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New comment by c0wb0yc0d3r in "BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork"

c0wb0yc0d3r — Sat, 23 May 2026 13:28:57 +0000

A legal battle is expensive and time consuming. For example they have been fighting one with Visio since 2021[0]. It’s going to court this year.

I’m not sure how well tested AGPL has been tested in court, but assuming it has, the SFC has the right to reverse engineer anything covered by the license. That will help people sooner than trying to get a court to make a decision.

New comment by c0wb0yc0d3r in "Apple unveils new accessibility features"

c0wb0yc0d3r — Tue, 19 May 2026 12:50:17 +0000

I think we should reserve judgment until this lands in the hands of the people it helps.

My experience is limited to my elderly parents who have trouble seeing. With the text size Apple allows them to set it to, their phones are unreadable. Text runs off the screen in every app, 1st and 3rd party.

In their bill example, the user is told to confirm with the provider. Why not offer to call the number on the bill? Instead of telling them to use text detection, do it for them? Presumably Apple Intelligence would already have that capability. I’m afraid this will be a gimmick at best.

EDIT: Forgot to mention, the grip is good to see. Hopefully they don’t charge the apple tax on it.

New comment by c0wb0yc0d3r in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

c0wb0yc0d3r — Sat, 02 May 2026 22:22:45 +0000

Can you explain how this works? Doesn’t this also stop you from connecting to it over ssh via vs code?

New comment by c0wb0yc0d3r in "I don't want your PRs anymore"

c0wb0yc0d3r — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:20:50 +0000

> Submitters use LLMs to generate the code and reviewers use LLMs to review it.

This just like my favorite, “We can use LLMs to write the code and write the tests.”

New comment by c0wb0yc0d3r in "Claude Opus 4.7"

c0wb0yc0d3r — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:38:46 +0000

The buddies were Anthropics April fools day stunt. Buddies were removed from a newer version of Claude code. By default Claude code updates automatically.

New comment by c0wb0yc0d3r in "Google releases Gemma 4 open models"

c0wb0yc0d3r — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 01:34:24 +0000

I am not deep in this world. What does it mean when you (LM Studio) fixed a bug in a model Google released?

New comment by c0wb0yc0d3r in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

c0wb0yc0d3r — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:20:17 +0000

This is a common take but language servers bridge the gap well.

Language servers, however, are a pain on Claude code. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/15619

New comment by c0wb0yc0d3r in "Figma's MCP Update Reflects a Larger Industry Shift"

c0wb0yc0d3r — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:46:23 +0000

New operating systems or could it make micro kernels viable?

New comment by c0wb0yc0d3r in "Sunsetting the Techempower Framework Benchmarks"

c0wb0yc0d3r — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 12:37:38 +0000

For anyone wondering, the ASP.NET Core benchmark applications appear to be largely the same.

However it also appears that as of the last benchmark (round 23), “aspnetcore“ has fallen to 35on the fortunes leaderboard. The code for that result, really just uses kestrel. It doesn’t even import any of the usual ASP.NET Core NuGet packages, just what’s provided by the web sdk. [0]

[0]: https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/57d9...

New comment by c0wb0yc0d3r in "An industrial piping contractor on Claude Code [video]"

c0wb0yc0d3r — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:15:32 +0000

I believe that it just changes the opportunity cost. There are still only 24 hours in a day. You can’t copy everything.

New comment by c0wb0yc0d3r in "XML Is a Cheap DSL"

c0wb0yc0d3r — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:05:54 +0000

Surely this is a product of the fact that XML is just more extensible (it’s in the name after all).

If you tried to represent the data (exactly) from any of the examples in the post, I think you’d find that you’d experience many of the same problems.

Personally, I think the problem with XML has always been the tooling. Slow parsers, incomplete validators

New comment by c0wb0yc0d3r in "How to install and start using LineageOS on your phone"

c0wb0yc0d3r — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 03:27:19 +0000

Personally I am not sure what "replacement for google captured android" means. That said, if you aren't using a pixel, you aren't using graphene. If you do have a pixel, then graphene is the way to go.

I find it easier to install, and the fact that you can run google play services in a sandbox, is a great safety blanket.

New comment by c0wb0yc0d3r in "The FCC Wants Your Next Customer Service Agent to Be in the U.S."

c0wb0yc0d3r — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 03:19:10 +0000

I agree. The way I see it is the provider still needs to feel the pain of the problems they cause. otherwise they have no incentive to fix them or add monitoring of some sort to address issues asynchronously.

New comment by c0wb0yc0d3r in "Microsoft's new 10k-year data storage medium: glass"

c0wb0yc0d3r — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 04:48:17 +0000

Is blu-ray best for hobbyists?

New comment by c0wb0yc0d3r in "Mecha Comet – Open Modular Linux Handheld Computer"

c0wb0yc0d3r — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 03:47:39 +0000

It’s not exactly cool but mobile media server and tool box. Knowing I have tools I can trust in my pocket is nice. Being able to travel and watch my shows without setting up a vpn is double nice.

New comment by c0wb0yc0d3r in "Milk-V Titan: A $329 8-Core 64-bit RISC-V mini-ITX board with PCIe Gen4x16"

c0wb0yc0d3r — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 14:29:33 +0000

Isn’t that kind of like saying automated testing (for apps written without testing in mind) isn’t worth it because you have to spend time getting code into a state that is testable?

I do agree that it takes a lot of work to get something usable, and so I think we are a ways off from mainstream risc-v. I do also think there is a lot more value for low power devices like embedded/IoT or instances where you need special hardware. Facebook uses it to make special video transcoding hardware.

New comment by c0wb0yc0d3r in "Show HN: 1Code – Open-source Cursor-like UI for Claude Code"

c0wb0yc0d3r — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:10:45 +0000

I’m happy to see another project monetizing built executables. I feel like it’s not a popular option to many, but to me I think it’s the best way to getting financial support from enterprises that would be more than happy to leech.

New comment by c0wb0yc0d3r in "I hate GitHub Actions with passion"

c0wb0yc0d3r — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 13:26:09 +0000

I haven’t looked into act for some time but I remember it NOT being a direct stand in locally. Like it covered 80% of use cases.

Maybe that has changed.

New comment by c0wb0yc0d3r in "Building a macOS app to know when my Mac is thermal throttling"

c0wb0yc0d3r — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 14:25:28 +0000

I’m not super familiar with windows code signing anymore but fewer people care about it on windows (because it isn’t required). It’s definitely a small hurdle to be sure but I think you’d really only lose out on enterprise users at that point. I think code signing might only matter if the installer is built in certain ways (i.e. it’s an exe instead of using an msi to install, if someone knows better please correct this).

If your target is enterprise users convince IT users of its value and they will eventually make exceptions in their orgs for it no matter what signed or not.

New comment by c0wb0yc0d3r in "Advent of Sysadmin 2025"

c0wb0yc0d3r — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 05:24:46 +0000

Advent calendars track time until Christmas. “12 days of Christmas” are the twelve days after Christmas.