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New comment by daveidol in "Show HN: Auto Dismiss Mac OS "Allow to find devices on local networks?""

daveidol — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 23:45:43 +0000

C'mon they meant 'executable' more broadly, not literally a '.exe' Windows program.

New comment by daveidol in "Discord will soon let anyone find public server messages through Google"

daveidol — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:16:23 +0000

This is only for public servers. If you were using a nickname on _public servers_ that was easy to identify before, then that was already a big mistake.

And this feature does not affect old messages - only ones after December 2026.

New comment by daveidol in "Way to Play Super Mario 64: On Apple Vision Pro"

daveidol — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:41:36 +0000

That is outdated now. You can run emulators on iOS and you’ll find plenty in the App Store. The only limitation right now is no JIT, which is a problem for more modern console emulation.

New comment by daveidol in "Ousted Savannah police officer gave ICE agent husband access to Flock system"

daveidol — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 13:43:42 +0000

This seems like a pretty abstract claim to me. What does "protect the people" mean vs "whatever makes the rich people happy"? There are laws on the books which the police enforce.

Now, I agree that the police are not your friends, and they are incentivized to find crimes when there may not really be any at times, but I disagree with the notion that they are simply the lapdogs of the wealthy. In fact, it seems like in a lot of places in California it's the law-abiding, wealthier citizens that are hassled most by the police for minor infractions, because they know they can actually extract revenue from them.

New comment by daveidol in "Tesla Roadster"

daveidol — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 11:05:16 +0000

Agreed. It’s really helpful and refreshing to see the facts like this without resorting to emotional claims.

New comment by daveidol in "Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr"

daveidol — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 23:59:48 +0000

I rarely use Windows these days but that is the first setting I always change. MacOS hides a lot of them too by default, sadly.

New comment by daveidol in "Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers"

daveidol — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 03:05:17 +0000

Yep I played via “Classic mode” until Apple removed support

New comment by daveidol in "Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers"

daveidol — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 02:58:19 +0000

This is super exciting! Also would love to see the code when you share it

New comment by daveidol in "Cloudflare acquires Deno"

daveidol — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 14:56:07 +0000

Can you elaborate on why it was a “miss”?

New comment by daveidol in "Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back"

daveidol — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 13:55:25 +0000

How would macOS know if the request is coming from the URL bar or not in some untrusted software?

These permissions are clearly all-or-nothing, or else they wouldn’t work.

New comment by daveidol in "U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk"

daveidol — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 17:11:47 +0000

You raise an interesting point. Although wouldn’t Anthropic be the best experts on when a model would be most applicable or likely to falter?

I guess my opinion would really depend on the exact wording and details of the arrangement. Lots of people jumping in with strong stances based on pretty limited details.

New comment by daveidol in "AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up"

daveidol — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 16:01:43 +0000

No it’s Product Marketing Manager. A common title and one part of the holy trinity (PM, EM, PMM) at bigger companies.

New comment by daveidol in "Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy"

daveidol — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 15:40:39 +0000

That one gets a worse rep than I think it deserves.

You could always pay the one time fee for heated seats like in the past. It was just an option if you don’t want to pay upfront.

New comment by daveidol in "AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible"

daveidol — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 14:17:46 +0000

And of course those criticisms can and should be dismissed if the creators goals are purely to maximize engagement

New comment by daveidol in "LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby"

daveidol — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:39:20 +0000

Yeah, sadly most people don’t know or don’t care most likely.

Unless it’s in their face causing them friction they will just continue to use it as an appliance.

New comment by daveidol in "How AI text watermarking works"

daveidol — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:55:36 +0000

Yeah if kids are sufficiently motivated all it takes is one vial YouTube tutorial.

New comment by daveidol in "Force-Fed by ICE"

daveidol — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:33:05 +0000

I don't see the relation here, to be honest. How is immigration enforcement about racists wanting to be lazy?

The people paying illegal immigrants minimal wages under the table are far more analogous to slave owners in my mind.

New comment by daveidol in "The Warp Agent CLI"

daveidol — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:23:26 +0000

So this is a competitor to something like OpenCode or Pi? I suspect for most developers, they are using Claude Code or Codex CLI mainly just so they don't have to pay-per-token and can use the subscription products - which I assume can't be done with Warp Agent?

New comment by daveidol in "All major LLMs are lib-left. Even Grok, half the time"

daveidol — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:29:29 +0000

I think you may be confusing 'the right' more broadly with the current Republican party. There are absolutely coherent conservative viewpoints that mirror/oppose those that we consider 'the left', which aren't "reactionary" by nature.

New comment by daveidol in "All major LLMs are lib-left. Even Grok, half the time"

daveidol — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:21:54 +0000

What is "reality"? Is there really any such thing as ground truth for most things?