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j16sdiz··on Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle
> Release something polished..

That's why software keep adding bloat fancy buttons and change color scheme every few years. This is anti-productive.

j16sdiz··on Apple's MacBook Pro DFU port documentation is wrong
The author was not saying the document labeled wrong port as DFU port.

He is saying the documented _behaviour_ of DFU port is wrong (or, at least, in complete.)

j16sdiz··on Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out
Is the post some real event, or was it just a randomly generated story ?
j16sdiz··on Deep dive into Turso, the “SQLite rewrite in Rust”
1. Only if you modify it. There is a free test suit, and You can license the non-free test suit.

2. Compare to the test in Turso, the test in Turso is just kids toy.

j16sdiz··on Devuan – Debian Without Systemd
runit is optional on Devuan.
j16sdiz··on Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company
Lennart Poettering. The leading expert in forcing things down your throat. Great.
j16sdiz··on TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues
Hey, that's because _their_ materialistic view is faulty . _Our_ materialistic is perfect. Now, if only i have the power...

/s

j16sdiz··on Vibe coding kills open source
Those are the most mentally exhausting task. Are you sure putting this burden on single person is good?
j16sdiz··on ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data
Wait. Is calvinistic predestination the majority view of republicans? I thought most of them are some form of (tv) evangelism, or secularism

I am not American and genuinely curious on this.

j16sdiz··on The fix for a segfault that never shipped
just don't use gstreamer.

Never have good experience with it

j16sdiz··on Banned C++ features in Chromium
Ok. You can stop using anything written in C++.
j16sdiz··on Banned C++ features in Chromium
Why not? except it is same as `unsigned char` and can be larger than 8 bit

ISO/IEC 9899:2024 section 7.30

> char8_t which is an unsigned integer type used for 8-bit characters and is the same type as unsigned char;

j16sdiz··on Route leak incident on January 22, 2026
sometimes it is just innocent:

An isp have lease a new 10Gb fiber to youtube for my own customers, the route is leaked to my peer and now every isp in the whole country is using my fiber for youtube.

j16sdiz··on I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?
It is not '...automatic refusal of an online credit application or e-recruiting practices'.
j16sdiz··on I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?
Actually, there are law to stop banks telling their client why they are flagged for money laundering
j16sdiz··on I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?
That you can't transfer large sum of money because money laundering rule. and you can't break it into smaller pieces either because that is called "structuring" and is a crime?
j16sdiz··on eBay explicitly bans AI "buy for me" agents in user agreement update
I would expect a naive implementation would give you a "least worse" option everyday and can't judge when it is "good enough"

Afterall, that's what most people would be when asked to make decisions for others without context.

Making the agent understand your requirements would be quite a bit of work.

j16sdiz··on American importers and consumers bear the cost of 2025 tariffs: analysis
For that to work, the tariff should be targeted and selective. A tariff on everything can hardly be justified
j16sdiz··on CD Projekt issue DMCA takedown notice against popular Cyberpunk VR mod
I suspect this is not a copyright issue, but rather a ToS issue.
j16sdiz··on The Cathedral, the Megachurch, and the Bazaar
> wasn't always taken seriously.

Does Perl and Apache (as in httpd, not the foundation) counts?

They are shipped in many enterprisy software at those time.

., and BIND. NTP, Sendmail. They are all opensource and predates that.

j16sdiz··on The Code-Only Agent
What if the tools needed is large? Spawn some sub-agent for those?

These sub-agent can be repetitive.

Maybe we can reuse the result from some of them.

How about sharing them across session? There are no point repeating common tasks. We need some common protocol for those...

and we just get MCP back.

j16sdiz··on Ask HN: How to make my website exist for 100 years?
If I start ~25 year ago, I would have used some "Kodak Gold CD-R" disk.

According to charts at those time, average CD-R can last 30-50 years and these 24K Gold CD-R are designed to last 100-300 years.

(mine are failing after ~20 years)

j16sdiz··on Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage
Apple owns a few patients on micro LED display. Those look like R&D to my untrained eye.

https://www.ledinside.com/node/31822

j16sdiz··on We can't have nice things because of AI scrapers
The worse thing is calendar/schedule. Many crawler tries to load every single day, with day view, week view and month view. Those pages are dynamically generated and virtually limitless
j16sdiz··on We can't have nice things because of AI scrapers
if you are crawling the entire web, you should respect robots.txt and don't fetch anything disallowed. full stop.
j16sdiz··on We can't have nice things because of AI scrapers
> was never the purpose of CAPTCHAs,

TCHA of CAPTCHA is literally "tell computer human apart"

j16sdiz··on When hardware goes end-of-life, companies need to open-source the software
with most of the electric are just oem stuff from china, how are you going to enforce it?
j16sdiz··on Insights into Claude Opus 4.5 from Pokémon
> You may be surprised to learn that ClaudePlaysPokemon is still running today

/me click on the twitch link, skip to a random time.

The screen shows a Weezing encounter, the system mistook it as Grimer.

Not sure that's Claude, or bug in the glue code

j16sdiz··on iCloud Photos Downloader
You can't really file a GDPR request, but the (self-service, web based) download tools works for everybody.
j16sdiz··on iCloud Photos Downloader
The 4 digits numbers are, of cause, came from the 8.3 file name length constraint. Gonna love CP/M.
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