bni

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bni··on Spotify won court order against Anna's Archive, taking down .org domain

Only Big Tech is allowed to pirate

bni··on jQuery 4

Prototype

bni··on Prediction: Microsoft will eventually ship a Windows-themed Linux distro

People have been predicting this for 30 years.

None of the problems in Windows are related to the kernel.

In Fact Windows NT and its display server and compositor, most APIs are fine. In some cases superior to Linux.

Its just that they ship several giant UI turds on top of it, and candy crush copilot apps preinstalled.

bni··on macOS 26's Cut Corners

I have not upgraded yet because I think it's very ugly.

Im ok with the glass part but the very rounded corners ugly and unprofessional.

bni··on Waymo halts service during S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams

Not looking forward to having this junk clogging up my city.

bni··on How did the Win 95 user interface code get brought to the Windows NT code base?

I would like to read the story of why the Windows 95 window title bar and buttons looks so much like the NeXT ones

bni··on Git 3.0 will use main as the default branch

Since Torvalds hated CVS and Subversion with a passion, "trunk" was out of the question I guess.

bni··on I've wanted to play that 'Killer Shark' arcade game briefly seen in 'Jaws'

I also remember playing it in the late 80s, in an amusement park in my home country of Sweden. Game was already quite old by then, but these things had a long life outside the US.

I specifically remember the gun and the gruesome way the shark dies.

bni··on Report: Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO 'as soon as next year'

The "C:/Users" folder on Windows used to be "C:/Documents and Settings"

I remember Bill Gates got that to be changed after an e-mail rant he wrote about how bad Windows had become. This was 2002 or so.

bni··on Winamp clone in Swift for macOS

bni··on One year with Next.js App Router and why we're moving on

I use the Pages router. Doing it this way make sense to me in a way that SPAs never did.

bni··on Karpathy on DeepSeek-OCR paper: Are pixels better inputs to LLMs than text?

Of course PowerPoint is the best input to LLMs. They will come to that eventually.

bni··on Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down

Stop using Postman and its ilk. Use .http files.

bni··on NeXT Computer Offices

Looks like an Apple Store. Probably not a coincidence.

bni··on TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing taxes for free (2019)

AI will increase the complexity even more

bni··on Windows Subsystem for FreeBSD

I look forward to running Windows on FreeBSD

bni··on Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs

Never bought anything from Synology, never will.

bni··on Show HN: Sculptor – A UI for Claude Code

sculptor_backend seems to consume a lot of CPU and memory when just idling. Would you consider switching from Electron to Tauri so it uses the native WebView of the OS?

bni··on Samsung confirms it will begin showing you advertisements on refrigerator screen

Never buy anything from Samsung

bni··on EU age verification app not planning desktop support

EU: You must use a device owned and controlled by US companies to prove your standing in the EU.

bni··on Apple barely talked about AI at its big iPhone 17 event

Good.

bni··on 40 Years of the Amiga

Don't get your hopes up, Amiga IP is scattered with unclear ownership.

bni··on Tim Cook rallying Apple employees around AI efforts

No Im not implying that. I toggled Apple Intelligence to off the first day.

bni··on Tim Cook rallying Apple employees around AI efforts

What other companies have successfully integrated LLM tech in their mainstream products?