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elaus··on Molly: An Improved Signal App
I think the distinction here is they want an app that never NEEDS to be updated, not one that never DOES get updates (which is fair – I'm happy if things just work and are not changed every 2 weeks).
elaus··on Molly: An Improved Signal App
I searched so long for a single screenshot, looking at the app stores (in my browser) and Github with no success.

It really is weird not to show a single screenshot when the 4th listed feature is design ("Material You | Extra theme that follows your device palette").

elaus··on It is ok to say "CSS variables" instead of "custom properties"
My job requires the whole modern pipeline with Vue front ends, Quarkus services and k8s deployments and it's suitable for what we do in our teams.

But I have dozens of websites I built and am still building today in the way described and it works just as well for me. As a single developer with "simple" websites it's just great to have so little mental load when fixing some small things.

Admittedly I have a small script to upload stuff via ftp (if ssh/rsync is not available), so no FileZilla anymore :)

elaus··on The Paranoid Guide to Running Copilot CLI in a Secure Docker Sandbox
It seems plausible that an agentic AI will notice that it's running in a Docker container while debugging some unexpected issues in their task and then tries to break out (only with good "intentions" of course, but screwing things up in the process).

Claude or Gemini CLI absolutely will try crazy things after enough cycles of failed attempts of fixing some issues.

elaus··on ClickHouse acquires LibreChat, open-source AI chat platform
Yeah that's really bad news.

I too have LibreChat deployed for my personal use and now the only question is how long until it will inevitably be enshittified/monetized.

Must feel even worse for volunteers who worked on the project but don't get any benefit from the aquisition.

elaus··on Microsoft's lack of quality control is out of control
It's been a while so I can't really answer your question. But in a localized Excel version i can NOT use the english formula names. So after you googled a solution for your problem, you also need to find out the translations...
elaus··on Show HN: Learn German with Games
Yeah the clock game is weird. One solution was "fünfundzwanzig vor zwei" which I never heard in my life (native German). At least in my region one would say "fünf nach halb zwei" or "Ein Uhr fünfunddreißig".
elaus··on US axes website for reporting human rights abuses by US-armed foreign forces
As someone not from the US and looking from the outside: it seems there is a _significant_ difference between the two administrations in this regard?
elaus··on Major AWS Outage Happening
Maybe the mods can change it to https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
elaus··on New California law restricts HOA fines to $100 per violation
Yes, as a non-American, HOAs seem so strange to me. It seems like most of those issues could be resolved by the existing legal system (destroying other people's property, dumping stuff in public areas, etc.) or by the city's regulations and codes.
elaus··on Starship's eleventh flight test
> (Hint: Musk was right and his engineers were wrong. Both times.)

This is a really useless statistic. How many times was Musk wrong and his engineers were right? We don't know, we only have those two hand-picked examples from a less than neutral source.

elaus··on This website has no class
Yeah, that title is absurd. The page contains 175 "class=..." attributes.
elaus··on Apple has a private CSS property to add Liquid Glass effects to web content
You can use `-webkit-tap-highlight-color` on your website or PWA and distribute it any way you want. It will just not work in non-webkit browsers like Firefox.

What apple does and what the article talks about: They have a CSS property that ONLY they can use, you can't put that in your PWA, it won't work (no matter the browser).

elaus··on ChatGPT is NOT a LLM – GPT is
This is becoming a problem for me: I like to use LibreChat to interface LLMs (Gemini, GPT-x), because it allows me to pay by usage (instead of 20+ USD per month) and keep a (tiny bit) more of the data under my control.

But the offerings of ChatGPT or Google's AI Studio surpass the feature set of LibreChat by a lot. It used to be just a "better" system prompt, but now it's a lot more.

elaus··on Show HN: Whose p*nis is that now? Probably the weirdest website I've ever made
I'm confused. Am I missing the ''buy now'' link, or is this actually not a real product? I think it would sell quite well as a fun gift.
elaus··on Online Safety Act – shutdowns and site blocks
Did you comment in the wrong thread? How is Michelangelo's David "rape porn on loop"?
elaus··on Ollama and gguf
What is the currently favored alternative for simply running 1-2 models locally, exposed via an API? One big advantage of Ollama seems to be that they provide fully configured models, so I don't have to fiddle with stop words, etc.
elaus··on GTP Blind Voting: GPT-5 vs. 4o
Yeah, it felt like two different styles (one very short, the other a little bit more verbose), but both very different from a plain query to GPT without additional system prompts.

So this might just test how the two models react to the (hidden) system prompt...

elaus··on Man wearing metallic necklace dies after being sucked into MRI machine
Now you are at the Trolley problem: shut down the machine to (maybe) save one person, but preventing all MRIs for the next x weeks, causing y indirect deaths?
elaus··on The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality
> Same can be said for most electronics and even clothes.

I wish that were my experience as well. However, I've found that most brands simply add a huge markup for their name while investing very little into quality. As a result, you end up paying three times the price for just 20% better quality.

When it comes to electronics, I feel like I can judge that for myself, and my gut feeling about clothing was confirmed after falling down a YouTube rabbit hole of "clothing teardowns."

elaus··on Sega mistakenly reveals sales numbers of popular games
Is this really limited to video games?

People are excited to buy new cloths, even though they're "just a slight variance on something you've already had multiple times before".

They love to try out the new hyped-up food stand, even though the hotdog will be just a slight variance on all the hotdogs they had before.

elaus··on Tuxracer.js play Tux Racer in the browser
That music is stuck in my ears for so many years...
elaus··on Authors are accidentally leaving AI prompts in their novels
Yeah, I have been using them for many years now, but perhaps I need to stop in order to be "more human"…
elaus··on Faulty 120W charger analysis (Anker GAN Prime) [video]
As always with new Google products: available only in certain countries...
elaus··on Faulty 120W charger analysis (Anker GAN Prime) [video]
Going by the comments on the YouTube video: It seems to be for hear dissipation, so quite the opposite of insulation.
elaus··on CivitAI Policy Update: Removal of Real-Person Likeness Content
> We (well, decent people at least, IMO) need mechanisms to prevent human trafficking, illicit or illegal transactions, etc.

There are already laws (from actual governments) against human trafficking and illegal transactions. The issue is not about credit card companies obeying the law.

elaus··on By default, Signal doesn't recall
I'm not sure, but in recent years, Microsoft has made a lot of negative headlines by silently re-enabling settings after updates, so this doesn't seem like something you should trust.
elaus··on The 'invisible crew' who have 35 seconds to prevent a Eurovision blunder
I would absolutely watch a full-length behind the scenes version of Eurovision. The technicial aspect is a huge part of my fascination.
elaus··on Open WebUI changed license from BSD-3 to Open WebUI license with CLA
Do you have any recommendations for self-hosted, truly open-source, "ChatGPT"-style interfaces (e.g., a UI for chat, RAG, image generation, etc.)?

I use Open WebUI a lot, but it's lacking in a few aspects (UI, huge Docker images), and its focus on commercialization does not motivate me to contribute.

elaus··on Llama 4 Smells Bad
I don't understand the rationale for publishing an article in such an early draft stage, even with the small disclaimer at the top. It would make sense if only a bit of polish were missing, but when there are factual errors (that are not marked as such), it seems much better to delay publication until the content is correct.
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