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I've been running Gitea on my homelab for a few months now. It's fantastic. It's like a snapshot of a point in time when GitHub was actually good, before it got enshittified by all…

> If this is indeed the "future of making movies," I dunno, I can't speak for anyone but myself, but I have no interest in watching anything made this way. I'm still burned out on …

`unp` does this as well: https://packages.debian.org/sid/unp

> Advertising: perhaps the best and most effective involuntary ally of the Puritan movement. Which is weird, given that "sex sells."

> Personal branches, not forks > With Grace, there's no need for forking entire repositories just to make contributions. In open-source repos, you'll just create a personal branch …

I think Honda's brand is a genuine advantage. They know how to make good cars, and people trust them as a result. I'm in my 40s, but still only on my second car, which is an old Ho…

I've also been using (and paying for) Kagi for a few months now. It's fantastic.

Same here. I've found that I currently only want to use an LLM to solve relatively "dumb" problems (boilerplate generation, rubber-ducking, etc), and the locally-hosted stuff works…

Hope 2024 is better for you!

FWIW, at least on current-generation NUCs, you can set the fan profile to "Quiet" from within the BIOS. Doing this solved the problem for me.

I can't read the "Nobody Knows What’s Happening Online Anymore" article because it's behind a paywall.

If you want Debian with a nice desktop plus some common packages installed, IMO Linux Mint Debian Edition (IMDE) is a great option: https://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php

In my experience, it's more helpful in some areas than others. This year I used GPT-4 to write a significant amount of Terraform that was necessary to migrate an application onto A…

FWIW, I don't have any pets (and haven't for some time), but I receive physical mail regarding dog food, dog toys, etc, all the time. There's a chance you've been fooled by randomn…

You can ask it to provide links to primary sources as part of your prompt. This helps quite a bit with this problem.

I'm pretty sure every film since Spirited Away has been his last film. And I hope he has many more last films - they're all wonderful.

I agree. Also, I've had good luck asking GPT-4 to cite sources with its replies. It speeds up the process of fact-checking, and makes "hallucination" detection trivial. (Does the l…

I stopped using Stack Overflow years ago when they went on their jihad to remove "please," "thanks," etc from all posts. I understand the motivation to keep "noise" low, but I disa…

I missed your reply a few days ago. Sorry! And thank you for taking the time. I'm terrible at marketing myself. I suppose that is a hurdle that I must overcome. I'll check out your…

> I sometimes learn something new by answering a question from someone who is looking at things from a different direction than I am, or discussing something I don't have a quick a…

Yeah. One of my favorite things about working remote is that people can't do this to me. It's a feature, not a bug.

I maintain one or two projects that are somewhat popular, and I'd love to monetize them (without compromising my FOSS ideals) so I could work on them more. That said - perhaps I ha…

Work-from-home (as much as I love it) has also killed the "second place" for a lot of people. Not to mention grocery delivery apps and such. Just speaking personally, it's perhaps …

Oh, neat. Thanks for the tip. I usually say "Please continue," but sometimes it reiterates too much of what it stated previously. (I've tried "Please continue where you left off," …

I'm the author/maintainer of an open-source project that receives a relatively large number of pull-requests. FWIW, if you're contributing to a sufficiently large project, it's ent…