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New comment by iamdamian in "Wired headphone sales are exploding"

iamdamian — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 22:46:27 +0000

Apple’s music has mostly been DRM-free since 2009!

I love this about Apple and give them as much of my business I can to show that there is still a healthy market outside streaming. (7digital is another good source, although more expensive than Apple. They offer FLAC and 320kbps.)

Makes me wish e-book stores would get onboard…

New comment by iamdamian in "Digg is gone again"

iamdamian — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 17:34:24 +0000

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New comment by iamdamian in "Digg is gone again"

iamdamian — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:32:10 +0000

> It behooves you to not write like that if you don’t want people dehumanizing you.

I have to strongly disagree with you on this. It behooves us (as a species) not to degrade our own manner of speaking and writing simply because of a (possibly temporary) technical anomaly.

In my view, it would be really, really sad to lose expressive punctuation or ways of constructing sentences simply because they're overused by AI.

I, for one, won't be a part of that, and I hope you won't, either.

New comment by iamdamian in "Digg is gone again"

iamdamian — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:42:30 +0000

I think we'll have to disagree on that. Humans write that way, too, and they've written that way for far longer than AI.

(Where do you think AI picked up its writing habits from?)

New comment by iamdamian in "Digg is gone again"

iamdamian — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:19:36 +0000

>> This is not a reflection of their talent, their effort, or their belief in what we were building. It's a reflection of the brutal reality of finding product-market fit in an environment that has fundamentally changed.

> Ironic, they use AI in their shutdown post that blames AI.

This… seems like regular prose to me. What makes you say so confidently it was written by AI?

New comment by iamdamian in "Welcome (back) to Macintosh"

iamdamian — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 22:11:59 +0000

This has been the first year in a very long time that I’ve thought about leaving macOS. They seem to have lost the plot on software and documentation.

It might be nice for someone to crowd source a reasonable list of features they need to improve or document. Could get traction.

New comment by iamdamian in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"

iamdamian — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:31:53 +0000

This is, without hyperbole, the most exciting tech announcement I've read this year. I really hope something comes of it.

Motorola: Please double down on this and make mobile tech consumer-friendly again.

New comment by iamdamian in "Tell HN: Google ignores English searches and forces localized results"

iamdamian — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 19:26:06 +0000

This is the way. In 2025, I don't think you can expect quality when the incentives aren't aligned (in this case, that you are a customer).

New comment by iamdamian in "Why do AI models use so many em-dashes?"

iamdamian — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 13:55:11 +0000

I would say that using a lot of em-dashes was always bad writing. You want to use them sparingly if you want them to have impact.

That said, yes, keep using them (and using them well!).

An open letter to all those building AI in 2025

iamdamian — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 16:36:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.asomo.co/p/an-open-letter-to-all-those-building-ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45761966

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by iamdamian in "What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail?"

iamdamian — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 22:01:57 +0000

I don't really agree with the article in the sense that from a user POV, it wasn't very feature filled and it was much more stable than Leopard.

New comment by iamdamian in "What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail?"

iamdamian — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 19:41:48 +0000

We need a new Snow Leopard.

New comment by iamdamian in "Run interactive commands in Gemini CLI"

iamdamian — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 16:52:47 +0000

Claude Code has an elegant solution to the problem you mention, without trying to cram everything into a single nested pane (which feels wrong to me).

In Claude Code, when you edit a file independent from the agent, it automatically notices and says something like "I see you've made a change. Let me take a look."

I wish Gemini CLI would've taken a similar approach, since it seems to fit better with a CLI and its associated Unix philosophy.

New comment by iamdamian in "Codeberg Reaches 300k Projects"

iamdamian — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 22:09:21 +0000

I self-host forgejo but still want a way to publish open-source. I've been using GitHub for this and didn't realize that codeberg.org was an option. Glad to see them getting the press.

New comment by iamdamian in "Human writers have always used the em dash"

iamdamian — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 21:51:40 +0000

I can’t disagree with that. There’s also wisdom in realizing that we are the tide.

New comment by iamdamian in "Human writers have always used the em dash"

iamdamian — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 19:17:41 +0000

I’m not really sure why we need to give in? Just keep writing high quality content that obviously wasn’t AI-generated, and keep using em dashes.

At least, that’s what I’m doing.

New comment by iamdamian in "Pixel 10 Phones"

iamdamian — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 21:53:27 +0000

> Could anyone here waxing lyrically about Apple so called privacy stand explain to me what that actually is apart from a marketing point Apple keeps repeating?

The end-to-end encryption guarantees on this page seem pretty real to me and have little to do with marketing: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102651

UK drops demand for backdoor into Apple encryption

iamdamian — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 11:58:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/news/761240/uk-apple-us-encryption-back-door-demands-dropped

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44950600

Points: 276

# Comments: 109

New comment by iamdamian in "GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation"

iamdamian — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 17:54:30 +0000

Forgejo is a really great self-hosted alternative to GitHub.

If you've wondered about hosting your own version of GitHub but have worried it's too hard to set up, I'd encourage you to spend even a few minutes spinning an instance up with Docker Compose and poking around.

https://forgejo.org/docs/latest/admin/installation/docker/

New comment by iamdamian in "GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation"

iamdamian — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 17:50:33 +0000

> And gitea (originally a Forgejo fork).

I don't think this is right. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitea#Forgejo_fork.