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New comment by dismalpedigree in "A spy satellite simulator in the browser, except the data is real"

dismalpedigree — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 10:05:37 +0000

This looks awesome. I am definitely trying this. I might lose more time to this than factorio.

New comment by dismalpedigree in "The Dutch are filling gas wells with cement"

dismalpedigree — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 10:01:54 +0000

The gas is primarily used to generate electricity. Where do you suggest the electricity for their electrification comes from?

New comment by dismalpedigree in "Illinois just passed a law that puts Linux on the hook for age verification"

dismalpedigree — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 23:19:36 +0000

Sounds like Dylan needs a better hobby.

New comment by dismalpedigree in "The Korean telecom giant at the center of Anthropic's Mythos controversy"

dismalpedigree — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 11:12:39 +0000

So i buy one share of stock in a company and now I have access to all the internals? Can i go onsite and demand meetings?

New comment by dismalpedigree in "Microsoft's "Fix" for Windows 11: Flowers After the Beating"

dismalpedigree — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:04:45 +0000

Completely agree. Not just govt, but everyone who interacts with govt, especially DoW. Meetings are on DoD teams. Proposals and updates must be Powerpoint. Memos in word. Windows to connect to some networks.

We tried not using Office or Windows. Ended up needing a laptop with Windows and Office anyway.

Note to MS Product Manager: this should not be a success story. I was once your biggest cheerleader, now I am so desperate to get away from you that I am starting to look at Google as my savior.

New comment by dismalpedigree in "I built an AI receptionist for a mechanic shop"

dismalpedigree — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 10:44:43 +0000

I admire what you have done, but for a luxury experience, I do not want to talk to an AI that just tells me what is already on the website. If I have gotten to the point where I am calling you, its because I couldn’t find an answer to my question on the website in the first place.

New comment by dismalpedigree in "Hardware hotplug events on Linux, the gory details"

dismalpedigree — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 12:12:57 +0000

A while back I built an orchestrator application that would monitor usb events and then launch/destroy containers that have that usb device mapped to them. The orchestrator also ran in a container with no networking.

Imagine my frustration when I learned that udev events don’t make it into containers unless networking is enabled.

Figured out a solution eventually. Was a combination of compiling certain packages from source and some kernel flags if i remember correctly.

New comment by dismalpedigree in "Emails to Outlook.com rejected due to a fault or overzealous blocking rules"

dismalpedigree — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:05:30 +0000

I’m guessing they connected CoPilot to the inbound filter and it is doing stupid and unexpected things.

New comment by dismalpedigree in "Raspberry Pi's New AI Hat Adds 8GB of RAM for Local LLMs"

dismalpedigree — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:09:38 +0000

Yes. The Hailo chips are mainly for AI vision models. This is the first time I have seen them pushed for LLM. They are very finicky and difficult to setup outside of the examples. Documentation is inconsistent and the models have to be converted to a different format to run. It is possible to run a custom yolo8 model, but is challenging.

New comment by dismalpedigree in "My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated"

dismalpedigree — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 06:53:32 +0000

Tactical everything!

New comment by dismalpedigree in "AI agents are starting to eat SaaS"

dismalpedigree — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 19:03:40 +0000

No. Written against the documented APIs and extension points.

New comment by dismalpedigree in "AI agents are starting to eat SaaS"

dismalpedigree — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 19:02:11 +0000

I support Inventree. Even have raised PRs. Im specifically referring to things that are custom to our workflow.

New comment by dismalpedigree in "AI agents are starting to eat SaaS"

dismalpedigree — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 11:49:50 +0000

Not specific to PartsBox, but we use Inventree (open source similar to PartsBox) and self host it. Over the past few months we noticed certain pain points in our workflow. Rather than looking for a new tool, we used Claude Code to write some backend services and some frontend modifications. Took 2 days of tinkering. Has easily saved that much time since we implemented it.

While rolling the whole solution with an AI agent is not practical, taking a open source starting point and using AI to overcome specific workflow pain points as well as add features allows me to have a lower cost, specifically tailored solution to our needs.

New comment by dismalpedigree in "Adafruit: Arduino’s Rules Are ‘Incompatible With Open Source’"

dismalpedigree — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 11:30:13 +0000

I switched to platformio in vscode (and command line) a few months ago after using arduino ide for over a decade.

Can’t recommend it enough. Faster startup. Repeatable builds. The abilty to save your image and then flash on many devices. Build time parameters. Also allows access to some functionality that is not possible using arduino build process due to how arduino compiles and processes sketches.

New comment by dismalpedigree in "A supersonic engine core makes the perfect power turbine"

dismalpedigree — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 12:32:26 +0000

Are people seriously still on this “datacenter in space” thing? It has been beaten down with hard facts endlessly the past few months.

New comment by dismalpedigree in "UniFi 5G"

dismalpedigree — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 11:47:57 +0000

The problem I have seen is when I need it most, due to a rare fiber internet outage, so does everyone else nearby and cellular data becomes saturated and unusable.

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

dismalpedigree — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 11:46:06 +0000

Not OP. But Microcenter is in many US cities and prides itself on 18 minute pickup. I buy most of my tech that way.

New comment by dismalpedigree in "Hemp ban hidden inside government shutdown bill"

dismalpedigree — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 17:34:31 +0000

Lets hear it for Tyranny by the Masses!

New comment by dismalpedigree in "Ask HN: How would you set up a child’s first Linux computer?"

dismalpedigree — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 12:58:17 +0000

I can’t support Linux as the first computer enough. Both of my boys got an Ubuntu desktop for their 8th birthday. I showed them some basics. They were motivated to figure it out. They learned how things work along the way. Also no scammy popups or notifications causing confusion or them granting access “just click yes and it goes away”.

Ununtu (non root) and timekeeper plus. I work with them when they want to install something or do updates.

They have steam, minecraft, OpenRA for games and are happy.

They create music, program arduinos, edit videos they make with friends.

New comment by dismalpedigree in "Why aren't smart people happier?"

dismalpedigree — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 01:30:35 +0000

Smart people are not happier because of all the stupid people.