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> AlpineBSD is not a fork of Alpine Linux, its package collection is original (though many packages are ultimately based on aports). > Alpine Linux uses the OpenRC init system. Currently, AlpineBSD uses s6 and we intend to add OpenRC as an alternative. I'm not sure where exactly the line should be, but that feels like…

Most accountants will not in fact share client data.

Kids expect all screens to be touch ready. Chromebooks they learn on in schools are touchscreen. It will be a competitive requirement before long, I think.

I wish I could buy this without touch just for the rush of nostalgia, having the illuminated Apple logo on the back

you used to be able to set the redesign_optout cookie to true, but that doesnt seem to work anymore as of like a day ago for me

Coinbase claims 70k users had data visible in this leak. That's an odd number to me. I've only found a few articles about this and a few random Reddit threads. I haven't yet seen an announcement or disclosure from Amplitude, but I would suspect others were hit as well. Oldest article I found:…

They seem to go with Android-style alphabetic order code names instead of pointed numbers (4.1, 4.2...) and drop "B" for some reason (which is creating this confusion.)

Browsers were the original TLS trust store vendors. Operating systems started shipping trust stores because their OS came with a browser, not because they were the natural root of trust. Browsers also have tools to update revocation near-live, while operating systems lag behind by hours, or days in this case. For your…

That's because current AI models are incapable of doing knowledge workers' jobs. At least for me as an attorney, Harvey is only actually useful when it comes to helping me sort through large amounts of data. Even then, I can't trust its judgment (it has shown to be very poor) so it's only so useful

Apple perfected the trackpad to the point where a touchscreen never felt necessary; and that’s how they got away with not building one. This feels more like a marketing gimmick, anyone remember the Touch Bar?

While I don't disagree, if we are to believe Anthropic's valuation claim, it squarely falls under "megacorp" territory.

The hands are also almost in the exact same image Steve Jobs had on a slide during the iPad keynote showing touch on a laptop is not ergonomic. It's poetic, almost.

I think Artificialanalysis should have a policy of only including available models or something. They already include Gemini 4 Carbon now even though nobody can access it. Google can celebrate that they have the highest scoring model. Fable 5.5 and Astra 6.1 will probably be released before Gemini 4 Carbon and might…

> In fact I try really hard not to touch it so that I don't get smudges on it. Glad I'm not alone. Unfortunately every week I have to clean it from dust and also smudges that gets passed from the keyboard when you close the lid.

I've had a Thinkpad with a touch screen and I loved it. Sometimes touching something on the screen is a lot faster than grabbing the mouse, moving the cursor, and then clicking. Although it's a lot more useful on laptops that can fold into a tablet, which neither MacBooks nor my Thinkpad can do.

I agree. The ergonomics of using a touch screen on a laptop screen aren't great. It only really works if you convert it to a tablet so that the screen is closer to you and angled up a bit for comfort, but it's no longer a laptop, so why bother?

I like this general hypothesis, but dislike this formulation: > This led the tastemaker art and architecture elite to start playing a kind of inside baseball where what's "beautiful" isn't beautiful in some objective sense, or to ordinary people, it's just what's trendy within their clique at a given time. I don't…

Was also hoping for this.

I spent a solid week on mine and haven’t had to tweak it in three years. We’re not all inefficient ;)

I’ve felt for years that they were holding out until they could make a dual touchscreen MacBook work and be a peak experience. I was expecting an iPhone duo type MacBook. That hasn’t happened. Who plays a musical keyboard on a vertical surface? Nobody.

google, pls. Please

At a fundamental level, they are indeed the same; much like Notion, Obsidian, or Roam Research—when you strip all these note-taking apps down to their core, they are essentially no different from an ER diagram.

Pro tip always get the silver macbooks because they wear out considerably better. On the black ones the paint near the charger ends up looking terrible and any dents/nicks/scratches look bad.

Adding to the litany of feedback: your BOM parser and manager is a source of pain. For a few BOM items it's fine, but for 50+ with 500+ placements there it's a heavy human lift with a lot of human error that is ripe for automation. The spreadsheet is gospel.

This is not that much different in programming, it just takes longer to find out. Using AI is like using adaptive cruise control: you're still in charge of where the vehicle will ultimately end up and if you decide to go take a nap you will wake up in the hospital or end up in the morgue. It's true though that the…