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DoctorOW

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I'm Ora (She/Her) Not a doctor. Nor am I Cory Doctorow, but he has sent me a password reset.

me @ orawalters.com

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DoctorOW··on Federal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownership
Even then you're watching them from those broadcast stations. The live channel feeds in those apps is from your local station, and if you're watching any local news it's also clips from your station's newscast. You'll be impacted by fewer perspectives as stations consolidate.

Is easy to think about content from a consumer mindset that everything just exists for you, but no the stuff on the internet is made by real people who are impacted by the works around them.

DoctorOW··on Political bias in AI: Where the AI models stand
All this debate about how politics are defined or how bias is measured. My question is why should I care? Grok identifying as Mechahitler didn't drag me any further right, why would ChatGPT be able to drag me left? If you vote the way AI tells you, that's already a problem regardless of what it said.
DoctorOW··on Steam Machine launches today
I'd say about half of Steam players aren't male. The "video games are for boys" thing is kind of a self fulfilling prophecy because anyone who believes that will obviously not play with a woman.
DoctorOW··on Hacker News but for independent blogs
This is exactly the kind of thing I was looking for. I've been feeling like HN feels more and more repetitive.
DoctorOW··on Rust (and Slint) on a Jailbroken Kindle
This looks cool, and one of the first posts I've seen on HN in a few months where I genuinely wanted to try it.
DoctorOW··on Why is Vivado 2026.1 dropping Linux support for free tier?
> For your specific question: Why is Linux not supported in the BASIC tier?

> This is AMD's marketing decision.

> Kind Regards,

> Anatoli Curran,

> Xilinx/AMD Forum Moderator

I mean, nobody in that forum necessarily knows why. It just came from above.

DoctorOW··on Bolt CEO says he let go of HR team for creating problems that didn't exist
In my experience, HR is all too willing to explore gray areas for company benefit, so any "problems" created are likely actual laws.
DoctorOW··on TogetherLoop – Social media minus the nonsense
Hey I'm sorry for the confusion. This isn't my project, that's why I didn't use a Show HN or anything. I'm not in a position to make changes.
DoctorOW··on RaTeX: KaTeX-compatible LaTeX rendering engine in pure Rust
> I used Typst for a few weeks. It already feels much more understandable, consistent, hackable, and customizable. I guess that is the difference between an ad hoc macro system and an actually thought through programming language.

> The only drawback I can see is the ecosystem being smaller and less mature. That is, however, counteracted by being able to do things on your own, without immersing yourself deeply in LaTeX for years. Also, it will improve with time.

DoctorOW··on SpaceX IPO gives Musk unchecked power and forbids investor lawsuits
Kind of ironic while he as an investor is suing OpenAI right now
DoctorOW··on A website ranking judges by elo for the cases they dismiss in SF
A very important note about being charged with something, it's not evidence of guilt but rather an accusation. As an example, of all unsolved murders in the United States, I theorize that you the reader have committed all of them. How does it reflect on your local law enforcement, courts, etc. that you're not sentenced for these crimes?
DoctorOW··on I Do Not Recommend Bitwarden
This is such a HN blog post it's almost funny. You wanted to selfhost and you can but it wasn't easy or particularly Linux friendly, so you got a Rust server from the community, but you wanted something officially supported, so they made a specifically lightweight self-hostable version but it's in a programming language you don't like. :( Those bastards!
DoctorOW··on Show HN: Rocky – Rust SQL engine with branches, replay, column lineage
> I'd rather hear "the code is bad" than "the post sounds AI-written".

Of course you would. Reading through and judging the quality of AI output is the largest amount of effort in a world where you can get everything else by prompting. Please internalize this: If you want to be respected you will have to put in effort yourself. There is no way around this.

DoctorOW··on Your phone is about to stop being yours
You can absolutely install Linux on a Mac. Back before Apple made custom CPUs they supported and even advertised installing Windows.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boot_Camp_(software)

DoctorOW··on VibeVoice: Open-source frontier voice AI
Missed opportunity to call it Vopilot
DoctorOW··on Microsoft VibeVoice: Open-Source Frontier Voice AI
I absolutely do, every single time it comes up.
DoctorOW··on Show HN: VidStudio, a browser based video editor that doesn't upload your files
Let me just say the performance is absolutely incredible, and the persistence is so transparent. I actually was given access to an in-browser video editor that chokes pretty quickly so I'm impressed. The tracks didn't seem to work well for me. I'm on Firefox on Windows and couldn't drag and drop tracks to change the order, there doesn't seem to be any layer transformation tools (position, rotation, scale) that I could find to counteract it not handling footage of different aspect ratios (I.E. portrait and landscape).
DoctorOW··on Edit store price tags using Flipper Zero
I wonder if since IR is invisible you could theoretically, in an intellectual exercise, blast IR light in a room and mass change them surreptitiously if that was your goal.
DoctorOW··on Not buying another Kindle
> You can only use one library card at a time with OverDrive, and don't have access to the audioboks or periodicals on Libby.

I personally was fine with the limitations, after all I'm only one person and I would only ever read books on my ereader.

DoctorOW··on GitHub's fake star economy
> If a metric or signal matters, there is already an ecosystem built to fake it, and faking it starts to be operational and just another part of doing business.

https://www.xkcd.com/2899/

DoctorOW··on Direct Win32 API, Weird-Shaped Windows, and Why They Mostly Disappeared
Here's the thing, you absolutely can do this in exactly the same way: Make the background transparent and draw within the bounds. You can argue about whether or not you should, but that is the argument. There's no technical limitation.

https://www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/tutorial/custom-windo...

DoctorOW··on Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net
> (single point of failure to... another single point of failure)

I feel like you missed what the author meant with that phrase. The author wasn't talking about for their website, but the internet as a whole.

> I can’t help but feel that the idea of centralizing the internet into a single US corporation feels off.

The point of picking Bunny.net is that it's alternative to this single entity that's got so much of the internet running through it, and is less susceptible to the BS in the US.

DoctorOW··on A Faster Alternative to Jq
All files can be measured in bytes. :)
DoctorOW··on Ceno, browse the web without internet access
> What's the difference between using the Tor and Ceno browsers?

> Unlike Tor Browser, Ceno Browser is not a tool for anonymity, which is Tor's primary purpose. In the Tor network, network traffic is encrypted and routed through a network of relays run by volunteers, and appears to originate from the IP address of an exit node. Tor is an excellent option for privacy from Internet surveillance and website operators. If it works in your network environment, we recommend it, provided that you've also read their support documentation.

> Ceno's primary distinction from a VPN is that it does attempt to route all of your website requests through the decentralized network. When a website is available without restriction, Ceno will simply connect to it like a normal web browser. Also, Ceno users cache and share content with each other. This reduces the strain on censorship circumvention nodes and improves deliverability.

source: https://ceno.app/en/faq.html

DoctorOW··on Kotlin creator's new language: talk to LLMs in specs, not English
The most common mistake I see (on this website at least) is the assumption that one's programming competence is equal to their competence in other things.
DoctorOW··on Hisense TVs add unskippable startup ads before live TV
Not the person you were responding to but I work at a TV station here in the US. What kind of shows do you like? My husband and I are getting into "The Rise and Fall of Reggie Dinkins" if you want a new show. If new episodes of a long running show is fine, I still relax to Jeopardy when I can. If you don't stream anything, you can usually still find golf on the weekends which we use for our cats. :)
DoctorOW··on Global warming has accelerated significantly
> The question is whether we will get there before it's too late... and perhaps AI is the answer?

I won't touch "free and unlimited energy", but is there even evidence that AI produces more energy than it uses? Produces any at all?

DoctorOW··on Rising carbon dioxide levels now detected in human blood
> It has nothing to do with "shareholder value"

The reason other countries are able to move so much faster than the U.S. is because parties that have power in the U.S. push back with economic concerns. The distance between "shareholder value" and "stock market performance" is miniscule.

DoctorOW··on Goodbye InnerHTML, Hello SetHTML: Stronger XSS Protection in Firefox 148
If it's anything complex I'm doing it server side, personally
DoctorOW··on Unsung heroes: Flickr's URLs scheme
Ironically XWiki doesn't use their own short URLs: https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Documentation/AdminGuid...
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