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HotGarbageon Banks and Credit Unions to Team Up Against Apple Pay Fees

I would use my non-profit credit union Wallet if it meant less fees on their end.

HotGarbageon Shutting down our public encrypted DNS servers and sponsoring Quad9 instead

Unfortunate as Quad9 doesn't offer an ad-blocking server.

HotGarbageon "Welcome to the AGI era," OpenAI says as GPT-6 Astra debuts

https://karlbode.com/ceo-said-a-thing-journalism/

HotGarbageon DEF CON bans Meta-style 'pervert glasses'

OK pervert

HotGarbageon Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development

And AI companies will continue to buy up all the silicon to make this prohibitively expensive to run at home.

HotGarbageon Meta’s chaotic AI strategy

Stop glamorizing the grind and start glamorizing whatever this is.

HotGarbageon A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones

> the mobile-oriented Android userspace must be replaced with a general-purpose Linux distro

c'mon Google, release that shit.

HotGarbageon Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say

Perfect excuse for the ongoing genocide.

HotGarbageon Motorola effectively bricked its entire line of WiFi routers without explanation

AI replacements

HotGarbageon The Ask

Nah, he just needs to own it.

HotGarbageon The Ask

Never forget Rands was in Jerkcity (now Bonequest) and had them retroactively replace his character with atandt:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170918052437/http://www.jerkci... https://bonequest.com/715

https://web.archive.org/web/20170918052444/http://www.jerkci... https://bonequest.com/712

HotGarbageon SpaceX is heavily reliant on Starlink for growth and profit for IPO

May Kessler syndrome save us all.

HotGarbageon The hypocrisy of cyberlibertarianism

And Cyberlibertarianism by David Golumbia

HotGarbageon Why is Cloudflare protecting the DDoS'er (beamed.st) attacking Ubuntu servers?

So Cloudflare can sell DDoS protection to Canonical.

HotGarbageon The USB Situation

Never forget Rands was in Jerkcity (now Bonequest) and had them retroactively replace his character with atandt:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170918052437/http://www.jerkci...

https://bonequest.com/715

HotGarbageon Ask HN: Who wants to be fired? (May 2026)

Still eagerly waiting for AI to take my job.

HotGarbageon GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation

Porkbun still seems to be good.

HotGarbageon GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation

Namecheap supports Palestinian genocide: https://neosmart.net/blog/namecheap-com-revokes-domain-hosti...

HotGarbageon 81yo Dodgers fan can no longer get tickets because he doesn't have a smartphone

Or who don't want to sell their soul to Google or Apple.

Accessibility benefits everyone.

HotGarbageon 81yo Dodgers fan can no longer get tickets because he doesn't have a smartphone

Why should we be beholden to the two mega-corporations who control the smartphone market?

HotGarbageon Media scraper Gallery-dl is moving to Codeberg after receiving a DMCA notice

Should that fail there's always https://gitflic.ru where Bypass Paywalls Clean lives

HotGarbageon FCC Prohibits New Approval of Foreign-Made Consumer Routers

Wonder which companies will present gold-plated routers to Trump in order to get around this.

HotGarbageon More common mistakes to avoid when creating system architecture diagrams

This is why the C4 Model insists on using verbs to label interactions. (e.g. “reads/writes data from”, “sends reports to”, etc).

Most of the article's diagrams are actually terrible in this regard.

HotGarbageon Claude now creates interactive charts, diagrams and visualizations

Interactive slop is still slop.

HotGarbageon Iran-backed hackers claim wiper attack on medtech firm Stryker

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/us/politics/iran-school-m...

HotGarbageon Blacksky AppView

The amount of resources required to federate with Bluesky (i.e. ingest the entire firehose) is untenable.

HotGarbageon Blacksky AppView

The "decentralization" of Bluesky is a joke.

Despite its faults ActivityPub is superior.

HotGarbageon Hit and Run

Never forget Rands was in Jerkcity (now Bonequest) and had them retroactively replace his character with atandt:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170918052437/http://www.jerkci...

https://bonequest.com/715

HotGarbageon Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras

Licking the boot now won't keep it off your neck in the future.