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by ray_v 7mo ago
I was on the fence before last week happened, but that really sealed it for me. I'm glad I was able to export all my data, but they made me wait 24 hours nearly-on-the-dot to get it. Wonder how many folks didn't bother waiting.
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by ray_v 7mo ago
At _least_ you're not forced to use Microslop. But that's been a pretty common refrain from a lot of devs - the Macbook is the lesser of two evils.
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by ray_v 7mo ago
it's funny, because that was basically my experience as well lol. ... and now the login/logout endpoints are broken for Claude this morning, because of course they are! https://status.claude.com/incidents/0ghc
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by ray_v 7mo ago
Sure, life is all about risk - no doubt about that. But I guess I'm not tooling down the highway in a DIY contraption I built in my spare time with little regard for safety from plans I found on an Internet forum and parts bought from
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by ray_v 7mo ago
I was just looking for the comment telling me this is _probably_ a bad idea, so thanks!
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by ray_v 7mo ago
Is it not clear that's it's just the well-known phenomenon, "enshittification" at play? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
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by ray_v 7mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HashiCorp
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by ray_v 7mo ago
I suspect that the export feature is going to be "broken" for a good long while; I've been waiting for mine since 8 am ... a little over 5 hours now.
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by ray_v 7mo ago
Ha! Good one!
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by ray_v 7mo ago
enshitification at scale
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by ray_v 7mo ago
This is a MUCH better solution https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd-creds
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by ray_v 7mo ago
My comment was trying to suggest that some of these types of searches would allow you to link resources or works together because of how tightly coupled they'd be when you produced vectors from the metadata.
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by ray_v 7mo ago
Is "prompt injection" our only hope for preventing skynet? I'm not sure if I intended this to be fascicious, or serious
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by ray_v 7mo ago
The analogy doesn't work here ... In your scenario they are ok with using the bolt as long as the Chinese company promises to remove deliberate defects - which is of course absurd ... AND contradictory.
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by ray_v 8mo ago
Is this not what semantic search enables?
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by ray_v 8mo ago
I always wish that people would make this distinction more often ... the people=good, the product=bad ... people!=bad
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by ray_v 8mo ago
Exactly this ... tools like Claude Code have flattened the complexity curve of building/maintaining things like this to practically zero.
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by ray_v 9mo ago
Lots of interesting ways to spin this. I was in a computer science course in the late 90s and we were not allowed to use the C++ standard library because it made you a "lazy programmer" according to the instructor. I'm not su
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by ray_v 9mo ago
Let me introduce you to software for public library information systems that still thinks it's the 90s!
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by ray_v 9mo ago
https://nitter.net/realstewpeters/status/2013848860771144075...
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by ray_v 9mo ago
Uh, correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't bash and GNU tools ALSO code? They're ROCK SOLID, battle tested, well understood APIs for performimg actions, including running other CLIs, and any OTHER code it's written. It make
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by ray_v 9mo ago
I had to implement dark mode in a web app because I was doing a lot development in it at night in a room that was naturally darkened for obvious reasons. Even turning my monitor down to minimal brightness, swapping back to the app from the
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by ray_v 9mo ago
I bought into the windows 95 hype big time when it was launched, and I think it by and large lived up to that hype. I was in highschool still, and I gladly bought a copy using money that I had been putting away specifically for this. It rea
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by ray_v 9mo ago
I'm working on a "simple" (started out that way at least) ETL app for the public library system that I work for; the target output is SQLite databases where Datasette will be the platform to interact with the data being gener
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by ray_v 10mo ago
Ok, but the fact of the matter is that a digital display rendering a webpage and a physical format of a newspaper are fundamentally different media and should be treated as such. A wall of text isn't fundamentally a bad thing, but on a
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by ray_v 10mo ago
It's simple. People drive without a license. Having a license doesn't preclude someone from driving a vehicle
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by ray_v 10mo ago
Yes, I have. Printed, which is fundamentally, and literally a different media type with different properties
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by ray_v 10mo ago
If I ever encounter, and need to read a webpage with arbitrarily sized and placed grids of text, please somebody just shoot me. https://webkit.org/wp-content/uploads/Grid-Lanes-newspaper-d...
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by ray_v 10mo ago
So it's true, the profits have spoken of this!
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by ray_v 10mo ago
I may live to see it; peak sqlite.

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