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butterfly42069··on The realities of building an IPv6-only city – APNIC
> designing for the deployment of 198,000 sensors per square kilometre

I wonder if they can sense my unease at that level of surveillance

butterfly42069··on Steam games will need to disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages
BasicallyHomeless did a recent YouTube video on this.
butterfly42069··on Steam games will need to disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages
The biggest giveaway the kernel level anti cheat is stupid is that Easy Anti-Cheat works on Linux without kernel level access.
butterfly42069··on Rip2 – A safer, rust-based rm
Here here!
butterfly42069··on Today is Ubuntu's 20th Anniversary
I did say in my experience, whereas you seem to be speaking in absolutes.

Either way I disagree with you. I think we have differing opinions of what good actually is, and gnome just isn't good anymore to me. Best of luck to you though.

butterfly42069··on Today is Ubuntu's 20th Anniversary
When was the last time you used KDE? Cause this time around that hasn't been my experience at all, it's gnome that's currently really disjointed with random hamburger menus and whitespace everywhere.

Current KDE feels like the most well put together DE I've ever used, and its really efficient once I get my custom keybinds in there.

butterfly42069··on NASA freezes Starliner missions
As long as initially I can get shipped off this rock with free delivery it doesn't sound so bad.
butterfly42069··on NASA freezes Starliner missions
Nah, sell Boeing to Bezos.
butterfly42069··on Un Ministral, Des Ministraux
At this point the benchmarks barely matter at all. It's entirely possible to train for a high benchmark score and reduce the overall quality of the model in the process.

Imo use the model that makes the most sense when you ask it stuff, and personally I'd go for the one with the least censorship (which imo isn't AliBaba Qwen anything)

butterfly42069··on World conker champion found with steel chestnut, cleared of cheating
I sincerely hope life starts treating you better than it clearly has.

I also hope you see the irony of your ways.

butterfly42069··on World conker champion found with steel chestnut, cleared of cheating
I'm not sure if that betrays more about your opinion of women than you may have been aware.
butterfly42069··on World conker champion found with steel chestnut, cleared of cheating
Ah yes your experience of a 2008 BBC news article from Copenhagen outweighs my lived, witnessed reality.

How could I be so clueless?

butterfly42069··on World conker champion found with steel chestnut, cleared of cheating
I don't read the daily mail. Try again. Maybe be less partisan.
butterfly42069··on World conker champion found with steel chestnut, cleared of cheating
Indeed, a myth. One "disproven" by BBC news articles from 2008 when I have seen contrary evidence with my own eyes.

Believe it or not the world has come on a long way in 16 years.

butterfly42069··on World conker champion found with steel chestnut, cleared of cheating
It is banned in schools. As I said in another comment, that outlaws it for the vast majority of players at the place they used to play it.

Believe it or not adults playing conkers or people playing conkers outside of schools isn't a common pass time.

It is pretty much RNG, though you can massively nerf a conkers structural integrity by making the hole through the middle poorly, so there are some techniques. People also used to use thicker shoelaces like in vans, which I think made the centre more solid. I've never run an experiment to verify the difference that might make.

butterfly42069··on World conker champion found with steel chestnut, cleared of cheating
Well it is banned in schools. I'm not sure how many adults you believe actually play conkers, beyond a few nutters (sic), but its mainly been banned for the people that used to actually enjoy it, kids.

I do wonder if by banning it in schools it will get less and less common till it disappears. I suppose you predictably think that's nonsense.

But pedantry aside, its banned for the people who used to play it most and enjoy it, at the place they did just that.

butterfly42069··on World conker champion found with steel chestnut, cleared of cheating
They said he had balls of steel to try that one

For the yanks and elsewhere, yes conkers is well known in Britain. You basically put a chestnut (but its a conker) on a string by making a hole in the middle. Take turns swinging them on the string, whoever's breaks is the loser.

It used to be great fun till it was banned/requires eye protection now. There's an opportunity there, someone could make a perfectly safe conker app. I'm sure that would adequately replace it. /s

butterfly42069··on We Are in Need of Renaissance People
Yup, as someone in this position HR want nothing to do with me.

My only options have been to make companies or freelance.

I do think the world needs more "generalists" though as we're often the only ones placed to even half understand, combine and fully utilise different specialists.

butterfly42069··on ACF has been hijacked
I think he's massively underestimated the ingenuity of developers who wish to not have work undone on the whims of a tyrant.

If there's one thing we don't like it's FUD on the future of something we want to have completed/easily maintainable.

butterfly42069··on ACF has been hijacked
Flawless, it's really easy to wrap your head around (especially if you grok Go).

I would recommend spinning up the most basic site from scratch to give it a try, takes minutes tops and its got a built in dev server to see your site.

It pretty much all rapidly clicked into place from there. The idea of adding content as markdown is so easy and appealing, and the flow is so logical. The build times make me smile. Everything feels so rapid and under my control.

butterfly42069··on ACF has been hijacked
Only a week in, but at the moment I'm building out things with HUGO and experiments are going very well.

Decided to seek out the absolute antithesis of WordPress after this experience, and don't wish to be dependent on peoples whims so much anymore.

I recognise the limitations of SSGs, but I think these are overcomeable, and the benefits (Speed, CI) seem massive.

I am open to hearing other suggestions people may have though.

butterfly42069··on ACF has been hijacked
Every day that goes by I'm more satisfied with my decision a week a go to migrate everything I have/am building off of WordPress.

Matt, if you read this...

:(

butterfly42069··on I Stayed
Thankyou, that's a good perspective. Just to clarify, I wasn't disagreeing (or agreeing) with his actions, I was just curious about what I felt was missing from the article.
butterfly42069··on Nintendo isn't just attacking emulators [video]
Its definitely existential or they wouldn't be trying to nickle and dime everything related to them whilst squandering all their good will in the process.
butterfly42069··on Nintendo's Legal Hitlist Grows
I think the source for this is their discord (via reddit [1])

It doesn't mention money, but certainly an agreement from someone that seemed to personally know the project lead.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Ryujinx/comments/1ftvi13/posted_via...

butterfly42069··on Show HN: Open-source real-time talk-to-AI wearable device for few $
Can I message you on github, I'll happily go in depth with you and you can pick my brain :)
butterfly42069··on Show HN: Open-source real-time talk-to-AI wearable device for few $
I think this is great, ignore the people comparing your project to the commercial Rabbit R1 project, those people are comparing apples and oranges.

A lot of the subscription based pull ins could be replaced by networking into a machine running whisper/ollama etc anyway.

Keep up the great work I say :)

butterfly42069··on I Stayed
Believing in the work the author was/is doing is one thing, but I can't help but wonder if/how they still believe in their boss.
butterfly42069··on It's Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word
I think her end product was too clearly defined for anything she was doing to be passed as progress. I don't think you could make the case for her.

You can make a case that partial self driving is a route to FSD, the ISS is en route to Mars and (you can make a potentially slightly less compelling case) LLMs are on the way to AGI.

No one can make a case that lady was en route to the tech she promised

butterfly42069··on It's Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word
Well I didn't say everyone could pull it off successfully

I think the more abstract and less defined the end goal is, the easier it is to make everything look like progress.

The blood testing lady was a pass/fail really. FSD/AGI are things where you can make anything look like a milestone. Same with SpaceX going to Mars.

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