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skupig··on Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy
>which is even more bloated and ad infested.

Since when? I never see any ads at all on my Android phone. I can use uBlock Origin in my browser and I can install 3rd party ad-free clients for apps like YouTube and Twitch.

skupig··on A coffee shop owner used AI to make a menu poster. Then came the angry DMs
This is what people are actually mad about when businesses use AI art. You claim to live in an artistic community, great, ask your staff if they have any friends who draw who want to come by and make a quick $100. You spent more money on a worse result that alienates your community.
skupig··on We found a division by zero bug in FFmpeg with a vibecoded fuzzer
Am I missing something? Who cares? This isn't a security issue, it's just an unexploitable crash on bad data.
skupig··on Show HN: Omacosy – Omarchy-style tiling desktop for macOS, no SIP
>you must waste screen space on pointless title/status bars for some reason

There is macwmfx: https://github.com/aspauldingcode/macwmfx

I use it on a couple specific apps to remove title bars. You can inject it with DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES.

skupig··on How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots
It's equally possible there was one engineer with some free time who thought it would be cool.
skupig··on Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It's Almost Hard to Believe
Yeah, or to put it a different way, an ineffective, easily corrupted, and insufficiently representative government is the problem.
skupig··on Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It's Almost Hard to Believe
>replace the current economic system with something where we're not all in a fierce knife fight to try to stay employed

Jobs will become even more scarce, so how does that follow?

>robots can liberate us from capital's death grip

We are already live in a world sufficiently technologically advanced to feed and house everyone, and yet we don't.

skupig··on Who's afraid of Chinese models?
It's so naive to think that US companies won't do (or aren't already doing) the exact same thing but for money.
skupig··on Steam Machine launches today
I have a less powerful PC in my living room that's connected via ethernet
skupig··on Steam Machine launches today
Nope! That's just how a normal conversation works.
skupig··on Steam Machine launches today
I'm looking at the performance stats streaming a game to my living room PC right now, and total latency is about 4-5ms, which would be unnoticeable even on a 120hz TV.
skupig··on Steam Machine launches today
Maybe you're out of touch, they pretty much look like the typical young nerd from Seattle.
skupig··on Steam Machine launches today
If you already have a powerful desktop PC in your house, streaming via Sunshine/Moonlight is pretty much perfect these days.
skupig··on Chevron signs 20-year power agreement with Microsoft for West Texas data center
We call them "jokes"
skupig··on Twenty One Zero-Days in FFmpeg
The article glosses over this, but it looks like the next variable in the struct is conveniently the first parameter to the function, so you can run arbitrary code with system() or whatever. But, yeah, you would need some other exploit to defeat ASLR.
skupig··on Twenty One Zero-Days in FFmpeg
You would also need some sort of ASLR leak to make this exploitable
skupig··on The LLM warnings Google fired Timnit Gebru over have all come true
I'm not really sure what your point is. That was just the most recent paper linked on that repo, which is a convenient list of some relevant papers. There are probably a lot more recent studies, but it does convincingly show that models are still absorbing bias in a way that can affect prediction.
skupig··on The LLM warnings Google fired Timnit Gebru over have all come true
There has been plenty of research that shows LLMs encode social biases. It seems pretty obvious even before looking at the research that training on the whole internet will end up encoding widely-held social biases and stereotypes.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.07111

https://github.com/angl1n/social-bias-llm-vlm

skupig··on Training our own AI models
It's not OK, but it's a fact.
skupig··on Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage
That "opt-in" is going to be a vaguely-worded auto-filled checkbox and the "consent" will be stretched far beyond what any user thinks they're agreeing to.
skupig··on Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says
That doesn't make any sense. The US enjoys its position of economic power because it has the reputation and wealth to attract skilled people and keep them here.
skupig··on Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says
You can automatically be a citizen through descent of most countries in Europe and Asia, and everywhere in North America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_sanguinis#Jus_sanguinis_st...

skupig··on Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features
I don't think that's necessarily true, I think companies are lazy and highly invasive anticheat is an easy win they can license from a 3rd party. Algorithmic security, server-side heuristics, and human review can get you far. I have very, very rarely seen a blatant cheater in Overwatch (maybe 3 times in 10 years?), for example, and yet it's been playable via WINE for almost its entire lifetime.
skupig··on Colored Shadow Penumbra
I think the effect the author is talking about is definitely caused by atmospheric scattering, but the painted effects are different. Those are more likely inspired by overexposure, aberration, HDR, etc. Makoto Shinkai specifically is a filmmaker and often emulates camera effects like lens flare.
skupig··on AI slop is killing online communities
People are definitely trying to make HN bots because I have seen several get flagged. No idea to what end though.
skupig··on Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction
Ever heard of Dota 2? PUBG? Team Fortress 2?
skupig··on Roblox devs now need a subscription to share their games freely
This is totally unrelated so I have to assume that you didn't realize your post looks like it has a random Nazi dog whistle in it, if you were wondering what that other person's comment means.

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

skupig··on Native Instant Space Switching on macOS
You can use yabai without any of the tiling functionality (set the default mode to "float"), I have actually been using it with BTT to fix this exact problem. Thanks for letting me know that a fix has been added directly to BTT though!
skupig··on Afroman found not liable in defamation case
This was downvoted so I'm not sure people realize that no, literally, the police have no obligation to help you:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_of_Castle_Rock_v._Gonzale... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maksim_Gelman_stabbing_spree#L...

skupig··on Show HN: Beats, a web-based drum machine
The share button doesn't show up on Firefox for some reason?

Fun stuff! It would be nice to be able to make longer patterns. Maybe by having triggers that play randomly or every nth loop, like a lot of drum machines do.

https://beats.lasagna.pizza/?name=hakkernuse&bpm=141&i0=K100...

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