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TowerTall··on US Denmark agreement enhanced veto rights over Greenland econ and military
The got was they already had. The US has been able to do pretty much everything the wanted in Greenland since the 2nd world war.
TowerTall··on OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a 'doom loop' for the web
https://archive.is/Abc3f
TowerTall··on Any WordPress template/plugins or PHP script premium for 5% each
AI Slop. They haven't even bothered to replace "[Your Company Name]" on the about page.
TowerTall··on A/I shuts down
njal.la (no affiliate) exists for that purpose. It is a privacy focused domain service that is run by the people behind the pirate bay.

[1] https://njal.la/domains/

TowerTall··on Creepy Crawlies
What if you make MFA mandatory. Normal users should have little issues with that despite the increased friction but bots would struggle with this.
TowerTall··on Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border
"[...] Since 1953, the US Department of Justice has defined the border to be anywhere within 100 miles of the actual national limits.[...] According to the American Civil Liberties Union, about two-thirds of the people in the US live within 100 miles of a border. So in theory these 200 million border zone dwellers could have their phones seized and searched at any time by CBP agents without a warrant.[...]"

From the register (2023)

https://www.theregister.com/security/2023/06/01/us-court-fin...

TowerTall··on GitHub degradation affects Cursor Origin, its new Git platform
I just opened cursor and was presented with a modal dialog with a "Try Origin" button and zero option to dismiss it. Had to nuke the cursor process to get it to go away. At least they didn't show it again at relaunch.
TowerTall··on A Ton of Space Junk Tumbles Unpredictably to Earth Every Week
https://archive.md/OjVF3
TowerTall··on Codex starts encrypting sub-agent prompts
Google's AI just created its own universal 'language' (2016)

https://www.wired.com/story/google-ai-language-create/

TowerTall··on You paid me, a long-time Linux user, to use Windows 11 exclusively for a month
Raymond Chen on "Why is Windows Compressed Folders (Zip folders) support stuck at the turn of the century?"

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180515-00/?p=98...

TowerTall··on Half-Baked Product
I used to have two dishwashers. One for clean. One for dirty.
TowerTall··on How to get your first customers [video]
There is related post from a year ago. 354 comments. Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43970837
TowerTall··on Salvager, Undo for AI agents that edit your files
What's wrong with git?
TowerTall··on Rethinking Monorepos in the Age of Agents
i have a parent repo that has git submodules for each area of my app (backend, frontend, docs, etc).

i have all the benefits of having multiple repos eg different c/i pipelines, but the agent sees it as a monorepo and so can I if i open the parent repo in my ide.

TowerTall··on Fear of the SaaSpocalypse is tormenting techland
https://archive.md/zms71
TowerTall··on Open source AI must win
And it will, but be patient. I took linux 25 years to conquer the world.

One day an open source model reaches "good enough" level. Maybe around the level the current frontier has and most people will use that

TowerTall··on Linux Memory Had One Maintainer for 26 Years. He Just Quit. Now What?
https://archive.md/9NXXM
TowerTall··on About Technical Debates (2010)
Original url (Too long):

About Technical Debates (and ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC debates in particular)

TowerTall··on Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler
The linked article only seems to cover Google and Android devices. Microsoft also have their take on this.

> "Microsoft Pluton security processor is a chip-to-cloud security technology built with Zero Trust principles at the core. Microsoft Pluton provides hardware-based root of trust, secure identity, secure attestation, and cryptographic services."

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/hardware-...

TowerTall··on Show HN: Unofficial real-time tracker for the MV Hondius hantavirus outbreak
hanta virus reminds me of this scene from the x-files

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vwquoiLAZlE

TowerTall··on Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March
By changing two settings in Windows, you can fix the worst of it.

Using a local group policy, you can change when "Preview builds and Feature updates" and "Quality Updates" become available in Windows Update.

By delaying those with 30 or 60 days, you will never have preview updates applied to your system, and feature and quality updates will have at least 1 or 2 months' worth of fixes before you get them.

start > run > gpedit.msc > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update > Manage updates offered from Windows Update >

1) Enable "Select when preview builds and feature updates are received". Set days to 60

2) Enable "Select when quality updates are received". Set days to 30 (max value)

TowerTall··on Show HN: A font that auto-translates Chinese
the same goes for Brave, ios
TowerTall··on Cancellation of Army exercise fuels speculation about Mideast troop deployments
https://archive.is/5uc2H
TowerTall··on Ask HN: Do we need a standard way to signal "this site does not track you"?
you could show a "we don't track" banner
TowerTall··on I lost my ability to learn anything new because of AI and I need your opinions
i don't get. yes, if you just prompt it "make me an app" you learn nothing but you probably also end up with an app that is crap as best.

I you instead "promote" yourself to architect or lead dev and you steer the ai as it it a team of junior dev you must manage you can learn a lot. not only will you have deep architecture discussion with ai where you, together, explore various approaches and ways to do things.

an if you do spec driven ai development where you write the specs you will end up with an app that resemble the way you prefer apps to be written.

Just because ai can cook something up in no time doesn't exclude you from being involved.

TowerTall··on ChatGPT uninstalls surged by 295% after DoD deal
waiting for the data export to complete and then there will be one more.
TowerTall··on Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns
There must be a special place reserved for Mark Zuckerberg in hell
TowerTall··on New iPad Air, powered by M4
As a Windows user who had several MS Surface tablets I fully agree that the form factor would make it a very suitable on-the-go device.
TowerTall··on The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
yes, that is what it is. Nothing more, nothing less IMHO
TowerTall··on Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown
I like that it default to view or more precisely a WYSIWYG experience. I wish vs code did the same. I am just no sure that notepad is the right tool for this. It serves as such a important tool to stripping formatting and working with plain text. We are not far away from loosing 30 years of that trust. One little bug away. They should have used wordpad for this.
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