Considering their entire marketing campaign is “nobody, not even WhatsApp can see your messages,” I can see how folks would fall for that.

https://hackaday.com/2025/07/09/crunching-the-news-for-fun-and-little-profit/

So the output from the LLM is just a text description that’s fed into another, smarter piece of software that interprets that text into an order? What task is the LLM actually doing in this case?

Can someone who understands this better explain to me how this thing actually places the order into whatever POS they use? Like if LLMs are just advanced auto-complete, I get how they can do “fuzzy” tasks like answering questions or carrying on a conversation, but how do they do rigid tasks like entering the tacos into whatever system the cash register and kitchen use?

I don’t have a command key. I don’t use a mac.

You’re getting downvotes because Ctrl+C doesn’t work in the terminal. That sends the kill command to the currently running application. You need the shift to tell the terminal program that you’re trying to copy.

Shit is usually a pain in the ass. The challenge is divining how much of a pain in the ass something has to be that someone else might have made a solution for it.

I didn’t know you could ctrl+shift+c to copy in the terminal until a month ago when my linux n00b wife said "there has to be a better way to do this. I’ve been right clicking to copy for 10 years.

Living in a city, I can kind of get it. The number of people who simply walk in front of my bike because they’re absorbed in their phone has made my commute stressful. I ended up installing a car horn on my bike which I’m sure makes their commute more stressful.

Perhaps the Walkman was the first time technology isolated people from the world around them.

Or I dunno, books.

Honestly, if they just made it easier to craft a formula (like, I dunno multiple lines, some kind of better color coding of matched parentheses, etc), that’d go a lot farther.

Okay This is after 5 minutes of Googling. There are a few cheaper options out there.

Get a used iPod. Load it with RythmBox, swap the hard drive for a few hundred gigs of SD cards and you’re golden.

You can run Windows 9 on an iPhone 9.

Instructions unclear. Accidentally did science.

Yes. I’ve used it. But security cameras are hardly a killer app.

I love how Frigate is like…the only thing you can use AI processors for. I got a Coral M.2 card and used it for Frigate for like a year and then got bored. Sure, I can have it ID birds, but there’s not much more practical use that I found.

If anything, a smaller market share is better for business. The more users they have the faster they lose money.

The usual business plan is to reinvest all earnings into growth. So you’re losing money, but gaining market share. Tesla, Amazon, etc all did this. They could stop at any point and turn a profit, but they chose to pursue a growth instead.

AI companies are currently not making enough revenue to even cover their operating costs. Even so, they are pouring all of their money into more video cards that, once installed and configured, immediately start losing money.

I built my wife a gaming PC. She’s controller only. It’s basically an xbox. Decided to try ubuntu to see if we could avoid paying for windows.

She’s already 100% Hogwarts Legacy and played a dozen other games.

The only hangup was controller support for Slime Rancher on her 8bitduo. Had to use an xbox controller.

She knows nothing about linux, but she’ll install and play games through Steam no problem.

I personally vote for CEOs publicly embarrassing themselves in more and more degrading ways.

Should the audience shout “Sniper no sniping!” to really make it hit?