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by bjackman 3mo ago
As a middle ground I can also recommend this unit: https://apolloautomation.com/products/air-1 Looks like it's increased in price unfortunately but I like the idea, it's basically just what you would do as a
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by bjackman 3mo ago
And I believe the accuracy is also not great on these cheap ones. The product in the OP's photo costs $200 where I live! And ISTR finding the sensor itself contributes a lot to this cost. IIUC they also need fans. The one I have in my
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by bjackman 3mo ago
Ah yeah I see. I guess the fallback there would be to split the service up into a remote encrypted storage layer that goes on the VPS and then host the actual service (with the decryption keys) locally? But ISTR reading Immich kinda assumes
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by bjackman 3mo ago
I really don't think you want E2EE for this. I host storage for family and friends, I haven't set Immich up yet (don't think I'd have space for everyone's photos) but the choice is between: 1. "Hey just so you
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by bjackman 3mo ago
No? Some subsets of the world has papyrus I guess but for most people during most of that time people were pressing text into clay and wax and stuff, it must have fucking sucked. Then we got paper and pens and that was a pretty decent inter
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by bjackman 3mo ago
Horse carts are literally designed to transport people but they aren't very good at it compared to cars
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by bjackman 3mo ago
Well, how many times in that 9 years have you written on paper for 2 hours straight? Even as a kid who did it regularly, it sucked. Doing it now I really don't think I could deliver my intellectual best while worrying about if anyone c
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by bjackman 3mo ago
... Including a university. Literally everywhere you work as a student is serenaded by keyboard sounds.
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by bjackman 3mo ago
As a $BIGCORP member I don't think this would be a great solution. I suspect there are plenty of vibe coding PR spammers that work for my company. And the admins of the GitHub org would not really care, making it easy for staff to cont
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by bjackman 4mo ago
You are not evaluating those questions, you are evaluating the probability of that two things happening, and you need to evaluate it better than the other people to win. There are no easy questions, the difficulty is set by the skill/i
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by bjackman 4mo ago
Nothing major just a few little details: - the /artifact thing is quite useful (don't think CC has it?) - the /tasks is a bit better than CC's equivalent - there are a few built-in skills that I haven't found CC equ
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by bjackman 4mo ago
I'm a Brit living abroad, when I visit the UK I use a Tailscale network with an exit node at my home, and yeah this always seems to work for me. Going the other way around to try and watch British TV I used to find with a normal hosted
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by bjackman 4mo ago
You don't save memory with code, you save it with architecture, platform decisions, and feedback loops. Feedback loops are the important bit. If you want to reduce your service's memory footprint, don't at the code look at th
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by bjackman 4mo ago
For my personal use, I really fucking want a humanoid robot, coz my home and all the bullshit in it was built for humanoids, I want a robot to do the bullshit for me. I don't want to move into a new, robot-oriented home. I've neve
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by bjackman 4mo ago
This is weird coz as a user of both Gemini and Claude I have the opposite feeling. Antigravity CLI is quite decent, it's a huge step up from Gemini CLI (like, for example, it actually fucking works) and has some genuine advantages over
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by bjackman 4mo ago
The "driving" tech I want in my car is: - Cruise control. - Camera for parking. I guess sensors too. These are just unbelievaly useful IMO, it makes parking trivial in cases that used to require quite intense focus. I see the appe
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by bjackman 4mo ago
I have no plans to buy a car but I'm curious: what is the sensible choice for technical people with a reasonable amount of money? I rent cars whenever I travel to the US and I've never not been pissed off by a car's software.
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by bjackman 4mo ago
Hosting DeepSeek Pro yourself is gonna be wildly expensive though? You have a wide choice of providers available, so if you can find one you trust you can get inference without data harvesting and it's still very cheap. But dedicated H
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by bjackman 4mo ago
Re being away from the HW: with Tailscale and llama-server it's now super easy to just run an inference server at home and use it from wherever you are.
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by bjackman 4mo ago
It's a good technical artifact yeah but it would need to be forked and degoogled, today it is only really useful with Google services as a backend. Also it's coupled to the device ecosystem which is organised by Google. This coupl
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by bjackman 4mo ago
SELinux is a framework not a solution. Main places that gap is closed are Android and ChromeOS, not normal distros. MacOS has: - Serious integrity story - Actual kernel hardening - No reams and reams of garbage in their kernel (wouldn'
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by bjackman 4mo ago
I worked at Google on post-Aurora endpoints security. Windows laptops are alive and well at Google. Linux laptops have had one foot in the grave for a while now (it's a bummer). Google historically made gLinux work only with enormous i
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by bjackman 4mo ago
> Genuinely interested: does it bring something to say "everything is crap anyway, but given that we must choose between one of them, we may as well choose the least bad" instead of "the best solution we currently have is
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by bjackman 4mo ago
Sovereignty yes it's obviously better. I am just talking about the pure tech fact that GNU/Linux desktops do not have any meaningful intra-host security boundaries. Is this a worthwhile tradeoff against being tied to US tech? Yeah
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by bjackman 4mo ago
It's not alien tech but it's a basic fact that only the US has it right now. Yes we could build a serious distro with a massive investment to get Flatpak, systemd, bootc, up to scratch, set up OSS endpoint management software, set
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by bjackman 4mo ago
I do not think I want my public sector running GNU/Linux desktops. There is no distro that meets the security requirements. I don't know if Windows is better, I have heard rumours that it's pretty bad. I know MacOS is MUCH be
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by bjackman 4mo ago
My "I saw this very early" claim deserves some skepticism, but... Don't y'all remember GPT2? When they published that AI-generated unicorns-in-the-Andes article, my jaw was on the floor. I remember very clearly thinking
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by bjackman 4mo ago
I think Conway's law is more interesting. It seems natural that networks of human relationships would mirror each other when the same groups of humans translate themselves into a new context. Whereas the structure of technological prod
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by bjackman 4mo ago
As well as rational vs irrational they are also just different types of spending. Hiring someone vs paying a vendor for a service: - different level of commitment - might tie your org to a physical location - different legal risks - shows i
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by bjackman 4mo ago
Ultimately I think the only way you can trust benchmarks is if you build them yourself and keep them secret from the AI labs. There are different levels of "cheating" on benchmarks. The worst would be just literally putting them i

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