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thedougdon Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26

Replied at the same time as you. I agree. In Safari there’s ton of space on each side of the URL bubble yet I only get about 7 chara visible.

thedougdon Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26

I have an iPhone 13 and haven’t noticed. Don’t love it though.

The safari changes are the worst part.

thedougdon Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs

Exactly the route I took. I had an aging tower machine full of spinning disks running on an old LSI adapter that was doing hardware raid. They were out of space and I began to get nervous the LSI adapter could die and I would trouble replacing it. Decided JBOD for the future.

External drives were on sale, I bought several and setup with a RPI. Lots of headaches. It took effort to iron out all the USB and external disk issues. Had to work out alternative boot. Had power adapters fail for the RPI. Had to enhance cooling. etc. Kept running into popular Docker containers still not having aarch64 variants.

I finally replaced the RPI with a used Dell SFF. Kept the USB drives and it's been solid with similar power draw and just easier to deal with all around.

Though I am considering going back to a tower, shucking the drives (they're out of warranty) and going back to SATA.

thedougdon The AI bubble is 17 times the size of the dot-com frenzy, analyst says

I don't know if we're in a bubble, but I'm a bit baffled at the lack of AI in my personal life. Where are all the consumer products?

Where I use it outside of work:

- Product review summarizations (Amazon.com, HomeDepot.com, etc)

- Search summarization (top of DuckDuckGo, Google, etc)

- Chat (eg ChatGPT. Better Search, Q&A)

It's not on my TV, barely on my iPhone, not in my smart home, just generally not much of a presence for me outside of work. Why isn't it changing my life yet? Or perhaps the average persons?

thedougdon The AI bubble is 17 times the size of the dot-com frenzy, analyst says

This happened to me at or near a similar size project. I tried the same project again with Vibe coding but used some very different approaches. Far from a home run on the second try, but it was a much more manageable and maintenable project than my first attempt. I'm still skeptical and presently subscribe to the opinion that AI is a multiplier for skilled, competent engineers but a potential detriment to inexperienced.

thedougdon Potential issues in curl found using AI assisted tools

You sound at least somewhat experienced. You knew you wanted an SVG and that Javascript could be inserted into it. That's a pretty reasonable design starting point.

thedougdon ChatGPT Developer Mode: Full MCP client access

OpenAI is requiring a "search" and "fetch" tool in their specification. Requiring specific tools seems counter to the spirit of MCP. Imagine if every major player had their own interop tool specification.

thedougdon ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair

Unlikely they’d want to politicize the canceling of their show. Quiet and uncontroversial is better for ABC.

thedougdon The PC was never a true 'IBMer'

2010's would have been too late to see those things. Wrt PCs, the PC company sale was complete and IIRC Lenovo was no longer even sharing space with IBM.

thedougdon NPM debug and chalk packages compromised

It was a pain in the ass but I always appreciated that Maven central required packages to be signed with a public key pre-associated with the package name.

thedougdon Will Amazon S3 Vectors kill vector databases or save them?

HIPAA services are not separate. You only need to establish a Business Associations Addendum (BAA) with AWS and stick to HIPAA eligible services: https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/hipaa-eligible-services-re...

GovCloud exists so that AWS can sell to the US government and their contractors without impacting other customers who have different or less stringent requirements.

thedougdon Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

https://www.atlassian.com/platform/remote-mcp-server

You can have your coding agent do it.

thedougdon OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through "I am not a robot" verification

I see the same with Playwright MCP server with Claude Sonnet 4.

thedougdon Electric cars produce far less brake dust pollution than combustion-engine cars

Aren’t higher speed rated tires softer? Maybe try swapping for a lower speed rating unless they plan on driving it at extreme speeds.

thedougdon What went wrong inside recalled Anker PowerCore 10000 power banks?

Toyota built a battery plant in North Carolina.

https://careers.toyota.com/us/en/tbmnc

thedougdon IKEA ditches Zigbee for Thread going all in on Matter smart homes

Yes, local control is a key feature as well as multi-controller.

thedougdon IKEA ditches Zigbee for Thread going all in on Matter smart homes

The thread border gateway (Apple TV, HomePod, Google Nest Speaker, etc) sends an IPv6 router advertisement to the network for the Thread IP space. Multiple border gateways can advertise the same IP space for redundancy.

I have/had a segmented network, so I made sure my router accepted this route so that devices on different networks could communicate with the Thread devices. It worked, usually. However, I ran into some challenges with the reliability of communicating from my phone to various devices. I never quite got mDNS reflection 100% correct, and I strongly suspect that's my problem. If you look at an mDNS entry for a device, you'll see some advertise all their IPv6 addresses including link local (fe80::). I suspected some clients were dumb, trying the first IP they found, and giving up when it didn't work. I was working on modifying the golang mdns-reflector project to filter these entries. I had some success, but I haven't finished.

thedougdon Save your disk, write files directly into RAM with /dev/shm

Slap a side car on there for another 512k RAM.

thedougdon ChatGPT's enterprise success against Copilot fuels OpenAI/Microsoft rivalry

I think you may be confusing Microsoft Copilot with Microsoft365 Copilot? The first doesn’t give you access to Microsoft Copilot Studio but that might also be available with Microsoft Copilot Pro.

thedougdon Adobe Project Indigo is a new photo app from former Pixel camera engineers

This is the first app I’ve ever downloaded for it to tell me my phone isn’t supported.

thedougdon New studies offer insight into Lyme disease’s treatment, lingering symptoms

Yes, and they use non-specific testing that will produce a positive result in most people.

There's a massive scam industry around Lyme and it's a shame because it interferes with legitimate suffers' ability to get honest treatment. Or worse, sends those who don't have Lyme down a rabbit hole where their actual condition is never treated.

thedougdon A 1980s toy robot arm inspired modern robotics

Oh man, I completely forgot I had a robot arm as a kid. I had the "Mobile Armatron" variant:

https://www.theoldrobots.com/armatron3.html

thedougdon America underestimates the difficulty of bringing manufacturing back

I would point to the emergence of Milton Friedman’s school of thought that the only thing a company should care for is delivering “shareholder value.”

thedougdon TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale

The kids can easily add back free apps with their Apple ID.

thedougdon TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale

Continuously frustrated to see the YouTube app return to my Apple TV home screen. I can appreciate why Google makes it hard for me to block their apps on their platforms, but why won't Apple allow me to explicitly allow or disallow which apps can be installed on my Apple TV? Why don't screen time limits apply to the Apple TV?

thedougdon An unused nuclear power plant became home to a world-class acoustics lab

Related: Underwater scenes for the movie, "The Abyss", were filmed in an incomplete nuclear power plant in South Carolina.

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

thedougdon Dockerfmt: A Dockerfile Formatter

And built in a multistage Dockerfile.

thedougdon Oracle customers confirm data stolen in alleged cloud breach is valid

If you ran Oracle you’d appreciate why it wasn’t patched. They do not make it easy.

thedougdon The Pain That Is GitHub Actions

I think this is where things went off the rails for him. Commiting back to the same branch that is running CI has too many gotchas in any CI system. You touched on the first issue, the remote branch immediately deviates unexpectedly from the local branch. Care has to be taken not to trigger additional CI runs from that commit.

thedougdon Ask HN: How did the internet discover my subdomain?

I should have included in my post, this technique only makes sense in the context of private or internal endpoints.