Hacker News: placatedmayhem

New comment by placatedmayhem in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"

placatedmayhem — Thu, 14 May 2026 18:44:05 +0000

This has already happened: https://www.motorbiscuit.com/jeep-dodge-owners-mad-infotainm...

New comment by placatedmayhem in "Topological Naming Problem"

placatedmayhem — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:08:19 +0000

Normally, I select a face and add a datum plane. It's button is in the toolbar with a the datum point and datum line buttons in light blue iirc.

That said, since v1.0, I've had far fewer instances of being affected, and have started doing some direct-on-face features (usually sketches) again.

New comment by placatedmayhem in "Show HN: Llama 3.1 70B on a single RTX 3090 via NVMe-to-GPU bypassing the CPU"

placatedmayhem — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 06:28:52 +0000

Wasn't there a storage device some Years ago (decade plus) that was RAM strapped to a PCI-E card with the electronics to present the RAM as a storage device?

New comment by placatedmayhem in "Electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil more than electric cars"

placatedmayhem — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 01:22:08 +0000

Micro mobility is amazing if you live in an area that is at all accommodating. I started using an electric scooter to go get lunch when weather isn't intolerable. It's harder with small children or if everything is car-only distances away (like rural areas), but not impossible. So much less hassle than a car IMO.

New comment by placatedmayhem in "ChatGPT is getting ads. Sam Altman once called them a 'last resort.'"

placatedmayhem — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 23:32:33 +0000

There are numerous documented examples of where chat LLMs have either subtly agreed with a user's suicidal thoughts or outright encouraged suicide. Here is just one:

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/us/openai-chatgpt-suicide-law...

In some cases, the LLM may start from a skepticism or discouragement, but they go along with what the user prompts. That's in comparison to services like 988, where the goal is to keep the person talking and work them through a moment of crisis, regardless of how insistent they are. LLMs are not a replacement for these services, but it's pretty clear they need to be forced into providing this sort of assistance because users are using them this way.

New comment by placatedmayhem in "We are discontinuing the dark web report"

placatedmayhem — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 01:47:56 +0000

Or, use a service that lets you generate an address for each business you deal with or use case you have so you can treat them as disposable. After chasing down spammers and companies selling my info, including my email, I found this was easier to keep up with and is more effective. Spam me once or sell it to another company, and I burn that address, replacing it with the original company if I really need them to keep in contact.

New comment by placatedmayhem in "US Tech Force"

placatedmayhem — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 17:48:32 +0000

For me as someone that would potentially be interested in and qualified for one of these roles, the DOGE actions earlier this year and ongoing firing of nonpartisan & non-appointed that don't tow the current ruling party line ruined the stability benefit. I think it also casts doubt on the pension aspect, but I know less about what's required to get pension in US fed positions.

New comment by placatedmayhem in "Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out"

placatedmayhem — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 13:59:42 +0000

In my head, it'll be like the high pressure timeshare sales pitches or the dreaded car sales transactions, where they pull out all the tricks to convince you to buy something you don't actually want or need, regardless of whether you can afford it.

New comment by placatedmayhem in "Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network"

placatedmayhem — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 21:07:07 +0000

Just a heads up that PC Engines is winding down. The chip they use in the APU2 is EOL, and they've decided to shut down altogether.

https://pcengines.ch/eol.htm

New comment by placatedmayhem in "Alan.app – Add a Border to macOS Active Window"

placatedmayhem — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 01:52:49 +0000

Does the Reduce Transparency option in Accessibility remove the drop shadow? If it does, I'd expect it to be all windows, but might satisfy your desire here.

New comment by placatedmayhem in "Oracle is underwater on its $300B OpenAI deal"

placatedmayhem — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 22:11:38 +0000

I usually do the same, but not always. And I believe clicking through is a behavior of a minority of people and interactions, judging by the click through rate drops sites have seen recently. (On mobile at the moment, so apologies for not grabbing a source for the rate drops sites.)

New comment by placatedmayhem in "Denmark's government aims to ban access to social media for children under 15"

placatedmayhem — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 21:43:20 +0000

> Again, every generation thinks that.

> This time might be different. But it's probably not.

And this is an appeal to tradition.

This article[1] from 2024 discusses this the studies on this topic. It seems to me the results are mixed, but conclusions range between social media being neutral to harmful. There is a lot in that article, so it's worth a read.

[1] https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/728739

New comment by placatedmayhem in "Apple M5 chip"

placatedmayhem — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 15:02:53 +0000

The check script I've been recommending is here:

https://github.com/tkafka/detect-electron-apps-on-mac

About half of the apps I use regularly have been fixed. Some might never be fixed, though...

New comment by placatedmayhem in "Farewell to Meshnet"

placatedmayhem — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 23:26:39 +0000

In advance, sort of. The devices can be swapped around at basically any time. There's a little lag for a device to get the config update enabling Mullvad on it IME, usually 30 seconds or so.

New comment by placatedmayhem in "Nginx introduces native support for ACME protocol"

placatedmayhem — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 19:31:02 +0000

They don't need to share a single cert. Multiple certificates can be, and possibly should, issued for the same address (or set of addresses). This means that one front door server that gets popped doesn't expose all connections to the larger service.

Downside is obviously certificate maintenance increases, but ACME automated the vast majority of that work away.

New comment by placatedmayhem in "David Attenborough at 99: 'I will not see how the story ends'"

placatedmayhem — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 22:42:50 +0000

The narrative climax to the human story around climate change has yet to happen. Assuming we continue on the current trajectory, expect riots and wars over food and clean water, possibly more.

New comment by placatedmayhem in "Apple details the end of Intel Mac support and a phaseout for Rosetta 2"

placatedmayhem — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 14:05:13 +0000

I've nearly given up on using containers on macOS for development at work, because I frequently need to test amd64-only containers. One deviation from our production (Linux on x86_64) is bad enough, but two surfaces issues, or even annoyances, frequently enough that I'm likely to take a plain Linux box for my next refresh.

Removal of the parts that Docker Desktop or colima use to provide x86_64 hosting might just seal that for me.

(Remote dev is another option, but I haven't found that particularly ergonomic yet.)

New comment by placatedmayhem in "Redis is open source again"

placatedmayhem — Thu, 01 May 2025 16:09:35 +0000

I'm curious whether the community will trust Redis-the-company again after this, or if they'll choose to stick with Valkey. The other concern is at least some big company legal departments are wary of AGPL software, which makes Valkey, still BSD, more attractive to them.

Edit: Regardless, thank you and the rest of the folks inside Redis for pushing to bring this back to OSS!

New comment by placatedmayhem in "Doge Is Replacing Fired Workers with a Chatbot"

placatedmayhem — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 21:02:43 +0000

From what I gather, anything they've saved is going to tax cuts for wealthier Americans and increased military spending.

The 90% of folks at the lower end are getting tax increases, too, as of the latest plan I've seen.

How much DOGE is saving is very questionable, too. Less than 1% of the annual budget fwiu. And whether those savings are actually permanent, or whether they cost us when consequences of cuts come calling after some time.

New comment by placatedmayhem in "EU asks for views on plan to force Apple to open up iOS"

placatedmayhem — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 17:15:15 +0000

One thing I have been considering for my immediate family, and possibly my parents, is setting up a small MDM. This seems more in line with allowing power users to do powerful things while keeping the less savy users from totally blowing up their devices with malware. I've never run an MDM though, only on the receiving end for work devices, so I'm not too sure about the complexity involved.