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by bityard 5mo ago
I seem to recall he was also working on some software that allowed musicians to jam together over the internet, it somehow took advantage of inherent latency instead of just trying to minimize it. Edit: found it: https://www.cock
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by bityard 5mo ago
I've been vibecoding* a calendar-based personal note-taking thingy: https://github.com/cu/doneski The idea is that each morning, you click the "New Day" button, and your Todo list along with other notes
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by bityard 5mo ago
Thank you for having a demo!
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by bityard 5mo ago
Interesting... I have a Netgear WAX218, one of the last cheap business-class APs I could find that don't require a cloud service to manage. WAY better than the pro-sumer wifi routers I was running before in access point mode. I'll
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by bityard 5mo ago
It's a relatively steep learning curve if you're not getting paid to do it. However, in my case, I have been running my personal mail server on a trusted VPS host for well over a decade now. After the initial setup, there is reall
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by bityard 5mo ago
Dave is awesome, I've been reading his stuff since I was a teenager. Books, articles, all of it. His book, Big Trouble, was turned into a movie starring Tim Allen. Although he only sometimes wrote about tech, he was much more clueful t
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by bityard 5mo ago
$45 on ali. I've been looking for an affordable open phone-sized e-reader for years, but unfortunately this one doesn't have a backlight which is a hard requirement for me. (I do have a kobo, it's too big.)
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by bityard 5mo ago
Yes! I use an Inkscape extension to send my own designs to a vinyl cutter that works perfectly well but has LONG since stopped being supported by its manufacturer or any other closed-source tools. The extension is inkscape-silhouette ( http
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by bityard 5mo ago
According to Wikipedia, they already officially support the Lenovo Legion Go S. Not sure what you mean by "not great," the Steam Deck is awesome. The one in our household is like 3 years old and still sees daily use. They have bee
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by bityard 5mo ago
I love cheap secondhand Dells and have been running them for decades. But it's absolutely the case that their build quality has been going steadily downhill for a long time, even for their business line laptops. This laptop looks to be
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by bityard 5mo ago
You're admitting to not actually knowing the law, yet accusing someone of being in violation of it...
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by bityard 5mo ago
It's a good time to be using Vivaldi.
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by bityard 5mo ago
The company I work at has several environments and hundreds of VDI users in each environment. Chrome is the default browser in all of them. By my rough napkin math, this one small change by Google will eat up at least 15 terabytes of new di
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by bityard 5mo ago
Are you okay with a 1 GB chrome install suddenly becoming a 5 GB chrome install on all your machines, without your permission or knowledge, for functionality you may or may not want?
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by bityard 5mo ago
I desperately WANT to like podman quadlets and keep trying to find a use case for them. But I always got the impression that the developers who implemented quadlets never actually had to manage multiple containers in a real production envir
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by bityard 5mo ago
Is there anything like Ansible Tower or Semaphore for PyInfra? Or some more generic tool that would work similarly? I could likely vibecode something up if I had to, but I'm interested in a job orchestration system that can run things
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by bityard 5mo ago
I want to congratulate the author for getting out of his comfort zone to tackle a hard problem. But being able to make friends at a gym is not a universal experience. I joined a gym partially to get fit and partially to meet people with sim
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by bityard 5mo ago
I'll grant that Firefly's sci-fi western motif was novel, but it could have done fine without it. The show's magic for me was its characters and clever dialogue. It it was funny, and it had heart. There was an enormous amount
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by bityard 5mo ago
It looks like this is getting pretty usable! This post reminded me of gaming emulator updates that I also love to read. "Fixed X bug to make Y behave correctly, which means game Z works now." (One of the things they fixed was CSS
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by bityard 6mo ago
In the pre-internet era, when you heard a fantastic story, you couldn't just google it to see if it was true. People either believed everything they heard, or they took it with a grain of salt. Either way, it was incredibly easy to let
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by bityard 6mo ago
Well, I for one would not be disappointed at a sequel or continuation of Firefly, as long as they figure out a way to bring Wash back from the dead and Joss Whedon has absolutely nothing at all to do with it.
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by bityard 6mo ago
Location: Ann Arbor, MI Remote: YES Willing to relocate: no Technologies: Linux, Open Source, Python, Storage, Git, CI/CD, Ansible, Virtualization (and now getting into self-hosted AI) Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/i
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by bityard 6mo ago
It's easy for others to say, "oy, you coward, you should have blown the whistle" from the comfort their web browsers. For what it's worth, I had a security clearance in a previous job (not as high as yours, I'm sure
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by bityard 6mo ago
I listened to a lot of NPR podcasts before LLM were around, and most of them are full of these kinds of filler phrases.
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by bityard 6mo ago
I routinely ask the cashier for half off on anything that is perfectly fine but has less-than-pristine packaging. I usually get it. (But I understand this isn't really relevant to the article or discussion here.)
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by bityard 6mo ago
I suspect that for every game whose soundtrack was lovingly hand-crafted to take advantage of the SNES's unique abilities, you'll find 10 more that someone composed separately on a hardware DAW of the era and then someone else cam
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by bityard 6mo ago
I am now!
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by bityard 6mo ago
The "uncompressed audio replacements" will be pretty nice, it will be interesting to see what comes of those. There is a guy, Mathew Valente (a.k.a. TSSF), who put in a surprising amount of effort tracking down the original sample
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by bityard 6mo ago
Hosted models are big, and there is a lot going on behind the scenes that we users have no visibility into. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, etc do much more than just feed raw prompt tokens straight into a big 1-2TB static model and pipe the out
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by bityard 6mo ago
In order to most-to-least charitable, any of: 1. Github could choose to grandfather in those plans and make no changes until those plans expire. 2. Github could offer, or the user could request, a pro-rated refund along with cancellation of

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