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pluto_modadic··on Going full AI engineer, not touching code anymore
this seems like a strawman... of /course/ you'd use the IDE to do ref renames?? AI isn't for that...
pluto_modadic··on Anthropic raises Claude Code usage limits, credits new deal with SpaceX
musk's public image is well known, and the statement is reflecting a useful heuristic / business sense; some customers really would use claude less knowing that it's buddies with musk now. Your own immaturity leaks through. I would say that the one weakness for OP is that people okay with using claude but not okay with grok might be a different size overlap than expected (either more people fine with both, or more people disjoint, or it just doesn't factor in for people).
pluto_modadic··on OsmAnd’s Faster Offline Navigation (2025)
OsmAnd still hasn't fixed utah addresses. If I enter in how we call addresses in local slang, it has no idea how to find it.
pluto_modadic··on AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says
Why do I have a feeling that this will be ignored as biased by the people who need to read it the most.
pluto_modadic··on Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available
Excited to try this out on headscale someday :)
pluto_modadic··on GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams
This is kinda... rude. Like saying that a GUI doesn't serve a purpose when people could read the TTY.

CI gives you areas for your bash scripts to run in self-contained small runs, that may trigger other runs, in a repeatable fashion on a clean environment, on a GUI anybody in your team can see. It gives you quick integrations into things.

CD lets you repeatedly deploy - without forgeting a step that was only known to Phil, the guy that retired three years ago, remembering all the steps and doing something dependably.

Or... you could do bash scripts? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40SnEd1RWUU (Just use a VPS, bro)

pluto_modadic··on We are discontinuing the dark web report
huh. did their source / login get burned?
pluto_modadic··on Key Transparency for the Fediverse
oooooo. but can it play doom?

congrats. excited for this. hope the mastodon team can integrate it.

pluto_modadic··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)
neat! damn, wish you had security openings. That SRE one looks nice though.
pluto_modadic··on UnitedHealth pays its own physician groups 17% more than outside ones
if you don't have anything nice to say... :3
pluto_modadic··on How to build a solar powered electric oven
wonder if you could increase fire resistance by moving the grout layer so it's not touching the bottom cork except in key spaces with a more effective insulator?
pluto_modadic··on Self-help gets philosophical
IIRC stoicism was written by rich people (and advisors to rich people) who didn't focus at all on improving the system. It's on-brand for the self-help influencer phenomena where you disregard disadvantages to others and systemic problems.
pluto_modadic··on AI scrapers request commented scripts
ignoring a rate limit gets you blocked.
pluto_modadic··on NPM flooded with malicious packages downloaded more than 86k times
makefiles /can/ do whatever you like. They can download anything on build.
pluto_modadic··on Asahi Linux Still Working on Apple M3 Support, M1n1 Bootloader Going Rust
looks like the installer still doesn't support LUKS2.
pluto_modadic··on Feed the bots
if that floats your boat, sure. It's also home to most of the world's malware, and you usually don't need it.
pluto_modadic··on Making a micro Linux distro (2023)
I wonder what the level of difficulty getting this to run as a cloud image (e.g. on Vultr or Digitalocean) would be. Or getting it to boot a GUI and run firefox.
pluto_modadic··on Making a micro Linux distro (2023)
this is kinda cool. Does that mean you can use u-root to embed as a UEFI image? or to boot a u-root image over PXE netboot?
pluto_modadic··on Computer science courses that don't exist, but should (2015)
"when you need shiny tech (you don't)" (aka, when to use postgres/sqlite)
pluto_modadic··on JMAP for Calendars, Contacts and Files Now in Stalwart
if they pull out the AI stuff that'll be soooo cool :D
pluto_modadic··on Why UUIDs won't protect your secrets
...the solution to IDORs is to authenticate each user and check authorization per object.

full stop.

pluto_modadic··on Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout
DNS is:

- simple

- battle hardened

- distributed

- affordable

blockchains are:

- essoteric, backwards, and not easily implemented

- new and unproven, frequently hacked

- effectively a ploy to centralize / redo Web 1.0 but owned by one blockchain

- ...waaaaaaay more about money and "owning something" than DNS is.

pluto_modadic··on What I Self Host
IaaS VPS's and rented colo VMs are definitely fine. PaaS is... slightly not? it's the grey edge!

SaaS is definitely not you running stuff you control or could move anywhere.

If it's a buck standard linux box, yeah that's self hosting!

pluto_modadic··on What I Self Host
self-hosting: running open source code that you could run on any computer.

if it's convenient to run mastodon on hetzner, that's STILL self hosting; because you /can/ move your app IN ITS ENTIRETY from any computer to any other.

HomeLab elites really are the most insufferable people out there.

pluto_modadic··on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1
sticker shock / looking at alternative vendors
pluto_modadic··on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1
it's a weird effect:

imagine a beach, with icecream vendors. You'd think it would be optimal for two vendors to each split it half north, half south. However, in wanting to steal some of the other vendors' customers, you end up with two icecream stands in the center.

So too with outages. Safety / loss of blame in numbers.

pluto_modadic··on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1
oh hey, I've bricked a server remotely and had to drive 45 minutes to the DC to get badged in and reboot things :)
pluto_modadic··on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1
so, funny story, my fiber got cut (backhoe) and it took then 12 hours to restore it.

If you had /two/ houses, in separate towns, you'd have better luck. Or, if you had cell as a backup.

Or: if you don't care about it being down for 12 hours.

pluto_modadic··on Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features
Firefox shouldn't try to "be chrome", people who want chrome just use that. Firefox should be /not chrome/.
pluto_modadic··on Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features
translation is moreso machine learning, not generative hallucinations or a chatbot
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