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New comment by nalekberov in "Sweet Jeebus, macOS 27 Golden Gate Removes the Dumb Icons from Menu Items"

nalekberov — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:27:27 +0000

Taste is subjective indeed, but for me they were more expressive and visually appealing than ironed out icons.

New comment by nalekberov in "Sweet Jeebus, macOS 27 Golden Gate Removes the Dumb Icons from Menu Items"

nalekberov — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:48:22 +0000

Probably no one caused more damage than John Ive to Apple (post-Jobs period).

Removal of skeuomorphism, removal of essential ports, making MacBooks so thin that they wouldn’t work without overheating to name a few.

I am so glad he is gone now, it’s not all bells and whistles for Apple now, but at least it’s way more pleasing to own Apple devices any more.

New comment by nalekberov in "Claude Fable 5"

nalekberov — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:43:48 +0000

Humans make mistake then to learn from it. A really good expert would never deliberately copy-paste an obscure solution from the internet, then to ask for forgiveness later.

AI agents do that, perhaps not always, but still do. Now the question: would I trust AI without verifying its output?

New comment by nalekberov in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"

nalekberov — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:25:34 +0000

I’ll just put this link here: https://killedbygoogle.com/

New comment by nalekberov in "Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs"

nalekberov — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 19:28:26 +0000

It’s also the reason, why you will never be able to repair or upgrade your computer in the future. From technological point of view these are indeed big advancements.

However, I couldn’t care less about faster CPU when:

1. It limits my ability to upgrade my system

2. Windows gets increasingly bloated and slower

New comment by nalekberov in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

nalekberov — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:28:00 +0000

What is the point of allowing a developer to spend $18,000 a year on AI subscriptions? Can't they hire a decent developer who is capable of producing a quality solution faster? Clearly, these decisions are all made by high-level management team.

I was recently talking to an HR person from a European company, and she goes: 'We are forcing our developers to use AI coding agents, but they are still kind of hesitant.' This person had never written a single line of code, nor did she know what software engineering is. For these people, using AI coding agents = faster delivery without breaking anything.

New comment by nalekberov in "Alphabet announces $80B equity capital raise to expand AI infra and compute"

nalekberov — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:04:57 +0000

We will soon see "improved" 'AI Mode' most likely.

New comment by nalekberov in "Rsync 3.4.3 has hundreds of Claude commits"

nalekberov — Sun, 31 May 2026 11:50:24 +0000

> If you want to go down that semantic route, then being an open source maintainer clearly isn't a profession, as it requires neither specialized training nor qualifications!

Open source software maintenance without qualifications? I hope you understand how disastrous it would be for serious software like rsync.

New comment by nalekberov in "Rsync 3.4.3 has hundreds of Claude commits"

nalekberov — Sun, 31 May 2026 11:08:46 +0000

> Same issue there. A profession is an occupation that you get paid for doing.

Wrong, a profession is an occupation that requires specialized training or qualifications. This means one can have a profession and still not get paid.

> And he mainly seems to be getting abuse in return for that service.

What abuse you are referring to?

New comment by nalekberov in "Rsync 3.4.3 has hundreds of Claude commits"

nalekberov — Sun, 31 May 2026 10:29:03 +0000

My bad, I meant profession.

New comment by nalekberov in "Rsync 3.4.3 has hundreds of Claude commits"

nalekberov — Sun, 31 May 2026 08:17:47 +0000

No reasonable maintainer would recklessly merge something he/she hasn’t reviewed. Well, those who blindly accept whatever AI outputs… perhaps it’s time for them to find another job.

Just because one offers software for free doesn’t mean there shouldn’t be standards.

New comment by nalekberov in "Rsync 3.4.3 has hundreds of Claude commits"

nalekberov — Sat, 30 May 2026 09:16:49 +0000

> Everyone is still learning how and how much AI should be used and we shouldn't be too harsh on opensource developers.

The main problem with using AI in open source software is that millions of people rely on your code, but you risk exposing them all to something unverified.

New comment by nalekberov in "Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks"

nalekberov — Mon, 25 May 2026 20:51:59 +0000

Sanctioned company != works for the government.

New comment by nalekberov in "Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks"

nalekberov — Mon, 25 May 2026 17:37:18 +0000

Any source to back up your claims? Otherwise it seemed pretty much a conspiracy theory to me.

New comment by nalekberov in "YAML? That's Norway Problem"

nalekberov — Sat, 23 May 2026 10:41:50 +0000

JSON isn’t ideal either, however missing curly braces are much easier to fix than figuring out where you misaligned entries without going through entire config file.

New comment by nalekberov in "YAML? That's Norway Problem"

nalekberov — Sat, 23 May 2026 00:48:46 +0000

YAML is the worst format.

You are literally one missing tab away from breaking your entire configuration file. Yet the industry keeps pushing it for the sake of “simplicity” - for small configurations sure, it’s fine, but many hundred lines of config entries? Good luck fixing it, if something goes wrong.

I still can’t get why software engineers suddenly started to hate XML.

New comment by nalekberov in "The Companies Cutting Headcount for AI Will Lose to the Ones Who Didn't"

nalekberov — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:33:50 +0000

> Not because they have fewer costs. Because they have more capability.

This kind of sentences are typically AI-generated. What’s the point of an article about AI generated by AI?

New comment by nalekberov in "Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Arabia and the UAE"

nalekberov — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:23:12 +0000

That or they will be blocked completely.

Who's naive enough to think that big corporations like Meta would care about human rights?

New comment by nalekberov in "OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens"

nalekberov — Sun, 17 May 2026 12:01:28 +0000

Not sure who is more corrupt these days: governments or big corporations.

What’s dangerous here is people will eventually stop thinking critically altogether, about anything, and their view of the world will be based on what they are shown on AI apps.

New comment by nalekberov in "Meta employees protest against mouse tracking tech at US offices"

nalekberov — Tue, 12 May 2026 22:27:16 +0000

When such technologies are used to track masses, Meta employees just shrug, when it’s used to track them, it’s unacceptable.

“The ox does not mind the yoke until it is on his own neck.”