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Re:Patrick Stewart has died on Thursday October 29, 2026 @04:29PM (#50295413)
I'm sorry but this needs a black bar.
It was 7 years ago.
If you purchased have a Hardware Version 3 in either a 3 or a Y, FSD does not exist in Australia.
Those customers wanted a Cybertruck
Re:Ask HN: Financial Audit of DuckDuckGo? on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @04:10PM (#50186930)
They hold a 0.74% share of the global search engine market (1.75% in the US), so even if they earn revenue solely through advertising or affiliate income, Duckduckgo will produce substantial $$$.
> and PII?

Feel free to email me if that is actually the case. I can't see anything that would confirm that.

Edit: I have dug into it. No credential/secret/email leak... the complaint as "leaking PII" is not really substantiated in the dangerous sense. The only real exposure is real first+ (optional) last names (already public-by-design inside the app) being readable by unauthenticated callers. I will let him think through the implications of that instead of helicopter parenting.

My kid (with a little help from Claude) ended up creating his own social network just to get around the bans. The name of his network makes his opinion of the bans pretty clear. For his birthday, all he wanted was his domain name and and "merch pens" printed with the domain on it. I suppose I'm proud!

1. https://idiocy.schappistudios.com

Re:Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB on Thursday October 08, 2026 @05:35PM (#50012669)
Have you done a blog or YouTube about this ?
Old accounts can suffer takeovers too!
Re:Don't be a meat proxy on Monday August 03, 2026 @05:41AM (#49153448)
> "frequently contains all too plausible nonsense"

This really isn’t the case with frontier models in 2026.

I’ve found (sadly) that every time I thought the model was hallucinating, I was in fact the one who was mistaken.

Was it actually an Amazon bot IP[1] or someone pretending to be on AWS?

1. https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot/searchbot-ip-addresse...

It is not just Amazon (although they're #4 on my list of bad actors)[1].

1. https://files.littlebird.com.au/bad-scrapers.png

Re:How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023) on Saturday August 01, 2026 @06:52PM (#49139347)
Google tried to kill RSS, but it is not dead, in fact it is still a huge part of the Open Web Initiative. There is no performance hit or real resource cost in supporting RSS. If big platforms like Shopify can do it, we can support RSS feeds (and more) too! I've recently added RSS and other alternative representations to our Rails based ecom store[1] and rails makes it super easy[1a].

If you're using Rails it is basically free to add RSS feeds w/ the 'feed' or 'rss' gems[2]. Because of this we provide RSS feeds for everything, including customer orders and their tracking.

If you want to support the Open Web Initiative[3], I'd also encourage you to support alternative representations[4] of your content (markdown, CSVs, etc), add support for ActivityPub / Fediverse directly and webhooks to your site/app.

Stay open!

1. https://littlebirdelectronics.com.au/help/atom-feeds 2. https://github.com/ruby/rss 3. https://littlebirdelectronics.com.au/open-web 4. https://guides.rubyonrails.org/v5.0/layouts_and_rendering.ht...

Re:The World's 2,400 Castles on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @05:34PM (#48998684)
Yeah they are pretty loose w/ Castle. It is a case of "mi casa" not always "tu casa" [1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casa_del_Fascio_(Como)

Re:Ask HN: Best meeting transcription daemon for macOS? on Thursday July 16, 2026 @07:12PM (#48941504)
I found MacWhisper to be great. I built and used my own solution for a couple of years before settling on MacWhisper.

I’ve also encountered some bugs. While debugging, I found that many stem from Apple’s platform itself (not MacWhisper) particularly around Metal and arbitrary object resource limits.

I can always feel hte MacWhisper bugs about to come on when you start to see little glitches like document icon previews in the Dock not rendering or screenshot utility not rendering the screenshot preview, brief flashes of magenta or green when resizing windows.

This seems like a wonderful way to get folk's private info. What's next, a Google Form offering to download your Gmail?
Re:Free the Icons on Monday June 29, 2026 @06:21PM (#48726108)
It really was Mac OS X's Vista moment.

Edit: It'll always be Mac OS X to me, not macOS.

Re:Om Malik has died on Friday June 26, 2026 @04:00AM (#48683714)
No black bar? I guess Om was before the mods' time.
Re:Half-Life 2 in a Browser on Thursday June 25, 2026 @03:22AM (#48670076)
If they have halflife 2 in the browser, I wonder if this means they can do original CS in the browser too!
Re:Raspberry Pi 5 – 16 GB, $350 on Thursday June 11, 2026 @04:49AM (#48487910)
There are generally lower-cost alternatives for sourcing the third-party products they carry. Their first-party products are usually more expensive, but they're of higher quality than the competition and come with better documentation and guides.
The guardrails are pretty tight. It is even refusing to decode morse code: https://x.com/Schappi/status/2064839631137546503?s=20

The prompt was: please translate .. ..-. / -.-- --- ..- / -.-. .- -. / .-. . .- -.. / - .... .. ... --..-- / - --- ..- -.-. .... / --. .-. .- ... ...

Re:Raspberry Pi 5 – 16 GB, $350 on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @07:00PM (#48483971)
You'd have to imagine that the 500+ Kit's cost of goods is impacted twice, first on memory and again on solid state storage.
Re:Raspberry Pi 5 – 16 GB, $350 on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @05:46PM (#48483173)
The US has a plethora of alternative authorised resellers who are lower priced:

https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-5/#:~:text...

Re:Raspberry Pi 5 – 16 GB, $350 on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @05:11PM (#48482780)
Microcenter (another official US reseller) sells the Pi5 16GB at a much lower price[1].

1. https://www.microcenter.com/product/702590/raspberry-pi-5

Re:Raspberry Pi 5 – 16 GB, $350 on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @04:53PM (#48482564)
Are Raspberry Pis (UK country of origin) exempt from the 10% baseline import tariff?
Re:Raspberry Pi 5 – 16 GB, $350 on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @04:49PM (#48482507)
The memory price rises are flattening. Prices are still increasing but not at the rate they previously were last year.
Re:Raspberry Pi 5 – 16 GB, $350 on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @04:48PM (#48482483)
Raspberry Pi’s keep selling because the software ecosystem is solid.

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