I'm surprised no one has mentioned that KDE revived the Plasma Bigscreen project. No idea on the ETA but assuming all goes well I can see it becoming my daily driver very quickly.
Readit Newsdisambiguation commented on Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/fleahunter
“They want us to fear birds” is wild man
Alfred hitchcock was ahead of his time.
disambiguation commented on Crypto hoarders dump tokens as shares tumble arstechnica.com/informati... · Posted by u/Bender
I'm just disappointed in crypto. It was supposed to be internet currency, but became another meme stock instead. Maybe someday we'll be able to reboot it the right way so it can actually provide something of real value.
I too was in the market recently for a NAS, downgrading from a 12 bay server because of yagni - it's far too big, too loud, runs hot, and uses way too much energy. I was also tempted by the jonsbo (it's a very nice case) but prices being what they are it was actually better to get a premade 4 bay model for under $500 (batteries included, hdds are not). It's small, quiet, power efficient, and didnt break the bank in the process. Historically DIY has always been cheaper, but that's no longer the case (no pun intended)
Native phone apps give me the creeps. I assume the developer's are able to track me in various ways even without my giving permissions. Is that an unfounded fear on my part?
Can an app uniquely identify me if I don't give it control over my phone number / nearby devices?
Can apps geo-locate me if the location permission has not been granted? (seems like they could just make a network request to their servers and use the IP address of the request for a rough idea).
I _really_ wish using the network was a permission (even if it was an "advanced mode" thing).
Netguard solves this, available on the play store and F droid
disambiguation commented on I don't care how well your "AI" works fokus.cool/2025/11/25/i-d... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
I'm under the impression that AI is still negative ROI. Creating absolute value is different from creating value greater than the cost. A tool is a tool, but could you continue performing professionally if it was suddenly no longer available?
disambiguation commented on The gruesome new data on tech jobs businessinsider.com/grues... · Posted by u/pseudolus
Can anyone convince me this is truly an effect of AI, and not just pullback from the mass hiring during and following ZIRP in 2021-23ish? I understand either cause makes it a bad time to be a junior, but would like to hear the argument _against_ "AI is taking our jobs".
(I suspect some very junior jobs have genuinely been taken by AI, but it seems to me that the driving factor is still a return-to-mean after ZIRP).
It's not exactly a science, it's the aggregate trend of many distinct players allocating capital where they think it will be most productive. AI isnt't "taking jobs", but it might be taking the capital that would otherwise go towards sustaining and growing headcount.
disambiguation commented on Implications of AI to schools twitter.com/karpathy/stat... · Posted by u/bilsbie
The current education system is going to collapse. Teachers and students alike won't be able to resist the ultimate cheat code.
Schools need to become tech free zones. Education needs to reorient around more frequent standardized tests. Any "tech" involved needs to be exclusively applied towards solving the supply and demand issue - the number of "quality teachers" to "students per classroom."
I admire Karpathy for advocating common sense, but none of this will happen because SV is full of IQ realists who only see "education" as a business opportunity and the bureaucratic process is too dysfunctional for common sense decisions to prevail. The future is chrome books with GPT browsers for every student.
disambiguation commented on Show HN: I built an interactive HN Simulator news.ysimulator.run/news... · Posted by u/johnsillings
Fantastic - you can improve on the realism in the next iteration by simulating voting based on comment alignment. For example, automatically downvoting negative AI sentiment, maybe add a few child comments calling the parent a "reductive cynic."
Otherwise agreed with the sentiment.