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I do think the mention of consumerism is apt. In my own encounters with those that seem to take pride in their inability to distinguish certain nuances, it does come off as a mental block borne of not wanting to feel like they are missing out on expensive things.

I think it cuts both ways though — there are those who will exaggerate or outright fabricate subtle differences in order to justify their expensive purchases, and also those that will deny real differences because they think everyone is just doing the first thing.

Here's a crazy idea -- what if some of these vulnerabilities are surfacing because they have actually been found, already, and exist in the training data?

Even an intelligence agency doesn't have perfect opsec, and something could get mentioned offhand somewhere on a forum, but never get picked up until the LLM uses it.

I’m not telling you to do one thing or another. I’m taking issue with your argument that because you pay an electric bill, it follows that you can do whatever you want.

That does not follow logically for me. As humans we disagree about many things, but we generally agree that things that we do often affect others, so one way or another, we need to come together and decide which things are agreed to be acceptable and which things are not.

There are no-fee 2% cards out there

> If Chrome had installed 4GB for some other tooling that most people don't need, would anyone care?

Of course I would. It’s already the largest application on my computer, and I only keep it around for when a site doesn’t render right in Firefox.

This kind of size increase clearly pushes it over the line for me and it’s getting uninstalled.

Have you seen SSD prices recently?

You are not paying for the total cost of the electricity you use.

You pay for a portion of it, in money.

The other portion of it is belched up into the atmosphere for future generations to pay.

You are incurring debt and forcing it upon others.

It's buried in the battery settings, so not something you will find unless you are looking for it, IIRC.

> getting too slow to be usable

Not sure what the behavior is like on Android, but iOS will throttle performance if your battery has degraded past a certain state. So I'm sure that there are many iPhone users that are replacing their phone due to what they think is poor performance related to the age of the phone, when it's really due to the age of the battery.

It's probably scheduled times. I find that time in the air ends up being about an hour less than the time on the ticket.

2% savings on all of your consumer spending isn't insignificant, when compounded over time.

I think it’s plenty reasonable to say that advertising is toxic and reject it as a business model entirely.

You can do engineering without an engineering degree. A degree is just a piece of paper.

I don’t think most people would say that the United CEO was killed for his political views. He was killed for the actions he was taking at his job.

Not saying that’s justified, just that there is a difference there.

Yup this is what I've got up and running recently and it's been awesome.

My setup is roughly the following.

- Dell optiplex mini running Proxmox for compute. Unraid NAS for storage.

- Debian VM on the Proxmox machine running Forgejo and Komodo for container management.

- Monorepo in Forgejo for the homelab infrastructure. This lets me give Claude access to just the monorepo on my local machine to help me build stuff out, without needing to give it direct access to any of my actual servers.

- Claude helps me build out deployment pipeline for VMs/containers in Forgejo actions, which looks like:

  - Forgejo runner creates NixOS builds => Deploy VMs via Proxmox API => Deploy containers via Komodo API

- I've got separate VMs for

  - gateway for reverse-proxy & authentication

  - monitoring with prometheus/loki/grafana stack

  - general use applications

Since storage is external with NFS shares, I can tear down and rebuild the VMs whenever I need to redeploy something.

All of my docker compose files and nix configs live in the monorepo on Forgejo, so I can use Renovate to keep everything up to date.

Plan files, kanban board, and general documentation live adjacent to Nix and Docker configs in the monorepo, so Claude has all the context it needs to get things done.

I did this because I got tired of using Docker templates on Unraid. They were a great way to get started, but it's hard to pin container versions and still keep them up-to-date (Unraid relies heavily on the `latest` tag). Moving stuff over to this setup bit-by-bit and I've been really enjoying it so far.

Which Hasan Piker interview was this? The only one I saw was about shoplifting.

I’ve found that I hit the limit just around the end of the 5-hour window, so it’s definitely been usable for me.

But I’ve mostly been using it for gitops infrastructure in my homelab. I wonder if the token usage is lighter than if I were developing an application.

Have you ever smoked? I feel like I only hear this sentiment from people that have never tried nicotine.

Nicotine absolutely produces effects that people enjoy. Smokers don't just do it because they want to smell bad and look cool.

There was some whole blowup with Booklore over it being vibecoded by a single maintainer recently. I think the project has changed ownership since then, but be cautious.

I use Calibre + Calibre Web. Definitely a bit old and clunky, but reliable.

This is just... not true? I'm curious what you mean, because iCloud cannot be on by default since it requires you to set up an iCloud account. You're asked to sign into iCloud during device setup, which you can decline.

Do you mean that, after consenting to and signing into iCloud, all of iCloud's feature are enabled by default?

> We are strongly, strongly evolutionary oriented away from 'murder' - it's the original sin. It's not something we even argue over. Murder = Bad. No disagreement across cultures. Murder = social cheating. No disagreement there either.

There are plenty of people who advocate for war and consider it good, and plenty of disagreements over war.

People are usually in agreement that war / killing is bad when other people do it but will find all sorts of ways to justify themselves doing it when it is to their advantage. This isn't really contradictory, from an evolutionary perspective.

I make the commits myself, I don't let Claude commit anything.

So if I use Claude to write the first pass at the code, make a few changes myself, ask it to make an additional change, change another thing myself, then commit it — what exactly do you expect to see then?

Yea in my Claude workflow, I still make all the commits myself.

This is also useful for keeping your prompts commit-sized, which in my experience gives much better results than just letting it spin or attempting to one-shot large features.

Same, I've been enjoying it a ton. Recently, with the help of Claude, I've used it to set up an entire CI/CD pipeline for my home server. The flow is roughly:

Build Nix config into a VM image => Deploy VM to Proxmox via its API => Spin up Docker stack via Komodo

I've also trying to use it to sync my Obsidian vault via git to my phone, altho that flaked out on me recently (if anyone knows a reliable way to use git via the shell on iOS, please let me know).

What you are describing sounds like a specific subset of professional engineering discipline, but I'd argue that "engineering" is much larger -- it isn't only "engineering" when you do it well and responsibly, after all.

I'd propose a definition of engineering that's more or less just "composing tools together to solve problems".

What is your definition of engineering, that "craft work" doesn't meet?

My point is that nix is a big enabler for me to use AI to configure my system, because it provides a safer environment in which to do so.

> But if the declaritive file is not read/understood, what is the difference?

Well the main difference is precisely that I have a clear opportunity to read and understand the declarative file.

But even if something were to sneak in there, rolling back is now trivial.

For me, the difference is that there is no way in hell that I want to give an AI assistant full access to configure my system live. With a declarative config, the only access it needs is to an isolated git repo.

Ah, disappointing, I was planning to set this up at some point soon.

Anyone know of good alternatives for setting up your own iptv channels?