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CountHackulus··on IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE
There's also the poorly advertised IBM-native S390 emulator. I worked on it over a decade ago, you could run S390 on PPC and X86 offically, and ARM and a few others were unofficial.
CountHackulus··on Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs
Gmail is going to be Google's System/390 mainframes.
CountHackulus··on GrapheneOS Defends Data-Wiping Function That Blocked US Border Search
According to Homeland Security, within 100 miles of the border is a "constitution free zone". So there's a whole lot to unpack before we even get to miranda rights.
CountHackulus··on Late Bronze Age Collapse
Historia Civilis somehow distills subjects down to squares in a great way. Entertaining and informative. Fantastic channel.
CountHackulus··on Why were Covid vaccine trials so fast?
If you read the article, you'll see that they did in fact meet the full requirements by August 2021. The EAU plus criteria were met quickly, but they did meet every criteria normally used.
CountHackulus··on I Fired Google
I feel like the song suggestions also vary depending on the music service. For example the other day, "Play cicada by Igor" got me Cicadidae by Igorrr on YT Music (this is what I wanted), but got me Igor's Theme by Tyler the Creator. ???? So I tried "Play cicadidae by I-G-O-R-R-R" and I got Cicada by Good Kid.

That said I feel like no matter the music service it's a 50/50 shot each time if it plays the song I want. No matter how many times before I've played it or asked for it.

The latest Gemini update for Android Auto also absolutely ruined the voice control for Waze. It was already bad, but now Android Auto is basically unusable by voice.

CountHackulus··on Asciline – real-time ASCII video rendering engine
It's unclear to me why I'd want to use this over libcaca or similar? The demoscene has made really excellent ASCII rendering for decades, and this seems like it has less options and less understandable output. If this is just a fun personal project "just because" then cool! That's awesome! But for actual use cases I'd much rather use libcaca.
CountHackulus··on YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos
Considering YouTube's current level of detection of absolutely anything, this will likely be an absolute disaster with no way of appealing to a real human.
CountHackulus··on Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app
Alexa+ has been a massive downgrade for me. It's extremely laggy and constantly misunderstands me, whereas the old one never did. "Set a timer for 20 minutes" used to be instant and just work, I did this the other day and it took 10 seconds to respond and set a timer for 10 minutes.
CountHackulus··on Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan
Every time I'm reminded of this article about package managers. https://www.gingerbill.org/article/2025/09/08/package-manage...
CountHackulus··on Bring Back MiniDV with This Raspberry Pi FireWire Hat
Just because I've dealt with this exact issue in the past, it may have been a 30fps vs 29.97fps issue. For me the audio was a fixed length, but the frame rate was SLIGHTLY too fast. The problem can manifest as either too slow or too fast depending on which side is expecting 30fps vs 29.97fps.
CountHackulus··on AI-First Company Memos
This reads like they don't want AI, they just want tooling. More, better tooling. AI is just a scapegoat/easy out for writing more tooling that makes them more efficient.
CountHackulus··on Making niche solutions is the point
Check your local library, a lot of them have one and can help you get started. It's usually pennies to print too. I printed an adapter for my coffee grinder at my local library a few weeks ago and it took 2 days and cost me $4. Fantastic stuff.
CountHackulus··on IBM Patented Euler's 200 Year Old Math Technique for 'AI Interpretability'
When I worked there many decades ago, I had pressure and saw people get rewards for patenting everything you could. Seems like things haven't changed.
CountHackulus··on Ask HN: Any active COBOL devs here? What are you working on?
About 10 years ago I was working on a net-new COBOL compiler for z/OS. There was a huge demand from banks especially for this.
CountHackulus··on MacBook Air M4
The last time they "innovated" on macbooks we got a touch bar (ignoring M chips). I'm good with incremental improvements if we can avoid those gigantic blunders.
CountHackulus··on Bayleaf · Building a low-profile wireless split keyboard
I have a keyboardio Model 100 and it does have symbols on it. Available in mac, windows, and blank iirc.
CountHackulus··on When your last name is Null, nothing works
I've got the same problem with a hyphenated name, and it was always the way they phrased the error messages that annoyed me. Porter Airline's error message for the longest time was "Your Name is Invalid". No, my name is valid, your system doesn't support it.

I ended up having to contact their support quite a few times for them to fix the error message. Still doesn't work, but at least the error message is reasonable now.

CountHackulus··on Don't "optimize" conditional moves in shaders with mix()+step()
I love seeing the codegen output, makes it easy to understand the issue, but claiming that it's faster or slower without actual benchmarks is a bit disappointing.
CountHackulus··on Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel
What happens when Linus retires (or god forbid dies)? He can't defuse those situations forever, there needs to be some sort of process.
CountHackulus··on Hotline for modern Apple systems
Hotline was an amazing experience when I was younger. Really taught me a lot about devops and about ISPs.
CountHackulus··on Apple Invites
You can use Whatsapp on the web, but you can't create an account on the web.
CountHackulus··on Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js–now it wants that ignored
I remember briefly calling it DHTML. But that was ages ago.
CountHackulus··on Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries
Any useful AI I've seen isn't branded as "AI", it's just a product that doesn't mention how it works.
CountHackulus··on Engineer eats efficiently for $2.50 a day (2016)
Sometimes there's no choice. If it's between beans and rice or nothing at all, then it's going to be beans and rice. Soup kitchens, school lunches, etc are a great help too.
CountHackulus··on F-Droid Fake Signer PoC
Nothing. I'll sideload what I need to. I didn't find it that useful.
CountHackulus··on F-Droid Fake Signer PoC
Guess I'm immediately uninstalling F-Droid. That chain of events looks really poor for them.
CountHackulus··on The RAM Myth
Actual benchmarks and graphs. Thank you so much for that.
CountHackulus··on Android XR
That's basically Google's strategy on everything.
CountHackulus··on Switch 2 will be backwards compatible with Switch
Because they can get more money by selling the same game twice. But they can still claim backwards compatibility with download-only games.
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