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lillecarl··on Claude Fable 5.2 Scores 65 on Artificial Analysis, Highest So Far
Their subscription plans are quite economical, API pricing is __absolutely insane__ on the other hand.
lillecarl··on Just Bury Your Trash
Just burn your trash

https://www.energimyndigheten.se/en/news/2025/from-waste-to-...

My understanding is that biological decomposition of waste creates methane which is a worse greenhouse gas than CO2.

lillecarl··on PostgreSQL for Everything
I find it odd that this isn't mentioned anywhere in an article about using postgres for everything.
lillecarl··on GPT-5.6 Sol, along with Terra and Luna, will launch publicly this Thursday
I held out on OpenAI until last month because I despise Sam Altman, but using Codex is a great experience and 5.5 (medium) I'm on 20$ is very capable, follows instructions when it should and confronts me/challenges me when it should.

UX is nicer where the agent is somehow "separated" from execution.

lillecarl··on For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions
Human beings
lillecarl··on Data centers are transitioning from AC to DC
We live on societies, switching from AC to DC because your low-power home appliances doesn't need AC makes no sense. Home power usage is dominated by heating and cooling not by your 45w laptop charger.

DC infrastucture makes sense in highly specialised environments.... Like new gigawatt AI farms

lillecarl··on IMG_0416 (2024)
The models detecting touch has become better and the touch grid has become both higher resolution and more reliable.

Being able to detect the middle-point of a fat finger wasn't a 1.0 feature

lillecarl··on Moldova broke our data pipeline
JSON is only written one way, CSV parses all have tweaks for delimiters and column names or not and such.
lillecarl··on Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok
Alcohol has fucked up more lives than any other drug in my sphere. People who have had their life fucked by drugs has mostly been because of inhumane government intervention.

// Sweden

lillecarl··on Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras
Yeah there are people who can't help themselves, but they are a fraction of a fraction of the population. When presented with an honest and decent alternative the vast majority will choose it.
lillecarl··on Improving 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed
Citation needed, SOTA labs surely has technical protection and legaleese against using them for training. It's been done in th past but what indicates this is still the case?
lillecarl··on GitHub experience various partial-outages/degradations
It's nice to buy responsibility when it's upheld, else you're just trading your money for the inability to fix things.
lillecarl··on Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign
If this is the case you can install stop lights and traffic sensing at roundabout ingress points, you can also provide a "turn right" lane that bypasses the roundabout entirely. Intersections are dangerous.
lillecarl··on Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign
You don't have this? In Sweden we have sensors to detect cars, pedestrians and bicycles to shift the lights as appropriate. During rush-hour those features are turned off/discarded in favor of "grid optimized" timings. In Netherlands they prioritize pedestrians and cyclists when it's raining.

We also have LED lights in our traffic lights which I've come to understand is a saftey hazard in USA because snow falls sometimes.

lillecarl··on Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native
I use Scaleway as my registrar, I don't know if i can automate domain registration but I don't have to. They have APIs for managing records if you choose to host DNS there too.
lillecarl··on Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica
It should be trivial for Waymo to implement a "drive carefully near schools" feature, and if really spicy "drive REALLY carefully near schools at these times" feature.

Safe driving starts with speed, lowering speed and informing the passengers seems like a no-brainer.

lillecarl··on Devuan – Debian Without Systemd
Yep, the Linux kernel comes to mind. There are niche alternatives but mostly everyone settles on Linux as their kernel because it's easier and allows moving faster forwards.
lillecarl··on ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data
You're saying a proposed bill which hasn't passed is comparative to recent events in the US or am I reading too much between the lines?
lillecarl··on The 500k-ton typo: Why data center copper math doesn't add up
Thicker cables or higher voltage(lower current) is the answer which is why it's used in power distribution networks where they can control the voltage by planning what to transform to.
lillecarl··on To those who fired or didn't hire tech writers because of AI
A good amount != this. AI being able to do the easy parts of something doesn't replace the hard ones.
lillecarl··on 90M people. 118 hours of silence. One nation erased from the internet
> Do you think if Russia invades Sweden tomorrow, private businesses can still do whatever they want like in peacetime

Pretty much

> or will they have to follow the new waartime rules set by the government and enforced by armed soldiers knocking on their door dragging them to court if they refuse to comply?

They'll be dragging them to court. We're a democracy, we don't just send soldiers after our own.

lillecarl··on 90M people. 118 hours of silence. One nation erased from the internet
Luckily Sweden is not a dictatorship and doesn't have a supreme leder. Our government can't just hand-wave things. There's the legislative branch which must've had the foresight to make laws that allows the executive branch to order operators to comply.

The parent asked "Which technologically advanced democratic countries DON'T have this capability already developed and deployed?" and there are many, every country on earth isn't run by warmongering corrupt idiots.

lillecarl··on 90M people. 118 hours of silence. One nation erased from the internet
I highly doubt the Swedish government has a way to turn off our internet. Our government doesn't own our internet infrastructure, it's owned by private companies. The government could impose legislation to force providers to comply with shutting down international peering but I have a hard time seeing it pass.
lillecarl··on CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun
If you only expose SSH then you're fine, but if you're deploying a bunch of WebApps you might not want them accessible on the internet.

The few things I self host I keep out in the open. etcd, Kubernetes, Postgres, pgAdmin, Grafana and Keycloak but I can see why someone would want to hide inside a private network.

lillecarl··on Oh My Zsh adds bloat
The trick is to use "shellcheck" on your bash scripts, it's an overly anal linter that'll keep you sharp, and it's 2026, everyone can script bash with AI :)

But yeah the syntax with [[, if fi, while stmt; do; done, "$@", case esac, "${!VAR}" and others makes me long for the day fish shell gets "euo pipefail" mode so I can stop writing bash or || true :)

lillecarl··on Oh My Zsh adds bloat
Craziest thing: You can still script in bash/zsh even if you use fish but you can't always copy-paste from StackOverflow.
lillecarl··on Oh My Zsh adds bloat
https://fishshell.com/ https://xon.sh/ https://www.nushell.sh/ https://elv.sh/

You're replying to someone that says POSIX shells are holding people back, not that the terminal is a bad idea, there are many alternative shells which offer benefits over POSIX shells. fish-shell has everything you want from an interactive shell included, xonsh is a mix Python shell, nushell and elvish are adding types and other things to shell.

The VT protocols that all shells have to confirm with are pretty dated and I'd love to throw them off the roof for something less stateful and with multiple font sizes but there's no arguing that text based interfaces are good.

lillecarl··on Sergey Brin's Unretirement
Mitchell Hashimoto went on to create a new awesome terminal emulator, in a programming language he had not used (much) before. Sounds like a great way to stay entertained!
lillecarl··on IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world
The hardware support is very likely already there.
lillecarl··on European Space Agency hit again as cybercriminals claim 200 GB data up for sale
Ah yes, responding to the media during holidays will make the data crawl back to their servers!
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