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bithammerthunde··on Oracle on the hook to pay data centre investors even if site has no electricity
Oh the schadenfreude. Oracle sipping it's own medicine.
bithammerthunde··on VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)
Misguided post, as you can see when you consider what VSCode and SSH are for.
bithammerthunde··on Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy
Why put it in 'quotation marks'. It's ads, not 'ads'.
bithammerthunde··on MCP was always a bad idea?
Summaries aren't a bad idea though.
bithammerthunde··on The Secret Life of Circuits
Looks like a brilliant book. If you ever write another I think a "hands-on experiments" would be a great follow up
bithammerthunde··on Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP
Google - be evil.
bithammerthunde··on Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite
I asked mum. I'm not going to type in what she said, otherwise my comment will get flagged.
bithammerthunde··on Let's make quality the norm again
> One big problem

This is THE biggest problem for me. I'm happy to pay for quality when I need quality. But there's almost sorcery involved in finding quality.

bithammerthunde··on Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite
> hosting it somewhere on the web, which is not that hard to do these days.

Tell any non-tech person that.

bithammerthunde··on Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite
Do you know the reason for that? The File System API does seem to be well supported on Firefox: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/File_System...
bithammerthunde··on Chopping up books when they're physically too big
Are AI companies trying to poison the search index?

Like Boris Johnson did when he had fun times with a model on the campaign bus, then did a bizarre interview when he claimed he made model buses!

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/26/mesmerising...

bithammerthunde··on Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations
Link missing?
bithammerthunde··on OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability
Can we please stop normalizing this behavior. It's not wild it's reckless.

If I let out rats in the canteen, no one is blaming them when people get sick.

There are actual people behind these agents and in previous cases people knew they were "going rogue" and did nothing. This should be reported to the police like any other crime.

bithammerthunde··on How to write an effective software design document
Not what he meant, but for an outsider it could be hilarious to watch the company tumble because of that rule.
bithammerthunde··on XCancel service is suspended until further notice
I think XCancel should use their momentum and set up their own social media network, instead of scrapping the domain.
bithammerthunde··on Audacity 4.0
I don't know, but I once ran strace on version 3 and was horrified by the number of files it touched at startup. Then tried accessing the internet.
bithammerthunde··on Dutch central bank moves share of gold from U.S., Canada to London
> strategic ties with the US

Yeah, that isn't really a thing anymore.

bithammerthunde··on The turbulent AI era is here
> In all likelihood it will probably fall in the middle

AI era has been called the new industrial revolution. I'd just like to point out that the industrial revolution created the British Empire. That's wasn't exactly "in the middle".

bithammerthunde··on YouTube Format IDs
Is this in anyway related to the 403 issue with yt-dlp that's been happening for at least a week?