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Interests: Biotech, DevOps, Open Source, Philosophy, Privacy, Programming, Research, Science, Technology

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flexagoon··on Rune 1.1: adds Python, an Emacs editor, a symbol index and is now free
Doom Emacs is the answer
flexagoon··on Rune 1.1: adds Python, an Emacs editor, a symbol index and is now free
> Vim users seem often quite happy with the vim emulation they get

Its better than nothing, but usually only lets you use vim bindings for text editing itself. Compared to neovim, where the entire editor and the plugin ecosystem is fully based on the same keyboard-driven workflow, it's quite lacking. For example, I remember that when using VSCode with its Vim mode plugin, it took quite a bit of configuration to be able to switch to the file tree and navigate it with the keyboard, and it still didn't work that well due to inherent limitations of the software.

Another huge example is Neogit. If you're an Emacs user, you probably use Magit, which Neogit is heavily inspired by, so you'll understand. Having it integrated into your editor and working with the same shortcuts is very nice and can't be replaced by vim emulation mode.

flexagoon··on DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update
Weird, I'm using 5.6 Sol through Chinese resellers and it reverse engineers stuff just fine
flexagoon··on Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub
This is similar to how things like Gerrit do code review, and it's pretty nice
flexagoon··on 1,741 "informed" consents with one click? GDPR complaint filed
When you try to maximize ad revenue, you add multiple advertising SDKs to your website, each of which can often do live bidding with hundreds of ad/data brokers

You can usually check the ads.txt file on a website to see which companies are allowed to bid for ad space on there. For example, for dict.cc, the website in question:

https://dict.cc/ads.txt

The ones labelled "RESELLER" will probably share your data with even more ad companies.

flexagoon··on The Productivity Mirage
> 90% of my time as a coder is spent typing

> 90% of our time should be spent thinking

Thinking and typing often happen at the same time. Its much easier for many people to reason about a problem by writing and changing the code, and it's also why LLMs can significantly reduce code understanding even if you read everything they wrote.

flexagoon··on Stop Killing the Internet: No Digital ID and No Age Verification
> There's plenty of incredibly toxic behavior to be found all over facebook.

But is it comparable to the amount of toxic behavior on 4chan?

flexagoon··on Modern email can be built from borrowed parts
> almost involuntary gesture

Exactly, which is why attaching large UI shifts to that involuntary gesture makes the experience feel very unpredictable

> activating your browser's reading mode

Reading mode is a hack that's only needed because sites aren't already readable. You shouldn't have to activate it to be able to read the content.

In addition, it doesn't always work well if the website didn't test it. On your website, for example, it removes all images from the text.

> Having to click or tap a button requires the user to stop, evaluate whether the title interests them

Purposefully doing things in a way that doesn't let the user decide if they want it is called a dark pattern. Its not far from those checkboxes that try to trick you into accepting marketing newsletters. "We can't give users an option to think if they want our emails! If they don't, why don't they just use their email's spam filtering?"

You may not see it like that yourself, but huge links to your CV, talks and courses are exactly that - an ad that covers half the screen.

You have multiple people telling you the experience is bad, and you asked for why, but when people give you the explanation you argue back. That's fine of course, it's your own site and you can do whatever you like with it without trying to suit anyone. But that doesn't make the reader experience less bad.

flexagoon··on Modern email can be built from borrowed parts
Yes, but when I stop scrolling and scroll up even a little bit (by accident, or because I want to scroll up and read something I missed) they appear again. I think the only good UX possible is to have a button to show/hide them instead.
flexagoon··on Decathlon Germany adds Wero payment option to decathlon.de website
AFAIK they lobbied to limit the maximum amount of digital Euro one may hold pretty severely
flexagoon··on Our position on open-weights models
"No guys, Anthropic actually loves open weight models!" Yeah, and Microsoft famously loves Linux. Sure.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/micros...

flexagoon··on Decathlon Germany adds Wero payment option to decathlon.de website
> I think this will be a much bigger threat to Visa and Mastercard than the oft-promised digital Euro

Wasn't the digital Euro specifically crippled due to banks lobbying against it to promote Wero instead?

flexagoon··on Modern email can be built from borrowed parts
It's very annoying on mobile, covering half of the page all the time
flexagoon··on GrapheneOS protections against data extraction from locked devices
I use Seedvault to create a backup locally on my phone, and then sync it to my backup server with Syncthing
flexagoon··on GrapheneOS protections against data extraction from locked devices
There has been a lot of conflict between Calyx and GrapheneOS a while ago.
flexagoon··on A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway
Just use Fish
flexagoon··on Show HN: Minesweeper Raycasted
The "flag" button doesn't seem to do anything, it just shows a flag on the screen for half a second and nothing happens
flexagoon··on Future euro banknote design proposals
> Specially the vertical banknotes, what is up with that?

They look awesome. Design I is amazing

flexagoon··on Roblox Officially Supports GrapheneOS
> I just download the stock Android "Camera"

The "stock Android camera" (the one in AOSP) is absolutely horrible. You're probably using Google's Pixel camera app.

flexagoon··on Late.sh – a command-line Clubhouse for computer people
Really reminds me of https://tilde.town
flexagoon··on Advertise in ChatGPT
> that censors informations about the illegal Ukraine war crimes

If your concern is specifically about the censorship, then it's not an issue with Kagi, since Yandex is used as one of many sources (and mainly for images afaik)

flexagoon··on Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
> It’s possible that the chat/ux model does know and has an unbiased opinion about china, but the filtering is on the front end/client side and so the user facing model has not been fine tuned natively

This has always been the case with Chinese models. Their web ui is a service provided from China, so they are required to censor it, but not the models themselves.

flexagoon··on Mysteries of Telegram Data Centers (2022)
Just like DC5 is often down to the discontent of Chinese users, DC2 is the one serving all Russian and Ukrainian users, so in the more technical Russian-speaking communities "dc2 down" is also a pretty common saying
flexagoon··on The largest available Minecraft world, totalling 15 TB
There are plenty of other Minecraft anarchy servers out there
flexagoon··on Telegram Serverless
> are those even a thing with Telegram?

It is the thing with Telegram

flexagoon··on Codex starts encrypting sub-agent prompts
For what? I was using GPT-5.5 through Byesu.com and it suddenly stopped working yesterday

(Not affiliated in any way, I'm sure there are better services out there, this is just the one a friend recommended to me and I haven't researched other options)

flexagoon··on Codex starts encrypting sub-agent prompts
> How do you know that they don't train their models or append your prompts to add backdoors, or compromise your supply chain by including evil dependencies?

I read the code.

flexagoon··on Codex starts encrypting sub-agent prompts
> but also store data and sell to whoever is training

I see this as an argument against using them/Chinese models all the time, but I don't get it. I totally understand wanting to keep your data private if you're using an LLM for personal chats. But coding? I'm not working for the military, I'd gladly donate my codebase to Chinese labs if that means they can keep releasing 6-months-behind level models for 100x cheaper.

(I understand why OpenAI doesn't want this and would implement protections. I'm talking about people using this as an argument for why you as an end user shouldn't use those services.)

flexagoon··on Codex starts encrypting sub-agent prompts
Ah I was wondering why the Chinese black market resellers stopped working yesterday, I guess that's it
flexagoon··on Show HN: Hackney – Compare Uber, Lyft, Waymo, and Robotaxi Prices
I guess they don't really enforce it. Zenmoney reverse-engineered APIs of banking apps and their app is still on both app store and google play
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