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Re:How to break free from smart TV ads and tracking on Friday December 12, 2025 @11:23PM (#46251963)
What’s wrong with never configuring the WiFi for it?
Tragically common. A tragedy of the commons if you will.
Re:macOS Tahoe on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @12:56AM (#45258158)
This is a bug. The applications need to be reindexed. Happened to me on my work laptop and personal one
Re:The Synology End Game on Saturday August 30, 2025 @02:55AM (#45072483)
I’ve been thinking more and more with synology’s recent changes that it would open up the market for some new entrants that are like the system76 of NAS that are:

- low power cpu (arm?)

- uses latest kernel and flavor of Linux distributions

- makes own modular hardware in smallish form factor

- basic support package with slower SLAs to more professional SLAs for enterprises, I would happily pay per month to prevent enshitification if I had guaranteed support and even more so if it bundled some zero trust encrypted cloud storage.

Waymo is part of my investment thesis as to why Google is undervalued
It can seem great when the market jumps like this... but I am more wary and skeptical than ever. Now feels like a good time to de-risk.
Can't speak for Robyn since that is competing in an already aggressively competitive landscape (webserving). Whereas introduction of RUFF/UV by astral has been exceptional.
Python's success is partly because it is easy to do things. It has a huge market share. Combining the speed advantage of one programming language, with another seems like a great idea.
In another alternative dimension, the Firefox guys 10 years ago would have capitalized on what their users wanted which is mostly around privacy and not being Google. Instead we got pocket, a re-hashed VPN and a bunch of privacy-degrading changes which slowly erode trust.
Because NIH has been targeted by DOGE, keep up
Re:Dropbox keeps threatening to delete my files on Friday September 20, 2024 @09:31PM (#41606804)
I also had exactly the same experience. I ended up losing lots of documents.
Also curious
Re:Inverted perovskite solar cell breaks 25% efficiency record on Saturday November 18, 2023 @03:00PM (#38323729)
can you elaborate a bit more on your setup?
Re:I think GCP is better than AWS – by Fernando Villalba on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @09:50PM (#38020747)
I am about to go through this so happy to give feedback
Re:A Texas Semiconductor Boom on the Horizon on Sunday September 10, 2023 @03:16PM (#37459006)
reminds me when a friend said "escape goat" rather than "scapegoat"
I don't understand how Apple have got this update process so wrong. I recently switched from a Ubuntu work laptop (that had live Kernel patching and occasional non-forced reboots) to big whole image OSX needing to update at the worst possible moment.
Re:The Pile: a dataset for language modeling [pdf] on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @12:20AM (#36690439)
Would love to see an early version of it!
and is completely at capacity
can you explain more on the gas stoves and oven part?
Re:What went wrong with Snap, Netflix and Uber? on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @05:52AM (#33419011)
I had the same issue and reinstalling the app fixed it. it started when I got a new phone and some of my data must have been corrupted on the initial app download
Re:I wish my web server were in the corner of my room on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @12:14AM (#33172763)
curious what Speech to text you're running on it
Thanks for the link, what are your thoughts on the position that France is in with a number of reactors out of action and requiring repairs? From an outsiders perspective, I am curious if it is really as simple as the French not keeping up with maintenance and it catching them at a bad time or are there issues with the reactor type or other influencing factors.
Re:Day ahead electricity prices for EU on Saturday August 27, 2022 @12:27PM (#32620648)
Can you elaborate on what you reduced and what was remaining for the 800w? I am curious
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Re:Metrication timeline (2018) on Sunday May 29, 2022 @02:22PM (#31551440)
since this is hn, perhaps base 16?
Re:Managing Python Versions with Pyenv on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @09:19AM (#31326758)
why did they call it pyenv when it has nothing to do with python environments, well at least the existing python virtual environment nomenclature
the problem with options is that you need to guess the right direction as well as the timing. With stocks you just need the former

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