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lostlogin··on Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux
What a thread.

Maybe there is hope for the internet?

lostlogin··on Glacier Mice
When I used Kagi, my favourite feature was pinning Wikipedia to the top of all results.
lostlogin··on Global demand for sand spawned a worldwide boom in illegal mining (2015)
This is the difference and why smashing up rocks doesn’t get the same result. Round sand is nicer.

You can probably engineer the sand somehow but it’s going to be costly.

lostlogin··on Global demand for sand spawned a worldwide boom in illegal mining (2015)
The reality I would have been simple and boring. Corruption all the way down.
lostlogin··on Nvidia projects $673B in sales as AI demand widens
In the last week I’ve had a madman yell A.I. ‘facts’ at me as he tells me how to do my job. I’ve had employees forward A.I. generated text instead of doing the work properly and had a former employee send A.I. generated letters pleading for a job.

As you say, you have not stop caring. But its not necessarily easy to get to that point.

lostlogin··on Nvidia projects $673B in sales as AI demand widens
> Data centers need concrete, copper, DRAM, SSDs, and labour. That alone will cost more than 33%.

Surely the land is a double digit percentage of their budget? I know they build in the middle of nowhere, but even then.

lostlogin··on New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra
I’m on a MacBook Pro. Using a combo of Terminal, Apple Remote Desktop or Screen Sharing (from desktop, command K, VNC://<IP> then connect.

It’s pretty good.

To be clear, it’s not ever supposed to be a primary. It just becomes one from time to time when I make it full screen and am not paying attention.

lostlogin··on New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra
> that this requires a full shutdown

The mini sips a truly tiny amount of power. I wonder what the smallest/lightest UPS could could bundle it with would be.

But at this point.. you’ve got a shit laptop.

lostlogin··on New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra
The wired network connection is just so good.

But the couch is just so comfy.

lostlogin··on New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra
Apple Remote Desktop is very usable. I have a headless mini and have managed to fool myself about which machine I’m on, over WiFi.
lostlogin··on New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra
> I do wonder if my next computer should be a Mac Studio

Would you get away with a Mini?

lostlogin··on Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded
It can be confusing to follow who the rivals are. Russia and North Korea are friends and Canada is the enemy. China seems more liked than Canada.
lostlogin··on Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down
> That’s the point. He wants to crash the monetary market and he has allllll the investments in digital currencies, ai, data centers, energy, computation & weapons.

I think you’re giving him too much credit. He is just a mouthpiece for various people, he can’t make a plan and stick with it, and never has.

lostlogin··on Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down
> the US is going from a globalist leadership to selfish nationalism.

It’s worse than that. This doesn’t suit the US. It suits Trump (or at least, that’s what his addled mind thinks).

lostlogin··on Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results
Any chance I could try it.

If it was 50-75% as good as Kagi, I’d pay a subscription.

I’d also really like a way to use it in safari/mobile safari.

lostlogin··on Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results
If the option existed to remove various sources for search results (for me, Yandex, and hopefully any payment to them) existed, I’d be back.

I was more tolerant of my money going to US companies when I first tried Kagi, but my views have shifted a lot in the last year or so.

US actions have shifted in recent times, and it’s just foolish belligerence now. There was a bit of nuance in the past but at present it doesn’t even serve US interests.

lostlogin··on CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s
> you can be sure that number won't include anything they turned over the NSA

Once the requests number in the tens or hundreds of thousands, including NSA requests isn’t going to result in ‘Ha, gotcha!’

Are any of the requests identifiable?

lostlogin··on How does IKEA come up with names for its products?
> As a Swede in London

At least you’re definitely right.

Try speaking or writing English English to US English natives.

lostlogin··on How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots
> much sekhurity

This feeling usually hits me at airports, with my shoes off and water confiscated. The terrorists won.

lostlogin··on Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure"
It’ll be a reference to a wire surely? Bare conductor?
lostlogin··on Asus Bike Booster
It’s directly above the wheel. I just use an ass saver and while that’s way inferior to your setup, it reduces the volume thrown up a lot.
lostlogin··on Asus Bike Booster
> wireless shifting systems like Di2

Is it really wireless?

The SRAM one is.

lostlogin··on Asus Bike Booster
It only gives a boost for 50km.
lostlogin··on Asus Bike Booster
Would you need a fender with it there?
lostlogin··on A controversial Alzheimer's surgery is said to reverse symptoms
> I believe this treatment has been suspended in China

And the surgeon is in prison according to the article.

lostlogin··on Magnitude 7.7 Earthquake – 68 km NNW of Ende, Indonesia
There have been 70m tsunamis and lakes get tsunamis too, so… maybe?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tsunamis

lostlogin··on Magnitude 7.7 Earthquake – 68 km NNW of Ende, Indonesia
Correct, but also, I’d bet there is a lurking tsunami expert here somewhere. Nothing is ever too niche for HN.
lostlogin··on Top adviser to Iran's Revolutionary Guard leader sits down for rare interview
Please don’t take away what I believe.
lostlogin··on Top adviser to Iran's Revolutionary Guard leader sits down for rare interview
> Would it be possible for the People to observe some of this suffering?

An all caps tweet is a sign.

lostlogin··on Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot
I wonder if adding the US is now sensible.
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