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New comment by pimeys in "A Tour of Oodi"

pimeys — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:29:56 +0000

Last summer I was visiting Helsinki and they showed Prince's Sign O’ The Times live from 35mm film in that theater. They have these public votes every now and then where you can vote to see some movie from their archives.

I never saw this from a huge screen, and it was fantastic. Be aware if you go see a movie that's not in English, they quite often only have Finnish subtitles.

New comment by pimeys in "Italo Calvino: A traveller in a world of uncertainty"

pimeys — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:22:45 +0000

The Baron in the Trees is mentioned so rarely always, but it was one of the most influential books of my youth. A fantastic read.

New comment by pimeys in "Top laptops to use with FreeBSD"

pimeys — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:39:16 +0000

I don't understand this. I've been running Linux for decades, and FreeBSD for decades. Love both systems.

New comment by pimeys in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

pimeys — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 10:06:25 +0000

"I see the tests failing, but none of our changes caused this breakage so I will push my changes and ask the user to inform their team on failing tests."

New comment by pimeys in "Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses"

pimeys — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:40:59 +0000

I would say booze rather than liquor. Liquor sounds too fancy.

New comment by pimeys in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

pimeys — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:32:51 +0000

Having written a rust client for it, even their documentation is absolutely stellar. You just read how the protocol works from the PDF and implement it.

Can't say the same about Oracle.

New comment by pimeys in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"

pimeys — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 18:01:52 +0000

Beeper has LinkedIn integration, so you can chat with recruiters with any Matrix app without ever opening the website.

https://www.beeper.com/

New comment by pimeys in "Say No to Palantir in Europe"

pimeys — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:00:07 +0000

https://office.eu/

New comment by pimeys in "OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent"

pimeys — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 08:02:40 +0000

Yes. And many companies pay that.

New comment by pimeys in "OpenCode – The open source AI coding agent"

pimeys — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 23:10:46 +0000

I used Codex for a long time. It's definitely better than Claude Code due to being open source, but opencode is nicer to use. Good hotkeys, plan/build modes, fast and easy model switching, good mcp support. Supports skills, is not the fastest but good enough.

New comment by pimeys in "OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent"

pimeys — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:42:37 +0000

GPT 5.4 has been the winner this week. Last week Opus 4.6. You can use both in OpenCode.

New comment by pimeys in "OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent"

pimeys — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:41:06 +0000

Yep. That's what I do. Just API keys and you can switch from Opus to GPT especially this week when Opus has been kind of wonky.

New comment by pimeys in "The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ"

pimeys — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:17:29 +0000

I consider myself a "fan of classical music". We go to Philharmonic a few times a year and I own a remarkable collection of classical music. And I do go to parties and love techno...

New comment by pimeys in "The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ"

pimeys — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 12:51:35 +0000

He is a very influential artist in the techno subculture. I don't think anybody hating him for making those masterpieces...

New comment by pimeys in "The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ"

pimeys — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 12:27:58 +0000

And then we have artists such as Gas who famously mixed classical with dub techno.

New comment by pimeys in "The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future"

pimeys — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:05:21 +0000

I'm not working in this industry, but I am living in Germany. I'm lucky enough to take remote jobs all around the world, but I'm a bit scared on what it means politically in Germany when the sh*t really hits the fan.

This might be one of the reasons I should not buy an apartment and settle in Germany...

New comment by pimeys in "Owner of ICE detention facility sees big opportunity in AI man camps"

pimeys — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 13:48:43 +0000

Last time our (Finland) president visited US he was playing golf and shaking hands. Supposedly signed some nice deals...

New comment by pimeys in "Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma"

pimeys — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 12:24:27 +0000

I've been running two distros with Plasma: Bazzite OS and CachyOS. Both very different, and stellar with Plasma.

I use CachyOS in my ThinkPad and in my Framework Desktop, for work. A stellar OS, has great defaults, is very fast and prioritizes KDE although you can do other WMs too if you're adventurous.

New comment by pimeys in "Bet on German Train Delays"

pimeys — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 23:07:55 +0000

Sure. And then a few weeks later they send you a letter, asking all the information again which you have to send by mail.

Source: my train back from Amsterdam was late...

New comment by pimeys in "The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee (1830)"

pimeys — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 11:41:59 +0000

Of course I like the caffeine. But I tend to not drink the coffee if I don't like its taste.