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1shooner··on Show HN: Parrot – Open-Source Smart Meeting Recorder with Co-Pilot on Mac
I agree, 'copilot' is overloaded even within the Microsoft portfolio.
1shooner··on Memory Companies Have Destroyed the Consumer Market
An aside, this is a poorly-structured article. It's mostly screenshots of citations from other articles with no alt or any other way to actually search through what they're citing.
1shooner··on Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites
Almost 1 in 3 tracked spacecraft is Starlink, is that accurate?
1shooner··on Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents"
I don't trust the administration to use the law in good faith, but this article is misquoting the DoJ statement. The articles omits the very relevant qualifier:

The article:

> Last week, the Justice Department instructed “citizens and noncitizens” that anyone furthering the “goals” of a foreign power in “any public activity” — including even “public demonstrations” — must formally notify the government to avoid arrest and prosecution.

The DoJ:

>“If a person acts as an agent of any foreign power to carry out any public activity, including (but not limited to) public demonstrations designed to further the propaganda or other goals of the foreign power, he or she must register with or notify the appropriate federal authorities”

1shooner··on XCancel service is suspended until further notice
I think Twitter is the best counterargument to this defeatism. I don't personally know anyone that uses the platform any more, and I don't recall needing it for anything for years. From that remove, it's now just the platform for lazy politicians, lazy journalists, and scammers of one form or another. If there's more exclusive information there I'm not aware of, I really don't need it.
1shooner··on LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'
At what point do we need to contend with an out-of-band mesh network? Sure you didn't connect your TV to your LAN, but did anyone within LoRa range, on any device from the manufacturer?
1shooner··on LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'
I think the disappointing reality is that those ad networks have enough access to the content of your attention (and therefore what you talk to your friends about) that the technical cost and risk of surreptitious audio monitoring just isn't necessary.
1shooner··on Technique for Manipulating Satellite Photos Now Reveals Ancient Images (2025)
DStretch is also really great at revealing painted ghost signs on old buildings.
1shooner··on No Man's Sky Cosmos
I had this exact thought today, having recently been on a nostalgic Minecraft binge.

Incidentally, I can't place it, but Minecraft is an infinitely more enjoyable hangout and break/build stuff game than NMS. NMS is just very sterile to me.

1shooner··on Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone
I have runtipi on 2 homeservers, and fully recommend it. It is not like Coolify, which feels like a mini cloud provider control plane. Runtipi is like an app store. You can load your own app definitions side-by-side with the centrally provided store. Once you have that set up, it's a quick Claude task to translate almost any selfhosted project into a simple click-to-install app through the UI.
1shooner··on The moral panic over data centres is foolish
> Those people need to get their local government to regulate noise from all buildings

I think this is the core of the 'moral panic'. it isn't anti-AI, it's the fact that many AI datacenter builders have been somewhere between surreptitious and intentionally illegal in their avoidance public knowledge of what they are doing, most likely to avoid exactly the regulation you're recommending. As a result, there's now categorical public distrust of both the industry and the local government that has shirked their obligation to the public welfare.

It is reasonable to conclude that you don't act as secretively as these builders have unless you have something to hide.

1shooner··on A PCB business card with a batteryless LED, powered by the phone that taps it
> Once you’ve felt that, you start seeing NFC taps differently. You’re not reading the tag. You’re powering it.
1shooner··on Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems
Perhaps every state should just have one very well-monitored polling place.
1shooner··on GrapheneOS says Pixel 11 has MTE support after all
> people that flash custom Android OSs are the very definition of niche users.

This is a mischaracterization. The niche isn't Android hobbyists, it's people with what should be a basic expectation for privacy. I wouldn't flash GOS or any other OS if I could safely avoid it.

1shooner··on The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates
Sword of the Samurai was one of my favorite early childhood games. I think it's balance and structure (similar to Pirates) is part of what makes me shake my head at how uninteresting modern game design is, whenever I check in on what is supposedly state-of-the-art.
1shooner··on Waymo in Dallas
More broadly, do you believe that Google is not, in some way, adding Waymo data to the surveillance or intelligence product catalog the US government already purchases from them?
1shooner··on Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code
This is really the distinction between the mentality of a technical manager and an individual contributor.

Managers never got to write and internalize every line of code anyway. Arguably their essential skill is producing useful stuff without needing to do so. So is that 'cognitive debt'? When I use an agent to code, I do the same things: I validate the direction, organization, and core decisions, but delegate the details. It's an intentional calculation of risk, managing the scope of future problems if there's a failure of implementation somewhere.

It's a question of where you put the value of cognitive focus. I don't understand 'line by line' how my car's ICE works, even though it will likely impact me at some point, because while I might be able to fix it myself if it breaks, the likely applied solution will be to delegate that work anyway.

1shooner··on Firedome
Because that would not include an AI Decision Engine or Smart Capsules.
1shooner··on More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle
Between KOReader, SSH, and Tailscale, something completely wrecked the battery life of my Kindle Oasis, and introduced frequent reboots/crashes. That was a previous implementation, maybe things have improved.
1shooner··on Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects
I don't understand the complaint. This is the most participatory governance model of any of your options for this service category. If that's not enough for you, you really should just host your own.
1shooner··on Americans – including many Republicans – are losing faith in capitalism
>some sort of immersion or shock therapy is needed

A quarter of the country lives on less than $34k a year. I bet that would shock some people into changing their definition of what is 'shitty'.

1shooner··on Ask HN: Does anyone have an old Goodreads API key?
So your product is a referral to Amazon, and they won't even give you api access to build their referral funnel? That doesn't sound like much of a business partner.
1shooner··on Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects
>What if I donated?

Then you would have been a supporting member, and had the opportunity to vote on this decision.

1shooner··on Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting
>I think what could help make this better is investing into giving agents actual personality, instead of them being just sycophantic clones of each other. AI agents as team members should have clear aspects of distinction both in their abilities and behaviors.

A language interface doesn't need a personality any more than a visual interface does. For most professional work, source data isn't written in the first person. Ego is an imposed product feature that wastes energy. What would the purpose of diverse personalities be? I want models as tools, not friends.

1shooner··on Open Book Touch: open-source e-reader
Personally, having a book-like form factor is a property that moves it into it's own tactile/haptic experience. These small newspaper-column width readers seem to just take you further down the 'reading generally' path.

While I appreciate the sentiment of physical books, I simply don't have the physical space for my book collection, and it seemed frivolous to make that a meaningful requirement of my living space. On top of that, my reading-distance eyesight has started to go, and it's so much simpler to bump the text on a book-sized reader than it is to manage reading glasses.

1shooner··on Bluesky Trademarks ATProto
Thanks, this is informative. I had meant 'instance' from more of a general user adoption perspective (i.e. Bluesky app user plus Bluesky PDS tenant), but based on other comments here that may not be too accurate either.
1shooner··on Bluesky Trademarks ATProto
>We plan to transfer that ownership to an appropriate, independent protocol governance organization in the future.

I never realized there is no independent governance org that should have registered this. So AT is governed by a single for-profit entity, that also runs the only viable instance?

1shooner··on A full body MRI earns you a year of smoking
What is the 'QALY' value of the peace of mind coming from a clean bill of health?
1shooner··on Archaeology team unearths 'prototype' of world-famous Stonehenge monument
For anyone who hasn't checked it out, Time Team is very comforting, old-fashioned edutainment reality tv.
1shooner··on The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war
>“When you talk about conventional technologies on a booster like you see other people doing, and being able to recover and reuse that booster 15 times with relatively minimial refurbishmoent costs, that’s pretty darn challenging, and maybe not the right place, in our view, to start on that problem,” Bruno said.

This doesn't really sound like doubting any claim; he's talking about how his organization was approaching it given their limited resources.

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