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by rkachowski 7d ago
According to the article it's a static site served from cloudflare. That would be quite the compromise.
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by rkachowski 2mo ago
They're just blocked from OTA updates, you can flash whatever you want on the sdcard and then unlock OTA. (I did this yesterday with an aliexpress version x4)
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by rkachowski 3mo ago
> The corollary is that there are no morals once the stakes are in the $ billions, let alone hundreds of billions. terrifying
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by rkachowski 3mo ago
Because this kind of behavior was rampant in the past - where one company owned everything and could leverage it's size and influence to crush competition across distinct market spaces. It prevented other companies from operating in th
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by rkachowski 3mo ago
I don't know what happened to Kent Beck, a few of his recent articles seem to be devoid of substance.
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by rkachowski 3mo ago
This is super cool, I love the idea of just having a $5 wifi UART
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by rkachowski 4mo ago
It's wild to see so many advocates of "the inexperienced should have experience already". You're put in an awful situation but it's your own fault because you went through it, you should have known better than to ta
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by rkachowski 4mo ago
it's all marketing wank, but how can they "supercharge the value delivered to customers" through company restructuring? whether they hire 50k more people or fire everyone, the value delivered to the customer depends on the qu
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by rkachowski 4mo ago
wero is a european initiative set up by a consortium of banks that is built layered upon instant payments. it's not a private company like paypal or visa, its an attempt at making European payment infrastructure
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by rkachowski 5mo ago
They are normal. They generally want to know if the ad spend resulted in an install. Health care data is radioactive and they would be fucking up very hard if sending this to an analytics service.
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by rkachowski 5mo ago
This seems really quite confused in its message. > Yes, the original price of To Kill a Mockingbird and Tolkien’s Fellowship were just $3.95 and $5. But those are nominal values. When we factor inflation, the picture changes dramatically
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by rkachowski 6mo ago
Sometimes I get inspired to write something publicly, but then the fact that I'm providing another point of data to ChatGPTs training corpus which helps the american Department of War make shit memes about killing people - stifles that
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by rkachowski 6mo ago
It's great for now https://translate.kagi.com/?from=en&to=unhinged+elon+musk+ra...
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by rkachowski 7mo ago
I've found recent claude code to be surprisingly good at dispelling false assumptions and incorrect framing. I say this as someone who experimented with it last summer and found it to be kinda stupid; since December last year it's
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by rkachowski 7mo ago
> A Stack Overflow question matching my problem cleared that up for me. Perhaps if there was no question already available you'd have had a different experience. Getting clearly written and specific questions promptly closed as dupl
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by rkachowski 7mo ago
It's really jarring to see this wave of nostalgia for "the good old days" appear since ~2025. Suddenly these rose tinted glasses have dropped and everything before LLM usage became ubiquitous was a beautiful romantic era of h
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by rkachowski 7mo ago
They're purposefully being vague, but this is Prince Andrew finally facing consequences in the face of the Epstein files (?)
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by rkachowski 8mo ago
Are you speaking on behalf of Microsoft?
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by rkachowski 8mo ago
not with that attitude
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by rkachowski 9mo ago
The idea that suffering will somehow make you noble is quite awful. Depression isn't some kind of cleansing fire that opens you to empathy. It affects good people and assholes and people in every phase of life.
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by rkachowski 9mo ago
"Hello main office, I have seen a rumor on Instagram that a bridge has collapsed. Should I stop all traffic through this region due to this shitpost?" "Hi please don't - we've had three different trains go through t
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by rkachowski 9mo ago
> Network Rail said the railway line was fully reopened at around 02:00 GMT and it has urged people to "think about the serious impact it could have" before creating or sharing hoax images. Perhaps Network Rail should have a sy
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by rkachowski 10mo ago
It would be excellent to know who is pushing this and through what means. There is some unprecedented alignment across borders to restrict access and rights.
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by rkachowski 10mo ago
They are exactly the kind of mortgage broker mentioned in the parent comment.
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by rkachowski 10mo ago
I'm born and raised in Scotland, we're keeping it.
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by rkachowski 10mo ago
I don't think it matters. Whether it was a fault of incentives or some intrinsic nature of people given the environment, it was rarely a pleasant experience. And this is one of the reasons it's fallen to LLM usage.
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by rkachowski 10mo ago
the gatekeeping, gaming the system, capricious moderation (e.g. flagged as duplicate), and general attitude led it to be quite an insufferable part of the internet. There was a meme about how the best way to get a response is to answer your
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by rkachowski 10mo ago
you have silicon valley right by the San Andreas fault line..
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by rkachowski 10mo ago
Or "open install", correctly implying the alternative is closed.
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by rkachowski 10mo ago
Classic @devops_borat "To make error is human. To propagate error to all server in automatic way is #devops"

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