kaluga

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by kaluga 6mo ago
whether you use waterfox or librewolf, having anything outside of Blink is the only thing keeping the open web breathing.
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by kaluga 9mo ago
What’s funny about the “death of applets” is that it highlights a pattern we keep seeing: the browser killed plugins… and then reinvented everything they enabled, but properly this time. TeaVM and similar toolchains show that the original i
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by kaluga 9mo ago
What I love about this post is that it highlights something we rarely talk about: most of the “indie web” isn’t missing — it’s just quiet. Tools like StreetPass and Blog Quest work because they reverse the core failure mode of modern social
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by kaluga 9mo ago
The most interesting insight here isn’t “crypto bad,” but how years in a speculation-first ecosystem warp your intuition for what real value looks like. When incentives reward casinos over products, even talented builders end up optimizing
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by kaluga 9mo ago
The real issue isn’t just the cliffs themselves — it’s that our welfare system is a set of disconnected programs that interact like poorly designed APIs. For people with zero margin for error, even a small income change can trigger huge los
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by kaluga 9mo ago
A lot of the confusion comes from forcing LLMs into metaphors that don’t quite fit — either “they're bags of words” or “they're proto-minds.” The reality is in between: large-scale prediction can look useful, insightful, and even
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by kaluga 9mo ago
What stands out to me is how many smart people spent their best years optimizing around the constraints of a system that was fundamentally misaligned with real-world demand. The tech is fascinating, but incentives turned the whole space int
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by kaluga 9mo ago
The surprising part isn’t the proposal itself, but how casually “always-on location” keeps getting reframed as a safety feature instead of a massive expansion of the data surface. Any system that normalizes continuous device-level tracking
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by kaluga 9mo ago
The “90% ban” isn’t about hating C++ — it’s about guaranteeing determinism. In avionics, anything that can hide allocations, add unpredictable control flow, or complicate WCET analysis gets removed. Once you operate under those constraints,
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by kaluga 10mo ago
Cost savings make headlines, but the important part is reducing structural dependency. Governments shouldn’t base essential functions on systems they can’t inspect or control. Even if OSS requires investment, that investment at least builds