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SLWW··on Show HN: DenchClaw – Local CRM on Top of OpenClaw
> created 17 minutes ago

Is this a bot lol, use words not buzzwords

SLWW··on iPhone 17e
> The release schedule was crap, as well as the 12 mini being an objectively bad phone.

I still use my 12 mini; it's by far my favorite iphone I've had since my 5s. It might have had sucky battery life but I was just happy to have a phone that could fit in my pocket.

I've replaced the screen twice, battery once (by myself) and I have really very little intentions on moving to anything newer than the 13 mini.

I'm not sure why Apple doesn't care about the mini apple users. My friends, when they pull out a 17 pro look absolutely ridiculous, constantly having to pull the phone out when doing any real work since the phone just keeps getting in the way.

SLWW··on Show HN: RetroTick – Run classic Windows EXEs in the browser
Can you list them?
SLWW··on Privilege is bad grammar
K much to thin bout . thnks

Sent from my iPhone

SLWW··on Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files
It's passing the initial sniff test; this might be the first valuable use of AI I've seen in a good minute
SLWW··on Sandboxels
I thought I remembered something about that
SLWW··on Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk
While i find everything about this post thoroughly dystopian; I will state that I don't break harshly, just about ever, my car still has it's original breakpads (they still have some life, about a cm and a half to two) and it had 107k on the odo. Never been in an accident outside of getting break-checked by an insurance scammer when I was 19, and a head on when i was stopped at a stop sign.

Although I keep a varying follow distance, if there is an open lane immediately adjacent to me, I don't care if i'm tailing someone a bit, but if I'm boxed then you better believe it's 6+ car distance.

SLWW··on MIT Living Wage Calculator
I do think it's a crack up how when I check my own "living wage" i still under-perform in comparison to the chart, but in my county i'm within the top 15%.

Needless to say; only old people have homes and only those who have sufficient help get a nice appt.

SLWW··on The Everdeck: A Universal Card System (2019)
The mystic bent limits the usability of the deck, since most people I play with, when playing games like Sheepshead try playing with more traditional decks. As well as traditional Tarot decks from Russia (OG tarot, not modern designs).

Vintage Tarot decks include more art/influence from the current ruling empire, not new-age mystic nonsense.

SLWW··on Zig Libc
Only white pilling for me sir. I believe in the morning light after a dark night. I just know that the tide comes in and out reliably. If you believe protesting is the way forward then go for it; just don't get shot while doing it.

Anyway; I like Zig a lot btw.. loving what you guys are doing.

SLWW··on Zig Libc
I do know what's happening. I've been around and watching for over a decade. We are bleeding from every orifice from an economic standpoint. The recent moves for deportations is an attempt by the office of the President to save face while not doing anything to fix over-spending, it's also a good vehicle for a surveillance push, and the RNC/old-school dems will be happy so someone like JD can take power afterwards to prop up the current rising oligarchy and further support British assets moving into the middle-east for "oil".

I'm not ignorant. I just know you aren't going to change anything by getting riled up emotionally and using language that indicates instability (I don't know you, my initial comment is because I don't want to see you get snuffed out). There's nothing you can do to solve these problems at this point and time, and they would prefer you protest so they can get your face, for the purposes of marking. Portland also is full of genuinely nutty people, been there several times and there is a real social contagion. You should be spending your time helping who you can, avoiding the authorities in general (never even speak to them), and understand that this "liberal democracy" is slowly collapsing and there's no stopping what's going to happen. We are being hollowed out entirely.

Freedoms aren't going to matter much when we are owned by every foreign nation but our own. I thought about 7 years ago that we could fix this with protesting, now I know that we can't. I'm just seeing this from a view of total loss while you see that there is yet still time.

Quick addendum: this is not me attempting to demoralize. I do think that once people can't pay for bread then maybe something will change. Up until that point the majority will give away every right for even the slightest relief, anything for a little hope of a better future. This has happened many times before. Empires rise and fall, it's nothing unique or out of the ordinary across history. First and foremost look out for yourself and your loved ones, and be willing to be flexible

SLWW··on Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent
I wonder who censored my other response to another commenter (I said that if being against hosting CSA means I'm a 'n4z1' than I'm ok with that derogatory label)

Though the irony of being censored while talking about how CSA should be censored is very funny to me.

These pro-speech absolutists (who are usually libertarian) miss that NAP is clearly violated when any abuse is hosted/disseminated. Additionally while speech should never be censored.. everything must be permissible if all media is speech. You can have a society that censors multi-media but not the caption/description attached; other allowances (for other types of "speech") always leads to the most degenerate of people having a voice while everyone else is punished for calling them out.

SLWW··on Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent
We all know that CSAM is one of the first things that gets uploaded to these sorts of platforms.

If advocating against CSAM = Fascism then I'll be the first to say that i'm a nazi facist. o7

SLWW··on Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out
Why is Moltbook so slow to load. Is it just me?
SLWW··on Code is cheap. Show me the talk
I would like articles like this to have a quick "who" and "what experience" is talking. I can usually tell the conclusions based on experience/skill level regardless, but it would be nice.

Also, that projects page on his website is atrocious; hate to be "that guy" but I don't trust the author's insight since "personal projects" seems to include a lot more than just his work; the first several PRs I looked at where all vibed.

I'm not interested in re-implementations of the same wheel over and over again telling me and people who know how to write real software (have been doing it since I was 12) that we are becoming unnecessary bc you can bully an extremely complex machine built on a base theory of heuristics abstracted out endlessly (perceptually) to re-invent the same specs in slightly different flavors.

> 100% human written, including emdashes. Sigh. If you can't write without emdashes, maybe you spend too much time with LLMs and not enough time reading and learning on your own. Also people can lie on the Internet, they do it all the time, and if not then I'm doing it right now.

The hubris on display is fascinating.

SLWW··on Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent
I can't imagine that Peerweb has much in the way of stopping certain types of material from being uploaded.
SLWW··on Bugs Apple loves
Last time I made a satirical site I was banned from the registrar (I was "convincing" people that aliens were real apparently)
SLWW··on eBay explicitly bans AI "buy for me" agents in user agreement update
I'm sure this will definitely not be ignored and taken very seriously
SLWW··on Your app subscription is now my weekend project
I read the same tired opposing arguments all the time; I thought of it the moment I read the title. "My time isn't free, so I'll pay the tax" is true, however most of these individuals spend hours a day watching the news or doing anything else but being productive or spending time with family/friends.

If you aren't working 24/7 while handling a family and telling yourself your time is worth more than a small fee, you are just being lazy. I'm the same way, I am incredibly lazy and will constantly tell myself that my time is worth more. This is usually until I realize I'm spending way to much of my "money" to "save time". HourlyWage(time) = money, if I'm saving time by spending money I'm losing time. This is a basic concept and I defy anyone to show me otherwise.

We live in a time where instant gratification is the main driver behind most decisions, devaluing our currency each and every fee we succumb to... as money is time, and if time is being "saved" by spending time (in the form of money) we are now applying a future debt to the work we are doing today. You might work 40 hours one week, where at least 4 hours of that week goes to paying your streaming bill, another 8 for Internet and Phone, as well as another 2 for the coffee you didn't make that week, another hour for your notetaking app on your phone, 30 minutes for your subscription to watch funny youtuber release content early, another 2 hours for you glut of productivity apps, etc. These things all work to keep you a wage-slave till the day you eventually croak with a menial 401k.

It's embarrassing we reduce ourselves to this.

SLWW··on AI generated music barred from Bandcamp
Bandcamp knows what the people want
SLWW··on I wrote a batch script to keep my 2011 ThinkPad alive for 24/7 streaming
The safe temp value gave me a chuckle
SLWW··on Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses
Yes.

Only way is to secure your IoT devices/routers/cameras/etc.

SLWW··on Radiant Computer
This is intensely ambitious.

I just kind of want to see what comes out of this.

RISC-V ftw and if they got lightweight, local-first AIs with a decent site-map of each program; that could be really unique and fun; if not annoying to use in practice.

I see the future they want so badly.

SLWW··on Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not
If you grew up with image boards in their heyday (pre-2004) then X could feel a bit nostalgic.

However the word filters (to suppress messages) does dampen it a bit.

SLWW··on Minecraft HDL, an HDL for Redstone
I wrote a 8-bit ripple adder when I was 16 one night; I thought about this idea then but it seemed like a massive undertaking.

With all the additional redstone items/capabilities however I could imagine most circuits could be more and more compact..

All in all, really cool

SLWW··on TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing taxes for free (2019)
Income tax was supposed to end after we recovered from the Civil War anyhow, so it's, by any other definition applied to any corp or business, unjust theft (like autobilling someone after they paid off their loan).

So of course it doesn't work. Also plausible deniability, if you overpay, rarely will the gov give you back what you give them, and if they do, it's months afterwards.

SLWW··on A 9KB (3KB gzip) single HTML notebook, perfect for minimalists
if it auto saved to local storage then it would 100% be a daily use Markdown capable editor
SLWW··on Jane Goodall has died
Mumkey Jones will not be happy to hear this

RIP Jane Goodall

SLWW··on Write the damn code
> extremely well established term in CS

3 citations..

Studied CS in college, got my degree, went and worked for the last 8 years (in software) and i have never once heard decomposition used in anyway during my time in college and out until this very moment.

SLWW··on Write the damn code
learn to decompose is probably the most rage-baiting phrase I've heard in a long time. Breaking down a problem into smaller parts is not "decomposing"
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