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I haven't paid for all that many lightning cables period, since they tended to be included with most devices that needed them, and aside from some strain reliefs that I've added myself in the form of heat shrink, they've been largely reliable too.

Yup, Apple made Lightning because USB-C wasn't a thing yet and MicroUSB is awful. Lightning is a whole lot better than MicroUSB, and they've been using it since 2012. MiniUSB B was pretty OK, Micro was just way too thin to be stable and would snap off frequently, in addition to being not very secure and hard to orient. Mini was thicker though, so while it worked fine for the HTC Apache and other Windows Mobile phones of the era, it wasn't going to be small enough to work on an iPhone.

So many people complaining about a really robust connector that solved real problems and has proven to be pretty reliable for 13 years. I'm no huge Apple fanboi, and I'm happy to have all their stuff use USB-C now, but the hate for Lightning is way inflated IMO.

Yeah, that lawsuit is probably going to bankrupt them here.

Yeah, I’ll never suffer another Republican speaking about “law and order” or upholding the Constitution again when they’ve so clearly and so reliably failed to do so.

Guess who the boss of the US Marshals is? Former Trump attorney and 2020 election denier Pam Bondi. Good luck with that.

When I came to Silicon Valley in the early 2010s and realized that all of the king's horses and all of the king's men could not defeat the scourge that is the US ISP oligopoly even in their own backyards, I knew it was pointless to ever hope for real FTTH in Bay Area markets in the next couple of decades.

Wireless solutions have orders of magnitude less bandwidth than fiber, and you can run lots of fiber in a bundle, whereas there's limited spectrum and only one already-saturated RF environment going wireless.

Only in the past few months has Comcast (the only actual high-speed internet option in our fairly typical Silicon Valley suburban neighborhood of ~$2.5m average homes) deigned to offer upload speeds greater than the previous 35mbit cap...now we can push 200mbit for $120/mo (for 1.2tb monthly combined U+D, add $20 for "unlimited") and you usually have to buy a new modem even if your old one supported the tech, since they only support specific firmware on specific SKUs. Meanwhile, GFiber is offering 8gbps symmetrical for $150/mo unmetered.

Reminder also that Ricochet was wireless internet in 1994 on 900mhz ISM using FHSS in the Valley. Ooh how far we've come in 30 years.

Nice, works for now, I'm sure they'll pull the rug on this solution too in under a year.

I'm switching browsers, I hate ads more than I like Chrome.

Sounds like June 2025 is the real date when it'll no longer be possible to use manifest v2 extensions per https://blog.chromium.org/2024/05/manifest-v2-phase-out-begi...

Love it or hate it, furries make the internet go. A lot of them are very early adopters and developers themselves. Source: I've had more than a few friends in and around the community since I was a teen.

Hilarious how in The Year of Our Lord 2025, so many video conferencing apps have not figured out how to implement something similar to the Dugan automatic microphone mixing algorithm. http://www.protechaudio.com/products/PDFFiles/DuganMixing.pd...

I mean, what do you want, it's only been around for 50 years.

Don’t worry, RFK will be gone in 6mo once the pharma lobbyists get through to Congress members if he touches anything that affects their profits.

I’ve been happy with AdGuard Home on two Pi4s and a little home server for years now: https://adguard.com/en/adguard-home/overview.html

I have some scripts to sync config between them and a Jenkins job if I want to pause blocking on them for a bit.

It looks like https://github.com/mattwebbio/orbital-sync and https://github.com/lovelaze/nebula-sync can sync configs with Pi-hole 6 now, but it’s quite a bit of code for what looks like just a few HTTP requests to get the config from one using the teleporter feature, then restore it on the others using the same.

But what if we had LexisNexis run it and charge a $350 processing fee for entrance passes with a 3-8 business week processing time?

No, they want to run it into the ground and sell it to oil and mining companies or real estate developers.

Having worked with many of the latter and having had the displeasure of educating them on nix systems fundamentals: ugh, oof, I hate this timeline, yet I also feel a sense of job security.

We used to joke about this a lot when Java devs would have memory issues and not know how to adjust the heap size in init scripts. So many “CS majors” who are completely oblivious to anything happening outside of the JVM, and plenty happening within it.

At BigCos, software engineering is also spending 70% of your day in meetings or handling housekeeping chores in JIRA / Monday / Airtable / Notion / GDocs. I’d love to send an AI agent to meet with PMs to give status updates and take notes if any of their needs change if it could actually do those things efficiently and reliably. Right now, it’d be about the equivalent of having a PM call a phone tree system and leave a voicemail that might get transcribed 85% correctly.

5x faster react boilerplate! #winning

Ham radio, particularly some of the ARES / SKYWARN / RACES / MARS folks (tons of overlap within those), go real overboard thinking they’re trying to help in emergencies or actively put themselves into dangerous situations and end up just being more people who need actual rescue.

"lol" said the Scorpion, "lmao".

Orders of magnitude make the difference. “Consumer-level” will be once it’s around $300-700ish in a nice little box like an Intel NUC or similar. Ubiquiti just did this with their AI-Key to help classify stuff on their video camera surveillance platform.

So, $0 budget for software dev / sales / support?

But obviously, more rugged individualism is the solution /s

Let’s start with 1978 Prop 13 and end their property tax subsidies though. Go look up how much the owners of these eight-figure properties paid in taxes over the past five decades.

https://www.taxfairnessproject.org/map only has it for the Bay Area, but Zillow and the county tax assessor websites can show for any address — it’s public record.

Land in the hills above a major city among trees with a view of the ocean in a place with extremely nice weather year-round will always be valuable.

They will absolutely rebuild. Get in now if you’ve got the cash to buy land there. It might take a decade for the EPA to clean it up like Lahaina, but they will absolutely 100% rebuild there.

Also AFAIK collision and total loss is required to get financing and for leases, so you still pay / there is still an opportunity loss in other forms.

I lease EVs with the federal tax credit and invest what I’d otherwise spend buying cash. You need to look very closely at the numbers for your own situations but it’s been a “better” deal than buying cash the past few cycles.

Sure, you could also just buy a decade-old Honda used, but then you get to drive a used decade-old Honda. It’s like suggesting that camping is cheaper than a hotel or that luxury hotels provide no additional value beyond budget hotels.

On the other hand, used Range Rovers depreciate so drastically that you can buy one less than a decade old for under $10k, just make sure to check insurance and maintenance costs and actually have it inspected before buying. The air suspension in particular is why you see so many “dropped” examples for cheap.

Windows has been isolating dependencies for a while now too, but for security, since their entire security model was pretty awful before, largely because of the need to support decades-old applications that business customers / governments still rely on. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/device-protectio...

laughing on behalf of all the VFX folks who work on movies all day using desktop Linux https://vfxplatform.com/linux/

Yeah, I get that this is called out under business / professionals, but I've also used Ubuntu (more recently Pop!_OS, and Fedora before that) as a daily driver for >a decade and given small-form-factor PCs with Ubuntu to relatives who have successfully used them for web and basic LibreOffice work for years without major issues.

When people ask me for recommendations for a family PC these days, I tell them to just get an iPad or Mac Mini though.

At [company that purportedly highly values candor], I’ve seen multiple people get canned by VPs or directors they’ve criticized internally. Granted, these situations were cases where this was communicated either in a larger feedback meeting that was supposed to be a “safe” space for such feedback, or via other communications that were visible to more than just the person being criticized. These criticisms were definitely high up in the PG pyramid and critical of the direction / vision / execution, not of the person themselves. The people who were fired from this were high performers who weren’t otherwise on PIPs or anything like that. Leadership did the typical leadership dance of shifting blame, re-org, and carry on. It was sad and further eroded both trust and morale of others familiar with these situations.

As it turns out, being a very powerful person politically with access to nearly unlimited funding can get you pretty great medical care.

You can literally go on social media and see first-hand videos of the things happening in real-time there for yourself.

Shoulda used Varnish.