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New comment by twelvedogs in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

twelvedogs — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 05:16:41 +0000

what good does it do to invest in a solved problem?

if open models are good enough then it doesn't matter, if they aren't then there's probably a return available in investing there.

New comment by twelvedogs in "Australian energy retailers must offer three hours of free daytime electricity"

twelvedogs — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 02:30:46 +0000

you're providing a chunk of storage for excess power for free

i know a guy who bought an arseload of batteries and buys and sells off the grid to make a moderate amount of money. he says it's not really paying back the time spent but he does it because he finds it interesting to optimise

New comment by twelvedogs in "Sam Neill has died"

twelvedogs — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:53:40 +0000

i saw him around a lot on tv and so on as an australian, just genuinely a pretty good bloke. like i dunno what to say i don't know if i've ever cried about an actor dying before

i'd love to say he was awesome in every role but he always seemed super honest in his performance and i think that hurt him a lot when he had to play bullshit characters lol.

i dunno i'm just some guy

New comment by twelvedogs in "Microsoft wants users to be addicted to Scout, their AI personal assistant"

twelvedogs — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 23:42:39 +0000

why do you think microsoft is that concerned with their user's wellbeing?

there are other industries who's entire business revovles around selling to addicts, why would MS of all companies suddenly balk at that line?

New comment by twelvedogs in "Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC"

twelvedogs — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:06:39 +0000

i don't see how it's a design mistake, linux allows more footguns in general to not decrease utility. Allowing you to manually give root prompt access (with warnings!) to a non-root user is one of them.

you can also just not run docker as root and not add normal users to the docker group

New comment by twelvedogs in "Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers"

twelvedogs — Fri, 08 May 2026 01:14:17 +0000

it already sends data back to google, the ai stuff, everything that goes in the address bar goes straight to google unless you specifically configure chrome to block it

the on-device ai just offloads some work onto your device

i doubt anyone will be banning chrome, for some reason "it's for ai" is a valid excuse for any amount of sillyness

New comment by twelvedogs in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

twelvedogs — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:06:35 +0000

https://forgejo.org/ already exists, I suspect the issue would be hosting it at scale

New comment by twelvedogs in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

twelvedogs — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:17:10 +0000

i think it was just poorly implemented. i didn't use the circles feature because all my friends would be in one circle and my family were all offline, but i still had to deal with it for no personal benefit

opt in probably would have been better, like just default everyone to one circle and make it obvious how to split them up after you're a bit more comfortable with the platform

they made a bunch of other obvious blunders like attempting to force real names and spread them to youtube, mandatory account linkage etc etc but i think there were probably just too many conflicting high level voices at google trying to set direction

New comment by twelvedogs in "Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated"

twelvedogs — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:53:38 +0000

Of course, it takes 2 seconds to shit out an ai song. I'm surprised it isn't way higher

New comment by twelvedogs in "Sudo for Windows (2024)"

twelvedogs — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 06:17:02 +0000

Unless this is improved greatly from the last time I used it is pointless, any command you would use it for instead requires you to right click, open as administrator a command prompt to get the expected result

New comment by twelvedogs in "White House staff told not to place bets on prediction markets"

twelvedogs — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:01:27 +0000

Only the top guys are allowed to do insider trading! You guys are making it very very slightly more obvious!!

New comment by twelvedogs in "Help Keep Thunderbird Alive"

twelvedogs — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:56:12 +0000

I just use geary, it's less annoying and does the job

New comment by twelvedogs in "YouTube starts showing 90-second unskippable ads to TV viewers"

twelvedogs — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:35:17 +0000

Regular tv with all the ads?

New comment by twelvedogs in "Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't"

twelvedogs — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 07:51:01 +0000

I disagree, Sol Trujillo became ceo of Telstra in 2005 and immediately started cutting everything to the bone, Kevin Rudd didn't even get into power until 2007 and the NBN wasn't announced until 2009, fairly large gap there

New comment by twelvedogs in "Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't"

twelvedogs — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:40:06 +0000

Australia is still pretty messy, Telstra was privatised and pretty much stopped upgrading their network for years around the 24 mb ADSL level

Eventually we had a forward thinking prime Minister create a new company that started running fibre to homes and wholesaling it to non government businesses but they lost power and fibre to the home became fibre to the neighbourhood running the last bit over existing phone lines

Eventually it was returned to fibre to the home as upgrading existing lines to run shitty 100mb connections was actually much more expensive than just running fibre

We're only now starting to get to the point where fibre is fairly available when it could have been ten years ago

New comment by twelvedogs in "I'm betting on ATProto"

twelvedogs — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 09:52:18 +0000

while true i think it's inevitable. bots are most of the internet, limiting communities to known good actors is becoming incredibly important and the side effect of removing unknown good actors is difficult to get around

New comment by twelvedogs in "I traced my traffic through a home Tailscale exit node"

twelvedogs — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 09:36:35 +0000

with wireguard i found that pretty almost every public wifi blocked it and even a lot of private internet connections at my friends houses did as well

if my mobile provider blocked it as well it would have been completely useless

probably depends on your location a lot though

New comment by twelvedogs in "Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)"

twelvedogs — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 23:17:05 +0000

If you use multiple terminals it kinda sucks unless you do export PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a' in your.bashrc or something cause only the last closed terminal saves to history

New comment by twelvedogs in "A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas (2022)"

twelvedogs — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 11:31:52 +0000

Until you do it on a temporary table and knock over everyone's drinks

New comment by twelvedogs in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

twelvedogs — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:23:09 +0000

convince people to use them and banks can suck it up