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literatepeople

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literatepeople··on Show HN: Wallfacer – A terminal session manager for Claude Code, and more
In a world where code is cheap, code no longer equals effort. These days, I see consistency, attention to detail, long term support, and community engagement as the signals to read. Not to say this project will never become that, as it may! However until I see those signals as a clear sign of momentum, it's just noise.
literatepeople··on Fox to buy Roku
and the apple tv app! which is different from the box and the streaming service which was formerly called Apple TV Plus
literatepeople··on Fox to buy Roku
Yeah I mean if you want something FOSS this isn't for you, but neither was a Roku which is what I was responding to
literatepeople··on Fox to buy Roku
The new remote has a mute button. Old remote was garbage.
literatepeople··on Fox to buy Roku
Not really. Apple TV seems to be the closest ive found to not being riddled with ads though. the home screen doesn't have ads at all, the closest which exists is the "top shelf" feature when you hover over the Apple TV app, and that can be turned off in settings. But it has some other issues
literatepeople··on Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use
The issue here isnt that an AI wrote the code, its that a human didn't spend a lot of time thinking about it. LLM's allow you to rush designs out the door with unprecedented speed.
literatepeople··on Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use
I didn’t get a screenshot of this, but I just found a really pointed example of Anthropics lack of craft / rush to build. If you open Claude on Windows, and click Dispatch (under cowork) to start that up, it will tell you that you need permissions windows doesn’t have. When you click the buttons for those permissions, it has broken links to macOS system preferences. I really encourage someone to try it and post the images as a reply as I am writing this from my phone.
literatepeople··on It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12
Looks neat for sure. However you are sacrificing some core performance on the CPU (and likely gpu) if these benchmarks of the Core 5 320 pan out.

https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/compare/18169809?baseli...

This is sort of the brilliance of Apple's supply chain moves here, they get to use binned iphone chips to sell higher performance computers in the lower cost bracket at margins impossible for the competition, and this is just an A18. When they upgrade it to the A19, it'll have 12GB of memory out of the box, giving it even more of an edge in this category. I don't see how others are going to be able to compete here, outside of just being "not apple", which in the entry level market is not enough.

literatepeople··on Effort to prevent government officials from engaging in prediction markets
gotcha, apologies for my comment! will do in the future, appreciate the response
literatepeople··on Effort to prevent government officials from engaging in prediction markets
This is a bot account
literatepeople··on Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android
ublock has been on safari for the past year! there were others before. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ublock-origin-lite/id674534269...
literatepeople··on Why users cannot create Issues directly
Seems great to me. Perhaps GitHub should look into incorporating this into the UX somehow? So many projects are issues linking to other issues, I would love to see other projects adopt this to make github task tracking more usable.
literatepeople··on Dialtone – AOL 3.0 Server
Given their seeming affinity towards signing in with "X" I doubt you'll have the option.
literatepeople··on GPT-5.2
I would say it's very different to what we do. Go to a friend and ask them a very niche question. Rather than lie to you, they'll tell you "I don't know the answer to that". Even if a human absorbed every single bit of information a language model has, their brain probably could not store and process it all. Unless they were a liar, they'd tell you they don't know the answer either! So I personally reject the framing that it's just like how a human behaves, because most of the people I know don't lie when they lack information.
literatepeople··on How much Anthropic and Cursor spend on Amazon Web Services
Ed has constantly done this, and it's a shame because it has taken the air out of the room for real AI criticism. Most of Ed's criticism comes from a place of giving a narrative to people who are wishing for a magic bullet that makes ChatGPT vanish tomorrow rather than actually pressuring companies about the harms this technology can cause. This in part is why his writing so often focuses on perceived financial issues (despite his lack of credentials in financial journalism) rather than the social harms the technologies cause today (slop, delusions, manipulated truth).
literatepeople··on ElementaryOS – Thoughtful, capable and ethical replacement for Windows/macOS
I am still a sponsor or elementary and used it for years, and often the first few months are fine until you hit a wall or need to upgrade it. recently switched to Fedora and have been much happier.
literatepeople··on A teen was suicidal. ChatGPT was the friend he confided in
Who could have ever expected this to happen. https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2024/5/17/24158403/openai...
literatepeople··on ‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]
It's hard to describe to people who don't have family there, but this exactly. The goal is similar to American "manifest destiny". They want to, through whatever means necessary, displace (at best) the existing Palestinian population and take their land.
literatepeople··on France to recognise Palestinian state in September
As someone with Israeli parents, it's because of decades of propaganda. People in Gaza are viewed as evil and subhuman. It is sickening to me.
literatepeople··on OpenAI claims gold-medal performance at IMO 2025
Can be, but why not take them at their word? The people building these systems are directly stating the goal is to replace people. Should anyone blame people for being mad at not just the people building the systems, but the systems themselves?