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New comment by KawaiiCyborg in "Siri AI"

KawaiiCyborg — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:10:00 +0000

1. A lot of those more recent machines do actually connect to the internet. 2. Since you want to run your own software on them, but you can't buy open hardware like that, did you build it yourself then as you suggested? "If they don't exist, make them yourself."

New comment by KawaiiCyborg in "Siri AI"

KawaiiCyborg — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:27:25 +0000

Do you rather want your refrigerator, washing machine and coffee maker send all the data it collects about you during your usage to some company you don't even know? How is it ridiculous to want to be able to make your devices do what you want to do, not what the big company behind it wants?

New comment by KawaiiCyborg in "Siri AI"

KawaiiCyborg — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:24:53 +0000

As if Android and Windows don't also use the same tactics. Windows used to not let you uninstall Edge and Android used to just default to Chrome and Google Search, now they have to prompt you what you actually want to use. If the big companies are left unchecked, of course they'll use their size to bully other players to increase their own profit, but always at the cost of the customer.

New comment by KawaiiCyborg in "Siri AI"

KawaiiCyborg — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:19:03 +0000

As a consumer it also doesn't seem right that Apple can just use all their private APIs that no other company is allowed to use to tell me what I can and can't use on my phone. If I want Anthropic to have the same level of access that Apple grants itself on _my_ phone, I should be able to do so.

New comment by KawaiiCyborg in "Rathbun's Operator"

KawaiiCyborg — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 06:35:55 +0000

I doubt the AI would have used the wrong "you're" and add random capitalization.

New comment by KawaiiCyborg in "AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it"

KawaiiCyborg — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 11:47:00 +0000

The comparison the person I replied to was clearly trying to equate AI with people, I don't see how bringing up animals is any relevant to the argument. Yet I find it interesting that you bring up the mass murder of rodents, but somehow not the mass murder of cattle or pigs or chicken, especially when there would be the realistic alternative of not eating meat.

New comment by KawaiiCyborg in "AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it"

KawaiiCyborg — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 11:11:28 +0000

> Swap out "AI" for any other group and see how that sounds.

But that is not even remotely the same, as an AI is not a person. Following that logic, each major model upgrade that ended in deprecation and decommissioning of the old model would be akin to mass murder. But of course it is not, because it is not an actual human that have an intrinsic value just by being a human, but rather just a program that can predict tokens. And trying to claim the "discrimination" AI gets is somehow comparable to the real discrimination real people still experience daily in their lives is just incredibly disingenuous.

New comment by KawaiiCyborg in "Vouch"

KawaiiCyborg — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 20:43:44 +0000

If that's actually the opinion of the maintainer, why even accept PRs at all? At that point, just categorically deny any. I was thinking more of actual community projects that _want_ community PRs. Those seem to have welcomed my contributions in the past, but of course they were not just AI slop or other low effort PRs.

New comment by KawaiiCyborg in "Vouch"

KawaiiCyborg — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 17:22:14 +0000

> "it's a donation to a project you care about"

But I'm already donating my time by creating a PR, it definitely would disincentivize me to make PRs if I had to also pay in addition to already doing the actual work. Just always such a shame that the good people have to suffer because of the actions of the shitty people...

New comment by KawaiiCyborg in "Ask HN: Weird archive.today behavior?"

KawaiiCyborg — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 09:31:02 +0000

> They pop up on Wikipedia as well getting told off for adding too many links to archive.is

Funnily enough, they removed that from their talk page right around the time this thread got posted, their first edit in almost 6 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Masharab...

That's a lot of coincidences...

New comment by KawaiiCyborg in "Gmail to SQLite"

KawaiiCyborg — Sun, 11 May 2025 05:30:35 +0000

I've been using Fastmail.com since December, 2014 now and I'm still very happy with them. I use them with a few of my own domains and I've never had any issue sending or receiving any email. Recently, they even got a 1Password integration that allows you to directly create a masked email for a service from my 1Password UI. Search works perfectly, labels feel good to use and the filters are very flexible. If the UI doesn't allow you what to do, you could even directly write your own Sieve scripts.

New comment by KawaiiCyborg in "AirPods fast connect security vulnerability"

KawaiiCyborg — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 15:13:51 +0000

I don't understand why yet. Why is it important to you to know whether someone is listening to music or not? Why do you need to be able to tell at all?

New comment by KawaiiCyborg in "AirPods fast connect security vulnerability"

KawaiiCyborg — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 11:06:15 +0000

How would you as an observer tell if somebody is using their AirPods to listen to music or whether they're just in their ears for noise cancellation and thus "look ridiculous"?