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Re:UnoDOS on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @09:22PM (#49903217)
I read the whole thing and I'm still confused. I'm getting it's an OS that's very portable. What does forward, contract driven mean? Is this like an AI generated project, because it doesn't mention that anywhere.
People still use MongoDB?
Re:XCancel Taken Down Again on Monday September 14, 2026 @05:34PM (#49704419)
I find texting pretty decent but not ideal. Most alert systems offer it already, you know it's going to be a short message, and you'll be informed quickly of things instead of having to reach out somewhere.

Maybe there should be a texting app where you can make pages of contacts to swipe between, and you can customize notifications. If you want to get fancy, maybe local AI to determine if something looks important or not? They'll always have ALERT or something in the message.

Re:XCancel Taken Down Again on Monday September 14, 2026 @05:27PM (#49704324)
Is there any service that exists to do this for people?

Like say you want your Twitter forwarded to your Facebook page and email list, you just punch in the logins and it does the rest?

Ideally it would fill in the details like formatting the images/video correctly

Re:Voyager 1 FDS Computer Emulator on Saturday August 08, 2026 @11:20AM (#49222685)
Is it possible to hook this up to some kind of satellite space simulator to control a virtual voyager?
Re:A domain can now say it is for sale, in DNS on Saturday August 08, 2026 @10:27AM (#49222129)
I don't get the point, if someone is selling a domain the only content on the site will be advertising that. And you can bet people will forget to delete or not update the record as needed, making it kind of useless.
that would be so cool, but it'll be a long time to make the cost of an AI chip cheaper than a wifi enabled one if that's even possible.
Bet it has something to do with that new model being blocked by the US government. It was blocked for like a month but now that it's finally released they put the safe guards waay up in fear of that happening again.
Even worse, it's offensive and kids could see it!!
One novel part here is every function is required to have tests that run at compile time.

I'm still skeptical of the value add having to teaching a custom language to an LLM instead of using something like lua or python and applying constraints like test requirements onto that.

Re:ICE's Tool to Monitor Phones in Neighborhoods on Thursday January 08, 2026 @01:01PM (#46544221)
My only comment is being able to call emergency services wherever you are is very useful. Pre-cell phone times was just hoping there was a landline somewhere. And you weren't able to get instructions from the operator and be with a fallen person at the same time.
Re:A.I. and Social Media Contribute to 'Brain Rot' on Friday November 07, 2025 @12:28PM (#45848717)
I refuse to use reddit with it's modern UI. Once old.reddit.com dies I'm hanging up my spurs
Yes, but I'm willing to bet most workers don't follow strict digital life hygiene and cross contaminate all the time.
Well, they could easily push a software update to add ads to your TV without a rollback option and disable features if you don't allow it.

If you upgrade your TV on the regular I guess you'd just buy a new one, but treating it as a dumb display guarantees you can keep using it as long as it physically works.

Re:Starcloud on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @07:57AM (#45667723)
The whole thing is bogus, you could plop the hardware in the middle of a desert and have everything perform way better for cheaper.

I'm surprised nvidia put their name on this.

Re:Knocker, a knock based access control system for your homelab on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @07:40AM (#45667598)
I was thinking exactly the same thing. Or maybe a knock on the door before you enter to set stuff in your room to a certain state.
It should be! When I was a complete newbie at AWS my first question was why do you have to pick a region, I thought the whole point was you didn't have to worry about that stuff
Re:"DSEG": Original 7-segment and 14-segment fonts on Thursday October 02, 2025 @12:01AM (#45446223)
What's the purpose of the arrow with line through it for the DSEGWeather?

Well thought out font though, 7segg-chan is cute.

I want one of these but with some kind of color grid showing what's going on in memory in real time
Summary: He was logged doing a search for the "North American Man/Boy Love Association", and then after downloaded some kind of VM access/TOR software the logging ended.

I'm surprised this isn't mentioned much here, there's a lot of reddit comments that picked up on this and the OP (self-identified as the wife) isn't replying to any, only the ones that fit her story.

https://old.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/1ni5drm/the_fbi_couldn...

The OP here also downplays a lot of what the husband did. He was on probation from DDOSing and then physically damaging company equipment after he was fired. Then on probation from that he smoked weed, ghosted his probation officer, broke the terms.

Re:Weird CPU architectures, the MOV only CPU (2020) on Saturday September 13, 2025 @12:12PM (#45233222)
Unsure why the program wasn't picking up the chips. I just moved the lib folder from the Digital repo into the MOVputer folder and it worked. Thanks!
Re:Weird CPU architectures, the MOV only CPU (2020) on Saturday September 13, 2025 @10:39AM (#45232441)
I've always loved quirky CPU designs like this, and having one layed out in logic gates is amazing.

I'm having trouble running the file though, it's missing a chip, "74181.dig". Can you point me to where to download that or add it to the repo?

Re:Claude can now create and edit files on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @11:54AM (#45183793)
Glad I'm not crazy. I actually noticed both 4 models are just garbage. I started running my prompts through those, and Sonnet 3.7 comparing the results. Sonnet 3.7 is way better at everything.
Re:Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG on Monday September 08, 2025 @09:04PM (#45176179)
Same, very laggy on my machine. The spectacular border effects also didn't work for me.
Re:A noise attack on license plate readers (Flock AI) on Saturday September 06, 2025 @02:45AM (#45147174)
If you see the video, the initial iteration just looks like specs of mud on the plate with the letters+numbers still fully readable. His ultimate goal is a custom plate frame that looks normal to the human eye but can block camera readings.

I can see this as being legal because it's still human readable.

Plate readers aren't expected to be 100% reliable as is (angles, lighting, network goes down, etc.) Plates get dirty, sometimes rusty. Also you can't test your own plate for machine readability against all the different types of systems cops use, so how could you reasonably know the issue is on your end and how to fix it?

Re:Walkie-Textie Wireless Communicator on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @08:01AM (#44950610)
That shouldn't be too hard actually if you know some soldering!

Hook the speaker and mic up to the phone part, wire the hang up switch or rotary pulser to the musical tone button.

The ring might be a little quiet but this would be real easy to setup quick.

Could you post a screen shot of the comments view?
Re:Show HN: 1 Million Rows on Monday August 11, 2025 @11:09AM (#44865020)
What is it though? Management tool is so vague.
For personal one file utility scripts, I'll sometimes only import a module on a code path that needs it. And make it global if the scope gets in the way.

It's dirty, but speeds things up vs putting all imports at the top.

Re:GitHub Pull Requests Are Down on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @01:47PM (#44801533)
Keeping it when tech can't keep up is genuinely a good hack for any kind of engineering. Physical lock out tag out on industrial machines for instance. Passing paper notes/wooden blocks in air traffic control towers to see who's responsible for what even if computers go down.

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