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by sshine 4mo ago
I have a ton of write-up that I haven't published. It's Talos Linux on Hetzner VMs where all resources are managed via kubenix, and all CI runners are running NixOS. So... extremely affordable and extremely performant, but very co
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by sshine 4mo ago
I'm paying $60/mo. for a Kubernetes cluster running Forgejo + Forgejo Actions with plenty of parallel CI runners.
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by sshine 4mo ago
While the nuance is important, money from Google is ad money: - Directing people to Google Search means Firefox users get exposed to ads - The money given to Firefox was made selling ads - Google is an ad company So yes, Google g
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by sshine 4mo ago
Both sides of what?
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by sshine 4mo ago
To answer your question: It depends on your claim. All claims of mass unemployment thus far are evidently not true. All claims of mass unemployment in the near future: We'll have to wait and see. The prediction that AI will lead to mas
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by sshine 4mo ago
> I would love to hear from someone who actually played with all the FOMO harnesses I tried claude, opencode, pi, hermes, openclaw. Specifically, I tried Claude with Sonnet/Opus and GLM-5.1, and OpenCode with Sonnet/Opus (bri
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by sshine 4mo ago
I use bubblewrap inside Ubuntu inside WSL. https://github.com/nix-tools/bubblebox
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by sshine 4mo ago
I had bought some Anthropic credit and waited a year to use it. The week before their expiration I fired up Code and spent $3 the first day and the remaining $22 the next day. Putting a ReAct loop with tool calls in my terminal wad and is t
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by sshine 4mo ago
And what a great invention DNS is. If you need to eliminate DNS and convince the internet it's largely unnecessary for the use-cases we have today... ...only to completely reinvent DNS for those use-cases with inferior technology that
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by sshine 4mo ago
> Ansible Shell scripts wrapped in YAML
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by sshine 4mo ago
I rejected a job like that early in my career.
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by sshine 4mo ago
This reminds me of the part of Game of Thrones where Cersei empowers a religious faction. She reinstated the Faith Militant, a militant religious order that had been disbanded for centuries, and elevated the High Sparrow, an ascetic populis
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by sshine 4mo ago
+1 When I migrated from Gmail to Fastmail years ago, I thought Fastmail felt... less featureful. When I rarely visit my abandoned Gmail, I can't believe I put up with the clunkiness. Lean software stands the test of time. Fastmail hasn
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by sshine 4mo ago
> While the rest of the world is moving forward with identity verification plans, the EU has presented its own privacy-focused approach to age verification. In April 2026, Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, unve
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by sshine 4mo ago
It would be an excellent case for zero-knowledge cryptography: All that you need to know is that I am above 18 years of age. You don't need to know how old I am, what my birthday is, what state I was born in, my gender, or when my pass
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by sshine 4mo ago
It helps if you take the limit of 1 going towards 1.5. Most 1s won't go towards 1.5, but sometimes you're lucky.
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by sshine 4mo ago
Thanks for your evaluation. I've deliberately been post-poning harness building. I think it's great as an obligatory learning experience. But I'm hoping someone will come along and provide the "best of breed" harnes
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by sshine 4mo ago
TypeScript the language is fine. Almost great, even. JavaScript the ecosystem is mostly a flaming garbage dump of worms. You can take measures to lower the pain of being in a toxically incompetent package space devolving faster than you can
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by sshine 4mo ago
I get the joke, and I appreciate it. As someone with 20 years of professional coding experience who vibe-codes certain tools in my current stack, I really get it. But I'd still remove it from the front page, it just reads like you admi
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by sshine 4mo ago
Hahaha, I didn't see. Hi toastal, I appreciate your work.
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by sshine 4mo ago
If you generate Dockerfiles using Nix code, how do you build and run those images? Docker? I use NixOS on my self-hosted CI runners, and I generate the OCI image using Nix via pkgs.dockerTools: https://git.shine.town/infra&#
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by sshine 4mo ago
There are two kinds of organization happening here that you might not see: 1. All .nix files (besides flake.nix) are flake-parts modules: https://flake.parts/ 2. It's not only usable with experimental flakes. Works fin
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by sshine 4mo ago
Nix is like Borg of Star Trek: It assimilates everything. I'm not a Python developer, but I follow the news, and I agree that uv is the future of Python package management. So if you're a Nix user and you want Nix to be opt-in, an
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by sshine 4mo ago
Docker's ability to mount host directories in the container is really nice. Maybe you have some premade tooling that helps provide persistency between container invocations. But by default, closing your agent container and opening it a
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by sshine 4mo ago
I also prefer giving it a VPS over a Docker container. On my own machine I just give it a Linux User Namespace, i.e. soft virtualisation via "bubblewrap." What Docker Compose and Linux User Namespaces provide that a VPS doesn&#x27
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by sshine 4mo ago
Awesome, both fnox and hk look very well-made. How does fnox compare to sops? How does hk compare to lefthook? And does hk and fnox have a similar Nix integration as lefthook-nix and sops-nix? I'm still hoping I don't need to make
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by sshine 4mo ago
I recently had someone send me a PCAP file with a network package dump suggesting that the error is on my side. I threw it to Claude and a minute later had a "look at packet 131 and 136, it's on their side." Yeah, it is exhau
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by sshine 4mo ago
The number one power move I have is Nix integration. The availability of tooling, secrets, environment and the ability for the agent to modify its own environment is... well, I don't know how people live without it. I guess you guys st
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by sshine 4mo ago
Like the Internet, it got less friendly the more popular it got. And there were no measures in place to retain and reward the friendliness. Jeff Atwood thought a lot about this when he subsequently created Discourse. Nudge people to treat t
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by sshine 5mo ago
> The challenge is no longer ‘a decade away’ A March 2026 paper from Google Quantum AI, the Ethereum Foundation, and Stanford demonstrates that Shor’s algorithm for secp256k1 can execute with ≤1,200 logical qubits and ≤90 million Toffo

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