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by p2detar 1mo ago
I finally found the time this year to replace my parents' old T-series Thinkpad Windows 8 with Linux Mint. I also upgraded the hard drive to an SSD. The result - a 15 years old machine i5 Dual Core with 6GB RAM now boots and works extr
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by p2detar 2mo ago
> devices that had a work managed profile on them could still be completely wiped No, personally-owned devices with a work profile cannot be wiped remotely using mdm. But company-owned with our without personal profile can be wiped by a
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by p2detar 2mo ago
In all fairness humans can also be considered next token predictors. It could be said that’s how we communicate with one another today. Presently LLMs lack other things, like physical presence in the world and continuity of input sensory da
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by p2detar 2mo ago
Last week a colleague did this to me; pasted to me in chat "Gemini said". I just ignored it and went with talking about the issue on another thread. I like LLMs and I use them every day, but I'm not gonna answer copy&past
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by p2detar 2mo ago
Indeed, but it probably won‘t get any easier for us devs when clients also get easier access to open weight LLMs. I mean from personal experience 40 tok/s on an M3 pro with gpt-oss-20b holds up quite well for lots of tasks. Thinks are
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by p2detar 2mo ago
Building software steadily becomes accessible to non-developers. A freelance client I had now does most things alone with chatgpt. As a developer I have less and less the urge to build software. Instead I lately started doing more hardware
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by p2detar 2mo ago
> The author of the post is selling what he himself doesn't understand. Paying attention to your inner chatter without judgement is part of a much broader tradition. Westerners stealing bits from cultures they don't understand
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by p2detar 2mo ago
Not everything must be stats and numbers. You either try it and find out if it works for you or you don‘t. As simple as that.
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by p2detar 2mo ago
I swear music trackers had the most impressive UI back then. FastTracker and ImpulseTracker were to me the highest piece of art and engineering at the time. They kind of hold up even to this day. Especially ImpulseTracker's instruments
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by p2detar 2mo ago
I have read the WHO [0] report and the conclusion is "possibly to likely" about the zoonotic origin of Covid, so no there isn't conclusive report how it came to be. > If there is a cover up it is to hide incompetence. Whic
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by p2detar 3mo ago
> You are effectively saying you do not trust the judgement of the community to accept you long term. Why is that? I think the blog post explained exactly that. To quote: > The actual wording makes this more difficult. The terms prohi
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by p2detar 3mo ago
If your goal is to just store your repos, even Gogs will do. I self-host Forgejo on sqlite and it‘s been great thusfar. I do not yet use runners, so can‘t say much about that. The Docker registry they offer is a bit awkward to use but bette
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by p2detar 3mo ago
> It's clear that this excludes vibe coding. But what about LLM-assisted coding, where the developer writes very clear instructions of what to do and carefully reviews every line? My impression is that they don‘t care, it’s still ”s
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by p2detar 3mo ago
It was always an ideology-driven project. LLM-hating now turned into a mandatory religious ritual for places like codeberg. That‘s fine though, one can self-host forgejo, gitea, gogs and so on. In fact the role of github and places like cod
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by p2detar 3mo ago
From the article: > This is why I'm not using AI. I'm not using AI on moral, ethical grounds. The funny thing is - they are using AI and they will be using even more AI as it soaks into world economy even more; they just won‘t
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by p2detar 3mo ago
Reddit is such an amazing business model that exploits the gullible. People go on reddit, voluntarily post comments, generate interest vectors that can be harvested and get "paid" with upvotes. The so called reddit mods do volunta
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by p2detar 3mo ago
Too much talk about LLMs and too little about the self-hosting part of this project. Self-hosted stuff looks appealing to me. We dropped Slack as an option in the past because we couldn't self-host it.
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by p2detar 3mo ago
Same thing here. I was able to finish side projects on my list and even refactor decades old projects with the help of LLMs. It works great so far and yeah, I can still write source code when needed.
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by p2detar 3mo ago
Just opened Claude Code and I don't see any such restrictions. Asked Fable to do security/vulnerability review on the code base and it gladly agreed. I can't speak for the above-mentioned project though, because I wasn't
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by p2detar 3mo ago
> Sure, we're reducing the cost of idea -> prototype to near zero (well, as long as tokens are free or nearly free), but that just means we now have mountains of throw away code, within which there may a gem or two. This doesn&#x
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by p2detar 3mo ago
Yeah, no - if I provide my employees $1000 devices, I most certainly would like to be able to exercise some sort of management over them. > making iOS windows Baseless claims.
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by p2detar 3mo ago
Love the sleek UI. Forgive the shameless plug. Here is my word game which only features words from programming and compsci. https://7coderwords.kenamick.com
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by p2detar 3mo ago
I used to have a Thinkpad with Arch+Xfce. It was ready to go from restart to desktop in 3-4 seconds. The "catch" was that I was booting from a NVMe.
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by p2detar 3mo ago
> I agree of course, Europe should not be using US services for critical infrastructure. But more importantly I think that we are private citizens. The irony in this as a European is that in the US people don’t even need national ID in t
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by p2detar 3mo ago
Clearly it isn’t. This is what techies forget: The mass amount of Europeans don’t give 2 shits about digital sovereignty or open source. Christ, people go to mobile operator shops and give their unlocked phones to consultants to install or
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by p2detar 3mo ago
> wildly intrusive monitoring. Like what for example? They can’t access any chat messages or app data. Even your location is impossible to obtain without your knowledge.
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by p2detar 4mo ago
SMRs have their use. Depending on the model and design you can build them or even bring them [0] to a remote place where you want to build industry but the infrastructure and access to electrical grid is lacking. I'd argue nowadays the
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by p2detar 4mo ago
To my surprise Canada are actually quite ahead with the Darlington New Nuclear Project. There is a construction site [0] with work taking place. Not sure how Kairos Power are progressing in the USA. Nice job, Canada. 0 - https://
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by p2detar 4mo ago
Not that deep into Go, but I also wondered why passing by value is not the preference here. It’s already non-nil. I get it - copying large structs is bad, but are large structs the common case? I think not, also the GC will love the copy in
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by p2detar 4mo ago
> NPEs in Java have become rarer and rarer recently with the introduction of records While this is true, I think it goes back farther than that. NPEs became rarer since java.util.Optional and people taking the time to use JSR 305 nullabi

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