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banku_brougham··on M5Stack Launches PaperMono
nice flex
banku_brougham··on Zillow Lays Off 500
Announced today in the Front Porch zillow blog
banku_brougham··on Apple announced the iPhone 17e with a chip developed in Israel
Is this interesting for infosec reasons?
banku_brougham··on Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War
>democracies aside from the US.

I mean, I guess from '65 to around 96? We had a good run.

banku_brougham··on AI Will Never Be Conscious
The Butlerian Jihad will come to pass, I reckon.
banku_brougham··on What it means that Ubuntu is using Rust
This resonates. The after effects of age verification and the general exclusion of freedom loving coders is going to leave me standing here in the tumbleweeds with my 90s toyota and laptop with solar panels and unregulated radio frequencies my only communication with the outside world.

Its like those movies coming true. I've already had casual user accounts frozen just for accessing via VPN, or some other inscrutable reason.

banku_brougham··on Fresh File Explorer – VS Code extension for navigating recent work
looks pretty cool! Ive definitely been wanting some improvement in file discovery and exploration
banku_brougham··on Show HN: A physically-based GPU ray tracer written in Julia
>It really isn't.

They way people reveal themselves is a pattern worthy of taking note.

banku_brougham··on Ask HN: What happens after the AI bubble bursts?
"Prices will reach a permanently high plateau"
banku_brougham··on A party balloon shut down El Paso International Airport; estimated cost –$573k
Ninety-nine dreams I have had

In every one, a red balloon

It's all over and I'm standin' pretty

In this dust that was a city

If I could find a souvenir

Just to prove the world was here

And here is a red balloon

I think of you, and let it go

banku_brougham··on An AI agent published a hit piece on me
This is suddenly an amazing proof of concept for Vouch
banku_brougham··on An AI agent published a hit piece on me
I get it, it got big on tiktok a while back, but having thought about it a while: i think this is a terrible epithet to normalize for IRL reasons.
banku_brougham··on Review of 1984 by Isaac Asimov (1980)
He makes a lot of great points, but I vaguely feel he missed the point of the book. I guess he "just couldn't like get into it man."

>In fact, in one of the more laughable parts of the book, he goes on and on concerning the necessity of permanent war as a means of consuming the world's production of resources and thus keeping the social stratification of upper, middle, and lower classes in being.

banku_brougham··on Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft
Microsoft 365 Xbox X Copilot S
banku_brougham··on Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux
Any suggestions for photo-editing, sharing, album management process for linux?

Its really the only thing on macOS + iOS that I use. Otherwise I am so over the mac lifestyle.

banku_brougham··on Television is 100 years old today
Well, A-Team was objectively terrible but I have a nostalgic connection to kids shows like that, Knight Rider etc. In retrospect Bay Watch was an effective CPR training tool at unprecedented scale.

I would be hesitant to pass judgement.

banku_brougham··on Fedora Asahi Remix is now working on Apple M3
Adding my voice of concurrence, I would say 'Comrade' but people take it the wrong way.
banku_brougham··on Fedora Asahi Remix is now working on Apple M3
This is an urgently dark pattern to avoid for parents, but I feel helpless as my own development was heckuv random
banku_brougham··on RIP Low-Code 2014-2025
>the cost of shipping code now approaches zero.

Is this a commonly held assumption?

banku_brougham··on Television is 100 years old today
for every episode of the A-Team, for Saturday morning cartoons, for I Love Lucy, and for Miami Vice, I give thanks.

Edit: And Star Trek, and Cosmos

banku_brougham··on Microsoft will give the FBI a Windows PC data encryption key if ordered
whenever someone mentions the FBI I think of of a picture of the current highly incompetent and malevolent director.
banku_brougham··on TikTok is now collecting more data about its users
i been saying this
banku_brougham··on Level S4 solar radiation event
kp 9 - not great, not terrible
banku_brougham··on Why some clothes shrink in the wash and how to unshrink them
darn tough live up to the name. pendelton wool socks, icebreaker, smart wool all burnt out pretty fast.
banku_brougham··on Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time
I have had this experience -- twice with the same answer. There is nothing so amusing in quite this way.
banku_brougham··on 'PromptQuest' is the worst game of 2025 (trying to make chatbots work)
Gen X translator here. This is a user story complaint that product output is nondeterministic.
banku_brougham··on 8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions
I would figure state actors don’t need to go through the trouble of a browser extension. But, yeah.
banku_brougham··on Kenyan court declares law banning seed sharing unconstitutional
9th Amendment, US Constitution, ratified 1789:

>The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

banku_brougham··on Kenyan court declares law banning seed sharing unconstitutional
>“My grandmother saved seeds, and today the court has said I can do the same for my grandchildren without fear of the police or of prison,” he said.

Unconscionable to support such a law IMO.

banku_brougham··on Kenyan court declares law banning seed sharing unconstitutional
Read "confessions of an economic hitman", you'll get the gist
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