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smileson2··on DeepSeek uses banned Nvidia chips for AI model, report says
the american century of humiliation begins
smileson2··on The New Kindle Scribes Are Great, but Not Great Enough
hard to care about anything kindle since amazon started to remove download and transfer options, they are willing to pull the rug out from under you on anything and everything
smileson2··on Making macOS Bearable
It's so silly and simple but when I use a mac the only thing I really want that's missing is the ability to have a dock on on each monitor when docked
smileson2··on Apple's slow AI pace becomes a strength as market grows weary of spending
yeah tbh it sometimes feels like a lot of moaning from those crowds is more about self-validation than anything concrete
smileson2··on Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas
that's what happens when everyone is under the guillotine and their lives depend on overselling this shit ASAP instead of playing/experimenting to figure things out
smileson2··on Anthropic acquires Bun
Makes sense, I had idea how else the investors would have made money on a javascript bundler/jsc frontend
smileson2··on Response to "Ruby Is Not a Serious Programming Language"
> Relative to what, exactly?

Life

smileson2··on Mozilla's latest quagmire
builds on your point but from what I remember actually having tabs was a really big deal too
smileson2··on It’s been a very hard year
ceaseless AI drama aside, this blog and the set-studio website look and feel great

I hope things turn around for them it seems like they do good work

smileson2··on Is America's jobs market nearing a cliff?
I'm a little older but I have found it strange how well economic crisis has been almost wiped from our collective memories

it was a horrible period and I have many friends who are in the same boat especially those not in software

smileson2··on Framework Computer Now Sponsoring LVFS / Fwupd Development
I'm in a weird boat in all this drama where I don't care what DHH thinks about the UK or the UK
smileson2··on OpenAI needs to raise at least $207B by 2030
This should be a easy barrier for OpenAI, cgpt has only been public for 3 or so years and they are already close to mediating most of the global economy and human decision making

AI credits will likely replace current money anyway

smileson2··on The internet is no longer a safe haven
so we should settle on using web pages to do that for another 20-30 years? this is it for the rest of time?
smileson2··on Israeli-founded app preloaded on Samsung phones is attracting controversy
Yeah, even the iPhone bundles/bakes in google junk
smileson2··on The internet is no longer a safe haven
It's probably just time for the web page to die
smileson2··on Startups are pushing the boundaries of reproductive genetics
the methods of cleaning up messes introduced are also kind of disgusting
smileson2··on America is getting an AI gold rush instead of a factory boom
I'm not even clear on what people mean when they say 'AI' anymore
smileson2··on America is getting an AI gold rush instead of a factory boom
we're talking about what really matters here, the investors
smileson2··on No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive
Face the facts your dad isn't as important as KPIs tied to one drive and 365 subscription numbers, don't blame the PM for making Microsoft money lol

It's not even something you have to "fix" just pay and enjoy

smileson2··on Microsoft only lets you opt out of AI photo scanning 3x a year
Microsoft in the past few years has totally lost it's mind, it's ruining nearly everything it touches and I can't understand why
smileson2··on Tech megacaps lose $770B in value as Nasdaq suffers steepest drop since April
People have no idea what to do with their money right now
smileson2··on macOS Tahoe
You're just old, kids love this shit
smileson2··on A cryptography expert on how Web3 started, and how it’s going
That’s a key feature
smileson2··on CVE-2025-48384: Breaking Git with a carriage return and cloning RCE
If only it were just the c code that was causing people to be owned lol
smileson2··on xAI to pay telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat app
Interesting!
smileson2··on A new sign that AI is competing with college grads?
Most mid sized companies I’ve worked with are nearshoring almost everything or in the process of doing so

It doesn’t bite me as much due to seniority but it’s still happening

Tbh if I was younger I’d just try to relocate myself seems fun

smileson2··on Student loans in default to be referred to debt collection, Dept of Ed says
not a one way street
smileson2··on Gemini Robotics brings AI into the physical world
Eh the government is about to nuke them

They are a roadblock to a lot of the startups backing the current administration

smileson2··on The DOJ still wants Google to sell off Chrome
At this point Microsoft has embedded bing so deeply into windows they don’t care
smileson2··on TypeScript types can run DOOM [video]
Googles issue is a good part of their hiring is generic and the interviewers random

No one knows what your going to be working on

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