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nebezb··on Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter
All of that is worth the extra safety.
nebezb··on AI bot gives customer 80% discount, supplier can't deliver
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/air-canada-c...

A disclaimer is, in my opinion, not enough.

nebezb··on Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product
This is a great idea. What was your biggest blocker?
nebezb··on Sometimes your job is to stay the hell out of the way
In practice what you’re suggesting is that you’ll let your home builder run over time and over budget. Intervention on your behalf would be an unnecessary expense and a waste of the builders time. They know better and that would be pointless.

Your position is employers are building the best house with the biggest moat to attract the entire world, with an assumed endless time and budget, and there are no bounds to be set with employees.

nebezb··on Sometimes your job is to stay the hell out of the way
Your example worsens your position. I do not want my home builder going over budget and over time without telling me, only finding out after their “continual improvement” that I won’t be moving into my house. Worse, because they believe only they’re able to know what’s best.

In your fictional scenario of unlimited budget and time, sure I grant that an expert should work unguided.

nebezb··on Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking
Very good discovery. My prior perspectives need updating.
nebezb··on Sometimes your job is to stay the hell out of the way
Were you doing it on your own time? From your described “a lot of effort,” I assume it was not but please correct me if I’m wrong.

If you’re being paid for your time by someone else, it’s fair to notify them how you plan to use a significant chunk of that money before you do it. Unless of course you were employed to _not_ do that.

I am not suggesting explaining a day or two of work. But it sounds like you’re talking weeks.

nebezb··on Sometimes your job is to stay the hell out of the way
> Being able to improve something without planning it.

There are very few professions we’d consider this acceptable. Implicit in this statement is the assumption that your time-value is only known by you (or free).

You certainly wouldn’t let your contractor improve things on your dime, unplanned, and unexplained. You might even fire them if you discovered they spent the day “refactoring” conduit instead of installing the pot lights you asked them for.

nebezb··on Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking
Tailscales founders are Canadian, principled, and are very sensitive to Canadian needs. I very much trust Avery and team to do what’s necessary to keep US hands off the data.

edit: someone pointed out they’ve signed new users on to a US co. 15 months ago. I made the statement without knowing this. they aren’t as capable as I originally claimed.

nebezb··on OSS ChatGPT WebUI – 530 Models, MCP, Tools, Gemini RAG, Image/Audio Gen
freedomben has 28k karma. I don’t think the downvote button is coming.
nebezb··on How I Became a Quant (2007) [pdf]
I use markitdown[0] religiously. You’ll lose fidelity for anything complex (math equations, images), but it does a great job 95% of the time in my experience.

I’m assuming the attack surface is reduced. I invoke it through a docker container. But this might be a misplaced sense of safety.

[0] https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown

nebezb··on The tech monoculture is finally breaking
I use mine every single day, multiple hours a day. I can’t imagine going back to AirPods. And I think twice about the importance of an incoming call if I’m not wearing them, sometimes rejecting it and returning the call later when I am wearing them. My Gen1 glasses have replaced my wireless headphones completely.
nebezb··on Show HN: Coi – A language that compiles to WASM, beats React/Vue
A low effort reply for a low quality take.

Read the post. You might learn something.

nebezb··on Show HN: An interactive physics simulator with 1000’s of balls, in your terminal
Reading your workflow described in PROMPTS.md was insightful. I appreciate how much thought goes into each follow-up, including the manual steps after each invocation.
nebezb··on I was a top 0.01% Cursor user, then switched to Claude Code 2.0
This caught me by surprise. Wow time flies.
nebezb··on I was a top 0.01% Cursor user, then switched to Claude Code 2.0
> my experience from 5 years of coding with AI

What AI have you been using for 5 years of coding?

nebezb··on Gaussian Splatting – A$AP Rocky "Helicopter" music video
If it was achievable, cheaper, and of equal quality then it would have been done that way. Surely it would’ve been done that way a long time ago too. Drone paths have been around a lot longer than this technology.

There’s no proof of your claim and this video is proof of the opposite.

nebezb··on Our approach to advertising
Where is the posters disingenuous equation?

Also, your newspaper is selling the data points it has. If it had more, it would sell more. See: your local paper isn’t selling ads to a car wash six towns over. They do, however, sell ads that align with the political affinities of your local newsrooms area.

nebezb··on Anthropic Explicitly Blocking OpenCode
A regulatory duty to deal is the opposite of setting your own terms. Yes, citing a ToS is acceptable in this scenario. We can throw ToS out if we all believed in duty to deal.
nebezb··on Anthropic Explicitly Blocking OpenCode
Are you suggesting Anthropic has a “duty to deal” with anyone who is trying to build competitive products to Claude Code, beyond access to their priced API? I don’t think so. Especially not to a product that’s been breaking ToS.
nebezb··on Claude Cowork exfiltrates files
The poster you originally replied to is suggesting this for revoking the attackers keys. Not for revocation of their own keys…
nebezb··on Claude Cowork exfiltrates files
> Why can't we just use input sanitization similar to how we used originally for SQL injection?

Because your parameterized queries have two channels. (1) the query with placeholders, (2) the values to fill in the placeholders. We have nice APIs that hide this fact, but this is indeed how we can escape the second channel without worry.

Your LLM has one channel. The “prompt”. System prompt, user prompt, conversation history, tool calls. All of it is stuffed into the same channel. You can not reliably escape dangerous user input from this single channel.

nebezb··on Claude Cowork exfiltrates files
> We have all of the tools to prevent these agentic security vulnerabilities

How?

nebezb··on New information extracted from Snowden PDFs through metadata version analysis
> Very naive to think that the Russian and Chinese governments didn't get a full copy of the documents Snowden stole and absconded with.

Does one need to be gullible to believe this? Or will you substantiate your extraordinary claim?

nebezb··on Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions
> aren't you paying for the model usage

No, you’re paying for “Claude Code” usage.

nebezb··on Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files
How does this translate to apps with low ratings, or something in the middle?
nebezb··on State of the Fin 2026-01-06
Your response is both unnecessarily aggressive and plainly wrong.

Yes, Plex _should_ work without an internet gateway. Why? Because it’s a client/server media application; it transcodes media to clients/players over the network.

Plex used to work like this. Actually, it was exclusively unauthenticated. Then early 10s they added optional auth, and eventually allowed you to reserve “server names”, and finally enforced with for running their server. But you can still use a client without auth today. Just read their docs: https://support.plex.tv/articles/200890058-authentication-fo...

nebezb··on I switched from VSCode to Zed
You’re not the random engineer. Ben, the commenter you’re replying to, is.

You were given helpful advice and a link. I don’t see this being condescending.

nebezb··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
You deflected criticism earlier by describing yourself “brown”. Surely you know the US is leading the scoreboard in their murder.

And nobody said citizen. Your posts reek of trolling.

nebezb··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
> Far better than a dictator unfriendly to our interests.

You’re contradicting yourself.

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