freetanga (u/freetanga)

freetanga commented on The Typeframe PX-88 Portable Computing System typeframe.net/... · Posted by u/birdculture

iamnothere · a day ago

To each their own. If there were a Psion that supported modern email, calendar, and task standards, with wifi sync, I would carry it most days. I basically never make phone calls anymore, and I always found the old greyscale LCDs to be very legible.

Caveat: such a device should not be infested with shitty spyware like everything else these days.

freetanga · a day ago

Isn’t that a Palma from BOOX? And I believe there were 1-2 competitors (Hisense phone?)

freetanga commented on AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questions about leaving AWS oneuptime.com/blog/post/2... · Posted by u/ndhandala

anal_reactor · 2 months ago

My manager wants me to make this silly AWS certification.

Let me go on a tangent about trains. In Spain before you board a high-speed train you need to go though full security check, like on an airport. In all other EU countries you just show up and board, but in Spain there's the security check. The problem is that even though the security check is an expensive, inefficient theatre, just in case something does blow up, nobody wants to be the politician that removed the security check. There will be no reward for a politician that makes life marginally easier for lots of people, but there will be severe punishment for a politician that is involved in a potential terrorist attack, even if the chance of that happening is ridiculously small.

This is exactly why so many companies love to be balls deep into AWS ecosystem, even if it's expensive.

freetanga · 2 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Thalys_train_attack

freetanga commented on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1 health.aws.amazon.com/hea... · Posted by u/kondro

jacquesm · 2 months ago

Every week or so we interview a company and ask them if they have a fall-back plan in case AWS goes down or their cloud account disappears. They always have this deer-in-the-headlights look. 'That can't happen, right?'

Now imagine for a bit that it will never come back up. See where that leads you. The internet got its main strengths from the fact that it was completely decentralized. We've been systematically eroding that strength.

freetanga · 2 months ago

Additionally I find that most Hyperscalers are trying to lock you in, by tailoring services which are industry standard with custom features which end up building roots and making a multi-vendor or lift and shift problematic.

Need to keep eyes peeled at all levels or the organization as many of these enter through day-to-day…

freetanga commented on Apple M5 chip apple.com/newsroom/2025/1... · Posted by u/mihau

rollcat · 2 months ago

How else do you get the message across? Do not use the private APIs.

Electron is most likely using a whole ton more. Apple is sending a message. "Fix your crap or expect more."

freetanga · 2 months ago

... and in the process we will deteriorate the performance of millions of users and hurt our brand as a top class experience company?

Don't really care who is to blame, but they should have identified this, and either warn developers, or warn users. Or provide a tool for identifying guilty apps in your machine, and let users decide how to proceed.

freetanga commented on Revamping an Old TV as a Gift (2019) blog.davidv.dev/posts/rev... · Posted by u/deivid

deivid · 3 months ago

It's been a while, but building this was an interesting experience.

At the time, it was pretty far outside my comfort zone and I had a looming deadline (dad's birthday). Writing the software to work "as I intended" turned out to be much harder than I'd expected, so I ended up hacking things and making single 8-hour long video for each channel (with some persistence, so on next boot it'd continue from where it was)

On the positive side, Dad loved it, and keeping the tuner (the channel dial) with some high resistance made the TV feel as if it was truly an original TV.

Unexpectedly, everybody loved the ads that I added! I think my family mostly felt nostalgic about them

freetanga · 3 months ago

Felicidades. Que ganas de ver a Mingo y Aníbal en ese cacharro! Que lo disfrute!

freetanga commented on CVC acquires majority stake in Namecheap for $1.5B webhosting.today/2025/09/... · Posted by u/ajdude

HellsMaddy · 3 months ago

Private equity seems to be a form of cancer that slowly sucks the life out of everything it touches, with a single goal: to grow and spread. Can someone more knowledgeable please explain to me why I'm wrong?

freetanga · 3 months ago

Have you seen “Other peoples money” with Danny de Vito? I felt it explains this cancer quite well, 35 years ago.

freetanga commented on A receipt printer cured my procrastination laurieherault.com/article... · Posted by u/laurieherault

laurieherault · 6 months ago

Author here. It’s my first article. I’m a bit nervous but excited to get your feedback. If you deal with procrastination too, I hope this method helps you like it helped me.

freetanga · 6 months ago

Hello! I did a similar thing - however I use TXTs and command line scripts to keep track of things (similar to task warrior). It's a great approach to pick up the list every morning as I have breakfast, put it in my notebook as I leave for the day.

Calendar, weather, to-dos, all in a single thing I can keep in my wallet if needed. I recall somebody posted a project for printing daily news on the roll too (I don't)

freetanga commented on Denmark to raise retirement age to 70 telegraph.co.uk/world-new... · Posted by u/wslh

dagss · 7 months ago

Assuming your country is similar to Norway:

1) Unions say it when they always demand increased salary (= focus on private spending) rather than reduced working hours

2) Voters say it when the right and far right is polling high. Lower taxes = wish for higher private spending, if people are going to work less then tax rate must up for society to function as public expenditure will increase, not decrease, with lots of elderly needing care and fewer workers available.

3) Lots of people have the ability to reduce working hours by working fewer hours (in Norway, if you have kids you can always get 20% unpaid leave by law). And most could do so economically if they reduced their consumption and spending. But people do not seem to consider reducing their salary as an option. The option is available to lots of people and they are not taking it.

PS: You talk about getting more stuff, but to meet the future labor problems we are talking about reductions being needed to peoples consumption, not staying at the 2025 level.

freetanga · 7 months ago

You could argue the opposite to all your points.

1) Unions are asking that Capitalists share a bigger slice of the fruit of workers labor back with the workforce. Forcing a link between that and private spending and eventual consumerism is skipping a few steps in the logic.

2) Voters vote on a number of reasons. Taxes are one, but they range from geopolitical, immigration, healthcare, education, safety, access to housing among others. And then there is the charisma and quality of the candidate. Saying people vote left or right for one single issue is simplistic, and not very genuine. It could also be that significant groups of people abuse the social support tools, and people get tired of paying taxes for someone else to benefit by not doing their share.

3) You are clearly well off and are being a bit selfish. Many people live paycheck to paycheck, and would like to save some money for their future, which seems smart considering that goverment funds will crumble (as stated in this article). Other people work because they have done so for 30 years and sadly their life are empty outside of it. Assuming people work 100% just because they are too materialistic or attached to wealth feels a bit unfair to what most of society goes through.

Don't mean to critise, but in face of your strong opinion, I wanted to highlight that as Flaubert said, "There is no truth, just perceptions".

freetanga commented on Google's AI Mode is 'the definition of theft,' publishers say 9to5google.com/2025/05/22... · Posted by u/ironyman

rvnx · 7 months ago

I'm sure they did not, but the rich guys win, even if they do something truly illegal.

If they would have respected the laws, OpenAI would not have been able to create AI models at all (as they are derivatives of copyrighted works).

So it's pure piracy of content at scale. The same with Veo3.

Is it beneficial to humanity ? Probably yes.

Is it harmful to content creators ? Absolutely but in the long-term, they have little chances to survive, no matter if legal or not, because this is both what the market and consumers want.

For example, these people on Fiverr selling blog posts, it was minimum 200 USD per blog post, and few days of turnaround.

Now with AI it's 0.01 USD and instant.

freetanga · 7 months ago

Leaving outside the ethical part of it - which is huge, this kills innovation.

The problem I see is that when everything is iterative, and you kill sustainable incentives for new views, innovation disappears.

Is like the movies. We will get all budget towards remakes and reboots, and little new would show up.

Being an 80s guy, I remember many new movies coming out every year, and when they stretched beyond 2 or 3 films, people frowned.

Back to the future, Indy (the good years), Rambo (first 3), lethal weapon. Cool gems came up too (Last action hero?Terminator) even in loaded fields like simple action movies…. Star Wars, 3 films. Matrix. bond was the exception.

Now? mission impossible (8 films at over 2h), fast and mediocre franchise (20 movies), Marvel and DC movies (3 movies shot 30 different times), and everything else is a reboot. Almost impossible for new ideas to get through.

We are killing culture, innovation and human spark for some companies to make a billion more. We are feeding like factory pigs from generic slop, and as the factories grow they kill fertile ground for those who wanted to eat something cleaner.

The fact that is happening does not mean it’s right. It’s just we are accepting mediocrity as our guiding principle at 0.01 USD a pop…

freetanga commented on Google's AI Mode is 'the definition of theft,' publishers say 9to5google.com/2025/05/22... · Posted by u/ironyman

rvnx · 7 months ago

Elevator Operators (people who were driving elevators up and down) also got their job "stolen" by AI.

Was it the responsibility of the people who created automated, cheaper and better elevators to defend the job of these obsolete people ?

Not really.

freetanga · 7 months ago

The big question is whether Google followed the content licensing, and if needed, paid for it.