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Yeah, I'm not a big fan of the syntax either. But to me the benefits of NixOS far outweigh having to use an unwieldy config syntax.

On many operating systems you keep accumulating junk around your system which become ever harder to clean up. Many techy people re-install their system every few years to clean it up, many non-techy people simply watch their system become ever slower and filled with cruft until they end up buying a new device.

This is the main issue NixOS solves for me. I don't have systemd units or cronjobs or random config files spread across the system. I have one config file/directory, which contains everything.

> Or the modern period where it turns out the security situation in Europe was so totally mishandled that we ended up with the Ukraine war?

What do you mean by this? Ukraine is not part of the EU.

Online polls being easy to manipulate makes it so weird to me that the European Central Bank made an online poll on what the new Euro bank note design should be. (Participants did not have to identify themselves in any way.) I wonder if the results will at all be taken into consideration in the following decision-making process.

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/2026/html/ecb.pr2609...

I learned about it from here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49798354

I didn't check every linked case, but just the first one is about the left allowing merely 20% fewer buildings than what the organization asked for.

That doesn't seem too unusual, considering the organization probably asks for as much as possible, even if it knows some asks might be unreasonable.

Why would it be stopped by the courts? The constitution explicitly allows expropriation for the public good. It also explicitly says the compensation amount shall account for the interests of the public. (GG Article 14 Point 3)

Cloudflare Tunnels has been a free service of Cloudflare for quite a while now. What's new is being able to use them without needing an account.

> I see a lot of HN users up in arms on the front page thread about LG TVs having VPN SDKs within them etc. And then five minutes later they will go back to their frontier LLMs to print their pay cheque. Fucking hypocrites of the highest order. It's oh noes how bad this tech is in my house but we will happily benefit from it.

Something something participate in society

(Or more elaborate: Disagreeing with the status quo does not make you a hypocrite for benefiting from the status quo.)

The difference matters, as it means that AVIF's "progressive decoding" serves no technical benefit and is only a minor ergonomic benefit: On a website, you could achieve the same effect simply by layering two <img> elements on top of each other, one with the thumbnail and one with the final image.

If layering to <img> elements is fine for your use case, then it simply means you have no need for progressive decoding.

> Progressive rendering (which AVIF supports) decodes a low-fidelity rendition before the full image arrives. AVIF didn't support progressive rendering for a while, and during that time I believe it was deeply oversold. Now that libavif has implemented it (it was always possible), the conversation appears to be over.

This is false. AVIF does not support progressive decoding/rendering. What the author is referring to here is image layering. A lower resolution image layered below the full resolution image, which is loaded and rendered first. That is not progressive decoding/rendering. It is a thumbnail.

Unlike AVIF's false advertising, JXL truly supports progressive decoding/rendering. With JXL, you do not first load a thumbnail before loading the actual image. The lower-quality image that JXL shows while decoding is derived from the data of the actual, full-resolution image.

I don't think that fully captures the situation.

My mother plants tomatoes in her garden. She invests a lot of work into them, only to get a few tomatoes a year. Clearly it is not an economic effort; clearly she is doing it out of passion, not for the actual value of the tomatoes.

However, imagine the plants stopped yielding tomatoes, and would never do so again. Would my mother continue working on her tomatoes? I do not believe so.

I believe that even if you are doing a craft purely out of passion, it is still important to gain value out of the fruits of your labor, be it ever so little.

The files (even the go.mod) contain references to "yourusername". You can be certain this project's LLM use was not highly reviewed and controlled.

Writing out all these names made me realize just how poor the naming schemes of many companies' earbuds are.

I'm sure Apple comes out ahead.

Still, it seems like a good deal. Other high-end earbuds (such as the Sony WF-1000XM6, the Technics EAH-AZ100, the Bose QuietComfort Ultra 2. Gen) easily cost over $200. Whether the AirPods 5 actually match up to these is to be seen, but I'm optimistic.

tl;dr:

- GrapheneOS is only supported on Motorola's flagship devices, which the author deems too expensive

- Motorola historically has made unlocking the bootloader difficult, and GrapheneOS has not yet confirmed that this will become easier.

- The author does not trust Motorola.

> We have borders and protected areas, and it is reasonable to make restrictions on other people based on those borders.

I agree.

However, in the prior comment you made a much stronger statement, implying that a principled person must, if they open their country's borders, also open their home's borders.

This claim is unreasonable. My city's borders are completely open, and yet my home's borders are not. Similarly, my country's borders can be completely open, without my home's borders needing to be so, too.

> It is not racist.

I did not call you racist, and I agree that doing so does not add value to a discussion.

On the ScreenSpot-Pro benchmark, all effort levels achieve roughly the same score. I wonder if that is just a limitation of the benchmark, or if the effort levels actually do not make a difference for purely visual tasks.

> ScreenSpot-Pro tests whether models can locate the correct interface element in high-resolution screenshots of professional software.

This benchmark gives the same intelligence score for GPT-6 Astra (max), GPT-5.6 Sol (max), and Grok 4.6 (high)? That seems very wrong to me, unless I'm misinterpreting the visualizations.

Yeah, just updated my apps without an account.

Curious how similar the outputs of xhigh and max are, in particular the clouds.

For me, the issue also only occurs sometimes. Usually I can download apps like normal.

Softer, thinner, just as small.

https://512pixels.net/2026/08/new-polishing-cloth-review/

Aren't vague terms that need to be interpreted to mean what the writers intended very normal in the legal world?

> understand that a border is the same concept be it for a home, for a community, for a city, or for a nation

People from other cities may enter my city, but people from other homes may not enter my home. These concepts are not the same, nor are they close, nor are they comparable.

There is a lot of space in my country that is not actively used as living space. On the other hand, 100% of the space in my home is actively used as living space.

Comparing a country and a home is a poor comparison.

If the EU was totalitarian, it would have passed the first time. But alas, it never did.

It really is that simple.

You really should not blame it on YAML that if you put a random hash value in a field that it may be a number. Like, duh. If you want a string, use quotes.

1blu.de offers 8GB memory and 120GB storage for 9€ a month. Also traffic is unlimited and free.

(However it's hosted only in Germany and does not have an API. Also, its SLA only guarantees 99% uptime.)

Maybe "your" at the beginning of a title should be replaced by "my" instead of getting stripped.

That would preserve the non-clickbait meaning of all such titles I can spontaneously think of.