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by jwr 4mo ago
I am quite happy with people I follow on Mastodon. Sure, various politicians might not be there, but those are not people I want to hear from. The rest of your comment seems to be pure speculation, so.
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by jwr 4mo ago
No, not necessarily. Mastodon is actually "social media", as opposed to twitter/X, bluewhatever, facebook, or any other commercial outlet, to be honest, all of these have become "feeds" of promoted content designed
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by jwr 4mo ago
I don't understand why anyone would want to make the same mistake all over again: jumping onto a private platform owned by a company inevitably results in you becoming the product sold and enshittification. We've seen it so many t
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by jwr 4mo ago
I live in a country where you can now consider police to be "on your side": in other words, policing. It used not to be the case, so I can appreciate this. In light of this, I find the comments of the police officer invited to the
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by jwr 4mo ago
I am really happy someone is trying something new again. It isn't yet another iOS/Android clone, and I'm here for it!
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by jwr 4mo ago
I use pandoc + typst to render beautiful documents from Markdown. Works really, really well.
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by jwr 4mo ago
I tried many, many times and I keep trying. But I just don't see this happening: those tiny models that we can run on our machines (I have an M4 Max Mac, so I can reasonably run qwen3.6-35b-a3b or gemma-4-26b-a4b-qat at this time) are
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by jwr 4mo ago
"applies to new orders" big sigh of relief So glad I got all I needed recently.
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by jwr 4mo ago
A couple of years ago Microsoft bought the SwiftKey keyboard app (for iOS). Recently the other shoe dropped: they introduced a requirement to be logged in "for data backup", you get a banner on top of the keyboard that cannot be p
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by jwr 4mo ago
I agree, but it seems this is something that will never change, because of tradition. I tried many times to "understand" music rationally, because I kept people use the term "music theory". I reached a conclusion that th
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by jwr 4mo ago
This gets complex quickly, because temperature matters too: cells are more efficient when they are cold. These effects interact and the results are sometimes surprising. Many pure-numbers theoretical comparisons also make the assumption tha
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by jwr 4mo ago
> The Fossil Fuel industry, before it finally dies, will make big Tobacco look downright merciful. This should not be surprising when one realizes that this industry is the biggest industry that humanity ever created (in terms of monetar
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by jwr 4mo ago
Thanks for all the work you put into this over the years. Homebrew became my go-to solution for installing software on my Macs (after MacPorts) and I just realized that someone has been doing all that work for me for so long. Much appreciat
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by jwr 4mo ago
AI is very good at Clojure. In fact, from what I can see, I get a much better experience on a large Clojure+ClojureScript code base than many other people. Surprisingly so. I'm still not sure why, is it higher token density of the la
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by jwr 4mo ago
What does it even mean to "roll out in EU"? These concepts are so outdated it's not even funny. Let's say I have several citizenships, live mostly in the EU, but currently stay in Japan, do I get the features or not? Lik
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by jwr 4mo ago
Linear is the best web app I have ever seen, period. It is also the best bug-tracker I've ever used. I use it, and pay for it (gladly). It's worth it. I am genuinely impressed with their engineering and design — I aspire to attain
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by jwr 4mo ago
This looks great! The Bus Pirate was quite a good tool. For hardware hacking there is also Glasgow Interface Explorer, which I've been using recently with AI with much success. The main difference is that Glasgow has an FPGA on-board,
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by jwr 4mo ago
I wonder if this would be easier on the Supernote Manta with the new plugins API that they've introduced recently…
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by jwr 4mo ago
I use HP calculators every day. 12C for most common tasks, 25 in the workshop (it can be operated one-handed!), 15C or 50G for more complex tasks involving units. Calculators are very useful, using them is a forgotten art. While it no longe
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by jwr 4mo ago
I might even buy this in spite of the horrible "Collector's Edition" marking (who designs these things? this font is terrible), but somebody would need to try the keys and tell us if they cheaped out on the keyboard again.
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by jwr 4mo ago
First, we would need to agree on what "such a low success rate" means. Programmers have a thundering herd mentality: there are usually 2-3 "top things" that are in fashion at any given time and the herd tends to go towar
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by jwr 5mo ago
In Central Europe (Poland), too. Nobody, and I do mean nobody, realizes that using Whatsapp by default (which everyone accepts) synchronizes their entire contacts list to Meta. It's a golden trove of valuable data for an ad targeting c
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by jwr 5mo ago
That was my point. I was trying to be gentle by mentioning "unreasonable" things, but seriously — how did we get to the point where less than 6 requests per second (that's 500k requests per day) is considered a DDoS? I'v
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by jwr 5mo ago
The 30% figure seems to be completely made up and this whole article is adfarm-bait. The CABA trial is an 8-week single-arm pilot (no placebo). The study measured cognitive improvement over 8 weeks in a single group — not "slowing of d
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by jwr 5mo ago
> we all know what happens if you just open your site up without these, especially with AI bots which hammer servers and are in effect a legalized DDoS system No, we don't know. I honestly do not understand the problem. I run websit
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by jwr 5mo ago
> I don't want to defend them, because they gate away a good chunk of the internet with their "bot protection" They also gate away a good many people with their "bot protection". I am extremely worried about how
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by jwr 5mo ago
Similar age here. And I have similar thoughts, although not about AI specifically. AI helps me get more done and not spend time on trivia and yak shaving, which is great. I do get more projects done, but those are projects I always wanted t
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by jwr 5mo ago
Interesting — I haven't seen that problem, and I do have a system that has different APIs, web clients, non-web clients and embedded clients.
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by jwr 5mo ago
Incidentally, I developed my own template for a markdown rendering pipeline: markdown -> pandoc -> typst, with mermaid diagrams. This works very, very well. I get linked in-document references, diagrams, tables, table of contents — ev
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by jwr 5mo ago
Am I the only one worried about Cloudflare becoming too powerful? We went through this with E-mail: we slept through the period when Google, Microsoft and AWS were growing, and we ended up with them dictating the terms. Today I get 90% of m

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