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> Every single subreddit is full of AI posts with AI replies.

This has really started getting to me.

I used to really enjoy answering technical questions on Reddit when it was clear the asker was invested in a solution. That would come across as demonstrated understanding and competence, and it would be reflected in their writing.

The last several posts I thought to answer though clearly originated through a process of, "Hi ChatGPT, I want to solve a problem and haven't gotten anywhere asking you to do it for me. Please write a reddit post I can copy and paste..."

One of the telltale signs is that the post title will have poor grammar, but the post itself will be spotless, and full of bolded text emphasizing exactly what they need to stick into the AI tool to drive it in the direction they need.

I remember watching a video of a guy doing that to a display phone at an Apple Store.

While that action was definitely not a good idea, it did encapsulate just how polished that jailbreak[1] was. The UX was identical to an App Store install page of the day. You tapped the price "FREE" and then tapped "INSTALL" and the phone would appear to install Cydia as though you had just used the App Store to do it.

[1]: https://theapplewiki.com/wiki/Saffron

> I'm personally on the old 30" 16:10 2560x1600 form factor

I sorta wish that form factor had taken off instead of 27" 1440p. The extra vertical space is really nice, and that seems to be the ideal PPI for 100% scaling IMHO.

I keep telling myself I'd like to get a 4K OLED display at the same PPI, but 40" seems to be conspicuously missing in every monitor lineup... at least at a price that will convince me to buy three of them, anyway.

Thank you for dropping this link. I opened ghostty for the first same, then when preferences dropped me into a TUI editor with no syntax highlighting I closed it and reopened iTerm.

I liked the idea of a fast new terminal, but not enough to RTFM before figuring out if it was worth switching.

I recently tried whitelisting IPv6 prefixes at the network border and running straight IPv6 traffic from end to end.

It works really well so long as there's an encrypted transport, although I'm a little annoyed that the routes are very different and the ping times are different too. Although at the moment I can't remember if they're worse ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The device is paid through a loan. That makes radio locks more preposterous, not less.

Breaking a contract is far less serious than defaulting on a loan. And if the cell providers' argument is "we need radio locks because fraud," remember they're full of crap.

It's not every consumer's fault that Verizon made hundreds of thousands of bad decisions about to whom they decided to extend credit last year. It's theirs.

This change in policy came less than a week after Verizon suffered a high-visibility outage[1] that left scores of people unable to use their phones. Before this policy change, customers could at least pick up an eSIM on another network for emergencies. Not anymore. Thanks, FCC.

[1]: https://www.the-sun.com/tech/15782764/verizon-down-sos-mode-...

The GP's concern isn't a practical one, it's ultimately about net neutrality. It's not the ISP's job to discriminate against traffic—it's their job to deliver it.

This may seem like a good idea, and frankly is likely a net-positive thing, but it is literally the definition of "ISP decides what apps its customers can and cannot use."

I share the concern and don't really like it either.

>I only really cared about ... the HD screen-sharing

I bought and canceled nitro in a single day because it's a bad product.

They promise HD screen-sharing, but it's only for _my_ screen. When I hopped into a call, the other user's screen share is illegible. Higher quality is still locked behind a "Buy Nitro" message.

If I'm paying for an improved experience, I should be able to get it.

> Oh right, companies change ToS and EULA and "agreements" without notice, without due process, and without recourse.

Companies change their terms of service all the time. They usually send emails about it.

I've responded to decline them a handful of times and asked for my account to be deleted. I chuckle slightly at the work it creates, but sometimes it has been easier to close an account that way.

There was a magical period. I suspect it ended with the introduction of the Secure Enclave. But maybe it was a little later.

An encrypted iTunes backup of a device was a perfect image. Take the backup, pull the SIM card, restore the backup to a new phone with the sim card installed, and it was like nothing had happened.

No reauthentication. No missing notifications. No lost data. Ever.

It was nice.

> my impression of most of that documentation from that time is that it was incorrectly using .local as a fake TLD

When setting up Active Directory on Windows Server 2003, there was a note in the wizard that explicitly called out .local as a domain suffix that would prevent DNS lookups from hitting the public internet, which many people (myself included) took as an endorsement.

I briefly considered doing the GPU rental thing, but the added latency and video encoding artifacts annoy me endlessly.

Smoking is expensive, and people carry these in their pockets, and replace them within hours once they run dry.

If there were a deposit scheme of say five bucks a piece, I'd wager you'd see >80% return rates with every purchase.

I generally dislike anime and tend to reflexively roll my eyes when someone suggests I watch it, but I've been complaining about VLC for at least 15 years.

Its main claim to fame is that it "plays everything," and it rose to prominence in the P2P file sharing era. During this time, Windows users often installed so many "codec packs" that DirectShow would eventually just have an aneurysm any time you tried to play something. VLC's media stack ignored DirectShow, and would still play media on systems where it was broken.

We're past that problem, but the solution has stuck around because "installing codecs will break my computer, but installing VLC won't" is the zombie that just won't die.

> people who created retrospectively-cringey email addresses in their youth, but kept them over the years because of inertia

I feel seen in threads like this one.

It was terrible from a security POV, but the tooling was superb.

I remember my teenage friends creating things with flash in a way that doesn't happen on the modern web.

What's crazy is that I can't turn them off for my children.

I complain about it to Google. They ignore it. They couldn't possibly give a shit.

I should probably complain to my congressman. Who also won't do shit even if they actually give a shit.

> What specifically would you do?

All kinds of shit.

I'd make locking the phone while the flashlight is operating require pressing the lock button again to wake the screen with no exceptions, so the screen no longer shines in my eyes reducing the effectiveness of the flashlight, and stay palm input stops opening the camera.

I'd hook screen time management of my children's devices—which I perform on my own device—into FaceID instead of requiring a stupid passcode.

You don't have to go far to find areas where iOS could use some customization. But if it's Apple's code, the most useful adjustments are off limits.

Jailbroken iOS was a fantastic platform for the first 9 major releases or so because it had that kind of stuff in it. Now it's "throw a suggestion in the box on our website and we'll ignore it in the order it was received."

Ohhh yes I remember that one. Diabolically clever.

I'm sure there's also no user-controlled firewall to stop it on Android either.

> You know the spied everything you browsed, right?

I remember that this "became news" some time ago, but it's always pretty obvious the moment it loads.

App presenting an SFSafariViewController? "Convenience" that's intended to keep users in the app.

App presenting a WKWebView? Assume it's loaded with spyware scripts.

> but the number of independently variable backlight zones is still orders of magnitude smaller than the number of pixels

The appearance of a lone mouse cursor on a black screen in the dark is mildly amusing for exactly this reason. You can watch as the ghostly halo of light follows it around the screen as you move the cursor.

I'll upgrade my machine when they put an OLED display in it.

You can often format as NTFS and have it work anyway, but it depends on whether or not the system UEFI firmware includes an NTFS driver.

Rufus puts such a driver in its FAT32 boot partition and loads it before starting the winpe.

It drives me nuts that the UEFI sites never included ExFAT.

We moved a small team from opsgenie paid plan to a free one on PagerDuty. No complaints.

> An AppleTV, Chromecast, or NVIDIA Shield can easily fit within the envelope of PoE+

I ended up buying a PoE extractor and barrel plug adapter for my Roku, and another extractor for my HDHomeRun.

It annoyed the heck out of me that they had PoE running to them and still had to be plugged into a separate transformer.

Invisible comments are a widely used feature. Often done inside of PR or Issue templates to instruct users how to include necessary info without clogging up the final result when they submit.

> most people who called it a 'Radon', would specifically call it an AMD Radon

If I had a dollar for the number of times I heard an IT professional say "Intel Xenon" I'd probably match your down payment.

> I think it's time for a $1000 bill, again.

I agree, but I'd actually like to see 200 and 500 dollar denominations as well. Would keep the same number of distinct bills that way if the three smallest ones were phased out.

I'm a fan of s6 after getting exposed to it through the Linuxserver.io project... but I'm not certain it's appropriate when you're using an orchestrator like k8s.

Take health checks for example. I can't decide—in principle—if they should live at the highest level, the lowest level, or every level of the stack. Or if they are everywhere, should there be automated remediation with exponential trigger times... stuff like that. S6 and supervisord would be good for that. But higher-level remediation steps make something simpler more appealing.

> you should have a real init on PID 1

Got a handy list of those? My colleagues use supervisord and it kinda bugs me. Would love to know if it makes the list.

> Because at some point I decided LVM is just like flexible partitions and didn't pay much attention to the huge amounts of other stuff in the manpages.

I remember when I was first learning to use Linux, I was mystified by the convention of LVM on top of md. I was reading the LVM man pages and it was clear I could just do all that stuff with LVM without having to involve another abstraction layer.

But I had a hardware raid controller and just used that instead.