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pyrekoon CS240 AI Cheating Retrospective

> You may discuss assignments in a general way with other students, but you may not consult anyone else's work.

So... what it says?

pyrekoon 37,500 border drawings: a map of the world as people remember it

Yeah, I think that would be neat.

pyrekoon PostmarketOS is rebranding as Nura

That the new name sounds like (at least to some people) a meaningless blob of letters, similar to what a bunch of tech companies name their products or themselves, I suppose.

pyrekoon Stop making swap partitions—use swap files instead

> you probably won't either

Hibernation?

pyrekoon What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks

Eh... I guess YMMV, at least for a low amount it took me literally an afternoon, I just froze my card, walked to the bank, explained the issue, and they refunded me on the spot (also switched out the card for a new one). They said technically it could be clawed back after investigation but they never did.

pyrekoon Tiny $70 Xteink X3 e-reader

I can also anecdotally say that the x3 I bought from Amazon in like June (seller was xteink official store) was flashable without any bypass needed.

pyrekoon Tiny $70 Xteink X3 e-reader

IIRC this is mainly ones sold by third-party vendors in China? Like if you buy from AliExpress.

EDIT: if you look at the Reddit post the article references it even says:

> !!!!!THIS ONLY APPLIES TO LATEST CHINESE STOCK AND NOT THOSE THAT ARE BOUGHT FROM XTEINK.COM!!!!!

Also note that CrossPoint has a way to bypass said flash block if you look at their repo or website:

- https://crosspointreader.com/unlock

- https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader#usb-l...

pyrekoon The car industry A/B tested selling a car with and without CarPlay

Came here to say this - this is a pretty meh comparison to me, there's too many other factors that are entirely ignored. Price and/or brand alone could easily explain most of not the entire difference.

I'm sure there is some impact to not including it, tbh, but as is this article is a giant nothing burger to me.

pyrekoon Git hosting that never leaves Europe

I've heard enough, she deserves a promotion!

pyrekoon Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

No? It would be suing the driver rather than blaming the car.

pyrekoon Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI"

Anecdotally, as someone who's been starting to get more and more agent-only/driven PRs, a good amount of the time it's by an account with little to no activity until one day they suddenly start doing 50-100+ PRs a _day_ on entirely unrelated projects... you can kind of guess what they're doing.

As for motive, it probably varies, though some will loudly put that they're some agent manager or something with lots of contributions, so you can guess their motivations there.

In other cases, these are instrad brand-new accounts which is a related but I guess slightly different story... not gonna say these are spam bot accounts being juiced with fake activity but well...

pyrekoon Where did all the public bathrooms go?

> China

> toilets are... clean

Okay I'm going to have to say that this _really_ depends on where you are. Sometimes, yes, especially newer buildings, but man I have seen some horrors there in the past few years when it comes to bathrooms in terms of cleanliness and smell (the frequent smoking in a lot of bathrooms doesn't help). This is coming from someone primarily experiencing Canadian and American bathrooms, for reference, and a lot of those are pretty nasty. I think it's getting better at least...

Just to be clear though I agree generally, at least from my experience with East Asia. Hong Kong often has really good bathrooms now IMO (I feel like it improved a lot between 2018 to 2023?). Japan is also really good from my experience (fancy-ass bidets). Taiwan was fine too from my recollection.

pyrekoon Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight

Apollo is a fork of Sunshine (it's on the repo).

EDIT: maybe you're mixing up Sunshine and Moonshine (this project)?

pyrekoon Kimi K2.7 Code is generally available in GitHub Copilot

Same here, been happy throwing Qwen3.6 on my old MBP - no it's not as fast as Claude which I use at work, but it works well enough locally and I don't have to worry about credits or shit like the rug getting pulled under me in terms of capabilities.

pyrekoon GitHub shouldn't be a dependency for publishing Rust on crates.io

I mean... it technically doesn't? You can always point to other registries (or you can even just pull in git repos), we literally do this at work.

pyrekoon Sagrada Família Lego set

Exactly, and like, if one literally looks up "Lego catalogue" and actually read it you'll get a bunch of sets - even the brand tie-ins, which aren't new at all - and these are basically the same types of sets I grew up with and would happily build and then take apart as a kid to do other stuff with...

pyrekoon 12,060 piece, $799.99, Sagrada Família is the largest Lego building set to date

I mean yes, there are kits like this that are clearly meant for one kind of build, but nothing stops someone from just getting bulk kits or taking apart other sets? There's lots of other stuff on their catalogue which look just like the stuff I grew up with.

I swear every lego-related post you see people dooming about this when all they look at are the giant sets clearly targeted towards adults that _want_ this sort of thing and not the plethora of other stuff.

pyrekoon Shopify Is Down

https://twitter.com/tobi/status/2053630840458944849

Apparently not

pyrekoon News about Raspberry Pi 6 and Microcontroller Development

I think they were kinda competing for some people even before then, there was a good amount of time where people looked at Pis as a decent small, cheap, and low-power computer to throw server stuff at. Back then there wasn't much competition but mini PCs have entirely trounced them for this now outside of certain niche cases.

pyrekoon Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs

Yep, where I work I know people easily spending over a few thousand dollars a month.

pyrekoon Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers

Yep, there's a plethora of tweaks and stuff out there to mess with Kobos to make them your own, and it's not hard to do.

Been super happy with my Kobo Clara.

pyrekoon Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter

Ah yes, most people who play any sort of video game own a $2000 graphics card :p

pyrekoon Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA

Having been there recently, it's about as annoying as taking out your phone to pay for something. Some systems also support NFC now, though the most common is still QR. Also helps that their QR scanning tech/transaction processing is really fast, many transactions were as fast or even faster than me scanning with a card from my experience.

(Also if you want to talk annoying payments don't get me started on how insane it is that the US still requires me to hand over a physical card at most restaurants to take over to their register... sorry I just can't help but get annoyed by this lol)

pyrekoon Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%

I mean it doesn't really help the analogy when most of the examples in the Wikipedia link mention how it's either not done anymore for that sport or very rare nowadays.

pyrekoon Framework Laptop 13 Pro: Major Upgrades and Linux Front and Center

Yeah if anything I've always had the opposite problem with my FW13 (12th gen Intel era) - removing the expansion cards is a pain in the ass with how tight it is. Curious if it got looser over time.

Regardless, glad to see they're just outright redesigned the expansion card mechanism, hopefully this stops issues on both ends of the spectrum.

pyrekoon Not buying another Kindle

> Kobo

I've never had to interact with the Kobo store (which I guess is what you mean?) and just chuck the epubs I have manually, they all just work out of the box.

The only DRM-related thing I've dealt with is me hooking Libby up to it to read a book I borrowed.

pyrekoon YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney

It's also near the very top of the home feed too - it's even above videos for me, the only thing on top of it is ongoing livestreams. So if I want to use the feed, I have to scroll through a giant shorts section. Then its a row of videos, and then it's another row of just shorts. Again, I DO NOT WATCH SHORTS, but YT really wants me to watch them from the looks of it.

Of course, I then see one row of videos and then the damn "YouTube Playable" section so maybe the moral of the story is that the main page is unusable outright.

pyrekoon YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney

Right but before they _didn't_ have an entire dang section for shorts lol. It's near the very top too, so I literally could not avoid seeing it. If they treated it as a normal video I wouldn't care as much.

And unfortunately many YouTubers who do make normal, good content also make shorts because it's incredibly algorithm-friendly, so there's no avoiding it unless you blacklist every creator that dares make shorts.

pyrekoon YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney

Ehhhh not recently. They have an entire shorts section on my subscription page now, and shorts are _heavily_ pushed on my home page feed despite me trying to dismiss them multiple times.

Like yes I can hide them all using ublock on desktop and morphe on Android, but that the fact I have to do it to avoid them is because they're pushing shorts harder as of late, it used to also be pushed but not as much from my personal experience.

pyrekoon jj – the CLI for Jujutsu

fwiw I don't use it personally but some people on my team use it while the others use git, and nobody complains.