technofiend (u/technofiend)

technofiend commented on Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker wealthfolio.app/?v=2.0... · Posted by u/a-fadil

workworkwork71 · 25 days ago

I really don't think you read this article beyond the headline because that's not what it's about or implying...literally in the slightest.

That article is about JPMorgan being able to charge Plaid or other providers for the middleman access. They used to be operating almost for free, now Plaid has to pay for access the same way companies like mine pay Plaid.

technofiend · 25 days ago

So you don't think Plaid sells customer data? And by extension charging for customer data requests by Plaid and other aggregators isn't in fact charging for it?

Plaid does in fact sell your data, but they ask for permission first. So does JPMC, for that matter: https://media.chase.com/news/chase-launches-chase-media-solu...

technofiend commented on Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker wealthfolio.app/?v=2.0... · Posted by u/a-fadil

workworkwork71 · 25 days ago

I'm a founder in this space (Fulfilled - posted above). Here's the reality: You're right that incentives matter. But selling your data would be idiotic for us, same reason it would be for your bank in that trust is the entire business model.

If we want to monetize insights from aggregated data, we'd do it in-house and offer you better products. Example: Why sell your mortgage readiness data to some broker when we could source competitive mortgage offers and present them directly to you? Keep you in our ecosystem, add value to your experience, and build a revenue stream that doesn't destroy the core product.

The wealth space is crowded. Companies that burn user trust get exposed fast and die faster. The only sustainable path is treating your data like it belongs to you and not us. Any company here who doesn't get that is building on quicksand and I'd be very surprised to hear any of the larger players engaging in those practices but maybe I'm naive.

Either way, it's why we're a Fiduciary and that blankets the entire product suite.

technofiend · 25 days ago

"...Selling your data would be idiotic...same reason it would be for your bank [to sell your data] in that trust is the entire business model." I'm afraid that ship has sailed and taken your data with it.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/14/jpmorgan-chase-fintech-fees....

technofiend commented on Helping Valve to power up Steam devices igalia.com/2025/11/helpin... · Posted by u/TingPing

bauble · 25 days ago

I'm staring at the EOL of Windows 10, which I use on my game machine. I'll happily get one of the cubes for my next box. I'd like this to be the end of my Windows usage.

technofiend · 25 days ago

You did say "I'd like this to be the end of my Windows usage." Even so, if you're not ready to move tomorrow, you can give up some privacy for the next year and continue to get patches by logging in to Microsoft. Windows 10 LTSC is a possibility if you somehow qualify for a license, although there's no guarantee the latest Nvidia drivers will work on it, some version of them will, or you can punt and run Linux on your current PC until the steam cube comes out. Pick a Linux distribution you like and run Steam, or go down the rabbit hole of running native Steam OS.

I personally preferred Fedora for this but mostly because my employer is a redhat shop. It's not otherwise (as far as I know) any better or worse than any other distro for gaming.

technofiend commented on Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux github.com/IsmaelMartinez... · Posted by u/basemi

BuildTheRobots · a month ago

> The boss doesn't see that you can't properly paste a piece of code in the chat

Of all my many gripes with Teams, it usually handles code surprisingly well. Single `inline` and triple backtick blocks usually render as you'd expect.

OneNote on the other hand doesn't support a code-block at all, and is worse (if you can believe it) than storing cli commands in Word docs.

technofiend · a month ago

When I paste code into the native MacOS Teams chat, my peers using Window Teams see a literal black box. I wish it worked! I really do. Or we all had MacBooks or Linux desktops.

technofiend commented on Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux github.com/IsmaelMartinez... · Posted by u/basemi

linguae · a month ago

It’s sad to see the decline in the quality of desktop computing. I blame this on the rise of mobile apps and Web apps in the 2010s. It’s not that mobile apps and Web apps are inherently bad; that’s not the problem. The problems is that we have an entire generation of engineers who never learned desktop UI/UX conventions and principles.

To make matters worse, in an attempt to save on development costs, mobile and Web applications have been deployed on the desktop, with the justification that it’s better to have an app, even a shoddy one, than to not have one at all. What’s appropriate on a smartphone or a tablet may not be appropriate on a desktop, and vice versa. The Web never had a mechanism for enforcing UI/UX guidelines, similar to the MS-DOS and Apple II days of computing.

The sad thing is Microsoft and even Apple now have shoddy desktop apps, despite the fact they have the resources to make well-designed desktop apps, and that at one point they set standards for excellent desktop apps and conformed to them.

We had a sweet spot in the 2000s with Windows 2000/XP/7 and Mac OS X and their ecosystems of desktop applications. It’s been downhill since.

technofiend · a month ago

Even Microsoft MacOS apps are second-class citizens next to the ones found on Windows. I personally feel this is $WORKING_AS_INTENDED because honestly why would Microsoft empower people to exit the platform? It would be like creating an open source version of Active Directory and giving it away.

technofiend commented on History and use of the Estes AstroCam 110 dembrudders.com/history-a... · Posted by u/mmmlinux

watersb · a month ago

The first personal computer generally available in the United States, the MITS Altair, grew out of projects like this.

MITS was an acronym: "Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems". Ed Roberts and Forrest Mims made electronics kits for model rockets.

As a 1970s kid, I built Estes rockets, but I never did anything fancy. You'd spend a week or two of free time, building the kit and painting it. Then you'd blow it up on the launch pad, or launch it into the wild blue and never see it again. Or spend all your birthday money on a Star Wars X-Wing fighter, launch it, and have it nose-dive into the dirt about ten feet away.

Come to think of it, model rocketry was exactly like real rocketry.

Forrest Mims enriched my life in other ways, with his patient lab manuals for the Radio Shack electronics kits.

technofiend · a month ago

Completely shared experiences with regards to both Forrest's books and Estes' rockets, except after enough losses of the latter I got pretty fatalistic about new rockets. They were assembled and flown same day as soon as the glue dried, with maybe a slapdash decal; there wasn't much point investing too much time or energy when the wind or a tree was going to take them anyway.

technofiend commented on Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout theregister.com/2025/10/2... · Posted by u/raw_anon_1111

edoceo · 2 months ago

I thought the recovery was early AM Seattle time (like 4am). Where I think start-of-day is like 9am. Maybe recovery started early (6am) New York time?

technofiend · 2 months ago

huh.. maybe publicly communicated recovery was then. I was seeing knock-on effects hours later and didn't see full recovery until late afternoon EST.

technofiend commented on Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout theregister.com/2025/10/2... · Posted by u/raw_anon_1111

SoftTalker · 2 months ago

> just getting by at 140k a year

Lol

technofiend · 2 months ago

It can be a life changing amount of money but not always in a good way. If you're not careful, your spending expands like a gas to fill all the available volume and you're just marching sideways towards retirement with nothing saved because it's too fun spending money.

technofiend commented on Apple M4 Series Feature Support asahilinux.org/docs/platf... · Posted by u/walterbell

tedunangst · 2 months ago

> Note that as these machines have not been released for general availability yet, supported and missing features are predictions based on what Apple has changed on a per-SoC and per-machine basis in the past. This page will change rapidly once work begins on support for these machines.

These machines have been available for quite a while.

technofiend · 2 months ago

The same text is on their M3 page, so at this point you have to assume it really means they haven't gotten to a point where the support page needs updating. Although it would be nice if they updated their page to just say that instead I guess beggars can't be choosers.

technofiend commented on Silver Snoopy Award nasa.gov/space-flight-awa... · Posted by u/LorenDB

technofiend · 2 months ago

It's just anecdotal but when I asked why our Xerox workstations at JSC had dancing Snoopy line art, I was told Charles Schulz himself was a big fan of the space program and he'd drawn art for the program and extended its use to them in perpetuity.

I have been on a team that won a silver Snoopy but was a subcontractor and didn't get one myself; just the Boeing employees I worked with did. Every once in a while I Google them on the off chance I could get one as a piece of memoribilia, but they are thousands of dollars.