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Just like BSD is dying. Netcraft confirms it.

Apple isn't exactly competing with China. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_in_China

I owned only EVs and PHEVs since 2012. The GR Corolla was so compelling that it pulled me back to an ICE. I had forgotten what it felt like to have FUN while driving. The biggest f…

I've heard it said that Oracle doesn't have customers. They have hostages.

I started on a faulty 1200 BAUD modem that would only connect at 300 BAUD. And I used to load my programs off a cassette tape. If we keep this up, someone's bound to jump in with a…

I'm one of the greybeards who has the 2400 BAUD modem negotiation tone sequences emblazened in my neurons. For a while I've been meaning to set up some Wireguard connections among …

This isn't really news to many people with multiple sclerosis (MS). In fact, neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD) is often misdiagnosed as MS. I think it was 10 or so yea…

Makes me wonder what the value of a PhD is.

Volkswagon has no jurisdiction over how I manage my fob, which is the client for the vehicle's unlock and start API. Once you hand a bearer token to me that governs full access to …

I can't even manually resolve the merge conflicts alone that happen between my code and that of everyone else submitting code at agent speed in my team's repo. So long as I have fi…

The most plausible near-term path is probably micropayments embedded invisibly in AI agents. Your agent that has learned what you value and can make a reasonable decision to allow …

I had an eerily similar situation in a behavioral interview I had with a company where I had a very strong internal referral from a very senior person. I didn't have any time at al…

I like to ride my bicycle with my friends in rides organized by the (Pacific Northwest) Cascade Bicycle Club. They require that I solve a Google reCAPTCHA in order to register for …

In my experience the overwhelming majority of services permit me to change my email address.

This guy just went to federal prison on a 25-year sentence: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Syonyk https://www.idoc.idaho.gov/content/prisons/resident-client-s... Some of his …

> so how on Earth do you expect to realize any of these desires? The same way this sort of thing has always been accomplished: Government regulation. Vote, write reps, donate to th…

The last time I was in SF I used Waymo to get around town and Uber to get to the airport. The Waymo rides were near-perfect. At one point when a delivery truck was blocking 3 lanes…

Whenever I start feeling smug about how cagey I've been about data brokers in the past, I remind myself that enough of my relatives have handed over their DNA to operations like 23…

It's not just those without smartphones who are penalized. It's those without Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) and spying imposed by Apple or Google on their devices. I run Gr…

> Then you print a boarding pass at the kiosk? Those kiosks are gone from many airports. You're going to have to wait in line to get anything printed. And if you fly Ryanair it wil…

> That's not a thing. They're literally just cameras looking for a QR code. And yet for me one time earlier this year said QR code on my Graphene OS phone scanned fine at the TSA c…

> It's more about some weird incompatibility between my device and the scanner. I think I held up an entire flight for nearly an hour because the QR code on my Graphene OS Android …

Apple Express Mode lets you use certain Wallet cards when the phone is very low battery and turned off.

> It's often €50 now to print boarding pass at the counter in Europe. I was about to respond, "No way this is true. I don't believe you." But then I found an article claiming that …

Printing a boarding pass at home works for the flight out. But what about the returning flight? Just last week I flew back home from SFO. I needed to change the flight at the last …