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> that almost certainly will break in the next OS release

My scanner has drivers available for download that date from 2015 with no updates since then.

My solution to this very problem was to virtualize an ancient OS X (was not easy) so I could continue to use a perfectly good scanner.

Though I'm certain you've raised this issue before, and it was met with "I've never heard of anyone needing a scanner, you must be doing something weird, have you tried taking a picture of it with your iPhone(R) instead?"

When I had a similar issue on FreeBSD, I wrote some automatic pre- and post-suspend scripts (audio interface could cause full system crash going into suspend unless correctly managed beforehand). I’m sure you could do something similar on Linux.

Long-term, I think AI bots will destroy text-based online communities like this one. I'll be sad to see it disappear.

I'd like to see comments and webmentions integrated into RSS readers, myself.

That way filtering can be done on the client-side, and users aren't so dependent on the community admin to do the filtering. Not sure the final architecture. Forums are still highly centralized.

Cryptopanic.com is an interesting site with a baseline look and feel and comments integrated so something like that but running locally. Then an easy way to "mark as bot" button for training.

My take is that at some point, we will need ID verification online in general to prove you are human. Otherwise it's just chaos out here identity-wise and will get worse like you point out.

Humans can still use LLM for posting.

It is not about the humans who use AI for posting!

I believe it is more about the bot accounts that gets overwhelmingly annoying... and pollutes this and other places like reddit or other such discussion forums...

Some kind of a verification and vetting needs to happen for account creation.

I agree. But I am also sick and tired of humans prompting some LLM about the points that they want to say and having the LLM generate the response. Online communities will never be the same again.

If they become smart and insightful and don't lie about being human it wouldn't be the worst thing. I'd like having AI friends like Data on Star Trek. But the opposite is the worst thing...

It would be nice if the homepage loaded more gracefully with Javascript disabled -- as it is, it's completely blank without JS.

Odds are better in Canada where 70% of trains arrive late. https://media.viarail.ca/en/press-releases/2025/q1-2025-time...

> I've seen arguments about kids going to school in the darkness being thrown around a lot

I’m sure there’s some correlation with the time zone, but it feels like a “think of the children!” argument that ignores much more significant factors (e.g. traffic speed and volume).

More interesting than the fact that ChatGPT was used, was seeing all the specific examples of the types of work that this individual was doing.

Where can they be found?

> Word of mouth and maybe trusted communities like HN is the only way to reliably discover new things.

Any sufficiently trusted (online) community will find many attempts to exploit its trust for profit.

Anki uses a SQLite database for all its data, so it's already an open format.

Anki also regularly takes local backups.