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partloyaldemonon Cloudflare Quick Tunnels

Tailscale is one of the most profoundly useful technologies I’ve ever used as small business person. It’s also one I would have never thought to invent despite feeling its lack daily.

partloyaldemonon Dystopian Surveillance Is Becoming a Reality

25% of hacker news readership works at meta or google? You mean 25% of meta and google reads Hn, no?

partloyaldemonon U.S. Debt Hits $40T as America's Borrowing Binge Continues

You’re the only one in the thread that gets any of this right. But: Monetizing the debt is replacing one asset (treasuries eg) that pays interest with a nominally equal asset that doesn’t (US dollar). How does that spur inflation? It’s a reduction in income over time. How does paying back our debt IN FULL hurt our credit worthiness?

partloyaldemonon uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook

I use the “natural” method for blocking Facebook ads.

partloyaldemonon Stop the Apple Music app from launching

Ok. Now help me get spotlight to index my mirror-style Google Drive. Seems only this level of genius could accomplish it.

partloyaldemonon AltTab is introducing a Pro version and staying open source

the titular feature is still free and strong!

partloyaldemonon AltTab is introducing a Pro version and staying open source

the titular feature is still free and strong!

partloyaldemonon Access to frontier AI will soon be limited by economic and security constraints

All the downsides of your cliched agi nightmares but with the “intelligence” of your bog standard national security functionary

partloyaldemonon Access to frontier AI will soon be limited by economic and security constraints

You can be a greedy pig and be an idiot simultaneously. You can see how those two things might even be correlated, no?

partloyaldemonon NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating

I've had those times in swift in a terrestrial setting!

partloyaldemonon Carlos Slim cancels his collaboration with Elon Musk's Starlink

If he knew, why didn’t he tweet something that did not make him seem like an impulsive fool?

partloyaldemonon VSCode's SSH agent is bananas

what is the type of application that was hinted as being murid? I couldn't crack that one.

partloyaldemonon The Google Willow Thing

"except now with the PR blitz from Sundar Pichai on down"

I definitely read this first pass and thought 'damn the CEO is hitting its own quantum supercomputer with bug reports'. that's cold. It just came out.

partloyaldemonon FTX held less than $1B in liquid assets against $9B in liabilities

I'd recommend a PNC checking account. Solves a lot of issues related to storing value without counterparty risk.

partloyaldemonon FTX held less than $1B in liquid assets against $9B in liabilities

Not worthless! Just, you know, worthless right now.

partloyaldemonon Show HN: I created a browser automation tool

I'll check it out. Thanks!

partloyaldemonon Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement

Chancery courts will compel performance of this transaction absent a showing of an material adverse advent. Very, very high bar. The buyer is a highly sophisticated investor and the grounds that he is alleging form the basis of the breach of contract were and are public information that has not materially changed nor been alleged to have materially changed since the signing of the merger agreement. Moreover, and most critically, it is not being alleged that spam accounts have any substantial impact on the earnings of Twitter. Thus, the courts will obligate Musk to buy the business as he agreed to in April.

partloyaldemonon Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement

They are absolutely suing to compel performance at the accepted price.