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New comment by prymitive in "YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops"

prymitive — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 21:57:07 +0000

Is it that different from members of the public asking cops what intentions they have using Flock? Seems like everyone is concerned about privacy, the only difference is that the police is more organised and has more leverage to protect themselves vs (often) fragmented public.

New comment by prymitive in "I'm Calling for a Pause in the Development of the Universal Bone Dissolver"

prymitive — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 08:49:22 +0000

I support the petition to draft a letter hinting a possible concert that should be considered to be put forward for nomination to be included in the backlog of things we might think of doing should we have suddenly run of things to do urgently. No, sorry, I take that back: I strongly support it!

New comment by prymitive in "macOS 27 is so buggy"

prymitive — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 18:56:05 +0000

It’s because nobody gives a fluff anymore, seemingly. It used to feel like products were built by people who use them and take pride in them, but for a last few years it’s the opposite. Google bought Fitbit and the app started becoming less intuitive and readable. It’s continues enshitification where the goal of products is to capture market and extract profits first, rather than solve user problems. Maybe some products got too big and that causes a disconnect, but if feels like there’s too much of that to explain it this way.

For example all modal windows on iOS have a close button on the right, except the weather app that has a close on the left.

New comment by prymitive in "GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities"

prymitive — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:51:11 +0000

The narrative is being set for open weights to be banned globally, unless they are so restricted that they cannot possibly compete with us companies products and affects their bottom lines.

New comment by prymitive in "Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent"

prymitive — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:41:29 +0000

Oh stop, microslop is probably already working on SecureTokenBoot or token2token encryption

New comment by prymitive in "OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue"

prymitive — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 17:35:19 +0000

That’s assuming nothing else stops them from deploying more capable models. What if they’ve got scaling issues and simply cannot deliver anything better? Saying that would be disastrous, saying instead “we’re choosing not to deliver” doesn’t trigger investors panic.

New comment by prymitive in "Improving site performance by shipping more CSS"

prymitive — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 08:24:41 +0000

Website-from-prompt?

New comment by prymitive in "iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27"

prymitive — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 19:20:38 +0000

27 got the slider so I though: finally I can turn it off even more. Turns out the max value of the slider is what toggling “less Liquid Glass please” was already doing in 26. But at the same time they modified it and now it somehow looks eee worse? I don’t know whst they did but it’s just looking less readable, at least in dark mode.

And the worse thing about LG is the floating bottom nav bar that keeps shrinking to an icon when you least expect it, moving all elements.

New comment by prymitive in "iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27"

prymitive — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 18:14:05 +0000

If it does then do much for focus on quality in this release…

New comment by prymitive in "iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27"

prymitive — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 18:11:35 +0000

Is it just me or is clicking “iOS 27” on iPhone showing upgrade screen for 26.7?

New comment by prymitive in "Anthropic CEO calls for the AI industry to slow down"

prymitive — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 18:05:59 +0000

Elon also advocated for that when he launched grok. The generous interpretation of this is that Elon cares about humanity, the more likely one is that desperately needed time to catch up with competitors (who were all ahead), so it would be great for him if everyone else paused.

New comment by prymitive in "AI models ran real businesses: They sent $12,431 in fake invoices, lost $3,200"

prymitive — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 18:41:59 +0000

Artificially Generated Invoices? That checks out

New comment by prymitive in "Speculative Decoding in vLLM on AMD GPUs"

prymitive — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 12:22:56 +0000

The story of “great hardware ruined by poor drivers/software” is so old than its truly shocking its still a thing these days

New comment by prymitive in "Netherlands pulls gold out of the US"

prymitive — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 14:47:06 +0000

The funny thing is that with $40T of public dept US is basically taking money from other countries (in exchange for a pice of paper saying IOU) and then using that money to force these countries to do what’s in US best interests (real or perceived). And the bigger that pile of debt is the more every government is invested in us not going bankrupt, hence the leverage just gets stronger. US is basically a private equity typo of global power - getting others to lend them a knife it stabs them in the back.

New comment by prymitive in "Over 170k Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame?"

prymitive — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 09:27:25 +0000

Saying sorry means admitting guilt. If there’s guilt there some level of harm. If there’s harm you can be sued. Avoiding being sued due to causing harm usually means increased costs, because you now need to take care you didn’t take before. Higher cost means you’re less competitive. Being less competitive makes you less attractive investment target. So as always it’s all about money. Saying sorry == lower share price.

New comment by prymitive in "Opus 5.0 drives incoherence into the stratosphere"

prymitive — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:23:40 +0000

I find it particularly bad at writing test comments, I usually start fixing bugs by adding regression tests and Opus tend to put story into comments for these, including “but it fails because…” followed by bug description including line numbers and call chains. It just lives to narrate everything

New comment by prymitive in "Opus 5.0 drives incoherence into the stratosphere"

prymitive — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:15:33 +0000

Sounds like engagement KPIs are through the roof since 4.8

New comment by prymitive in "We eliminated 1,400 CVEs in NanoClaw's container images"

prymitive — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:59:51 +0000

For those unfamiliar, “CVE” stands for “CV Enrichment”, common slang in Posture Engineering

New comment by prymitive in "Humanising LLM Outputs Is Dumb"

prymitive — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:21:02 +0000

+1 it’s a tool

It’s not perfect, it has shortcomings, it sometimes produces bogus outputs. All of that is fine for a tool, it’s not fine when it pretends it’s a conscious being, because errors start to feel like lies and it becomes a bit too personal.

Windows 11's Weather app uses ~1GB RAM

prymitive — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:33:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/linux-vs-windows-weather-app-ram

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49234179

Points: 5

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