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metabrew

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About metabrew

Made Audioscrobbler in 2002, founder & (now ex-)CTO, Last.fm Ltd.

Also https://www.irccloud.com/

Beam appreciator. Rust and Bevy fan. Home assistant tinkerer.

Blog: http://www.metabrew.com/

Recent public activity

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    This looks great - how much of it is open source, could I host it all myself? wouldn't be interested in investing any time learning if I'm locked in to hosting on some else's hardw…

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    Comment #47086532

    I tried the chatbot. jarring to see a large response come back instantly at over 15k tok/sec I'll take one with a frontier model please, for my local coding and home ai needs..

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    Comment #46335006

    this is correct :)

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    Comment #46087112

    Did this with policy based routing in my opnsense (pfsense) router a couple of weeks ago. egress via a specific tailscale exit node for a list of domains including Imgur. Also brow…

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    Comment #43398822

    I would love to pay for youtube premium, but i have a google workspace/apps/own-domain/whatever the hell they call it now account, and loads of stuff (like youtube premium) isn't s…

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    Comment #43231381

    Will definitely need to tone down the American Corporate Alacrity for the UK market..

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    Comment #42276867

    Many opponents to the bill have been very cagey about their reasons for opposing it, and eventually admit it's for nebulous "religious reasons". Personally I'd like the right to di…

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    Comment #37078301

    neat! any support for efficient spatial queries?

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    Comment #35678395

    Using Google assistant via a home mini and nest mini has generally gotten worse, not better, over the last few years. I can't wait to bin them and replace with something else that …

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    Comment #34628565

    spent so many hours playing this years ago.. great memories. too bad it doesn't seem to support inverting mouse y-axis or changing keybindings. too much muscle memory to overcome.

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    Comment #31217701

    API for the server example looks... actually good, wow. Nice job! Also tickled to see my erlang 1M comet blog post referenced. A lifetime ago now, pre-websockets.

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    Comment #26923332

    When we set up user content storage of images and mp3s for Last.fm back in 2006ish we used MogileFS (from the bradfitz LJ perl days) running on our own hardware. 3/4/5/6u machines …

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    Comment #21242415

    Interesting. Shame there's no pricing info published.

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    Comment #20726077

    first character has to be a letter... are they storing them unquoted in yaml files?

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    Comment #20081582

    You're not dead until you're warm and dead, as the saying goes.

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    Comment #17958440

    If you have to click the key fob (the default) to unlock the car, you are safe from this attack, and don't have to upgrade your keyfobs. A firmware update deactivated the touchless…

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    Comment #17346825

    Mid-2012 MBP with SSD, retina, and 16gb here. I've got an HDMI port, SD card reader, two USB ports, two thunderbolt ports, magsafe power, and a proper, reliable keyboard. I despair…

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    Comment #15829021

    if you delete the key near the code that sets/smears it, it's easy to just delete the range of keys: key1, key2, key3.. as needed You can send all such commands to memcached at onc…

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    Comment #15733475

    Random irccloud/quassel anecdote for you: when I started working on what is now irccloud, I was originally just going to write a (mobile-)web front end for quassel core, since I wa…

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    Comment #13381013

    Shoutout to the Last.fm robots.txt, which contains this: Disallow: /harming/humans Disallow: /ignoring/human/orders Disallow: /harm/to/self

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    Comment #12782402

    I would like phones to support a duress finger. If you try to unlock with your duress fingerprint, it disables fingerprint access, requiring your long password.

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    Comment #11884545

    This is cool. I hesitate to install it on my phone.. does it send everything I type to a webservice in order to suggest emoji?

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    Comment #11006218

    There's a WIP spec for batched messages, which will be useful to group netsplit-related join/part messages, and for history playback: http://ircv3.net/specs/extensions/batch/chathi…