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The only thing that would make me switch is data loss.

Counterpoint: Take a look at consumer cellular. I would say it’s drastically cheaper than verizon, at&t, or t-mobile, but the customer support is better than all 3.

It seems like if ChatGPT had literally any other way to turn a profit, they would have done it before resorting to this. Kind of fees like this is their last ditch effort to show i…

Glad to see my sense of humor lines up directly with 18th century dock workers

Yes in that case there would be no data transmitted, and no risk. Another example: if the user turns off "Turn on when Windows starts up" or whatever equivalent, this would also be…

The Alaska Mint is the only link I clicked that still worked

Is the idea that hackers can review the source for vulnerabilities? I would imagine any internet-facing application would not have any issues with a source code "leak" like this, a…

https://x.com/Render96VGTP/status/1835797146555293989/photo/... for example

> Nobody wants a computer. They want what it does. This is exactly why we have AI assistants in the first place. The typical person wants the damn phone / computer / tablet out of …

Agree on it being AI, but what really screamed "AI slop" to me was the emojis. I don't know any tech bloggers who use emojis, but everything that ChatGPT or Gemini generates always…

> public WhatsApp API There is no public WhatsApp API. You need to sign up for "WhatsApp Business Platform" to be able to use an API to interact with WhatsApp. If there was a real …

I've used [batch editing in GIMP before]( https://github.com/alessandrofrancesconi/gimp-plugin-bimp ), to resize a folder of images, so the feature is there. Granted it is a plugin…

> Despite Linux, llvm and Blender proving that open source can beat closed source, GIMP has failed for a very long time. As a GIMP / Inkscape user who hasn't used photoshop / illus…

Consent and convenience. When I use google maps, I am trading my privacy for accurate directions and traffic times. When I buy a car that sells my location, and I get nothing in re…

I don't know how anyone has enough patience to use Stack Overflow in 2025. Any LLM, even the one in Google Search, will give you a better answer than some stack overflow user that …

> Robots still work: Your Neato robot will continue to function manually. Simply press the button once to launch a full house run. Your title is wrong

As a dev currently working at a company where getting an access request fulfilled can sometimes take weeks, I feel this author's pain. But it seems like an enormous security hole, …

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-025-03206-7 > This suggests that chronically elevated arousal in AnxDs may increase neurometabolic demand for choline compounds without a pro…

Engineering is all tradeoffs. For this guy who spent thousands per month on AWS, using AWS makes no sense. For a guy like me whose AWS bill was 38 cents last month, AWS makes a lot…

I think a transformer wrote this article, seeing a suspicious number of em dashes in the last section

I'm not an artist but I am decent with the pen tool, and for graphic design stuff I typically use AI art to give me a thing I can trace in illustrator with the pen tool, and fix an…

I now have another reason to dislike Tailwind.

Alternative headline: Psychotherapist wastes more than 8 weeks talking to ChatGPT for literally no reason.

As someone who has used an Intel mac, then moved up to a M3, please god no. Intel macs were some of the worst things Apple has ever made.

For example, homebrew will auto-update your formulae by default. If you install it with homebrew, you may not have ran `brew pin hugo` and it gets auto-updated.