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by accrual 1mo ago
> lighting up colored LEDs for notifications so you can see them “at a glance” without looking at the screen My old Blackberry Bold had this feature and I loved it! I had it customized so it would pulse a different color depending on who
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by accrual 2mo ago
I agree, and I think one can put in more effort on a project and get a better result, especially if the prompter is already an experienced software developer. For example on one toy project I requested the use of ADTs (algebraic data type
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by accrual 2mo ago
Been there as well. You just want to play a game you own and end up making new accounts and sharing personal details, and even then might not even succeed. This is a big reason I try to keep my old consoles alive. My OG Xbox is queued up re
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by accrual 2mo ago
Filelight / ncdu are my friends for finding random 30GB directories containing cached models.
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by accrual 2mo ago
This is really cool, it gives me SimCity 2000 vibes. I like that I can click on neighborhoods and regions and get more information about them!
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by accrual 2mo ago
This isn't quite right, Windows Me was a stopgap between Windows 98 and Windows XP. Microsoft had no intention of keeping anyone on Me for long. There were already plans to get consumers onto an NT-based OS when Me launched, the initia
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by accrual 2mo ago
I think item 1 will be most provable. Sony says "you can have X experience for Y dollars". You pay Y dollars. 10 years elapse. Sony says X is no longer available. Sony has absorbed Y dollars but your X is gone and you cannot acces
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by accrual 2mo ago
There are some ISA USB cards with custom drivers to support them and present them as normal drives under MS-DOS. Never tried it myself, but they exist and seem to work! Other commenter is correct, there are some late 486 boards with PCI sup
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by accrual 2mo ago
> where you have desktop AI apps on the left (Claude, Codex, Cursor) and macOS apps from Apple on the right (Finder, Photos, Mail). You can see how the AI apps all have much smaller, thinner icons than their native counterparts. This wou
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by accrual 2mo ago
The author's email obfuscation holds up well against small local models too, just for kicks neither Qwen-9B, Gemma-12B, nor GPT-OSS-20B could read it, giving results like "poc.otulptcejorp@otulm".
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by accrual 2mo ago
It seems the agent was stymied by being bot blocked so often. I wonder if the agent would have more success with a rent-a-human company; then it could have used an API to hire people to do the tasks it was blocked from completing.
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by accrual 2mo ago
I also noticed the web UI right away, very clean and functional.
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by accrual 2mo ago
I also know of a company who does this. The reason in their case is they act as a network concentrator, bridging hundreds of client IP spaces, so this helps them avoid conflicts with their own space without having to NAT constantly. There i
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by accrual 2mo ago
I imagine there are similar risks for eating one's hat as well, though perhaps a bit safer since it's not in contact with the ground and contains fewer materials. So if you're going to make a bet and eat something if you lose
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by accrual 2mo ago
> without ever directly mentioning anything I think both for attribution reasons and because the average user probably won't care, (or won't care enough for an ad-free tier), they can absolutely get away with messages like: &qu
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by accrual 2mo ago
I thought the article was interesting from a visualization perspective, even if it's not perfectly solid on the actual mechanics in a model. It helps describe the scale of the connections. > There’s no pre-formed thought “behind” th
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by accrual 2mo ago
Most of my harness experience is with Claude Code and Pi, a little bit of OpenCode. I like how quick and snappy Pi is, it feels like a minimal harness, just enough to manage the agent and get out of the way. Earlier models also seemed to ha
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by accrual 2mo ago
HuggingFace and access to a fiber connection changed my concept of "large downloads". I can easily grab a 20GB model within a minute or two now, same for big Steam games. Meanwhile my childhood self was hyper aware of loading imag
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by accrual 3mo ago
> Sony's announcement follows Rockstar's announcement that Grand Theft Auto 6 will come with a download code in a box rather than a physical disc. It's a move that most notably stamps out second-hand reselling of a game. T
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by accrual 3mo ago
Nice. I flip flop between Qwen 3.5 9B Q6_M and Gemma4 12B Q4_K_M on a 4080 Super. They run at about the same speed and I can have them review each other's plan or diffs. For smaller projects I find them very capable, and I can step up
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by accrual 3mo ago
I've seen some recent examples of XP in the wild, they pop-up occasionally in old ATMs, bus route displays, small stores running a PoS, etc. Not a recommended configuration of course but still happens nevertheless. For me I enjoy it as
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by accrual 3mo ago
This is super cool! I admire those who make the effort to keep their software running on old unsupported OSs. There's a thriving community of new and existing XP users and I don't see it going away despite it being out of support
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by accrual 3mo ago
Could you share more about the homelab project? Is it so you could message your local agent via Matrix and it can poke around the lab, check if services are up, restart VMs, that kind of thing? Would love to hear what you use it for, I&#x27
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by accrual 3mo ago
Sometimes I visualize a setup like this [0], based on 2D art by Simon Stålenhag. Someone has their home robot sitting on a desk connected to their old PC with thick cabling, dumping endless lines of each subsystem's <think> logs
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by accrual 3mo ago
Same, I was reading discussion just yesterday that these were expected to go in place with the September releases.
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by accrual 3mo ago
I saw it immediately as well. Some tells for me are: - Off-white or sepia toned backgrounds, similar subdued color palette for icons, grey ALL CAPS subheadings - Serifed headings - Various "Item: Quantity" lists (Puzzle types: 10,
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by accrual 3mo ago
I loved the K-Lite Codec Pack and CCCP (Combined Community Codec Pack) back in the XP days, especially while exploring MKVs and anime, but I virtually never run into a media file that VLC or MPC-HC can't play by default these days. Jus
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by accrual 4mo ago
I haven't played the newer expansions, but the classic client (v1.12.1 in my case) from ~2006 is a nice piece of software. I've run it on old Pentium 3 clients and modern hardware under Win 11 and Wine and it just works everywhere
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by accrual 4mo ago
The Siri icon was the largest departure from Tahoe I noticed. Maybe a part of the broader Siri changes announced.
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by accrual 4mo ago
I hope early home robotics will be like a game console launch - a community rush to break through any initial barriers to homebrew. Specific early firmwares will be desirable and a whole community will form around creating exploits and runn

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