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by prima-facie 3mo ago
Well, we could expect anything from Adobe. An LLM subscription on top of the regular Adobe subscription sounds like the sort of thing they would do. Do your local filters run slow? Does your movie render have no sass? Then sign-up for AaaS
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by prima-facie 3mo ago
>> ISO date and time Yes, but not always in my experience: # Default locale is en_GB.utf8 > date Fri 3 Jul 12:14:20 BST 2026 > date +%x 03/07/26 > LC_TIME="C.UTF-8&
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by prima-facie 3mo ago
Laws restricting the use of local AI/LLMs are not going to happen, no matter how much Anthropic might want it. All the major OEMs are now counting on local LLMs to take off. Just look at the OEM support for the upcoming Nvidia RTX Spar
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by prima-facie 3mo ago
If you are from Europe, even if you're not living in the UK, the en-GB locale will feel a lot more familiar to you than the en-US one. It uses the dd-mm-yyyy date format like the rest of Europe, the start of the week is on Monday (vs S
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by prima-facie 3mo ago
There's also `systemctl soft-reboot` which initiates a userspace-only reboot, which quickly restarts the system without going through the full hardware and kernel initialization process.
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by prima-facie 3mo ago
Thanks for the detailed response, I really appreciate it. What I had in mind was an AMD Strix Halo machine, but it seems to have none of the advantages you mentioned. It's neither high bandwidth, nor does it have CUDA support, nor does
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by prima-facie 3mo ago
> The biggest thing to watch out for is not just RAM/VRAM but memory bandwidth. You can try to "future proof" yourself with lots of RAM, but if it's 400 GB/S you're still constrained to smaller models. I&#x2
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by prima-facie 4mo ago
This whole project assumes that --resume replays full transcript, is that actually true? Is there no caching going on?
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by prima-facie 4mo ago
Imagine if we had managed to deliver on the original promises of the Semantic Web, instead of having these locked-in platforms. How incredibly useful all that linked and structured data would've been to humans and LLMs at the same time
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by prima-facie 4mo ago
Commercial VPNs publish their exit nodes IPs online. There are services like ipinfo.io which can accurately determine if you are using a known VPN service.
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by prima-facie 5mo ago
There are cases where the workers' right to stay in the country depends on their employment, in which case this creates a huge power imbalance.
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by prima-facie 5mo ago
> We pulled an ultrahackathon. The team who built this did not sleep much for two days. They worked through Wednesday night, through Thursday, through Thursday night, through Friday. They ate at their desks. They wrote the spec late Wedn
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by prima-facie 5mo ago
As someone who has represented themselves in tribunal before I'm definitely interested in this. The only issue is that in some jurisdictions, like the UK, you can't just offer someone legal advice without being SRA accredited or F
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by prima-facie 5mo ago
> And is there a legal consequence for AI giving bad/incorrect legal advice? Can they get disbarred? Of course not :) but unfortunately I've received half-truths and outright lies from actual solicitors, while AI has mostly giv
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by prima-facie 5mo ago
With the over-reliance on AI, this looks like a veritable slop-machine, designed to create and consume slop as a primary activity. Good job Google.
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by prima-facie 5mo ago
Somewhat off-topic: I've spent thousands of pounds on legal advice which has ranged from poor to mediocre. I found that most solicitors would refrain from giving proper advice and are there only to be instructed. You have to do your ow
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by prima-facie 5mo ago
This was exactly my point as well. Everything that can be automated will eventually be automated.
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by prima-facie 5mo ago
What Google has done is incredibly clunky and only serves its own interests. We already have methods to prove that we're human. 1. lots of laptops have fingerprint readers & TPM2 build-in 2. lots of folks own Yubikeys or FIDO2 ke
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by prima-facie 5mo ago
You should keep regular backups of your BW vault as a plain JSON file. KeepassXC can now import BW vaults natively (passkeys included). If anything were to happen to Bitwarden you can migrate to KeepassXC as a stop-gap measure.
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by prima-facie 6mo ago
Oh we have a neat solution for that. Just give us your government issued id! I'm joking of course. Thank you for maintaining Xfce! It's the best de around.
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by prima-facie 6mo ago
Smaller, decentralised forges actually make lots of sense from a digital sovereignty point of view. Over reliance on a single instance like GitHub is not healthy in the long run. The issue they would have to solve is federation.
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by prima-facie 6mo ago
There's also the Atkinson dithering (made by Bill Atkinson) which produces very neat results.
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by prima-facie 6mo ago
This is precisely why I don't use BW CLI. Use pass or gopass for all your CLI tokens and sync them via a private git repo. Keep the password manager as a separate desktop app and turn off auto update.
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by prima-facie 6mo ago
What you watched was some sort of propaganda. There was no such thing in 1989's Romania. The country was too poor for such advanced systems. Source: someone who lived through that.
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by prima-facie 6mo ago
Those who don't understand git are bound to reinvent it. Git is fine as it is, with some porcelain and QoL improvements here and there. Some of the most capable devs I know use git + cgit for collaboration and they manage just fine.
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by prima-facie 7mo ago
I would recommend Obsidian to new users. I've been using Zim Wiki for years; back then there was nothing better available and now I can't be bothered to migrate formats. Plus I've already contributed a bunch of plugins to Zim
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by prima-facie 7mo ago
I come from a time when internet connectivity was not permanent. It was only available a few times per day when you connected via the phone line. My first ISP gave me an allowance of 20 hours of internet per month. You would dial-up, check
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by prima-facie 7mo ago
The postcode doesn't tell the whole story. But what you can do is use an IP geolocation service which should narrow down your location enough, so that typing in the entire address is no longer necessary. I.e. using something like http
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by prima-facie 7mo ago
Hi Nick, first of all thank you for your work and dedication through the years. Second, I found this entirely by accident just now: https://www.sovereign.tech/programs/fellowship > For the duration of the fellowshi
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by prima-facie 7mo ago
It's a simple observation. I'm not here to win internet points. I've never before seen so much cargo-culting and mystic belief among engineers.

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