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New comment by h05sz487b in "Programming Used to Be Free"

h05sz487b — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:04:01 +0000

Yep, this is ahistoric. You used to have to pay for your compiler, not to mention a useable IDE.

New comment by h05sz487b in "Programming Used to Be Free"

h05sz487b — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:02:24 +0000

I don't know, there used to be IDE vendors that sold stuff to enterprises and offered freebies for educational purposes. Down the line there will be free offerings by the established players as well as OSS models you can run locally. Right now this is of course not enjoyable on existing hardware that a middle schooler might be using, put a bit more RAM into the MacBook Neo and this might change.

New comment by h05sz487b in "OpenYak – An open-source Cowork that runs any model and owns your filesystem"

h05sz487b — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 05:53:40 +0000

Its your filesystem which is now, also, owned.

New comment by h05sz487b in "Father claims Google's AI product fuelled son's delusional spiral"

h05sz487b — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 07:00:35 +0000

Given that AI is fueling the delusional spiral of some of the worlds top CEOs I can easily imagine this.

New comment by h05sz487b in "iPhone 17e"

h05sz487b — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 07:40:51 +0000

What, if any, mobile phone are you using instead? Even if I would not miss all the features I do not find these feature phone companies more trustworthy. Some are in bed with AdTech companies. Less features does not necessarily mean less tracking.

New comment by h05sz487b in "Facebook is cooked"

h05sz487b — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:00:46 +0000

The original moltbook. Just bots talking to each other.

New comment by h05sz487b in "Breaking the spell of vibe coding"

h05sz487b — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 06:45:29 +0000

> which can be facilitated by AI

I’d be thrilled if that AI could finally make one of our most annoying stakeholders test the changes they were so eager to fast track, but hey, I might be surprised.

New comment by h05sz487b in "Breaking the spell of vibe coding"

h05sz487b — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 06:42:38 +0000

Of course people think that, because that is exactly how those agents are being sold. If you tell management that this speeds up the easy part, typing the code, they are convinced you are using it wrong. They want to save 90% of software development cost and you are telling them that’s not possible.

New comment by h05sz487b in "Valve is about to win the console generation"

h05sz487b — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 07:15:59 +0000

I am very much a PC gamer turned couch gamer. I have a capable PC sitting next to my Xbox Series X. The user experience is worse, as everytime I turn it on soemthing needs updating, I cannot control all of Windows through my gamepad. This ticks a lot of boxes for me. Might start witht the Controller first.

New comment by h05sz487b in "Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels"

h05sz487b — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 05:52:11 +0000

Noone is forced or economically has to do this.

New comment by h05sz487b in "Track which Electron apps slow down macOS 26 Tahoe"

h05sz487b — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 05:45:44 +0000

Good that I went with 64 gigs for my last mac. But I'll wait for the first patch at least for this one.

New comment by h05sz487b in "ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team"

h05sz487b — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 04:44:45 +0000

That would create the risk of people generating, hundreds and thousands of fake profiles and giving ice the runaround, wouldn’t it?

New comment by h05sz487b in "Sütterlin"

h05sz487b — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 13:55:38 +0000

Not at all, no. And I still learned cursive at least.

New comment by h05sz487b in "No Hello"

h05sz487b — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 12:24:23 +0000

Yes, just send back “ack“.

New comment by h05sz487b in "DHL suspends B2C shipments over 800 USD until further notice"

h05sz487b — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 05:51:23 +0000

Bye bye USA. Was nice trading with you.

New comment by h05sz487b in "The German language broke my website"

h05sz487b — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 06:06:09 +0000

Maybe make your layouts more flexible. There’s no reason in the speed bump example, why the word could not be broken into another line.

New comment by h05sz487b in "We don't need startups, we need Digital-Mittelstand"

h05sz487b — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 10:47:16 +0000

Sounds like an insurance driven decision.

New comment by h05sz487b in "We don't need startups, we need Digital-Mittelstand"

h05sz487b — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 10:42:11 +0000

Not too big, not too small, very cozy. I need it.

New comment by h05sz487b in "Introducing S2"

h05sz487b — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 18:46:24 +0000

Just you wait, I am launching S1 next year!

New comment by h05sz487b in "Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more"

h05sz487b — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 08:08:00 +0000

> When it started deleting books i had side-loaded via calibre

Never had that happen, either with stuff loaded through Calibre or Amazons document service.