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This is absolutely diabolical and should not be put into the hands of humanity.

What have you unleashed? Hey, look guys we got the next Oppenheimer over here.

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As an ex-Apple engineer who grew up with four generations living in a duplex, and as someone who now sees people struggling with grocery and gas prices and utility prices, I feel like more people even having any disposable income at all might be a better start.

But can you have a human right your blurb instead of foisting AI slop on us?

That’s a mighty nice field of study you have there. It would be a shame if something happened to it

I use a jigsaw to cut wood. It works pretty good. What’s the point of a table saw?

You folks are having fun with the idea, but, well, in 2026 there’s absolutely a viable market for this.

I can’t tell whether or not you know that what you’re objecting to is AI slop.

I’m in the process of switching from an iPhone to Graphene on a pixel 10 Pro.

I can load apps from the web (disabled by default iirc), the local file system, a sandboxed instance of the Play store, Obtainium, f-droid, wherever.

Took some getting used to, but it’s nice feeling like I actually control and can choose how my phone works.

Oh, wow. I loved these games when they were new.

May need to find a modern HOTAS setup and immerse myself in these.

And you don’t find that Claude cheerfully ignores the content of your CLAUDE.md and does whatever the fuck it wants instead?

I caught it ignoring the prompt’s details, so added “include the output of the Unix ‘date’ command with each response.

And that worked great in that its absence became an indicator that Claude was off-prompt. Until it started including made-up strings that resembled, but had nothing to do with, the output of the Unix ‘date’ command.

Also, they seem to ignore auto mode, seizing on any reason to stop, and sometimes just stopping despite saying they’re proceeding with something.

Basically, ongoing enshittification.

I really enjoy this site and its community. But it’s time to let the community speak to itself and stop censoring these things.

Unless they come right back with a comparable implementation with a maverick/ranger type form factor, Ford is absolutely shot itself in the foot canceling the lightning. I’ve been Evie only for five years and have driven both the electric Silverado and the lightning. I bought the lightning. It’s fantastic. They are absolute idiots for discontinuing it.

PF is really nice. (Source: me. Cissp and a couple decades of professional experience with open source and proprietary firewalls).

And if they are already using it on openbsd, it’s almost certainly an easier lift to move from one BSD PF implementation to another versus migrating everything to Linux and iptables.

There’s also companies which seemed to break their Web experience specifically to drive people into the app. Credit Karma hasn’t worked on a browser on mobile or desktop for me in years. But the app version always works.

I guess it’s my fault for trying to use an Intuit product to begin with when I already know they’re evil.

Canada would be insane to not beef up its military at this point. Mexico should, too.

I was all in on Tesla in 2019. Solar, powerwalls, model 3.

Traded the car in a couple months ago. It was ok, as a car, but I hated what it had become synonymous with so it was worth the financial hit to give up a paid off car. Turns out the new Mach-e which replaced it is better in every way.

Might be some fanboys left, but a bunch of folks who might have fallen into that category in the past have been driven away by Musk’s unconscionable activities.

If someone was hung up on only paying when they need care, the business model needs to support that would probably look a lot like an emergency room or urgent care facility.

For me, I consider it an astonishingly good value paying $1200 a year even when probably nine months out of the year I don’t even talk to them. Being a healthy dude I get proactive tests done twice a year to keep tabs on a couple dozen different metrics ($150 each round, all in) and inform any needed course corrections over time (early insight- vitamin d was low (previous insurance-based provider refused to order test). Later insight- eating trash and five drinks a day for 7 days at a vacation resort made basically every metric go to absolute shit; subsequently did an early test after a month of clean diet and regular exercise showed tremendous improvement across the board). And then when something random comes up I know they’re there for me.

If it sounds like the sort of thing, you might be into find a couple local providers and just have a conversation with them. I’ve yet to speak to a DPC provider that isn’t excited about the model and delighted to communicate its value to prospective customers.

It’s as close to concierge healthcare as I’ll ever able to afford and I absolutely adore that it removes the parasitic insurance from my primary care loop.

Direct primary care was a completely game-changing improvement in healthcare for me.

$95/mo to basically subscribe to a local doctor. Covers most things other than tests or surgery or limb setting. But tests are often very discounted relative to what insurance charges for them (with my previous dpc provider an entire battery of tests cost less through them than just the copay for two of them added up to).

It’s remarkable how different it is when the healthcare provider is focused on you and your health rather than on gaming the metrics by which insurance companies judge them.

Make other plans for catastrophic things (ie, a high deductible insurance plan).

https://www.dpcfrontier.com/

Agreed. Showing ads on TVs is beyond the pale.

(Sorry, I just had to. In fact, thoug, I would be furious if my tv injected ads onto my source material)

Indeed- comment was intended to be on the openbsd release announcement. No idea how it ended up on this one.

Wow, it supports m1 and m2 Macs! I kind of love the idea of getting back to a proper Unix environment on a reasonably current Mac.

It’s only a matter of time before corporations are run by AI.

Add that to “corporate personhood” and what do we get?

There are settings under the accessibility heading that let you adjust transparency and some other things.

They’ve also gotten less effective over time.

And they don’t get rid of rounded corners currently.

But it still does have a positive impact on the busyness of the os

Knowing the original plaintext is a big leg up in cracking encryption.

Can we recall the elected officials who are shirking their duty to impeach an executive who is behaving unlawfully?

I’m renovating an old building that doesn’t currently have any HVAC.

I tried like hell to get a geothermal heat pump set up for it.

This entailed researching companies that make good geothermal equipment and talking to all of their preferred vendors to get quotes.

Literally every shop I talked to, and they were over a dozen that are supposed to be installing these companies equipment told me they don’t install them because air source heat pumps are so much cheaper.

Even with tax credits and rebates (which may not exist by tax time next year when they would pay out), when I finally found a company that would do geothermal, they want 120K USD for a basic system.

if I want to be able to run different rooms in different modes (entirely possible given that it’s a 5500 square-foot building) we’re talking 180K total to work in a heat recovery option.

Meanwhile the same company will do Mitsubishi H2i air source heat pump set up for the entire building for 57K after credits and rebates.

The air source heat pump solution is less efficient and uses more electricity, but the clincher for me was that the cost of each as a complete system, ground source or air source plus the cost of solar raised to drive their respective loads…. Came out as a wash over their lifetimes. Except the air source plus solar solution costs 40K less upfront than even the cheapest and least functional ground source solution.

I would genuinely love it if it were otherwise, but I have months into this and ground source just doesn’t seem economically viable at this point

Been running it for years

It just works and always has