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New comment by lelandfe in "DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16"

lelandfe — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:01:59 +0000

https://xtech.army.mil/competition/xtechhumanoid/

> The U.S. Army is seeking innovative humanoid technology solutions from eligible small and large businesses across the globe to advance toward fielded militarized humanoid capabilities through the xTechHumanoid competition

New comment by lelandfe in "LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps"

lelandfe — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 12:15:47 +0000

> If your TV finds an open network (neigbours?) it will use that one

I looked into this last year while researching TVs and couldn’t find anything to substantiate it.

New comment by lelandfe in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

lelandfe — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:53:49 +0000

This just hit global news: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/17/amazon-we...

> Amazon Web Services customers receive bills for up to $1.5tn after global glitch

New comment by lelandfe in "Blatant AI slop just won a 25k USD DeepMind Kaggle Grand Prize"

lelandfe — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:06:59 +0000

Should have said Gemini 1 Hackathon, pesky hallucinations.

New comment by lelandfe in "FIFA World Cup 2026 Data Portraits"

lelandfe — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 22:39:55 +0000

If you're Chrome, just click anywhere on the page

New comment by lelandfe in "The Git history command deserves more attention"

lelandfe — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 02:12:17 +0000

See: https://blog.hot-coffee.dev/en/blog/git_update_refs/

New comment by lelandfe in "How to hide from killer drones"

lelandfe — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 19:52:42 +0000

A tip from a 2024 Google paper[0]:

> It's important to note that the risk of misuse is significantly lower for individuals who have never had typical speech patterns

How to Hide from Killer Drones:

It's important to note that that the risk of being riddled with drone bullets is significantly lower for individuals who have never had human physical characteristics.

[0] https://research.google/blog/restoring-speaker-voices-with-z...

New comment by lelandfe in "Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made"

lelandfe — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:08:16 +0000

That depends upon where one is playing Truck Simulator

New comment by lelandfe in "Cloudflare Drop"

lelandfe — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 03:27:17 +0000

A term still used on Tahoe. Right click a file in Finder, Get Info. A file permissions option is "Write only (Drop Box)"

New comment by lelandfe in "TypeScript 7"

lelandfe — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 19:09:26 +0000

If you’re continuing to use the previous version in CI, there’s no reason to not use this locally. It’s a tremendous speed upgrade.

New comment by lelandfe in "FDA rejects petition to set PFAS limits in food"

lelandfe — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:54:01 +0000

Although PFAS is helping bloodletting make a comeback https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jan/16/bloodletting...

New comment by lelandfe in "GAO: DOE Is Prematurely Excluding Less Expensive Options for Nuclear Cleanup"

lelandfe — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:24:48 +0000

Also:

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/28/nx-s1-5677187/nuclear-safety-...

New comment by lelandfe in "Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI"

lelandfe — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 22:30:52 +0000

Unrelated. I noticed that the settings window (Cmd-,) text inputs all type from the right instead of the left like older macOS inputs (or web inputs[0])

Is that a thing macOS is moving to? I'm sure I've seen Apple use these too.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...

New comment by lelandfe in "Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable"

lelandfe — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 20:50:28 +0000

> a macOS port of a 20 year old game

GeneralsX is the macOS port. It ported a 20 year old game.

New comment by lelandfe in "Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable"

lelandfe — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 04:48:32 +0000

"it was able to get a macOS port of a 20 year old game to run on iOS"

still very cool, and sci fi not long ago

New comment by lelandfe in "Valve open-source the Steam Machine e-ink screen so you can make your own"

lelandfe — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:53:12 +0000

Supports full color (images of the German flag)

New comment by lelandfe in "Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says"

lelandfe — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:34:28 +0000

Further, why has my brain's searing remake of Snow White as a gritty murder mystery gone unscathed by Disney lawyers? Surely their negligence has diluted the Snow White trademark!

New comment by lelandfe in "Virginia bans sale of geolocation data"

lelandfe — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 23:52:39 +0000

It gets so awful. Here's one of the worst I remember, 2019: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/missouri-health-directo...

New comment by lelandfe in "Bring back crappy forums"

lelandfe — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:53:22 +0000

You’re describing one view. We want two.

New comment by lelandfe in "The Egg Bandits Made a Thousand Times the Fine They Just Paid for Price Fixing"

lelandfe — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:49:56 +0000

It does permit something individuals don’t have: the internal investigation.

The internal investigation has determined that our CEO had no knowledge of this, and that the bloody pig mask was all the idea of the people who make less money, and also we fired the CEO for unrelated reasons.