thejml

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Just Killed the "Cover for Me" Excuse: Microsoft 365 Now Tracks You in Real-Time⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is literally how our corporate network is setup. You MUST be on vpn or you cant get to anything. Makes the access permissions super simple. Prior to this setup there were authorization settings that differed between on-prem/off, on vpn or off, which office you were in, etc. now they just deny all unless you vpn in and then it uses your vpn account to validate access there, in one place. Saved a lot of headaches.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google will pay $135 million to settle illegal data collection lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Add another two zeros and then its a more positive story.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla profit tanked 46% in 2025 | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  When I started work at a new location last year the EV charging section of the parking lot was almost exclusively Teslas. Year later and its much more mixed. I regularly see Porsches, BMWs, Polestars, Mustang EVs, and a few Ioniq’s and a Rivian.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla profit tanked 46% in 2025 | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Totally Tubular

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you have a plan for your self-hosted data if you die?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually started doing that. It’s a living document, shared with others. It’s the best solution I’ve come up with. Knowing whether or not I can convey enough info to make it usable and able to be followed for a less technical person like other family members drives my adoption of software/hardware solutions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you have a plan for your self-hosted data if you die?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the theoretically part that i haven’t figured out. I know none of my family members would have any idea what to do with anything. I feel like All the Data will just be lost when i go… which is a huge issue as everything moves to digital.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Police Told to Be ‘as Vague as Permissible’ About Why They Use Flock⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Rather than looking at this incident as a huge operational security failure associated with using a massive commercial surveillance system, police see this as something that puts their officers directly in harm’s way.

  Why not both?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perceiving AI as a 'job killer' negatively influences attitudes towards democracy— When people perceive AI as replacing human labour, trust in democracy and political participation decline⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  But thats less because of AI specifically, and more because it’s that governments are pushing for something that the people don’t want.

  You could replace AI in that sentence with anything the people don’t want, didn’t ask for, or are explicitly against, and it would still be true.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Denominator, go Mercator⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  He just wants it ti deflect from the Epstein Files.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just the Browser: tools to remove AI and other bloatware from Chrome, Edge and Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think we should go back to Netscape.

  You know, like Landscape or Manscape, this is Netscape, where it automatically trims out all the AI, Trackers and Ads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Immich – A Self-Hosted, Open-Source Alternative to Google Photos⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d rather new software versions were only released when there was a solid reason. A slow meaningful, well tested release cadence is generally a sign of more mature and stable software.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X down – latest: Twitter and Grok not working in another major outage⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I stopped when it became X. However it was full of racist, bigotry and hatred before then as well.

  I used it to keep up with some content creators and tech companies but I did so by getting an API key and running a cli that only pulled down messages from who I followed. Made it much more bearable and useful.

  Since the Xittification, API keys are expensive and I’ve either followed them elsewhere, or mostly just given up. Some dropped it, but when you have thousands to millions of followers on a platform, from their side, it’s hard to lose that audience.

  I used to like Twitter when it started, following people and small companies/communities was super easy and the 140char limit nice and terse for both the posters and the ones following. Then it shat the bed and then it got bought out and while some still post there because of followers, most have left or just disappeared.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X down – latest: Twitter and Grok not working in another major outage⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Time for a pull request to remove it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discontinuing the Teensy at Adafruit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Jan 14, 2026 – Looks like SparkFun (Nate) is trying to drag Limor and I on hackernews, here is the post and discussion. And… Paul maker of “teensyduino” for the Arduino-compatible teensy, emailed and said there is “concern” about us saying teensy-compatible for the future unreleased unnamed open source alternative.

  That not cool, bro.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Worst in Show' CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently a large percentage of people buy cars without test driving them… so probably.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Worst in Show' CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like the problem here is that you get people who are curious or like the other features the fridge has and just get what they can when theirs goes out. And while, sure, those people learn not to do that again, by that point the industry used that sales data as a “they must like it, lets do it across the board!” Instead of asking people or taking anything else into account when figuring out what products to continue making.

  In 10 yrs when those fridges die and people who “learned their lesson” go to buy a new fridge, there will be zero fridges without AI because marketing thought thats why they bought it and no one has any ability to buy a non-AI fridge anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electric motorcycles with solid-state batteries seem to be coming soon.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone have a non-video summary/article?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  On one hand, its not that bad on a Mac… but that’s because the OS is designed in such a way where there’s nothing there and it sorta gets lost. Windows isn’t like that at all.

  On the other hand, At least its not right above the keyboard like some of the ones we have at work… the “up the nose” cam is not flattering.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's Satya Nadella wants you to stop saying AI "slop" in 2026⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Satya, I really want to stop saying it too… But it’s everywhere, so i call it like it is. Stop making the Slop and I’ll stop saying it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure if they still do, but PC Manufacturers used to get kick backs from every vendor they added shovelware for. For example, E-Machines was famous for it… AOL, Adobe, Office, shareware “pay to unlock” versions of games, Norton, etc. everyone sent checks to Dell, HP, Compaq, etc, just to peddle their wares for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Swap is a thing. It’ll kinda suck, but not as much as it would have pre-nvme. Except that now there’s an nvme shortage… and an SSD shortage.

  Ugh, I guess I’ll just put Windows 2000/ME on there to complete the retro look.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Devastated PC builder orders DDR5 RAM from Amazon, receives DDR2 and some weights — counterfeit 32GB kit a worrying sign of rising return and sales fraud⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is my theory. The kind of stuff I buy there is all electronics manufactured in china/Asia anyway. I could buy it direct or from ali express, but Amazon shipping is hella cheap and fast and they actually do returns quickly and correctly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Edge Pushes an "All in One Browser" Message on Chrome’s Download Page⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Always have been… but Google is just as bad, so installing Chrome isn’t going to help you there. Honestly, even FF or anything else on Windows wont even get you out of that fate. They’ve proven they take screen shots, likely log keypresses, etc.

  This isn’t new or even newsworthy anymore. Being okay with these sorts of things is like, literally part of EULA’s and such for decades. And people willingly give up privacy in trade for whatever service or product they’re choosing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Edge Pushes an "All in One Browser" Message on Chrome’s Download Page⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As much as I would personally hate that, it honestly wouldn’t be a bad choice for my aging parents and my IT load when I visit them.

  Linux is likely in their future, but thin clients for them would greatly reduce and centralize their compute considering what they actually need.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK to “encourage” Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, No. I don’t want my phone making decisions for me or my kids. If its site by site, they can just go somewhere else.

  As a parent, I’m far more worried about shitty social media algorithms that push narratives and online bullying and misinformation than I am about nudity. People have bodies, sex happens, it’s normal, whatever. I’d rather my kid learned about all that instead of being sheltered away from it until they turned 18.

  If anything, normalizing nudity and acceptance of different body types is probably a good thing for kids to learn, especially females where a constant narrative of “skinny, pretty, perfect” is being shoved on them and shaming them for not being a super model is considered the status quo.

  Let me make that decision as a parent, don’t try to protect my kids for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Data centers need electricity, utilities need years to build – who should pay?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is where requirements as part of the data center zoning and purchase agreements comes in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip Code⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A few years ago I got a spam call from my own number. Who would fall for that?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I run it in a container on Kubernetes. Definitely recommend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  More than a PDP-11, but I would recommend against both.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder how a “first computer” stats break down when some people (me) were born before laptops and tablets. (Also now I feel old…)