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by TOMDM | 2025-11-13 07:41:09+00:00
I'll be honest, I like the way Claude defaults to relentless positivity and affirmation. It is pleasant to talk to.

That said I also don't think the sycophancy in LLM's is a positive trend. I don't push back against it because it's not pleasant, I push back against it because I think the 24/7 "You're absolutely right!" machine is deeply unhealthy.

Some people are especially susceptible and get one shot by it, some people seem to get by just fine, but I doubt it's actually good for anyone.
by maccard | 2025-11-13 07:42:28+00:00
> Regarding stolen accounts

A good number of these sites sell accounts, not keys. You buy an access to an account that you log in to, with the key enabled on it. Again, best case it’s a region swapped key between 5 people and g2a get paid and the devs get nothing. Worst case it’s a stolen credit card purchasing a single key.

> I would think that the credit card owner would dispute the charge and steam would deactivate the key.

Yes. Chargebacks are painfully expensive for the vendor. One chargeback for a $10 game likely undoes 4/5 sales.

https://www.tinybuild.com/single-post/2017/04/28/g2a-sold-45... This story did the rounds a few years ago explaining how much it cost a small publisher
by beAbU | 2025-11-13 07:42:33+00:00
I leave my wallet in my car, because the only reason I need it is for my driver license.

My bank, however, has one of those authenticator doohickies that I need to use when I make big transactions online. Pop my debit card in, enter the pin, and then do a little dance with codes back and forth on their internet banking to authenticate the transaction.

So I am in this annoying situation where my wallet is never where I needed it: either I'm making a payment and I need to go to my car to get my card, or I need my license and my wallet is on my desk where I forgot it last time.

Google Pay and digital wallets have literally freed up one of my jean pockets permanently.
by SirGiggles | 2025-11-13 07:42:48+00:00
There is .NET support for FreeBSD but it is relatively recent; FreshPorts lists it as added in January 2024. See:

- https://www.freshports.org/lang/dotnet/ - https://wiki.freebsd.org/.NET - https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/14537

Currently it looks like it's currently just 9.0.10
by pmontra | 2025-11-13 07:42:50+00:00
What changed is that Apple made the masses familiar with the concept of installing software only from a store with a vetting process. For short, the walled garden. That was mostly an alien thing in the world of software. All of us grew with the possibility of getting an installer and install it whenever we wanted. There were some form of protections against piracy but nothing else.

Once Apple created the walled garden every other company realized how good it could be for their bottom lines and attempted to do the same thing.

So, to answer your question, Microsoft got blamed for viruses and made fun of but there wasn't a better way in the mainstream. There is one now.

PCs will resist this trend for a while because it's also mainstream that they are used to do work. Many people use a PC every day with some native application from a company they have a direct contract with. For example: accounting software. Everybody can add another example from their own experience. Those programs don't come from the Windows store and it will be a long term effort to gatekeep everything into the store or move them into a web browser.

The .NET MAUI technology we had a post about yesterday is one of the bricks that can build the transition.
by theshrike79 | 2025-11-13 07:43:31+00:00
For me Claude keeps claiming that it's fine that 100 of the 350 integration tests broke, because "it's not relevant to this".

I had to specifically instruct it that the integration tests ALWAYS pass 100% and not to assume anything - and it kinda believed it.

The nuclear option would be to force it to start with running the tests to prove to itself they worked before =)
by computerdork | 2025-11-13 07:44:05+00:00
eh, think this is a bit much to ask. Are we going to educate a majority of the baby boomers who just never got a feel for how technology works? Yeah, my Dad also just got scammed by a phishing scheme on his PC (and if a scammer had walked him through how to install an apk on his phone, he'd probably do that too).

In my humble opinion, in the design of a UI or any type of system, kind of have to go where the users take you to some degree. And Android, being an OS for consumer devices, should be geared toward the masses and the mistakes they'll make.
by gmac | 2025-11-13 07:44:22+00:00
What I would add to your definition, to make a distinction from the common usage of compilation, is that the target language is on an approximately equivalent level of abstraction to the source. So, for example, Rust -> machine code is not transpilation, but Rust -> C++ is.

I think this is how the word is commonly understood, and it’s not useless (even if there’s no absolute standard of when it does or does not apply).

Edit: sorry, realise I should have read the article before commenting. The article calls out my definition as one of their ‘lies’. I guess I just disagree with the article. Words can be useful even without a 100% watertight definition. They’re for communication as well as classification.
by hasperdi | 2025-11-13 07:44:49+00:00
It a projection of what they could do. ie. logical step

The whole SafetyNet and "secure chain" things are PITA, eg. ChatGPT app wouldn't work if the phone bootloader isn't signed by Google. Lots of banking app wouldn't work, HSBC banking app for instance wouldn't allow login if Android developer mode is enabled.
by IshKebab | 2025-11-13 07:45:06+00:00
There are definitely things you could do to improve it though. E.g. you can't activate "I know what I'm doing" mode while on the phone or for 1 hour after a phone call. Someone else suggested a one-day cooldown.

Also for the specific scam they mentioned, why do apps even have permission to intercept all notifications?? Just fix that!
by dallen97 | 2025-11-13 07:48:14+00:00
World Labs (Fei-Fei Li’s new startup) just opened Marble, a multimodal world model that generates persistent 3D worlds from text, images, video and 3D layouts.

The key idea: instead of generating a single object or clip, Marble outputs an entire spatially consistent environment that you can walk through, edit, grow and export as Gaussian splats / meshes / video for use in engines and VR. It also comes with AI-native editing tools and a hybrid 3D editor for blocking out geometry before refining details.

It’s being pitched as a step toward “spatial intelligence” — world models that reason about 3D space for creativity, robotics, and embodied agents. I’d love to hear from people who have tried it or who are building similar systems: what’s still missing for this to be production-ready?
by xfz | 2025-11-13 07:48:15+00:00
I have nystagmus (rapid, uncontrollable, rhythmic eye movements), so I couldn't see anything at first, just lots of small dots.

I had to zoom in (Mac accessibility tool) but then I could see the effect briefly. My eyes go everywhere, but I could see patches of moving shapes with stationary shapes further away, only that the patch moved around a lot!
by Arainach | 2025-11-13 07:48:29+00:00
Now you have to switch apps to the browser, find which browser window has the session you want, switch to the tab, etc., instead of just switching to WhatsApp app via keyboard or taskbar directly.

The ergonomics are significantly worse.

I want most of my browser windows full screen. I don't want my instant messenger full screen. Using it in a browser means I have to have one size, and resizing one changes the other.

The experience of using a native app is far superior.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-11-13 07:49:10+00:00
If you want to buy something and the guy says "I'd love to sell that to you, but your $100 was stolen in a bank robbery two years ago and it's on a list with its serial number"... well, that $100 isn't fungible, is it? Has little to do with the association, it's not you, it's the money itself. That said, my example is one that proves this happens for cash too. Extreme corner cases are funny like that.
by walletdrainer | 2025-11-13 07:49:27+00:00
Fungibility accurately describes the main problem here, right now some bitcoins are worth significantly less than others because they’re tied to hacks and you can’t send them to any normal exchange without immediately getting your account frozen.

You will have to spend more than 1 “dirty” bitcoin to get 1 “clean” bitcoin. Almost nobody will accept the dirty bitcoin, whereas basically everyone will accept a bank note no matter the history of said bank note (cops might show up at your door later, yeah).

But sure, eliminating traceability inherently solves this issue too.
by nrhrjrjrjtntbt | 2025-11-13 07:51:43+00:00
I think it is worth breaking into 2 situations.

The clear enemy authority figure. I.e. cop wants you to talk. Dont talk.

But then there is the if you do A you might die if you do B you also might die you have no probabilities, just your instinct plus what you are being told to do. And you have 10 seconds to decide.
by procaryote | 2025-11-13 07:53:00+00:00
Regulating this is the way to not let general computing die to fuel google and apple profits.

People should have the right to run whatever software they like on the computing hardware they own. They should have the right to repair it.

The alternative is that everything ends up like smart-tvs where the options are "buy spyware ridden crap" or "don't have a tv"
by pta2002 | 2025-11-13 07:53:57+00:00
I do want to point out, as someone who uses the WhatsApp app (to me, it’s slightly more convenient than the web version) that the old native windows app was /awful/. It looked native enough, but it just didn’t work. For as long as I remember it would randomly stop accepting input into the text field and I’d have to restart the app, and this was insanely frequent. Typing dead keys was also randomly broken with accents not coming through, which is really annoying if you’re trying to sound professional on a language that requires them.

The new electron app does take more resources, but at the very least it works.
by Animats | 2025-11-13 07:54:07+00:00
Then came John Stevens.[1] Stevens was responsible for converting many American railroads from light to heavy duty. The Duluth South Shore was first. Then the Great Northern and the Rock Island. Then the Panama Railroad for building the Panama Canal. Then Russia, Siberia, China...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Frank_Stevens
by travisgriggs | 2025-11-13 07:54:21+00:00
Windows 95 (and patronage) had become a shitshow. It’s easy to forget how much time us tech types were spending “fixing” uncle’s PC that somehow got malware on it. How we touted Linux as an escape from the hellscape of crapware.

It was into this void that the “everything seems new” iPhone stepped and ventured out in a different course. I’m neither speaking for or against apples normalization of an App Store as a primary source of updates, just recalling the way things were, and positing that Apple was trying a different approach that initially offered a computing platform that wasn’t the hellscape that MS platform was quickly becoming.
by boredhedgehog | 2025-11-13 07:55:35+00:00
Disincentivizing something undesirable will not necessarily lead to better results, because it wrongly assumes that you can foresee all consequences of an action or inaction.

Someone who now falls in love with an LLM might instead fall for some seductress who hurts him more. Someone who now receives bad mental health assistance might receive none whatsoever.
by gitaarik | 2025-11-13 07:55:40+00:00
But in what way does Elon act like a nazi? Sure he's right wing on some topics, and he speaks out against racism against white people. Something controversial in this woke world, but therefore also important for a certain group that's feeling oppressed by the extreme left. But that doesn't make him a nazi.

You can disagree with his points, but you can't logically say from it that he's a nazi or sexist or racist or whatever. If you prejudge someone like that, you're being very ironic, because you're doing the same thing you're accusing someone of.
by phire | 2025-11-13 07:56:27+00:00
My WH-1000XM5 set broke, and it was going to cost more to repair it than buy than simply buying a new pair. So I decided to check out the cheaper end of the market, and bought a pair of Edifier W830NB.

They are pretty decent (notable downgrade in most aspects, you do get what you pay for, but good enough for my daily needs). But I was very happy to discover that when plugged in via USB-C, the microphone works over usb with full quality, that's one thing my WH-1000XM5s couldn't do, nor the newer XM6s

So both Bose and Sony need to step up their game.
by lloeki | 2025-11-13 07:56:43+00:00
I don't usually have headache migraines but do have strong visual auras from time to time.

Looking at this it first looked fun: "whoa, that's cool, this fovea thing is really smaller than I imagined"

After a minute or so playing around I closed the window and then I noticed a form of retina persistence that looked eerily similar to an onset of a visual aura, as well as some faint but clear ear ringing, both typical symptoms of the migraines I experience.

I immediately walked away from the computer and although dwindling it's still in effect 10min out.
by oblio | 2025-11-13 07:56:49+00:00
The thing is, Google Glass was announced in 2013, 13 years ago. Yes, hardware and software advancements have been huge in the meantime but the form factor is so restrictive that we're probably still 10 years away from the "iPhone moment" of XR/AR. Especially since hardware is in a weird place where all the cutting edge stuff is more or less made by a single company.
by bootsmann | 2025-11-13 07:56:57+00:00
> Governments aren’t just rolling out Digital IDs. They’re rolling out the platform to enable them to require that you authenticate with a range of apps and websites, ostensibly to keep children safe, with the real purpose being to link your unique identifier to all your online activity.

This is just straight up not true for the EUDI which is probably the most serious and advanced approach to digital ID. The wallets are decentralized and the government does not see the individual authentication transaction in any way.
by poslathian | 2025-11-13 07:57:00+00:00
as I understand, Bell Labs mandate was to improve the network, which had tons of great threads to pull on: plastics for handsets, transistors for amplification, information theory for capacity on fixed copper.

Google and Meta are ads businesses with a lot less surface area for such a mandate to have similar impact and, frankly, exciting projects people want to do.

Meanwhile they still have tons of cash so, why not, throw money at solving Atari or other shiny programs.

Also, for cultural reasons, there’s been a huge shift to expensive monolithic “moonshot programs” whose expenses need on-demand progress to justify and are simply slower and way less innovative.

3 passionate designers hiding deep inside Apple can side hustle up the key gestures that make multi touch baked enough to see a path to an iPhone - long before iPhone was any sort endgame direction they were being managed to.

Innovation thrives on lots of small teams mostly failing in the search for something worth doubling down on.

Googles et al have a new approach - aim for the moon, budget and staff for the moon, then burn cash while no one ever really polished up the fundamental enabling pieces in hindsight they needed to succeed
by kakacik | 2025-11-13 07:57:20+00:00
Ah yes the high quality engineering FB is famous for. Remember when their mobile app was snooping on users (probably microphone but who knows what else) some years ago so it was 'mysteriously' draining the battery when not used? Either unacceptable level of crap engineering consistently across quite a few updates from such a big wealthy company or... worse. I don't believe engineers there would be so bad consistently, so to me its pretty clear given overall behavior of company and its owner.

I was very happy with that situation - it was the last and good enough reason to uninstall all FB-related apps from phone, and never looked back. That company (and not only that) is a cancer to whole society, as per design.
by pmontra | 2025-11-13 07:57:48+00:00
My country (Italy) could simply leave DST on all year long and it will be better suited to our way of living. Spain basically did it for the last 90 years when they moved to the timezone of GMT+1 from GMT+0 where they belong. As a bonus they got DST in the summer. After all I could get a double DST in the summer too. All that light at 5 AM is wasted.
by andriesm | 2025-11-13 07:57:50+00:00
Same! I main macos, love the hardware, but I keep a very close eye on Linux (asahi, omarchy etc) in case Apple gets any more toxic, and I am forced to jump ship to something else, and that something else won't be windoze.

The last straw with MacOS was when my US bank cards expired, I could no longer update apps I already paid for, I could no longer install apps I already paid for. Everything was held hostage, could not install FREE apps via the appstore on macos or on ipad.

That day my eyes opened to what Apple has become.

You simply cannot trust Apple with your computing future. They're a fashion company now.
by beefnugs | 2025-11-13 07:58:06+00:00
Yeah this is rough... so assuming this blog post is mostly true:

Why would the ai model makers charge less than $149/hr ?

Why hasn't outsourcing attacked equal chunks of that $150/hr all these years now?

If companies dont realize that if an employee is required 1 hour per week, they still need a full salary that covers all the rising costs of housing/food/health/necessity... then most knowledge workers just die. Even more so in up and coming countries, its just massive world war and suffering if we dont change capitalism somehow. Why would AI employees keep working toward such destruction and death?

What if the 80/20 problem is more reality, machine learning and LLMs can never get that last 20 percent working right, but now nobody knows how to finish the last chunks? Seems more like the last 10% of coders that dont die, should be charging hundreds of times more $/hr. Even this doesnt fix the problem because the knowledgeable will die off and nobody hired juniors for years.

You think housing prices can sustain their value in this nonsense? Old people who are still in charge of everything and own everything will destroy all of this before it starts affecting their assets
by utopiah | 2025-11-13 07:58:12+00:00
> If Valve pivoted into making a well-supported laptop with good hardware that ran Linux and played games...

SteamDeck is out since February 2022 and does all that. You can use a BT mouse&keyboard, plug a USB-C screen or dongle for HDMI. I did live presentations with that quite a few time. It's just a computer with another form factor.

It's not "dangerously close", it's been there for years now.

Basically only competitive gaming with kernel level anti-cheat are problematic.
by csomar | 2025-11-13 07:58:40+00:00
> ChatGPT is overwhelmingly, unambiguously, a "regular people" product.

How many of these people are paying and how much are they paying, though. Most "regular" people I met that have switched to ChaptGPT are using it as an alternative to search engines and are not paying for it (only one person I know is paying and he is using the Sora model to generate images for his business).
by solid_fuel | 2025-11-13 07:59:01+00:00
Makes sense, out of curiosity have you tried the linux jails that Bastille offers? [0]

They're still considered experimental so I wouldn't run it for production but I wonder how well .Net would run in one. The whole container could be a zfs dataset, which would be interesting.

[0] https://docs.bastillebsd.org/en/latest/chapters/gettingstart...
by sschueller | 2025-11-13 07:59:14+00:00
The digital ID e.g. eID is for example if you want to order a government document online. At the current time you need to print out your request and send a copy of your ID in the mail or go to the counter and show it. Same if you get a bank account or new phone contract although those usually let you scan your ID with your phone. A eID would make that more secure although people are already being tricked into doing face validations[1]...

Offline it would make it possible to verify your age at the self-checkout registers without having someone have to check in person.

In the future (if the law allows it, which it currently does not) it should be possible for you to purchase an item online completely anonymously, at least to the vendor. There would no longer be a possibility of leaked address, etc. as the vendor would not have it. All the vendor has are signed tokens. When they send a package they send it with a token to the post office and only the post office knows your address.

[1] https://www.srf.ch/sendungen/kassensturz-espresso/espresso/m...
by beeflet | 2025-11-13 07:59:25+00:00
The development of zcash is entirely controlled by Electric coin company, and they use this to control the zcash supply by taking a fraction of the coinbase outputs.

Even if zcash is technologicially superior, why not just fork it exactly and start over from genesis? Zcash is not the next bitcoin, but the next bytecoin.

Cryptocurrency needs to be a community-led project like bitcoin or monero.
by Lapel2742 | 2025-11-13 07:59:27+00:00
> No way to know if that is true, but if it indeed is the case, then from business point of view, it makes sense for them to make their model meet the expectation of users even.

It makes sense if your target is the general public talking to an AI girlfriend.

I don't know if that will fill their pockets enough to become profitable given the spending they announced but isn't this like they are admitting that all the AGI, we cure cancer, ... stuff was just bullshitting? And if it was bullshitting aren't they overvalued? Sex sells but will it sell enough?

> i don't like it and would rather prefer more robotic response by default rather than me setting its tone explicitly.

Me neither. I want high information density.
by mjrpes | 2025-11-13 07:59:56+00:00
This thing is meant for a living room media center. A prebuilt PC with discrete GPU is a much bigger profile (and probably cost). You could say, fine, go buy a small Mini PC. But a system with the current best AMD Strix 890m GPU not only is expensive at $700-1000, but would only have half the performance of the Steam Box if its conjectured performance is similar to an RX 7600.
by freebird00 | 2025-11-13 08:00:13+00:00
What do you mean by "potentially means"? I am quiet new to this and the financial jargons don't make sense. I just have a very basic understanding of a few terms.

What do you mean essentially? That if everything goes south and nothing happens like Burry predicted then the maximum amount he loses is just $18,760 ?

And if that's all that he loses then what's with the big fuss around the news as if it's almost apocalypse incoming with his bets?
by ranguna | 2025-11-13 08:00:17+00:00
This feels like a really great headset. It was going to be an instant buy for me until I realised it has LCDs instead of OLEDs. I'll wait for reviews. I don't really want to buy these if they release another OLED version down the line.

Also, if this is arm and it has steam in it, that means we can finally run steam on arm, which means we can finally install steam "natively" on android Linux, specially now that we have the terminal app on android 16.

Can't wait for graphical acceleration to be fully merged to the terminal app and we have Linux running on android with near native performance and steam.
by dotancohen | 2025-11-13 08:02:10+00:00
I don't use WhatsApp so I have no idea what that is like. I have telegram running on two mobile devices and two desktops. There is no "moving messages" or "losing messages", I just install telegram or telegram desktop and all my chats appear with all the messages.

Everybody is on telegram today, it's not like five years ago when people did not know what it was.