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JFingleton

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About JFingleton

Software Engineer 22+ years Father, Husband, Technologist

Recent public activity

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    Comment #45008566

    RSS is the technological backbone that enables the distribution and subscription of podcasts...which by the way is massive at the moment. As others have stated, plenty of websites …

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    Comment #44923020

    I never trusted VW after the emissions scandal : https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn5r9rgg6yno Now I trust them even less, if that's even possible .

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    Comment #44910411

    Here is more information about the arrests that are currently taking place: https://freespeechunion.org/police-make-30-arrests-a-day-for...

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    Comment #44890920

    > EU frequently being like "no wtf UK, that is against human rights, EU law, etc." And yet they are still pushing [0] [0] https://edri.org/our-work/despite-warning-from-lawyers-eu-…

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    Comment #44855986

    Incus is fantastic. I think Proxmox is where everyone is migrating to after the VMWare/Broadcom fiasco, but people should seriously consider Incus as well.

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    Comment #44847782

    When the UK was in the EU, hardly anyone I know voted in the EU elections, and equally they weren't covered by the media. I believe there was so little interest in the EU elections…

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    Comment #44830501

    A quick google gave: https://aloe.inc/

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    Comment #44712742

    I always thought a police state would demand identification at every street corner (perhaps I'm wrong?) and any minor breaking of the law being dealt with severe justice. The UK ha…

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    Comment #44475800

    A properly designed app would leverage multi threading to place any long running jobs in the background, allowing the user to carry on with other tasks. Spinners should not exist i…

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    Comment #44396563

    I'm in my mid-40's and I'm in the best shape of my life. However it's taken a lot of hard work and sacrifice, that I weirdly enjoy: * Cooking all meals from scratch (I try and redu…

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    Comment #44395326

    > You think yelling at allies to pay up, threatening to leave NATO, and undermining trust serves Western unity? Yet look at the current NATO spending review: https://www.theguardia…

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    Comment #44395158

    > Given that the US is now governed by Russian assets Donald Trump has consistently and forcefully argued that European NATO members must significantly increase their defense spend…

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    Comment #44278054

    LLMs work on tokens. There's no reason those tokens can't be something other than text.

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    Comment #44184494

    Doesn't seem to work? It's the pay walled site.

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    Comment #44095569

    It does make me sad that in 2025 we still don't have an open real-time chat service. IRC was too janky for widespread use... Everything else that has come after it hasn't been able…

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    Comment #44095533

    Really inspiring thankyou. Although I've not used it, I've heard good things about Khan Academy... Which is aimed at kids/teenagers but would cover any core principles you might be…

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    Comment #44083926

    Zero days can go for $$$, or you can go down the bug bounty route and also get $$. The cost of the LLM would be a drop in the bucket. When the cost of inference gets near zero, I h…

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    Comment #44079494

    3. Focus on leveraging AI to solve real world problems. You don't need to deep dive into the maths. You'll need to understand the limitations, the performance bottlenecks, etc. RAG…

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    Comment #44055532

    It feels like all those hacktivists moved to Discord... Which is even more "locked away" than Reddit. I miss the old skool php web forums.

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    Comment #44012701

    Yes i did... The risk of being cruel, and other things.

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    Comment #44012612

    From Matt Lucas himself regarding Little Britain: 'Speaking in October 2017, Lucas stated that if he were to remake Little Britain he would avoid making jokes about transvestites a…

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    Comment #43993188

    > It is interesting how google turned the tide on GenAI race, and seems to be leading the pack I think this is perhaps due to Google combining Google Brain and DeepMind, and puttin…

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    Comment #43734807

    Same. At 40 I simply can't expend any of my limited time or energy with games, when I could be doing something productive/wholesome (which for me is lifting weights, reading and le…

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    Comment #43725722

    They are not humans - so yeah I can totally see having to "go to school" to learn how to interact with them.