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monooso··on Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says
How many people pirating software stole every piece of copyrighted material in existence and then used that material to generate billions of dollars which they kept for themselves?
monooso··on Kimi K2.7 Code is generally available in GitHub Copilot
You can tell Claude Code which model to use for subagents.

For example: https://github.com/monooso/dotfiles/tree/main/.claude/agents

monooso··on Investors get real-time view of UK bond market activity for the first time
Several such APIs include the equivalent data for US markets in their free tier, for personal use.
monooso··on Investors get real-time view of UK bond market activity for the first time
I spent the entire day yesterday trying to set up some automated monitoring of my investments, only to discover most UK market information is locked behind stupid-money APIs.

Anything that improves that situation is a positive.

monooso··on Big Tech is stoking unrest in the UK. Why?
Regardless of whether you're correct, that wasn't the subject of the article.
monooso··on How many of the 170k English words do you know?
The real question is, do you know what it means?
monooso··on Court Records Should Be Free
Isn't that basically the same as saying court filings should be available, but not to poor people?
monooso··on Claude: Elevated errors across many models
> I do feel like for all their dogfooding of AI coding, their own software/APIs are quite buggy...

Or possibly as a result of.

monooso··on 'Wow, it really worked ': 70s TV show causing worldwide panic today
In fairness to HN, the debunking made the front page.
monooso··on Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?
> We're discussing home use.

You may be, but the topic of discussion is whether anyone is using a local model as their main coding tool.

monooso··on Age verification tech could put children at greater risk, says think tank
> Parents will get their kids phones worrying that they're missing out.

Again, not a parent, but isn't making difficult decisions in the best interests of your child the entire gig?

monooso··on Age verification tech could put children at greater risk, says think tank
Disclaimer: not a parent, as will soon become apparent.

Several people have made the argument that individual parents can't simply cut their children off from social media, as said offspring may be ostracised (or simply look at their friends' phones, assuming they still have any).

That argument makes sense to me, to an extent.

What I don't quite understand is the conclusion that this leaves parents with only two (equally unpalatable) options.

Parents don't have to act individually. They could act as a collective, especially within the context of a small social group.

Is that really such a naive suggestion?

monooso··on DeepSeek V4 Pro beats GPT-5.5 Pro on precision
TIL, thank you.
monooso··on DeepSeek V4 Pro beats GPT-5.5 Pro on precision
I apologise if using words correctly is obvious and lame.

GP is explicitly criticising the language in the lede as being unsuitably vague, hence my reply.

As to the goal of the article, I fail to see what is dishonourable about comparing LLMs. You may consider the methodology flawed, but it's a perfectly respectable goal.

Sorry, was that another technicality? I'll try to find better material, just for you.

monooso··on Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux
Anthropic clamping down on non-first party clients using their subscription plans may also have something to do with it.
monooso··on Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux
Thankfully, it has been many years since I had to debug Bluetooth drivers (or anything of that ilk) on Linux.
monooso··on DeepSeek V4 Pro beats GPT-5.5 Pro on precision
I think you've misunderstood the purpose of a lead (sic).

Per Merriam-Webster [^1], a lede is:

> the introductory section of a news story that is intended to entice the reader to read the full story

(Emphasis mine)

You may prefer more matter-of-fact phrasing, of course, but criticising a lede for attempting to achieve its goal is unjustified.

[^1]: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lede

monooso··on Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux
In what way?
monooso··on Conventional Commits encourages focus on the wrong things
I don't think it's reasonable to judge Conventional Commits on something it doesn't claim to do.

I can't see any suggestion on the CC site [^1] that it "solve[s] the core issue of the poor commit messages problem."

Rather, it's explicitly described as "a specification for adding human and machine readable meaning to commit messages."

I'd say it accomplishes that modest goal.

[^1]: https://www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/

monooso··on Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?
He explicitly addresses that in the article.

> Luckily I’ve been joined by some other very good developers with great systems development skills and security knowledge... Watch out for some credits for some great new rsync developers in the next release.

monooso··on Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release
I've found Cosmic to be rather flaky, sadly (I'm rooting for it to succeed), so the latency issues may not have been Wayland-related.

Both KDE and GNOME seem to run very smoothly on Wayland.

monooso··on Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release
I've found the built-in clipboard manager on KDE Plasma 6 to be very reliable.

When I used GNOME, the Clipboard Indicator extension [1] served me well.

[1] https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/779/clipboard-indicat...

monooso··on Michael Burry says neither SpaceX nor Anthropic is worth $1T
Now we just take loans to purchase the train tickets.
monooso··on Michael Burry says neither SpaceX nor Anthropic is worth $1T
That seems like a hollow win.
monooso··on Michael Burry says neither SpaceX nor Anthropic is worth $1T
Your comment suggests that you (1) didn't read the article, and (2) have no idea who Michael Burry is.
monooso··on US's big bet on quantum computing may not be legal
Not GP, but in this context I would interpret the next administration[^1] holding the current administration to account as a willingness to use the court system to prosecute actual crimes committed while in office[^2].

That is by no means a given.

[^1]: Assuming there is one.

[^2]: That is, not petulantly prosecuting those deemed to have slighted you.

monooso··on The Problem with the Ferrari Luce EV Offers a Lesson for Every Leader
You just identified what (some) people dislike about it. It's the disconnect between your final two sentences.
monooso··on Vivaldi 8.0
That has not been my experience of Firefox on Linux.

Whenever I encounter a broken site, it's because I blocked some advertising scripts and the whole thing fell apart with a slew of JavaScript errors. I'm quite happy to avoid such shoddy sites.

monooso··on Why is almost everyone right-handed? A new study connects it to bipedalism
Not my area of expertise, but this article appears to completely ignore several factors which were true when I was growing up as a leftie in 1970s UK (admittedly some time ago):

1. Some schools actively punished children for writing left-handed.

2. Pretty much every utensil was made for right-handed people. I don't recall ever seeing left-handed scissors, for example.

3. You learn by copying those around you. If your parents, teachers, and peers are predominantly right-handed (and are even actively encouraging you to be right-handed), then you're likely to toe the line.

I imagine the final point would remain a factor long after the first two are addressed.

monooso··on Google changes its search box
That's some catch, that catch-22.
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