only launched last July, and there is a community that is making an effort to position it.

They have the great challenge of competing with giants assumed to be natural, such as WhatsApp, but for the objective that I propose in this text, it does not matter if it is massively massified, the important thing is that it maintains and knows how to take care of what it offers, which is nothing more than total privacy in an application that will help circumvent repressors.

..:: Notes:::... There is an online tool that allows you to track heat maps of active chats around the world by geolocation:

https://bitchatexplorer.com/ There is also a nascent community in X:

https://x.com/BitchatMe_?t=xImLfmYOJAyu34AclPapWg&s=08

Carlos Moreno
by ghm2180 | 2025-10-29 07:00:13+00:00
Given the apple v epic ruling about in payment commision outside the app store, I don't understand this. I assume Google would get the same ruling if they tried what apple did, so why bother with walling off if you can't get paid?

At least with 3p app stores they could have Gpay if the app developer wanted to, but now they will be pissed and can't build a 3p app anyway since users can't install it via 3p app stores.
by ehnto | 2025-10-29 07:00:43+00:00
I will have to take note next time I play, but I haven't noticed anything so perhaps if it's there it's not too bad. They are SSDs and I do have 32gb of ram and 24gb of vram, so I bet quite a lot of IO bottleneck could be hidden by that.

I'll probably switch to ext4 when I decommission the Windows install entirely.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-29 07:00:50+00:00
Would you call ride sharing a hustle? That seems to be the modern version of "side hustle".

More Ubers and Doordashers, more people trying to make it big as influencers, and probably more cam models as well. Those are the modern "jobs" as jobs no longer wish to employ workers and you expect to bounce in and out in months, not years. In-between the AI interviews, your employer is an app and your clients are an audience to please.

Technology truly made for a better world.
by jeena | 2025-10-29 07:01:35+00:00
Back in the 2007 or when it came out in Sweden I bought the iPhone and started developing for it. This was cool, new and exciting and it was fine as long as my company was paying the $100 fee every year. But then I switched jobs and worked at a company which produced mostly open source code. Suddenly I would have to pay $100 every year just to be able to put my own software on the phone ...

This is why I switched to Android, just for Google now to pull the rug from under my feet again ...
by barnabee | 2025-10-29 07:02:01+00:00
I now pay for:

- Kagi

- YouTube Premium

- Spotify Premium

- Meta ad-free

- A bunch of substacks and online news publications

- Twitter Pro or whatever it’s called

On top of that I aggressively ad-block with extensions and at DNS level and refuse to use any app with ads. I have most notifications disabled, too.

It is a lot better, but it’s more like N * $10 than $10 per month.
by eru | 2025-10-29 07:02:14+00:00
Well, what would be interesting, is if the LLM came up with its own specific game tools.

Eg you describe your variant of fantasy chess or funny Poker, and it would cobble together some ad hoc code that would help it play that game.

The code wouldn't need to be great from the get go, since the LLM can react to corner cases and errors.
by dagmx | 2025-10-29 07:03:03+00:00
Games use a very small portion of the native frameworks. Most would be covered by Foundation, which they have to keep working for Swift anyway (Foundation is being rewritten in Swift) and just enough to present a window + handle inputs. D3DMetal and the other translation layers remove the need to keep Metal around.

That’s a much smaller target of things to keep running on Intel than the whole shebang that they need to right now to support Rosetta.
by ehnto | 2025-10-29 07:03:50+00:00
I must admit I haven't finished getting it to work, but others have got it to work and it seems like a pretty well troden path. I think the biggest issue I have is that I use a link cable, not wifi, and even on Windows that has been an issue.

The reason I stopped trying though is because SteamVR/Steam Link has been getting updates targeted at linux and well, I may as well wait for that for a more matured and hassle free VR PC link.