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Re:Technofeudalism on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @06:58AM (#50350900)
Wouldn't it be great if governments and/or industries would work together to end technofeudalism? We have the techincal means.

Imagine this scenario:

- Each factory, official distributor or digital content creator would host a website and a standardised API to discover their products, place orders and pay for them.

- Factory/distributor/creator's websites could be discovered from TLS cert renew lists (just like malware bots find websites now).

- Online shops (or even end-user apps) would scan periodically the APIs they discover and choose to follow to find/update product lists.

- End user places order to online shop (or directly to factory/distributor). Shop sends the payment and order to factory/distributor. Factory/distributor sends products to end user.

No more Amazon.

Re:The Ford Privacy Promise: You're in Control of Your Data on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @05:36AM (#50350265)
If I had a choice I would not even consider connecting a car to the internet just to have those features.

BTW, many of those features were available over 433MHz radio well before cars were connected to the internet. Some have even had better usability:

The "find car" would sound the horn or blink the lights. This new phone app solution requires you to pull out the phone instead of the car key, turn on gps, wait for a fix (imagine that in an underground parking!), turn on data, get car position (which might be wrong for the same weak gps reasons), figure out how to get to it on a tiny map... etc.

Re:The Ford Privacy Promise: You're in Control of Your Data on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @05:23AM (#50350174)
Do you have a link? Did they really pay?
Re:The Ford Privacy Promise: You're in Control of Your Data on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @05:20AM (#50350150)
No, generating data is NOT good. Garages would read metrics and upload them. How is that any better?

Error codes for faults and nothing else are enough.

Re:Configure a UPS on Linux with NUT on Monday November 02, 2026 @09:09AM (#50337011)
What windows version and what UPS is that? I never saw a battery icon for a UPS before.
How do you pass a defective signal then? How do you couple a second locomotive? How do you add cars?
Re:Software may be getting worse, but it used to be horrible on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @08:04AM (#50272252)
IIRC, the mouse driver attached a .dll to all programs to do the scrolling.
Re:Software may be getting worse, but it used to be horrible on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @04:52PM (#50265638)
Internet Exporer 6 did not have tabs.

There was a setting to open each window in a separate process. Even Windows Explorer (the file manager) had this setting, in case it crashed extracting a thumbnail or something.

IE crash would take down Windows Explorer because it was integrated into it since Win98. A bad ideea, IMO - the point where bloat began.

Like I said, technologies were just being invented. Back then things improved (mostly - see IE integration as a counter-example). Each new version was better than the one before. Can you say that now?

Re:Software may be getting worse, but it used to be horrible on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @04:41PM (#50265488)
Try switching from IDE compatibility mode to AHCI or RAID.
Re:Software may be getting worse, but it used to be horrible on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @04:37PM (#50265437)
Even the shortcut keys were the same everywhere!
Re:Software may be getting worse, but it used to be horrible on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @04:36PM (#50265411)
Win95 did have scroll wheel support! Win311 didn't.

TweakUI indeed doesn't add support for scrolling inactive windows. I used IntelliMouse driver for that feature.

Re:Software may be getting worse, but it used to be horrible on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @04:29PM (#50265330)
It's because those things that improved stability were just being invented.

No browser had tab isolation. In fact, no browser had tabs.

Memory protection in Win311 (first to use the new v86 mode) and Win9x was intentionally weak to allow DOS programs to access hardware directly. WinNT/2000 broke sound in all DOS games and lots of other programs that relied on direct hardware access. The price of stability was incompatibility.

I ran Win98 until 2006 or so. Once I replaced all bad software and drivers, it was stable enough to not bother to turn off at night and do suspend-to-ram instead. I recently bought an Acer Swift Edge w/ Win11. It is so bad, it is not capable of S3 sleep. It won't even disconnect from wifi.

Re:Software may be getting worse, but it used to be horrible on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @04:16PM (#50265172)
The decline started earlier than WinXP. IMO, it started with the integration of IE in Win98 desktop.
Re:Software may be getting worse, but it used to be horrible on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @04:12PM (#50265120)
I never had MacOS. Is it really true?

- What you buy is yours forver?

- Even if the company's servers go offline?

- Even if you change your PC?

- Apple can't remove it from your machine whenever they like?

- You can back up the installer and license and reinstall it later? Offline?

Re:Show HN: A Truly Modular Keyboard on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @03:37PM (#50264601)
> Why do you feel the need to tear this project down over aspects you haven’t even looked at?

Because it looks to me like some sort of hype product launch / vaporware / investor bait / star farming, or some other foul play, and everyone here gave votes and supportive comments instead of realizing just how bad it must be in reality.

No, you're not.

"Cannabis-related diagnoses" - I don't even understand what that means - it could be a "this is a cannabis user" diagnosis. A 14% increase in cannabis use after legalization is expected.

All the others show 1% - 3% increase, some having very wide CI, which they call significant. (??)

"Opioid-related diagnoses" - Again, I don't understand what that means - it could be a "opioid user" diagnosis. It shows a 3% decrease with huge CI, but which they call "no change". (??)

Re:Show HN: A Truly Modular Keyboard on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @03:40AM (#50255755)
I'm the one with the criticism. You should argue with me, not those who agree with my criticism.

This project is so bad, anyone with basic physics and electronics understanding can tell it's bad. Unlike @sleepybrett I never even built a keyboard in my life and yet can I still find numerous problems with that keyboard. And I didn't even get to the MCU firmware part. I can only imagine how bad that is.

If this project was done only to learn, then why is it here? People don't usually brag about what they learn. (Look ma! I put 3 lego bricks together.) I mean, it's perfectly OK to build projects to learn, make mistakes and learn from those too - I wish I had time to do that myself - but showing it on HN as if it's some viable product? Don't do that.

Why are you defending it? Just because it looks "cool"?

Re:The Curse of Soldered RAM on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @03:18AM (#50255619)
Yes, it did, and the total capacity changed too. With 4K (larger) sectors I got a few GB more space.
No. It's a vaccine.

In case you don't know, the very first vaccine invented was the rabies vaccine. It also contained RNA - a live rabies virus - and it also hijacks the patients own cells to provoke an immune response.

Please stop spreading conspiracy theories.

There are various categories of vaccines, from completely synthetic proteins to live virus vaccines. And yet, they're all called vaccines. I don't see how is a synthetic RNA fragment is much different from the live RNA virus that was the very first vaccine (rabies).
Re:The Curse of Soldered RAM on Monday October 26, 2026 @08:17AM (#50242391)
I had a Seagate Cheetah ~70GB 10'000 rpm SCSI HDD from around 2002 that could be low-level formatted. I could even change physical sector size.
Re:Show HN: A Truly Modular Keyboard on Monday October 26, 2026 @07:59AM (#50242244)
Not even good for gaming because of the unreliable connections between modules.
Re:Show HN: A Truly Modular Keyboard on Monday October 26, 2026 @03:39AM (#50240378)
Non-viable product. I would NOT buy this.

- How much does it cost? Sell price, not BoM price. I expect something like $10'000 for a full 104-key layout.

- How heavy would it be?

- Can you lift a 104-key layout from the table without it breaking in 2 (or more) pieces? Can you even lift or move a 40% layout with one hand?

- How do you arrange it in a non-ortholinear layout? If you can't, then anyone can just buy an ordinary ortholinear for $100 and switch layouts in software.

- How does the spacebar key look like? Enter key? Shift? I can't type if those big keys aren't big.

- How do you make spaces between key groups?

- There are a lot of pogo pin connections. It's statistically impossible for all of them to work. Is there any redundancy for those connections? Alternate signal paths with automatic rerouting? Any debugging tools/indicators to find where the bad connections are?

- If you have a MCU in every key, and at that price, I would expect them to have a mini-display in the keycap plus lots of other fancy features.

- How about automatic function assignment for each key based on it's location? Can it do that? If not, then any drop on the floor becomes a half-hour puzzle-solving problem.

From the article:

> That all three gossamer galaxies existed along a line, as neighbors, didn’t escape the attention of astrophysicists, who began to coalesce around an origin story.

How about this:

What we see is an advanced galaxy-killer alien weapon being fired at one target, and then continuing to travel beyond that target and making 2 more (unintended?) victims.

This article is an ad for a book.
Re:NixOS is making me less afraid on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @11:53AM (#50168281)
I only do tinkering once. After that, it usually stays that way for as long as the option/setting exists and doesn't break.

For example, in 1996 I tweaked the buttons on Total Commander's main button bar (was called Windows Commander back then). I still use that same button bar today, 30 years later. Only some icons had to be replaced. I try to do the same in Linux, but...

There are some programs where this just doesn't work. Firefox for example has a bad habit of deprecating settings and adding new ones (with wrong defaults, because... money probably). It needs tinkering all the time.

Re:What If Video Games Came on VHS? One Modder Is Finding Out on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @11:46AM (#50168158)
Players with auto-reverse have 4-track heads. Using one of those, you can read all 4 tracks at the same time. But the best would be a rotating head (helical recording) like VCR or D/CAS I mentioned. That can use the whole width of the tape, not just 4 tracks.
Re:What If Video Games Came on VHS? One Modder Is Finding Out on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @11:39AM (#50168038)
So get a used D/CAS, keep the mechanical parts, replace the brains with ESP32, and post the project on HN. :)
Re:How I got over 300 Tor exit nodes removed on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @10:36AM (#50167105)
- Default route is over tor and you didn't make an exception for ssh.

- Hide where you are in the world from your employer, who owns the server. (On vacation?)

- You're hacking the server.

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