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New comment by paper2d in "MCP was always a bad idea?"

paper2d — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 19:41:11 +0000

Agree. MCP also helps in some esoteric use cases like interacting with legacy windows applications over COM. I created an MCP for Outlook 2019 desktop version and COM was the most straightforward way to let my agent interact with my mails for classification.

New comment by paper2d in "Turn off and restrict access to Apple Intelligence features on Mac"

paper2d — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 19:07:38 +0000

Realistically, the 'claim space' service needs to run when the OS 'thinks' it has run out of space to reclaim it. And there can be M amount of waiting time for this and N number of issues that may arrive with it.

New comment by paper2d in "Jemalloc 5.4.0"

paper2d — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 15:11:57 +0000

This is the most funny thing I read today!

New comment by paper2d in "Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached"

paper2d — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 17:12:51 +0000

I stand corrected. SAML & LDAP is free in zulip.

New comment by paper2d in "Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached"

paper2d — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 14:17:07 +0000

Seeing their pricing page, mobile notifications for upto 10 users is too less.

New comment by paper2d in "Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached"

paper2d — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 14:01:37 +0000

Zulip too has similar restrictions even on their self hosted plans. SAML/LDAP is behind paywall too.

New comment by paper2d in "fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'"

paper2d — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 11:40:18 +0000

They are very good tools but I now prefer duckdb for CSV processing.

New comment by paper2d in "Train Your Own O1 Preview Model Within $450"

paper2d — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 09:50:40 +0000

Those training datasets can never be free as almost all of them is copyrighted.

New comment by paper2d in "Apple Invites"

paper2d — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 04:10:51 +0000

You can install whatsapp on degoogled phones as well! No need of play services.

New comment by paper2d in "ISRO successfully conducts landing experiment of the Reusable Launch Vehicle"

paper2d — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 16:06:13 +0000

What? There are literally hundreds of other uses of our space program which if we hadn't developed independently, we would be paying exorbitant prices to other nations for the same. Launching rockets costs us literally 10x lower cost than other nations. This thing doesn't benefit Indians only but other nations as well.

New comment by paper2d in "My Hardest Bug Ever (2013)"

paper2d — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 07:37:24 +0000

I faced a similar quantum bug in my teen years. I was very much into Android custom roms and flashing phones. I got my hands on Galaxy Y, a cheap Android phone running gingerbread. So, while flashing the phone, the the flash process always failed after around 20-30%. I suspected loose cable connection and tried again. The subsequent flashes failed even early around 5%. So I waited for a while and tried again. The same loop started - first flash fails around 20% and subsequent flash fails around 5%.

During this, I noticed the phone gets heated up above average of what I had experience with. I suspected motherboard might be faulty. Then, a random idea struck me and I put the phone in freezer wrapped in a cloth. After an hour or so, I again started the flash process. The phone was still wrapped in cloth aside the table to keep it cool during the process. And lo and behold, the process completed without a hitch.

In later years I realised it was surely due to the cheap and substandard flash memory that Samsung supplies to other countries compared to the western counterparts.