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barelysapient

783 karma · joined January 29, 2021

Founder and full stack developer.

Opinions are my own.

spencewetjen.com

Open source projects: Virtuous - https://github.com/swetjen/virtuous Daggo - https://github.com/swetjen/daggo.

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barelysapient··on A Working Nintendo in ~1GB of Qwen Weights
That's the case right now--but what might a customized model tailored only for a narrow set of OS functions behave like? I suspect its achievable with a lot less compute.

Now is that a desirable product? Would it succeed on the merits in the marketplace? Maybe it would...

barelysapient··on Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance
mtgox all over again.
barelysapient··on Unveiling The Grid: PCBs made in America, twice as fast as Shenzhen
Amazing. Is something like this available now, or in the future, for hobbyists? Happy to pay retail prices.
barelysapient··on Your Phone Is About to Stop Being Yours: 70 Days Until Lockdown
Or might it be when a cron job runs?
barelysapient··on Today's PHP security release, and how we're strengthening security
Right, and that's a good question too. Since its a foundation, its probably fair to assume that a fair number of management are there due to financial contributions by their sponsoring corps.

When that's case, the priority might become on renewing financial support. Keeping the personality happy is seen as a way to keep the funding stream.

barelysapient··on Security Disclosure
Ugh. Love Railway.
barelysapient··on Today's PHP security release, and how we're strengthening security
it's a good point. I wonder if we'll see a PHP fork and rewrite in rust. like tcrs. given the recently issues they would seem to benefit the most...
barelysapient··on Today's PHP security release, and how we're strengthening security
I wonder if that isn't a side effect of how its structured...

When a corporation sponsors the language, such as Java, Go, .Net, there's an inherent economic component which acts as a forcing function.

PHP being a foundation sounds nice. But consensus wasn't strong enough to affect the key outcomes.

barelysapient··on Security advisory: Critical remote code execution vulnerabilities, update now
This might be the nail in the coffin for php.
barelysapient··on America didn't lose its rare earth industry, it sold it
Or corruption.
barelysapient··on Ask HN: Why do people say "I built it" when we should say "Claude built it"?
We all stand on the shoulders of others work. Designers use fonts, engineers tools, etc.

To make an apple pie from scratch you must first invent the universe.

barelysapient··on The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s
I wonder if they're paying less than the 70s?
barelysapient··on Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome
I've been very happy with FireFox.
barelysapient··on Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer?
Yes.
barelysapient··on Apple is getting this wrong
Poor judgement, open ai
barelysapient··on LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent
Another reason to avoid windows.
barelysapient··on Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection
That remains to be seen. Individuals absolutely can be held to account. Corporations are not pass to behave illegally.
barelysapient··on DAG Workflow Engine
My version of a similar tool; but written in Go with a compile time guarantee.

https://github.com/swetjen/daggo

barelysapient··on Microsoft offers buyouts up to 7% of US employees
Microsoft isn’t known for great judgement.
barelysapient··on Cal.com is going closed source
I hate how this sounds...but this reads to me "we lack the confidence in our code security so we're closing the source code to conceal vulnerabilities which may exist."
barelysapient··on I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program
But we're not talking about speed cameras or a private entity with exclusive contract with the police to provide traffic enforcement.

We're talking about Flock. A company offering surveillance as a service. Per their website:

>Trusted by over 12,000 public safety customers including cities, towns, counties, and business partners.

If Flock's argument holds then most of the CCPA be circumvented this same way. All it takes is a few entities and clever contract language.

barelysapient··on I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program
If that's a valid excuse than the CCPA isn't worth the paper its written on.
barelysapient··on I just want simple S3
Unlike the author, I run SeaweedFS without issue locally and with acceptable transfer speeds.
barelysapient··on Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer
Is it just me or does this describe most of Microsoft software at the moment? I tried to sign into my personal microsoft account to setup an oauth flow and I was greated by an infinity repeating error dialog about some internal service that had failed.

At work, I use outlook. The number of times I've gotten caught in an auth loop where I enter again and again my creds + tfa only for the screen to flicker and start all over again.

Complete garbage.

barelysapient··on I traced my traffic through a home Tailscale exit node
Cloudflare tunnels
barelysapient··on Stop picking my Go version for me
Heavily regulated industry with a lengthy change control process for this sort of thing.

Personally, I love all of the new Go stuff and I'm using the current version on my personal projects.

barelysapient··on Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview
Different users. Many people care about privacy and aren’t using Meta products. And many businesses care about it too and have information policies to protect their IP.
barelysapient··on Stop picking my Go version for me
This just got me. Datadog decided that they only support the current and last major versions of Go. So, 1.26 and 1.25. But in my cause we're still on 1.24.13 which was released by the Go team less than two months ago.

Datadog won't be getting a renewal from us.

barelysapient··on I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me
I'd prefer we instead all use Non-violent Communication. No need for permission. The world would be more beautiful place if we all had giraffe ears.
barelysapient··on The MacBook Neo
I had the same experience looking at thinkpads a few years ago. I finally just gave up and bought a macbook.
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