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by pshirshov | 2025-10-29 11:04:24+00:00
> Everything truly "Just Works."

Right. Just like 5Gbit PPPoE uplinks over VLAN. In fact there is no Ubiquiti router which can handle 1.5Gbit+ PPPoE for some reason. So, I have a mikrotik in front of UDMPM just to termiate PPPoE and I had to buy a IPv4 /29 subnet to avoid double not.

Everything just works, sure.
by yvdriess | 2025-10-29 11:04:56+00:00
Well yes, the dialects are very distinct linguistically, but what is often referred to as Flemish is the Dutch "tussentaal" aka "verkavelingsvlaams"[1]. That's not really a language per se, it's a regiolect of the official Dutch language, itself a Dutch variant of the Brabant dialects. The Flemish Dutch is usually used a lingua franca because the official Dutch otherwise sounds too formal (and native dialect speakers are foreign language speakers of Dutch). If I was to nominate a regional language for recognition it would more be the regional dialects like Brugs, Gents, Antwerps, Brussels Vloms, Hasselts, etc.

What I find interesting is that the differences in Flemish dialects make them much more distinct than what would normally call dialects. There are significant grammatical difference beyond the usual vocabulary differences. For instance, coastal Flemish conjugates yes and no[1], Limburgisch is a tonal language.

[1] https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tussentaal
by slightwinder | 2025-10-29 11:04:59+00:00
> They’re socially conditioned to assume that anything free is a scam or illegal, that every tool is associated with a corporation, and that learning itself is going through certain hoops (by the uni, the certificator or whatever) so that you get permission to earn money a certain way.

To be fair, there are also legit reason for why it evolved this way. It's mainly for quality and reliability. There is so much crappy sloppy work from unqualified workers, and it used to be even worse.. The easy available free knowledge really helped to rise the standard even for people without proper education in an area.
by naikrovek | 2025-10-29 11:05:29+00:00
they have definitely not completely switched sides. Linux is still clumsy and hard to configure if everything isn't configured for you. Linux has worse UX than Windows has ever had (I'm including windows 8 in that comparison)

Really liking Linux doesn't make Windows worse, and it doesn't make Linux better.

Watch someone who is not familiar with Linux and how it works attempt to install it and use it. Do not intervene. Now do that with a dozen different people on a dozen different machines which you do not preselect.

On Windows it is a much smoother experience.

I am making zero statements about any application compatibility or application comparisons between platforms. I am talking only about UX, UI, and installation.

Linux still has so, so very far to go.

And, honestly, there is no operating system which a complete newbie can start using without help in some form. Linux is not some golden child, here.

You like Linux on the desktop, and that's fine. Keep enjoying it. Just be aware that your experiences color your viewpoints, sometimes completely.

I am not a fan of Microsoft, I use Windows about once a month these days, but the UX difference between Linux and Windows is still very large. Very large.
by deaux | 2025-10-29 11:05:44+00:00
I largely agree with you on this. I mentioned it because of the irony when compared to US big tech, where it's never mentioned while being their entire playbook - and as you're pointing out, in reality a much better example than Chinese EVs. The whole Silicon Valley VC model (hi YC!) where we talk about "burning VC cash" - this is literally a euphemism for dumping. Subsidizing goods to make them artificially cheap, far below cost, to gain market share, establish a near-monopoly and then raise prices. Dumping at scale. Amazon, Uber, now OpenAI. The only answer to that is protectionism.
by dostick | 2025-10-29 11:05:46+00:00
This small technical annoyance is one of the biggest issues… of modern society. They do that deliberately to keep users within their apps to drive up engagement. Which in turn drives down exposure to different opinions by keeping the user within the app driven by the same algorithm uninterrupted. If they to change default opening of web links as you would expect it, their revenue numbers would drop dramatically.

The lawmakers should be competent enough to recognise this problem and have laws against keeping people within the apps for no reason. (The only reason may be to use the web sign-in).

Imagine on desktop computer os, you click a link within WhatsApp app and it opens a window within that app and load the webpage there, without your login cookies, and makes you login if you need using mouse with on-screen keyboard only…
by jhbadger | 2025-10-29 11:05:47+00:00
>And suppose the amount is as trivial as you propose. Then why does a multi-trillion dollar conglomerate need that pittance from a million ordinary people?

Reminds me how in the 1970s and 1980s there used to be these ads in the back of magazines in which a person who supposedly became a millionaire sold pamphlets for $5 telling his secrets to success. The obvious question was why such a successful person would need $5 from poor people (unless that was one of his secrets to success, I suppose).
by dfex | 2025-10-29 11:06:45+00:00
> The technical information for this thing seems to be light on the ground. What kind of diagnostic stats are provided? How is it figuring out true Rx/Tx power without a light meter?

The programming boxes (Ubiquiti's and others) get the Rx/Tx power from the DDM (Digital Diagnostics Module) built into most SFPs - it exposes the power levels from the receiver and transmitter inside the SFP and dumps it onto an SPI bus in a standardised way which is read by the box.

> Just insert any brand’s SFP or QSFP module, select Copy, and insert any UI module to write the profile.

It's pretty common for SFP rewrite boxes to only allow writing to that particular brand's SFP modules. It's partly a sales tactic, but also often vendor "genuine" optics will ship with a write-protected EEPROM (requiring a passcode) that stops them from being written to.

If you're after something a little more "open", Reveltronics[1] make a barebones version along with software for brute-forcing EEPROM keys.

[1] https://www.reveltronics.com/en/products/sfp-qsfp-xfp
by WillAdams | 2025-10-29 11:07:19+00:00
Yeah, it kind of kills me that I am writing this on a Samsung Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360 running Windows 11 so that I can run Macromedia Freehand/MX (I was a beta-tester for that version) so that I can still access Altsys Virtuoso 2 files from my NeXT Cube (Virtuoso 2 ~= Macromedia Freehand 4) for a typeface design project I'm still working on (a digital revival of a hot metal typeface created by my favourite type designer/illustrator who passed in 1991, but whose widow was gracious enough to give me permission to revive).

I was _so_ hopeful when I asked the devs to revive the Nx-UI code so that FH/MX could have been a native "Cocoa" app....
by naikrovek | 2025-10-29 11:09:15+00:00
The number of Linux fanboys coming out of the woodwork to complain about Windows (and to provide anecdotes about Windows which are clearly exaggerated) is very high.

Please read the Linux Advocacy HOW-TO.

Shitting on Windows and MacOS does not make you look authoritative, honest, or credible. It makes you look like you have a very strong opinion and shut off from anything that does not conform to your opinion.
by kakacik | 2025-10-29 11:09:25+00:00
That's the 'societal' part of living in society, sharing the risks and yes sharing the gains a bit too. I know some right wing folks see it as unnecessary burden, either they are above the financial cut or (dumbly) believe their health is and will remain stellar for rest of their lives. That tiny minority shouldn't ever decide such societal policies and shouldn't be let to do so.

Its shortsighted and plain stupid and properly selfish move. It works rather well short term if one simply doesn't give a fuck about suffering of others, but even thats shortsighted and stupid long term - we live in hyper-interconnected society and not some prepper wet dream, what goes around always comes around.

Another similar is public education, literally defining future of society. How dumb is to not have it in stellar shape, shitting on one's own kids and mankind future.

But hell will freeze sooner than majority of americans will realize and accept that. Till then, if its important enough for you, you can vote with your feet, its easier than ever.
by thomc | 2025-10-29 11:10:19+00:00
There are at least a couple of banks or credit card companies in the UK now that only offer mobile apps, as well as those now using push MFA with their apps for every large purchase. Recently I needed to install an app from the UK government to prove my identity via camera to renew my driving license, and that doesn't work in GrapheneOS either. I can do it in person (for now) but there is an extra fee.
by davedx | 2025-10-29 11:10:33+00:00
I'm just saying I need a real reason to upgrade beyond "benchmarks make me feel good".

I can run local LLM's fine on my M1 Pro from 2021. I play games on it too. Why would I spend multiple thousands on a M(N) Macbook if there's no real reason to? It's not like when I upgraded from a 386DX to a Pentium.

I have a similar argument for phones right now. There are some AI-related reasons to upgrade, but there's not really a clear killer app yet besides frontier model chat apps. Why should I spend thousands of euros on an upgrade when I don't get anything significantly different for it?
by spacechild1 | 2025-10-29 11:11:32+00:00
Seems like you're trying to load an Intel-only plugin binary in a native ARM application. This doesn't work. DAW and plugins must use the same archicture. You would either have to run Ableton in Rosetta or use a plugin bridge. (This is similar to Windows if you want to run 32-bit plugins in a 64-bit DAW.)
by lapcat | 2025-10-29 11:11:41+00:00
> Somebody who worked on Snow Leopard has already disagreed with you here about those things:

It's instructive to read the entire thread, not just the few sentences you quoted. For example, that person later admits, "So yeah, if you are comparing the most stable polished/fixed/stagnant last major version with the brand new 1.0 major version branch, the newer major is going to be buggier. That would be the case with every y.0 vs x.8."

> I don’t think the schedule matters. They just over-commit every time.

That's a distinction without a difference. Apple has committed to releasing major OS updates every year on schedule. That's a recipe for over-committment, because they need to produce enough changes to market it as a major release.

The "no new features" gimmick of Snow Leopard was a marketing lie but was also unique. It's a gimmick that Apple pulled only once, and it couldn't be repeated frequently by Apple without making a mockery of the whole annual schedule. Maybe they could do it a second time now, but in general the annual schedule is still a major problem for a number of reasons.

It should also be noted that Snow Leopard itself took 2 years to produce after Leopard.
by oblio | 2025-10-29 11:12:03+00:00
The problem with AI is that those incentives wrong incentives are taken to 10000x.

And regarding "not every line will have to be reviewed, and not every line that has to be reviewed will be so complex that readability needs to be perfect to be maintainable.", the problem with AI is that code becomes basically unknowable.

Which is fine if everything that is built is slop, but many things aren't slop. Stuff that touches money, healthcare, personal relationships, etc you know, the things that matter in life, risks all turning into slop, which <will> have real life consequences.

We'll start seeing this in a few years.
by a5c11 | 2025-10-29 11:14:22+00:00
Pushing to release something every year. That's a really dumb strategy. Managers forgot about the golden triangle of: "good, cheap, fast", out of which you can pick only two, but they have decided to pick only "fast".

I'm using some Apple products, and I'm concerned about the drop in quality. Soon they won't differ much from yet another, Chinese company.
by Davidsiom | 2025-10-29 11:14:34+00:00
yes, Allheadline.com is a New Zealand-based news aggregator that gathers and presents top news headlines from various New Zealand sources in one place. Founded by Amandeep Singh, its goal is to make it quick and efficient for users to access diverse, high-quality news from the country. Function: It works as a central hub for users looking for the most important news stories across New Zealand. Origin: It is a New Zealand-based company. Purpose: To provide a fast and efficient way for readers to see a variety of news from different sources.
by washadjeffmad | 2025-10-29 11:14:44+00:00
I'd much rather not have every part of my society for sale to someone with infinitely deeper pockets.

We're not the customers of healthcare, insurance, mortgages, etc. The planet's wealthiest pensioners are. No difference in comp is going to make that work out best for you.

Also, the existence of Cadillac plans implies that someone in our government doesn't believe the population at large should be receiving world-class care. It's like when Senator Biden had two cranial aneurysms, had top surgeons flown in on taxpayer dime, then fought against universal healthcare.

We're all already paying for the best healthcare in the world, just not for us.
by rzerowan | 2025-10-29 11:14:59+00:00
I think the main issue for most casual users is the office suite and browser. LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org unfortunately do not cut it for quirky functionality/aesthetics etc. The most polished alternatives Corel and WPS Office only WPSOffice have a ready deb/rpm installer while also having a collaboration feature inbuilt. Corel seems to have decided to concentrate on a windows only Law vertical , whererthey are admittedly not doing too bad. Browsers should do most of whats neeed for the rest of the saas apps even the video collab apps like Teams/Zoom have a browser mode.
by physicsguy | 2025-10-29 11:15:19+00:00
When they first came about it seemed like some websites didn’t work well with them and insisted on using the device password manager. I use BitWarden for everything so didn’t want to get into that - I want to be able to log into things on my personal and work Macs in Chrome, Safari on iOS, etc etc.

Since then though it’s rare I’ve run into issues like that, and the login flow is much better in sites that have adopted it. I did hit an issue in GitHub last week where after logging into things with passkey it then immediately wanted me to MFA which could use the same passkey. But these things are getting rarer.
by dspillett | 2025-10-29 11:15:20+00:00
The certificate transparency log lets everyone know which domains are active as the certificates are getting renewed, likely more often than the domain itself, and also which sub-domains are active if those are not secured using a wild-card certificate.

Not just Google: AI bots could use the information to look for juicy new data to scrape and ingest.

Probably not a significant thing, the information can be derived in other ways too if someone wants to track these things, but it is a thing.
by Libidinalecon | 2025-10-29 11:16:09+00:00
We are having less children because we are wealthy. Otherwise, you are making the argument that the birthrate in Africa is because of economic opportunity when in fact it is the lack of economic opportunity that causes higher birthrates. As intentionally child free, I even see this in myself. I am child free because I can think of all the opportunity I have that I don't want to give up. While if I had no opportunity, I would want to have a child who I could raise to do better economically than myself because I don't see any opportunity in my own lifetime.
by jacquesm | 2025-10-29 11:16:26+00:00
> Let's be realistic, accessibility — whether you like it or not — is an edge case.

Spoken like a true techbro. This attitude is so incredibly destructive. Technology is how we mediate our lives, cutting a very large number of citizens out of that is simply wrong, even if 'the numbers just aren't there' (and they are!).
by lm28469 | 2025-10-29 11:16:31+00:00
> This feels like a very naïve viewpoint

It's just an European viewpoint... I know for americans it's like a sci fi movie but it's very real here lol

In France you get ~67% of your salary for 36 months, after that it's case by case.

In Germany you get ~70% of your salary for 78 weeks, private insurances will cover more/longer too, for like < 50 euros a month
by swizz_dan | 2025-10-29 11:16:32+00:00
I built this over the weekend because I was frustrated with: 1) Image file size limits on job application portals 2) Sites automatically compressing images and losing quality 3) Having to upload images to random compression tools

bildklein.ch compresses images 100% locally in your browser using Canvas API. No uploads, no tracking, no server-side processing.

Features: - Client-side only (images never leave your device) - Free and open source - Up to 90% file size reduction - Simple drag & drop interface - Works on mobile and desktop

Tech stack: Next.js 14, TypeScript, Canvas API, Tailwind CSS

Happy to hear feedback and feature requests!
by a-french-anon | 2025-10-29 11:16:38+00:00
Absolute aesthetic relativism is the complete opposite of "thinking about", it's giving up to the cult of modernity, an intellectual shortcut to avoid the complicated and controversial question of "I instinctively know that objective good/bad exists but what is it, to what extent can it be formalized and separated from my opinion, how does it interact with subjective qualities?".

That shortcut leads to a dead end that only contains the rotting corpse of truth and integrity.
by freetime2 | 2025-10-29 11:16:54+00:00
It's not something I do often, but I've done a number of puzzles with my family. It's nice to collaborate toward a common goal, and it's fun to watch the picture come together. I find that working on a puzzle puts me in a flow state, and slotting pieces into the correct place is very satisfying. It also really gets me focused on small details of the image like nothing else - small color gradations in the sky, for example - which can bring new perspective and appreciation to a painting or photograph.

We always glue and frame our puzzles when we are finished (using standard off-the-shelf framing kits from Amazon - nothing like the scale of this article) and display them proudly in a common area of the house for a while after we finish.

But I can see why it's not for everybody, which is totally fine. More open-ended projects are also great.
by liendolucas | 2025-10-29 11:17:22+00:00
I'm going to say something that probably will get me down votes:

Why do we have to beg Google to keep Android open? Seriously. So many open source projects have risen out of real and concrete needs and successfully made their way into our every day lives.

A new platform needs to rise that breaks out completely from Google. I've given PostmarketOS a go (with a PinePhone) and while today I can't say it isn't a daily driver for everyone it is certainly the route that needs to be taken.

I'm still unable to use it because is not easy to break away from Android, but is a platform that I think about almost every day, because I do not want to use Android anymore and I'm willing to sacrifice certain aspects to have an open and friendly platform on my hands. And if it is not PostmarketOS then let it be another project.

We need these kind of projects, not kneeling down to a company like Google and begging for Android to be open. Effort needs to be put elsewhere. That's how major projects like Linux, BSDs and open source projects have flourished and taken the world.
by stared | 2025-10-29 11:17:39+00:00
I don't know how the code was created.

But based on my experience with multiple project, both current frameworks and AI changed the game. I used to much more reply on existing software and cursing that they don't do what I want - as the time to create a personalized tool was simply much to afford. Now often it is quicker to create a personalized tool than fight with existing one.
by lousken | 2025-10-29 11:17:52+00:00
Outlook on the desktop is pretty much in maintenance mode only and Microsoft is already breaking it[0]. As for web version runs on linux just fine so you are in luck.

In general, unless you need advanced Excel features, you can switch to linux.

[0] e.g. https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-cant-help-break-window... and couple others
by tetha | 2025-10-29 11:19:18+00:00
Yes, and from what I've been reading and hearing: Modern electronic components and the manufacturing methods in general are also much more consistent in this day and age.

Back in the day, costs of a guitar would go into higher quality parts, and possibly even labor to ensure consistency and function exactly how it should. Nowadays, components are more consistent and cheaper than the better components of the 80s and 90s.

Thus the pure functional spread between cost ranges has been reduced.
by lelanthran | 2025-10-29 11:19:22+00:00
Or maybe we are too aggressive in diagnosing some quirk, trait or characteristic as a mental illness.

My ex-wife delayed a court date for maintenance by sending a lawyer with a letter from a psychologist saying she was not fit to travel to court due to very sudden onset of depression.

How many anecdotes are like this?

Especially amongst the youth; kids are pretty impressionable. Even adults up onto around age 25. It's not too hard to convince these people to find a therapist, then self-select specific symptoms to report (all therapy diagnosis is based primarily of self-reported data, not objective data).

It's not too hard to convince even a halfway selfish or self-centered person that they have a specific diagnosis, so they can say "I'm not narcisstic, I'm neurodivergent" or "I'm not a poor learner, I have ADHD/ADD" or "I'm not a lazy worker, I'm suffering from depression".

How many times have you heard this?

No one wants to admit to a character flaw; they'd rather have a sciency-sounding disorder which means that their flaws are not their fault.

People don't want agency when it comes to their flaws; that "flaw" must instead be something outside of their control.
by crote | 2025-10-29 11:19:22+00:00
> I won't get into whether the improvements we're seeing are marginal or not

But that's exactly the problem!

Right now, AI performs poorly enough that only a small fraction of users is willing to pay money for it, and (despite tech companies constantly shoving it in everyone's face) a large portion of the user base doesn't even want to adopt it for free.

You can't spend hundreds of billions of dollars on marginal improvements in the hope that it'll hopefully eventually become good enough for widespread adoption. Nobody is going to give OpenAI a trillion dollars to grow their user base 50x over the next 15 years. They are going to need to show significant improvements - and soon, or the bubble will pop.