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

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flexagoon··on Minecraft: Java Edition 26.2, the first version with Vulkan 1.2
They were doing great game updates until Caves and Cliffs, where they promised too much and had to split it over like 5 next updates. After that they decided to mostly just do useless "feature" drops.
flexagoon··on Minecraft: Java Edition 26.2, the first version with Vulkan 1.2
There is an unofficial mobile port of Java edition, so no

https://github.com/AngelAuraMC/Amethyst-Android

flexagoon··on JSON-LD explained for personal websites
Isn't this just Opengraph but in json? What's the advantage?
flexagoon··on There is minimal downside to switching to open models
There are tons of existing Skills/MCPs for Google/Kagi/whatever search, and making your own is trivial. I gave DeepSeek in Pi a link to Kagi API docs and asked it to add a web search skill, and it did that easily.
flexagoon··on There is minimal downside to switching to open models
> The companies that offer web hosting could get into this.

They already do. DigitalOcean is one of the providers on OpenRouter, for example

flexagoon··on There is minimal downside to switching to open models
OpenCode Go is $10/month and the limits are much more generous than those or Codex
flexagoon··on Deno Desktop
Why "etc."? Isn't it just node, bun and deno? Genuine question
flexagoon··on Show HN: TownSquare, a tiny presence layer for websites
Slurs are targeted towards specific groups of people (or I guess just anyone? "Clanker" is considered a slur, and you can probably come up with plenty of slurs for animals, they just won't be considered offensive and socially unacceptable like the ones for humans)
flexagoon··on The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows
Sure, there are plenty of things to dislike about DMCA or any other modern copyright law, but in this context the discussion was specifically about using DMCA to take down an unauthorized republishing of a copyrighted book online, which is a pretty normal application of copyright law. So I don't really understand how "AI is bad because it's trained on stolen work" but also "it's bad to take legal action against people distributing your work".
flexagoon··on The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows
Not sure what your point is; the title doesn't claim "AI stole the book", it says "an agency stole the book and used AI to republish it", which is true.
flexagoon··on The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows
The fake website also re-published the entire 1:1 text of the original book.
flexagoon··on The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows
So you're against copyright protection, but also against AI using copyrighted work? I can understand both of those positions separately, but how can you combine them in the same statement?
flexagoon··on VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate'
1. Age-gate social media

2. Children start using VPNs to bypass the ban

3. Age-gate VPNs

4. Repeat steps 2-3

Truly a masterful plan.

flexagoon··on GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2
> HN recognizes what's going on

Maybe the pre-2024 users do, but I've seen plenty of those exact "frontier models never hallucinate" comments on HN as well

flexagoon··on GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2
I agree, but I was responding to the question of why people expect LLMs to be like the star trek computer, and the answer is "because people making and promoting those LLMs claim they are like that"
flexagoon··on GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2
Because AI company executives and devoted vibecoders constantly make egregious claims like "programming is fully solved" and even straight up "hallucinations don't exist on frontier models"
flexagoon··on Zork name origin got an update on Wikipedia
Not necessarily. Primary sources are allowed on Wikipedia in many cases, they're just not preferred. In fact, a direct quote from an interview would be as much of a primary source as a Tweet.
flexagoon··on Gribouille 0.3.0: A Grammar of Graphics for Typst
Depends on what the poster is. If it's still mostly text content, just arranged in a certain way, then by all means you can. For example:

https://typst.app/universe/package/poster-syndrome

And here's one for foldable cards:

https://typst.app/universe/package/keepsake

(Not endorsing those specific packages, they're just the first ones I managed to find)

For more free-form layouts, I just use Inkscape. It has built-in PDF export which works great. I assume other similar tools like Figma or Illustrator would also work well.

flexagoon··on Want your images back? That'll be $5
No, you can request your personal data as a part of GDPR (and most other privacy laws). That's why things like Google Takeout still exist.
flexagoon··on GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17
> I've found graphene's keyboard far more error-prone than the stock android keyboard, but I also don't care to learn swipe to type.

Graphene's keyboard is the stock AOSP keyboard. Most Android systems ship with their own one instead of it, but that's the one that is built into the system by default.

flexagoon··on GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17
They list their exact criteria for supporting a device. So far, only Pixels fit all of them (and I guess the Motorolas will soon)

https://grapheneos.org/faq#future-devices

flexagoon··on A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer
AFAIK most malware like this first sends the contents of your environment variables, ssh keys, passwords, etc. to the server, and then sets up a persistent process that executes arbitrary commands received from the attacker's server at any time, allowing them to run whatever else they want
flexagoon··on CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers
Not exactly what you're looking for, but OWID has a bunch of great visualizations about cancer, including ones that really show the progress we've made (and how much we've yet to make!)

https://ourworldindata.org/cancer

flexagoon··on Ryanair dark UX patterns summer 2026 refresher
Yep, that sucks. But on the other hand, overbooking is a thing, so if you buy a ticket without seat selection for a popular flight there's a chance you literally won't be let into the plane you paid for because all the seats are already taken. Happened to me once, I had to agree to a free replacement ticket to a different city in an entirely different European country (Brussels instead of Cologne) and spend about 200€ on a late night taxi to my destination.
flexagoon··on Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos
No, I mean they don't show it at all in their API to prevent distillation. The reasoning is encrypted and only accessible by their server. They sometimes show a summary of the reasoning, but it's not the same as the actual contents of the reasoning.
flexagoon··on Ryanair dark UX patterns summer 2026 refresher
Is seat selection really a dark pattern? Exit row seats are the most worthwhile add-on to buy when flying IMO, sometimes having even more leg room than business class seats for a fraction of the cost.
flexagoon··on Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public
> Essentially $20 for unlimited GPT 5.5 agents entirely deployed in the cloud.

How does it make sense financially for you?

flexagoon··on Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails
Netherlands has always been pretty firmly against Chat Control (except for one political party, EPP)
flexagoon··on Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive
If you're on Linux, the easiest way IMO is to just run the agent in bwrap

I do it like this

https://github.com/flexagoon/dotfiles/blob/main/dot_config/f...

But I'm sure it's simple enough that you can just ask the agent itself to make you a command for it with proper bwrap configuration

flexagoon··on MapComplete: Maps about various topics which you can contribute to
What does QGIS have to do with this? It's not even an OSM editor.
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