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New comment by millicentricism in "Drupal is now light-years ahead of its reputation"

millicentricism — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 19:06:13 +0000

I honestly think version 7 should have been the last version to carry the Drupal name.

What came after was such a different beast it should have just been its own thing.

New comment by millicentricism in "Web Search API"

millicentricism — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 05:39:40 +0000

I’m a fan of paying for search with money rather than my privacy.

New comment by millicentricism in "google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update"

millicentricism — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 07:37:40 +0000

Hopefully this also helps against the rampant CTR manipulation that’s made some search results purely a measure of spend.

New comment by millicentricism in "GLM-5.3 is now open-weight"

millicentricism — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 15:47:31 +0000

I agree it’s probably not representative token speed. But I do believe the overall observation holds: The monetary value of local inference is bound by the wall clock.

I agree that there are many other reasons than cost alone.

New comment by millicentricism in "GLM-5.3 is now open-weight"

millicentricism — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 08:54:52 +0000

With roughly 2.7 million seconds per month, times 14 tokens per second, you are getting 38.5 million tokens a month at most.

That’s less than 164USD worth of GLM5.3 tokens on the inference market. So that 6000 USD rig will take 3 years to break even - and only if it runs continuously. And this is being generous, as it’s not even taking quantisation into account.

New comment by millicentricism in "A week of using Codex more than Claude"

millicentricism — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 05:24:50 +0000

My main issue with Codex and many other harnesses is the permission flow.

For just about every other harness it’s either alert fatigue answering permission asks all the time, or spending too long time hoping that you know the tools well enough to scope out a permissions file that actually works. Then there’s the “yolo in a VM” approach which also is a time eater and overkill.

Until someone solves “auto mode” with the other harnesses, I’m with Claude.

New comment by millicentricism in "OpenRouter is joining Stripe"

millicentricism — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:10:48 +0000

It’s a marketplace with a markup on every token they sell. And I’d rather go to this shop, than sign up individually at the 70+ different providers they broker access to - even if it comes with a price.

New comment by millicentricism in "Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments"

millicentricism — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:51:50 +0000

Oral Defences have a long established tradition in Denmark, but recently there’s been real cut back on this as a money saving exercise. So both teachers and Students are familiar with this form of examination.

So for a dane this reads like “back to the old way”, rather than anything new or novel.

New comment by millicentricism in "The Perils of ISBN"

millicentricism — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:40:47 +0000

This also fails to take into account that ISBNs also contain the publisher ID in them. So identical copies of a book could have different ISBNs depending on which markets they are sold in.

New comment by millicentricism in "Clockss: Digital preservation services run by academic publishers and libraries"

millicentricism — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 12:32:14 +0000

LOCKSS is short for: Lots of copies keeps stuff safe.

This is for digital material where perpetual usage rights have been granted, but the original source might not be available. It’s also used to make sure that journal content from countries that censor remains available.

This all is mainly for libraries and their online collections.