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There are things to learn from the drone conflict in ukraine, eg drone netting, but I don't think neo dazzle camouflage is one of them https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-stunn…

> It's weirdly uncomfortable knowing that phrasing has such a big impact on one's emotions. It really shows how vulnerable we are to manipulation. My dad would discuss it in high s…

The article makes it very clear that the fiber to the house is a natural monopoly and should be public infrastructure, just like communism. Once the fiber reaches a central office,…

Maybe.. kind of. The Doom source code was originally released under a non-commercial license that was weirdly restrictive and it was eventually re-released under GPL. The Quake sou…

I was granted a cyber use exemption by anthropic to do android kernel dev on my personal devices - I was excited to see if fable would unlock a bootloader for me but it immediately…

Something that I don't think is taught enough is that it's very, very difficult to beat the market. If someone is asking you for money and promising that they'll beat the market, a…

It's not a great interview and it's sad that Raskin passed a month later. > JW: The original Mac was to be sold for $600. When it finally arrived it cost $2,500 and today the cheap…

Why is this guy so obsessed with the variable vs fixed-width font, you'd think he's the guy who wrote putty or something

Right that says it has a proxy feature so it can probably do what I was describing with LiteLLM

I was looking into something similar because I wanted to test a local model for doing basic coding and smart model (deepseek) for planning. It's basically not possible with claude …

Yes the claude code software with deepseek v4-pro api configured via environment variables - I've found api access is really affordable

About 20 million v4-pro tokens I think

I have claude code hooked up to deepseek, I hooked up my spare cheapo android tablet, installed adb and fastbook with my package manager and asked the AI to jailbreak the tablet. I…

"We will examine this movement by looking at Toronto, the only city in Canada"

It's the insurance company paying the ransom and I assume they tie the payment to the insurance policy they are fulfilling, I don't know what the tax implications would be, I am no…

My first IT job in the late aughts we had a small windows utility that came packaged in a zip file rather than an installer, and we wanted to deploy it across the network. I figure…

I was a VB6 user back in the 90s, I think there's a bunch of reasons: - Microsoft killed it: "let's rewrite the entire thing as VB.NET and make it completely different" - The UIs d…

Only a real film buff will appreciate this

> How does this work when apps use GPLv3? Android Open Source Project is mostly Apache licensed, it runs on the Linux kernel which is GPLv2. This situation with the firesticks is e…

Anal [Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker]

> Glorious. This must be what is like when old people long for the hot car they lusted for in their youth. Absolutely. The blog post goes to great lengths about why it's stupid to …

> Doing hard things is tautologically good. Bahaha yeah overwork is virtue, sure

Experimentation is a lot easier when you've already decided the outcome

Applying for the bounty to deliver flowers and then simply not doing it seems like bad faith on the author's part in order to write that headline

> Rest assured, those are all my own words. No super-computer, consuming megawatts of energy, was needed. Just my little brain. Lol, this is a chatgpt verbal tick. Not this, just a…