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Re:EU Fines Google $1.02B for Favoring Its Own Services on Monday July 27, 2026 @03:18AM (#49066097)
If the US had working anti trust this wouldn't really even be a thing.
Re:Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now on Monday July 20, 2026 @09:13AM (#48978414)
He just wanted to use LLMs for coding, and not enough training data on Swift code exists for his use case. Admitting to that would be rather silly, so here we have this sentiment now exist rent free in people's brains.

The C++ interop of Swift is perfectly fine, to such a degree that FoundationDB is now using it effectively alongside its C++ origins.

Re:A new Android malware from Google on Thursday July 02, 2026 @04:18AM (#48758185)
It is not an OS with bubblewrap, you can still mess up your privacy / security if you want to, that includes phishing and social engineering.
Has nothing to do with Trump. Trump just made the need more obvious but these talks are not new.
Re:Librepods: AirPods liberated from Apple's ecosystem on Sunday June 28, 2026 @08:50PM (#48713466)
You can configure them to pause them when you take them out of your ear, except when it is not an Apple device. They will refuse to do so, even though they clearly detect the event since you can no longer use the stem as a pause button when you do so.

Clearly they make it worse just because you didn't get an Apple device, so yeah idk what you're smoking but give me some.

Re:PostgreSQL is enough (2024) on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @08:20PM (#48667201)
The amount of redis-as-database, or X really, that I see deployed that practically make no sense is insane. I haven't run the numbers to make my following claim based on anything but my feelings, but just incompetent dev alone is probably what keeps cloud computing alive.
Re:Deno Desktop on Monday June 22, 2026 @04:06AM (#48627202)
Nah they stopped caring as well. Developing an application for macOS is hell nowadays. I hate the state of things but both Apple and Microsoft dropped the ball. Linux is even worse, so yeah I don't see a reality out of this unless we actually create something that surpasses the web in all measures.
Re:Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with Agents on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @08:12PM (#48469555)
There are plenty of Rust based reverse proxies out there, why do you need to specifically rewrite nginx? You could also write a config adapter to Caddy, there are a billion options, but this is a wasted effort. The people who want to stick to their nginx configs won't use your project ever, and the people who actually care about security aren't going to use a vibe coded project.

I have no idea why you are making me spell this out, I thought it was pretty obvious.

Re:Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with Agents on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @07:59PM (#48469472)
Buddy, I think it is time to not engage with these models for a bit, you seem to have lost your mind.
Re:Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with Agents on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @07:34PM (#48469264)
Yeah I got one, why? You aren't learning anything, you are just copying code from other codebases and smashing it together to make some nginx-rust thingie... for what actual goal?
Re:I am against GenAI and everything it stands for on Saturday May 30, 2026 @09:28PM (#48342256)
Actively detaching yourself from the problems of a technology doesn't suddenly make it a pointless exercise. It just puts into question whether you have any moral compass whatsoever.
Re:I am against GenAI and everything it stands for on Saturday May 30, 2026 @08:11PM (#48341836)
Try reading the article next time.
It is all in the law, the problem is enforcement. 99% of the cookie banners on the web you'll encounter are in fact illegal.
Re:Peter Neumann Has Died on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @08:47AM (#48192586)
If you ignore the health, ethical, social, moral, legal, financial, environmental issues then yeah you could embrace it I suppose.
I haven't had it in the past with PopOS or Fedora, but it could be that the nvidia drivers back then weren't an issue. I could try with another distro if you're curious, that laptop is mostly a sacrificial machine for testing out distros and other stuff.
I was only able to install the latest CachyOS image by modifying the boot arguments in grub of the live installer, after reading the lengthy log file it pooped out after the first install fail.

I have no idea why people recommend this to people who aren't actually deep into tech and linux already.

Re:Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability on Monday May 11, 2026 @06:28PM (#48101563)
They have no moat.
Re:Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability on Monday May 11, 2026 @09:00AM (#48094416)
They most likely understood that it wasn't viable for anything. OpenAI just yolo'd it and now we're dealing with the fallout. I'm fairly certain that any management layer at google isn't going to say yes to "invest 5 billion to make 10 million" scheme that OpenAI, Anthropic, are currently running.
Re:I returned to AWS, and was reminded why I left on Sunday May 10, 2026 @07:43PM (#48089322)
I hate Amazon and monopolies, but I hate companies that think opensourcing their code as a marketing stunt gives them more rights or whatever. If you don't want to opensource, then don't?!
Re:Copy Fail – CVE-2026-31431 on Thursday April 30, 2026 @08:30AM (#47961443)
Hope the 'marketing' had the desired effect. This entire article of pure AI noise was an absolute slog to get through to get to useful information. I have no idea how you view that as positive advertising.
Re:MacBook Neo and How the iPad Should Be on Friday April 24, 2026 @08:21PM (#47897403)
Cool, I think they're pointless slabs of wasted material. If I could run macOS on a macbook neo so should I be able to on an iPad, and it would make it a useful device because I do not have to spend all my time inside a terminal app to make it useful.
This also ignores that mobile phones are now being used as an effective botnet. Just gotta get some poor devs to include your SDK and off you go.

AI companies make use of these botnets quite a bit as well. Why don't we hear more about it? because it is really really really hard to inspect what is actually happening on your phone. This post actually kinda disproves that the closed rent seeking model is better in any way.

Re:John Deere to pay $99M in right-to-repair settlement on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @07:13PM (#47697396)
They settled, and paid pennies for being able to continue the status quo. Given that the headline is journalistic malpractice at best; and you asking this question kinda proves that.

> While the agricultural manufacturing giant pointed out in a statement that this is no admission of wrongdoing

Welp, gotta sue again in the future, hopefully lobbied laws in place to prevent whatever forced them to settle by then!

The A-10 is a horrible friendly-fire as a service. Might as well use the thing as a bomb truck while you are still forced to keep it in service because certain brain cell lacking individuals think brr is good.
Re:Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March on Thursday April 02, 2026 @02:20AM (#47610627)
yes games with kernel anticheat won't work.

And those games are easily ignored, as they should be.

Re:The "Vibe Coding" Wall of Shame on Sunday March 29, 2026 @06:27PM (#47568071)
I don't remember automobiles actively harming your cognitive abilities, nor the cost increasing 5 orders of magnitude. Yet the things actively slow me down in my work by the shear impact of my coworkers using them and having to correct the many mistakes that are made. If your job was producing mediocrity, then yes, AI is awesome. Sorry for the mirror.

Edit: I have my popcorn ready for when the VC subsidies end.

Re:The "Vibe Coding" Wall of Shame on Sunday March 29, 2026 @04:39PM (#47567063)
Goodluck
Re:The "Vibe Coding" Wall of Shame on Sunday March 29, 2026 @04:28PM (#47566945)
If you mean by everything "stuff that has been done before and no one cares about" then, yeah, probably.

New code will still need to be written though.

Hurray for micro benchmarks. Anyway, every language can be abused. I can make Java run slower than Ruby. Given that it runs on Microcontrollers on billions of devices, I don't think Swift is necessarily the problem in whatever case you have in mind (And yes I stole oracle's java marketing there for Swift, it is true though.)
Cool, can you now show how the protocol has been broken? Lot of smart people would love to see your novel research.

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