barnabee

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by barnabee 7d ago
Can I buy half of one? The size and aspect ratio of the outer display sounds like it'd be pretty close to my ideal phone. Maybe that means I want one on a technicality. I suppose the big fold out screen would be useful at time if the d
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by barnabee 7d ago
This Already powerful and wealthy organisations/institutions/people leveraging somewhat powerful AI seem far more dangerous to me than the "AI decides to kill everyone" scenarios. And therein is my problem: OpenAI and An
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by barnabee 9d ago
Agreed. The X3 just feels kind of magically small, and well proportioned in a way the X4 Pro doesn’t. Both have their merits though and I’ll be keeping both, because in some situations a backlight is near-essential for me.
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by barnabee 13d ago
If I buy a game - i.e. I am on a store page title "Game Name" not "Limited Revokable License for Game Name", and I click "buy", then I expect to own a copy of the game or the right to a copy of the game (in per
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by barnabee 15d ago
What? I’ve recently re-played games I enjoyed in the 90s. I listen to my dad’s old vinyl records. Why the hell should my game purchases evaporate after some arbitrary and unpredictable amount of time?
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by barnabee 15d ago
Many physical stores will accept returns for a refund with literally no reason required, so why not?
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by barnabee 19d ago
For truly critical systems and independently developed redundant or backup system that can perform at least the most important functions is clearly superior. Regardless of how much effort goes into making one implementation reliable, there&
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by barnabee 22d ago
Not all software is (or should be) engineering…
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by barnabee 22d ago
> When was the last time you bought a hand written book or a hand painted picture So programming "ended" if it's no longer such a dominant profession, even if plenty of people still do it as an art/craft/hobby a
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by barnabee 23d ago
.gd works for me
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by barnabee 23d ago
> authors deserve to get paid for their work I don't really agree Information itself should be free, authors deserve the right to monetise other ways (merch, physical media, exhibitions/shows, etc.) but society should pay arti
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by barnabee 23d ago
Freeing all information is virtuous, though…
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by barnabee 23d ago
I praise all pirates and leakers Maybe you can own (some) things, you can't own information
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by barnabee 23d ago
Tor Browser is handy, if simply changing your DNS isn't enough
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by barnabee 25d ago
I managed 0/10 - far worse than random chance Not sure what that says about me or the LLM but I guess I shouldn't worry too much about watermarking ruining the outputs…
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by barnabee 26d ago
Agreed. This is exactly what I want, ideally with components and libraries and panels and data shareable and extendable between applications. The closest in spirit is Probably something like Dear ImGui[0] and the ecosystem of components and
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by barnabee 27d ago
Serde is not even part of the standard library. There’s no HTTP client (let alone server), logging, decent date/time… That’s not what I call well featured. Most programs should need close to zero dependencies. Of course they’re free to
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by barnabee 27d ago
I wrote this on another thread recently, but my line for exclusion from standard library is a library that’s any one of: - not obviously/generally useful (i.e. useless or too specific/should be a program not a library) - obviously
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by barnabee 27d ago
IMHO the rise of TUIs is heavily correlated with the near-abandonment of professional quality graphical interfaces. If there was a powerful, information dense, configurable docking/tiling, multi-application-composing GUI framework (all
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by barnabee 27d ago
My line for exclusion from standard library is a library that’s any one of: - not obviously/generally useful (i.e. useless or too specific/should be a program not a library) - obviously trivial - already available (open source) el
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by barnabee 27d ago
Ideally everything not built specifically for any given project is part of the OS or some other battle tested, supported system package. For example, I might well choose to reimplement eg a subset of TOML parsing to avoid the dependency ris
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by barnabee 28d ago
Why do you want huge companies to be allowed so much control? What is it about letting them restrict what people can do in order to squeeze even more money out of them and other companies that appeals to you so much? Where do you think this
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by barnabee 29d ago
It should be against the law to create they kind of business they have, though
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by barnabee 1mo ago
Don't provide a way to do so. Just not using GitHub would probably solve most of the problems.
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by barnabee 1mo ago
I think the problem is that we’ve anthropomorphised the LLMs in their training and through system prompts to the point that that seems reasonable. We don’t thank our other tools like grep, or the compiler. If you train your LLM to produce w
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by barnabee 2mo ago
The best solution to this is if orders of magnitude more people start using GrapheneOS. Once it becomes fairly normal it's no longer a viable reason to target someone. With this publicity and the coming Motorola phones, there's re
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by barnabee 2mo ago
Without international agreement and cooperation, which is not happening, we can’t
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by barnabee 2mo ago
Surveillance is required for closed weights models to have meaningfully different outcomes to open ones
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by barnabee 2mo ago
> Is there a problem with someone owning it Yes > what? They can decide you can't use it anymore They can decide to charge more for it They can arbitrarily take features out from under you or change how it works They can read and
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by barnabee 2mo ago
I like that using keypairs and signed messages inverts the centralised server and SaaS model and makes things more local/client first. I wish more products would move that way. Nostr seems like a reasonably convenient way to achieve th

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