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Re:Giving friends custom text buzzes based on Morse code on Sunday October 04, 2026 @07:50PM (#49959167)
Thank you for sharing, this is one of the coolest things ever!
Re:Giving friends custom text buzzes based on Morse code on Friday October 02, 2026 @01:34PM (#49936222)
I do this with syllable counts for my main contacts full names. Too lazy to learn morse code, and syllables work great except when there’s overlap (two people with same counts).
Reusability is harder.
The X video stream is flawless.
Re:Your car is selling your data on Saturday September 19, 2026 @07:41PM (#49771073)
Sentry mode. A feature that is turned off by default. Then if you turn it on, You still have to opt in to Sentry at home above and beyond that. Then… have sex in your garage, sure, you can do that.

Then, beyond that, it was rogue employees who were looking at that, and they were caught. I don’t know if they were fired, maybe you do.

This has been debunked.
Re:Your car is selling your data on Monday September 14, 2026 @09:33PM (#49706630)
Tesla
Re:Your car is selling your data on Monday September 14, 2026 @09:32PM (#49706625)
Since 2008 they have not changed the policy. But sure, the policy could be changed if they changed management. Tesla, to answer your question.
Actual Nazis, sure. But don't believe everything you think.
White nationalist is a wild, wild misreading though. Though not an uncommon one.

The Overton window doesn’t allow talking about all real issues, so people like yourself mistake race as the crux of the matter, when other issues are the real topic.

If you want understanding, work on helping open, not close, the Overton window.

Very well reasoned and it fits a long evolved pattern but what you’re describing fits the mass sociopathic behavior called shunning, as engaged in by some religions like JW if you need a neutral example to think about. It is in no way good for society or for individuals in the long term.
Re:Your car is selling your data on Sunday September 13, 2026 @10:56AM (#49684697)
Vote with your dollars. I know one brand that has the most leading edge tech and does not sell my data so I bought from them. However they do use my anonymized data to train models for a future FSD capability but only because I opted in to that.
Re:Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results? on Thursday September 10, 2026 @02:11PM (#49648018)
Sure, that goes without saying. That aside, if it is true, the point stands. The word “seems” already covered your point, fwiw.
Re:Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results? on Monday September 07, 2026 @12:38AM (#49593961)
You bought a hardware device and you own that device?

This decoy notes scheme seems pretty unethical.

Apart from model performance, what harness are people using to come close to Claude Code or Codex workflow styles with tool use, conversations, loops, remote control, etc.?
Re:Mea Culpa – Dark Hours on Sunday August 09, 2026 @06:34PM (#49236888)
Sure, glad to clarify. The value is to point out something that I’ve noticed a lot of people miss as conversations about App Store rejections tend to take a knee-jerk negative attitude toward Apple. Considering the opposite possibility would clear up a lot of false conceptions and raise the quality of discussions.
Re:Mea Culpa – Dark Hours on Sunday August 09, 2026 @12:58PM (#49233194)
I’ve noticed that when a developer cries foul over an Apple App Store rejection, it often seems to be a red flag that there is something fishy about that developer. Gruber, not to his credit, often does not give Apple the benefit of the doubt on these matters. imho he bears some responsibility if he feels duped.
Nice work! I got lost in a clouds only view after setting my location but I’m sure I’ll figure it out, the first couple flights were over an unfamiliar area but worked fine.
Re:AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @10:13AM (#49169304)
Are you saying nobody should ever do anything with any tool if they cannot reasonably do it without the tool?

I mean personal blogs I agree the writing portion should be personal but does that go for everything? Maybe the author should take the emoji off his page(??!!)

Re:Zitron: "Everyone Has Been Sold a Lie" on AI [video] on Friday July 31, 2026 @11:05PM (#49130674)
He seems to be saying the cloud provider revenue has something wrong with it because it stems from serving training and inference. It doesn’t follow.
Title should not use a minus sign before the dollar amount, that’s super confusing.
Sorry for the meta comment but: Why is such a useful comment “flagged dead” on what appears to be an interesting and pertinent post?

dang, any comments on what could be going on here?

I get it that there may be some indirect promotion happening but that’s natural when information is shared and this doesn’t seem like egregious spam.

Re:Starlink from 1984 on Friday July 17, 2026 @04:04AM (#48944533)
In the “the name got reused” section the article missed the Subaru usage of it.
Bezos and others will balance Elon. Be glad it’s Elon and not Walz or Hans Dieter. And AIs will be in place doing who knows what, so all our current governance will probably be out the window.
Perhaps a public company then? The symbol could be SPCX. Maybe give some shares to US citizens, like in special accounts maybe? This is sounding oddly familiar.
Looks like you stopped reading after the first sentence.

Or if not, what am I missing?

So, communism?
No. We’ve tried that for decades now and it hasn’t worked out very well for getting the world connected. The entire rural earth has been neglected. Even in silicon valley my neighborhood only got fiber this year and its saddled with crappy TV bundle deals, bad mobile apps built with wrapped web pages, poor service, and we-will-sell-your-data anti privacy provisions. Starlink has none of that.
Since it isn’t mentioned on the page, I’ll mention that accessibility is a really important thing to design in when creating data visualizations.

This podcast (I only have a spotify link) has a really good short interview on this:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/18dHTAxCCeIaLOTch6tRld

The interview is with Frank Elavsky who seems to be a rock star in the field (and no, I don’t know him and am not him) and made a project called Chartability relating to this which has heuristics, principles, and guidelines for a11y audits:

https://chartability.github.io/POUR-CAF/

They need Lehane or… since OpenAI got him, what is Fabiani up to these days?

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