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New comment by pantulis in "Stripe said to abandon $50B pursuit of PayPal"

pantulis — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 07:46:42 +0000

The euro payment scenario has changed drastically in the last few years and it's a good thing for customers: yesterday I was able to pay a US company with Bizum through Stripe.

New comment by pantulis in "Twitter Is Back at Twitter.now"

pantulis — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 06:34:55 +0000

Well it's currently down. Not down as in displaying a whale, down as in "Safari can't open the page twitter.now because Safari can't find the server app.twitter.now"

New comment by pantulis in "New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra"

pantulis — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 20:06:47 +0000

Last year I was able to justify a 128GB/1TB M4 Max Studio for 4600€. This cycle's M5 Max with 128GB/1TB goes for 6219€. The M5 has to be obviously a better machine, but it's now above the price point I would pull the trigger for. Guess I got lucky in the futureproofing lottery this time, anyway.

New comment by pantulis in "New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra"

pantulis — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 20:03:29 +0000

My contempt consumption is reading feeds, books and sheet music, and some casual games...

... and a lot more social media I'd like to admit.

New comment by pantulis in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

pantulis — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:27:52 +0000

As a long time Emacs user, I beg to differ. Muscle memory will settle in after a few days. I still use Emacs shortcuts to navigate text boxes on macOS.

The most disruptive thing in Omarchy is not the keyboard, it's the tiling WM in my opinion.

New comment by pantulis in "Black hole singularity is a surface not a point"

pantulis — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:17:22 +0000

It's a region of space from where not even light can scape.

You can get a region like that by squashing a lot of mass in a small space, like happens when a star collapses under its own gravity. So here the intuition of "high density" makes sense.

But at the center of galaxies you have the so called "supermassive black holes" which are more or less comparable in size to the solar system and yes, they have a lot of mass but they are not very dense, a pop-sci trope is comparing it's density to cotton candy or even the air we're breathing right now.

So it's a matter of how you distribute mass/energy in a given diameter, not exactly of density.

New comment by pantulis in "New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra"

pantulis — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:03:51 +0000

YMMV, but when I got my iPad I realized that my "mobile" needs were only contempt consumption and my MBP was used as a desktop computer connected to a 32'' monitor. So every time I renewed my laptop the expensive screen went with it, and I had to pay for another one that I would be using as a second screen!

Thus, my current workhorse is a Studio.

New comment by pantulis in "Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is"

pantulis — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 10:10:27 +0000

I guess thermal throttling will inevitably kick in.

New comment by pantulis in "Radiation damage to Hubble has been 4.3 years out of phase with the Solar cycle"

pantulis — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 12:04:44 +0000

The video is not exactly comfortable to watch, but the sound is truly scary.

New comment by pantulis in "John C. Dvorak has died"

pantulis — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 10:44:53 +0000

Guessing from the context, it has to be Adam Curry.

New comment by pantulis in "John C. Dvorak has died"

pantulis — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 10:41:14 +0000

Fortunately Jon Udell is still pretty much alive and kicking.

New comment by pantulis in "Firefox Containers Preview"

pantulis — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:59:07 +0000

Well it came to me that I could write that as an extension with Claude Code. And it's showing good progress.

New comment by pantulis in "Firefox Containers Preview"

pantulis — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:22:54 +0000

The "per container" number of features that come to mind is never ending. For example, I'd love to have something like Safari's "Profile bookmarks" that allow you to set a different subset of your global bookmarks as the root of your bookmark bar per profile. This is insanely useful.

New comment by pantulis in "Codex Micro"

pantulis — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:48:12 +0000

The TE reference is strong!

New comment by pantulis in "Sam Neill has died"

pantulis — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 10:43:51 +0000

"Where we're going, we don't need eyes to see".

New comment by pantulis in "Apple Silicon Exec Explains Mac Mini AI Demand and On-Device Future"

pantulis — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 06:59:07 +0000

Being a Mac switcher since 2003 I am as much of a fanboy as anybody else but this quote from the article caught my attention, and smells like PR.

> Many AI tools are also Mac-first or Mac-only

I fail to recall AI tools Mac-only general purpose AI or agentic tools. Most of the claws, harnesses, studios and inference engines seem to be multiplatform. You can say you can run then in a Mac with a nicer UI wrapper or whatever, but "Mac-first" or "Mac-only"?

New comment by pantulis in "Programmers need to start meditating"

pantulis — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 11:17:55 +0000

This. It's like you end up growing your own PAUSE button for the rest of your day and you can break your own fourth wall.

New comment by pantulis in "Kimi K2.7 Code is generally available in GitHub Copilot"

pantulis — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 10:15:48 +0000

> I am a huge fan of Copilot CLI. It just feels so logical and low-friction to use compared to Claude Code.

Honest question, can you ellaborate? If given the option, I use OpenCode but what do you find in Copilot CLI that makes you prefer it to Claude Code?

New comment by pantulis in "My Favorite Keyboards"

pantulis — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 09:45:21 +0000

What, did Korg release an M1 Max? How did I miss it?

New comment by pantulis in "Kimi K2.7 Code is generally available in GitHub Copilot"

pantulis — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:52:01 +0000

It’s providing the inference of Anthropic models