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midasz··on Mistral raises 1.7B€, partners with ASML
There's no way to catch up really - if they keep innovating like they are it's not possible to bridge that gap.
midasz··on Fight Chat Control
As disappointing as my national government (NL) has been and still is, at least our MEPs oppose this dragon of a proposal.
midasz··on Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 – an update
Damn dude. I'm just having fun most of the time. The field is so insanely broad that if you've got an ounce of affinity there's a corner that would fit you snugly AND you'd make a decent living. Take a look around.
midasz··on My experience with Claude Code after two weeks of adventures
There's a neat trick to remove the nag screen
midasz··on NIH is cheaper than the wrong dependency
Either way you wrap each thing that acts as a dependency, even if it's internal. I treat dependencies another team in my company delivers the same as any other third party dependency. Never use the classes but always just wrap around them in a service or component.

When my 'task' is to publish things on a Kafka bus I create a publishing service that takes in an object that I control, only inside that service is there actual talk about the dependency and preferably even that's a bit wrapped. It's easy to go too far with this but a little bit of wrapping keeps you safe.

midasz··on Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests
She was being filmed by a camera crew, it was obvious she was from the press. Media vest - it's not Afghanistan - though deployment of military may give that impression. Really going for the 'she was asking' for it defense?
midasz··on Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests
I saw the one where a journalist was shot with rubber bullets. What does the flag have to do with anything? Aren't you guys supposed to have freedom of expression?
midasz··on OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats
It doesn't really matter from what country the company is. If you do business in the EU then EU laws apply to the business you do in the EU. Just like EU companies adhere to US law for the business they do in the US.
midasz··on Claude 4
> make an impact.

To me, a junior devs biggest job is learning and not delivering value. Is a pitfall I'm seeing in my own team where he is so focused on delivering value that he's not gaining an understanding.

midasz··on Ditching Obsidian and building my own
This is also my big frustration. I've set it to an Adguard instance that's also on tailscale and the app keeps getting into a faulty state. I've been looking into hosting the Adguard instance on the open web and securing it another way but bit short on time lately.
midasz··on Audiobookshelf: Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server
It has Android auto, I've used it in a previous car and it's decent enough. Like the other commenter said - I'd install tailscale and connect via that.
midasz··on Audiobookshelf: Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server
One thing LLM's could do for me is a "recap" feature. I sometimes completely forget listening to books when I'm halfway through. So I'm either having to Google for synopsis per chapter or just start over. Mostly i just pick something else to listen. If it could recap up until where I'm at that'd be pretty neat.
midasz··on Audiobookshelf: Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server
This is one of the pillars of the selfhosting world imo. Together with Immich for photos, Plex(amp) - arr stack for media, and Vaultwarden for passwords. They've just never let me down.

Maybe openwebui is another addition but it's still early days

midasz··on Audiobookshelf: Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server
I just use abs to serve podcasts, subscribe to the abs feeds with antennapod. Have a couple of premium podcasts setup that way (so even keeping a local archive).
midasz··on Gemini 2.5 Flash
I use Gemini 2.5 pro experimental via openrouter in my openwebui for free. Was using sonnet 3.7 but I don't notice much difference so just default to the free thing now.
midasz··on TSMC expected to announce $100B investment in U.S.
Any and all promises made by the Trump administration mean nothing
midasz··on It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds
propaganda
midasz··on It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds
Change can be spurred on by law. If governments aren't allowed to use non-EU (or maybe specifically US) hosters a big enough investment could jumpstart it. I'm working for a semi-government organization who just switched over to kubernetes. That can be hosted anywhere, there's not really a moat.
midasz··on It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds
Yeah, this just seems like a great opportunity for a European startup scene. Even though plenty of bad things happened under Joe Biden - the relationship with the US was fine. Every morning you wake up to see crazy stuff Trump said and that really plants a seed.
midasz··on How I program with LLMs
But you're not really writing python right? You're instructing a tool to generate python. Kinda like saying I'm writing bytecode while I'm actually just typing Java.
midasz··on Sora is here
Huh didn't realize chat.com redirected to chatgpt
midasz··on Itch.io Taken Down by Funko
I'm with Namecheap and they're decent but one big minus is how inaccessible their API is, would put them on the bottom of the "do use" list.
midasz··on Impossibly thin fabric could cool you down by 16-plus degrees
How come specifically American, and how'd you reach that conclusion from glancing at the site? A huge number of people speak English as a second language. Usually the notation follows the number, so it's kind of lazy to just say it's written for americans specifically - moreso as a counter to someone saying it's Farenheit instead of Celcius since I also clicked immediately thinking how is that possible.
midasz··on Debloat non-rooted Android devices
I just did yesterday on a new chromecast Google TV thingy with the inbuilt function of Projectivy launcher. Installed the launcher, checked the box in settings and now even when restarting I don't see the default launcher.
midasz··on Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)
For me a big usecase is the ability to save specific requests and categorize / name them. It's a good way to document test data. If someone creates a feature which I want to test or debug I'd have to dig into the database to find which parameters I'd need to use, or I just find the right request in the tool.
midasz··on Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)
I've been using it for a month or so at work and I love how simple and fast it is. I need to dig into the advanced features but it's already useful.
midasz··on Private company landing on the moon today
I'm not sure, how many women a year should we say is acceptable?
midasz··on Private company landing on the moon today
Women die because they're not allowed to abort nonviable fetuses that would also likely kill them. Seems very unsafe, I wouldn't want to be a woman there.
midasz··on ASML dethrones Applied Materials, becomes largest fab tool maker
No I'm not sure and maybe it's just me. Also but of a difference between a party and posts on the internet imo.
midasz··on ASML dethrones Applied Materials, becomes largest fab tool maker
Non-substantial anonymous comment isn't meaningful
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