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frizlabon My Mental Model of AI Broke on September 8

Yup. They have much more bandwidth to test things, but no original thoughts (and tbh, not thoughts at all, actually).

frizlabon My Mental Model of AI Broke on September 8

They still are parrots. Just properly trained with a lot of data. Doesn’t make them not useful. But that’s what they are though.

frizlabon Jellyfin 12.0

Yeah I have Infuse only, and am happy with it. No need for jellyfin or whatever else. Honestly Infuse may be one of my best app purchases of these past 10 years…

frizlabon Pigeon, a signed Pass for what a sub-agent may do

ssshhhhhht, AI is intelligent now, no need to read any of its output! /s

frizlabon America's two largest school districts impose AI moratoriums

“Good news” yeah…

frizlabon .gitignore Everything by Default

For files like `.DS_Store`, technically yes. Usually the people do not have a proper global gitignore, so we put these files in the gitignore of the repo, but it’s not repo-related, it’s OS-related… Same goes for editor files. The editor is something user-related, not project related (except e.g. for iOS development where the IDE is kind of more or less imposed).

frizlabon .gitignore Everything by Default

> why not just do an initial setup step to gitignore the usual files?

Or even better, have a proper global gitignore file on your computer…

frizlabon Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI"

frizlabon I hate AI images and music

Once again, “AI is bad at things I’m very good at, but good at things I am not very good at (or don’t care about).”

frizlabon A better SQL in 11 lines of code

See first footnote

frizlabon That's a Lot of YAML

I’m sorry but the “If SQL were built on YAML” part is actually better than SQL.

frizlabon “It works better in the app”

I’m pretty sure they actually can actually. On an iPhone with a “ask for no tracking” configuration (no IDFA), I’d wager it’s probably even easier on the web than it is in an app.

frizlabon We never use AI. For anything

I tend to agree this is the only reasonable use of AI indeed.

frizlabon We never use AI. For anything

AI has no intelligence whatsoever though… Well not entirely true, but the only intelligence there is in AI is the human one behind it all.

frizlabon We never use AI. For anything

Oh I shall propose my dependency injection lib, it has not and will never use AI…

frizlabon Browser De-Slop

Natively I don’t think so. macOS thinks in terms of apps, not windows. Personally I prefer that way but I understand how it can be annoying. There’s AltTab to fix that (freemium but open-source).

frizlabon Browser De-Slop

It’s, I think my main Apple pet peeve. Multi desktop on macOS is completely broken, and even worse, it gets worse at every major release. It has been like so since at the very least 5 years. I reported the bugs every time. They are just ignored. I think nobody at Apple uses a multi Desktop setup…

frizlabon How I over-engineered my book

> AI reviewed every page; I wrote every word.

This is the only correct use of AI IMHO. Including for development.

frizlabon Show HN: Learn Flags Quiz

Sheldon?

frizlabon Self hosted email continues to steeply decline

I use fastmail which is very good. Like “oh this is how it should feel!” good.

frizlabon Self hosted email continues to steeply decline

Meh. I read the comments on HN, rarely the articles /(semi-)s

frizlabon A fortuitous decade as an indie software developer

why did you put a captial o instead of a 0 for the 80s?

frizlabon What Time Is It Enjoy?

I’m amazed that this is still up

frizlabon Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering

SwiftUI has nothing to do with Swift… It’s just a UI framework that happens to have been written for Swift.

frizlabon Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did

https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/08/11/icloud-private-re...

Well, there it is. They are lynched.

frizlabon Closing Canario Terminal source code

Disabling PRs and issues (and wiki and a bunch of other stuff) is indeed supported by GitHub AFAIK.

frizlabon Hyperspace

Yup that’s pretty much it, reflinks is Btrfs/XFS, clones is APFS, but the concept is the same (CoW in both cases).

frizlabon Hyperspace

It uses APFS clones

frizlabon Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did

A shame I can’t downvote this. It is both factually false, and worded in a very aggressive way.

iCloud private relay is only available for iCloud+ users. It cannot be enabled by default, and is not, even for iCloud+ users BTW.

iCloud private relay is a novel dual-party VPN-like technology where neither party involved gets to be able to track the user, says Apple. Yes, it requires trust to believe it, but I tend to think the company the size of Apple would not go around throwing statements like these if they weren’t true, at least to the best of their knowledge, especially since privacy and trust is literally one of the core of Apple businesses… They would be lynched if it were proven that this is false.

Finally your comment was posted after the person my comment was directed to answered a perfectly reasonable answer!

frizlabon Swift-Gigatoken

Interestingly, it’s faster than its reference implementation in rust (: