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by cedws 9mo ago
Thanks, I’ll try out Codex to bridge until local models get to the level I need.
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by cedws 9mo ago
I kind of lost interest in local models. Then Anthropic started saying I’m not allowed to use my Claude Code subscription with my preferred tools and it reminded me why we need to support open tools and models. I’ve cancelled my CC subscrip
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by cedws 9mo ago
Wow, first one in a week! I think they've just stopped caring about the consequences at this point, they know they have enough market dominance and lock-in that they can go down as often as they like. Besides the frequent outages, GitH
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by cedws 9mo ago
I came to a similar conclusion - that GitHub benefits from a network effect similar to social media. I would really like to leave GitHub, but it's where stuff is happening. Any company seriously looking to replace GitHub should pay som
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by cedws 9mo ago
I don't really understand the hype. It's a bunch of text generators likely being guided by humans to say things along certain lines, burning a load of electricity pointlessly, being paraded as some kind of gathering of sentient AI
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by cedws 9mo ago
This seems to have gotten so much worse on GitHub recently, I don’t know if people just collectively forgot netiquette or the barrier to programming is so low now that it invites cretins, but it pisses me off immensely.
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by cedws 9mo ago
Thanks, good spot indeed. Just emailed our AM to find out what the situation is.
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by cedws 9mo ago
Has anybody looked at whether Tailscale is subject to the US CLOUD Act? If so I can imagine we might be moving towards an open source solution like this in future.
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by cedws 9mo ago
I said this in another recent HN thread but all encryption comes down to key management. If you don’t control the keys, something else does. Sometimes that’s a hardware enclave, sometimes it’s a key derivation algorithm, sometimes it’s just
430.
by cedws 9mo ago
Thanks, I didn't consider these things.
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by cedws 9mo ago
I agree that 30% is high but the arguments I see online are generally in favor of a cut to 0%, not a reduction. If you get into the weeds of what the cut should be then it gets messy, who gets to decide? How do you determine what is actua
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by cedws 9mo ago
Agreed, this benchmark would be much more useful ran multiple times a day. That could reveal degredation in line with load patterns.
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by cedws 9mo ago
There's a kind of dissonance here that Patreon should be allowed to take a cut, being a platform on which creators can earn money - but Apple should not be allowed to take a cut, being a platform on which companies can operate their bu
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by cedws 9mo ago
Seems I was wrong. However, the Robotaxi fleet is still tiny compared to Waymo's. Jalopnik said the fleet was only 34 cars as of EOY 2025[0]. Waymo had over 2,000 as of September 2025[1]. [0]: https://www.jalopnik.com/2
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by cedws 9mo ago
Optimus looks like a joke compared to the robots China has developed like Unitree.
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by cedws 9mo ago
Meanwhile Waymo has actually cracked self driving, and is operating a fleet of taxis. Tesla said they were going to do this at least as far back as like 2018, and still aren’t. They’re being beaten on every front.
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by cedws 9mo ago
I've been trying to get token usage down by instructing Claude to stop being so verbose (saying what it's going to do beforehand, saying what it just did, spitting out pointless file trees) but it ignores my instructions. It could
438.
by cedws 9mo ago
Marriage seems like a dated concept from when traditional gender roles were a thing, and men and women worked more as a team because they needed each other. Now that they don’t, with the high divorce rates and the high risks for men I can’t
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by cedws 9mo ago
The government isn't doing any favours for its image by simulatenously trying to ban X, and introducing all of these internet controls. It just fuels the narrative that the government is trying to shut people up and control the spread
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by cedws 9mo ago
In an adage: code is a liability, not an asset.
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by cedws 9mo ago
They probably make most of their money from enterprise licenses for Iran.
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by cedws 9mo ago
It's most software. Cryptography is user-unfriendly. The mechanisms used to make it user friendly sacrifice security. There's a saying that goes "not your keys not your crypto" but this really extends to everything. If y
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by cedws 9mo ago
Particularly an explosion of SaaS sandboxes... why should I pay a subscription for some remote sandbox with paltry compute power, which I need a constant internet connection to access? I have this brilliant processor in my own laptop I want
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by cedws 9mo ago
It just means that the binary is not notarised. You can go into Privacy & Security to override.
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by cedws 9mo ago
It’s pretty weak sandboxing. It still grants full read only access to the file system so any secrets in your home directory can still be exfiltrated. I’m pretty sure it could also be deceptive and use a script to write where it shouldn’t be
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by cedws 9mo ago
Anywhere I can watch for its release?
447.
by cedws 9mo ago
I don't live in America.
448.
by cedws 9mo ago
American software engineers maybe. But I heard somewhere that most Americans live paycheck to paycheck or at most have a few thousand dollars in savings.
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by cedws 9mo ago
My fantasy is a P2P network that people can use from their everyday devices. The internet is becoming far too controlled, we need an alternative that is harder to monitor and censor.
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by cedws 9mo ago
In what context? Personally? In rebuilding the Soviet Union? Or in the war?

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