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New comment by 1shooner in "Firedome"

1shooner — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 17:28:55 +0000

Because that would not include an AI Decision Engine or Smart Capsules.

New comment by 1shooner in "More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle"

1shooner — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:33:53 +0000

Between KOReader, SSH, and Tailscale, something completely wrecked the battery life of my Kindle Oasis, and introduced frequent reboots/crashes. That was a previous implementation, maybe things have improved.

New comment by 1shooner in "Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects"

1shooner — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:06:46 +0000

I don't understand the complaint. This is the most participatory governance model of any of your options for this service category. If that's not enough for you, you really should just host your own.

New comment by 1shooner in "Americans – including many Republicans – are losing faith in capitalism"

1shooner — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 22:05:49 +0000

>some sort of immersion or shock therapy is needed

A quarter of the country lives on less than $34k a year. I bet that would shock some people into changing their definition of what is 'shitty'.

New comment by 1shooner in "Ask HN: Does anyone have an old Goodreads API key?"

1shooner — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:46:40 +0000

So your product is a referral to Amazon, and they won't even give you api access to build their referral funnel? That doesn't sound like much of a business partner.

New comment by 1shooner in "Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects"

1shooner — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:02:38 +0000

>What if I donated?

Then you would have been a supporting member, and had the opportunity to vote on this decision.

New comment by 1shooner in "Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting"

1shooner — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:47:26 +0000

>I think what could help make this better is investing into giving agents actual personality, instead of them being just sycophantic clones of each other. AI agents as team members should have clear aspects of distinction both in their abilities and behaviors.

A language interface doesn't need a personality any more than a visual interface does. For most professional work, source data isn't written in the first person. Ego is an imposed product feature that wastes energy. What would the purpose of diverse personalities be? I want models as tools, not friends.

New comment by 1shooner in "Open Book Touch: open-source e-reader"

1shooner — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 20:45:01 +0000

Personally, having a book-like form factor is a property that moves it into it's own tactile/haptic experience. These small newspaper-column width readers seem to just take you further down the 'reading generally' path.

While I appreciate the sentiment of physical books, I simply don't have the physical space for my book collection, and it seemed frivolous to make that a meaningful requirement of my living space. On top of that, my reading-distance eyesight has started to go, and it's so much simpler to bump the text on a book-sized reader than it is to manage reading glasses.

New comment by 1shooner in "Bluesky Trademarks ATProto"

1shooner — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 03:34:25 +0000

Thanks, this is informative. I had meant 'instance' from more of a general user adoption perspective (i.e. Bluesky app user plus Bluesky PDS tenant), but based on other comments here that may not be too accurate either.

New comment by 1shooner in "Bluesky Trademarks ATProto"

1shooner — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 03:15:44 +0000

>We plan to transfer that ownership to an appropriate, independent protocol governance organization in the future.

I never realized there is no independent governance org that should have registered this. So AT is governed by a single for-profit entity, that also runs the only viable instance?

New comment by 1shooner in "A full body MRI earns you a year of smoking"

1shooner — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 22:43:07 +0000

What is the 'QALY' value of the peace of mind coming from a clean bill of health?

New comment by 1shooner in "Archaeology team unearths 'prototype' of world-famous Stonehenge monument"

1shooner — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:29:29 +0000

For anyone who hasn't checked it out, Time Team is very comforting, old-fashioned edutainment reality tv.

New comment by 1shooner in "The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war"

1shooner — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:35:27 +0000

>“When you talk about conventional technologies on a booster like you see other people doing, and being able to recover and reuse that booster 15 times with relatively minimial refurbishmoent costs, that’s pretty darn challenging, and maybe not the right place, in our view, to start on that problem,” Bruno said.

This doesn't really sound like doubting any claim; he's talking about how his organization was approaching it given their limited resources.

New comment by 1shooner in "A brewing battle: More IT workers want unions. The industry doesn't"

1shooner — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:49:15 +0000

In principle I support the idea of organized labor, but I hate to admit that every real-world experience of unions I've witnessed (second hand), the union has just been another layer of rent-seeking administration.

I don't know enough about the history and structure to understand if the current tech union movement is more of the same or if there is some reform included.

New comment by 1shooner in "The Supreme Court Just Lit a Fuse Under Flock's License Plate Camera Empire"

1shooner — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 19:34:10 +0000

SCOTUS unanimously ruled that a GPS car tracker is a 4th amendment search.

New comment by 1shooner in "John Carmack on why he would push back against anti-datacenter efforts"

1shooner — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:48:05 +0000

>I consider it a tragedy that anti-nuclear efforts largely strangled nuclear power in the US based on vibes

This is not a strong analogy in support of AI data centers. Power utilities are heavily-regulated with controls over impact, public access, and ratemaking. There are none of those public benefit controls in place for data centers. Defending AI economics because opposition is 'vibes' is ludicrously one-sided.

New comment by 1shooner in "Canyon HUD helmet for road riding"

1shooner — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 21:45:27 +0000

So about the lidar: what does that actually do for you? Or I should say, what do you do in response to it? Do you yield more road space if it tells you a car is approaching? I've been trying to understand what good such an alert actually does for an otherwise attentive rider.

New comment by 1shooner in "Rent collections are down in New York"

1shooner — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 22:54:00 +0000

What in the world does conspicuous consumption by race have to do with TFA?

New comment by 1shooner in "'We had to get out of the way': The backlash over delivery robots"

1shooner — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 05:26:46 +0000

Sorry to hear that. I have all kinds of interesting stuff literally right outside my door, and WFH hermit mode gets me too sometimes. I've come to believe cars are mental illness machines. When I was at that range, I used to bike places, which was kind of it's own activity apart from where I needed to go, but I know there are many places where that would not reduce hassle or stress.

New comment by 1shooner in "White House delays US voting-machine vulnerability report"

1shooner — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 03:05:43 +0000

https://web.cec.gov.tw/english/article/23550

>Taiwan has a comprehensive household registration system. The compilation of the voter list/electoral register is handled by the Household Registration Offices 20 days prior to the Election Day. Hence, citizens do not have to actively register to vote, with the exception of citizens residing overseas during the Presidential and Vice Presidential election.

I don't think the Trump administration would be interested in pursuing this degree of vote access.