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Re:Herdr has released native app on Friday October 30, 2026 @11:42AM (#50305540)
People should put a screenshot of their desktop app in the README of their GitHub repos
Re:Somebody please stop the spam texts on Monday October 26, 2026 @05:02PM (#50250894)
I have set up a Siri Shortcut on my iPhone using the Shortcuts app. It relies on political campaign and super-PAC texts containing the key phrase "Stop2End" or "End2End"

The shortcut runs on any incoming message

First it checks to see if "Stop2End" is in the body of the message

It checks to see if the sender is in my contacts

If the sender is not in my contacts then it replies with "STOP"

This opts me out of about 3-5 lists per day

The other change I made was to sign up for the Do Not Call registry on the FCC website

Re:I Built a Drone with Only One Motor [video] on Monday October 19, 2026 @04:12PM (#50157454)
Possibly the fact that the TPU fin body doesn't stop all counterrotation so the leash would get twisted into a cord and interfere with flight?
Love this aesthetic. I have designs on making replacement PCBs for the iPod Shuffle 2nd Gen. This kind of open-source, simple-toolchain embedded dev w/ PCB design has become much much easier in the LLM era
Re:A new world airport and its baggage on Saturday September 26, 2026 @09:15AM (#49856244)
I appreciate both the level of detail and the storytelling. This looks to have been a lot of work and care.
Re:Uber arbitration award over Emily Normandin-Parker's death on Monday September 21, 2026 @10:48AM (#49788004)
Did you mean "litigation" rather than "legislation" ?
Re:Building Without Predicting on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @01:00PM (#49524711)
Now, I just need to get my interests, hobbies and requirements to stay consistent over the timescale of rebuilding my house and infrastructure
Re:Dolly Parton has died on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @04:32PM (#49440203)
Brandi Carlile and I'm With Her just covered this at their stadium concert in Madison, WI last night. Eerie.
Re:Incident with Github.com on Monday August 17, 2026 @10:06AM (#49331186)
You know, I think Fossil with its integrated issue management right in the repo is actually a perfect match for the LLM era. Maybe today is the day I migrate to using a Fossil forge with GitHub becoming increasing untenable.

Anyone else using Fossil?

Love this. I am most interested in your autorouter script at https://github.com/atomic14/kicad-esp32-dev-boards/blob/main...

I have wanted to do something similar for a while, but thought that routing would be the toughest part.

In fact, I am surprised that a robust go-to successor to https://www.freerouting.app/ has not appeared in the LLM world. Do you know of a good follow working in the OSS autorouting space?

Also from a nicely explained YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJblcC4lKYw " The cure for AI slop is a 1986 aircraft manual"

https://github.com/woosal1337/blog/tree/main/videos/ep01-the...

I can't believe that a magazine like Electrek is publishing articles like this straight out of the LLM without a human edit.
This is the history of enclosure of the commons since the beginning of capitalism
Re:Organic Maps on Sunday July 05, 2026 @04:55PM (#48797863)
Just downloaded CoMaps. Why does it start with a zoomed out view of the entire world, especially given that I gave it location services and it shows my current location (in North America). The very first UX experience this app gives is "I am primarily for people interested in maps and geography"

Contrast this with Apple Maps - when you open it, there are 4 big tap controls for actions like "Home" "Work", a search bar, and a map that covers a 1-mile radius around you .

I'd encourage your UX flow to go something more like: request location services > if granted, immediately start downloading their local tileset in the background > zoom to a 20-mile radius around the user

Re:Sumit Rana to Step Away from Epic on Friday July 03, 2026 @09:41PM (#48781913)
so who becomes the heir apparent to Judy now?
Re:Half-Baked Product on Friday July 03, 2026 @11:26AM (#48776155)
This is like a punch in the gut. Holy buckets. How do you prevent this? Bootstrap?
What always gets me about these red team attacks is the same thing that gets me about internal phishing test emails.

My company sent an internal phishing test last week. Several people immediately reported it to a cybersecurity engineer, posted about it in Slack, saying they were surprised that such a sophisticated phishing attack was happening.

I too was surprised - Google is usually much better about catching these kinds of things in the GMail filter before they get through. Oh well, sometimes one slips though. Reported it and moved on

Come to learn that the only reason it made it through is because we let it through _on purpose_.

By analogy to these red team attacks: _theoretically_ someone could rent a car, pose as an employee, and set up a Raspberry Pi in the network.

But who would go to all that trouble?

Theoretically, someone could craft a perfect phishing attack, but who would go to all that trouble? Spray-and-pray, low precision, high surface area, attacks are the ones I end up reading about.

The only reason this attack vector was open is because the red team stood to gain a massive benefit from succeeding in the attack. What real-world actor would go to the trouble and stand to benefit as much?

Re:Git is forever. I'm building Oak anyways on Monday June 22, 2026 @12:30PM (#48632398)
Armin and Ben did a nice deepdive on Mercurial vs Git and why hg should have won in a recent episode of their "nerds-chatting" style podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM1sIVIZYRg&t=3813s
Maybe we ought to be making little hardware passthroughs that plug into the headphone/mic jack and control them with idk the Caps Lock signal from USB HID to start recording.

It's very cyberpunk eventually...the human operator of the console needs to be able to see and hear the screen and sound, there will always be an interface that can be adapted to a machine, however low-fidelity

Re:We Think the SpaceX IPO Is Overvalued on Monday June 08, 2026 @10:55PM (#48455713)
Right?? His takes are so good but his brusque, smarter-than-you finger wagging is offputting
Re:Life is too short for a slow terminal on Monday June 08, 2026 @11:58AM (#48447053)
Follow up / errata post written by the author today: https://mijndertstuij.nl/posts/what-i-got-wrong-about-fast-t...
Re:Now Is the Best Time to Be a Duct Tape Engineer on Thursday June 04, 2026 @03:07PM (#48403198)
Re:The American Missile Crisis on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @12:17AM (#48379841)
Well There’s Your Problem, a podcast with slides , covered this recently : https://youtu.be/NJAgvXH5H20?si=OLMJVhOPT40yzHDN
Re:Muxcard, a dyi credit card size computer on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @09:44AM (#48370198)
Hidden in here is the coolest part, that the author made flex PCBs at home
Re:GitHub and the crime against software on Monday June 01, 2026 @04:34PM (#48362292)
Has anyone switched over to Fossil SCM, so they get issue tracking as part of the repo
I had pi wrote its own and it uses Tavily under the good
Re:A Comma and a Question Mark on Monday May 25, 2026 @01:23PM (#48269286)
Are you willing to share the script? Using the pi /share command it will publish it to a Gist on GitHub

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