josteink

6 ms·

1.
by josteink 7d ago
This phone is so underwhelming it doesn’t even make the frontpage of HN. And yes, I realise it was obviously overshadowed by the Duo. Still. This must be the first iPhone not to break page one. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Edit: Pag
2.
by josteink 7d ago
With ANC and volume control now available on the basic AirPods what’s the story for the AirPod Pros now? An obsolete product line?
3.
by josteink 7d ago
It’s the exact same price point as the Samsung Z Fold 8, which is this phone’s exact competitor. $2k is a lot to ask, but it answers the market 100% on “I’d like a Samsung Fold 8, but as an iPhone”.
4.
by josteink 23d ago
Back in the days all the things you would create using the File-menu would be files, because what else would it be??? A benefit of that system was that all documents and data could be easily treated as files - and moved organized as you p
5.
by josteink 24d ago
Same here. I’m guessing that’s not accidental.
6.
by josteink 24d ago
I recently attended a conference/workshop about AI security. One of the topics was the importance of limiting the models and adding safeguards. I was the only one in class to argue that if we limit our models, somebody else is going to
7.
by josteink 2mo ago
Clarification: Microsoft Authenticator. You can’t use any random password-manager with passkey support. I use Bitwarden for everything and have to have MS Authenticator installed just for this 1 login. Super annoying.
8.
by josteink 2mo ago
But it's written in Rust so it must be good :D
9.
by josteink 3mo ago
That’s a very dramatic take - and I dare say a counter-factual one too. Which actual genocide would you be talking about? I really don’t think people should water out words like that over what is essentially tiny political differences.
10.
by josteink 3mo ago
> So, MS builds VSCode - doesn't even fork Atom to do so. Looks identical to it. They built it from scratch. Bigger. Slower. Someone needs to fix a memory leak here. Atom was famously slow. Even among people using it and championing
11.
by josteink 3mo ago
I think a better frame would be «how could the maintainers have responded in a constructive, collaborative way upon learning about the tooling not being compliant with Emacs-standards, in a way which have helped land what was clearly a good
12.
by josteink 3mo ago
He made a patch in good faith, not knowing about these rules. He’s point is that because he was coming at this with an honest, open approach he saw his work rejected. His observation is that this will reward dishonest submissions which are
13.
by josteink 3mo ago
Did you review the code in question and end up rating it slop, or are you just reflexively calling anything AI-generated slop? Humans can produce garbage code. As can AI. So therefore the process around the code matters, and it seems clear
14.
by josteink 3mo ago
The ARM64 Linux version (Azure version actually) is what I run on my MacBook through docker when I need it for testing.
15.
by josteink 3mo ago
Flathub has banned any software developed using AI or which is «ethically questionable». I’m pretty sure that excludes Claude Desktop. https://www.techtimes.com/articles/317463/20260531/flathub-a...
16.
by josteink 4mo ago
I don’t see why it ships with a SIM + a forced plan. That limits the ability to use it (or buy it) in any «unsupported» country.
17.
by josteink 4mo ago
This is an impressive effort and offering and I really want to try it out! Clicking on "download" though, I get this: > Full edition (121G zipped, 174G unzipped): From Internet Archive Not to be picky about free stuff offered b
18.
by josteink 4mo ago
While the news is interesting in itself, I found the lack of illustrations disappointing. When discussing new novel molecular structures, one would think providing a concrete visuals of what they look like more interesting than human-scale
19.
by josteink 4mo ago
> You are greatly underestimating the current hardware requirements for productive local LLMs. Fixed that for you. Right now most models produced are based on floating point maths and probabilities, which is "expensive" to do
20.
by josteink 5mo ago
Can you for an outsider expand on this argument. I’m not saying you’re wrong, but why is that?
21.
by josteink 6mo ago
We built it on enthusiasm for enthusiasts and for that reason alone, it became something great. Then they stole it all for profit. Probably not the first time in history this has happened.
22.
by josteink 6mo ago
> Very few people with LinkedIn profiles read the social feed. I read somewhere that in Norway (small sample, yes I know) LinkedIn is supposedly a more popular social network than X/Twitter. You can have whatever opinion you mean ab
23.
by josteink 6mo ago
I held out until my work MacBook got force-upgraded by IT. I've never used my Linux ThinkPad more than after my MacBook got macOS 26.
24.
by josteink 6mo ago
I just stopped using Finder all together. Bloom is a fairly cheap one-time purchase and infinitely more capable. https://bloomapp.club/
25.
by josteink 6mo ago
I was forced to upgrade at work. So I’ve enabled reduced transparency and all the other accessibility settings I can find to remove the terribleness. The UI is now mono-coloured gray and looks like MacOS back in the days before OS X was a t
26.
by josteink 6mo ago
This Reddit thread claims to have identified Meta/Facebook as a/the major villain (for age verification): https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rshc1f/i_traced_2_b... Disclaimer: I have not
27.
by josteink 7mo ago
> “Covered application store” means a publicly available internet website, software application, online service, or platform that distributes and facilitates the download of applications from third-party developers to users of a computer
28.
by josteink 7mo ago
> We already have examples of these agents creating an AI religion, an AI social network That to me sound like a reason not to use this particular aspect of the AI hype. We need to be better at controlling what AI does and how it does it
29.
by josteink 7mo ago
> It really is the case that a lot of incompetence is hiding in plain sight. It may sound preposterous but I'm going to make the argument that sometimes not knowing how things work is a feature , not a bug. I would assume most peop
30.
by josteink 7mo ago
I just tried on a Zyxel Wifi AP I have. It seems to use a different telnetd (busybox?), because from what I can tell it's not prone to this error.

More ›