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New comment by prepend in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"

prepend — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 11:55:32 +0000

Why do yo think the US should be classified as a developing nation?

There’s a definition independent from 1st/2nd/3rd world [0] and the US’ income seems to clearly make it developed.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developing_country

New comment by prepend in "Patreon laying off 20% of staff"

prepend — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:15:25 +0000

It works as well as it ever did. Or the same level of not working.

New comment by prepend in "Patreon laying off 20% of staff"

prepend — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:02:14 +0000

This type of BS wouldn’t make me psychologically secure. It would make me afraid because I can’t trust what leadership says.

New comment by prepend in "Patreon laying off 20% of staff"

prepend — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:00:29 +0000

I don’t buy that he cares.

Patreon is profitable. He doesn’t have to fire anyone to continue operations. He just wants more money.

If he cared about them as beautiful people, he wouldn’t fire them.

It’s one thing if you’re bleeding cash and have to cut. Another when you discover a cheaper way to do things and don’t want to retrain and grow in new ways where you’d need people.

Patreon CEO is full of horse apples.

New comment by prepend in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

prepend — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 09:16:14 +0000

I had a prius and every time I started it up, it would display a big warning prompt that blocked out the rear view camera. So you had to tap ok before backing up. Every time.

My current car shows this once per driver. I always thought toyota engineers were stupid for designing such a system.

New comment by prepend in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

prepend — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 09:10:20 +0000

I wonder if these things are designed by people who do not drive. So they just implement to spec without thinking through whether the change produces the desired impact.

New comment by prepend in "BMW iX5 Blows Away the Competition with 460-KW Charging, 435-Mile Range"

prepend — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 20:57:57 +0000

For me it was 70k. And it wasn’t the breaking. It was the poor engineering that caused the break.

New comment by prepend in "Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries"

prepend — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 20:55:45 +0000

I’d rather not have people in my house. Much prefer someone telepresencing and seeing inside than actual people.

Mainly because I feel it’s an inconvenience for them. Personally, I’d rather telecommute than work in an office.

New comment by prepend in "Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries"

prepend — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 22:18:06 +0000

Better than local servants doing chores.

New comment by prepend in "Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries"

prepend — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 22:16:35 +0000

Tesla operates vehicles for $100/month. I’m guessing whatever cloud ai this thing needs is less complicated and less money.

New comment by prepend in "Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries"

prepend — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 22:15:35 +0000

Seems to suffer from the dalek problem.

My laundry is upstairs and my washer is downstairs.

Also doesn’t seem to be able to start washer/dryer and transfer loads.

New comment by prepend in "Pine64 launch $50 smart speaker for Home Assistant tinkerers"

prepend — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:09:48 +0000

It’s funny that it comes with a 30 day warranty.

I love that this is out and one day hope to replace my alexas and whatnot so I can turn on my lights without hearing an ad for amazon prime.

New comment by prepend in "ArXiv's Next Chapter"

prepend — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:04:50 +0000

Part of the promise of open access and open science is that the information is free and open to all. Including robots.

I submit to open things because I want my material to be openly available. If I wanted restrictions, I would submit to gated journals.

New comment by prepend in "ArXiv's Next Chapter"

prepend — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:00:56 +0000

It’s a useful tool. But its “value” is about the same as a github repo with your pdf.

It doesn’t need much funding or staff and not quite sure why they’re going through all this rigmarole and independence. I almost think they’d be better off like Apache where there ade very few employees.

New comment by prepend in "BMW iX5 Blows Away the Competition with 460-KW Charging, 435-Mile Range"

prepend — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:25:45 +0000

I finally gave up on bmw last year (after 15 years and 4 models) due to their reliability and cost of repair. I don’t think I’d touch them after spending thousands chasing down coolant repairs due to poor design (plastic parts, high labor cost location to inspect and replace).

New comment by prepend in "Signs you're a dangerous terrorist: using Signal, moving zines"

prepend — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:02:23 +0000

No, not at all. As evidenced by the very few people who shoot at cops, even though cops have done illegal stuff forever. And how the few who shoot at cops usually are executed on the spot or have super extreme sentences.

New comment by prepend in ".self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting"

prepend — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 22:49:45 +0000

Is it really that expensive to run a TLD? Name servers are notoriously long running on ancient spec servers.

I’m guessing, if designed well, the registration process could run on lightweight infrastructure. Maybe $1-5k total per year, not counting time. So it’s enough for a fun hobby project.

New comment by prepend in ".self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting"

prepend — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 22:47:37 +0000

I tried to leave a comment and it errored out and said “please leave a valid email.” I tried 6 different addresses at prepend.com.

It’s weird when sites have invalid email checks.

New comment by prepend in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"

prepend — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 18:33:39 +0000

I think it’s the only set top box that doesn’t show ads or sell viewing data.

New comment by prepend in "Signs you're a dangerous terrorist: using Signal, moving zines"

prepend — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:43:12 +0000

And if they Nazis had won they would be cool, etc etc.

I don’t think your point is debated by anyone.