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Re:The Other Epidemic: Trying to get off benzodiazepines
on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @07:33AM (#50179160)
Cocaine. It means the same thing here in Canada, despite plenty of skiing going on.
Re:FingerWorks iGesture Pad (2005)
on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @11:17AM (#50167703)
Yes. Apple eventually bought them out and used their tech as the basis for the iPhone's screen.
Re:Major ICQ security hole (1998)
on Friday October 16, 2026 @08:27AM (#50117538)
In the early 2000s a lot of people rolled with no encryption at all! In high school I'd drive around the nearby neighborhoods at lunch until I found an open wifi network so I could browse the net. Never took long to find one.
Re:How Tabasco Became the World's Hot Sauce
on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @12:26PM (#50090305)
Give us your email to keep reading!
No thanks.
Re:New Apple TV 4K
on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @11:52AM (#50073686)
Last time I tried the Media PC thing it ended up being somewhat of a nightmare. Had to spend significant amount of time setting up MadVR with my video player and get HDMI passthrough working, but it was always very flaky. Occasionally an Nvidia driver update would break it completely. Dolby Vision wasn't even an option.
I really wanted to make it work, but it ended up being an annoying hassle. I got a Shield TV and it has been a much better solution.
Not sure if things have changed since then (~5 years ago).
Re:The Corporate Happiness Treadmill and the Case for Doing Less
on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @09:29AM (#50071437)
Did ya show this post to your boss and get your gold star?
Re:Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]
on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @07:39AM (#50070069)
There's a great SMBC comic about that: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-03-21
Basic programming classes are like the baby steps of programming. Huge gulf between that and being able to write and understand complex software.
Re:Reverse Engineering of the M-VAVE FM-1 Pocket Synthesizer Firmware
on Thursday October 08, 2026 @11:48AM (#50007296)
Yeah I'm a bit puzzled myself. I can see why developers would be interested, but not so much musicians. As someone who owns a decent amount of hardware synths and Eurorack I know this thing would be gathering dust after a day or two.
Re:I think I found a planet nobody knew existed. I used Claude Code to...
on Thursday October 08, 2026 @11:37AM (#50007132)
It's interesting that a few months ago your sentiment would have been upvoted. I've noticed recently that things seem to be flipping around. Sadly, I think it's inevitable that people will accept a form of communication that consists of people trading slop. Even worse, the author lies about using AI for the writeup in the comments.
Re:Account bans on Reddit
on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @09:52AM (#49992925)
It's the auto-moderator. For example, I got my first multi-day ban for quoting this line from the film Commando: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrsE2Qg50qo
The automod interpreted this as a threat of violence. My appeal was ignored.
Re:Account bans on Reddit
on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @09:49AM (#49992885)
Yup, lost a 15 year account for multiple Rule 1 violations. All were either quotes from of a film, or obvious jokes. I got the final perm ban removed on appeal, at least allegedly, but my account remains banned and further appeals are straight up ignored. To add insult to injury, I made the mistake of logging in to an alt account on my phone and then that was banned too for evasion!
Reddit has already become an LLM-ridden cesspool as of late. What do they hope to accomplish by getting rid of long term users and making it difficult to onboard new, actual humans?
Re:Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros....
on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @08:26AM (#49991801)
Consultants are for decision based evidence making.
Re:Toronto-Based VPN Provider Plans to Quit Canada over Lawful-Access ...
on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @08:23AM (#49991778)
Funny how all the Carney glazers seem to be MIA in this thread.
Re:Sharing AI progress in mathematics
on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @07:14AM (#49991128)
The information needed to build a basic nuclear explosive device is rather easily available. Now go build one.
Re:Canada fast-tracks Pacific oil pipeline to reduce US dependence
on Thursday October 01, 2026 @01:39PM (#49924689)
Because I coincidentally lost access to my main account recently (never put in the e-mail field lol) and had to make a new one. This is the same name with the vowels removed - so not just keyboard-mashed username.
Better to just believe everyone who disagrees with you must be a bot, though.
Re:Canada fast-tracks Pacific oil pipeline to reduce US dependence
on Thursday October 01, 2026 @01:30PM (#49924584)
Century Initiative. Been living under a rock? Go check out who Mark Wiseman is, his relationship to Carney.
Re:Canada fast-tracks Pacific oil pipeline to reduce US dependence
on Thursday October 01, 2026 @01:26PM (#49924529)
Unless that nostalgia is working in an office, not taking climate change seriously, insisting his ministers use British spelling and wear black (not brown!) shoes, or having the King read the speech from the throne.
Carney's status as some sort of visionary is a sham. Just another old fart with no new ideas.
Re:Guitar amp and effects pedal built on the Waveshare ESP32-S3-Touch-...
on Thursday October 01, 2026 @01:11PM (#49924347)
Have you ever used a Digitech Whammy pedal? I can definitely notice the latency on that. It's low enough to be playable, but the difference when A/Bing is stark.
Re:Reddit will block Old.Reddit.com from people who haven't used it in...
on Thursday October 01, 2026 @12:56PM (#49924170)
Just had a 15 year account get permabanned for repeated auto-moderator false positives. For example, quoting an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie being interpreted as a "call to violence". Most appeals get ignored. The permaban appeal was approved, but the ban remains in place and I can't seem to reach anyone there to look into it.
I was pretty upset at first, but I'm starting to see the positives of no longer being able to comment. I spent way too much time getting worked up over pointless arguments. For whatever reason, Hacker News doesn't seem to produce the same impulse.