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deletedieon PS5 Linux lead quits: "a bunch of noobs using LLMs" that "they don't understand"

Rather, he's annoyed because the LLM User submitted the exploit to Sony (to get paid) and killed the only known viable path forward for development.

deletedieon Show HN: ShadowCat – file transfer through QR Codes in a Browser

Apple uses this approach when pairing some devices for verification e.g. setting up HomePods using an iPhone

deletedieon London Police Deploy Facial Recognition at Protest for First Time

Each and every one of those rallies has been uniquely, relative to other rallies, violent

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/sep/13/unite-the-ki...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/23/police-clash...

deletedieon London Police Deploy Facial Recognition at Protest for First Time

Arresting 1000s of pensioners for holding a disallowed placard

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/11/met-police-mak...

deletedieon US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Iran war

The opening salvo being a double-tap of a little girl's elementary school might have something to do with it; in an instant we created and became a greater and more insane evil than the IRGC.

deletedieon F-35 is built for the wrong war

I’m winning a War, BY A LOT, things are going very well, our Military has been amazing and, if you read the Fake News, like The Failing New York Times, the absolutely horrendous and disgusting Wall Street Journal, or the now almost defunct, fortunately, Washington Post, you would actually think we are losing the War. The enemy is confused, because they get these same Media “reports,” and yet they realize their Navy has been completely wiped out, their Air Force has gone onto darker runways, they have no Anti Missile or Anti Airplane Equipment, their former leaders are mostly gone (This has been, in addition to everything else, Regime Change!), and perhaps, most important of all, THE BLOCKADE, which we will not take off until there is a “DEAL,” is absolutely destroying Iran. They are losing $500 Million Dollars a day, an unsustainable number, even in the short run. The Anti-America Fake News Media is rooting for Iran to win, but it’s not going to happen, because I’m in charge! Just like these unpatriotic people used every ounce of their limited strength to fight me in the Election, they continue to do so with Iran. The result will be the same — It already is! President DONALD J. TRUMP

deletedieon F-35 is built for the wrong war

Pre-March 2026 sales will be drastically different to post-March 2026, for obvious reasons.

deletedieon Drilling down on Uncle Sam's proposed TP-Link ban

And yet American products are the only ones we've ever had hard evidence on wrt intentional security issues in collaboration with US Intelligence.

deletedieon OpenAI wins $200M U.S. defense contract

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/03/israel-gaza-ai...

If the physical disconnect between killing a person (e.g. UAVs) wasn't enough to make that task easier then further offloading the decision of who to target might help.

deletedieon Pope Francis has died

How very Christ-like

deletedieon The head of South Korea's guard consulted ChatGPT before martial law was imposed

Have you used ChatGPT to investigate something you're knowledgeable about?

ChatGPT is consistently lying (hallucinating), sometimes in small ways and sometimes in not so small ways.

deletedieon 22% Drop in Programming Jobs

"Pursuing this path" kicked-off 2 years ago when the tech industry collectively conducted the first round of unprecedented-in-scale (until the following year) 'right-sizing'.

deletedieon UK's hardware talent is being wasted

You've essentially summarised a key Marxist critique of Capitalism.

What you've described - the need for people to have autonomy, value, and ownership over the work they do - is the core tenet of Marxism.

deletedieon Fake Nintendo lawyer is scaring YouTubers, and its not clear YouTube can stop it

Nintendo (and some others) used to do this in the early days of Let's Play. People stopped doing Nintendo Let's Plays for a while until Nintendo somewhat relented.

deletedieon Windows 10's farewell tour – not AI PCs – set to drive laptop sales in 2025

No - Windows 10 was initially pushed as the 'final version' of Windows. MS drove this home by saying 'Windows is a service' at each update.

They backtracked once they realised they're losing money by not having the sales bump from numbered upgrades i.e. the sales bump from planned obsolescence

deletedieon What Is Your RAM Usage on macOS? Share Your Workflow and Use Case

macOS tends to view unused RAM as wasted RAM so it uses as much as possible which is different to the Windows approach. The integrated SSDs are also optimised for swap to aid with that. So the ideal outcome should be like you said, not having to care about usage

deletedieon Gandhi's Letter to Hitler (1940)

The film Zone of Interest is an excellent examination of this, the banality of evil.

Interestingly the backlash towards the director's Oscar acceptance speech - a plea for peace and anti-Zionism - ended up highlighting that such people can even congratulate themselves for such atrocities when forced to reckon with an opposing voice. I wonder if this letter had a similar effect (given it clearly didn't temper any of their upcoming bloodlust)

deletedieon London saw a surprising benefit to ultra-low emissions zone: More active kids

The physical presence of Social Housing Estates is the evidence - the occupants are those that aren't otherwise able to afford housing or pay rent. As the commentator says, even the City has Housing Estates.

deletedieon Apple mobile processors are now made in America by TSMC

Sadly the State Dept.'s moral panic over a non-aligned Military Complex rings somewhat hollow against the backdrop of 'very substantial' support in an on-going genocide.

Coincidentally, it was Chinese intervention that brought an end to the last genocide the State Dept. was facilitating; the delineation of allies likely warrants reflection

deletedieon SnowflakeOS: Beginner friendly and GUI focused NixOS variant

He's rejecting the sponsor, not the product

deletedieon Apple Maps on the web launches in beta

Same problem - Tile doesn't have a webapp / site

deletedieon EU parliament member hit by Israeli Candiru spyware

As we speak the US is in breach of international law per the ICJ's legal conclusion that enabling and / or supporting "the transfer by Israel of settlers to the West Bank and Jerusalem as well as Israel’s maintenance of their presence, is contrary to article 49 of the 4th Geneva convention”.

Prior to which the US very publicly issued threats and sanctions on the ICJ and Judges in hopes of avoiding the judgement being published.

deletedieon H.264 Is Magic (2016)

How does being long-GOP affect the decision? (genuine question)

deletedieon macOS 15.0 supports Nested Virtualization on M3 chips

With the EU now going centre-right (and largely at the expense of Greens) their long-standing stance on eWaste (and similar consumer-oriented regulation) is likely to be casualty.

deletedieon Apple supplier Foxconn among firms asked to cut power use in Vietnam

You're describing the mechanics of the Free Market in it's purest form and calling it Communism.

deletedieon Taking Risk

It should (hopefully) be fairly uncontroversial that there are underlying legitimate reasons i.e. the fallout from the first decade of Brexit. Unfortunately it seems things are likely to worsen heading into the second decade.

deletedieon Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice

The more accurate (though somewhat academic) term for this trait is 'narcissism'.

deletedieon State actor blamed for cyberattack on B.C. government systems

This is childish and / or ignorant line of reasoning that ignores Apple, Google, IBM/Red Hat, Oracle, AWS, etc to land at an odd false dichotomy between Microsoft and "random non-MS software"

deletedieon Nvidia Unveils RTX 5880 Graphics Card with 14,080 CUDA Cores and 48GB VRAM

Blowback isn't immediate, it might take a few decades. See 9/11

deletedieon Nvidia Unveils RTX 5880 Graphics Card with 14,080 CUDA Cores and 48GB VRAM

> It will just have involved making enemies of everyone else.

Every other country in the world will be mad at China because they stole tech to further build their own?