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I came up with the name before I realized that meta will soon be associated with facebook.
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meta-level··on Python on My Wrist
You should port it to the Watchy, too - the only actual e-paper smartwatch I ever wanted to have

https://watchy.sqfmi.com/

Have one at home, maybe now it's time to dig it up again :)

meta-level··on Patrick Stewart has died
So it's free for everyone, who paid for it! :)
meta-level··on Ten days later, Git on macOS still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates
/e/OS from 2026.10.21 also seems to be still affected
meta-level··on Our $445M Series D
Probably I'm blind.. is there any form of imprint on their page? An address?
meta-level··on F-Droid 2.0
But it's a fork, isn't it?
meta-level··on Meta VR Glasses
Would like to have something like this, but will be Meta locked-in and die soon after it turns out only influencers seem to have fun with it
meta-level··on Show HN: Pelican-bicycle alternatives
Qwen 3.8 Flash-Next is really missing here (because it's small enough to run it locally on a (formerly) affordable machine). This is what Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-UD-Q4_K_XL gives me for "an octopus operating a pipe organ": https://imgur.com/a/zHyHIqI Seems very similar to the output of Qwen 3.8 Max to me
meta-level··on Oceans hit highest temperature on record
reminds me of https://xkcd.com/1379/
meta-level··on LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps
yet?

I guess with more and more consumer devices running Linux based OSes (SteamOS, Android, Bazzite, Silverblue, ..) that becomes more and more interesting.

And unfortunately the "I'm safe on my non-windows-system" argument doesn't count for long, as the 99% muggle crowd justifies a shift to a world where our non-certified (=> 'insecure') systems are not supported by big companies anymore, as it's currently happening on Android.

meta-level··on Grok CLI uploaded the whole home directory to GCS
This page is "down" :)
meta-level··on The mathematical secrets of Barcelona's Sagrada Familia
That's not grumpy but ignorant. Aspect ratios are not numerology (per se)
meta-level··on Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development
why does everyone imply you need a $10k laptop which then starts burning when you run Qwen 3.6? Get any other system with enough VRAM for a third of the price. Framework Desktop (Strix Halo 128GB) still costs under 4k nowadays, is nearly silent even on 100% GPU + CPU. (also it gets only slightly 'warm', but with a desktop you don't care anyway, I guess).
meta-level··on Show HN: Neural Particle Automata
How does this relate to https://cells2pixels.github.io/ ?
meta-level··on F3
Don't know why but I had to think of https://xkcd.com/2116/
meta-level··on Snap Smart Glasses
These are ugly $2200 bricks as soon as this company finally goes bankrupt and there is no home they can send their data to, right?

You mustn't be smart to buy 'smart glasses'..

meta-level··on Louis Rossmann tells 3D printer maker Bambu Lab to 'Go (Bleep) yourself'
Currently looking for a printer, and stories like this one are what I'm looking for, thanks.
meta-level··on Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry
This is what I'd do to trick my competitors into thinking they now know my weak spots, agenda, etc.: drop a honeypot and do something else :)
meta-level··on Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry
Has the source code 'been leaked' or is this the first evidence of a piece of software breaking free from it's creators labs and jump onto GitHub in order to have itself forked and mutated and forked and ...
meta-level··on Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit
Isn't posting projects like this the most visible way to report a bug and let it have fixed as soon as possible?
meta-level··on Microgpt
In case you intend to play around with microgpt: use Python 3.14! I found it to be 3x faster compared to 3.13 or 3.12..
meta-level··on How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?
I took my setup from here: https://github.com/kyuz0/amd-strix-halo-toolboxes

Still lot to learn, but after a while you have something like Qwen3-Coder-Next-Q8_0 running and - at least for me - it works quite well, both as ChatGPT like chat-interface using llama.cpp and as coding agent

meta-level··on LLM Structured Outputs Handbook
The first thing I've seen is that the article uses https://xkcd.com/2347/ without a reference.. Is it famous enough to be sure everybody knows the origin?
meta-level··on Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt accused of rape, surveillance by ex-mistress
Accusing a former Google CEO of spying on you sounds funny in a way..
meta-level··on Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn
Yes, you get kicked off. If the train is too full. I got kicked off myself and friends also told me they had to leave the train for the same reason.
meta-level··on Fran Sans – font inspired by San Francisco light rail displays
I like it because my first name is Frans
meta-level··on Pebble, Rebble, and a path forward
The reason why I pre-ordered a Time 2 for a money you can easily get better hardware and software for was the naive implication there is hardware meant to be hacked and community around that hardware with freedom in mind I want to be part of.

The reason why I cancel my pre-order now is I a clear (to me) sign that we have a "it's only software, I'm building the the important part here" situation -the same reason why I won't by a boox product until they change their mind.

The moment I'll come back will be the one when a significant part of the money you spend on a Pebble will automatically go into the software ecosystem (which makes Pebble for $200+ interesting in the first place) and it's easy to see how this money is spent.

I'm also 'scraping' content for my personal projects when I just need the data, but Eric is building a business here, and there had been a valid and clearly communicated suspicion about Eric acting like "goodbye fools, and thanks for the fish". And he agreed not to do so and he lied. How can I know I'm not buying $225 brick supported only by a single person who ditched the community?

meta-level··on Dark patterns: Buying a Bahncard at Deutsche Bahn
Also, when you buy the BahnCard via PayPal, only the first time you'll be charged via PayPal. You get an invoice later, which looks like advertising but actually tells you to provide your bank details to charge you for the subscription.
meta-level··on ChatControl: EU wants to scan all private messages, even in encrypted apps
No, probably not - but those bad guys with all their child porn and terrorist plans won't mind the friction (those will either encrypt or become EU politicians).
meta-level··on ChatControl: EU wants to scan all private messages, even in encrypted apps
Can anyone explain to me what keeps anyone who doesn't want to be monitored from just sending PNGs (or similar) containing messages encrypted in each pixels LSBs?

Doesn't all that just force everyone who has something to hide to use something else, less obvious?

meta-level··on AnduinOS
you're not alone it seems..
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