donmcronald

5 ms·

1.
by donmcronald 3d ago
If the chain broke from twisting it up and letting it go, it was in disrepair before the kids started using it. Maybe the city admin should be charged with negligence for letting the infrastructure crumble.
2.
by donmcronald 5d ago
I use ChatGPT for almost all my searches now. I’m not joking.
3.
by donmcronald 7d ago
> Had CXMT hit a normal functioning market, they would be a much harder sell-- existing vendors could spread FUD about performance and quality to hold them back for a few years. I agree with this. Off-brand NVMe and SSDs are really in
4.
by donmcronald 7d ago
I think it would be useful for backup testing. Lots of VM backup software will boot a restored VM and screenshot the login screen. That’s useless IMO because you could be screenshotting an outdated restore without realizing. I think you co
5.
by donmcronald 7d ago
As a regular consumer I've pretty much decided I'll buy China's tech if they start competing in the western market. There's a lot of talk about China dumping into western markets and warnings that we'll be left wit
6.
by donmcronald 13d ago
Here's an example of someone genuinely making that argument in another hacker news post. I'm having a laugh about how spot on I was. > Changes to the life-cycles of domains is a question meant to ask if this seeks to modify th
7.
by donmcronald 13d ago
I'd rather trust myself. If you walk around all day with your wallet in your pocket, it might fall out and you'll lose it. Would you like me to hold onto it for you to make sure that doesn't happen?
8.
by donmcronald 13d ago
You're closer than you think. Big companies and institutions just change the definition of words they don't like. In this case, they could argue that a domain's lifecycle is registration, renewal (optional), deletion. Dele
9.
by donmcronald 13d ago
> ICANN is a California non profit I wonder how long that'll last. If the regulators in Califonrnia keep forcing them to act in the public's interest, won't they just move to a more favorable jurisdiction?
10.
by donmcronald 16d ago
I think part of the problem is a lack of explanation and education. 10% of kids are being exploited and no one can tell us how it's happening, but everyone has a plan to fix it? Is there money to invest in resources for kids that need
11.
by donmcronald 16d ago
> It mentions stats about child exploitation but doesn't show how that's related to gtlds. Yeah, I wondered about that too. Any young people I know can barely tell you what a domain is. They're not directly visiting webs
12.
by donmcronald 19d ago
I can't read the whole article, but beyond verified clicks in email I worry that tech like Passkeys is going to get used against us. As soon as you take away the friction of entering passwords, and let passkeys authenticate automatica
13.
by donmcronald 21d ago
I saw an application once about 25 years ago that was built on SMTP for communication. I think it was an inter library loan system, but can't remember for sure. I was a pretty smart way of not having to worry much about redundancy in
14.
by donmcronald 21d ago
> Personally, I'm really interested to see if we're headed towards a spot where the model is entirely distinct from the knowledge store. This is what I've been trying to focus on with local AI for now. I've been tryi
15.
by donmcronald 22d ago
X is the perfect named because it describes the core interaction after trying to view something on the site. Lmao.
16.
by donmcronald 22d ago
I started using Reddit after the Digg 4 fiasco. I mostly lurk. I like things like the localllama subreddit. If I log in to contribute it’s a high effort post with good information. Reddit can go ahead and extract as much value as possibl
17.
by donmcronald 27d ago
> how should free society be restructured to preserve individual rights and agency while accommodating the emergence of transformative AI? Tie all machine scaling to human time. Want to spy on me for a day? Some human has to spend an ho
18.
by donmcronald 27d ago
> Pharmacists though? Yeah replace them with face-ID prescription vending machines… What? Pharmacists are a pretty important failsafe IMO. I trust the pharmacist as much as the doctor, maybe more in some cases.
19.
by donmcronald 2mo ago
> zero license headache Isn’t it a subscription? And super expensive? $3k/year/device was the cheapest thing I saw on their site or $12k/5 years. 25k/year for an MSP. On a 5 year cycle we’d need to manage thousand
20.
by donmcronald 2mo ago
Passkeys really feel like a scheme to get us limited to a few blessed identity providers.
21.
by donmcronald 2mo ago
There have been a few incidents that make me think Snapchat private chats are monitored. The one with the guy joking to his friends about blowing up a plane or something is the first that comes to mind. Tell me how private messaging gets
22.
by donmcronald 2mo ago
> It can get a lot worse than that too. I have an app on my phone that will log me out and force me into a 2FA cycle if it hits a network timeout. I use some fairly popular (in the MSP space) backup software that thinks the network is in
23.
by donmcronald 2mo ago
You're describing a shift from a decentralized system with autonomy and competition everywhere to a centralized system where a few tech billionaires control everything. All of these guys benefited from owning computers and using the co
24.
by donmcronald 3mo ago
> The wallet will automatically request new credentials in batches when they run out. Is that an ongoing cost that I’ll pay for via taxes? It doesn’t matter how anonymized all the schemes are. The government needs to give permission by
25.
by donmcronald 3mo ago
> buy a card with a UUID from anywhere that sells alcohol/tobacco that is valid for some period of time Why should I pay continuously to prove I'm an adult? And those cards will be getting sold to kids faster than you can blin
26.
by donmcronald 4mo ago
My Mac Mini M4 has a distasteful smell when I pin in with AI prompts. And MacOS isn’t super great either. The Remote Desktop options suck and if I leave mine running for a week it can’t function without a reboot. The tech industry might ac
27.
by donmcronald 4mo ago
I think part of it is that as the incentive for new entrants goes up, some of those entrants are downright awful. So, there’s a risk of getting someone terrible, the reward of getting someone awesome, and the existing choice of getting pre
28.
by donmcronald 4mo ago
I wish I could set this as the user. Apple ties background app refresh to the frequency of use, but that sucks for self-hosted photo backups. I use Immich and I don't open it too often, so Apple breaks my chosen backup system for m
29.
by donmcronald 4mo ago
Losing control and ownership of technology isn’t a prerequisite for ease of use. That’s just the narrative big tech has been selling for 20 years.
30.
by donmcronald 4mo ago
> I'm taking a "wait and see" approach with Bitwarden. I won’t. The optics look bad and that alone is enough to show the leadership is either hostile to users or too inept to understand why their recent actions signal a c

More ›