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New comment by flaburgan in "I think I found a planet nobody knew existed. I used Claude Code to find it"

flaburgan — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 07:11:38 +0000

While I find it great that Claude is now helping people to progress on topics they may have not have time or knowledge for before, I found it a bit sad that this is done alone in a bedroom. NASA and ESA do have this kind of program, where they publish data and encourage people to help. There are exactly this for exoplanet searching:

- NASA (with the TESS mission): https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/nora-dot-eisner/planet-h...

- ESA (with the CHEOPS mission): https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/bmerin/planet-hunters-ch... (Very new! Will be announced next week!)

If you are logged in with an account they will even recognise you and add your name to the paper!

So instead of playing alone, join the common effort, this is how science will progress efficiently!

New comment by flaburgan in "Claude Haiku 5.5"

flaburgan — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 06:01:52 +0000

They say it in the announcement: Haiku is basically useful to be called as a subagent. So you use Opus, and you want to investigate your production logs, instead of throwing them right away which is going to use a massive amount of token for mostly noise data, Opus asks Haiku to determine patterns to extract only the relevant logs and feed it back in Opus. The models are meant to be used together.

New comment by flaburgan in "Pi 1.0"

flaburgan — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:28:02 +0000

Not sure what "multiplexer" means in this context but Zed allows to switch between agents thread with a side panel and that works very well

New comment by flaburgan in "Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS"

flaburgan — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:13:19 +0000

You mean paying twice to five times the price for something that is not configurable and on which you can run only a small subset of software, all very expensive?

New comment by flaburgan in "Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on [fixed]"

flaburgan — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 20:28:47 +0000

I always start a new project with `ln -s AGENTS.md CLAUDE.MD`. Problem solved.

New comment by flaburgan in "Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop"

flaburgan — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 11:59:36 +0000

In the end, using any device is all about doing actions (the simplest being reading/viewing, but also editing etc.) on data. Now the biggest difference between desktop and mobile is that the first one is (was?) file oriented while the second one is software (application) oriented. Edit a document, listen to a music, on desktop you would historically navigate to where the file is, then open it with the program of your choice. On mobile, you would almost never do that, you would first open the app and from it select the file you want to interact with. This is changing a lot how you are organizing the way you work. On desktop, it is easy to put related files of different types in the same folder, for example you organize your birthday, you can have the list of the invited people in a excel file with their number, a subfolder with the songs you want to play, some pictures of the venue, a text files with notes and etc. It is not natural at all to organize things like that on mobile. Android and iOS are hiding the files as much as they can. (This is not the case on Ubuntu Touch for example). And it becomes the responsibility of the app to organize the files it can open. This has a big impact on what you expect your desktop manager to done or not. I would personally be very happy if I could organize applications how we can organize files, and simply reopen a work session where I left it (some PDF open, some terminals open, my IDE, my browser...) even weeks after. To complexify the topic even more, the same thinking can be done in the browser, which is basically an OS now...

New comment by flaburgan in "Carbon-aware electricity pricing, measured daily on 38 grids"

flaburgan — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 20:15:38 +0000

The machines run perfectly fine with cold water entering them. They just consume more energy to warm the water, compare to for example a heat pump. And same, to spin fast to remove the water out of clothes is hundred times less energy consuming than to try to make the water evaporate for hours in a dryer. So I'm not talking about if the machines work or if it is practical, just about what's more energy efficient.

New comment by flaburgan in "Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking"

flaburgan — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 09:01:31 +0000

Are the weights available?

New comment by flaburgan in "XCancel service is suspended until further notice"

flaburgan — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 21:02:08 +0000

Yes, exactly. I limit the scraping to popular enough accounts. The wikimedia community is already organized to decide who deserves a Wikipedia page so I use that.

New comment by flaburgan in "XCancel service is suspended until further notice"

flaburgan — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:06:40 +0000

I actually do want to do something. I started to scrape Twitter to make it freely available. The web should stay open.

New comment by flaburgan in "Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs"

flaburgan — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 08:01:55 +0000

Can you point where Signal uses proprietary blobs? Also, I'm using Signal without the play services notifications just fine. Notifications that don't contain any message content while transiting anyway. The display of the notification was the issue with iOS bug and that would have affected molly as well (if it was on iOS).

New comment by flaburgan in "Copyright does more harm than good and should be abolished"

flaburgan — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 08:11:14 +0000

Interesting to read this while the US gov doesn't give a fuck at all and use Pikachu and Tetris to make racist hateful games...

New comment by flaburgan in "Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent"

flaburgan — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 07:59:41 +0000

All the people younger than 28yo in France, for sure.

New comment by flaburgan in "Mistral raises €3B"

flaburgan — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 23:17:43 +0000

There is Apertus from Switzerland, a real "lab" project, not a company one.

New comment by flaburgan in "Mistral raises €3B"

flaburgan — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:13:23 +0000

You clearly never have worked in Europe. The mindset here is completely different.

New comment by flaburgan in "Carbon-aware electricity pricing, measured daily on 38 grids"

flaburgan — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 14:02:08 +0000

Dryers are even worst but they are very uncommon in France where I live. Washing machines are bad because they have to warm the water.

New comment by flaburgan in "Carbon-aware electricity pricing, measured daily on 38 grids"

flaburgan — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 13:02:53 +0000

The idea is interesting but unfortunately most of the people don't know the electricity price even now without this mechanism. This should be displayed on top of every washing machine everywhere to make it works

New comment by flaburgan in "Carbon-aware electricity pricing, measured daily on 38 grids"

flaburgan — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 13:00:27 +0000

I think the point is, if you can decide when to consume electricity then you will do it when it's the cheapest, so let's put the cheapest when the low carbon sources are available. So the website is taking into account that renewables are not always available, that's exactly its point.

And the backup source for Germany is the nuclear electricity from France. The grid is at the European scale.

New comment by flaburgan in "O&O ShutUp10 – The antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11"

flaburgan — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:55:32 +0000

I removed my dual boot in 2009, so the last windows I used on a personal computer was Vista. I switched my close family (parents and even my grand mother) to Linux years ago, nevertheless I still am the tech-savyy go-to person for other people and I am completely disconnected from what's going on the Windows world. Is an antivirus still needed there? Are there some good tools that should always be installed on a computer? The only thing I usually do is to put as many free software as I can (Firefox, Thunderbird, LibreOffice, VLC, Gimp...) But then what ?

New comment by flaburgan in "Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default"

flaburgan — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 17:18:13 +0000

By commenting your code?