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In the same vein, it is inefficient for so much wealth to be in the hands of just a few billionaires who just hoard it to no one’s benefit; it would be much more efficient if those dollars were in the hands of the bottom 95%, who would actually put those resources to full use.
I want to see every *aaS’s functionality required to be offered -on reasonable and non-discriminatory terms- as an API

Who is Ford to tell me I can’t have a widget for each of my ford EVs visible at the same time? Or even that the single-car widget they do allow has has to be four times bigger than I want it to be, and waste screen real estate on dead space and things that I don’t want?

Is it safe to assume that GrapheneOS will not be affected by this?
Re:Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard on Thursday September 24, 2026 @02:54PM (#49835263)
This is absolutely diabolical and should not be put into the hands of humanity.

What have you unleashed? Hey, look guys he got Oppenheimer over here.

Re:Teleoperated Humans on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @11:50AM (#49803268)
I was expecting this to be about Mitch McConnell.
Re:What Capital Never Told You About Rent on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @11:02AM (#49802508)
As an ex-Apple engineer who grew up with four generations living in a duplex, and as someone who now sees people struggling with grocery and gas prices and utility prices, I feel like more people even having any disposable income at all might be a better start.
But can you have a human right your blurb instead of foisting AI slop on us?
That’s a mighty nice field of study you have there. It would be a shame if something happened to it
Re:Show HN: Copperhead – Hardware as Fast as Software on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @10:16AM (#49610668)
I use a jigsaw to cut wood. It works pretty good. What’s the point of a table saw?
Re:Why getting your hands dirty is good for you on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @07:47AM (#49608993)
You folks are having fun with the idea, but, well, in 2026 there’s absolutely a viable market for this.
I can’t tell whether or not you know that what you’re objecting to is AI slop.
Re:GrapheneOS says Pixel 11 has MTE support after all on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @10:54AM (#49537254)
I’m in the process of switching from an iPhone to Graphene on a pixel 10 Pro.

I can load apps from the web (disabled by default iirc), the local file system, a sandboxed instance of the Play store, Obtainium, f-droid, wherever.

Took some getting used to, but it’s nice feeling like I actually control and can choose how my phone works.

Oh, wow. I loved these games when they were new.

May need to find a modern HOTAS setup and immerse myself in these.

Re:I Am Morally Opposed to Updating My Claude.md on Thursday August 20, 2026 @12:59PM (#49377235)
And you don’t find that Claude cheerfully ignores the content of your CLAUDE.md and does whatever the fuck it wants instead?

I caught it ignoring the prompt’s details, so added “include the output of the Unix ‘date’ command with each response.

And that worked great in that its absence became an indicator that Claude was off-prompt. Until it started including made-up strings that resembled, but had nothing to do with, the output of the Unix ‘date’ command.

Re:The Whole Anthropic Kerfuffle on Thursday May 14, 2026 @10:39AM (#48136096)
Also, they seem to ignore auto mode, seizing on any reason to stop, and sometimes just stopping despite saying they’re proceeding with something.

Basically, ongoing enshittification.

Re:ICE Releases RFI for User Tracking Tools on Monday January 26, 2026 @02:26PM (#46770316)
I really enjoy this site and its community. But it’s time to let the community speak to itself and stop censoring these things.
Unless they come right back with a comparable implementation with a maverick/ranger type form factor, Ford is absolutely shot itself in the foot canceling the lightning. I’ve been Evie only for five years and have driven both the electric Silverado and the lightning. I bought the lightning. It’s fantastic. They are absolute idiots for discontinuing it.
Re:We're (now) moving from OpenBSD to FreeBSD for firewalls on Monday November 24, 2025 @01:55PM (#46037669)
PF is really nice. (Source: me. Cissp and a couple decades of professional experience with open source and proprietary firewalls).

And if they are already using it on openbsd, it’s almost certainly an easier lift to move from one BSD PF implementation to another versus migrating everything to Linux and iptables.

There’s also companies which seemed to break their Web experience specifically to drive people into the app. Credit Karma hasn’t worked on a browser on mobile or desktop for me in years. But the app version always works.

I guess it’s my fault for trying to use an Intuit product to begin with when I already know they’re evil.

Canada would be insane to not beef up its military at this point. Mexico should, too.
I was all in on Tesla in 2019. Solar, powerwalls, model 3.

Traded the car in a couple months ago. It was ok, as a car, but I hated what it had become synonymous with so it was worth the financial hit to give up a paid off car. Turns out the new Mach-e which replaced it is better in every way.

Might be some fanboys left, but a bunch of folks who might have fallen into that category in the past have been driven away by Musk’s unconscionable activities.

Re:Is Health Insurance Even Worth It Anymore? on Monday November 03, 2025 @12:53PM (#45802016)
If someone was hung up on only paying when they need care, the business model needs to support that would probably look a lot like an emergency room or urgent care facility.

For me, I consider it an astonishingly good value paying $1200 a year even when probably nine months out of the year I don’t even talk to them. Being a healthy dude I get proactive tests done twice a year to keep tabs on a couple dozen different metrics ($150 each round, all in) and inform any needed course corrections over time (early insight- vitamin d was low (previous insurance-based provider refused to order test). Later insight- eating trash and five drinks a day for 7 days at a vacation resort made basically every metric go to absolute shit; subsequently did an early test after a month of clean diet and regular exercise showed tremendous improvement across the board). And then when something random comes up I know they’re there for me.

If it sounds like the sort of thing, you might be into find a couple local providers and just have a conversation with them. I’ve yet to speak to a DPC provider that isn’t excited about the model and delighted to communicate its value to prospective customers.

It’s as close to concierge healthcare as I’ll ever able to afford and I absolutely adore that it removes the parasitic insurance from my primary care loop.

Re:Is Health Insurance Even Worth It Anymore? on Monday November 03, 2025 @11:17AM (#45800686)
Direct primary care was a completely game-changing improvement in healthcare for me.

$95/mo to basically subscribe to a local doctor. Covers most things other than tests or surgery or limb setting. But tests are often very discounted relative to what insurance charges for them (with my previous dpc provider an entire battery of tests cost less through them than just the copay for two of them added up to).

It’s remarkable how different it is when the healthcare provider is focused on you and your health rather than on gaming the metrics by which insurance companies judge them.

Make other plans for catastrophic things (ie, a high deductible insurance plan).

https://www.dpcfrontier.com/

Agreed. Showing ads on TVs is beyond the pale.

(Sorry, I just had to. In fact, thoug, I would be furious if my tv injected ads onto my source material)

Indeed- comment was intended to be on the openbsd release announcement. No idea how it ended up on this one.
Wow, it supports m1 and m2 Macs! I kind of love the idea of getting back to a proper Unix environment on a reasonably current Mac.
Re:Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @01:49PM (#45672679)
It’s only a matter of time before corporations are run by AI.

Add that to “corporate personhood” and what do we get?

Re:iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency on Monday October 20, 2025 @04:45PM (#45649116)
There are settings under the accessibility heading that let you adjust transparency and some other things.

They’ve also gotten less effective over time.

And they don’t get rid of rounded corners currently.

But it still does have a positive impact on the busyness of the os

Knowing the original plaintext is a big leg up in cracking encryption.

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