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evolve2k··on Fashion Week's Response to AI Fatigue? A Distinctly Human Sloppiness
Many art movements arise in strong opposition to societal forces. This article captures early indications of what 'post-AI' art and creative movements might start to look like and focus on.
evolve2k··on R/open source bans all solo projects and projects using LLMs
What sort of error range then?
evolve2k··on R/open source bans all solo projects and projects using LLMs
Nope.

You are not accounting for the inherent error rate; around 20-40% as I understand it. Reducible with tokens but then not cheaper than humans.

Sure a good analogy is physical vs robotic; but if it was say burgers. It would be a current McDonalds burger vs some new robot place that makes then half price or cheaper but every aspect of the burger is off quality wise; missing ingredients, mistaken orders, incorrect ingredients, weird toppings; BUT DARN ARE THEY FAST.

You’ve gotten faster but you’ve added an error rate that either you expensively inspect for or it moves to the edge.

evolve2k··on Around a dozen banking apps began specifically permitting GrapheneOS
If we want our bank to add suppprt for GrapheneOS and specifically for “tap to pay” on GrapheneOS, without Google pay, what technically and specifically should we be asking for?
evolve2k··on Around a dozen banking apps began specifically permitting GrapheneOS
Any idea which banks support “tap to pay”. Usually on Android or iPhone users access Googld pay or Apple Pay.

Word is that banking apps that implement their own nfc interface within their app can be used for “tap to pay” on Graphene.

Curious as to how we can know which providers support this.

evolve2k··on Apple ordered Allow alternative App Stores - Violated Australian Competition Law
> The decision signals the immediate return of one of the world's most popular games, Fortnite, to Apple's Australian app store from today, after a six-year hiatus.
evolve2k··on Apple ordered Allow alternative App Stores - Violated Australian Competition Law
> In publishing his reasons, Justice Beach said Apple had contravened the Competition and Consumer Act with an "intricate web of terms and technical measures", and ordered the company to pay 85 per cent of Epic Games' legal costs from the months-long trial.
evolve2k··on How I got over 300 Tor exit nodes removed
> The lesson is the same as always: extra security is a worthwhile investment. Disable password authentication in favor of ssh keys. I for one am going to buy myself some hardware keys today. :)

Question: Where to get these hardware keys? Which are good options and why?

evolve2k··on Dam removals are bringing fish back across the northeastern United States
You actually want to restore the river to be more resilient as the earth warms, fish returning empowers many other parts of a river ecosystem.

Install dedicated water tanks to store water, evaporation rates are much less.

evolve2k··on Firefox Enterprise
They need to try. I also feeling like there’s likley growing demand globally; like they mentioned. A need for greater digital sovereignty.
evolve2k··on Firefox Enterprise
Yeah this does seem smart. They get to stick to the knitting on working on making the browser better while building ploug features that are really only desirable for enterprise customers; access controls, compliance features etc.

We all know there a big hole in the revenue that needs filling if they are to get away from relying on Google search funding. This seems much closer than inventing side quests that each draw attention and bring risks around making new products successful.

evolve2k··on Mosscap "Rails Community Fork" – October Update
It’s especially clesr that while Rails as a framework will be in use for some time to come, that it’s past time to overhaul the products governance and move away from the projects founder DHH and into a community stewardship model.

This seems like just what is needed for a healthy next step and I think long term having this project community run and led will lead to new rounds of evolution and progress not currently possible with a single supreme leader in charge.

Excited to see where this takes us.

evolve2k··on Study on AI coding agents finds gains "absorbed" by human review "bottleneck."
This lines up with basic manufacturing principals, run the machines faster so as to give away quality leads to costs spiral in rework and inspection efforts. That or real end user demand eventually drops when quality issues are eventually experienced by customers leading to them to react, complain publically and seek alternatives.
evolve2k··on So you think you could be an electrician?
For any electricians here, how common is it to get electrocuted / electrically shocked? Are we talking rarely or yearly or all the time?

As a software developer I’d like to imagine that good practices mean professionals are rarely (aka once every decade or less) shocked but a friend who is the son of an electrician said they wouldn’t do it as their dad said he gets shocked.

evolve2k··on Show HN: Graphene – Data analysis toolkit for your coding agent
Change the name.

Graphene for most of us here already means Graphene OS.

It feels off that as community members you either didn’t know this or just straight up chose ignore this or worse; chose to ride their brand; even if it’s technically allowed doesn’t mean everyone likes what your doing. It’s just mental overload with an avoidable namespace conflict.

TLDR; ask the LLM for a new name. Change it now when it’s low stakes.

evolve2k··on DHH at Rails World – Ruby on Rails no longer needed now because AI can make apps
Community fork time?
evolve2k··on The new CC, an AI agent built for families
Are they trying to kill look-ups for CC meaning “creative commons”?
evolve2k··on The new CC, an AI agent built for families
Then keep the colon “cc:”
evolve2k··on DigitalOcean has $3M for DHH and nothing for CSS-Tricks
Pay the guy already.
evolve2k··on Australia to bar foreign students from bringing partner/child while they study
Higher Education was once a top export for Australia. Not with the way this is going, with policies like these.
evolve2k··on Iran school bombing: grounds to believe US was behind atrocity, UN finds
Propaganda machine running on overdrive on this one. Quick quick make some extra accounts to post doubt. Pathetic.
evolve2k··on One year of sponsored Servo development
Non ai post as top post. We did it guys! But seriously, it’s nice to see other news on here. Important we keep covering broader tech things.
evolve2k··on 'Offensively cheap': solar power is looking up
Sodium Ion Batteries like those under mass development by CATL offer an exceptionally Wide Operation-Temperature Range from −70 to 100.

Worth keeping an eye on. These have recently moved into mass production but I’ve personally not yet seen them come to market as available to retail buyers. Keep an eye out though!

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.202116930?a...

https://www.ess-news.com/2026/04/20/a-closer-look-at-catls-n...

evolve2k··on LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features
Hand rolled code is worth more.
evolve2k··on Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
As I understand it the whole time all the agents involved where running on their device and using up tokens internally.

It’s like having water start flooding the street frommmy building; yes the flooding is impacting outside the building but the tap is still very much onsite and clearly there are missing condole as these are not autonomous systems they are running initiated prompts that are coming from inside the building.

evolve2k··on Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
“Git” again earning its name.
evolve2k··on Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
Apparently news of the rogue AI being “smart enough to break containment” has been helping to drive the stock price up on the indicator that this signals “they getting close to AGI”.

The negligence in that light is by design and the lying continues to be incentivised.

evolve2k··on How Fairphone built the Fairphone Gen 6+
Anyone have any updates on why this device can’t support or get behind Graphene OS? A repairable and secure phone is my desired option for a phone that’s truely mine and I’m sure this is true for many others also.

From my understanding it’s not there as the Graphene team says that fairphone haven’t taken security hardware seriously and there’s key hardware security features missing that means they are not even interested to look at supporting the device.

Keen for latest updates on this, happy to be corrected.

evolve2k··on Gmail to end support for "Send as" for third-party addresses, such as @yahoo.com
Proton is activity enshitifying and has introduced dark patterns to their onboarding process. Suggest you deprecate them from your recommend list until they come clean and step away from this dirty business we’ve been seeing.

Trust eroding on proton sadly.

evolve2k··on Gmail to end support for "Send as" for third-party addresses, such as @yahoo.com
The multiple nudges just turned into a shove.

I’ll now be actively enacting plans to move on and be sure to support family and friends, even non tech savvy ones, to do the same.

When you think they can’t fall further, they do.

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