HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

twelvedogs

276 karma · joined January 13, 2016

submissionscomments
twelvedogs··on Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026
doesn't seem unlikely, i'd probably ask someone who won't massively benefit from people believing that it will be tighter though
twelvedogs··on Who's afraid of Chinese models?
what good does it do to invest in a solved problem?

if open models are good enough then it doesn't matter, if they aren't then there's probably a return available in investing there.

twelvedogs··on Australian energy retailers must offer three hours of free daytime electricity
you're providing a chunk of storage for excess power for free

i know a guy who bought an arseload of batteries and buys and sells off the grid to make a moderate amount of money. he says it's not really paying back the time spent but he does it because he finds it interesting to optimise

twelvedogs··on Sam Neill has died
i saw him around a lot on tv and so on as an australian, just genuinely a pretty good bloke. like i dunno what to say i don't know if i've ever cried about an actor dying before

i'd love to say he was awesome in every role but he always seemed super honest in his performance and i think that hurt him a lot when he had to play bullshit characters lol.

i dunno i'm just some guy

twelvedogs··on Microsoft wants users to be addicted to Scout, their AI personal assistant
why do you think microsoft is that concerned with their user's wellbeing?

there are other industries who's entire business revovles around selling to addicts, why would MS of all companies suddenly balk at that line?

twelvedogs··on Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC
i don't see how it's a design mistake, linux allows more footguns in general to not decrease utility. Allowing you to manually give root prompt access (with warnings!) to a non-root user is one of them.

you can also just not run docker as root and not add normal users to the docker group

twelvedogs··on Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers
it already sends data back to google, the ai stuff, everything that goes in the address bar goes straight to google unless you specifically configure chrome to block it

the on-device ai just offloads some work onto your device

i doubt anyone will be banning chrome, for some reason "it's for ai" is a valid excuse for any amount of sillyness

twelvedogs··on Ghostty is leaving GitHub
https://forgejo.org/ already exists, I suspect the issue would be hosting it at scale
twelvedogs··on I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it
i think it was just poorly implemented. i didn't use the circles feature because all my friends would be in one circle and my family were all offline, but i still had to deal with it for no personal benefit

opt in probably would have been better, like just default everyone to one circle and make it obvious how to split them up after you're a bit more comfortable with the platform

they made a bunch of other obvious blunders like attempting to force real names and spread them to youtube, mandatory account linkage etc etc but i think there were probably just too many conflicting high level voices at google trying to set direction

twelvedogs··on Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated
Of course, it takes 2 seconds to shit out an ai song. I'm surprised it isn't way higher
twelvedogs··on Sudo for Windows (2024)
Unless this is improved greatly from the last time I used it is pointless, any command you would use it for instead requires you to right click, open as administrator a command prompt to get the expected result
twelvedogs··on White House staff told not to place bets on prediction markets
Only the top guys are allowed to do insider trading! You guys are making it very very slightly more obvious!!
twelvedogs··on Help Keep Thunderbird Alive
I just use geary, it's less annoying and does the job
twelvedogs··on YouTube starts showing 90-second unskippable ads to TV viewers
Regular tv with all the ads?
twelvedogs··on Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't
I disagree, Sol Trujillo became ceo of Telstra in 2005 and immediately started cutting everything to the bone, Kevin Rudd didn't even get into power until 2007 and the NBN wasn't announced until 2009, fairly large gap there
twelvedogs··on Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't
Australia is still pretty messy, Telstra was privatised and pretty much stopped upgrading their network for years around the 24 mb ADSL level

Eventually we had a forward thinking prime Minister create a new company that started running fibre to homes and wholesaling it to non government businesses but they lost power and fibre to the home became fibre to the neighbourhood running the last bit over existing phone lines

Eventually it was returned to fibre to the home as upgrading existing lines to run shitty 100mb connections was actually much more expensive than just running fibre

We're only now starting to get to the point where fibre is fairly available when it could have been ten years ago

twelvedogs··on I'm betting on ATProto
while true i think it's inevitable. bots are most of the internet, limiting communities to known good actors is becoming incredibly important and the side effect of removing unknown good actors is difficult to get around
twelvedogs··on I traced my traffic through a home Tailscale exit node
with wireguard i found that pretty almost every public wifi blocked it and even a lot of private internet connections at my friends houses did as well

if my mobile provider blocked it as well it would have been completely useless

probably depends on your location a lot though

twelvedogs··on Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)
If you use multiple terminals it kinda sucks unless you do export PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a' in your.bashrc or something cause only the last closed terminal saves to history
twelvedogs··on A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas (2022)
Until you do it on a temporary table and knock over everyone's drinks
twelvedogs··on Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps
convince people to use them and banks can suck it up
twelvedogs··on Cert Authorities Check for DNSSEC from Today
The difference is DNS provides a fairly obvious up side
twelvedogs··on Can I run AI locally?
think you're on the wrong side of the consensus here
twelvedogs··on Your phone is an entire computer
If it was easy I would expect 5-10% if people would probably do it, much like alternate desktop installs

This would mean millions of devices

You mention Graphene is more secure so what exactly am I gaining from not being able to install it other than my phone being trash once it's out of support

twelvedogs··on GPT-5.4
I bullied it into giving me concise answers, now it starts every answer with "just quickly" or something similar but it gets straight to the point
twelvedogs··on A bug is a bug, but a patch is a policy: The case for bootable containers
> What about having several use cases in mind, and give the scores for each of those?

i imagine the same reason they don't score for 1, it takes time that could be allocated elsewhere

tbh i think scoring for multiple scenarios would take more time and be less useful. kernel devs are not implementors, they may have never used docker or built a cut down kernel for an iot device, they just build a general purpose kernel

twelvedogs··on Facebook is cooked
The algorithm is not optimised for meaningful interactions, even 10 years ago i couldn't get it to even mostly show friends and family after fighting it for a week
twelvedogs··on FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled
I don't think we're doing amendments any more
twelvedogs··on Love it or hate it, Windows 11 has reached 1B users faster than 10
Yeah no shit, with windows ten way more people had a choice rather than got pushed into it
twelvedogs··on FAA institutes nationwide drone no-fly zones around ICE operations
I'm not sure what your point is, are you saying ice will draw a line because that tech was used in war?

Trump has ordered troops to be ready deploy, pretending lines exist is silly

Page 1 of 5Next →