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by finaard 5d ago
Both. My standard phone defacto already is a burner phone, so I'd just either wipe it or pick something new up when travelling to that kind of countries. Similar for a notebook - I'd travel with an empty one, restore it after arri
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by finaard 5d ago
I went for a slightly different approach, described in this thread: https://bsky.app/profile/bernd.wachter.fi/post/3mvv2g4zxp22v No code published currently, but if somebody is interested I can clean that up
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by finaard 8d ago
I find modern smartphones more and more unusable, both OS becoming more hostile towards the user, and applications widely moving to dropping logins in regular intervals. That has been happening for years already, so I slowly moved more and
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by finaard 8d ago
That's not the problem for me - I carry a bunch of tokens with me anyway (all my banking stuff is on hardware tokens, for example). My problem is more: My browsers run in containers or VMs, intentionally without hardware access. Gettin
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by finaard 10d ago
Verbosity can be fine, but you'd want a simple enough text, with the verbosity separated. I still write emails with footnotes, and thanks to UTF-8 I now have all the numbers available. Amusingly enough the advent of HTML-emails didn&#x
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by finaard 19d ago
Depends - if parallel decompression of any bzip3 archive is possible I'd consider it fair, if it requires special flags on archive creation I'd consider it unfair. I didn't see any description about that on that page. pbzip2
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by finaard 23d ago
One of my customers now added a policy that junior developers may use AI assistance, but are expected to write code by hand. Only proven developers can use AI to generate code, and are then expected to understand the generated code, and tak
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by finaard 26d ago
I've worked at places very popular with candidates before, and was involved in hiring. For the first screening a CV/cover letter would get roughly one minute of our time. If it took longer than that to get an overview of what you
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by finaard 1mo ago
The main power advantage of the apple chips is when the system is mostly idle - under mid to high load power to watt has been comparable for a few years already (at least AMD and Apple, intel was way behind - but I guess they caught up rece
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by finaard 1mo ago
There are various "air mouse" variants that properly work with MacOS as well. I have one with some media/navigation keys on the front, and a tiny keyboard on the back - kodi I can navigate just with the navigation keys, and i
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by finaard 1mo ago
Funnily enough, I recently started on a series of demos and documentation to explain to my 10 year old daughter how LLMs work - in this case in the context of "don't use LLMs for looking stuff up if you figure out how to circumven
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by finaard 1mo ago
Same here - I was using one mail address only for linkedin, which wasn't listed on the page. One day I started receiving 3rd party spam on that address - which means linkedin sold the address, despite them claiming not to do that, or t
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by finaard 1mo ago
I guess that somewhat describes me - and guess what, that also transfers to "should we even throw AI at that specific problem, or are there other solutions?". Early curiousity in figuring out the limits of LLMs now is turning into
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by finaard 1mo ago
Interesting - when Kimi K2.6 came out I switched over from Anthropic models, with at that time comparable to better results for me. I was using Anthropic via API, heavier months were roughly $400 worth of Anthropic tokens - I can get the sa
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by finaard 4mo ago
Same here, I was very confused for a bit.
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by finaard 5mo ago
I'm currently polishing one of my packages for publication, and for that do a lot of testing in a vanilla Emacs. It's shocking how many of even (to me) absolute core functionality is actually customization I did a decade or two ag
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by finaard 5mo ago
And the yet again I got told over and over again that Bambu didn't really mean to, and if they did they learned their lesson, and after all you can still keep them offline. And spending more for a prusa obviously is silly. I'm rea
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by finaard 5mo ago
I assumed he just had DNS at AWS, but after re-reading I guess he has DNS _and_ domain registrations at AWS, which would be a special kind of stupid. That's something we were advising customers against already back when cloud wasn&#x27
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by finaard 5mo ago
I'm not running a spam business. I've been operating my own mailservers (and related infrastructure) for more than 25 years now, without issues.
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by finaard 5mo ago
I've been in a similar situation - a surprising amount of companies really just click to create instances. Last time I've encountered that at a customer I improved things a bit by creating templates, and scripting instance creatio
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by finaard 5mo ago
> My business email system still does not work. This is always the weird things in those rants. He's complaining that after 4 days his mails are offline. Now I'm doing a mix of physical servers in rented rackspace, and rented s
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by finaard 5mo ago
I've found a lot of issues come through somewhat naive networking setup - which is encouraged by the "just yolo it" installation instruction in the documentation. If you want to start understanding what's going on you&#x
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by finaard 5mo ago
The last time (that I remember) people wanted to talk in a game, but could not teamspeak showed up.
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by finaard 5mo ago
Back in the early 90s I've discovered that there's not really any backchannel happening when printing to a dot matrix printer over the parallel port. And adding multiple ISA parallel port cards set to same IO address wouldn't
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by finaard 5mo ago
I didn't read much of the page - just was scrolling a bit to see what the fuck that thing is doing, and that was more than enough to know that I'll never touch whatever those people are doing.
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by finaard 5mo ago
> On the one hand, moving from assembly language to C made programmers less effective in some ways and more effective in others. On the other hand, the transition from writing code by hand to using AI is arguably a bigger shift, I think
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by finaard 5mo ago
I'd recommend for every developer to get one or more colourblind friends. I have some, and regularly send them screenshots of what I'm working on to get feedback what they can see and what they can read/can't read. They&
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by finaard 5mo ago
For a lot of tasks smaller models work fine, though. Nowadays the problem is less model quality/speed, but more that it's a bit annoying to mix it in one workflow, with easy switching. I'm currently making an effort to switch
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by finaard 5mo ago
> Even if everyone eats a perfect portion for themselves, if you overestimate the total then you'll have food waste if the food can't be preserved. That'd be just poor planning on part of the hotel/restaurant. It&#x27
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by finaard 5mo ago
How is that surprising? We've been taking that into account for any LLM related tooling for over a year now that we either can drop it, or have it designed in a way that we can switch to a selfhosted model when throwing money at hardwa

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