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Same, tinnitus and floaters. And the number of others with both makes me wonder if they are correlated. I've lived with my floaters for twenty years or more, but sometime on a rece…

This is right up there with Google suing another company for scraping their web site. https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/12/google-lobs-lawsuit-a... - which a judge just dismissed…

Adding... I hate LLMs because their pushers are hurrying us into the next financial crisis, which will impoverish another generation. I hate LLMs because they have captured pretty …

Conversely one leg would be cheaper and lighter. I look forward to welcoming our hopping robot overlords!

Perhaps he does - dontgive.af does not resolve.

The golden age of the internet was when it was an enthusiast's space. It is now almost entirely a corporate space, where the remaining enthusiasts' content is scraped 100K times a …

Ed Zitron https://www.wheresyoured.at/ has done the math, and it's pretty bleak. His somewhat voluminous rantings contain raw figures on investments, data centre builds, energy ava…

Did you find a credible solution for heat dissipation in the papers you read? I fear the laws of thermodynamics will kill this project.

> What users want... Take a step back. What users want is to be able to use the machine they bought the way they want. The outrage is because Bambu are doing a bait-and-switch: sel…

Same, but the first printer was an Anet A8. Moving to a Prussa Mini was a breath of fresh air, going from 35% to 95% print success.

I only open VSCode when I need to resolve a conflicted merge. The Zed interface is basically diff2, and doesn't show character-level differences. Apparently Zed was working on a be…

I prefer the Fediverse to BlueSky, because it solves your three problems. I choose to see every post on my (small country) instance, so if there is an echo chamber, it's an instanc…

His (compelling) evidence for that assertion is that printers still jam after 40 years. For humans, writing something on a piece of paper is absolutely trivial, and if something go…

This article (and holiday spare time) made me update and check zed again. I really liked it when I tried it a few months ago, but it failed miserably when doing work on remote code…

Your "About" links seem not to work. In my case I was interested in where data is hosted, and the only information I see (from your HN post) is that you are from Paris. Does this m…

This will kill open source. Anything of value will be derived and re-derived and re-re-derived by bad players until no-one knows which package or library to trust. The fatal flaw o…

Or use the API to program in anything you want. We use Google Sheets for our accounting system, loading data via bank APIs and a cron-driven python script. We used to use Xero, but…

I own my company so have no fear of losing my job - indeed I'd love to offload all the development I do, so I have no resentment against AI. But I also really care about the qualit…

I'd be suspicious as hell of any insurer offering cover in the current chaos.

As an example, I'm pretty sure I just took up some of the slack here in NZ. I've been looking at installing solar for a while, and a particularly good quote for a Chinese system (S…

Cory Doctorow has a compelling theory that the megatech companies have to appear to be startups, or else their share price reverts to normal multiples. Hence the continuous string …

Seems to require an app. Which instantly gives ChangeFly my PII. Nope. Anonymized identity requires some entity to certify that a given token proves what it says it does. That is a…

Yes - title should be "Passkeys are just passwords your granddad and the websites he visits can't stuff up". Passkeys will do for authentication what TLS did for transport.

You seem knowledgeable in the domain, so I hope you don't mind me picking your brains about the two things stopping me switching to Wayland. 1. Autokey. I use this to expand abbrev…

I use Kagi, and it's worth every penny. Google has enshittified itself into irrelevance, and ChatGPT is too ponderous. Kagi is like Google in it's prime - fast, relevant and giving…