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New comment by Filligree in "EU Commission looking at practical consequences of Anthropic decision"

Filligree — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:23:12 +0000

Regulation and prerogative, revenge-driven abuse of state power are not the same thing.

Anthropic has been asking for a sensible regulatory regime, as you would know if you read their suggestions. What you’re looking at is USG directly integrating with the free market based on personal dislike.

It’s purely a revenge tactic due to Anthropic’s disagreement with Hegseth’s desire to use AI for war crimes.

New comment by Filligree in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

Filligree — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:41:50 +0000

Tell that to my nephew. He’s working as a commissioned officer on Greenland.

New comment by Filligree in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

Filligree — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 11:50:07 +0000

There’s also a presence in Dublin. Coworking space, last time I checked.

New comment by Filligree in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

Filligree — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 11:35:01 +0000

> I'm a European, the EU is supposed to be one of the closest allies of the US.

I’m Scandinavian. The US is an adversary; please wake up.

New comment by Filligree in "Solar generates more energy in US than coal for first time"

Filligree — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:46:18 +0000

There’s a legit grid stability issue for solar in general, balcony or no.

Usage varies second by second, so the grid relies on physical inertia in the form of rotating turbines. Panels have no inertia; therefore, the more you have the less stable the grid gets.

That is however something which can be fixed by grid-scale batteries. Or home systems, for that matter, if they have batteries and some equivalent of Victron’s PowerAssist.

(Which limits the rate at which power draw can change. Very useful when you use a house-sized generator; it amounts to synthetic inertia. I have a 7kW generator, but a 7kW step load would stall it.)

New comment by Filligree in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"

Filligree — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:02:31 +0000

I’m sensitive enough that I bought 180Hz monitors.

New comment by Filligree in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"

Filligree — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:09:57 +0000

That’s interesting. I have the opposite effect—X11 always had jank and latency, to the point that it drove me to windows for a couple of years.

This is with multiple monitors on Nvidia’s, all of which support vsync. Disabling that did help, but why would I want to?

Wayland, currently, is butter smooth.

New comment by Filligree in "You weren't meant to have a boss (2008)"

Filligree — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:04:26 +0000

People do get that wrong. But the corrected version is “you were supposed to die as a baby”, and…

That doesn’t sound any better.

New comment by Filligree in "Print with dozens of colors: Our new open-source ColorMix for PrusaSlicer"

Filligree — Sat, 30 May 2026 12:09:52 +0000

The XL? Yes, but they also have an eight colour nozzle changer.

New comment by Filligree in "The California state assembly has passed the 'Protect Our Games Act'"

Filligree — Sat, 30 May 2026 04:13:34 +0000

Respectfully disagree. The AGPL exists for that use case, and the difference is exactly that you need to distribute the changes.

If you license something under GPL, that necessarily means you’re okay with people making local changes and not sharing them. If you aren’t okay with that, then don’t use the GPL.

For me, that means I use a mix of AGPL and MIT depending on project.

New comment by Filligree in "Warm up your MacBook (2019)"

Filligree — Fri, 29 May 2026 12:58:24 +0000

Not counting compilation passes, the rest of OpenCode is trivial enough that it should work on a 1980s PC.

New comment by Filligree in "Is AI causing a repeat of Front end's Lost Decade?"

Filligree — Fri, 29 May 2026 12:54:58 +0000

Keep in mind these are two different things. Not all websites need to be accessible.

New comment by Filligree in "Is AI causing a repeat of frontend’s lost decade?"

Filligree — Fri, 29 May 2026 12:14:58 +0000

> I'd argue back that LLMs likely have a better understanding of a11y conventions than I do as well.

To make the obvious counterargument, “then you shouldn’t be creating websites at all”.

I don’t actually believe this, but I know people who do. Some would add “shouldn’t be allowed to”.

New comment by Filligree in "FBI Arrests CIA Official with $40M in Gold Bars in His Home"

Filligree — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:04:53 +0000

Sure, but nonexistence is the default. Has to be the default; most possible things do not exist. In this case we have no evidence for, so we stay with the default.

New comment by Filligree in "Warm up your MacBook (2019)"

Filligree — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:15:46 +0000

It increases the chance of solder cracks, which is one major cause of failure. Thermal cycles in general will do that, however, and home computers are designed to survive a lot of them.

So overall it’s not something I’d worry about.

New comment by Filligree in "Warm up your MacBook (2019)"

Filligree — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:13:36 +0000

Is it a local LLM? Sibling seems to be assuming remote, but I have trouble imagining a TUI that inefficient.

New comment by Filligree in "FBI arrests CIA official with $40M in gold bars in his home"

Filligree — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:08:37 +0000

I feel like that says more about them. Feeling good about the existence of something, or bad about its absence, does not count as evidence.

New comment by Filligree in "What Is a Direct Attach Copper (DAC) Cable? (2021)"

Filligree — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:33:06 +0000

Doesn't that reduce to RJ45?

New comment by Filligree in "What Is a Direct Attach Copper (DAC) Cable?"

Filligree — Wed, 27 May 2026 12:17:11 +0000

How many PCIe lanes are you allocating?

The card is obviously 16-lane, but it also has two ports; 40Gb total. In a server that’s fine, but if you want 10G in a desktop you’ll have a problem.

I’m probably not telling you anything new. NICs using newer PCI generations are rare as hen’s teeth. It should be possible to do this with four lanes, but isn’t…

Unless you find a 25G dual-port card, in which case the single lane my secondary slots hand out does at least suffice for 10G one way.

New comment by Filligree in "Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014)"

Filligree — Tue, 26 May 2026 10:23:25 +0000

> I wonder how hard it would be to get an agent to send me a text message if it gets stuck on something.

Not too hard, aka. I have a friend who did this. Rather than a text message, he uses IRC, but the effect should be the same. IRC is probably a little better.

Assuming you use Claude Code, the concept to look for is 'channels'. It's described as being for sending messages to Claude, but they work both ways. And I see one of the canned channels is iMessage.