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unfortunate_ferret

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  • Why Maine’s governor killed an pioneering data center moratorium

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  • Big of you, I honestly posted this tongue-in-cheek 😅 Cheers to you. I really wish my gut had been wrong on this one, FWIW.

  • Why Maine’s governor killed an pioneering data center moratorium

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  • I'll take that apology any time you feel like, friend.

  • Windscribe trolls Mullvad's political donation crisis with a 'scandal' of its own

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  • But then how would I have known that VPN users are typically privacy-conscious? 🐍

    (there's still no emoji for sarcasm so I went with a snake because it's not just /s it's /sssss)

  • Mullvad is apparently the main financier of a Swedish far-right party

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  • This is just one step, though. Money to Mullvad goes in part to the cofounder who is a racist piece of shit.

    But to your question, I think the "dilution" question has a different answer for everyone. Have you seen "The Good Place"? Philosophy is the major theme and this is one of the major philosophical questions they deal with. Great show, recommended if it's unfamiliar to you.

  • Open source is a thankless job and I think we've lost the plot on how we treat maintainers

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  • Guy keeps talking about their "customers" and they don't charge a dime. I'm not sure that word means what he thinks it means. They have users, and that's exactly what he's acting like.

  • People are betting on wildfires. Should they? - High Country News

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  • No, because then dumb motherfuckers will set fires to win bets.

  • Are there any websites from the 90s that you can remember but can find no trace of now?

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  • Early 2000s: The Mech Madness forums, for discussing Armored Core, BattleTech, Gundam, and all other things mech and mech-related. It was a decent-sized community, for the time.

  • Top Democrat seems sour after Mamdani-backed candidates oust House incumbents

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  • I appreciate that you picked up what I was putting down. So little room for artistry in written communication, nowadays.

  • [Swedish] Mullvad CEO donates to Swedish party that believes in "remigration"

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  • DAMMIT

  • Top Democrat seems sour after Mamdani-backed candidates oust House incumbents

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  • They are strategists prioritizing their own wants above that of the voters and human decency

    Right, that's what we said. Cowards.

  • Google preps Pixel ‘Audio Memory’ that ambiently tracks your ‘important conversations,’ like AI notetaker pins

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  • Is Ben Shapiro a good person?

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  • Hey now, that's not fair! A used tampon has contributed a lot more benefit to society than Ben Shapiro ever will.

  • Carpenter here. I got fed up with messengers wanting my phone number, so I built my own. Looking for honest criticism.

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  • The project I’m actually most excited about is exactly the “use the carpentry” one you pointed at: software for CNC and laser machines. I’ve got a laser at home that’s made me a lot of inlays and gifts over the years, and the existing tools (LightBurn etc.) are good but kept missing the technical, specialist features I wanted - so I started building my own. It’s called Nexus Studio.

    Ayyyy yeah that's what I'm talking about! (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞

    That's a really cool project dude, if it's public I'd love a link to check it out! (I tried Googling, to no avail) I have a friend who has both a CNC machine and a laser cutter (a fuckoff-huge thing the size of a desk, that can cut metal), so your work on that might be helpful to us 😊

    In any case, good luck and I hope those resources help. Drop me a DM if you want to talk shop!

  • Thoughts on Hermes?

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  • Any time, I hope they're helpful! (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞

    I’m a little surprised to hear you say PAYG for Opus sub agents is economical

    I did say it was surprising! 😂 To give you an idea what I mean by "economical", it's never more than a few bucks a day, even on days of heavy use and development with "loop until clean" instructions on QA (for which I use Opus). I accidentally blew through my opencode go quota really early in the first month, so I ended up on PAYG; here's the usage graph:

    And here's the numbers breakdown for the highest day (I was evaluating GLM5.1 for general tasks - don't use it for that, it's really token hungry)

    That includes a lot of experimentation too while I figured out which models were best for what. I hid Fable because it crushed the rest of the table - really expensive, but worth it for one-shotting very long tasks on the Anthropic subscription is what I found.

  • Carpenter here. I got fed up with messengers wanting my phone number, so I built my own. Looking for honest criticism.

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  • Ah, you're alright mate. Like I said, I got the same guff when I posted my first project here, and it sucked. I wanted to offer my advice because I think it's brilliant that AI is opening up development to a whole new raft of people, and I'm excited to see more people building neat little software projects that fill their needs - we get to watch peoples' journeys unfold through repo commits. It's like watching someone's first Dark Souls playthrough.

    I have another bit of feedback which I hope might be helpful: Everyone is building an encrypted messaging app these days. Do something new, and use your carpentry experience to inform what that something is. You have a wealth of knowledge and this thing is an incredible tool for augmenting that, see if you can solve an old hard problem with it!

    See, now I want to help again 😂 What tools are you using and do you have any harnesses set up and what's your system prompt like? The beautiful thing about agents is that you can just point them at repos and have them cherrypick the useful bits. Here's a few that you may find useful:

  • Carpenter here. I got fed up with messengers wanting my phone number, so I built my own. Looking for honest criticism.

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  • I'm surprised you think I care. I've seen what you're dumb enough to fall for.

  • Thoughts on Hermes?

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  • The harness helps a lot even with local models. In fact, I just found this this morning and cherrypicked it: https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail

    Recommend doing the same, and for superpowers if you don't have 'em already: https://github.com/obra/superpowers

    Opencode Go is the $10/month cloud model subscription from the same group maintaining the OpenCode software. Opencode Zen is a pay-as-you-go version which gives you access to Claude models as well. Keeping pay-as-you-go to subagents only (e.g. telling your agent to launch an opus subagent via your opencode zen key) is actually surprisingly economical - when you're not going turn after turn with hundreds of thousands of tokens of context, claude is pretty reasonably priced.

    What I'm doing is spreading out my usage over multiple cheap subscriptions, and augmenting with the occasional pay-as-you-go frontier agent, to get quality in line with what you get out of Claude, at usage that would require the $200/month level, for a lot less money than that.

  • Carpenter here. I got fed up with messengers wanting my phone number, so I built my own. Looking for honest criticism.

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  • Imagine thinking you know all there is to know about AI and then using an AI Detector which are famously bullshit: https://mitsloanedtech.mit.edu/ai/teach/ai-detectors-dont-work/

    You don't need an AI detector. The patterns are obvious. But that's also the wrong criticism. Rolling your own encrypted messenger app is dumb, whether you use AI or not. Setting up and hardening a Matrix server with AI == godbrain. That's just implementing (battle-tested) software that someone who knows what they're doing wrote.

  • Carpenter here. I got fed up with messengers wanting my phone number, so I built my own. Looking for honest criticism.

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  • I considered it, and the point stands. I came here offering advice - good advice, grounded in two decades of IT career, because nobody who cares about security rolls their own app with encryption unless they know what they're doing. There's too much risk of a bad implementation and leaving holes for bad actors to find.

    They can just do what I do and use AI to set up their Matrix server. I set it up before AI was a thing too, but it's so much faster now. That uses a lot less tokens, too. But they don't seem particularly interested in actually taking advice onboard, so I'm not holding my breath.

    edit: well that's refreshing, he listened! Don't get that on the internet too often these days.

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
    unfortunate_ferret @piefed.ca

    I launched my business website without analytics. Am I stupid?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    unfortunate_ferret @piefed.ca

    Updated: Honey, I Shrunk The Vids 2.3.4

    github.com /obelisk-complex/histv-universal
  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    unfortunate_ferret @piefed.ca

    Honey, I Shrunk The Vids v2.1.2 - Now in CLI flavour!

    github.com /obelisk-complex/histv-universal
  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    unfortunate_ferret @piefed.ca

    Honey, I Shrunk The Vids [Mr. Universe Edition] v1.0.9

    github.com /obelisk-complex/histv-universal
  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    unfortunate_ferret @piefed.ca

    Honey, I Shrunk The Vids - a Windows transcoding frontend for FFMPEG

    codeberg.org /dorkian_gray/histv