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jetsnoc
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About jetsnoc
Personal, bmcmanus@gmail.com
Website brianmcmanus.com
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Comment #48971064
For me, it's mostly because I want whatever I'm running to stay on my own home network, with access to Home Assistant, my homelab, and so on. Beyond that, old laptops are hard to b…
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Comment #46103967
Very cool. You built it, shipped it, and sold it. At first I thought this might be a Nano SaaS, but without a clear definition, I’m now guessing that would be something like one te…
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Comment #46066132
Sixteen years here, and the half-life decay of this community has been slower than anywhere else. That takes real, consistent work, and we have been lucky to have it. Through good …
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Comment #45775449
Model performance summary: **openai/gpt-oss-120b** — MLX (MXFP4), ~66 tokens/sec @ Hugging Face: `lmstudio-community/gpt-oss-120b-MLX-8bit` **google/gemma-3-27b** — MLX (4-bit), ~2…
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Comment #45775105
It’s a Claude agent prompt. I don’t recall who originally shared it, so I can’t yet attribute the source, but I’ll track that down shortly and add proper attribution here. Here’s t…
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Comment #45774453
Models gpt-oss-120b, Meta Llama 3.2, or Gemma (just depends on what I’m doing) Hardware - Apple M4 Max (128 GB RAM) paired with a GPD Win 4 running Ubuntu 24.04 over USB-C networki…
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Comment #44991435
I'll admit it. I've done this, but only a few times and only when someone sent me truly egregious AI slop—the kind where it's obvious no human that respects my time ever looked at …
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Comment #44410163
I wasn’t aware of this, it’s extremely shortsighted. My employees’ chats are my company’s data, and I should be able to use them as I see fit. Restricting API access to our own dat…
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Comment #44265720
Thanks for the perspective—makes sense from a financial reporting lens. Curious how you'd balance that with the reality that modern software is rarely a finished asset, and startup…
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Comment #44230103
Unlike a building—where you might find one for sale and simply buy it—most companies don’t "buy one software" from a vendor and amortize it like a purchased asset. Instead, they hi…
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Comment #43965859
We chose Tailscale as our mesh zero-trust platform primarily for its 4via6 subnet routing. Many of our interfacing networks reuse CIDR ranges, and we had no interest in maintaining…
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Comment #43712578
They need to implement secondary and tertiary domains—with diverse registrars and hosting infrastructure—for the Zoom client’s calling home. Maybe even a fallback anycast ip addres…
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Comment #43497918
I interpreted the message sas aying the fault lies with those who transmitted the top-secret through Signal and not a fault of the Signal company/app.
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Comment #40867084
Bruce came into the world and made it a better place. Bruce was smart, kind, thoughtful, and generous. I have never met him personally, but early in my life, his story had a signif…
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Comment #37635229
Oh, I see. Thanks for your perspective. I can understand trying to use contacts and calendar for this and the need to keep it simple. I had a really hard time keeping those organiz…
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Comment #37629666
Might you consider for just a moment, if you will, people who do have a larger problem. People who are neurodivergent who may be challenged with object permanence. Apps like this h…
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Comment #36408444
This isn't a stressor, just an observation. Another thing I would share is that most of the people on the road are twice my age. This can be a pleasure when you meet unique people …
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Comment #36408386
I don't full-time or even part-time RV. I own a class-a 36' diesel pusher. During the summer, I spend one month on the Oregon coast, and during the winter, I go to Twenty-Nine Palm…
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Comment #35710108
That works fine if the use-case allows for high-latency and doesn't need TCP. To your point, I would imagine most all home use-cases are fine in this regard.
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Comment #35709887
In Rural areas some people need longer range wifi. IoT devices in different buildings or data service for things on a farm. If the costs were lower, I deploy something in my neighb…
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Comment #35709805
In the United States regulated by the FCC CBRS Tier 3 is available to "general authorized users." You can operate a private lte-network so long as you authorize and follow the spec…
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Comment #34831296
Intuition is another cognitive process honed by training and reinforcement of neurons through all sorts of sensories and feedback to our brain. I think parallel models not unlike a…
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Comment #34750087
One might argue that intuition and understanding are simply complex cognitive processes that occur within the brain. In a similar vein, I think ChatGPT will evolve to understand an…
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Comment #34389709
Donald Trump was very much the head of the executive branch in the United States for four years. He may not have written laws but he certainly signed many into law. But, it was bro…
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Comment #34364682
The part you would like to skip over - the static typing benefits - is exactly where it provides the most value and that makes it worth it for /me./ Warts and all. I'm new to TypeS…