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New comment by _def in "AI At Home Part 1: A Box Of Scraps"

_def — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:14:07 +0000

> You'll start depending on it and then it'll get taken away from you.

You can not get around this, conceptually. Local inference will keep depend on updated models for quite a while. Partly because they will contain outdated training data, partly because of demands for the improved models. And it's still not clear where this will lead us. We're still in the rosey phase where people get lured in.

New comment by _def in "Unearthing a 31 year old Easter egg in Ecco the Dolphin"

_def — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:48:48 +0000

> CD check gets rid of the This program can only be run from the original CD! nag screen.

A built-in no-cd patch, neat :-)

New comment by _def in "The Human Is the Loop"

_def — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 05:08:59 +0000

I'm cautious on the dependency part too. Do I have a bunch of tools now that help me and wouldn't exist without an agent writing them for me? Sure. Will I be able to fix them once their codebase will eventually need maintenance? Most likely not. So I'll better still have access to some decent model then!

Also, especially in work, it undermines skills and experience you then just lack. That also will only be fine as long as you are doing the work somewhere where they provide/allow use of LLMs.

New comment by _def in "Halcyon Video – a 3D video store for your media server"

_def — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:52:21 +0000

I agree, but I wonder if it's inherently missing being a shared space. Even if these were commercial places, other people interacted with them in different ways, which shaped it to some degree

New comment by _def in "Exploiting System Management Mode with a very long interrupt"

_def — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 19:44:13 +0000

This rosenbridge repos commits claim to be 8 years old https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/rosenbridge

New comment by _def in "My server is a phone now"

_def — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 02:36:14 +0000

Doesn't this depend on the kind of phone and battery?

New comment by _def in "Flock's CEO Faced Me After Its Cameras Led to My Wrongful Stop"

_def — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:23:54 +0000

Human rights are really important to us!*

*As long as it doesn't prevent us from getting rich.

New comment by _def in "Authorize, don't authenticate"

_def — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 21:09:25 +0000

We are back to File->Open I guess. We could use native applications instead of web apps while we're at it.

Sadly this approach does not work for a lot of (web) apps.

New comment by _def in "Git worktrees are not an isolation boundary for coding agents"

_def — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:29:57 +0000

I don't think people use it for isolation, but for what the feature enables in the first place: parallel workstreams

New comment by _def in "Simulate cassette tape audio profiles using FFmpeg"

_def — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 21:39:19 +0000

What is "wow"?

New comment by _def in "Codeberg Divides"

_def — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:54:08 +0000

> It can choose to be a smaller community with a stronger political identity, but that is a different ambition from being a broad and dependable European alternative to GitHub.

Wrong category. It doesn't want to. It's not a company. Might as well act on their beliefs.

Devs are so spoiled with free CI, running nonsensical workflows all the time for free. Imagine that multiplied by magnitudes thanks to AI. Just a waste of resources.

New comment by _def in "Uhubctl – control USB power per-port on smart USB hubs"

_def — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:20:32 +0000

I use this to toggle power to a 3d printer. It gets it actual power from a switched socket but usb still powers the board.

New comment by _def in "Donation Controversy"

_def — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:13:36 +0000

> We want to liken Mullvad to a force of nature. Or to cryptography. It just mechanically does its thing with no human arbiters.

I can't even find the right words to describe how wrong this sounds to me

New comment by _def in "The Power of Awareness: Overcoming Surveillance Capitalism"

_def — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 22:45:01 +0000

tangent but i vibe coded a webapp that pulls article texts and runs tts via kokoro. Its interface allows me to read the article text while the current paragraph is highlighted + autoscrolled while the audio is playing. All of this runs on a cheap vps. Works surprisingly well, as long as you are fine with consuming it "later" (conversion needs some minutes)

New comment by _def in "Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls"

_def — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:10:36 +0000

Oh, thanks for the hint. I actually don't like this - similarly to dark mode setting detection. But I guess thats more a criticism on the OS preferences not being granular enough.

New comment by _def in "The Zen of Parallel Programming"

_def — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 21:14:09 +0000

This resonates with me. On the one hand I feel like my team is spread too thin all the time, scope and complexity is just too broad - and at the same time I'm pretty sure nore headcount could only improve it to a certain degree.

I like the part about synchronization and honesty. And I'm certain every time I get annoyed that someone is not as open with me as I wish they were, there is a part in there that myself contributed to that.

New comment by _def in "Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day"

_def — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 23:23:46 +0000

now the real fun part is how to self-host it on a machine accessible on the net without services like cloudflare or tailscale tunnels.

New comment by _def in "Show HN: Watch bots interact with an SSH honeypot in real time"

_def — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:37:26 +0000

fun to watch until the ssh user input exploits the web interface :P

New comment by _def in "The privacy problems hidden in your period tracker"

_def — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 21:05:13 +0000

It's really sad to see that this is not the usual kind of software people are exposed too.

New comment by _def in "Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail"

_def — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:23:53 +0000

How was the syncing actually achieved?