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New comment by weberer in "Wikipedia Workers to Seek Union Recognition"

weberer — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 10:01:46 +0000

>There is non disclosure agreement

No there is not. You don't have to sign anything to make edits to Wikipedia. On the other hand, these people are full employees with work contracts.

New comment by weberer in "Finding the best dog treat with statistics"

weberer — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 03:32:58 +0000

Or cat turds

New comment by weberer in "Steam Machine launches today"

weberer — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 03:09:27 +0000

Have you tried Steam Remote Play? It allows your desktop to render games and stream it to your Steam Deck that's connected to your TV. Or to any other device really.

New comment by weberer in "Steam Machine launches today"

weberer — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 03:04:58 +0000

Conversely, my Logitech wireless keyboard and trackpad needs this stupid receiver that they only make a USB-A version of.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logitech_Unifying_receiver

New comment by weberer in "Steam Machine launches today"

weberer — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 02:53:18 +0000

Just round up the penny for the more honest price.

Nintendo Switch 2 $450

Xbox Series S (512GB/1TB) $380 – $450

Xbox Series X (1TB) $650

PlayStation 5 Slim (Digital) $600

PlayStation 5 Slim (Disc) $650

PlayStation 5 Pro $900

Steam Machine 512GB: $1050

Steam Machine 2TB: $1350

New comment by weberer in "The AirPods Effect"

weberer — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 14:48:42 +0000

If you go to Japan, they won't let you enter most onsens. You see a lot of one star reviews from angry tourists who didn't know ahead of time.

New comment by weberer in "Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless"

weberer — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:37:07 +0000

Nothing breaks when you switch. You just can't create more private icloud addresses. I recently switched back to Android and can still use my old icloud logins.

New comment by weberer in "Qwen-Robot Suite: A Foundation Model Suite for Physical World Intelligence"

weberer — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:01:35 +0000

The site says they're running them on a NVIDIA Jetson Thor, which dev kits start at $3,000.

New comment by weberer in "AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models"

weberer — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:25:26 +0000

The token price is exactly the same on AWS as it is directly from Anthropic. This is the one service that AWS doesn't charge a huge markup for.

New comment by weberer in "CT scans of BYD car parts"

weberer — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:01:53 +0000

Yes, it is a literal credit score, which the grandparent comment claimed doesn't exist in "a European country".

New comment by weberer in "CT scans of BYD car parts"

weberer — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:16:31 +0000

What country do you live in? They probably have credit records. Here in Finland you definitely do. They don't break it down into a single score, but lenders can see how many debts you've defaulted on in the past.

https://www.oikeuspalveluvirasto.fi/en/financial-and-debt-co...

New comment by weberer in "CT scans of BYD car parts"

weberer — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:11:33 +0000

That sounds awful. What if you have a dispute and they're the ones in the wrong? You can no longer just take your business elsewhere.

New comment by weberer in "It Will Never Be the Year of the Linux Desktop"

weberer — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:35:25 +0000

Sounds like TempleOS checks all those boxes. You might miss networking though.

New comment by weberer in "It Will Never Be the Year of the Linux Desktop"

weberer — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:30:37 +0000

>There are many reasons for this. Drivers. Games. Adobe. Microsoft Office. Battery life. The thing where you close the lid of a laptop and open it again later to find that it passed into the good night.

The last one is a huge problem for Windows as well. Its due to Microsoft discontinuing support for S3 sleep mode, which in turn, caused motherboard manufacturers to discontinue S3 support in the BIOS. Which means its no longer available even if you install Linux on the laptop since it requires firmware support to work. You can still find laptops that support S3 sleep if you really look hard enough. Or buy a Mac.

New comment by weberer in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

weberer — Thu, 28 May 2026 09:04:15 +0000

What resource expenditure? Inference is dirt cheap, especially for a single person's prompt.

New comment by weberer in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

weberer — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:50:01 +0000

What a ridiculous strawman. A huge chunk of Americans are also calling for the end of the Visa/MasterCard duopoly and would love to jump on board to this.

New comment by weberer in "Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS"

weberer — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:04:51 +0000

Yeah, that is a very common complaint about Google's recaptcha. If they don't like you, they actually just send you through an infinite failure loop, even though you keep solving them correctly.

New comment by weberer in "Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California"

weberer — Fri, 15 May 2026 21:47:24 +0000

It doesn't need to be open source, you only need to provide server binaries to download. This was the standard until circa 2010. People were able to host dedicated servers themselves.

New comment by weberer in "Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired"

weberer — Thu, 14 May 2026 10:47:33 +0000

Eh, there are ways around that. I've worked for multiple Finnish companies that do layoffs via "lomautus" whereby they put the laid-off employees on a forced, unpaid, indefinite leave. After multiple months of not receiving a paycheck, the employees inevitably "resign".

New comment by weberer in "I moved my digital stack to Europe"

weberer — Wed, 13 May 2026 15:50:19 +0000

>it is going to be translated into laws soon enough (i.e. governments mandate data sovereignty)

The laws are already there. That's my point.