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New comment by flenserboy in "California is chasing wealth that has feet"

flenserboy — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 22:42:12 +0000

Coveting is a terrible basis for an economic system.

New comment by flenserboy in "Apple Copland D11E4 Booting in the Browser"

flenserboy — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 23:00:23 +0000

that does seem to be its main function

New comment by flenserboy in "CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s"

flenserboy — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 22:43:05 +0000

CIA agents also longed for a decent interface. understandable. relatable.

New comment by flenserboy in "Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study"

flenserboy — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:14:48 +0000

impose universal health coverage & the jockeying will commence to see who is in charge of it. medical & diet fundamentalists will rejoice at the opportunity to seize control & force everyone to take certain drugs, eat or not eat certain foods or types of foods, exercise a particular way, surrender their organs at a particular age, or whatever else their hearts desire for everyone else. there have been so many rabbit trails taken, so much malfeasance, so much misinterpreting of data, etc., which has been uncovered just in the last decade or two to give anyone the ability to harm or control entire populations in this way. the increase in suffering will be great, & the long-term effects devastating.

New comment by flenserboy in "A domain can now say it is for sale, in DNS"

flenserboy — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:00:08 +0000

this is how we get under-the-radar marketplaces for llms

New comment by flenserboy in "There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]"

flenserboy — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 03:25:42 +0000

if you find this to be bleak, don't read his "The Small Assassin", or much of anything in The October Country.

New comment by flenserboy in "SwiftUI After 7 Years"

flenserboy — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:36:26 +0000

there's yet to be a decent-looking SwiftUI app on the desktop. elements are always too small, spacing is wrong, & the keyboard is a second-class citizen. mobile-first is a disaster.

New comment by flenserboy in "The Visual 6502"

flenserboy — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 03:15:09 +0000

M4 Max, Brave — 93Hz highest, usually around 90Hz. On Advanced it started at 22Hz & steadily dropped from there into the single digits as it ran. Safari held around 62.xHz. On Advanced it started at 40Hz & also kept dropping.

New comment by flenserboy in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

flenserboy — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:43:05 +0000

the "safety" freaks are going to ruin the US industry, & with it a host of dominoes will fall.

New comment by flenserboy in "Unicode's transliteration rules are Turing-complete"

flenserboy — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:34:56 +0000

A Turing-complete system open to LLMs will be a security hole.

New comment by flenserboy in "It seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history"

flenserboy — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:44:55 +0000

which could, for the most part, be boiled down to 2 hour-long segments. so much is stretched out for the sake of padding. the good news is that scrubbing through shows is possible — it is usually painfully clear when to stop & watch at double speed — & time otherwise lost is recovered in this way.

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

flenserboy — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 18:24:35 +0000

they have little respect for precedent which they agree is wrong, which is a far better standard than letting terrible decisions stand because tradition or because popular.

New comment by flenserboy in "The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy"

flenserboy — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 23:56:46 +0000

There will be your internet-connected computer which will be assumed to be compromised, & which little, if anything of use will be kept on, & then there will be the airgapped system you do work on, which will probably be the last trusted version of a Linux distro you have multiple copies stashed away of. It will be a very old-fashioned experience, & moving/sharing data will become a dicey business.

New comment by flenserboy in "macOS needs its grid back"

flenserboy — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:04:37 +0000

Apple has a strange habit of making the first version excellent, then finding ways to degrade the experience. The grid pattern of spaces is definitely one; Spotlight, as it appeared in Tiger, is another.

New comment by flenserboy in "Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion"

flenserboy — Sun, 31 May 2026 12:54:41 +0000

It's clear they don't want stand-alone Office anymore. One gets the feeling, given how Windows has devolved, that they'd like to rid themselves of all desktop software so they can focus on the backroom, perhaps because the data they could acquire is tastier.

New comment by flenserboy in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

flenserboy — Wed, 27 May 2026 22:21:45 +0000

the ability to simply exclude such content from recommendations & search results would be welcome.

New comment by flenserboy in "Mycorrhizal Fungi, Nature's Key to Plant Survival and Success"

flenserboy — Fri, 22 May 2026 01:57:34 +0000

No problem! Myco Bliss has worked well for me.

New comment by flenserboy in "Mycorrhizal Fungi, Nature's Key to Plant Survival and Success"

flenserboy — Fri, 22 May 2026 00:09:31 +0000

I have added spores to my garden for a few years, & the results have been excellent. Not only have the plants thrived, the network spread through the lawn to a further extent every year, & the grass in that zone looks much healthier than the rest of the lawn. Mostly I sprinkle a bit in with each seed or row — it does the work from that point on.

Trees have shown the same pattern — we had a large, older tree go down, one which had quite a bit of fungus growing around it, & the trees planted near the old site did well while new trees on the other side of the yard did not, even with significant, regular watering.

New comment by flenserboy in "Google changes its search box"

flenserboy — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:33:08 +0000

We need a second, new internet that cuts these rent-seekers out. The backbone is there, we can use mesh, we could use Starlink (there's a real opportunity there) — locking out & starving the current titans of cash is where we need to be. It won't happen, but it should, for all sorts of economic, cultural, & liberty-oriented reasons.

New comment by flenserboy in "LinkedIn scans for 6,278 extensions and encrypts the results into every request"

flenserboy — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:57:06 +0000

Fun to have to spin up a whole VM just to use a particular website!