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New comment by aembleton in "Open Source Low Tech"

aembleton — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 09:29:11 +0000

Sounds like a Dutch bike would work well

New comment by aembleton in "AI children's books, body horror edition"

aembleton — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 09:35:04 +0000

Some of the older quality content uses language which is now considered inappropriate. Of course, it wouldn't be hard to replace those words and there are plenty of books that do, but we can't just use the older books as they were.

New comment by aembleton in "AI children's books, body horror edition"

aembleton — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 09:31:22 +0000

> All the stupid bars nd cafes with rustic wood and old timey aesthetics for example.

Surely that's been a thing for decades. In the 70s, there were bars that harked back to the 1920s. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug

New comment by aembleton in "GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17"

aembleton — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 09:21:57 +0000

Might be worth switching banks

New comment by aembleton in "I Could've Rickrolled the FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID"

aembleton — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 09:30:57 +0000

If the backend doesn't check the credentials then it doesn't matter if its JWT or encrypted cookies or anything else.

New comment by aembleton in "I Could've Rickrolled the FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID"

aembleton — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 09:29:17 +0000

How do you know that you can even write to any of those fields? You didn't try it, so maybe there is a JWT role check in the backend on POST and PUT.

New comment by aembleton in "I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer"

aembleton — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 09:12:49 +0000

Yes, whats wrong with it?

New comment by aembleton in "Ryanair dark UX patterns summer 2026 refresher"

aembleton — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:25:37 +0000

If its happening often, create some uBO rules to block the worst of it

New comment by aembleton in "Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails"

aembleton — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:03:06 +0000

> Now which mobile platform are you going to use that doesn't give one of two US companies root on your population's phones?

HarmonyOS

New comment by aembleton in "APC–2 – A professional record cutter for producing original playback discs"

aembleton — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:49:32 +0000

I suppose its better than it being made of rust like so many other projects like to advertise.

New comment by aembleton in "Changing how we develop Ladybird"

aembleton — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:51:40 +0000

> "everything" is open-source and developed in the bazaar style

A lot of stuff isn't. It may be open source, but the number of contributors is small and many large projects are cathedrals with people volunteering to lay some stones. The large projects often have core teams who organise and manage it, but then accept some contributions. It's closer to the organised Cathedral, than the chaotic Bazaar.

New comment by aembleton in "Cars collect a startling amount of data about you"

aembleton — Fri, 29 May 2026 08:34:13 +0000

Setting the climate control remotely is handy, and it needs its own modem to do that.

New comment by aembleton in "Where does next-token prediction leave us?"

aembleton — Thu, 28 May 2026 06:27:06 +0000

> The moment you start working on something, someone else is already automating the exact thing you are doing now.

Good. If a machine can do my job then I can work on something more interesting. Perhaps a more interesting problem to fix is having the people working on something getting told about the automation.

New comment by aembleton in "Last.fm is now independent"

aembleton — Wed, 27 May 2026 21:56:28 +0000

I still use it. I use the Pulsar music player on Android which has an Audioscrobbler built in. I have my entire mp3/flac collection extra compressed into opus files, so that my 120GB of music is only taking up 43GB on my phone. When I'm listening in the car or on the train I really can't tell the drop in quality.

New comment by aembleton in "DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode"

aembleton — Wed, 27 May 2026 21:10:22 +0000

If you use Firefox, then you can add chatgpt as a search engine with keyword gpt. Then you can type "gpt how to centre a div" into your address bar and get the same thing without routing it through Kagi, or needing Kagi.

New comment by aembleton in "Where does next-token prediction leave us?"

aembleton — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:04:08 +0000

Might help to find the right video though

New comment by aembleton in "Where does next-token prediction leave us?"

aembleton — Wed, 27 May 2026 11:05:56 +0000

> Now I feel something has been taken away and has no value.

Did you feel similar when Wikipedia was created or Google or when you first got access to the internet?

All of these tools have made digging into subjects and learning easier. I find the same with AI. I love it when a random thought pops into my head and I can explore it with an AI such as Gemini. Then ask it for the sources it used so that I can read further.

AI is just a tool, much like StackOverflow. It doesn't prevent creativity, it just makes it easier and more accessible.

New comment by aembleton in "Google officially announces that ads will be included in AI Mode search results"

aembleton — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:33:44 +0000

I haven't even subscribed yet

New comment by aembleton in "We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot"

aembleton — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:29:59 +0000

If you're researching which fridge to buy on Gemini, then an ad might be helpful. So long as they've got the data to answer your questions such as how wide it is.

New comment by aembleton in "Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier"

aembleton — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:44:04 +0000

> Today we introduce Qwen3.7-Max, our latest proprietary model

This is not an open model