foxylad

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by foxylad 24d ago
Non-LLM user here. Why? Apart from the ecological issues, I'm very uncomfortable giving my organisation's crown jewels to {random_internet__corp}. Look at the lengths they go to for training data - 10M for Spirit's call logs?
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by foxylad 1mo ago
Same, tinnitus and floaters. And the number of others with both makes me wonder if they are correlated. I've lived with my floaters for twenty years or more, but sometime on a recent holiday the biggest one moved slightly to obscure th
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by foxylad 2mo ago
This is right up there with Google suing another company for scraping their web site. https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/12/google-lobs-lawsuit-a... - which a judge just dismissed. Maybe the techbros are pla
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by foxylad 2mo ago
Adding... I hate LLMs because their pushers are hurrying us into the next financial crisis, which will impoverish another generation. I hate LLMs because they have captured pretty much all R&D investment when we have far more important
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by foxylad 3mo ago
Conversely one leg would be cheaper and lighter. I look forward to welcoming our hopping robot overlords!
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by foxylad 3mo ago
Perhaps he does - dontgive.af does not resolve.
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by foxylad 4mo ago
The golden age of the internet was when it was an enthusiast's space. It is now almost entirely a corporate space, where the remaining enthusiasts' content is scraped 100K times a day and sold without attribution by the corporates
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by foxylad 4mo ago
Ed Zitron https://www.wheresyoured.at/ has done the math, and it's pretty bleak. His somewhat voluminous rantings contain raw figures on investments, data centre builds, energy availability and depreciation. He believe
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by foxylad 4mo ago
Did you find a credible solution for heat dissipation in the papers you read? I fear the laws of thermodynamics will kill this project.
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by foxylad 4mo ago
> What users want... Take a step back. What users want is to be able to use the machine they bought the way they want. The outrage is because Bambu are doing a bait-and-switch: selling an autonomous 3D printer, but switching to a 3D prin
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by foxylad 4mo ago
Same, but the first printer was an Anet A8. Moving to a Prussa Mini was a breath of fresh air, going from 35% to 95% print success.
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by foxylad 5mo ago
I only open VSCode when I need to resolve a conflicted merge. The Zed interface is basically diff2, and doesn't show character-level differences. Apparently Zed was working on a better diff viewer, but that seems to have been shelved.
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by foxylad 6mo ago
I prefer the Fediverse to BlueSky, because it solves your three problems. I choose to see every post on my (small country) instance, so if there is an echo chamber, it's an instance-shaped one. Which I like - I see the range of views p
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by foxylad 7mo ago
His (compelling) evidence for that assertion is that printers still jam after 40 years. For humans, writing something on a piece of paper is absolutely trivial, and if something goes wrong, grabbing a new piece of paper or a pen is also tri
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by foxylad 8mo ago
This article (and holiday spare time) made me update and check zed again. I really liked it when I tried it a few months ago, but it failed miserably when doing work on remote code. It would hang, and I couldn't find any diagnostics to
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by foxylad 11mo ago
Your "About" links seem not to work. In my case I was interested in where data is hosted, and the only information I see (from your HN post) is that you are from Paris. Does this mean EU hosting (which is good)?
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by foxylad 1y ago
This will kill open source. Anything of value will be derived and re-derived and re-re-derived by bad players until no-one knows which package or library to trust. The fatal flaw of the open internet is that bad players can exploit with imp
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by foxylad 1y ago
Or use the API to program in anything you want. We use Google Sheets for our accounting system, loading data via bank APIs and a cron-driven python script. We used to use Xero, but it couldn't handle the different tax regimes we operat
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by foxylad 1y ago
I own my company so have no fear of losing my job - indeed I'd love to offload all the development I do, so I have no resentment against AI. But I also really care about the quality of our code, and so far my experiments with AI have
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by foxylad 1y ago
I'd be suspicious as hell of any insurer offering cover in the current chaos.
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by foxylad 1y ago
As an example, I'm pretty sure I just took up some of the slack here in NZ. I've been looking at installing solar for a while, and a particularly good quote for a Chinese system (Sigen) recently made me go ahead. I strongly suspec
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by foxylad 1y ago
Cory Doctorow has a compelling theory that the megatech companies have to appear to be startups, or else their share price reverts to normal multiples. Hence the continuous string of increasingly over-hyped "game-changing technologie
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by foxylad 1y ago
Seems to require an app. Which instantly gives ChangeFly my PII. Nope. Anonymized identity requires some entity to certify that a given token proves what it says it does. That is an awesome power, and given the abuse of that power by privat
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by foxylad 1y ago
Yes - title should be "Passkeys are just passwords your granddad and the websites he visits can't stuff up". Passkeys will do for authentication what TLS did for transport.
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by foxylad 1y ago
You seem knowledgeable in the domain, so I hope you don't mind me picking your brains about the two things stopping me switching to Wayland. 1. Autokey. I use this to expand abbreviations for long words and phrases I use often. This re
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by foxylad 1y ago
I use Kagi, and it's worth every penny. Google has enshittified itself into irrelevance, and ChatGPT is too ponderous. Kagi is like Google in it's prime - fast, relevant and giving a range of results.
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by foxylad 2y ago
We rolled our own VAT/GST handling. We use Stripe to bill the total amount, and generate our own invoices so we can break out the tax as an item. Doing our own tax and invoices means we're not locked in to Stripe, which is pretty
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by foxylad 2y ago
This. We've used GCP Appengine for years and it is rock solid. Their SRE game is top level, and when there is an outage, they do a serious investigation and make it fully public, even if they screwed up badly. Including the vital &quot
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by foxylad 2y ago
Look at what they are ACTUALLY doing: https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/d459addab846d8144b... The change removing "Does Firefox sell your personal data? Nope. Never have, never will. And we prot
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by foxylad 2y ago
Your list of "already uncovered" fraud seems more like a list of RW hot-buttons: Clintons - check. Transgender - check. Various lame-stream media - check. Covid bats - check. Muslims - check. Incest movies - check. I'm just s

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