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RockRobotRock··on Postgres Is Your Friend. ORM Is Not
I sure loved delving into this blog post.
RockRobotRock··on BarraCUDA Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs
My mistake, sorry. HN has me feeling extra paranoid lately.
RockRobotRock··on BarraCUDA Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs
>No LLVM. No HIP translation layer. No "convert your CUDA to something else first." Just ......

Another obvious tell.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing#...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing#...

RockRobotRock··on What your Bluetooth devices reveal
The AI written blog posts will continue until morale improves.
RockRobotRock··on I fixed Windows native development
"No Visual Studio installation. No GUI. No prayer. Just a script that does exactly what it says."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing#...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing#...

The shitty AI writing is so distracting I had to stop reading.

RockRobotRock··on Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?
Didn't macOS apps get locked/took a ridiculous amount of time to open because Gatekeeper servers went down a few years ago?

https://www.engadget.com/macos-slow-apps-launching-221445977...

Not as bad as the bug described in OP, but still pretty bad.

RockRobotRock··on Stop Using Face ID
>People use 6 digit passcodes to lock their entire digital life. That would be considered horrendously insecure for anything that isn’t an iPhone.

That's not really true, it's just the black box magic that is a TPM. Windows Hello for Business does the same thing.

RockRobotRock··on LinkedIn checks for 2953 browser extensions
When they scrape, it’s innovation. When you scrape, it’s a felony.
RockRobotRock··on Claude Code: connect to a local model when your quota runs out
Sure replace the LLM equivalent of a college student with a 10 year old, you’ll barely notice.
RockRobotRock··on Mecha Comet – Open Modular Linux Handheld Computer
It looks sick! good luck with the project
RockRobotRock··on Mecha Comet – Open Modular Linux Handheld Computer
I notice they haven't developed a dialer app for it yet which seemed a bit weird.
RockRobotRock··on Microsoft's Azure Linux
Don't forget the part where blades will often be different from what's described in the docs, because Microsoft loves changing/renaming shit for no reason.
RockRobotRock··on Microsoft will give the FBI a Windows PC data encryption key if ordered
>It's a fairly reasonable default setting for average users who simply want their data protected from theft.

Apple asks you when you set up your Mac if you want to do this. You can just ask the user, Microsoft!

RockRobotRock··on Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms
https://x.com/nayshins/status/2014473343542706392
RockRobotRock··on Asterisk AI Voice Agent
You are awesome!
RockRobotRock··on Asterisk AI Voice Agent
Long shot, if anyone here is an Asterisk wizard. I would like to correlate CDRs to voicemail recording locations. I am building an integrated dashboard for call recordings, and want voicemails to be included, but that's been surprisingly difficult.
RockRobotRock··on Rsync.net Technical Notes – Q4 2025
That restic workflow is very cool. Nice work! Happy customer.
RockRobotRock··on Kohler Can Access Pictures from "End-to-End Encrypted" Toilet Camera
Kohler is a registered sex offender.
RockRobotRock··on Roc Camera
Compared to those, this is like a weekend project that a high school student could accomplish.
RockRobotRock··on Lovense: The Company That Lies to Security Researchers
They're just another cheap IoT consumer electronics company. It's not that deep.
RockRobotRock··on TikTok is being flooded with racist AI videos generated by Google's Veo 3
their other videos are better at riding the line of believable, much less comments calling it out unless you dig into the replies.
RockRobotRock··on FaceTime in iOS 26 will freeze your call if someone starts undressing
Isn't there someone you forgot to ask?
RockRobotRock··on TikTok is being flooded with racist AI videos generated by Google's Veo 3
This is the one thing we didn't want to happen
RockRobotRock··on TikTok is being flooded with racist AI videos generated by Google's Veo 3
These videos are insane, and the lack of "this is fake" comments are disheartening.
RockRobotRock··on I built an app to backup Live Photos from iPhone to external hard drives
rclone has support for iCloud Drive, but it sounds like you are talking about iCloud Photos, which is a different service.

This project lets you download from the latter: https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_do...

RockRobotRock··on Web Translator API
https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1015
RockRobotRock··on Google aims to reinvent email with Wave (2009)
I remember actually paying someone to get an invite because I was so excited to try it.
RockRobotRock··on Gabon longs to cash in on sacred hallucinogenic remedy
Average person? What makes you think an average person would take this drug rather than someone who is desperate and feels like they're out of options?
RockRobotRock··on Amazon Fire Sticks enable "billions of dollars" worth of streaming piracy
and here's why that's a good thing
RockRobotRock··on VMOS – Virtual Android on Android
slop in a can
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