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New comment by saratogacx in "Motorola effectively bricked its entire line of WiFi routers without explanation"

saratogacx — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:36:06 +0000

So many things rely on date bound certificates now that local doesn't assure continued operation, see the recent Mac Office 2019 stories. I feel like there are so many of these ticking time bombs that expired cert based software failures are going to become a much more common issue.

New comment by saratogacx in "American capitalism has taken an apocalyptic turn"

saratogacx — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 05:19:26 +0000

Costco's code of ethics makes this really simple, it is too bad it, or a variation thereof, isn't more commonly observed.

In order of overriding priority

1. Obey the Law 2. Support our members 3. Support our employees 4. Support our suppliers 5. If we do the above, we'll reward shareholders

New comment by saratogacx in "DuckDuckGo makes its 'no-AI' search engine easier to access as its traffic booms"

saratogacx — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:02:04 +0000

You can turn that all off in a few clicks and I believe it is kept in your site cookie so you don't need to log in

https://duckduckgo.com/settings#aifeatures

New comment by saratogacx in "Poll: How often do you check "newest"?"

saratogacx — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:36:10 +0000

I use /active more then /newest because I often am looking for a discussion already happening so I can learn from others.

I feel that new is wasted on me because I'm not confident that my own thoughts on what's interesting and worth front page promotion is well... interesting to the community.

New comment by saratogacx in "Is AI causing a repeat of frontend’s lost decade?"

saratogacx — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:29:13 +0000

What is funny about that is if you setup a basic design system, css and such, The AI generated front end code will fit right in nicely but most don't even go through that basic amount of care.

Rounded corners still seems to be the unending trend through that anything that wasn't already well defined gets infected with.

New comment by saratogacx in "Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit"

saratogacx — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:34:02 +0000

Do they still insist that? My unstudied feeling is that the current go to is "The officer acted in line with established department guidelines. We commit to reviewing the guidelines in light of this situation" with no accountability on any side to actually do anything.

New comment by saratogacx in "Google’s AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back"

saratogacx — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:56:42 +0000

We've had to deal with someone highjacking the overview to put in a scam support phone number. It took google a week to correct the issue but it was done by poisoning the search by putting their data in, what I can only assume, was considered a "higher trust tier" source (A government contract website) so it used the scam number over ours. The query was simple search.

New comment by saratogacx in "OpenAI is connecting ChatGPT to bank accounts via Plaid"

saratogacx — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:15:40 +0000

My bank's underwriter/loan officer actually said to get the best rate with them to specifically setup an account with them (They aren't my day to day bank) and just use it for my house payment. For the past decade the only transactions it has ever seen has been the direct deposit and the auto-withdraw for the mortgage.

New comment by saratogacx in "Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools"

saratogacx — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:13:52 +0000

Copilot didn't charge for subagents. You could do an insane amount of work with dozens of subagents with a single request and a deep enough prompt to kick it off.

I setup entire virtual teams (Dev, QA, product, reviewers etc with the initiating model just acting as the agent manager to keep it's context minimal) to one-shot some stuff and it kept churning and making progress.

Those days are just about over with the change to token pricing but for a time....

New comment by saratogacx in "Meta's embrace of AI is making its employees miserable"

saratogacx — Sun, 10 May 2026 02:23:32 +0000

LLM generates context based on what's on the screen and associates it with the action taken by the user. It is less "point of time" but more "charting the flow"

For example. page content of a PR with open comments, next action is to focus on the first comment. when a new PR with no open comments is shown the approve/push button is the next action. That starts a re-enforcement loop.

New comment by saratogacx in "OpenClaw had a rough week"

saratogacx — Fri, 08 May 2026 04:40:35 +0000

I've been using picoclaw after experiencing just how slow OpenClaw was to do anything with. It doesn't have as much in ways of the seemingly needless tweaks you can do with OpenClaw but it is reliable, tiny, fast, and consistent enough for me to just fire and forget it.

New comment by saratogacx in "1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'"

saratogacx — Mon, 04 May 2026 19:57:30 +0000

Mainly size and driving position. The charm of the AWD and live adjustments would need to be kept around but even without the ol turbo you'll still have a small, nimble, darty car to toss around. Something would be lost in the conversion but balancing turbo lag isn't the entire car. The Model 3 is long, wide, with a big wheelbase compared to, especially the older, STi's.

New comment by saratogacx in "1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'"

saratogacx — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:00:50 +0000

You don't take on projects like this because you're on a mission to make the most efficient vehicle. Lots of people are paid good money to do that and produce the slip-slugs we have today.

A project like this is to have a fun experience in a vehicle that was never designed to drive with electric qualities. I don't need the most efficient vehicle for my use so I could afford to trade some of that for fun. I'd probably try a Subaru Impreza STi because it would just be a blast to have a car of that size and stature with an electric powerplant under the hood (or trunk, or wherever it fits)

New comment by saratogacx in "Why TUIs are back"

saratogacx — Sun, 03 May 2026 21:44:05 +0000

Weirdly enough I actually like that Esc is so far away and it is not for efficiency but for ergonomics. It forces me to lift my hand up and reposition it away from the home row and back so I'm forced to move muscles that would otherwise just wait around and collect RSI points. I tend to use the arrow keys often as well for the same reason on the other hand (although I do still use hjkl quite a bit still)

New comment by saratogacx in "Dav2d"

saratogacx — Sun, 03 May 2026 21:33:50 +0000

If you see the state of what is called "production quality" software these days, alpha/beta quality has lost most of its meaning. You now just wait for "next prod"

// I jest... but only to hide the sadness

New comment by saratogacx in "Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app"

saratogacx — Fri, 01 May 2026 15:51:15 +0000

The only thing I haven't been able to get it to do is read from my phone's local calendar. The claude app can but the voice assistant cannot (Why? No idea). Perplexity has no issue doing it so I actually use them for my rare needs to do voice commands with my phone.

New comment by saratogacx in "Zed 1.0"

saratogacx — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:17:00 +0000

Not OP but I have a similar complaint.

The two primary OS items that turn me off of zed are not being able to have a title bar and the fact that menus open on hover and not on click.

VSCode, and IntelliJ let me turn on OS level title bars so I can handle the window without needing to try and find the magic spot not filled by some other app based nonsense as well as making it easier to see what window is active.

Menus can be unrolled from the hamburger but now pop open if I just swing my cursor through. I've no idea what convention that was pulled from but I think they just took the hamburger menu event triggers and left them as they were instead of changing them to act like an OS menu is expected to function.

I'm sure there are others that I'd find using the app but just those two was enough of a personal issue for me to just not bother.

New comment by saratogacx in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

saratogacx — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:48:54 +0000

Shrinkflation

New comment by saratogacx in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

saratogacx — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 02:02:08 +0000

Only reason to keep it is if you like their UX and auto-complete. Everything else is on pay per use and if you don't use all of it (good luck with the 5 hour and week caps) you have just paid more for the auto-complete

The deal is really pretty much garbage now and I believe that is the intent.

New comment by saratogacx in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

saratogacx — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:31:15 +0000

I've used it quite a bit. There are a lot of AI terminal coding products and this is another one. It works well, handles sub-agents without issue and does a reasonable job operating in the Copilot ecosystem. It handles mid-task questions and such we well.