ilmagico
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- Comment on China’s new flexible fibre chip can survive being run over by a 15.6-ton truck 2 days ago:
Can it survive a pair of scissors?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Apparently it’s not. From the link (which I’m not to afraid to click, I guess):
Google is rolling out one of the most significant changes in Gmail’s history: users can now change their primary @gmail.com address without creating an entirely new Google account. The feature, unavailable for over 20 years, is being introduced gradually.
Of course, I’d also like to see that from a more reputable source as well, or from the horse’s mouth.
- Comment on CES 2026: Meet Tiiny AI, a pocket-sized AI supercomputer 2 weeks ago:
The raspberrypi was originally marketed as a linux pc, and that’s why it had full size usb A ports, Ethernet, hdmi etc. so you could connect mouse, keyboard, a monitor and network.
People eventually figured it’s very useful as a board to make other things like IoT, robots and other hobby (and professional) projects.
- Comment on CES 2026: Meet Tiiny AI, a pocket-sized AI supercomputer 2 weeks ago:
Doesn’t look much smaller than a raspberrypi either…
- Comment on CES 2026: Meet Tiiny AI, a pocket-sized AI supercomputer 2 weeks ago:
For all of you that downvoted because “AI”, let’s be clear, this guy does all the processing locally, not in the cloud, so it’s a privacy friendly option:
Tiiny AI does all of its AI processing right on the device. Nothing leaves this mini supercomputer. If you’re privacy-minded and don’t want all of your data uploaded to the cloud or just don’t want to pay for any more subscriptions, an AI computer is what you want.
I’m actually quite interested in this. I hate when AI is shoved down my throat, or if it runs in “the cloud” out of my control, but this would be fully under my control.
My only concern is whether I can run my own OS (i.e. linux) or if I’m locked to theirs.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 4 months ago:
Sure, but the problem is the ecosystem of alternatives stores effectively collapsing or falling under Google’s control. That will affect everybody who uses them, whether on GrapheneOS, LineageOS or certified devices.
- Comment on China's Humanoid Robot Soccer League Kicks Off with AI-Only Matches 6 months ago:
So, China made their own copycat RoboCup competition?
- Comment on Docker is not available in RHEL10 7 months ago:
I guess what they’re saying is, even though it’s “not supported” officially, you can still try and there’s good chances it’ll work anyway. If you need or prefer to stick to a supported configuration, it seems your options are either to switch to podman and figure out nextcloud, or switch away from RHEL.
- Comment on Apple’s Craig Federighi on the long road to the iPad’s Mac-like multitasking 7 months ago:
I don’t think a macbook can fit in my pocket … and I don’t think the (virtual) keyboard on an iphone is a “manufactured restriction” compared to a macbook
- Comment on What editor or IDE do you use and why? 7 months ago:
Interesting, never heard of it before but looks promising, I should try it. I don’t care much for AI features, but I’m not against it either, especially if I can use locally hosted models, and it seems Zed supports ollama natively, so that fits the bill.
Coming from vscode, one of the features I use a lot is devcontainers, does Zed support something similar?
- Comment on What editor or IDE do you use and why? 7 months ago:
Visual Studio Code, I think it’s just the best, works on all platforms and there’s extensions for literally everything. If it enshittifies too much with e.g. copilot, etc. there’s always vscodium instead.
If I’m on a linux terminal, I use the micro editor. I can survive using vim if nothing else is available, but yeah, I used to be in emacs team back in the day…
I have used Qt Creator in the past and, while it was pretty good back then, nowadays I’m not sure if it can compete with vscode, I haven’t kept up with its development.
- Comment on X (formerly Twitter) has been experiencing international outages for a second time in a week. 8 months ago:
Artificial Insanity?
- Comment on VS Code: Open Source AI Editor 8 months ago:
It’s an extension so it can be deactivated
Article says:
[…] then carefully refactor the relevant components of the extension into VS Code core.
So… maybe you won’t be able to deactivate it anymore. Not cool, microsoft (but totally expected).
- Comment on VS Code: Open Source AI Editor 8 months ago:
One thing I don’t like though, the article says:
then carefully refactor the relevant components of the extension into VS Code core.
So … you won’t be able to deactivate it anymore? not cool, it I interpreted it correctly.
- Comment on VS Code: Open Source AI Editor 8 months ago:
For example, that someone could fork it and make it use a local or self-hosted LLM instead. Yes I know, other alternatives exist (Continue extension) but aren’t that good.
- Comment on VS Code: Open Source AI Editor 8 months ago:
it is a lot of effort and time invested on a feature no one requested
At my last job there were several people using copilot very successfully, some even had the paid subscription, and clearly it was very useful to them. I tried it and found it not that good, barely saves me any time and sometimes actively wastes time, but that’s me. I won’t judge if others want to use it, as long as the code gets reviewed by humans, like during a pull request (and it was, in our case).
It’s just a tool. Just because I don’t find it very useful, I shouldn’t tell others not to use it.
- Comment on Chromium Blog: Fighting Unwanted Notifications with Machine Learning in Chrome 8 months ago:
Gmail, outlook web, whatsapp web, slack web … just some examples of webapps that I use or used in the past that someone might legitimately want notifications from. Maybe you don’t use them, or are not required to use them for work, and that’s fine.
The article is specifically talking about android though, and there you’d most likely use an app for those, so I personally never needed them on mobile, but I can see someone else might need them.
- Comment on Microsoft Bans Employees From Using DeepSeek App 8 months ago:
Hasn’t been true for my past two jobs at least (US based), what I do outside of company premises / my own hardware and my own time is mine. They only own what was done on company’s dime. Not saying it doesn’t happen, but that’s not my experience so far, and I’m not sure if would be legal.
- Comment on Microsoft Bans Employees From Using DeepSeek App 8 months ago:
I literally run deepseek r1 on my laptop via ollama, and many other models, nothing gets sent to anybody. Granted, it’s the smaller 7b parameter model, but still plenty good.
Microsoft could easily host the full model on their infrastructure if they needed it.
- Comment on YouTube says goodbye to decade-old video player UI, but users hate the new design 8 months ago:
I mean, they could stop messing with things that aren’t broken for once…
- Comment on Windows Defender Anti-vitus Bypassed Using Direct Syscalls & XOR Encryption 9 months ago:
According to the research published by Hackmosphere, […]
I cannot find a link to the original research, anybody has the link to the original research?
- Comment on Failure Has Many Fathers at Apple Right Now. 9 months ago:
Some of Apple’s struggles in AI have stemmed from deeply ingrained company values—for example, its militant stance on user privacy, which has made it difficult for the company to gain access to large quantities of data for training models and to verify whether AI features are working on devices.
So, Apple is behind in the AI race at least partly because they’re trying to do it more responsibly and more respecting of their users. I don’t really like Apple, but I guess I’m starting to like them more… a bit more. tiny bit. but still.
- Comment on Teardown Of A Scam Ultrasonic Cleaner 9 months ago:
Few years ago at work, people were using them to clean electronics after soldering, etc. but once, they did it on a board with a MEMS device, a gyroscope and accelerometer chip. Took them a while to figure out while none of them worked until they narrowed it down to the ultrasonic cleaner…
- Comment on Do you dislike your dependency on Android? To the rescue comes Mobile Linux "PostmarketOS" - Funded via Donations, Focus on Reliabilty for 2025 9 months ago:
While I’m a fan of GrapheneOS, I think it could still be considered “tied to Google” both due to it being based on Android, and also because it only runs on Google Pixel phones. Graphene focuses more on security, then on privacy, but not so much on reducing our dependency on Google’s software and/or hardware.
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 10 months ago:
You’re right, I thought I remembered that article giving actual figures but instead it just handwavily says they didn’t sell many.
So, here is one that actually quotes a number, 3% of the whole iPhone lineup: macrumors.com/…/iphone-13-mini-unpopular-march-qu…
And another: cultofmac.com/…/iphone-13-mini-makes-up-a-tiny-pe…
And another, this one says 5% for some reason: notebookcheck.net/iPhone-13-Mini-sales-continue-t…
Either way 3% - 5% is a small number for Apple (or Samsung, or…) which might not justify making a small phone, but in absolute numbers, thats actually a lot of people! A smaller manufacturer should definitely be able to profitably fill this niche…
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 10 months ago:
Yeah, sounds like they improved quite a bit, I might consider it, thanks! Still, lack of 5G means not so future proof
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 10 months ago:
The old jelly pro had a decent modding community, and I definitely was able to unlock the bootloader and root it, though not sure about degoogling.
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 10 months ago:
There is. The screen is smaller, but the actual phone is bigger 🤦♂️
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 10 months ago:
They can just make them a little thicker, but still usable with one hand.
Really, it’s not a technical problem, it’s a marketing problem (i.e. not enough demand, unfortunately).
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 10 months ago:
As a lover of small phones, unfortunately that’s the truth. Apple tried a couple years ago with their iPhone mini and sold very few. Still, there should be enough of us that maybe some smaller phone manufacturers could fill this niche.
And maybr make it fully unlocked and repairavle, replaceable battery, etc. while they’re at it.