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Battery life?!

Also, this feels.. redundant, i already have those in my laptop, unlike flipper zero, it was about radio, rfid, nfc, ir, among others with great battery life. Right now my laptop i had it customized with modular 5g modem, SDR, meshcore, alfa, among others.

Re:Are the Fridges Ok? on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @10:58AM (#50353603)
They are mostly ok just next time don’t use 12345 passwords
Re:DiscImageStudio on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @10:49AM (#50353477)
This would be an absolute banger in 90s or early 2000!
I will try it, but please, make the installation through package managers (linux), these curl scripts aren’t secure.
There’s a lot to unpack about this, from this is being result of capitalism (or hyper capitalism in US) and not AI, all the way to this would not have had happened if software or tech people were “street smarts” rather than just logical smart, they basically shot themselves in the foot, they went crazy on automating their own work to the point when the boss saw the work is too automated to need them, they got fired, meanwhile if you look at other sectors (healthcare, education, legal, etc.) they immediately lobbied to prevent such case, they allowed the use of AI but they are still the gate keeper of it: “oh you need to use AI in a healthcare matter?! Nope, can’t do that without a licensed practitioner!!” It’s simply to make sure they are not going to be jobless within 5y.

Solutions? Well, it varies from how invested you are to solve it, are you open to tame capitalism and dismantling the concept of infinite growth and minimizing expenses while maximizing profits? Or are you open to regulate the tech market just like other sectors, and mandating a human gatekeepers regardless of how smart the AI is? There are many solutions but I highly doubt any will be done in the current political atmosphere.

Re:WTF Ubuntu? on Monday November 02, 2026 @10:42AM (#50338377)
Because every where you used to go on the internet you read that debian is “slow” on updates but stable as a trade off, if you are after certain new packages you have to use Ubuntu, also, some use cases (say jetson boards) have ubuntu by default plus nvidia drivers.
Re:OccupySaaS on Sunday November 01, 2026 @10:05PM (#50332667)
Main focus should be making open weight models to go after the root companies that put you in this position to start with, I suggest.
Re:Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? on Sunday November 01, 2026 @08:36PM (#50332005)
Don’t connect it to the internet, only to your lan (on a separate vlan) connecting to your jelly and *arr setup, or, you can get a tv box, flash it with vanilla android, have kodi and addon pointing to your jelly server, and from that tv box is an hdmi to your TV, same is also doable with a rpi. It won’t be plug and play but it’s a weekend project, because there are no tv manufacturers who cares about privacy, or get a dumb tv and connect an hdmi to your pc but you will lose new features.
I am all for it, and hopefully seen in Canada soon too, the smug nurses are literally doing janitorial works and get paid 90k and above, always complaining, very bad attitudes, make it feels like they are doing all the work for free too.. hopefully doctors follow too, the healthcare mafia and their bureaucracy must end, these abysmal waiting times aren’t because of low resources or whatever BS excuses, it’s intentional from doctors/healthcare staff supply all the way to the actual process you get to deal with while being treated or going to ER, it is designed that way.
This is very interesting!! I just pointed at a landscape from a high ground and it said this river was formed around 460million years ago! Which it seems is that old in earth’s life!
Re:Pi Is the Last Harness on Sunday November 01, 2026 @10:45AM (#50326730)
Nah, pi to other harnesses is like archos to other distros: if you like spending your time tweaking and customizing the tool itself rather than doing the work, it will be the perfect match, that, plus it’s turning into a cult-like, exactly like archos. OMP is too convoluted with features that also resemble an old linux distro (can’t remember its name, i think ultimate) where the creator tries to shove all features in there, i remember that distro had all programs preinstalled plus all themes and everything, same with omp, plus omp terminal ui is ugly and behave badly if you resized the window, it feels like a hacky project. What’s really needed in any good harness: multiple providers, efficient on tokens, load skills, easy export of sessions, fast with clean ui, and open to customization if you needed with addons.
Re:Casio Watches of the 1980s on Saturday October 31, 2026 @02:53PM (#50318907)
Some of these not just I recognized, but they were my wishlist dream to buy! The TV IR one tho I remember it different? Unless they were multiple variations. Also, I like how calculators are in all these models in 80s and 90s, it was really a big deal to use a calculator and transfer the burden of using your brain, like AI now and smartphones, oh wait!
Fecebook out of all FAGMAN companies should be dissolved for good: it produces nothing of a value (they don’t make an useful products like email in google or a hardware laptop in MS for example), even big products like whatsapp or instagram were acquired, it is comically evil, it’s probably the first company to eavesdrop on its users daily convos through their apps to show ads, and it operates like a mafia or a syndicate, and you would know if you had your account auto flagged or banned, there’s no email or a person to talk to (that was before AI chat support too), you need to know someone who knows someone who knows someone to pull some strings inside to look at your account..
If i was an ex founder and having a low profile in a big company, I am doing it on purpose, either to have a peaceful life or heal from a burnout, definitely I don’t want to be on the spot like that, especially when I am not innovating anything new nor I will take any meaningful credit after since it will mostly go to AI, worse, if it didn’t work out I will have my career ruined being known to had an unlimited supply of tokens and still failed.
Re:AI Isn't Replacing SREs. It's Deskilling Them on Friday October 30, 2026 @01:00PM (#50306768)
Nice video, but I have said it before, the difference between just “vibe coding” and reliably using AI is the specs you need to write first and the tests after. If you start prompting the end goal/s the AI will basically guide you on what needs to be done and you just accept it as long as it runs, and this is following what most software developers were doing before LLM, the agile way, the quick ship way, the daily standup and ship first discus later way, the code pairing way, which worked mostly (even though I hated personally) in teams, so these developers are replacing what they were used to do with an agent and that’s the mistake. However, if you go with traditional engineering ways, waterfall, specs based, blueprints, and then tests, you control the agents and guide them not the other way around, in your specs you define the tiniest possible thing to what library to be used or excluded, the methods and approaches, among others, the agent here will produce the syntax and help you in the tests, just like in other engineering aspects how machines didn’t take over, they follow your specs and frameworks. The syntax is the past, AI can produce better syntax than any human alive or all combined, if you think otherwise you are delusional and still didn’t move on, it’s time to stop the “developer” mindset and do the engineering one.

I personally have a project that have been spending 2 months now making the specs and blueprint, more than 1000 files defining every bit including the future features too, and not a single code has been written yet, later, an agent will use this to produce the syntax and all the needed tests to have exactly what’s been needed.

Firewalls are likely fortinet
Re:Zero click, silent, remote Android DoS on Thursday October 29, 2026 @09:45AM (#50288954)
No need to be dramatic, some people’s first language isn’t English, some have dyslexia, some just hate writing (myself) and won’t bother reading it twice to fix typos or grammar, your criticism is ok if the context doesn’t matter, but I would be ok with a fully generated landing page if the exploit is worthy.
Crazy, I have a cool startup idea that’s around this concept that been working on casually for some time, telepathy?
Re:StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month on Thursday October 29, 2026 @12:02AM (#50284410)
The question that a lot of people aren’t asking, these AI models were trained on human actual data, researches, answers, and books. Now AI removed the need to create those and people aren’t incentivized to make any new ones, the newer models say in a year or so will be trained on slop, piles and piles of slop, how’s their intelligence will be?
What an interesting times, a hack the “exposes” people who are supposedly and should be publicly known to start with.
Re:MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @02:16PM (#50278420)
Touch screens are dead, no one ever said good things about them. Also, I think the best setup now (regardless macos or linux) is having your heavy lifting compute at home and you use something like macbook air and ssh into it, that way you get the best portability and also you are secure if your laptop is lost.
Re:Gemini 4 Carbon on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @01:48PM (#50277837)
So now we are just showing some tables with each model?! Who even used argon in normal day to day stuff? From the time they opened Argon publicly to now, it’s like: three weeks maybe?! Most these benchmarks weren’t realistic to start with, and now it is just meaningless tables, not to mention the model degrade from the release date to after few weeks.
How’s this even news? Most if not all youtubers are shills, paid shills, and they are not hiding it with sponsorship, and even the ones who say “i bought it with my own money so im honest” are rarely honest because they don’t want to upset the brand who can hurt them legally or preventing them from buying their stuff in the future, or the fans so means less subscribers. The rare good youtubers are usually the ones that you don’t know because YT never promoted their vids or the ones that post one vid a year or so.
Not realistic, a tire blow is not the same as tire air out, within seconds, the rubber part is gone and you are left on the rim only, it’s when the real problem starts.
Re:Just put some HTML on the web on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @10:40AM (#50260114)
I find it interesting that people still catching up on SSG, my sites are statics, if not ssg (zola) they are just html/js/css, and that was before LLM boom, it’s far easier now to do.

Also in this era, I would avoid anything python/C/C++ or things built on top of them like PHP, the former one was never meant to be anything but to hack few things for data scientists, and the later is ancient memory unsafe one. There should be a new language (besides the safe ones) where it’s ok if it’s unreadable to humans but it checks all safety and security checks, written by LLM based on the specs you write, we passed the point now where you think you are better than llm in writing the syntax.

Re:Skydance offers buyouts, orders return to office on Monday October 26, 2026 @06:48PM (#50252250)
Except, it’s the government and in its interests to bring back the status quo. More people commuting means they have to live in high taxes area, from mortgages of residential and commercial properties, or rent, or goods and local businesses, all the way to not needing to build infrastructure in rural areas. Plus, banks were crying during the wfh for those reasons. Wfh brings the power back to employees or people, while the old 9-5 (which was invented by fords factories and never meant for offices) keep the status of wealthy getting wealthier and the employees getting more miserable.
Re:GPT-6.1 Terra on Monday October 26, 2026 @04:36PM (#50250545)
Right?! I think sol has some obsessive tendencies, i literally caught it the other day spawning a sub sub agent doing a final fourth test for a piece of code that isn’t even critical say in embedded or similar, now I have to instruct it to only test once!
Re:Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs on Sunday October 25, 2026 @06:10PM (#50236523)
These useless programs are like what you used to see back in win98 or winxp with dancing monkey or scoopydoo walking all over your desktop windows, which I think later turned to human dancers before being used to distribute all sort of viruses.
Well isn’t that the case already? You get banned from social media, and you lost your connection with friends or maybe your business, you get banned by dating apps and you are lonely, you get banned by streaming services and you lost your entertainment, you get banned by AI companies and now your work lost its intelligence, you get banned by your email company and your life is ruined by losing access to many things were relying on it, get banned by apple and all your hardware and cloud storage is inaccessible, list goes on. Things might get even more worse, with AI aggregators, a cross domain happens, a social media post can result in debanking you entirely in near future.
Re:Bring Back the Cool Save File Screens on Sunday October 25, 2026 @12:23PM (#50233244)
Yes and you would blow in one if the first time wasn’t recognized. They were great sharing the saves too with friends, something that’s missing now unless you go and dig up those save files from your appdata or whatever they are hidden in.

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