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New comment by anygivnthursday in "Understanding the AI Economy"

anygivnthursday — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:02:07 +0000

86% of AI not used for work - so Gemini is mainly used by consumers, I guess also mostly non-paying. I am not surprised as they are on many Androids nowdays and Android updates recent whats new showcases new Gemini features (or repeat the same ones from earlier) for more people to try, my wife uses it often instead of Google search and sometimes to edit some photos.

New comment by anygivnthursday in "Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight"

anygivnthursday — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 08:19:35 +0000

I sometimes ssh into my box with a port forward and starting wayvnc, then connect via tigervnc, I only played a few older/simpler games like this on Steam for a short test, but seemed to work. The server was Arch with Sway and client Fedora with Sway.

New comment by anygivnthursday in "The lost joy of music piracy"

anygivnthursday — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 09:19:45 +0000

Once I had internet connection and discovered LimeWire and then torrent in my later teens hungry for music but not enough money, it was magical. Before that we had a few people with internet who printed out music catalogues of the stuff they can download and burn to CDs for others. And before CDs we were just copying tapes from each other, even photcopying (in b&w) the covers :) Eventually I also ended up with a Spotify subscription, though. Occasionally I buy albums, but cant remember when I last downloaded something for listening from a torrent site.

New comment by anygivnthursday in "Yt-Dlp Sequence Diagrams"

anygivnthursday — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 16:07:23 +0000

you can also install it in termux and keep it up to date, install deno for solving challenges etc

New comment by anygivnthursday in "Claude Sonnet 5"

anygivnthursday — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:35:32 +0000

Is this a new thing? At least I only noticed this recently that instead of looking at sources now it prefers to decompile and read java byte code for some reason.

New comment by anygivnthursday in "Claude Sonnet 5"

anygivnthursday — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:33:11 +0000

Then it tells you nothing will break, spend a bunch of tokens on the migration, hit a wall, having an oops moment and telling you it made a mistake assuming a key fact instead of verifying and present you the option to roll everything back or rewrite the rest of your system.

New comment by anygivnthursday in "Claude Sonnet 5"

anygivnthursday — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:29:42 +0000

Interesting that I have the exact opposite experience with Opus 4.8 being nearly unusable dumb in the past couple of days. I was trying to explain this as the new Sonnet release announcement may have overloaded their systems again, but let's see in a few days. Right now it hurts more to my workflow than helps.

New comment by anygivnthursday in "Have you restarted your computer this week?"

anygivnthursday — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 08:05:41 +0000

If I remember correctly the Pegasus spyware worked only until a reboot and then the attacker had to reinfect the phone again.

New comment by anygivnthursday in "F3"

anygivnthursday — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 01:27:58 +0000

Thats what a reliable party would do certainly, which was my point above. But there is no guarantee really. And there may be people testing their decoder on some test data then attaching it to whatever data they send without testing edge cases. Its like testing recovery from backups, people who care do it, many people dont.

New comment by anygivnthursday in "F3"

anygivnthursday — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:38:50 +0000

Yes, if it comes from some reliable partner I can report bugs to, or something built in-house. In such environment probably fine. And maybe thats the main audience and not some open data exchange format where your system may be brought down by someone's random decoder.

New comment by anygivnthursday in "Digital euro clears key hurdle as EU seeks to break free from U.S. credit cards"

anygivnthursday — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:20:52 +0000

Not everyone. We use both and mostly credit card for online payments that we pay off at the end of the month. It has a limit and it is easier deal with potential fraud vs a debit card where your own money goes. But does it matter? All my debit cards are Visa and Mastercard anyway.

New comment by anygivnthursday in "F3"

anygivnthursday — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:11:04 +0000

My concern is, if decode fails I need to debug WASM added by some other party maybe containing random bugs. Maybe a library of standard decoders maintained and tested by the project could help, but then not sure if it kills the advantage of the flexibility it provides.

New comment by anygivnthursday in "AI Built a Nuke and Still Lost"

anygivnthursday — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:29:12 +0000

I have a hard time reading slop, but I like the game and wanted to know how it worked, so fought my way through, only skipped the very last part. The issue the author calls out is classic Claude (I dont really use other LLMs to compare), probably all of us experienced using Claude Code when it gets so focused on one thing it misses the forest for the tree. It happens often, even if it does verify something and it shows something is wrong, it sometimes rationalizes it and explains it away when it does not fit its model.

New comment by anygivnthursday in "Prefer duplication over the wrong abstraction (2016)"

anygivnthursday — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 18:53:29 +0000

Both are bad, what you describe is very real, but so is the opposite. That one fire in one place can end up in a total rewrite of numerous layers because the abstraction never anticipated certain things to happen.

New comment by anygivnthursday in "I told them forced consent was unlawful. 5 years later it cost Elkjop €1.8M"

anygivnthursday — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 06:52:47 +0000

On most platforms you can usually opt out of targeted/personalized ads that require tracking or collecting personal data, if you do you still get general ads, but that isnt subject to GDPR if they dont use your data for it, I guess.

New comment by anygivnthursday in "What happened to nerds?"

anygivnthursday — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:05:08 +0000

And there are also papers that tell thats effective https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04950

New comment by anygivnthursday in "What happened to nerds?"

anygivnthursday — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:37:44 +0000

No, thats not what gets automated. My comment was for the parent where IC roles transformed to agent managment roles, which I think just another role for agents to manage - themselves. In other words coordination of other agents, not humans, who are now out of the loop.

New comment by anygivnthursday in "What happened to nerds?"

anygivnthursday — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:50:54 +0000

And isnt that management job also tomorrow's disappearing IC role? A management agent seems quite possible to me.

New comment by anygivnthursday in "What the Fuck Happened to Nerds"

anygivnthursday — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:24:27 +0000

Thats my thought as well, LLM agents put you in the role of a (often micromanaging) tech/team lead of a small team, but the speed and fast feedback loop makes it look different.

New comment by anygivnthursday in "Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't"

anygivnthursday — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:48:48 +0000

LLMs can now quite trivially write Terraform or Ansible code to setup infra, maybe harder for non-engineers to make those prompts for now. But ongoing maintenance and monitoring would require an online agent evaluating signals and deciding when to take what action or prompt the user. Like autoscaling decesions can be already automated and some failover/recovery for simple cases. Probably people releasing hobby projects do not need too much. And then there are things like exe.dev to wrap that and make it simply to give an execution env instead of you and your agent managing your own infra.