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wateralien··on Cherri – programming language that compiles to an Apple Shortuct
I'm guessing that if Apple can get it right with the next LLM based Siri, generating or editing Shortcuts may get easier anyway.
wateralien··on Ghostty – Terminal Emulator
Can't use it yet because I need cmd-f find.
wateralien··on OpenAI – How to delete your account
Done.
wateralien··on A Programmer's Loss of Identity
The adoption of, or adherence to an "identity" is a very western habit. The thought that you or your value derives from a mental construct or external idea.

It's limiting and dangerous. Limiting because you're relying on a relatively small network in the brain, governed almost entirely by your conscious ideas to provide a set of features of who you are. And dangerous because if something else comes up, if you discover something new about yourself, you change, or your circumstances, or the world around you changes and it affects one of your "identities" - that alteration can leave you lost. As the author seems to be saying.

Instead of these quips of, "you need to know who you are", "who are you?", "know yourself" - we should rather be trying, continually, in a never ending process, to discover ourselves.

wateralien··on A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content
They need to enforce this with very large fines.
wateralien··on France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US
Almost all businesses need email, contacts, calendars, live chat, video calls, docs, sheets, and presentations. Ideally all linked. Where is the open source foundation for this package that everyone needs?
wateralien··on Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings
I actually just recommended your app to my friend. Lol.
wateralien··on Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings
Yeah that's fair enough. I've rented out my apartment on Airbnb and good photos are the key. I paid a real life photographer back in the day. As long as it doesn't change, clean or improve what's actually there in the apartment, and just makes you a better photographer I think that's fine. Good luck with it.
wateralien··on Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings
I feel like you'll probably (mostly) have two types of users:

1. Those who just want to see more examples.

2. Those who actually want to use this as a tool. (Even though it may have started as a bit of a gag.)

By having a gallery you'd save a lot of needless tokens so that you can satisfy user 1.

By having a paid actual SAAS option you can get $$ from user 2.

By showing a few tasteful ads as well as buy me a coffee you can get income from user 1.

wateralien··on Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings
I would love to see a gallery on this site too.
wateralien··on Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings
I wish I could give him two cents without having to try. HTTP status 402 with micropayments or something needs to become a thing. The platforms do it... (subs, tips, donations, rewards etc etc.) Why can't the web.
wateralien··on Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings
Unfortunately true.
wateralien··on Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings
Just kidding. I bet you will do very well marketing it to estate agents and AirBnb renters. It's just the "prettification" of the world which gets to me. I hate Instagram for the same reason. Just grumpy me.
wateralien··on Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings
Top of HN and people are loving it, but there's got to be a better way of getting some $$ rewards for fun viral ideas like this than "Buy me a coffee". I'm betting he's got tens of thousands of sessions currently and nobody is tipping. https://ko-fi.com/magnushambleton

Is there a better way? Asking for myself, also.

wateralien··on Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings
Works great. I hate it.
wateralien··on Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings
This was exhausting to read. Don’t you ever have fun?
wateralien··on Netflix Animation Studios Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron
<3 Blender is a treasure and must be protected.
wateralien··on zerobrew is a 5-20x faster, Rust-based homebrew replacement
For an app like this, once I'm sold on the features of the app, I need to know and trust the credentials of the primary developer. I looked them up. Looks good.
wateralien··on X blames users for Grok-generated CSAM; no fixes announced
Elon Musk attends the Donald Trump school of responsibility. Take no blame. Admit no fault. Blame everyone else. Unless it was a good thing, then take all credit and give none away.
wateralien··on I switched from VSCode to Zed
I also switched my editor to Zed recently, from Cursor, and brought my custom theme along too: https://zed-themes.com/themes/ldw3jOWS7edS-gifHtZg9?name=Dar...
wateralien··on Tesla sales fell by 9 percent in 2025, its second yearly decline
Wouldn’t mind if they went bankrupt. I won’t support the ideologies of their ceo.
wateralien··on Unifi Travel Router
I think the GL-X3000 could be the daddy for power users and any eventuality: https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-x3000/
wateralien··on Unifi Travel Router
I've had success hooking it up to some Ethernet cables in hotels, but it's 50/50.
wateralien··on Unifi Travel Router
While on a scuba diving trip in Thailand a couple months ago we could position the router slightly outside our hotel room to be able to be able to strongly connect to the very dodgy hotel wifi so my girlfriend could do her work calls.

It would also automatically log into the captive wifi which seemed to require a login every hour or so.

Another time we Ethernet into it using the cable in another hotel to bypass some ridiculous speed limitations on their access point.

I'm considering getting their model which can take SIM cards, so that we can also failover to mobile networks wherever we are.

wateralien··on Unifi Travel Router
I never travel without my GL-AXT1800. Saved me so many times: https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-axt1800/ I’m actually on it right now.
wateralien··on Show HN: WalletWallet – create Apple passes from anything
Source? Can we get a repo please?
wateralien··on Brexit Hit to UK Economy Double Official Estimate, Study Finds
Rejoin.
wateralien··on Blender 5.0
I get a never ending cloudflare verification on repeat. I'm on my local network. On my usual machine. On chrome. No funny stuff. Sucks. Can't see the page.
wateralien··on Zed is our office
Actively programming in pairs (or more) is also not for me. Reviewing work async is great IMO though.
wateralien··on Zed is our office
Zed is lovely and I hope it becomes super successful but this kind of mass collaboration might be ok for meeting minutes... maybe. But thinking of it for coding it gives me shingles. Code by mass live committee. Yikes.
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