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New comment by pocksuppet in "Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s"

pocksuppet — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 21:07:41 +0000

Now you get to sell copies of your system for slightly less than the other proprietary system, thus creating a competitive market.

New comment by pocksuppet in "I regret migrating to Codeberg"

pocksuppet — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 21:06:59 +0000

In other words, to attack Codeberg

New comment by pocksuppet in "Critical Minerals: Reducing U.S. import reliance with substitution and recycling"

pocksuppet — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:32:43 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%27s_Final_Warning

New comment by pocksuppet in "Critical Minerals: Reducing U.S. import reliance with substitution and recycling"

pocksuppet — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:28:49 +0000

How well is this military doing against Iran right now? I think a few months ago a civilization was destroyed one night, right?

New comment by pocksuppet in "I regret migrating to Codeberg"

pocksuppet — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:23:09 +0000

Yes that's correct. They don't want you, they say good riddance. They want to support free software.

New comment by pocksuppet in "I regret migrating to Codeberg"

pocksuppet — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:20:42 +0000

Why would you mask AI code and place it on Codeberg instead of some other place where it won't be deleted on sight? The only reason you would do that is to attack Codeberg.

New comment by pocksuppet in "I regret migrating to Codeberg"

pocksuppet — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:15:30 +0000

Article summary: Censorship is when you choose not to host some things on your platform. The author, although not caring about LLMs or cryptocurrency, can't bear to use a platform where some things are not allowed.

New comment by pocksuppet in "Sealed tomb filled with paintings and inscriptions discovered in Egypt"

pocksuppet — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:34:04 +0000

Which park?

New comment by pocksuppet in "Sealed tomb filled with paintings and inscriptions discovered in Egypt"

pocksuppet — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:32:27 +0000

All physical artifacts older than 5 years should be destroyed and their memories wiped from all human brains. Comrade.

New comment by pocksuppet in "Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s"

pocksuppet — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:23:50 +0000

It does. But it's nothing special. This isn't "software engineering applied to a physical system". This is just software (and some hardware) engineering. This is just engineering. Making things to do things. You want to do something and you make a machine that does it.

New comment by pocksuppet in "Bananas sprout in Rayleigh Garden UK after 15 years"

pocksuppet — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 21:27:28 +0000

Potential? The Holocene Extinction is already the sixth mass extinction in Earth's history, and that's pre-climate-change.

New comment by pocksuppet in "Under federal rule, colleges must leave grads better off or lose financial aid"

pocksuppet — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:49:19 +0000

The usual empire lifecycle is caused by questionable policy choices.

New comment by pocksuppet in "S&P Global has lowered Oracle’s creditworthiness from BBB to BBB-"

pocksuppet — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:47:43 +0000

Wait, they don't own US TikTok? Who does?

New comment by pocksuppet in "S&P Global has lowered Oracle’s creditworthiness from BBB to BBB-"

pocksuppet — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:46:32 +0000

And their repeated refusal to either implement CUDA or reimplement everyone's CUDA libraries on their own platform. They say that AMD never misses a chance to miss a chance.

New comment by pocksuppet in "S&P Global has lowered Oracle’s creditworthiness from BBB to BBB-"

pocksuppet — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:44:58 +0000

IMHO these signals have more to do with the market than AI. They aren't finding AI to be have less ROI than before - they are requiring higher ROI than before, because there is less money remaining to be invested.

Managing the total amount of money so that investment bubbles peter out before they get excessively big is supposed to be the central bank's job.

New comment by pocksuppet in "Precursor"

pocksuppet — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:42:20 +0000

Do you actually have customers spread throughout the globe, or just in North America and some in Europe?

New comment by pocksuppet in "Precursor"

pocksuppet — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:58:21 +0000

Uhhh, they have it right now, and they are currently being evil by blocking a lot of people from accessing a lot of websites.

New comment by pocksuppet in "Since Chromium 148, Math.tanh is now fingerprintable to link underlying OS"

pocksuppet — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:56:32 +0000

The expectation with scraping is that you won't cause excessive server load. The "AI" scrapers are not respecting that. But there are plenty of other scrapers that do.

Here's some stuff on Adversarial Interoperability, which is an incredibly good thing that can reverse enshittification if it becomes more widespread: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interopera...

New comment by pocksuppet in "DOGE is done. What happened to its records?"

pocksuppet — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:56:24 +0000

It kind of is, where do you think Big Tech gets its money from? essential products and services are more expensive because of the waste. Like a can of Coke (or packet of rice) is more expensive because they buy ads through Google and Google wastes that money.

New comment by pocksuppet in "Precursor"

pocksuppet — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:56:00 +0000

Turnstile already does the "You are a BOT!!!" thing btw, if it thinks you're a bot, which is quite rare as it seems much more permissive than systems like reCAPTCHA.