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New comment by spogbiper in "Finger: the 1971 social network that never died"

spogbiper — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:44:04 +0000

i remember the good old days of wide open terminal servers. used to dial into my local uni so I could then telnet into MUDs all over the world.

New comment by spogbiper in "Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers"

spogbiper — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:21:13 +0000

the information I have says they use 3-5x, which isn't even one order of magnitude

New comment by spogbiper in "We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility"

spogbiper — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:12:51 +0000

"rare" is used in these headlines/articles to incite and generate clicks

New comment by spogbiper in "Magnitude 7.4 Earthquake – 5 km S of San José del Palmar, Colombia"

spogbiper — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:22:31 +0000

once while visiting Peru, I had a vivid memorable dream that my cat was jumping on the bed. woke up to learn that I'd slept through an earthquake.

New comment by spogbiper in "50k Boat Names"

spogbiper — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:21:00 +0000

unsinkable-2 (copy)-FINAL.revised7-4-19

New comment by spogbiper in "On non-rooted Android 17, ADB uninstall of system apps fails"

spogbiper — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:00:05 +0000

They aren't banning it. They are introducing a one time 24 hour waiting period. Not ideal, but not banning.

New comment by spogbiper in "On non-rooted Android 17, ADB uninstall of system apps fails"

spogbiper — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 15:58:41 +0000

> install any operating system like you can with an actual computer

This is in practice only true of IBM PC compatibles these days, you really can't install any OS on modern Macs. Maybe you can on (some?) Chomebooks?

New comment by spogbiper in "Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)"

spogbiper — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:28:31 +0000

i've often wondered how Apple gets away with things like this, I guess its because they never gained the marketshare that Microsoft had

New comment by spogbiper in "Show HN: 18 Words"

spogbiper — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:35:13 +0000

HABIT worked for me

New comment by spogbiper in "Have You Restarted Your Computer This Week?"

spogbiper — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 14:58:44 +0000

it can jump from wherever it is to your highly attractive ground line

New comment by spogbiper in "Have You Restarted Your Computer This Week?"

spogbiper — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 14:57:01 +0000

my department manages a fleet of ~10k Windows PCs and it's pulling teeth to get the users to allow an automated reboot once a month for updates. they invent all kinds of silly ways to avoid it. your situation seems atypical.

New comment by spogbiper in "Notes from tired Egyptian whose job is explaining that humans built the pyramids"

spogbiper — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:21:07 +0000

the aliens could have planted those records tho

New comment by spogbiper in "Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users"

spogbiper — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:26:34 +0000

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-organized-crim...

“Every time we see a Google Pixel, we suspect it might belong to a drug dealer,” said a police official leading the anti-drug operation in Catalonia.."

Seems like some countries/areas are already targeting the Pixel (really its because of GrapheneOS)

New comment by spogbiper in "The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation"

spogbiper — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:17:17 +0000

6?!? We had only 4 colors in low res mode and 2 in high res

New comment by spogbiper in "Surprise, pay $1000"

spogbiper — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:44:17 +0000

Many years ago I met a woman that ran a "business" that simply invoiced legitimate companies for printer supplies and toner every month. A surprising number of her invoices were paid without question.

That went on for a couple years. Then one day she left town basically in the middle of the night and we never heard from her again.

New comment by spogbiper in "The iPhone's Last Stand?"

spogbiper — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:30:22 +0000

"Everything's computer" - Trump, 2025

New comment by spogbiper in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"

spogbiper — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:19:04 +0000

I have created a more private cloud compute that is superior to Apple's implementation. Why can't Apple users choose my better service?

New comment by spogbiper in "I replaced Spotify with a homemade FM radio station"

spogbiper — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:22:45 +0000

there are similar concerns in the US but you can legally send a signal a couple hundred feet in most cases

New comment by spogbiper in "Google employees internally share memes about how its AI sucks"

spogbiper — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:09:26 +0000

“We encourage our engineers to vigorously test and critique our internal tools; that candid feedback loop, even via our internal meme generator, is vital to how we build technology," Google said. "We continue to refine our internal tools based on employee feedback to ensure we are delivering the best experience that maximizes daily productivity.”

Can anybody comment on whether that statement is an accurate reflection of how management at google treats these memes? On surface level it seems like they don't mind the memes and even use them as feedback but I wonder if that's how it really plays out

New comment by spogbiper in "Microsoft announces Scout, an autonomous AI agent built on OpenClaw"

spogbiper — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:22:45 +0000

They'll probably change the name a few times, there's always hope