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Cagrossoon Amazon sellers say they made a good living – until Amazon figured it out

Apple? As in there ebook business they were fined for? I don’t know of many mom and pop cell phone or laptop manufacturers. I’m curious as to what you are referring to.

Cagrossoon Homemade Sriracha

I’ve found the Tabasco Sriracha to be the best of the alternatives I have tried. I’ve lol have to try the Hoy Fung brand again when available again but we will see. I was very surprised because I think Tabasco tastes awful.

Cagrossoon The end of cool small cars

You describe the exact reason I sold my Civic for a Rav4. My commute often had me looking at tires out my sides, headlights and grill in the rear, and a tow hitch out the front.

Cagrossoon Hackers manage to unlock Tesla software-locked features

If the feature is built in to the car from the factory and disabled via software so they can charge more then you are already paying for the parts and lugging around the added weight in the vehicle thus costing you more in fuel. Software locking a hardware feature that is integrated is an awful practice.

Telsa chose to do this presumably to only have to buy a single seat configuration and streamline installs so they could hit production quotas.

Cagrossoon Microsoft's AI shopping announcement contains hallucinations in the demo

> Microsoft manipulated the output to prefer their own products and boy is that a risky strategy.

Makes me wonder how they plan to monetize these chatbots and if they won’t just fizzle out like voice assistants.

I don’t see how there won’t be concerns over asking a chatbot for the best pizza in town and receiving an answer like “Customers love the new Meat Lover’s Pizza from Pizza Hut! Brought to you by Pizza Hut… (list of pizza places here)”. Amazon couldn’t figure out how to make money off of Alexa, how are Chatbots any different.

Cagrossoon Google tries internet air-gap for some staff PCs

VSC Remote I can agree with. Gateway feels like such an after thought. So many bugs and it's very resource intense in my experience. I really like Jetbrains products but their remote offerings are lacking. Makes me wonder if that’s why they are working on Fleet to fill that gap.

Cagrossoon Ask HN: How can a person be more playful?

Unrelated question: Why is your name green? I've been seeing others with green names more and more through HN and have wondered why.

Cagrossoon Fraud Is In Plain Sight

No. Wait... yes?

Cagrossoon Beware, iPhone Users: Fake Retail Apps Are Surging Before Holidays

Funny, Apple made a fuss earlier this year that they were cracking down on "My First App" type applications, but they let shoddy, fraudulent, poorly translated applications through no problem...