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New comment by pftburger in "College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work"

pftburger — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 08:06:47 +0000

Would this be a good time to post about my AI controlled typewriter project?

New comment by pftburger in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

pftburger — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:40:18 +0000

I love the irony that the Imgur link asks you to install the Imgur app first

New comment by pftburger in "Glaze by Raycast"

pftburger — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 07:41:01 +0000

Honestly Glaze is brilliant.

I assume there is an extensive set of rails for the agent to tie into. (Compare this to asking Claude to green fields an app. Do you use electron? How are notifications handled? Icons? Permissions?)

It springboard off Raycast’s teams feature so well it actually gives it a real reason to exist. You’re empowering the one systems thinker in the group to export their automations to the rest of the group in a way that’s proven to work: small apps that do one thing. (Big apps get complicated, become full time projects that distract from the task at hand)

Fig tried this but it was just for engineers, the value prop was missing, Glaze seems to get this right.

Very nicely done!

New comment by pftburger in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

pftburger — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 09:23:41 +0000

Reasonably sure this has less to do with putting data centres in space and more to do with getting them less auditable (see the other news about X getting raided about Grok)

New comment by pftburger in "Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability"

pftburger — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:19:19 +0000

The fundamental issue preventing keyring aperture integration stems from the AirTag’s reliance on inverse-phase magnetic reluctance in the structural substrate. You see, the enclosure maintains a precisely calibrated coefficient offramular expansion. Introducing a penetrative void would destabilize the sinusoidal depleneration required for proper UWB phase conjugation. The resulting spurving bearing misalignment could induce up to 40 millidarkness of signal attenuation. Apple’s engineers attempted to compensate using prefabulated amulite in the magneto-reluctance housing, but this only exacerbated the side-fumbling in the hyperboloid waveform generators. Early prototypes with keyring holes exhibited catastrophic unilateral dingle-arm failure within mere minutes of deployment. Until we develop lotus-o-delta-type bearings capable of withstanding the differential girdle spring modulation, I’m afraid keyring integration remains firmly in the realm of theoretical engineering—right up there with perpetual motion machines and TypeScript projects that compile without any // @ts-ignore comments. The technology simply isn’t there yet.

New comment by pftburger in "The Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button"

pftburger — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 08:33:26 +0000

Can here to say this exactly. Not saying they don’t raise an interesting point but the complete lack of curiosity why a group of experts in simplicity and accessibility decided to take this path is jarring

New comment by pftburger in "Bricklink suspends Marketplace operations in 35 countries"

pftburger — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 04:46:14 +0000

This is A/B testing. Lego owns bricklink, so they shutter it in a few countries, see how it impacts sales, decide from there

New comment by pftburger in "Google Removed 749M Anna's Archive URLs from Its Search Results"

pftburger — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 07:17:46 +0000

100% Here in Germany its invisible deleted, and the process handle by a private company

New comment by pftburger in "High-resolution efficient image generation from WiFi Mapping"

pftburger — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 08:23:45 +0000

Right but it’s hallucinating the right colours which to me feels like some data is leaking somewhere. Because no way wifi sees colours

New comment by pftburger in "Tiny, removable "mini SSD" could eventually be a big deal for gaming handhelds"

pftburger — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 12:50:25 +0000

So, uh, game cartridges?

New comment by pftburger in "AI promised efficiency. Instead, it's making us work harder"

pftburger — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 16:48:41 +0000

AI efficiency gains don’t benefit employees, they benefit _employers_, who get more output from the same salary. When you’re salaried, you’re selling 8 hours of time, not units of work. AI that makes you 20% faster doesn’t mean you work 20% fewer hours or get a 20% raise. It means your employer gets 20% more value from the same labor cost.

Marx: workers sell their capacity to work for a fixed period, and any productivity improvements within that time become surplus value captured by capital.

AI tools are just the latest mechanism for extracting more output from the same wage. The real issue isn’t the technology—it’s that employees can’t capture gains from their own efficiency improvements. Until compensation models shift from time-based to outcome-based, every productivity breakthrough just makes us more profitable to employ, not more prosperous ourselves.

It’s the Industrial Revolution all over again and we’re the Luddites

New comment by pftburger in "OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through "I am not a robot" verification"

pftburger — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 10:45:44 +0000

Come on. It’s in BrowserMCP on a users machine. Capture is not testing for this and that’s fine

New comment by pftburger in "200k Flemish drivers can turn traffic lights green"

pftburger — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 15:44:09 +0000

Title should read : Flemish tragic agency grumpy that google wont stream all drivers position to them in real-time.

New comment by pftburger in "Code Execution Through Email: How I Used Claude to Hack Itself"

pftburger — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 12:31:57 +0000

Oh come on… if you’re running a shell executing MCP, then this is fair game. It’s like saying the PC is vulnerable because people leave their passwords on post it notes on the screen.

Ok wait, apple said that and then made better auth.

Nevermind, continue

New comment by pftburger in "Slack's 57MB 404 page"

pftburger — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 09:34:19 +0000

Missed opportunity for 404mb

New comment by pftburger in "First hormone-free male birth control pill enters human trials"

pftburger — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 08:10:47 +0000

99% effective? That’s three kids a year.

New comment by pftburger in "Ocean Iron Fertilization"

pftburger — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 08:57:35 +0000

Don’t build another boat to do it, grant ships that install iron distributors a tax credit

New comment by pftburger in "Glubux's Powerwall (2016)"

pftburger — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 16:56:21 +0000

In other news: Man burns down house using 1k old laptop battery (cells)

Thank the powers that be no one will give my neighbours a permit for that.

New comment by pftburger in "Underware 2.0 – Open Source Infinite Cable Management"

pftburger — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 20:30:17 +0000

+1 on this. Works wonders, costs nothing.

New comment by pftburger in "Phased Array Microphone (2023)"

pftburger — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 19:33:27 +0000

I wonder if there is a meaningful limit to number of listening zones. I’m imagining a 3d grid of virtual mics in a space, each with an AI behind it

Heck, train the model on the raw sensor data and you get the most awesome conference mics