JamesMcMinn

It works fine with local models. I have it pointing at my strix halo running Qwen3.8 Flash Next, for example.

There was a time when it was quite bad, especially if using Wayland and under heavy CPU or I/O loads. I think this has mostly been solved now, but I do recall getting frustrated with the switch to Wayland because of it.

I can't find an announcement yet, however the pricing page now shows it's not included, and various support articles have removed any mention of the the Pro plan including access to claude code.

See [1] and [2] for an example of a support article that's had claude code removed as a Pro feature.

I guess this is the beginning of the end for subsidised model access, at least from Anthropic.

[1] https://support.claude.com/en/articles/8325606-what-is-the-p... [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20260420065828/https://support.c...

Having switched to a kobo in the last week from a kindle, yes it is still possible, but involves a few steps, one of which can require an old version of the kindle for PC app. [1]

I couldn't make it work on books already downloaded to my kindle - they had to be downloaded via the app - and since it requires an old version of an app that automatically tries to update, I'm not sure how long it'll be possible, so my suggestion is to dump kindle and Amazon if you every want to have any control over your books.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/kobo/comments/1jbsf2n/comment/mhwhx...

I'm not able to test this right now, but my understanding is that this was fixed (after 20+ years?) with this merge: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/merge_requests/156...

The storage costs coming in from 1st March feel like they're going to catch a lot of organisations out too. Private repos will cost $10/month per 100GB of storage, something that was previously not charged for. We're in the middle of a clear out because we have several TB of images that we'd rather not pay for on top of the existing subscription costs.

This has been developing over the last few days, with some users of the Tado smart thermostat and heating system being locked out of the app that's used to control both heating and hot water in their homes unless they agree to pay a subscription fee for basic access to the app (something which is still marketed as being free) [1].

If users do agree to pay, only once they have complete the process they are told it is part of a "test", however they are shown legitimate looking Apple Pay screens [2] along the way which Tado appear to be faking. Since there's no warning that this is a test up front, many users are finding themselves effectively locked out of controlling their heating and hot water at one of the coldest times of the year unless they agree to a pay subscription.

I have a Tado system in my house, and haven't been shown the screen yet, however it's highlighted for me just how little control I actually have over my heating and hot water if a company can remotely lock users out, effectively extorting money to continue heating their homes using hardware they have already paid for. I'll be looking to switch to something that's doesn't require an internet connection just to work...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/tado/comments/1it08yq/officially_lo...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/tado/comments/1it9hs7/fake_apple_pa...

This has been developing over the last few days, with some users of the Tado smart thermostat and heating system being locked out of the app that's used to control both heating and hot water in their homes unless they agree to pay a subscription fee for basic access to the app (something which is still marketed as being free) [1].

If users do agree to pay, only once they have complete the process they are told it is part of a "test", however they are shown legitimate looking Apple Pay screens [2] along the way which Tado appear to be faking. Since there's no warning that this is a test up front, many users are finding themselves effectively locked out of controlling their heating and hot water at one of the coldest times of the year unless they agree to a pay subscription.

I have a Tado system in my house, and haven't been shown the screen yet, however it's highlighted for me just how little control I actually have over my heating and hot water if a company can remotely lock users out, effectively extorting money to continue heating their homes using hardware they have already paid for. I'll be looking to switch to something that's doesn't require an internet connection just to work...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/tado/comments/1it08yq/officially_lo...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/tado/comments/1it9hs7/fake_apple_pa...

I've previously moved from Pivotal to Shortcut (when it was still called Clubhouse) and found it to be a good alternative for our small team. I did end up having to write my own import scripts, though that only took an evening or two.

I wouldn't describe mine as particularly unique, but I did a writeup for the lobste.rs thread, so will share it here: https://jamesmcminn.com/articles/office-2024/

Not a single mention of sleep, which one would think would have a strong relationship with both coffee habits and learning and memory.

Replying here due to depth limits.

> Can you point out the part of the article that disagrees with the assertion "cats are domestic animals"?

This is neither relevant nor the issue being discussed. It is a straw man, and you all too well know this. No one has at any point claimed that there are not domestic cats.

The entire point made was that cats are a native species in many parts of Europe, and that research shows not only that cats domesticated themselves, but that domestic and wild cats are genetically almost identical. The fact that domestic cats exist does not prevent native wild cats from also existing.

Did you actually read the article I linked to? I ask because actual evolutionary geneticists don't agree with you, and I'm likely to side with them on the genetics of the matter.

Whatever do you mean? Something being domesticated has no bearing on wether or not is it native to an area.

It is in no way a faulty comparison. We did not domesticate cats in the same way that we did dogs, cows or chickens [1]. Wild cats found human populations useful because they attracted rodents. Humans found cats useful because dealt with rodents. A mutually beneficial relationship lasting thousands of years during which time, cats essentially domesticated themselves.

[1] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/domestica...

What point do you think I am trying to make, exactly? Native fauna is defined as animals which historically have naturally occurred in the local area [1], and wild cats are by definition native fauna in Scotland, and across much of Europe.

You are letting your very obvious personal bias determine your interpretation of what is an objective fact.

[1] https://www.lawinsider.com/dictionary/native-fauna#:~:text=N....

The UK, Scotland in particular, as a starter for 10.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_wildcat

I've found DBeaver [1] to be a good replacement after giving up with pgAdmin3 (I did love pgAdmin2, however).

Datagrip is also fine if you're a Jetbrains user.

[1] https://dbeaver.io/

This is a partial cheat, because there was software involved, by the coolest physical thing I've made is probably the photobooth I put together for my wedding, combining an old laptop with a broken hinge (which allowed it to become a cheap touch screen), my Sony A6300 and big Epson photo printer, all crammed into some ikea shelves that I boxed up with some stiff cardboard and decorated as nicely as I could to match our thankfully fairly rustic wedding [1].

It was very simple to use, completely automated, took no maintenance other than loading some paper every few hours, and people were free to print as many high-quality 10x15cm photos as they wanted, and if I recall correct, that number was somewhere in the region of 200. There's something special about a physical print compared to seeing a picture on a screen.

The reason I think it's cool is because even 5 years later, I still visit friends and family and see photos printed from the photobooth framed on their walls, and I've had multiple friends use it for their weddings too!

I think the advantage of keeping it unmanned and simple was that older couples had a bit more confidence to get up, press one big button, and get a photo without any fuss. We had an actual wedding photographer there too, and they got plenty of wonderful photos, but mostly of the wedding party. It's only been a few years since my wedding, but unfortunately, some older guests are no longer with us, and the photobooth has left us with some wonderful photos to remember them by, which otherwise I don't think we'd have.

Very DIY, bit in my rather biased option, very cool.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/ONFa9AU.jpg (the photobooth in action)

[2] https://i.imgur.com/DcldyHV.jpg (my wife and I taken using photobooth - we still have the damn ring of ivy floating round the house!)

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35457507 rather than accusing someone of being a sock puppet and doing EXACTLY what this post was created to avoid.

I could not take the book seriously due to how shallow it was. Written to sound clever, but lacking any actual substance. It literally could have been 2 pages of bullet points and delivered more value by dropping the pseudoscience nonsense and excessive "[famous name] is productive because they do X" trope.

The only takeaway I got was that Deep Work is a bullshit term for having focus.

I tried to read his Deep Work book, and it was truly awful. Usually I avoid writing reviews for books that I didn't finish, but Deep Work is one of the worst books I've ever tried to read. To describe it as a 10 page blog post would be generous.

Articles With Headlines that Exaggerate the Story Get 300 Times More Views

ScotRail have started to print tickets with QR codes on them, which unfortunately are an awkward size (far bigger than a credit card, even larger than a £20), come as a single strip without a perforated edge to tear, and are generally very low quality. I full expect these to become a common sight on the ground as they're not eaten by machines and difficult to store even in your wallet.

I created the Events2012 dataset which has around 120,000,000 tweets reduced from an original sample of several billion. It is now over 10 years old, but still cited and still requested fairly regularly.

Previously, my response has been to send over the Tweet IDs, but now I have a dilemma because I understand the privacy concerns that resulted in the ID only policy but also think that Twitter data offers quite a lot of value to researchers. Interestingly, one of Twitter's policies around this also requires researchers to regularly remove tweets that have been deleted on Twitter from the local copies of their datasets, which of course requires checking each Tweet individually using the API...

I don't think there's any risk of damaging the sensor. The shutter is a mechanical part that will physically wear out over time, the sensor is converting photons into voltage.

I've been using my camera as a webcam for over 2 years without any issue, and it's usually on for several hours per day. As long as the sensor isn't getting very hot then I don't think there's much risk to the camera.

I've been using an A6300 with a Sigma 16mm f1.4 lens (both of which I already had), mounted to the monitors stand using a basic clamp. It works great, looks fantastic [3] and I still get a lot of compliments for how good my video quality is.

One issue I did run into was getting a decent HDMI -> USB capture device that works with Linux. My first choice was a high end (~£200) ClonerAlliance Flint 4KP [1] which worked fine for Hangouts, but had issues with Zoom and actually seemed to get worse as time went on and it eventually became a bit of a joke as I tried to join calls and had to restart my camera, unplug cables, etc. just to get video. Eventually, I swapped it out for a cheap £15 no-name brand from Amazon and have had literally 0 issues since [2].

The biggest drawback to this sort of setup is that if you're using a camera you already own, it can be a pain to switch between using it as a camera and using it as a web cam, so I've essentially got an expensive camera that I don't get to use as a camera very often. The advantage of course is that even on a dark, rainy evening with nothing more than a small lamp hidden behind my monitor, the image still comes out looking great [3].

[1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07YY52YP6/

[2] https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B09955PYSH/

[3] https://i.imgur.com/ReHStnV.png

This is an opportunity piece written for no reason other than to ride the wave from a recent re-post of a 2 year old blog article. It offers nothing over the original blog post and it's difficult not to be cynical about the authors intent with this article.

VS Code + The Remote SSH extension is a remarkable solution to developing code (not just editing!) on a remote machine.

When Covid hit and my main work machine was still a desktop, I worked from my home using VS Code and the remote plugin. This lasted for 18 months, and the only time I ever had an issue was due to a power outage in the office. Data, code (everything, really) lived on my work desktop that was sat in an empty office while I was at home.

There's no latency, the terminal opens as if you were on the remote machine, and ports are automatically forwarded. It runs code, tests, etc. all on the remote machine.

If there's a better solution out there it's almost certainly down to IDE preference.

At this stage, native Linux releases are becoming less and less likely because of Value's efforts to improve gaming on Linux, as paradoxical as that seems. Proton is getting better and better with each release, and in many cases, is providing better performance than running native code on Windows.

Why bother with official Linux support when you can just check that your game runs via Proton and push the burden of support onto Valve and the Proton community?