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It's easy to take that stance in jest .. when it has no material impact on you. But if your life was uprooted by the decision of an executive because they made what was a "good fai…

User's care about privacy when they understand the threat and impact. The issue is most user's don't understand this, especially when it comes to use of products like Meta where on…

> Eventually the model providers will do it, and that's what we'll all use. Haven't they already, to varying degrees?

For us, the reason is we're primarily a Salesforce company and rely on the Heroku Connect product to facilitate bidirectional syncing between Salesforce and PostgreSQL (which also …

Just please don't sunset Heroku Connect

Their recipe and cocktail repository is excellent. It's a large part while I'm a subscriber.

I don't have a fancy workflow per se, but I have started leaning into git workspaces more which has really been a boon with Elixir (especially in large projects where compile times…

These should get added to https://skills.sh/?q=elixir

Opus 4.5 with Elixir has been remarkably good for me. I've been writing Elixir in production since ~2018 and it continues to amaze me at the quality of code it produces. I've been …

The person that started Ubiquiti was an engineer at Apple working on the Airport, and left out of frustration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Pera

China does not care about personal privacy, they only care about privacy beyond their political boundaries. If you've never been to China, you need to look no further than the stre…

> and the new anxiety about bringing your phone on a plane This one I am not familiar with. What's the latest development here?

Does it matter when you have a Congress that does not care what he does?

For me, the editor is still the most important component of my tooling. The AI features are secondary to my needs/wants when it comes to an editor. Zed is hitting all the checkboxe…

It's not perfect/ideal, but you can basically accomplish keyword filtering using a shortcut powered by a message automation. I've done something similar where during the political …

But that is unfortunately a nuclear option that should not need to be taken to perform such a thing. Like the op, I have no interest in Shorts, especially considering the type of c…

This is available in iOS 26 to all applications; it's available directly to the user through shortcuts. I'm currently on the beta, and I have a shortcut that pulls in various bits …

That’s essentially what app intents are.

To be fair, Apple Maps is FAR better today than when it first launched.

Perplexity is great. I’ve been a happy paying customer for a while.

To allow users to query for anything? The index isn't to train and build a model, it's to behave as a search engine for their users. It would (or could) effectively replace Google …

I treat them kind of like icons/emoji, which often don't have a lot of fidelity due to size constraints.

I've been downloading them to my iPhone and converting a number of them to stickers, which can be used identically to emoji in iMessage.