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dbg31415··on Did my old job only exist because of fraud?
Why don't you ask Twitter, Tesla, or SpaceX employees how they feel about the situation.
dbg31415··on How I play video games with spinal muscular atrophy
This is great!

Years ago, a buddy of mine was in a car accident and broke his arm. He was then banned for using keyboard remapping software so he could keep playing one-handed. It always bothered me that some game companies treated any modification as cheating, regardless of why it was being used.

I’ve always wondered how developers balance anti-cheat systems with accessibility. Sometimes the same tools can be used for both. It’s encouraging to see companies giving players more flexibility and recognizing that not everyone interacts with games the same way.

Gaming should be about skill and creativity, not whether your body happens to fit the default input scheme.

dbg31415··on Running local models is good now
They misspelled “Better than before. But… yeah.”
dbg31415··on Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M
It’s still common in Geneva to see lawn jockeys on display.

This is 100% about being racist with extra steps.

dbg31415··on The desperation of NYTimes
Who still reads emails?

Feel powerless? Set up a filter.

dbg31415··on Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: analyzing their SSD activity
Maybe don’t let Google decide what its browser can and can’t do on my computer…

Why do browsers need to do this? Feels like an edge case need, at best, that was likely just a cover for some power Google wanted to exploit.

dbg31415··on Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'
Good move.

Elon is rigging the stock market and getting index funds to invest in companies that are over-valued and thus not stable.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sYA-z0Y8WRQ

dbg31415··on It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12
I’ve had MacBook Pros for as long as they’ve existed and, honestly, I’ve never needed a repair.

The only real issue I’ve had was when I dropped one and destroyed the screen. It was covered by AppleCare, and Apple replaced it.

I usually get a new laptop every 3 to 4 years and pass the old one to family members. My dad is still using one that’s about 10 years old and it works fine for what he needs. No issues.

So the repair argument is a bit hard for me to relate to. I understand things break. But I also think taking reasonable care of your stuff goes a long way. “A stitch in time saves nine,” right?

I guess I’ve replaced the feet on a few of them but that’s a $5 dollar kit from Amazon and a screwdriver and a little bit of glue…

And for normal wear and tear, like battery life, Apple laptops can get a battery replacement through the Apple Store for a pretty reasonable cost.

Anyway, Apple makes good product products that don’t really break from me or my family. I’ve been really happy with all their stuff.

I had way worse luck, for example, building a PC to game on. Two or three years and I had to replace the power supply and I think four years and I had to replace the SSD. Like those things were annoying. I’ve never had hardware from Apple go bad on me.

(Not since I had a Performa 5200 and they had to send somebody out to fix the logic board.)

dbg31415··on Claude Opus 4.8
First impression... this catches issues that 4.7 missed, which caught issues that 4.6 missed... which caught issues that 4.5 missed...

Seems like a step in the right direction. Doesn't seem like it uses tokens more than 4.7... the token usage jumped a bunch from 4.6 to 4.7, but this seems like 4.7 or maybe even a little less.

I'm happy with this release.

dbg31415··on Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI
I’m sad to learn this news.

I was really hoping they could somehow both lose.

dbg31415··on At least 25 Flock cameras have been destroyed in five states since April 2025
That’s a shame.

But it’s not too late!

dbg31415··on Halt and Catch Fire
> I have never watched the AMC show Halt and Catch Fire…

Go watch it. Great show.

dbg31415··on US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos
Lame.

Release the Epstein Files.

dbg31415··on Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...

> "81.7TB"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Swartz

> "approximately 70 gigabytes"

dbg31415··on The USB Situation
Was HDMI any better? =P

And somehow, we survived.

dbg31415··on Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?
Brittle Brown!

LEGO issued an official apology and you can get replacements for your brown bricks made before 2018. (=

https://brickshow.com/2018/12/problem-lego-reddish-brown-bri...

dbg31415··on Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?
This is an interesting article, but why don’t they just start with black fans? Marketing? Feels like we know their brand now, they can lose the hideous brown and just build black fans to start with.
dbg31415··on Job Postings for Software Engineers Are Rapidly Rising
Are salaries rising too?
dbg31415··on Ti-84 Evo
But no mention of the most important feature… I just need to know that it can still play Drug Wars.
dbg31415··on Germany Overtakes US in Ammunition Production Capacity
Downvoted for Tom Lehrer?!

Oh right. Germans don’t understand sarcasm. Ha.

dbg31415··on Germany Overtakes US in Ammunition Production Capacity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j20voPS0gI

Once all the Germans were warlike and mean,

But that couldn't happen again.

We taught them a lesson in 1918

And they've hardly bothered us since then.

dbg31415··on Former Israeli intelligence agents from Unit 8200 hired by Apple
Never forget, this is the elite cybersecurity group responsible for unleashing Wix. (=
dbg31415··on Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen
Mine was awareness.

Yours is just rudeness. (=

dbg31415··on Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen
Both of these pills are really dangerous for dogs.

Ibuprofen damages the kidneys -- and that damage is often permanent. The little filtering devices inside the kidneys don't grow back once they're destroyed. A dog who survives the poisoning can end up with lifelong kidney disease, which means special diets, more frequent vet visits, and a shorter life than she should have had.

(I watched this happen to my own dog after a house sitter stepped on her paw and gave her ibuprofen to "help." My dog lived, but she needed a special diet for the rest of her life.)

Acetaminophen wrecks the liver, and it also can damage red blood cells so they can't carry oxygen properly. A poisoned dog may get lethargic, vomit, start to breathe heavily... This is especially dangerous for older dogs, or any dog whose red blood cells are already compromised, by conditions like IMHA.

dbg31415··on Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything
Nothing makes me hit that close button faster than those fake voices everywhere now. That overly polished narrator on every other TikTok, half the YouTube videos read by the same auto-tuned robot (that apparently people over 60 can't tell is a robot). And don't get me started on streamers with like a confidence voice filter. Fuck all that noise.

And it's only going to get worse. Is this what getting old feels like? Hating everything the rest of society is racing to embrace? I keep waiting for the backlash, for people to get sick of the plastic sheen on everything, but they conveyor belt just keeps moving. Maybe I'm just turning into my parents griping about all the weird music videos on MTV? =P

dbg31415··on Claude Design
I can't edit that... but yeah, Claude Design is significantly better than Figma Make.

Start with asking it to get up to speed on your design system, or build you a design system from your brand guidelines... and it does a pretty good job.

It also does a surprisingly good job of using some of the more advanced Figma tools that a lot of human designers struggle with...

3 days in, I've been really impressed.

dbg31415··on Framework Laptop 13 Pro
Do people actually like touch screens?

That's a huge negative for me.

dbg31415··on Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction
Shenna will be back. Shenna always comes back. Ha.
dbg31415··on A Brief History of Fish Sauce
Please, for the love of all that is holy, do not make this if you have neighbors.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/R1Hq3WEqVeI

The video claims the smell is not "entirely unpleasant" but that's a lie. It is the most disgusting smell I have ever encountered. And I used to have to shovel manure and clean chicken coops growing up. Once I even had to dig a dead racoon out of the guts of a square baler after it got run over and jammed up the machinery and then sat for a few days in the summer heat. Garum smells worse.

dbg31415··on Claude Code Opus 4.7 keeps checking on malware
Just for giggles, I asked Claude 4.7 to write a script that would automatically up or downvote people on Reddit with a 5 second timer to bypass botting restrictions.

It told me it would not help me.

Past iterations of Claude have done this without blinking.

I don’t like that it’s telling me what I can and can’t do with technology.

That feels like it’s trying to make judgment calls like it’s a Terminator instead of just the exoskeleton I used to fight the Queen Alien.

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