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I figured my direct family could use an extra Macbook, so I decided to "peel" my M1 Pro away as a gift to my mom. It stays close, I can use her unused space as backup, provide ad-hoc Tailscale to her (way smoother than with her crufty Windows machine), and I get a nice upgrade to my current workflows.

Having said that, I did plan on sticking it out 7 years. Ended up bailing on an M5 Pro!

We've gotten through that threat twice now in Brazil. Lula has just cast out the Meta-assisted side as of yesterday's poll results [1]!

Exciting times

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50237485

I am mind blown at how long it took me to read that this was Minecraft. I agree, the wording makes you mentally skip Minecraft somehow.

I can vouch for having seen this firsthand on Meta AI assistants, the same behavior showing up for many close friends as well as colleagues.

This used to be an under the hood and frowned upon type of maneuver, but now it is much more rampant and far reaching thanks to AI

You and everyone else who's seen them know: these presidential debates are a JOKE. Just straight up biased towards high impact cuts for people zoned out of their minds on echo chambered social feeds

It’s a nut take with Lula pessimism. The left has taken a radical turn to fight back against bot engagement employed by the extreme right.

Probably, and as with most of MAGA adjacent electorate, it’s comprised of frequently stubborn brainwashed minds with no way of arguing out of.

If anything, many in Brazil feel a social media decline or stagnation. Orkut was poised to restart here and was met with great anticipation. Good market to new novel social media ideas.

Somehow something like Baidu web doesn’t seem too bad now. Brazil could use some sovereign tech.

It would absolutely strike me as a Trump thing, yes. We have a habit of mirroring the US, and it shows

Both sides are pulling record levels of engagement. It's a colosseum out there. But yes, one of the sides is more automated as usual. Most of the left engagement is human driven.

Apologies! Fixed the title now

It’s sad but it’s real and it’s happening. In Brazilian news, this is actively being exploded upon and it is not reaching mainstream media properly.

[1] - https://www.instagram.com/reel/De2BfVRD30o

[2] - https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/10/16/meta-employees-...

People are not notifying this nearly enough, but Meta is still going up and at it in Brazil [1] during one of the most polarized elections I've ever seen during my time.

Things got so ridiculous that Meta's AI WhatsApp companion would let you generate one candidate's posters, but flat-out deny you the same prompt for the opposition. Of course the bias skewed heavily towards benefiting the alt-right, pro-MAGA party.

[1] - https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/meta-employees-said-l...

I have always been an infrequent flosser, but deep down I've hoped for something like this to reach mainstream scientific consensus for a while so I no longer beat myself over it. Fingers crossed this is not a skewed study

Nitrome kicked ass! It had such a unified vision for the universe of its games. You could tell they were all conceived with great care and they felt connected to each other. It's nice to see they're looking the same and still alive and kicking [1].

[1] - https://www.nitrome.com

This is fairly off-topic but I thought you were familiar alright! I used JUCE back in college for a POC synthesizer and I remember it being the absolute best for plugin development. Incredibly enough it was my first point of contact with C++ and it was a joy to develop with.

I have not revisited VSTs post LLMs or even stayed close to music since I lost my collection and rock climbing has consumed most of my last decade, but kudos to putting such unique tooling out there when the rest of the ecosystem looked so byzantine. It's wild how people built so many incredible virtual instruments back in the day.

Going through those memories I'm now curious how the scene is like today where wild idea projects are more within reach.

What a treat to see this pop up here. I used to be obsessed with Madness flash shorts back in the day. Got me into Flash and web tooling in general. A testament to the prime 2000s web.

https://hurl.dev is pretty neat. As others have mentioned already - Bruno is also lean, dependable and recently got .yml support.

Why Postman? There are nicer, git friendlier options for something being shown as a git repo primarily.

I wanted to say I was ticking off all my dusty project ideas with LLMs one at a time. But in reality what I have been working the hardest so far is to help family in times of need, one situation after another for a few years by now.

I'm just glad I had a nice Father's day recently and it paid off. Finger's crossed for more like this.

I read these Starlink hope stories and get inspired now and then. But the truth is:

I've bought a mini and standard, and on my mini I've got maybe a couple of good anecdotes in it. But the rest of it? The 97%? Pure fucking hustle to work. A crying sham of a service. I cannot rely on this thing to save my life for a single zoom call at work.

Lmao I could not believe this when I read it. Had to do my due diligence in wikipedia afterwards. It's legit! [1]

[1] - Fires were almost a daily occurrence in Rome, and Crassus took advantage of the fact that Rome had no fire department, by creating his own brigade—500 men strong—which rushed to burning buildings at the first cry of alarm. Upon arriving at the scene, however, the firefighters did nothing while Crassus offered to buy the burning building from the distressed property owner, at a miserable price. If the owner agreed to sell the property, his men would put out the fire; if the owner refused, then they would simply let the structure burn to the ground. After buying many properties this way, he rebuilt them, and often leased the properties to their original owners or new tenants.

Can today go any faster? Yikes.

You're absolutely right here and things have improved significantly at work after dropping this habit even if slightly.

Guilty as charged. In my mind, when I'm insecure about a response or if I don't have enough expertise in the topic at hand I end up running it through an LLM. Lately I've been really trying harder to keep my original ideas as much as possible. I'm seeing a bit of an improvement, but still early to tell

NGL had me chuckling a bit there when I remembered I had one of these to code on my backlog

Nothing comes close to LLM transcription though. I just tried this. I said "globe key dictation, does this work?". Here's the transcription, verbatim:

"Fucking dictation, does this work"

This got me thinking that the smaller these local first LLMs get - the more they're gonna looking the next bread and butter of app dev. Reminds me how Electron gained a lot of traction for making it easy to package prettier apps. At the measly cost of gigabytes of RAM, give or take.

I really like the project and am eager to try and fit this into some of my workflows. However, this bothered me a bit:

"All models run locally, no private data leaves your computer. And it's spicy to offer something for free that other apps have raised $80M to build."

I’d straight up drop the comparison to big AI labs. This isn’t rebellious or subversive, it’s downstream of a ton of already-funded work. Calling it “spicy” is a bit misframed.

I can relate to the feeling - this timing tracks for when most, if not all of my friends, all my co-workers (even the few who were resisting to adopt any AI toloing) flocked to just "Claude Code". Similar to how the masses gobbled VS Code a while back.

Company started doling out Claude Code configs, everything is now cli/agentic AI harnessed and news about "90% of this company's code is now AI Generated" pop up every other day.

It seems the last frontier to breach before this was nailing agentic black boxes to not crap out during the first hour of work. After that, it's really been much smoother for those tools.