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guestbest··on "I'm Embarrassed on Behalf of the Tech Industry"
He filled out the form “on your behalf”. There might be questionable or comical information put on that form since it’s not like you would ever see it. He might have an account that he uses for this scenario to capture that data in a free email account and collect or sell any points/rewards. There is no way of telling at this point. Vehicle rentals isn’t the most honest or career rewarding industry.
guestbest··on OpenArm: An open-source 7DOF humanoid arm
Reminds me of the armatron from Radio Shack
guestbest··on Omarchy Is a Power Grab
If it was only based on Slackware would i consider it.
guestbest··on Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering
I’ve been using Perl 5 with minimal 3rd party libraries. I just feel like it will be supported for a long time, and the language parser and runtime are especially small
guestbest··on Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source
Modems were slow and a monthly cost that tied up people’s phone lines. This was another way to get people online. It wasn’t a given thing that we think of nowadays.
guestbest··on ytr: YouTube Radio for Emacs
Why is it a floating window and not a frame? Great work, btw
guestbest··on A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones
You don’t think the country is mismanaged?
guestbest··on Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time
Strange reading an article like this covered in ads
guestbest··on The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen
One would have to assume that this was by design.
guestbest··on Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back AI jobs apocalypse predictions
In every AI prediction there is an obvious underestimating of the actual difficulties faced by workers and planners so the tool to automate those intelligent tasks always way underperform what a person is capable of with the notable exception of merging the automation with human tasks as an augment. And that is a totally ‘nother topic. But thanks for the investment money.
guestbest··on Turbo Vision 2.0 – a modern port
Must be serendipity as I’ve been working on a TUI drama nd drop designer like a terminal Visual Basic 4. I’ve tried Visual Basic for dos and it was as streamlined as the windows version
guestbest··on Sheets: Terminal based spreadsheet tool
Thanks for the extensive write up
guestbest··on Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11
Hilariously, the MacBook neo has the same taskbar issues since it was what Microsoft copied. No one is getting replaced so I’ll guess they’ll just add some customizations to make it more Mac-like to win users back.
guestbest··on Does Where You're Born Matter More Than How Hard You Work?
It seems like a lot is being left out. What is considered sufficiently wealthy and why are they going off grid?
guestbest··on MaliciousCorgi: AI Extensions send your code to China
I decided to switch after notepad++ got hacked.
guestbest··on Apple Creator Studio
It sounds like internally it’s a checklist item they have to mention everywhere.
guestbest··on C Is Best (2025)
Strange how people never say this with swift and objc
guestbest··on Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief
I’m actually glad because it seems like we are finally leaving behind the flat design that started in iOS 7, if I remember correctly. I’m not sure it would be good to go full skeuomorphic but at least a button looks more like a button again
guestbest··on Show HN: Xcc700: Self-hosting mini C compiler for ESP32 (Xtensa) in 700 lines
Thanks for posting this here. I star’d the project. Getting a portable computer with a minimal flexible and previously well supported operating system was one of my goals for the esp32 as well. I’ll be watching for more.
guestbest··on Tell HN: Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas to All
guestbest··on FVWM-95 (2001)
This was a good one, but icewm was one better. FVWM2 went on to FVWM3, and FVWM95 was encouraged by power users and developers to stop being used in favor of FVWM3

https://ice-wm.org/

guestbest··on A brief history of Times New Roman
It does seem like it is trying to force a trend without giving one solid reason.
guestbest··on iOS 26.2 Release Notes
They don’t do the shutdown anymore if it’s any consolation, but they do slow down approvals.
guestbest··on It's ~2026 –. ChatGPT still doesn't allow email change
Maybe they could use Claude and speed up that development.
guestbest··on It's ~2026 –. ChatGPT still doesn't allow email change
I’d say the consumer front end is more of an afterthought. It also seems like something they want to get rid of at some point so that they have to deal with the resellers like Microsoft did in the 90s with MS Windows
guestbest··on Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?
Heh, when you started talking about venturing outside I thought you were going to talk about in real life meat space.phones and tablets really freed us up but we still don’t leave our house to go on the internet for discussions. Funny with all that freedom the untethered life gets us.
guestbest··on Scientists Reveal How the Maya Predicted Eclipses for Centuries
Did China perform daily mass human sacrifice, too?
guestbest··on I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla
I looked at the top 25 grossing apps on iOS and Android. There is only one explicitly ai app and it’s the one that ran a Super Bowl commercial, ChatGPT. I don’t see the demand from regular consumers. When or if it grosses top in the charts then it arrived. It’s more windows 3.0 than windows 95.
guestbest··on 60k kids have avoided peanut allergies due to 2015 advice, study finds
They probably weren’t allowed around you if you were eating peanut butter. Did you eat a lot of peanut butter growing up?
guestbest··on Dosbian: Boot to DOSBox on Raspberry Pi
Free hosting?
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