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New comment by slumberlust in "Apple Keynote now showing ads in its UI"

slumberlust — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:44:42 +0000

For now.

New comment by slumberlust in "Denmark data breach exposes 8.8M people's personal data"

slumberlust — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 17:52:40 +0000

Yes. Its a fingerprinting paradox that the more you do to obfuscate the better they can pick you out of the crowd.

New comment by slumberlust in "Firefox 157 released with 'biggest visual refresh in years'"

slumberlust — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:22:25 +0000

This worked for me. Question is how long until they force it.

New comment by slumberlust in "Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights"

slumberlust — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:30:02 +0000

Desoldering can be a PITA sometimes. Particularly our HVAC heatpump blew a fuse and the mobo quote was $600 so I tried to desolder the leads but it was neigh impossible at any temps my desktop hako could output. Tried scratching off a surface film, using chemicals, nothing worked.

I just ended up snipping the leads and soldering the new fuse inline directly to those wires.

New comment by slumberlust in "SNL Weekend Update: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on A.I.'S Threat to Humanity [video]"

slumberlust — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:00:12 +0000

Green line?

New comment by slumberlust in "Let's make quality the norm again"

slumberlust — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 10:29:47 +0000

Would Publix count as a co-op?

New comment by slumberlust in "Volkswagen Just Built an EV That Can Go Nearly 900 Miles on a Charge"

slumberlust — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 16:15:31 +0000

The current safety and mpg targets for car manufacturers incentivize them to produce 'cars' of a certain size and weight to avoid compliance with stricter standards on smaller vehicles.

As such, the manufactuers have incentivized customers to buy SUVs for a few decades now.

New comment by slumberlust in "Mark Zuckerberg: "Cambridge Analytica" (2017)"

slumberlust — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 15:56:21 +0000

Says tweet not found for me.

New comment by slumberlust in "US Customs supervisor busted for stealing hardware from Homeland Security PCs"

slumberlust — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 19:48:26 +0000

This was common at our East coast Amazon site circa 2019 as well, but for monitors.

New comment by slumberlust in "Killing with a car costs $1.6M, California requires drivers to carry $30K"

slumberlust — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 13:19:37 +0000

Wouldn't the insurance company's incentive be to sell you the most coverage they can?

New comment by slumberlust in "GrapheneOS' rewritten Messages app is released"

slumberlust — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 02:29:36 +0000

I agree with parent. When I tap the icon/picture on the history it should pull up the contact not call. I also find the need to click into a submenu for context bad UI.

Your comment is unnecessarily inflammatory.

New comment by slumberlust in "Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?"

slumberlust — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 02:22:40 +0000

Potentially more. Example, the data center articles don't match the AI filter, but they are certainly AI driven.

New comment by slumberlust in "The EPA is planning to scrap public review rules for data center pollution"

slumberlust — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 20:49:20 +0000

Has capitalism ever stopped and thought instead of hitting full throttle at any cost?

New comment by slumberlust in "I Don't Have a Smartphone"

slumberlust — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 22:34:33 +0000

Yea, ditto if they only take orders via tablets. Vote with your wallet.

New comment by slumberlust in "'Idiocracy' Predicted All of This"

slumberlust — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:14:31 +0000

I believe the parent was a Futurama reference in jest.

New comment by slumberlust in "Hacking IKEA Furniture"

slumberlust — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 17:45:45 +0000

I did something similar, but just bought the wooden desk top from Ikea. Sanded/stained and added some standing desk legs. Perfect balance between customization and not building from scratch.

I'd be hesitant to recommend a novice to pursue a glue-up/planing project if they weren't already interested in woodworking.

New comment by slumberlust in "Harvest hikes bills by 1500% after purchased by Bending Spoons"

slumberlust — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:41:13 +0000

Industry? Source? This does not match my experience to date. I see subscriptions everywhere from telephony, CMS, slack, quip, etc.

New comment by slumberlust in "Casio F-B100W-1A"

slumberlust — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 21:27:47 +0000

Some of us prefer looser fitting bands. Most of smart watch features are useless unless you strap it down tight. I'd bite on something like this if the form factor wasn't off.

New comment by slumberlust in "Colorado River plummets as lakes Powell and Mead drop to record lows"

slumberlust — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:34:09 +0000

Wasn't that the result of active misinformation by companies with vested interest in transporting everyone out West?

New comment by slumberlust in "A U.S. Strategy to Prevent the Creation of Mirror Life"

slumberlust — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 21:36:37 +0000

If this interests you, you may enjoy the book Permutation City by Egan.