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fareesh··on Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived
modi comm taekwando
fareesh··on Show HN: Kakehashi – Experimental userspace to run macOS binaries on Linux ARM
Would be nice to be able to build iOS apps on Linux ARM runners
fareesh··on What xAI's Grok build CLI sends to xAI: A wire-level analysis
sam altman: aww you're sweet

elon musk: hello human resources

fareesh··on Ornith-1.0: self-improving open-source models for agentic coding
I've used a lot of local models and all of them felt like toys. This one actually felt useful. I hear Qwen 36-A3B is also good, yet to try that one.
fareesh··on Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM
was famous for being the $35 computer and it is now $350
fareesh··on How is Groq raising more money?
i like groq but models seem to have stagnated - looks like the company isn't focused on b2c anymore?
fareesh··on Flipper One Tech Specs
"ok flipper hack everything, make no mistakes"
fareesh··on Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce
it was worse
fareesh··on Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license
son of gaben may live upto the legend, otherwise it ends with him
fareesh··on Show HN: Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions
Agents are shipping code faster all over the world and in some cases 24 hours a day. Additionally, some significant number of non-developers are now developers i.e. they are also shipping to github regularly.

This is not limited to just pushing code but all the bells and whistles that github added as features under the assumption of some predictable growth are now exceeding the original plans.

I suspect a lot of their existing systems have to be re-architected for unanticipated scale, and it won't happen overnight for sure.

fareesh··on Ghostty is leaving GitHub
i empathize with the folks running a largely free service who are being spammed by bots and built everything around some other assumptions
fareesh··on CrabTrap: An LLM-as-a-judge HTTP proxy to secure agents in production
Needs to be deterministic. ACLs
fareesh··on Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones
looks like one of those things the ad agency (AMV BBDO) claims to have invented just in time for awards season
fareesh··on Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold
The root of the problems seems to be trying to find a holy grail design that works across all their businesses. Surface tablet mode, touchscreen laptop, touchscreen desktop (surface studio), mouse and keyboard PC, stylus input, etc.

Then there's a lot of legacy stuff that needs to continue working because otherwise you end up with a non backwards compatible windows.

Then you have to get everyone at microsoft across all their bajillion products to change the UI from Task manager to the 5th level of settings for some obscure ODBC connector.

It's not going to happen I suspect

fareesh··on Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people
never had a problem with github, i must be using it during the 90% of the time that it works
fareesh··on Why I love NixOS
doesn't it use up a lot of disk space compared to other distros because of the way everything is set up?
fareesh··on Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service
It ends up being a LARP

In reality the starting point itself is something absurd like "all vendors must be ISO certified no exceptions"

Nobody wants to be the person who says an exception is ok in this case, so you get lumped with having to certify.

Now your color palette generator startup is doing ISO certification. You are holding quarterly "information security governance meetings" and maintaining a risk register for... "blue vs slightly different blue".

Many such cases.

fareesh··on Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service
Data protection is a tiny component of what certifications like ISO and SOC2 involve. The data protection stuff is welcome and often pre-existing, the other stuff is what annoys people.
fareesh··on Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service
This assumes that there is only 1 way to protect consumers
fareesh··on Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service
The D in Democratic People's Republic of Korea means it should be democratic so why is it a dictatorship?

The world doesn't work based on abbreviations. It's very normal for any company to ask you for ISO 27001 whether international or otherwise.

fareesh··on OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent
easily the best one
fareesh··on Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service
A lot of startups move fast with a small team.

You build something great and big corporation X wants to buy a subscription but you need to be certified.

Much of this is a good checklist but some of it is very european.

"Where is the risk register to track controls in your 7 person company?"

Now instead of doing what your team does best, you are doing paperwork theater for frameworks designed for a 100,000 employee enterprise.

You are documenting things nobody will read, making up processes that don't exist and translating the operations of a lean company into bureaucratic language.

What's needed is a variant of these standards for small teams, which is proportionate and pragmatic.

fareesh··on Show HN: Moonshine Open-Weights STT models – higher accuracy than WhisperLargev3
Accuracy is often presumed to be english, which is fine, but it's a vague thing to say "higher" because does it mean higher in English only? Higher in some subset of languages? Which ones?

The minimum useful data for this stuff is a small table of language | WER for dataset

fareesh··on An AI agent published a hit piece on me
this agent seems indistinguishable from the stereotypical political activist i see on the internet

they both ran the same program of "you disagree with me therefore you are immoral and your reputation must be destroyed"

fareesh··on Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists
im sure this will make their political art more popular with the working class
fareesh··on We can’t send mail farther than 500 miles (2002)
Reminds me of the time I went to Ceti Alpha 6
fareesh··on The Dilbert Afterlife
Regular listeners know he knew exactly what he was doing i.e. the cancellation was priced in.
fareesh··on Show HN: Explore what the browser exposes about you
seems like brave works well and isn't getting correctly fingerprinted
fareesh··on Show HN: A WordPress plugin that rewrites image URLs for near-zero-cost delivery
doesn't cloudflare already offer this if you proxy?
fareesh··on Android's sideloading limits are its most anti-consumer move
from what i understand the apk route still works fine, you just have to be willing to attach your identity to it via their verification + signing process
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