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no rule infuriates me more

My coworker starts almost every Teams message either with "Btw I had Claude do..." or "So Claude and I just...". If I message him first, there's a 75% chance the message I get back starts with "Hm, I just asked Claude about this, and...".

All his PR descriptions, commit messages, and comments are clearly "Claude".

I'm this close to start reviewing his PRs solely through Claude, and starting the review with "Here's what Claude came up with in review:".

The only thing holding me back is that this would mean I'd have to use Claude. So... No.

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OK, this is only tangentially related but it has been on my mind lately and I need to rant:

I am T1 diabetic. Over the last decade, a LOT has happened to improve my life, especially in regards to no longer needing to check glucose levels with blood, as glucose sensors you wear on your arm have become ubiquitous.

It started with a dedicated device that you needed to hold up to the sensor to get a reading (much nicer than pricking your finger) to that sensor being able to notify the dedicated device of high/low glucose values (yay! Sleep through the night, knowing you'll be woken up if something is wrong) to the sensor now constantly streaming glucose values to your phone.

Which is fantastic.

In theory.

In practice, there are two companies making these sensors (OK, there's a couple more, but they suck way more and are much less commonly used).

And both of their closed-source apps suuuuuuuuck. They do the bare minimum and nothing more. (Actually, it's worse than that. Ask me if you want to know. It's its own rant.)

Then there's xdrip+, a FANTASTIC app made by diabetics for diabetics. Instead of just showing you "this is your glucose" and sounding an alarm, once, when it's required, you can (just off the top of my head): Set an arbitrary amount of alarms with their own behaviors, which can be configured to vary by time of day; show the glucose everywhere (notification, lock screen, home screen,...); mute alarms for a custom time; do not sound an alarm if you're trending in the correct direction fast enough; do not sound the alarm multiple times if your are jittering around the threshold; notify other people automatically in case of emergency; and roughly 1000 things more. The app is well maintained, and of course open source.

Can you guess what the problem is?

That's right, manufacturers disapprove of using this app. For the worse one of the two sensors mentioned, the community reverse engineered the communication and it is now working perfectly with the app. For the better sensor, they can't and won't due to fear of legal repercussions.

It's my health. And I need to decide between worse hardware and useless software.

There's no technical reason for this. I dream of the EU passing a law that requires manufacturers of wearable medical devices to publish the comm protocols and to legitimize use of third party software.

Rant over.

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Approximately 1 in 25 Pixel users run GrapheneOS

Graphene explicitly says the 400k are worldwide. You cannot then go ahead and use the US numbers for your comparison. From your own source, Google shipped 10 million Pixel 9 devices in 2023 alone. This does not account for other/older pixel models, or the sum total of sales before that point, or since.

Why not just share the actual number: worldwide, there's 400k users.

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Carbrain. Carbrain is why. They practically live in the damn things.

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The number of "why do influencers always film in public" that I've seen leads me to believe that if they were filming in a restaurant instead, this post would not exist, but a "Social Media brainrot. That's why. They think they can just film anywhere." post in some other community instead.

Look, I agree, "fuck cars"; but eating and filming in the car you own is just not problematic beyond owning the car in and on itself, at all. There's plenty of valid car criticism to be had, you don't have to go looking for things to be enraged by.