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New comment by AlfredBarnes in "Claude.ai down"

AlfredBarnes — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:29:45 +0000

Is it important to be that self reliant? I wasn't in the workforce then, so I assume if you have an outsourced system with 99% reliability it would be an acceptable risk. Not sure if any AI system will reach that level, but for potential gains it could be worth it.

New comment by AlfredBarnes in "Just Put It on a Map"

AlfredBarnes — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:15:41 +0000

Was cool to see a few of the cities, and then cross reference with some searches on pricing to get a better understanding of the actual cost.

New comment by AlfredBarnes in "PeppyOS: A simpler alternative to ROS 2 (now with containers support)"

AlfredBarnes — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:56:17 +0000

https://xkcd.com/927/

New comment by AlfredBarnes in "The Waymo World Model"

AlfredBarnes — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 20:43:32 +0000

It has always felt to me that the LLM chatbots were a surprise to Google, not LLMs, or machine learning in general.

New comment by AlfredBarnes in "How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post"

AlfredBarnes — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 20:28:58 +0000

While I don't disagree, that is unrealistic.

New comment by AlfredBarnes in "The Enchiridion by Epictetus"

AlfredBarnes — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:12:58 +0000

I enjoyed this book greatly, I do not enjoy how Stoicism has become the basic meaning of philosophy.

Meditations is also a decent read.

New comment by AlfredBarnes in "The unbearable joy of sitting alone in a café"

AlfredBarnes — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 17:49:05 +0000

For me this is the running I do. No phone accessible (still with me for safety). Just the repetitive sound of my feet and breathing, lets my mind wander and enjoy the isolation.

New comment by AlfredBarnes in "Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business"

AlfredBarnes — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 15:29:37 +0000

100% agree.

A little foil hat conspiracy i supposed, but the big companies saw nobodies become incredibly wealthy over the last decade, and this is the new companies protecting their position by limiting technology.

New comment by AlfredBarnes in "Editing Code in Emacs"

AlfredBarnes — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 16:09:11 +0000

How do you go about editing via ipad, I'm just getting into this whole world, and am finding it difficult to figure out a system.

New comment by AlfredBarnes in "AI World Clocks"

AlfredBarnes — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 19:05:26 +0000

Its cool to see them get it right .....sometimes

New comment by AlfredBarnes in "Create your first business email for free"

AlfredBarnes — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 15:00:20 +0000

Fair, thank you everyone below pointed out I was wrong :)

That's okay I'll try this out in earnest. Thanks for sharing

New comment by AlfredBarnes in "Create your first business email for free"

AlfredBarnes — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 14:00:12 +0000

This is cool, but feels like a work around that will be patched.

New comment by AlfredBarnes in "You are the scariest monster in the woods"

AlfredBarnes — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 14:45:15 +0000

Wasn't there a story about healthcare companies letting AI determine coverage? I can't remember.

New comment by AlfredBarnes in "The RSS feed reader landscape"

AlfredBarnes — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 16:13:58 +0000

I just made a python script that I keep running that updates when there is a new post from one of my feeds. Feed list is stored locally.

New comment by AlfredBarnes in "Apps SDK"

AlfredBarnes — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 12:38:20 +0000

People prefer no ads, that's why its easy to dip into chatgpt get a good enough answer and avoid the rest of the enshitification of every website.

New comment by AlfredBarnes in "In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information"

AlfredBarnes — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 13:42:20 +0000

Something else i HIGHLY recommend is subscribing to youtube channels Via RSS. You ACTUALLY KNOW WHEN SOMETHING IS NEW. I've gone way down on my youtube watching rabbit holes since I only engage with it when I have a new video.

New comment by AlfredBarnes in "In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information"

AlfredBarnes — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 13:38:46 +0000

I recently made a little RSS feed reader, and its barebones lives on my machine, and is powered by python.

I never could get into any of the RSS reader software it all seemed very happy to put random things in the feed that i didn't care about. A strict timeline of things i want to read is all I want. If there is nothing new there is nothing new and I'm okay with that.

Thanks for the write up and read.

New comment by AlfredBarnes in "Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its tech in mass surveillance of Palestinians"

AlfredBarnes — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 16:10:23 +0000

Why build something near or semi near conflict?

New comment by AlfredBarnes in "Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its tech in mass surveillance of Palestinians"

AlfredBarnes — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 16:09:15 +0000

A tale as old as time.

New comment by AlfredBarnes in "Just let me select text"

AlfredBarnes — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 18:59:03 +0000

One of my ticks is repeatedly highlighting text over and over. I blame years of drone splitting.

It also helps me focus on reading.