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venusenvy47··on Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program
It's hard to believe the administration is for this for any sane reason. It's just payback for Microsoft hiring someone the government doesn't like.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/26/trump-microsoft-lis...

venusenvy47··on Using Blu-ray M-Disk as backup of last resort
I would be so afraid of breaking the disc if I ever tried to break the glass to retrieve it. Hopefully there is a mechanical engineer around when someone wants to retrieve it.
venusenvy47··on google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update
When does that happen? I still get a normal address:

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-m&q=direct%...

venusenvy47··on Flock used >100 times to track veteran who recorded traffic stop
That's interesting about the questions that sound like orders. I'll have to read up on that and keep it in mind.
venusenvy47··on Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone
I don't like using Docker on a VPS because of the way it bypasses the firewall rules. It's such a pain that I avoid it altogether for anything public.
venusenvy47··on Flock used >100 times to track veteran who recorded traffic stop
How can we find more information about when we can refuse police requests as is mentioned here? It seems like the public needs to know about when we can legally do this. "Shayhorn's supervisor informed him shortly after the arrest that he'd, in fact, illegally stopped Jones, and he therefore could not compel Jones to produce his identification"
venusenvy47··on Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
I'm curious if the knowledge cutoff is important, when the interface (Gemini app) can search online for recent information. Is there a big advantage to having everything internal?
venusenvy47··on Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
That looks like the options that get presented for Workspace users (like at my company). The personal Google accounts give more recent models, for some reason I don't understand.
venusenvy47··on Qwen 3.8 27B
For your setup, do you have both 3090's in parallel for the inference of the model?
venusenvy47··on Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows
Where do you find this information for each model?
venusenvy47··on Fermi Paradox
The signals will get there in up to 200 years from now.
venusenvy47··on How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)
No Android or Windows availability?
venusenvy47··on China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning
I'm not clear what you mean with "PC office productivity software" but it seems like Microsoft Office is the winner there. Isn't that professional?
venusenvy47··on The 'absolute magic' of Morse code that still connects people globally
Is it supposed to have audio? I didn't hear anything.
venusenvy47··on The 'absolute magic' of Morse code that still connects people globally
Can you give advice on how to learn code? Do you perform it aurally only? Or is it worth trying to memorize the dots and dashes from a chart? https://i.imgur.com/Jw9ZdLw.jpeg
venusenvy47··on Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k
Do you start Claude with this option? Or do you send this with every prompt?
venusenvy47··on Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally
I don't have anything to compare against, since I have just started using it. But I was fairly happy with it on my personal recordings from my phone. Also, I ran it on my CPU (Core i7) and it was perfectly usable, as something to run when not using the machine for anything else.
venusenvy47··on Chipotlai Max
I tried the site and can't find any information about what it is. What is it?
venusenvy47··on We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot
Which search engines does it use? I couldn't find info, and I'm just curious.
venusenvy47··on The quiet renovation at Bitwarden
You need a VPS, correct? Are there any concerns about hardening your VPS from attackers? I worry about my ability to harden a public - facing service that is handling something so critical for myself.
venusenvy47··on Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be/bn)
At my inlaws house, they and all the neighbors have Comcast, with routers that don't allow configuration of the channels. And since Comcast doesn't know how to configure their routers properly, all neighbors are sharing the same channels on both 2.4 and 5. It's fine if you are in the room near your own router, but it works poorly on the other side of the house, where I pick up neighbor signals at the same level as the desired one.
venusenvy47··on GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay
I think we also all assume that it is probably not a healthy feature of capitalism.
venusenvy47··on The USB Situation
I'm mostly concerned about USB-C repeating what I consider the mistake they had with micro-USB: having a thin post/tab inside the socket of the phone. It puts the most fragile part of the interface on the most expensive side (the phone). It would make so much more sense to put that breakable inner tab on the cable side, so you only need to replace the cable. Lightning doesn't have that inner tab on either side, so I find it much more durable.
venusenvy47··on A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”
Actually, it looks like they fixed this problem. I just checked all the messages with the LinkedIn label and I don't see it popping that "hotspot" anymore. The only thing that pops up in the subject line is now "Unsubscribe", so that is really good.
venusenvy47··on A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”
I don't think so. At least not from the inbox, where it happens. I'm not in the message - I'm just dragging on the subject lines to scroll, and these "hotspots" light up on the right portion of the subject.
venusenvy47··on A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”
Regarding Google and LinkedIn, I keep complaining to them about a stupid feature of Gmail. If I get an invitation from someone, Gmail puts "accept" as a button in the subject of the email - so if you aren't careful you can accept while you are scrolling through the subject lines. That is just the worst feature to put in their subject line.
venusenvy47··on Every plane you see in the sky – you can now follow it from the cockpit in 3D
It's really cool. I'm a little unsure if the website is overloaded or my browser is not rendering it properly. If I zoom in on an area and try to click on a plane in flight, sometimes I can select a plane, but sometimes I can't. Even for a plane that I was able to select a few seconds before, if I click away and try to click again, it won't select.
venusenvy47··on Show HN: GovAuctions lets you browse government auctions at once
Pretty cool. But a lot of it doesn't really work once you click into a particular state. For example, from this page, if you click on "All auctions in Georgia", it lists all auctions in the country. Or if you click on "electronics", it doesn't show just electronics in Georgia.

https://www.govauctions.app/auctions/georgia

venusenvy47··on A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum computing timelines
His article specifically mentions that the threat is with the public key exchange, not the encryption that happens after the key exchange.
venusenvy47··on A forecast of the fair market value of SpaceX's businesses
The booster is definitely looking good, just like the Falcon 9 booster is very reliable. The big question for me is the upper stage, and whether they will be able to reuse anywhere near as often as they claim. It is so much more complex than the Falcon upper stages, which aren't reusable very quickly. It seems they have a lot to learn about upper stage reusability.
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