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by dwedge 9mo ago
I think in cases like this we should blame the human not the agent. They chose to run AI without oversight. To make open source maintainers verify their automation instead - and to what aim? And then to allow the automation to write on thei
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by dwedge 9mo ago
To say I'm the only one is an exaggeration, it's probably more around 50/50 with the 50% in the pro camp being very vocal to the point where it's almost insulting. Being given basic tasks (like, find the last modified fi
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by dwedge 9mo ago
Airbnb recently sent me a terms change email that doesnt apply for six months and I dont use it anyway, but email headers set it to urgent and important.
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by dwedge 9mo ago
> So why use them if you see no benefit? I didn't say I see no benefit, I said I don't see the productivity boost people talk about. I conceded they are good for some things, and presumably that's what I use them for. >
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by dwedge 9mo ago
Germany is a massive exception to your claim. Cash only is very common there.
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by dwedge 9mo ago
> I don't think anyone is arguing that the usefulness of these AIs for real projects started at GPT 3.5/4 Only not in retrospect. But the arguments about "if you're not using AI you're being left behind" did
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by dwedge 9mo ago
Presumably not on the SMTP servers they were connecting to. There are millions of IPs with port 25 open, without them email wouldn't work, so I'm not sure what you mean
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by dwedge 9mo ago
Every time I say I don't see the productivity boost from AI, people always say I'm using the wrong tool, or the wrong model. I use Claude with Sonnet, Zed with either Claude Sonnet 4 or Opus 4.6, Gemini, and ChatGPT 5.2. I use the
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by dwedge 9mo ago
I wonder if this is why the linkedin feed blocker I installed in Firefox 2 weeks ago stopped working for me within 24 hours
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by dwedge 9mo ago
What do you see as advantages of postgres over mysql? I see these comments at work quite often and there isn't always much substance behind them
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by dwedge 9mo ago
I suppose there's always the old fashioned way of using drbd with heartbeat
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by dwedge 9mo ago
Almost everyone I spoke to this year had issues with the trains into Belgium. Cancellations, delays, strikes.
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by dwedge 9mo ago
> I didn't want to read a Republican virtue signaling to his audience. I wonder if they were trying to sound Republican? It would be very surprising behaviour for a British guy living in the UK
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by dwedge 9mo ago
At least they email him and don't send the stupid "you have an important message, login to see it" email. No idea what those important messages are, I'm sure sometimes they were important
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by dwedge 9mo ago
It's the same article without the pay wall
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by dwedge 9mo ago
This really made me laugh, but at the same time "water bankruptcy" doesn't mean anything before this statement but bankruptcy did. The term was chosen to give the same kind of emotional reaction as bankruptcy
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by dwedge 9mo ago
So they'd miss it anyway, my mail client is firewalled to only be able to access the mailserver. I've been unsubscribed from a handful of newsletters because I don't read them. I replied to one and told them I did, even reach
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by dwedge 9mo ago
Whenever I login to LinkedIn I get "emails aren't getting through to your main email address". 1. That's by design, because you spammed the shit out of it. 2. Given that all I do is send them to /dev/null, HO
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by dwedge 9mo ago
Even WhatsApp has it in the search bar
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by dwedge 9mo ago
This is good timing actually. I've been self-hosting SimpleLogin for a while but was considering the lifetime subscription to Proton to get it (it comes with ProtonPass but I selfhost VaultWarden). Last week I logged into my Proton mai
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by dwedge 9mo ago
There's one recruiting company I had contact with in 2017 (pre-GDPR, with no checked consent after) and they keep sending me marketing-disguised-as-GDPR emails. "Reply to tell us you want to keep hearing about our career insights
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by dwedge 9mo ago
> (how many valid emails have you found in spam in the last 5 years?) Personally, running SpamAssassin, zero. However, this seems to be getting worse with the big providers deciding to drop domains they don't like from time to time.
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by dwedge 9mo ago
I've been in the same boat as you and replaced it last year but still pay for harvest (grandfathered pricing) until I can be sure I don't need it. I'm almost up to renewal and haven't used it at all since trying app.soli
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by dwedge 9mo ago
I was wondering what I used by this company because I saw the name yesterday. It's Harvest, and I was thinking yesterday how the sign up and pricing page seems more or less abandoned. Guess it's time to roll my own version
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by dwedge 9mo ago
I am very much in the anti-AI side. Not against it as a matter of principle, but that I feel like I'm living in a parallel universe where I'm the only one who can't make these tools do anything other than spit out mediocre co
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by dwedge 9mo ago
In my case, Mudita Kompakt phone and Boox Go tablet for reading textbooks. Mudita has the stock launcher, Boox is full of bloatware and I installed Niagara
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by dwedge 9mo ago
There isn't much wind there at all so the pollution can't escape. I'm not saying this isn't the residents' fault, but it isn't entirely the residents' fault.
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by dwedge 9mo ago
> I SSH to my Hetzner Ubuntu fun box How did you provision your Hetzner Ubuntu fun box in the first place? That's the part that usually needs a GUI
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by dwedge 9mo ago
Apart from the payment part, this could be used entirely from a machine without a GUI. You can do the same with others using Terraform or aws-cli but it requires setup first.
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by dwedge 9mo ago
I think "the Americas" means the continent(s), and America (to some extent) can mean either but it would feel more like something used as a gotcha at a pub quiz. You're definitely right about there not being a word for someon

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