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josteink

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About josteink

General stance: open or not at all.

https://jostein.kjonigsen.net

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49008360

    Clarification: Microsoft Authenticator. You can’t use any random password-manager with passkey support. I use Bitwarden for everything and have to have MS Authenticator installed j…

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    Comment #48803173

    But it's written in Rust so it must be good :D

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    Comment #48715043

    That’s a very dramatic take - and I dare say a counter-factual one too. Which actual genocide would you be talking about? I really don’t think people should water out words like th…

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    Comment #48687655

    > So, MS builds VSCode - doesn't even fork Atom to do so. Looks identical to it. They built it from scratch. Bigger. Slower. Someone needs to fix a memory leak here. Atom was famou…

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    Comment #48682807

    I think a better frame would be «how could the maintainers have responded in a constructive, collaborative way upon learning about the tooling not being compliant with Emacs-standa…

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    Comment #48682512

    He made a patch in good faith, not knowing about these rules. He’s point is that because he was coming at this with an honest, open approach he saw his work rejected. His observati…

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    Comment #48682455

    Did you review the code in question and end up rating it slop, or are you just reflexively calling anything AI-generated slop? Humans can produce garbage code. As can AI. So theref…

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    Comment #48438599

    The ARM64 Linux version (Azure version actually) is what I run on my MacBook through docker when I need it for testing.

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    Comment #48438557

    Flathub has banned any software developed using AI or which is «ethically questionable». I’m pretty sure that excludes Claude Desktop. https://www.techtimes.com/articles/317463/202…

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    Comment #48394162

    I don’t see why it ships with a SIM + a forced plan. That limits the ability to use it (or buy it) in any «unsupported» country.

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    Comment #48204530

    This is an impressive effort and offering and I really want to try it out! Clicking on "download" though, I get this: > Full edition (121G zipped, 174G unzipped): From Internet Arc…

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    Comment #48182387

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    Comment #48177043

    While the news is interesting in itself, I found the lack of illustrations disappointing. When discussing new novel molecular structures, one would think providing a concrete visua…

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    Comment #48091914

    > You are greatly underestimating the current hardware requirements for productive local LLMs. Fixed that for you. Right now most models produced are based on floating point maths …

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    Comment #47835874

    Can you for an outsider expand on this argument. I’m not saying you’re wrong, but why is that?

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    Comment #47589160

    We built it on enthusiasm for enthusiasts and for that reason alone, it became something great. Then they stole it all for profit. Probably not the first time in history this has h…

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    Comment #47565219

    > Very few people with LinkedIn profiles read the social feed. I read somewhere that in Norway (small sample, yes I know) LinkedIn is supposedly a more popular social network than …

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    Comment #47558639

    I held out until my work MacBook got force-upgraded by IT. I've never used my Linux ThinkPad more than after my MacBook got macOS 26.

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    Comment #47475760

    I just stopped using Finder all together. Bloom is a fairly cheap one-time purchase and infinitely more capable. https://bloomapp.club/

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    Comment #47475741

    I was forced to upgrade at work. So I’ve enabled reduced transparency and all the other accessibility settings I can find to remove the terribleness. The UI is now mono-coloured gr…

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    Comment #47385617

    This Reddit thread claims to have identified Meta/Facebook as a/the major villain (for age verification): https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rshc1f/i_traced_2_b... Disclaimer…

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    Comment #47243733

    > “Covered application store” means a publicly available internet website, software application, online service, or platform that distributes and facilitates the download of applic…

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    Comment #47113218

    > We already have examples of these agents creating an AI religion, an AI social network That to me sound like a reason not to use this particular aspect of the AI hype. We need to…

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    Comment #47044465

    > It really is the case that a lot of incompetence is hiding in plain sight. It may sound preposterous but I'm going to make the argument that sometimes not knowing how things work…

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    Comment #46971949

    I just tried on a Zyxel Wifi AP I have. It seems to use a different telnetd (busybox?), because from what I can tell it's not prone to this error.