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Genode appears to be very convenient if you are looking into a way to run microkernels for general purpose computing.

People didn’t seem to believe me when I said that hardware engineers have a better time than software engineers.

But think about it: they can and will “start from scratch” whenever they see the need to do so, while software engineers have been forced to cope with bad decisions from the 80s because the cost of starting fresh was simply unaffordable for most projects.

This is the year of microkernels.

But NixOS is not obscure once you get into it.

“No way this could have been prevented” – the people oppressed by the government said after giving unlimited power to the government.

You’d think people on hacker news would know about bypassing DPI…

But I wanted to be italic.

A private build followed by a manual push would take literally two commands and could be done from a maintainer’s laptop… it is not rocket science.

I’m pretty sure wikipedia has a bunch of mirrors, including one in the anti-social network nostr.

This is not a honest comparison. Books are mass produced and don’t rely solely on their authors paying hosting bills and willingness to not change stuff to keep existing.

Relying entirely on a single nonprofit (archive.org) to provide a honest snapshot of every cited link, at the time of citation, sounds much more unreasonable.

Steam has had problems with asset flippers long before “AI” hit the mainstream, but due the fact that even those “human slop” took time to make, you didn’t see them as often.

Sure, we at HN are holier than the rest and we know how to “bend the powers of AI for good”, but what Steam players see is a sea of mass produced AI slop games which barely work at all.

And yes, there is that one guy with good storytelling skills using AI to fill the knowledge gap in other areas make a game with some interesting ideas, but even him is getting overshadowed by the sea of slop. (Still a point could be made here of why. Why do everything alone? Why not take a chance with an aspiring VA recording lines from their phone? Pretty sure some people would work for free to get their first chance to get featured in anything)

We know it makes absolutely no sense to slap a binary “AI” sticker in a game just because one dev asked Claude to help them fix some scripting bug or whatever but maybe, just maybe, the best solution in that case would be outright lying. We know who that tag is for, something something read the spirit of the law, not what was literally written.

Right now I am glad I am not a Valve employee because they will have to figure out some scaleable solution for the (lack of) QA problem they have been ignoring for a long time now.

This assumes players have infinite time. It does not address the loss of revenue a proper indie game got as a result of being less discoverable in a sea of slop.

Your enemy doesn’t need to bomb the solar panels from a solar plant, they can just target the grid connection instead.

Unless you make rooftop solar + batteries with variable rate accessible for everyone (like Australia is said to have done), then yeah there will be no easy target.

But even then, your enemy could still target your grid stabilization infrastructure/peaker plants and make those who were not able to afford batteries lose power.

I wish grid operators could have some sort of remote control/feedback of “smart residential inverters” to be able to stabilize the last mile of the grid independently, maybe through a lora mesh or whatever their meters use.

99+ missed calls from millimeter wave bored geothermal

US installation costs seem insanely inflated compared to the rest of the world.