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Seems like a pretty useless article. The first ding it doles out is for carrier lock-in.

The original iPhone did it too with AT&T. I wonder how "The iPhone is 16 years old; it is the opposite of everything we want" would fly..

> the over-50-page report is the culmination of two years of research by automotive industry experts.

And smoking isn't habit forming, your honor.

A decision from middle school me when I got my first computer: hostnames are from fictional spacecraft. So I've had home servers 'enterprise' and 'endurance', my NAS is 'citadel' from Mass Effect. It's not useful, but it is fun.

A friend of mine uses favorite foods. I've had guest SSH accounts on 'burrito' before.

I imported from keepass way back when I was getting started, and then never really went back to tidy. So either as a constraint of keepass or a self-imposed rule I had when using it (I don't remember) everything is within a directory; no top-level passwords. There are some redundant paths, like `internet/` and `forums/` but I generally make heavy use of `pass search` and try to make sure the actual filenames are properly descriptive (usually of the URL), and then don't worry too much about the path. I do actively do upkeep on trying my best to make paths and filenames unique at the second character, so that I can access commonly used ones quickly by typing two characters, hitting tab, and repeating until done.

I have a habit of going in to edit a file before replacing an old password, and duplicating the top line onto the second line, which allows me to access the old password for a while with a lot more ease than mucking with git.

For things like computers, I overload the path a little. The computer name is the .gpg of the most often used account, and also a directory with the other accounts within. That way I can:

    pass /lan/nas # access my personal user
    pass /lan/nas/www # access other accounts

(facetiously) Why are they adding AI? All I want is for the new blocks editor to stop covering up the text I'm writing with the damned pop-up dialog.

Daily manual driver here, if they made the fake shifter compelling enough I'd be perfectly happy using it. Tons of screens and fiddly options, now that's the fake stuff I wish they'd stop cramming into vehicles.

I don't follow Twitter stuff closely (or at all), but I wonder if this is a change from "number of accounts" to "number of page loads and requests with this tweet somewhere on them."

I got a bluetooth gizmo this week and tried to tie it into home assistant. Sensor values come in, but the battery level does not. The phone app shows battery level, so I know it's being sent. I'm looking forward to tinkering with wireshark some more and seeing if I can figure out how to get that battery level over BLE/GATT.

I do the opposite. Finding reddit links in a search result page just lets me know I'm in for a world of disappointment in modal pop-ups (on mobile), modal blockers to see the full comment thread, and then unhelpful/missing/flippant and generally unhelpful comments at the end of all that anyway.

Especially when I search for vehicle/mechanic advice the old school forums just can't be beat for their value, even though many are ghost ships with no active users anymore.

2023 and it feels like it's only gotten worse.

Article must have been written by chatGPT to be so verbose yet vacuous.

Neal Stephenson knocks another one out of the park.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termination_Shock_(novel)

Thinkpads are my recommendation. Have been using an X1 extreme for the past few years and love it.

Really wanted to like System76 laptops, but at least in the ~2017 timeframe they just generally disappointed :-/

I remember seeing those inflatable "gator" antennas set up after a natural disaster in my hometown. I wonder what happened to those.

As for starlink... Who doesn't love a disaster response tool that only works so long as you stroke the ego of its company's owner?

Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33161167

Professional level CAD software.

Why platform this nonsense? Billions of doses delivered, lives saved.

Conflating the death and displacement of millions of persons with global eradication in order to say "Well, it's not going to happen!" is preeety shitty.

Paywalled. If substack writings are restricted to substack subscribers, why post a link to it on a public forum? (And why does HN allow it..)

Howey is one of my favorite authors. I love the world building that is accomplished in a relatively small span.

Would be interested to hear recommendations from others who like this series.

That would be a shame. FairEmail has been the best mobile client I've used. But I absolutely empathize with the dev.

To be fair, when I'm at work it's 3am in China, too.