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tomalbrc··on Zigbook Is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground
It obviously does not discourage abuse
tomalbrc··on Zigbook Is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground
In which world would you want others to be able to edit your posts in a “SOCIAL NETWORK”? In today’s age of misinformation? Greeeeeeeat idea.
tomalbrc··on Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg
Microsoft poured salt into your cup years ago, you just did not notice.
tomalbrc··on Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation
Cute. What’s the use case?
tomalbrc··on Musk on track to become world’s first trillionaire after Tesla vote
TLDR: He might not get the full trillion, maybe only a few hundred billion.
tomalbrc··on Solarpunk is happening in Africa
It's even a tad worse; They are just one of those "career accelerator" companies. In fact most if not all of their articles seem to be AI generated
tomalbrc··on Solarpunk is happening in Africa
>It worked because it solved a real problem: Kenyans were already sending money through informal networks. M-PESA just made it cheaper and safer.

>Here’s why this matters: M-PESA created a payment rail with near-zero transaction costs. Which means you can economically collect tiny payments. $0.21 per day payments.

tomalbrc··on Solarpunk is happening in Africa
> It worked because it solved a real problem: Kenyans were already sending money through informal networks. M-PESA just made it cheaper and safer.

Here’s why this matters: M-PESA created a payment rail with near-zero transaction costs. Which means you can economically collect tiny payments. $0.21 per day payments.

Why are you lying about this, its clearly written by an LLM

tomalbrc··on Solarpunk is happening in Africa
Lets see a small paragraph from the article:

> It worked because it solved a real problem: Kenyans were already sending money through informal networks. M-PESA just made it cheaper and safer.

> Here’s why this matters: M-PESA created a payment rail with near-zero transaction costs. Which means you can economically collect tiny payments. $0.21 per day payments.

Ah yes, not AI slop at all! /s

tomalbrc··on Solarpunk is happening in Africa
"Why this works: Blah blah" It is more likely that the poster just lied.
tomalbrc··on Reddit's 'AI Scraping' Lawsuit Is an Attack on the Open Internet
It is so funny seeing people call Ai transformative.
tomalbrc··on Pebble is officially back on iOS and Android
I think it is “audience capture”, a lot of the “hackers” on here are adult children and can identify themselves too much with this little indie company. After all, they would execute decisions the same way they would have done; recklessly. It’s the tech bro spirit.
tomalbrc··on Apple M5 chip
Should we not be shaming apple for their recent software releases? Every bit of the os is N times slower than on the previous macOS version. Safari has been unusable. Constant lags and crashes in the shipped browser alone. We are back in Windows Vista times
tomalbrc··on Show HN: Scriber Pro – Offline AI transcription for macOS
Tahoe really is just unusable
tomalbrc··on Show HN: AI toy I worked on is in stores
It’s only 1 API change away in order to become a brick. Would not be surprised if it’s unusable before Christmas this year.
tomalbrc··on Show HN: AI toy I worked on is in stores
It’s an unsustainable product. Period.
tomalbrc··on CamoLeak: Critical GitHub Copilot Vulnerability Leaks Private Source Code
What the fuck?
tomalbrc··on HTTP3 Explained
Wow almost as good as handwritten HTML!
tomalbrc··on Why warm countries are poorer
The "correlation" listed seems very odd: > Diseases: > The warmer the country is, the poorer it is, and the unhealthier it is.
tomalbrc··on Apple Photos app corrupts images
You work in IT right? always backup
tomalbrc··on Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors
The “cost” should not be associated with money
tomalbrc··on The Deletion of Docker.io/Bitnami
This has to be a joke, right? Months of effort for a makefile? In which world do people live these days
tomalbrc··on Microsoft keeps adding stuff into Windows we don't need
Or Firefox asking me to make it my default browser for the billionth time
tomalbrc··on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation
Lets not pretend like there wouldn't be dozen of quality and actually used software if it wasn't for microsoft existing.
tomalbrc··on GPT-5 leaked system prompt?
The downvotes perfectly summarize the way the people just eat up OpenAi’s diarrhea, especially Sam Altmans
tomalbrc··on GPT-5
Altman is a salesman.
tomalbrc··on Gemini 2.5 Deep Think
I highly doubt that Europe needs dozen AI slop start ups.
tomalbrc··on Let me pay for Firefox
lol market share doesn’t lie
tomalbrc··on Baba Is Eval
We have been able to edit images since Stable Diffusion
tomalbrc··on Copilot Chat in VS Code is now open source
It's white-washing through "Open Source". No one will benefit from this
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