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ct0 commented on Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy   theguardian.com/film/2025... · Posted by u/nemoniac
bkettle · 19 days ago
I was wondering recently whether someone could conceivably start a disk-in-the-mail Netflix again, now that streaming sucks so much and every publisher seems to want their own streaming service. My understanding (possibly wrong, I'm not an expert) is that it's perfectly legal to lend out physical media without any special permission from the publisher under the first-sale doctrine, so it seems like the only way to build a library that has content from many different publishers.

(of course, this could only work as long as publishers keep producing physical media)

ct0 · 19 days ago
The pirates version of blockbuster is still alive and well at your local library.
ct0 commented on MacBook Pro Insomnia   manuel.bernhardt.io/posts... · Posted by u/speckx
SubiculumCode · a month ago
My new A16 iPad seems to use more power sitting closed much than I would have thought. I came here to say this, but found you got to it first. I hope someone here has some thoughts on the matter.

I am more Android guy, so I am not yet familiar with the options. Does the iPad have a power usage app describing what apps/services are using the power? Bluetooth for one to keep the Apple Pencil ready, I suppose.

ct0 · a month ago
yes, search for battery
ct0 commented on More honey bees dying, even as antibiotic use halves   news.uoguelph.ca/2025/07/... · Posted by u/pseudolus
mushroomba · a month ago
Modern beekeeping practices are a kind of factory-farming. Tim Rowe developed a method of beekeeping that takes advantage of evolution to improve the vitality of bees. It is described succinctly in his book, The Rose Hive Method. [1]

I, unfortunately, developed a severe bee-sting allergy, and can no longer put these ideas into practice. I anticipate that commercial beekeeping cannot sustain its current practices.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18279124-the-rose-hive-m...

ct0 · a month ago
a deck for those beek's that are interested https://projectloveforbees.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/...
ct0 commented on Show HN: A macOS clock that stays visible when coding or binging in fullscreen   cornertime.app/en... · Posted by u/muvich3n
shinycode · a month ago
I’ve never ever liked working with the full screen mode. Very hard to do multi tasking with it. Curious to see how much people use it
ct0 · a month ago
full screen + multiple virtual desktops is the way. I do it on windows most of the time, and its helped my multitasking experience.
ct0 commented on My experience with Claude Code after two weeks of adventures   sankalp.bearblog.dev/my-c... · Posted by u/dejavucoder
ipaddr · 2 months ago
What I wonder is how is the interview process now? Are they testing you with AI or without? Is leet code being asked with AI proving the answer?

Is there a bigger disconnect on how you are judged in an interview vs the job now?

How are the AI only developers handling this?

ct0 · 2 months ago
The projects you work on and the impact that they had. Hopefully.
ct0 commented on US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel   arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/gausswho
slg · 2 months ago
>$100 million or more rule seems silly when that's the cost of ~10 stoplights and there are like 33 million businesses in the US.

A minute of internet research suggests that specific $100m figure is from a 45-year-old law[1]. I don't know why every government law and regulation that references specific monetary values like this aren't pegged to inflation. That equivalent value today is almost $400m.

EDIT: Actually the number might come from a 29-year-old amendment[2]. It is disappointing how hard it is to track these things down.

[1] - https://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/regulatory/rulemaking/flexibil...

[2] - https://www.congress.gov/bill/104th-congress/senate-bill/942

ct0 · 2 months ago
Seems that the hard coded fixed dollar amount argument can apply everywhere, see small claims court maximums.
ct0 commented on How Ukraine’s killer drones are beating Russian jamming   spectrum.ieee.org/ukraine... · Posted by u/rbanffy
hofrogs · 3 months ago
Stores won't sell a SIM card without the buyer providing valid state ID, and SIM cards are disabled by carriers if they suspect you are using someone else's card and you can't provide an ID for it. This is one of the recent laws. Getting a phone number/data plan that isn't associated with your real identity (and instead registered to someone else, usually a homeless guy somewhere) isn't impossible, but those wouldn't come from a grocery store.
ct0 · 3 months ago
I wonder if identity documents were taken from POW's captured at the front lines.
ct0 commented on Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup   pcworld.com/article/26517... · Posted by u/airstrike
kyrra · 4 months ago
If you like fast apps, maybe check out FilePilot, a Windows explorer alternative.

https://filepilot.tech/

It's amazingly fast, though it's missing some features and will be really expensive when it leaves beta.

ct0 · 4 months ago
how does it compare to directory opus?
ct0 commented on Evertop: E-ink IBM XT clone with 100+ hours of battery life   github.com/ericjenott/Eve... · Posted by u/harryvederci
jmward01 · 4 months ago
I think there is a class of device here that is missing. Low power but forever devices that have some basic functionality. Over time I could see this taking over laptops and the like as ultra-low-power became more and more capable.
ct0 · 4 months ago
There are a few commercial products popping up and marketing. I think youll find what you find here interesting: https://old.reddit.com/r/writerDeck/ Im using a Boox palma 2 on a stand, and a Thinkpad Keyboard 2 to emulate the same thing. The battery life may not be 100 hours but considerable.

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