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6,657karma·1,778submissions·June 27, 2009
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If it helps clarify, Apple have also let their OS quality go too. Years of under investment just shiny new veneer. Linux has continues to improve and in my opinion is ready to be “the free default” OS…
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Would love to see many more manufacturers read this as the slight taht it is from Microsoft and to follow Lenovos lead in making windows a paid add-on, going with a big Linux distro as the default. Ma…
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Great to see! Signed.
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Please stay off the AI. Leaning hard here sends the opposite message to what you’re intending. Seems the event is trying for say people matter more, lean into that.
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Pretty interesting resource. Anyone else have other similar resources. Pls share any links to website or documents.
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I’m personally pretty keen to find an alternative to the proprietary format that is PDF. Anyone used this format, I can’t remember Harding of it before I came across this today. Beyond being not as wi…
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It has already enshitified. These changes are text book. - Inclusion and Transparency values made more shitty - Always free commitment removed. What? It’s right there “always”. - Shittily hacking ol…
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Just found comments below highlighting likley use of AI to write the critique article. That it. Im not reading this. Have some self respect people.
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A recent example from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48164772
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I hope I’ve made my points clear in the description. Any one else finding this really annoying?
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Just started reading.. I swear if I start to get the sense this article is written by an LLM, I’m going to loose it.
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I found this an interesting read until the second to last sentence: “ Zig built the foundation, Claude erected the building, human reviewers are still en route.” Wait?! Was this article also written w…
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If you can afford to pay that bit more for quality product, from the article plus a few comments here; seems that people really like Makita. - hasn’t enshitifed - makes quality tools that last - much …
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The second part of the article moves into a very confusing to read user experience. That said, maybe I missed it, but I didn’t see any mention of pandoc that is known to do markdown > pdf rendering…
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Just had a look and seems that you can get a pretty decent range of pre-owned crumpler bags on eBay and similar. Worth a look.
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Some of us are out here still waiting for Firefox relay “premium” to launch and provide disposable mobile numbers like they do email addresses.. but product has for some reason been stuck on “join wa…
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Talk to any Aussie tech workers you know and chances are they or their friend has a Crumpler backpack. (No affiliation just a big fan). Originally created by a bike courier who sick of bags breaking s…
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I’d like to image with a bit more work, the Firefox core dev team funding this into a CI test and chipping aaay at performance both of Firefox and policies around what goes in the store. Better scanne…
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I honestly enjoyed the article and agree with their move but I did have a chuckle reading all the way through and then see g right there under the article the X social media sharing icon. I’m sure it’…
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I should add a friend has recommended DNsimple.com and I’ve previously found their service to be excellent. https://dnsimple.com/ 50 cents per domain per month 10 cents per million qu…
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I’ve mainly been using cloudflare for the very excellent (and free) premium DNS offering. Easy upload of bind test files Flattened CNAME to support naked domains Robust free role based permissions to…
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> Notably, the rollout will be handled by an “intelligent” update system that leverages machine learning to determine when a device is ready to receive the update. > Curiously, there seems to be…
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A few articles like this one were doing the rounds early last year. Curious, are we any closer to communicating with animals? This is an Ask HN with a linked article from early last year, but the bot …
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Comparing the final two images of taken of earth in 1972 and 2026 respectively; does the 2026 (left) image look murkier and less crisp to anyone else? Surely our camera gear is exponentially better no…
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