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mdavid626on Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake

Once people realize the fundamental incompatibility of these new repos with the old ones, they’ll be furious. GitHub will back down.

It’s like IPv6. Just worse.

mdavid626on Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake

My prediction: 20 years from now everyone will still use SHA-1 git. That will be simply easier.

mdavid626on The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021

Pirating it is.

mdavid626on Bill Gates tries to install MovieMaker

It’s not any better today. Probably the only difference is that you’ll get some ads too.

mdavid626on Instrument clusters are now paid extras in two Hyundai models

- I’m sorry officer I didn’t know I was speeding. My car isn’t equipped with an instrument cluster.

- Oh, I see, go on then.

mdavid626on There's no such thing as a small software team anymore

Then you’ll have “GitHub” uptime, breaking prod every day.

mdavid626on Anthropic's 'watermark' text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing

Just copy Claude’s output and shove it into Gemini and ask to rephrase.

mdavid626on Scriptc by Vercel: TypeScript-to-Native compiler, no JavaScript engine in binary

Sometimes you are forced to use it - e.g. Bun in Claude Code. I like Opus models, but can't run them outside of Claude Code/Bun in subscription models.

mdavid626on Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database

Why not just change ownership then? I'd bet some people would be interested to pay some money for that...

mdavid626on Claude Code: Anatomy of a Misfeature

I’d really suggest to run Claude Code in a sandbox! Anthropic can’t be trusted.

I run it on Mac with sandbox-exec. No access to AWS, database, pretty much just files in the current folder. Even if it goes rogue, it can’t do much harm.

mdavid626on Claude Code: Anatomy of a Misfeature

It happened to me today. I was reading agent's answer and it asked me something. I didn't even get to the question - it accepted something! Jesus Christ. Where are the software engineers?!

mdavid626on My midlife crisis Corolla is fast, furious, and modded

Love the car, Toyota rocks with these GR cars (Corolla, Yaris). Mods are also super cool!

mdavid626on The kids with phones are alright

Feels like the seventies. Remember the time when tobacco CEO-s sweared, that they didn’t know cigarettes are unhealthy?

mdavid626on The kids with phones are alright

Give them a bottle of scotch and pack of cigarettes as well.

mdavid626on Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke

Anyone still be able to trust Bun? It looks like piece of garbage to me. Doesn’t even offer much compared to node or deno.

mdavid626on DeepSeek aims to make its own AI chip

Can you be competitive with DUV? They are pushing it to the limit, but will it make sense?

mdavid626on DeepSeek aims to make its own AI chip

China still doesn’t have EUV. How will they make competitive chips? Is TSMC allowed to make them?

mdavid626on Why American ambulance rides are so expensive

Anywhere else in the world it’s possible to do this orders of magnitude cheaper.

But yes, it’s because of “options” and not because of greed.

Some group of people tries to extract as much money as possible. You can call this capitalism. I think it’s a big scam.

mdavid626on Resetting Xbox

I expected an article about resetting an Xbox device.

mdavid626on Anthropic's Method to Losing Goodwill in a Few Easy Steps

I want only their model, the rest is just garbage. I used Opus with pi.dev, worked perfectly fine. Fast and does exactly what it needs to do. Claude Code is slow, sluggish, buggy. Why are you forcing me to use it? Why should I pay an order of magnitude more to use pi.dev? That doesn't sound reasonable to me.

mdavid626on Half-Baked Product

That’s exactly what I mean as well. Of course behind startups the basic idea is to innovate. But this gets lots, because most of people just want to make money. VC-s don’t care about innovation, they care that the money they put in, comes back.

It’s not evil, it’s just how money-oriented society works.

mdavid626on Half-Baked Product

It’s very simple. Everbody just wants to make money.

Startups have nothing to do with innovation or making the world a better place.

It feels like it’s about creating the bubble, inflating it and cashing out before it bursts.

mdavid626on The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't

You have to think longer term.

Today’s 1Gbit is tomorrow’s 25GBit.

It takes some time to actually install it. So, better to plan for the future.

mdavid626on Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't

…and 640kb RAM is more than enough.

mdavid626on Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't

The article didn’t say free market is bad in general, it said it doesn’t work for internet infrastructure.

mdavid626on The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't

“America is best country in the world” thinking is very visible from the comments.

Yeah, it has super bad internet, but because it’s too big, Europe installed copper wires later, 25Gbit is not really that much in Switzerland, etc.

Millions of reasons, but understanding that the current capitalist system doesn’t work for internet infrastructure.

mdavid626on Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For

I feel zero guilt to pirate movies.

mdavid626on Microsoft Needs Windows Lite

Free in a sense that I don't have to pay extra for it (comes with the machine) and no extra fee for new versions either.

mdavid626on Microsoft Needs Windows Lite

It's also interesting to see that after 30 years Windows NT is still a decent OS/kernel. Of course the rest of Windows is just pure garbage.

mdavid626on Microsoft Needs Windows Lite

It's hard to justify to pay for an operating system, when Linux and Mac OS is for free.