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I found this an interesting read until the second to last sentence:

“ Zig built the foundation, Claude erected the building, human reviewers are still en route.”

Wait?! Was this article also written with AI? Surely the author wouldn’t be so err pompus and dare I say somewhat hypocritical.

If you can afford to pay that bit more for quality product, from the article plus a few comments here; seems that people really like Makita.

- hasn’t enshitifed

- makes quality tools that last

- much more repairable (saving you even more in the long term)

- single company, not a conglomerate, no weird vc influence.

For most tools you won’t need upgrades, just build out your collection as you go.

The second part of the article moves into a very confusing to read user experience.

That said, maybe I missed it, but I didn’t see any mention of pandoc that is known to do markdown > pdf rendering “client side”.

This wasn’t AI written by chance?

Just had a look and seems that you can get a pretty decent range of pre-owned crumpler bags on eBay and similar. Worth a look.

Some of us are out here still waiting for Firefox relay “premium” to launch and provide disposable mobile numbers like they do email addresses.. but product has for some reason been stuck on “join waiting list” for what feels like an absolute age.

Talk to any Aussie tech workers you know and chances are they or their friend has a Crumpler backpack. (No affiliation just a big fan).

Originally created by a bike courier who sick of bags breaking sewed a bag out of the toughest material he could get, marine canvas. To this day they make somewhat indestructible, well designed, trendy well loved bags.

Also they have a lifetime warranty and repair policy that is very hard to beat. Maybe you’re not local, but you can tell these will be well made (and they really are)

https://www.crumpler.com/pages/repair

Not sure if they ship to the US. But worth a look if you are serious about excellent well made well design backpacks.

https://www.crumpler.com/collections/backpacks

I know so many Aussie tech folk who swear by the Crunpler Entity as their laptop bag of choice.

https://www.crumpler.com/products/entity?variant=44393825992...

I’d like to image with a bit more work, the Firefox core dev team funding this into a CI test and chipping aaay at performance both of Firefox and policies around what goes in the store. Better scanners when extensizoms are unplosded would likely suppprt big gains in removing the poorest quality stuff here and addressing what is leaking memory and is over resource hungry.

I honestly enjoyed the article and agree with their move but I did have a chuckle reading all the way through and then see g right there under the article the X social media sharing icon.

I’m sure it’s on its way out, but I did quietly laugh to myself from the irony.

I should add a friend has recommended DNsimple.com and I’ve previously found their service to be excellent.

https://dnsimple.com/

50 cents per domain per month 10 cents per million queries

That’s prob cheap enough to support lots of little hobby sites and bigger traffic sites likely have some budget.

I’ve mainly been using cloudflare for the very excellent (and free) premium DNS offering.

Easy upload of bind test files Flattened CNAME to support naked domains Robust free role based permissions to add other ppl

Anyone have suggestions for moving a stack of domains, many being little community and hobby projects away from cloudflare for a small overall price. Agency pricing like migadu offers for email on custom domains is what I have in mind.

https://www.migadu.com/pricing/

> Notably, the rollout will be handled by an “intelligent” update system that leverages machine learning to determine when a device is ready to receive the update.

> Curiously, there seems to be a lack of transparency around how Microsoft’s machine learning system decides when a device is ready to receive the automatic update.

The open secret is that the LLM has been prompted to make the call and no human in Microsoft is able to interrogate why the agentic AI is pushing updates to some machines and not to others.

A few articles like this one were doing the rounds early last year. Curious, are we any closer to communicating with animals?

This is an Ask HN with a linked article from early last year, but the bot removed the ask HN text. Oh well, curious on peoples thoughts.

Yes the title I put doesn’t math the article as my question is to the HN community now a year or so on.

Comparing the final two images of taken of earth in 1972 and 2026 respectively; does the 2026 (left) image look murkier and less crisp to anyone else?

Surely our camera gear is exponentially better now? Is the reason for the new image being ‘murkier’ due to light, pollution or something else?

I’ve looked at Casa. It wasn't CasaOS, but now I'm remembering.. I think they supported casa's marketplace conventions.. so that's how as a new project it had a big marketplace as they sort of piggy backed all the apps that casa supported onto their own marketplace.

This event is giving “banana math” from the show Arrested Development (S01E02 Top Banana).

I like these conventions. Another personal practice I us the body for is where I’ve relied on any webpages; blogs, issue reports, stack overlap pages etc to help the commit come together.

The example of using one library over another, especially if research has gone into which to choose, regularly involves say finding a good article that compares the alternatives.

I’ll say though that I usually include links to more notable references, I won’t usually commit refs to a libraries own docs and more obvious stuff; revealing and keeping references to resources found that went towards getting it done are what I keep and add to commit body.

Maybe there’s spaces for useful references to be added to the spec/conventions. Personally I usually show links like this after the body message.

Example of the commit body:

refs(oath-library):

www.something.com/picking-a-thing

I’m guessing hand coding means, not vibe coding.

Did you use AI? .. Nah I hand coded it.

Firstly, I really want this also and am supportive of an opinionated decision to put something at say Temporal.DateTime() that would be logical for developers to use ‘most of the time’.

However my guess is that the spec designers saw this lack of specivity as part of the problem.

A key issue of dates and times is that we use them culturally in day to day use in very imprecise ways and much is inferred from the context of use.

The concepts of zoned time and “wall clock” time are irreducable and it’s likely much code will be improved by forcing the developer to be explicit with the form of time they want to use and need for their particular use case.

I think this is why it’s so explicitly specified right now.

But I agree; I’ve often struggled with how verbose js can be.

Maybe with time (pun intended), more syntactic sugar and shorter conventions can be added to expand what has been an incredible effort to fix deep rooted issues.

My thought is half cynical. As LLM crawlers seek to mop up absolutely everything, companies themselves start to worry more about keeping their own data secret. Maybe this is a reason for shifts like this; as encrypted and other privacy-preserving products become more in demand across the board.

It’s still happening.

I’m a bit concerned that the content of humans.json will itself get mopped up by AI crawlers.

I could totally wrong, but my assumption is that you’d get a small dedicated box (mini PC) that has an display port/hdmi/lightning port and usb ports and plug that into your TV like you would an Apple TV.

A remote control with wifi would work pretty easily by being connected into usb port, just like a wireless mouse.

Something like an ASUS NUC comes to mind for me but it’s designed to work with anything that you can install Linux on. https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=asus+nuc&_trksid=p46248...

> I just want to help, throw a task at me!

> Great! We always need help. In order to find something that you find fun and rewarding to work on, a good first step is to find out which itch you have with Plasma Bigscreen, and how it can be scratched. What's nagging you? Now give us a shout-out, best via the Plasma mailing list. You can also make yourself known in the Matrix channel. There's plenty to do, tasks for every skill and level, and you'll find it's fun to work on and learn from each other.

https://plasma-bigscreen.org/contributing

1. Open issues on Gitlab:

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-bigscreen/-/issues

2. Join the Plasma mailing list here:

https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel

3. Join the Matrix channel and say you want a task here:

https://matrix.to/#/%23plasma-bigscreen:kde.org

Many consumers, is not all consumers. This play doesn’t need to swing everyone it just needs to be the preferred option for a commercially sized niche. People who care about security, in these times, is surely a growing demographic and fairly stable once folks value this first. Its sticky clients who won’t easily leave if this stays best in class as “most secure”.

Roughly 10% of buyers across most products and services will seek to buy “the best”. For those where the best is defined as “the best security”, Motorola (running GrapheneOS) has the opportunity to take these customers off of Apple. Not to say everyone is looking for a “more secure phone” but positioning that can seek to gain 5-10% of the mobile phone market, for a player who hasn’t had significant market share since the pre-iPhone 1990’s, looks like a no brainer, from Motorola’s perspective.

Ok this has taken me down a rabbit hole. I swear I read this from a reputable source a week or so ago and my memory was that I went to post it here and there was already a HN post (but have been unable to find that nor the original article).

Basic details from the article were that machines would come with Ubuntu for retail and fedora for business machines and that 60% of new machines were planned to be Linux; therefore ending Lenovos prioritising windows on the majority of its machines.

But yeah can’t find much record of it now.

This site seems to have scraped the article I read as that copy all reads familiar but I def wasn’t reading from an AI site with a YouTube thumbnail up top.

https://galaxy.ai/youtube-summarizer/lenovos-historic-shift-...

Earlier article that’s not in question. https://itsfoss.com/news/lenovo-cuts-windows-tax/

Counter-point; we are in times of mass upheaval and protest. Purchasing a secure phone is desirable to almost anyone who is increasingly worried about state and corporate actors, especially those that would seek to surveil and coerce. I suspect some will buy these phones as a daily driver, some as a second phone.

Institutional trust is at an all time low, this is a smart move selling into the growing demand for secure devices and it’s in line with Lenovos recent big decision to sell Linux as the default on their new devices.

Finally this seems to be a corporate play itself, most companies also don’t want other companies surveilling their staff and extracting staff secrets. Hence the bringing of enterprise functionality to compliment the ‘secure’ work Graphene are already doing.

At the 90 days, err do we (can we?) run it again and get another 90 days?

Would be good to clarify this in the README. So appreciate your work btw.

I think an interesting analogy for what many of us are experiencing here is the phenomena of Doom Scrolling; deep down we know we should put it down (and go outside), but the immediate experience of it and the value it feels like it’s offering in the moment has you keep scrolling and scrolling.

Similarly many have reported a sense of say programming productivity but a more objective reflection later on reveals the myriad issues with constantly and subtly heralding in large quantities of lower quality code and blowing past any caution or rigourkus discipline that would come with the laying down of lines of code “by hand”.

Don’t worry so much man, give it a try, the first few are on me, give you time to get comfortable /S

What would you suggest to counter these companies now ignoring robots.txt and copywrite generally.