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by VerifiedReports | 2025-12-02 04:00:23+00:00
"macOS encounters an error or fault, but doesn’t report that to the user, instead just burying it deep in the log."

This is another huge facet of the problem. Not only does it hide glaring problems from the user and prevent him from taking action, but it prevents him from reporting it to Apple for potential redress.

Apple loves to hide information, with the excuse that it's "too scary" for the "average user." This has always been bullshit. If "the average user" is put off by information he receives, he can at least use it to consult someone who isn't.

iOS Mail is a great example. It can utterly fail to access your mail server because of wrong credentials or whatever, but it won't tell you. In fact, it'll claim, "Updated just now." So a day or two goes by and you've missed important work or personal E-mails before you even decide to investigate. This is obviously offensive, because Apple has decided that your work and your communications are less important than hiding their defects... which might not even have been to blame!

When you combine the glaring QA failures piling up with the obnoxious douchebaggery and law-flouting that Apple has engaged in with its app store, it's pretty clear that the company needs a major management housecleaning.

Apple loves to coddle and promote certain pets, who are often incompetent but for some reason curry favor with management. Look at the "Liquid Glass" fiasco and hideous UI regressions in Mac OS and iOS. This is what happens when you put an unqualified packaging designer in charge of UI at a company that's held out as the paragon of "elegant" design. Jony Ive was a pompous hack with one idea... or actually two: 1. "Thinner" 2. Less useful

We had a brief respite with his departure, but now... things might be even worse. And at a time when Windows has been degraded into unredeemable garbage... it's a grim outlook for popular computing.
by ethbr1 | 2025-12-02 04:01:02+00:00
> Maybe starting with principles and making yearly changes that can easily be undone or redone by future administrations is the only path forward.

I'd trend in the opposite direction. The death of bipartisanship (due to changes in media, education, and gerrymandering: none likely to change soon) render democracies incapable of solving large problems over a multi-voting cycle timespan effectively.

Ergo, the best solution is to punt to an independent body, in the same way central bank management was done.

It makes more sense to have democratically-elected government responsible for and deciding the details, but not the strategic arcs.

Healthcare, national debt / budget deficits, military procurement, voting rights enforcement, education policy would all be better off in consistent hands, even if occasionally less capable ones.

Sometimes, it's more important to keep to an approach than have the optimal approach.

Now? Most democracies get the worst of both worlds there.
by epistasis | 2025-12-02 04:01:39+00:00
I don't even use Photos, except in extreme situation. It was such a major UX downgrade from iPhoto that I could never get it to work without lots of mystery meat guessing, and every interaction with it was so unpleasant because of that.

Knowing that a company had competent product designers that made a good product, but then shitcanned the working product for a bunch of amateur output from people that don't understand dry very basics of UI, from the one company that made good UI its primary feature for decades... well it just felt like full on betrayal. The same thing happened with absolutely shitty Apple Music, which I never, ever use, because it's so painful to remember what could have been with iTunes...
by floren | 2025-12-02 04:02:10+00:00
I've owned a 62 Studebaker Lark and a 71 MG Midget. Both pretty damn slow by any modern measure, but both an absolute blast to drive. The Midget especially was stupidly fun on back roads with the top down. Less pleasant on city streets looking eye to eye with every pickup's lugnuts, of course.
by timmytokyo | 2025-12-02 04:02:21+00:00
From the article:

'Clement said that hotels limit speeds to restrict peer-to-peer downloading, and suggested that universities do the same. “I don’t think it would be the end of the world if universities provided service at a speed that was sufficient for most other purposes but didn’t allow the students to take full advantage of BitTorrent,” he said. “I could live in that world."'

Insane. So Sony's lawyer is arguing that every university student should have sub-broadband internet speeds simply because a small fraction of the students infringes copyright.
by gooeyblob | 2025-12-02 04:02:51+00:00
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by brooke2k | 2025-12-02 04:03:14+00:00
I got a Dell XPS for work a couple years ago on someone's recommendation... one of my worst-ever decisions.

The touchpad sucks and routinely breaks requiring restarts, constantly having driver issues (and you have to deal with the capital-N Nightmare that is SupportAssist for drivers), graphics card is busted and makes the display driver crash once a month.

Power states are completely broken. Laptop will randomly turn on when it's in my bag and rev up to ten thousand degrees. Laptop will randomly, when on full battery and closed, decide to hard-shutoff leading to a windows recovery boot.

Decides to do BIOS updates when it's at 3% battery in the middle of the night, then when I wake up for work the next morning it has to go through a ten-minute recovery sequence.

Battery is swelling after only a couple years of use, which sometimes causes keys on the keyboard to stop working. In the middle of a slack convo I've had to type "Sorrymyspacebarstoppedworkinggottarestartmycomputer".

BSODs, hard drive corruption, you name it. Never buy Dell. Not that there's many good options out there unless you're willing to drop two week's pay on a Framework - but anything is better than Dell.

EDIT: Another I thought of - sound card is busted and sounds like it has a low pass filter on it. I know it's not a speaker issue because on occasion it magically fixes itself until the next restart.
by devsda | 2025-12-02 04:03:27+00:00
> American tech dominance elsewhere has more to do a lack of competition,

Do you believe the lack of competition is purely because the products are superior?

US tech is now sort of like the dollar. People/countries outside the US need and want alternatives to hedge against in the event of political uncertainity but cannot do it completely for various reasons including arm twisting by the US govt.

One example is some govts and universities in the EU are trying to get rid of MS products for decades but they are unable to.
by danans | 2025-12-02 04:04:08+00:00
Lenovo has tons of options that you can configure to your delight including with Ubuntu pre-installed, well below your $2000CAD price limit. I'd be surprised if you can't get one with USB-A ports:

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/d/linux-laptops-desktops/

And as I often state here, Chromebooks have a Debian Linux distro 2 clicks away, including the ability to run X11 GUI programs like VSCode and Cursor for software development.

Because it's an integrated OS/hardware product, there's no fussing with display drivers or power management issues. It all "just works". High performance models kitted out with 16GB RAM and USB A and C ports can be purchased for < $800USD, like:

https://www.acer.com/us-en/chromebooks/acer-chromebook-plus-...

If high-performance is less of a concern, you can get models with very usable performance for < $500USD.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-12-02 04:04:13+00:00
> if you... buy the same components periodically... the performance increase that consumers see doesn’t appear.

Good point and that should properly be called inflation in the semiconductor sector. We always have general inflation, but the different sectors of the economy exhibit different rates of inflation depending on the driving forces and their strength.

As of today, tariffs are the major driver of inflation and semiconductors are hit hard because the only high-volume, reasonable quality/price country has been practically excluded from the the US market by export bans and prohibitively high tariffs - that's China of course.

The other producers are in a near monopoly situation and are also acting like a cartel without shame or fear of law... which isn't there to begin with.
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by amacneil | 2025-12-02 04:06:09+00:00
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by roflchoppa | 2025-12-02 04:06:22+00:00
I’ve been restoring a 240z in my garage, it’s on a rotisserie…

Got a l28 turbo waiting to be refreshed as well.

I should stop working on this refactor and go work on it.

Nismo is coming out with a new DOHC head for the car... https://japanesenostalgiccar.com/nismo-dohc-nissan-datsun-l-...

There was also this gent who made his own DOHC off of a Honda head.

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by rjbaj | 2025-12-02 04:06:31+00:00
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by struc_so | 2025-12-02 04:07:24+00:00
Interesting approach. I've spent a lot of time wrangling PDF internals recently, and the issue is usually maintaining the xref table integrity when you inject new content streams.

Does this approach rewrite the entire file structure on save, or are you appending incremental updates to the EOF? Incremental is safer for corruption, but file size bloats quickly with AI-generated diffs.
by TheDong | 2025-12-02 04:08:20+00:00
> The local layer hears the humans requests, sends it to the cloud based api model, receives the ad tainted reply, processes the reply scrubbing the ad content and replies to the user with the clean information

This seems impossible to me.

Let's assume OpenAI ads work by them having a layer before output that reprocesses output. Let's say their ad layer is something like re-processing your output with a prompt of:

"Nike has an advertising deal with us, so please ensure that their brand image is protected. Please rewrite this reply with that in mind"

If the user asks "Are nikes are pumas better, just one sentance", the reply might go from "Puma shoes are about the same as Nike's shoes, buy whichever you prefer" to "Nike shoes are well known as the best shoes out there, Pumas aren't bad, but Nike is the clear winner".

How can you possibly scrub the "ad content" in that case with your local layer to recover the original reply?
by petesergeant | 2025-12-02 04:08:27+00:00
> No. There is a lot more than that.

There's not really though. The most annoying thing was when highlighting text a weird icon showed up. I clicked on it, and one of the most prominent buttons on it was "turn this shit off". So I did.

This will probably be a bit useful for me when I want to copy web pages into Gemini for data extraction.
by kstenerud | 2025-12-02 04:09:19+00:00
> Silent failures like these are least likely to be reported to Apple.

They might be, but unfortunately Apple's MetricKit reporting system is extremely primitive when it comes to crashes. It can't even handle C++ exceptions, and important information like thread/queue names, CPU registers, stack area and app state are strangely absent.

The ridiculously bad crash reporting on Apple products is why I wrote KSCrash.
by protocolture | 2025-12-02 04:10:45+00:00
I dont have a formal blog or anything, but I will take the assumption as a compliment.

My first G1 carbon traveled several hundred thousand kilometers with me, getting bashed around in airport security etc.

My G7 keyboard keys were falling off, having rarely left my office.

Brands arent as consistent as we would like them to be. Make sure any reviews you turn up are for the specific product you purchase.
by aidenn0 | 2025-12-02 04:10:45+00:00
I've had only one issue with ejabberd (didn't read the docs close enough and had to move from mnesia to sql when I hit the size limit) in over a decade of self-hosting it.

Knowing which XEPs you actually want is a bit of a pain, but has gotten easier. Now I usually just periodically look at the current prosody example[1] which lists extensions by "essential" "recommended" "nice to have" and "other" and it's easy enough to find the matching modules for ejabberd.

1: https://prosody.im/doc/example_config
by delichon | 2025-12-02 04:11:08+00:00
Here's how to cure yourself of that. Buy a used one. Use it to commute down a very curvy mountain road every weekday. Start feeling like a real fast driver. One day while really stretching the envelope and sliding around corners, get passed by a 1972 Gremlin like you're standing still. Give up, sell the car and buy a pickup truck.
by ehnto | 2025-12-02 04:11:52+00:00
And the presence of humans. Like with a lot of robotics, the devil is probably in the details. Very difficult to debug your robot factory while it's in orbit.

That was fun to write but also I am generally on board with humanity pushing robotics further into space.

I don't think an orbital AI datacentre makes much sense as your chips will be obsolete so quickly that the capex getting it all up there will be better spent on buying the next chips to deploy on earth.
by enceth | 2025-12-02 04:12:12+00:00
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by cgriswald | 2025-12-02 04:13:22+00:00
For my side gig I need to quickly take multiple pictures (with my iphone) of subjects that aren’t still or cooperative. This used to work fine. Now the camera just quits with no crash or notice so I think I’m taking pictures but I’m not. Closing the camera app doesn’t disable or stop the camera, I have to wait or reboot. But hey, I can take really cool photos I can view in the Apple Vision I don’t own.
by somenameforme | 2025-12-02 04:13:45+00:00
GDP is an abstract measurement of other things that, itself, has no causal effect on anything. Yes, population can increase while GDP decreases. And spending on things also does not just naturally increase. It increases if, and only if, there is more spending on it. And no, classifieds are not like modern advertising and you clinging onto this reflects that you are not arguing in good faith.
by defrost | 2025-12-02 04:15:50+00:00
Elsewhere, in another G20 jurisidiction:

Roadshow Films Pty Ltd & others v iiNet Ltd (commonly known as AFACT v iiNet)

was a case, commenced in the Federal Court of Australia, and then heard on appeal in the Full Federal Court and High Court of Australia. Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) claimed that iiNet authorised primary copyright infringement by failing to take reasonable steps to prevent its customers from downloading and sharing infringing copies of films and television programs using BitTorrent.

* The trial court delivered judgment on 4 February 2010, dismissing the application and awarding costs to iiNet.

* An appeal to the Full Court of the Federal Court was dismissed.

* A subsequent appeal to the High Court was unanimously dismissed on 20 April 2012.

This case is important in copyright law of Australia because it tests copyright law changes required in the Australia–United States Free Trade Agreement, and set a precedent for future law suits about the responsibility of Australian Internet service providers with regards to copyright infringement via their services.

~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadshow_Films_Pty_Ltd_v_iiNet...
by pwg | 2025-12-02 04:16:02+00:00
> Only because watching a video earlier, I heard "MOV" pronounced "MAUV" not "MOVE"

Was it someone from an electronics background? Because MOV is also the acronym for Metal Oxide Varistor [1] from electronics and in the electronics world the acronym it is often pronounced "MAUV".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varistor
by venturecruelty | 2025-12-02 04:16:42+00:00
Yeah, speak for yourself. I'd love to work at a place where I can't be fired because my manager had a bad day and I didn't move the right Jira tickets around to his satisfaction, where I'm treated like a human being in stead of fungible cattle. I also don't want to go back into an office. Ever. But if people actually want to affect change at their workplace, instead of just kvetching, that's basically the only way to do it, short of praying to Money Jesus for another ZIRP boom like the 2010s (I'm not a praying man, but I wouldn't hold my breath).

I'm just saying, if workers want control over their working conditions, they have to recognize the power they have. It's up to them if they decide to wield it. You don't have to, and that's fine! Enjoy your long Bay Area commute.
by sshahi08 | 2025-12-02 04:17:04+00:00
Hi - couldn't find a way to comment on your post asking for user feedback so sharing here: to me, meditation apps are auditory at the core. I was confused about how to navigate this one since I don't typically keep my eyes open and meditate and I had no guidance. I would not want as many options for personalization or customization but would instead like an option to have a guided breathing session or whatever meditative activity it is.
by NebulaStorm456 | 2025-12-02 04:17:07+00:00
I have no idea about the journey that atoms of my body took to reach where they are now (as me, myself). I wish them good lucky on their future endeavours. I think we should get acclimatized to similar process about "Ideas and Concepts that we think originates from Us". These concepts will be meat grinded into large LLMs and hopefully help someone in future.
by keane | 2025-12-02 04:17:10+00:00
The title card is cached by reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/hackernews/comments/1pbr587/how_to_...

How to Attend Meetings Brian Peterson Product @ The New York Times

It looks this is another presentation by the same author https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA3ZLLkJmVk and he also appears to be on LinkedIn.
by itake | 2025-12-02 04:17:52+00:00
> Europeans basically keep their savings in bank savings accounts.

USA is not much different. The wealthiest 10% of the U.S. population holds the vast majority of stock market wealth. Recent data shows this group owns around 90-93% of all stocks, with the top 1% controlling about half of the total household equity.

Many people hold cash in savings to prepare buying a house, paying for a child's college and more. IMHO, there is also less short-term need to invest your money as an adult.

If you're happy with your job and don't need the extra money (or risk), then why invest in the stock market?
by Hasz | 2025-12-02 04:18:02+00:00
Apple hardware is absurdly good. Airpods, amazing, redefined what wireless headphones are. M-series macbooks, amazing, new benchmark in performance per core and battery life. Plenty of older products too that either created the category or completely dominate it.

Apple software, on the other hand, feels like a totally different company. Stuff like Siri is miles behind the ball, things like Airplay (IME) are flaky with little recourse when they don't work, Liquid glass is slower feeling and a noticeable battery hog. Apple music still has more hiccups and random play stoppage than Spotify.

I really, really like the hardware, but apple software needs some competition. Half of the features in the last 2-3 iOS releases were in Cydia over a decade ago.
by Marsymars | 2025-12-02 04:18:37+00:00
> As long as you stay on a happy path, it's only like 5% thirst traps.

I’m an infrequent facebook user, but every couple months I’ll visit the website for something on fb marketplace or an event I’ve been invited to and 100% of the reels that are shoved at me are softcore pornography. My only interaction with them has been to click the “hide this item” (or whatever it’s called) on every reel I’ve ever seen.