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Independent and original. Peace is the mission.
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thatgerhard··on Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues
I don't know what all this fuss is around. I'm not a fanboy and I just use my macbook as a tool.. and the resizing works fine. Is it maybe a mouse thing? I use the touchpad
thatgerhard··on JPEG XL Test Page
Is the selectable text a safari thing or a JPEG XL thing?
thatgerhard··on Why didn't AI “join the workforce” in 2025?
I use an agent in all my day to day coding now. It's a lot small tasks to speed me up, but it's definitely in use.
thatgerhard··on Show HN: Turn raw HTML into production-ready images for free
This must be the hardest way to create an image online ever invented.
thatgerhard··on Mystery as YouTube creator's finance livestream appears on White House website
my guess, the content person put a temporary video while they waited for the correct one.. and then nobody checked again and made it live. that's why I use tellytubby videos
thatgerhard··on Tell HN: HN was down
Thought for a second I got banned for something lol
thatgerhard··on 2025 Word of the Year: Slop
I watched that show on netflix where the professional song writers would write potential hit songs.. that was the closest thing to human slop I've seen
thatgerhard··on Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted
its so that they can tell the investors that "100 million" people use their bs
thatgerhard··on GenTabs
google wave?
thatgerhard··on The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora
1B down the toilet
thatgerhard··on Kenyan court declares law banning seed sharing unconstitutional
Good!
thatgerhard··on Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros
I'm excited about getting access to the whole WB catalogue?
thatgerhard··on Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders
Microsoft is so disconnected from what it's users want and need.
thatgerhard··on First recording of a dying human brain shows waves similar to memory flashbacks (2022)
I once read this thing somewhere, might have been reddit, but the person explained it like this and even if not completely true it makes a lot of sense. When the brain is dying, it searches through past experiences—something it’s never faced before—trying to find a way to survive. That process is what we perceive as life flashbacks.
thatgerhard··on Show HN: I'm making a detective game built on Wikipedia
Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?
thatgerhard··on iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency
that's why liquid glass is more resource intensive, apple's gotta sell new iphones next season
thatgerhard··on New computer model helps reveal how the brain both adapts and misfires
from chatgpt for this article:

“Inside the Matrix: How the Brain Rewrites Reality When Learning Goes Wrong”

“Neural Jedi Training: How the Brain Masters Skills—and Sometimes Turns to the Dark Side”

“Glitch in the Mind: Why Our Brain’s Learning System Sometimes Crashes”

“Braincraft: How We Level Up Knowledge—and Why We Sometimes Rage Quit”

“Neural Flight School: Why the Brain Sometimes Loses Control of the Plane”

“Mind Avengers: When Brain Circuits Team Up—and When They Fight Back”

“Stranger Thoughts: What Brain Simulators Reveal About Learning Gone Weird”

“Control+Alt+Brain: Rebooting How We Learn and Unlearn”

“Mind Simulator 2.0: Debugging the Brain’s Learning Software”

“Fast & Curious: How the Brain Learns at High Speed—Until It Skids Out”

thatgerhard··on New computer model helps reveal how the brain both adapts and misfires
I am 200% for communicating science. But while this is titled to attract young minds it's just too old vibed.
thatgerhard··on New computer model helps reveal how the brain both adapts and misfires
Oh ffs, stop trying to make science "relevant" by these lame titles. Science is cool, just do that.
thatgerhard··on Anti-aging breakthrough: Stem cells reverse signs of aging in monkeys
we're never going to get rid of the boomers are we?
thatgerhard··on Samsung confirms its smart fridges will start showing you ads
I'll take the free fridge and jailbreak it
thatgerhard··on A Website Is a Room
33, 1
thatgerhard··on Blacksky grew to millions of users without spending a dollar
Can I have an invite code please
thatgerhard··on SuperDevPro: Browser Extension for Developers and Designers
Will try the free functionality in the next day or 2 and will upgrade if I find it works for me
thatgerhard··on Linux dev quits after "personal attacks" from user over antivirus tool
"The angry, insecure and unwell are over-represented in technical forums." no, they're over-represented on all forums
thatgerhard··on People having phone sex on FaceTime will now get a warning from Apple
so.. how would Apple know?
thatgerhard··on Google removes fact checking from search results
they're sunsetting search
thatgerhard··on 108B Pixel Scan of Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring
"Generally, you don't take a fine precision machine tool [a lathe] and saw it in half... but power tools are made to be jury rigged." - Tim
thatgerhard··on WordPress Feature API
Not sure this is enough.. after the recent public turmoil I've hade multiple clients asking specifically for non wordpress systems. All of their resources is going into the bloated gutenberg pipe dream. The developers that sold and implemented these systems doesn't care about gutenberg at all, it's just another page builder. They should have kept it in a separate plugin.
thatgerhard··on OpenAI is building a social network?
this is starting to feel a lot like the ~15 years ago where everyone wanted a social network
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