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FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me

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Re: FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me

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Post by wklm »

gck1 wrote: post #294

This is the third time I see pi mentioned over the last few days and pi is the first project where every writeup I've read about it is actually helpful and goes into details on how things were done and what things were built, with git repos. This is a common complaint on HN. Now, since Claude Code is banning accounts for usage of pi (or rather, how pi is configured to use Claude models), how complicated would it be t…

are they actually banning subscription accounts for using the 3rd party cli's?

Re: FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me

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Post by gck1 »

wklm wrote: post #301
gck1 wrote: post #294

This is the third time I see pi mentioned over the last few days and pi is the first project where every writeup I've read about it is actually helpful and goes into details on how things were done and what things were built, with git repos. This is a common complaint on HN. Now, since Claude Code is banning accounts for usage of pi (or rather, how pi is configured to use Claude models), how complicated would it be t…

are they actually banning subscription accounts for using the 3rd party cli's?

Yeah, third party harness repos that utilized OAuth tokens have lots of reports, so it is enforced.

Google does the same, and it seems Google is much more aggressive about it, I've seen way more reports of Google bans than Anthropic.

Just one example here: https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/issues/6930

Re: FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me

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Post by DaanDL »

mixdup wrote: post #69
dumbfounder wrote: post #65

The future is that people stop buying software and just build it themselves. The spam filter in thunderbird was broken for me, I built my own in hours and it works way better. Oh that CRM doesn’t have the features you want? Build one that does. It will become very easy to built and deploy solutions to many of your own bespoke problems.

Unlikely. The future will be some people will do this, but honestly I think it will largely be people who were already tinkering with building things, whether full on software development or not My mom and dad, my brother who drives a dump truck in a limestone quarry, my sister-in-law, none of them work in tech or consider themselves technical in any way. They are never, ever going to write their own software and wil…

Correct, my ex couldn't even be bothered to update the notification settings on her iPhone, let alone she'd be generating and deploying an app using an LLM. Most people just don't want to have anything to do with tech, they just want it to work and get out of their way.

I did the same with my car, technically I could do maintenance myself and troubleshoot and what not, but I just couldn't be arsed, so I outsource it at a premium price.

Re: FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me

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Post by bandrami »

iszomer wrote: post #265
bandrami wrote: post #242

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Architecturally it makes a kind of sense given the way firmware operates (a lot of your peripherals are mini-computers inside your computer)

Yup. The smartnic's we used in a previous gpu sku is now repurposed as the head node for another storage based sku.

I once was looking for a write-up of running NetBSD with a specific GPU and found a write-up of running NetBSD on that GPU

Re: FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me

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Post by bw86 »

adolph wrote: post #81
irishcoffee wrote: post #26

This is really neat, I'm glad it worked. This is atrocious C code.

Plus zig! **Decision**: Use C for kernel interactions, Zig for pure logic only. https://github.com/narqo/freebsd-brcmfmac/blob/be9b49c1bf942...

https://github.com/narqo/freebsd-brcmfmac/blob/be9b49c1bf942... seems to be the only file written in Zig.

Using an entire additional programming language for 229 lines of code is definitely an interesting choice.

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Post by cess11 »

shermantanktop wrote: post #250
delfinom wrote: post #212

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The future is either a regression of society from the resulting riots and massacres when 3/4 of the population is unemployed. Or perpetual work camps for the masses.

Can you name me another time when humanity has run out of useful work to do? Was it when we tamed fire, invented the wheel, writing, or double entry bookkeeping? All of which appear more consequential than current AI. We’ll always have something to do. And humans like doing things.

A lot of people are being more or less coerced into doing abjectly useless stuff with their time.

David Graeber did a thing on the topic where he called the subset he was interested in "bullshit jobs".

Re: FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me

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Post by riffraff »

shermantanktop wrote: post #250
delfinom wrote: post #212

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The future is either a regression of society from the resulting riots and massacres when 3/4 of the population is unemployed. Or perpetual work camps for the masses.

Can you name me another time when humanity has run out of useful work to do? Was it when we tamed fire, invented the wheel, writing, or double entry bookkeeping? All of which appear more consequential than current AI. We’ll always have something to do. And humans like doing things.

In the USA, the great depression, that is what "the grapes of wrath" is about. Or in all the dock towns when we shifted to containerized shipping.

(I don't think technological innovation leads to permanent job loss, but some people will lose)

Re: FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me

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Post by swiftcoder »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #274
vermaden wrote: post #253

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Manufacturer/vendor did not provided open source driver with real freedom license (BSD/MIT/...) or documentation on which the driver could be written ... this is the result ... and its still better to overcome a problem in any way then to NOT overcome it at all ... and this driver is just a code - people can look at it and improve it.

> Manufacturer/vendor did not provided open source driver with real freedom license (BSD/MIT/...) Article says, > Brcmfmac is a Linux driver (ISC licence) for set of FullMAC chips from Broadcom I don't feel like looking to see where the Linux driver came from, but someone provided a permissively-licensed driver.

> I don't feel like looking to see where the Linux driver came from

It's originally from Broadcom themselves. A lot of Broadcom hardware runs linux natively (i.e. mobile and embedded CPUs), and a ton more of it ships in linux-adjacent devices (routers, android devices, etc)

Re: FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me

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Post by riffraff »

Gigachad wrote: post #101
dumbfounder wrote: post #65

The future is that people stop buying software and just build it themselves. The spam filter in thunderbird was broken for me, I built my own in hours and it works way better. Oh that CRM doesn’t have the features you want? Build one that does. It will become very easy to built and deploy solutions to many of your own bespoke problems.

This feels like when 3D printers hit the consumer market and everyone declared that buying things was over, everyone will just print them at home. There's tons of benefits to standardised software too. Companies rely on the fact they can hire people who already know photoshop/xero/webpack/etc rather than having to train them from scratch on in house tools.

> Companies rely on the fact they can hire people who already know photoshop/xero/webpack/etc rather than having to train them from scratch on in house tools.

Yeah, I've seen perfectly good flexible in house products abandoned because it was just easier to hire people who knew Salesforce or whatever.

But the true AI Believer would object you don't need to hire anymore, you can just get more agents to cold call or whatever :)

Re: FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me

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Post by pjmlp »

bmurphy1976 wrote: post #247
mixdup wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unlikely. The future will be some people will do this, but honestly I think it will largely be people who were already tinkering with building things, whether full on software development or not My mom and dad, my brother who drives a dump truck in a limestone quarry, my sister-in-law, none of them work in tech or consider themselves technical in any way. They are never, ever going to write their own software and wil…

Some of us will do this, and it will be great for us for a period of time. That is, until others build another giant ball of shit 10,000x bigger than the npm/nodejs/javascript/java/cobol/c++/whatever else garbage pile we have today. We'll be right back here in no-time.

No we won't, that was our hope when software development experience started going downhill with cheap offshoring teams.

The best we could achieve were the projects that got so burned that near shore started to become an alternative, but never again in-house.

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