OhMeadhbh

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by OhMeadhbh 7d ago
If only that worked.
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by OhMeadhbh 7d ago
So... PLATO user, Notes user and Thunderbird user here with a couple of notes. a. Everything you think is new was created in the 1960s by Don Bitzer @ UIUC or Doug Engelbart @ SRI. (and probably also Robert Creasy @ IBM
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by OhMeadhbh 14d ago
Ah. This is why one of my co-workers referred to our boss' Tesla as a "Suicide Booth."
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by OhMeadhbh 15d ago
Me too. Looks like it came back up after about 4(?) hours. I noticed there was a "special offer" to extend my subscription for about half the price. I think what I want is to pay more for something that looks vaguely like an SLA
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by OhMeadhbh 15d ago
Why bother with reliability when you don't have SLAs?
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by OhMeadhbh 15d ago
Do you know if they have multiple data centers and can fail-over when one barfs? I'm willing to pay a little extra for a SLA. Also, cyberinsider.com thinks Fastmail is in bed w/ the feds cause they have data centers in the state
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by OhMeadhbh 15d ago
The "funny" think is I came to HN to search for "proton" to see if anyone had any more info and hn.algolia.com gave me a 502. It's a tough day to be a vibe coded internet service. Fortunately, the 502 was temporar
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by OhMeadhbh 15d ago
I would email a link to this post to Bart (Butler), but my email service isn't working at the moment.
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Ask HN: Alternative to Proton Mail?
9 points by OhMeadhbh 15d ago|8 comments
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by OhMeadhbh 20d ago
"The truth is where the sculptor's chisel stripped away the lie." Kusama-san definitely embodied that statement.
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by OhMeadhbh 20d ago
Several years ago I was at a conference in Las Vegas and discovered that one of her "infinity mirror rooms" was on display at... can't remember the exact location... maybe the Bellagio, but one of the major casinos along the
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by OhMeadhbh 20d ago
I was a twitter beta tester in 2005 when it was a SMS to intarwebs gateway. IMHO, it stopped being relevant sometime around 2008.
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by OhMeadhbh 20d ago
I stopped virtually all social media (except commenting on YouTube videos and telling people they're wrong in HN comments) years ago. No twitter, no mastadon, no bsky, no facebook. I keep hearing myspace is going to re-launch and I w
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by OhMeadhbh 21d ago
I feel very sad. My AI knows essentially nothing about be. The only thing it said it knew about me was my location, which it got wrong. It completely missed the books, magazine articles, RFCs and web pages I've authored. I did ask
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by OhMeadhbh 21d ago
Sure enough... When I follow the instructions from Anthropic about how to upgrade from free to pro, it keeps applying the purchase to API Credits (and doesn't send me an invoice.) I now have $39.95 of API credits because I paid for th
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by OhMeadhbh 21d ago
Sure, but the free plan doesn't require the use of API credits. Why would it bill me for that when I hit the "upgrade" button. And, of course, there's no way to check what Anthropic thinks I bought, the support page of
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by OhMeadhbh 22d ago
I checked with a friend. When they bought credits, they got an email receipt. Seems like credits would show up in the UI somewhere. But I did ask claude how to talk to a human at anthropic and it gave me an answer, so maybe it applied th
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Ask HN: What Did Anthropic Bill Me For?
4 points by OhMeadhbh 22d ago|5 comments
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by OhMeadhbh 29d ago
THX! I was trying to remember this reference.
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by OhMeadhbh 29d ago
Also... When we moved from having multiple users per machine to multiple machines per user, services like finger on a specific machine didn't make much sense. It seems you should have one well-advertised machine that maps `foo@exampl
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by OhMeadhbh 29d ago
I used to work at Convex w/ Jay Finger, whose username was "finger". I thought it was funny I could `finger finger` and it would actually do something. This was back when we had multiple users per machine and in the old day
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by OhMeadhbh 29d ago
Anyone else just see a blank page when hitting this link? Maybe it doesn't like Firefox or is doing some sort of JavaScript shinanigans to defeat our AI overlords. I don't have enough coffee yet to debug it.
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by OhMeadhbh 1mo ago
Requisite link to HN thread where this page got a fair amount of discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35459333
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by OhMeadhbh 1mo ago
Apropos of nothing, I noted @markoff said they liked John Markoff in the 80s. As a complete aside, may I recommend to readers Markoff's book "What the Dormouse Said." From 2005, it's a deep-dive into the relationship b
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by OhMeadhbh 1mo ago
Oh! The Irony! This page doesn't load when your ad blocker is turned on.
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by OhMeadhbh 2mo ago
Living in Seattle saved me. In the winter months I started waking up and sitting in front of a SAD light for half an hour. I almost immediately got bored so I started reading long-form books (with the occasional short story) in front of t
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by OhMeadhbh 2mo ago
Somewhat apropos... I started re-learning cursive about two years ago. I'm old enough to have been taught cursive when I was young, but my dad preferred block letters (he was trained as an engineer) so I took after him when I entered
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by OhMeadhbh 2mo ago
Ouch. OpenAI is giving up. I guess the next step is to be bought by IBM and then sold to Computer Associates.
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by OhMeadhbh 3mo ago
Any indication when v2.9.0 will be released? I'd love to play with this, but the install instructions (at least for linux) don't seem to work. Is it working in Windowsland or on macOS?
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High Tech Heroes #37: Sherwin Gooch Interviews Jef Raskin (1989?)(youtube.com)
3 points by OhMeadhbh 4mo ago|0 comments

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