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esoltys

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I’m a Canadian software developer and a hobbyist creating art and music.
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esoltys··on Google Antigravity TOS: 3rd party usage can get Google account suspended
There are official extensions for using Antigravity in IDEs. "Antigravity uses a unified authentication system across all IDE extensions, the Antigravity CLI, and Antigravity 2.0 (Desktop). Your sign-in determines your model entitlements, quota limits, and data privacy policies."

https://antigravity.google/docs/ide/extensions/

esoltys··on British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time
Why now? From the Govt of BC press release: "The Interpretation Amendment Act, which is the legal framework that enables the Province to adopt permanent DST, became law in 2019. At the time, government chose not to bring it into force in order to co-ordinate timing with neighbouring U.S. states in the same time zone.

Recent actions from the U.S. have shifted how B.C. approaches decisions that merit alignment, including on time zones. Making this change now reflects the current preferences and needs of British Columbians, and helps ensure the province is well-positioned to thrive, even when circumstances across the border evolve."

https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2026AG0013-000209

esoltys··on Acme Weather
In Canada it's $35/yr and I don't see any indication of the 2-week trial that's mentioned on their website. Probably can still cancel within two weeks, but it simply has a Subscribe button before you can do anything.
esoltys··on Forget ChatGPT: why researchers now run small AIs on their laptops
I like [mistral-nemo](https://ollama.com/library/mistral-nemo) "A state-of-the-art 12B model with 128k context length, built by Mistral AI in collaboration with NVIDIA."
esoltys··on g1: Using Llama-3.1 70B on Groq to create o1-like reasoning chains
For fun I forked the project to run Llama-3.1 7B or other models using Ollama locally. It doesn't get strawberry right, but it can figure out 0.9 is bigger.

https://github.com/esoltys/o1lama

esoltys··on AI photo editing raises trust issues in photography
I made this point on Threads and Nilay's response was "yes making visual lies trivial to make is bad". It's never been photos that made "truth", it's been the source of the photos. You trust a photo from a photojournalist. You don't trust a photo from some rando in your social feed.
esoltys··on Snapchat for Web
"Snapchat for Web is available to Snapchat+ subscribers now in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada, and Snapchatters across Australia, and New Zealand. We can’t wait to bring it to our entire global community soon."
esoltys··on Cryptography experts trash NFTs on first day of RSA Conference
When I think of "percentage $ cut off of every subsequent transaction" I think of Artist's Resale Right, or "Droit de suite" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droit_de_suite
esoltys··on Show HN: Tilepad for Twitter – Twitter in Pinterest Layout
From the About text: "Set of different things and pipyakas that increase hang time on Twitter." What does "pipyakas" mean?
esoltys··on Amazon Zocalo
"I Seem To Recall"
esoltys··on [dead]
Just as a side note... Nice illustrations by Lonku http://lonku.tumblr.com/
esoltys··on Show HN: 7min Workout with Rdio
Rdio is available in quite a few countries outside the U.S. http://www.rdio.com/availability/
esoltys··on Open Source Visitor.js
"Moved to session.js"

https://github.com/codejoust/session.js