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pluto_modadic··on This website is for humans
(per capita) buy one cabinet every time you move (they break if you try to move them), or buy one quality piece of wood furniture and resell it when you don't want it.

it's disposable plates vs dishwasher ones, but particle board vs actual furniture

pluto_modadic··on Cross-Site Request Forgery
ah, that explains it.
pluto_modadic··on Japan's largest paper, Yomiuri Shimbun, sues Perplexity for copyright violations
anthropic has lawyers and buys senators, aron swartz was one dude corporations could make an example of via the courts.
pluto_modadic··on Jepsen: Capela dda5892
does Jepsen's test software auto-generate the cool diagrams (like 3.22) or do you have to do it yourself? do you prefer any software to do that?
pluto_modadic··on We shouldn't have needed lockfiles
...source?

show me one "decades old build" of a major project that isn't based on 1) git hashes 2) fixed semver URLs or 3) exact semver in general.

pluto_modadic··on Show HN: Sinkzone DNS – Forwarder that blocks everything except your allowlist
"can run" / "can be configured to run" / "is not documented but can" != "is purpose built for allowlisting workflow as simple as possible"
pluto_modadic··on Atlassian terminates 150 staff
maybe doing something wrong should be emotionally painful for managers and HR staff.
pluto_modadic··on 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results
it would be rather odd if 60% of the respondents didn't use the site, wouldn't it?
pluto_modadic··on ‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]
given that Israel expanded their borders repeatedly, poisoned village wells, and considers the genocidal periods of the Nakba (their "independence holiday") something that's illegal to mourn... yes. yes it was always clear. the playbook has been the same since 1948.
pluto_modadic··on How to make websites that will require lots of your time and energy
I like Django's ORM for good schema migration. Other "ORMs" people build do not often have a good story around that. So often it's because developers aren't experiencing the best ORMs they could.
pluto_modadic··on Claude Code weekly rate limits
future hardware costs do not erase losses on existing capex expenditures, if they bought an (overpriced) nvidia GPU and then it turns out local LLMs or a Chinese competitor can do it for much cheaper investors effectively notice the mortgage is underwater. Tech getting cheaper is only handy if your company (e.g. ChatGPT) didn't already make a big gamble they can't sell off (for fear of hurting the cost of the asset they're trying to sell) see also coin "reserves".
pluto_modadic··on Claude Code weekly rate limits
*cannot possibly subsidize an unlimited plan and must course correct on pricing to reflect cost-plus-pricing instead.
pluto_modadic··on The EU could be scanning your chats by October 2025
same logic as "fixing the clocks wasn't that big of a problem, the world didn't set on fire", well yeah because we warned you and fixed it. This is also the logic behind the no-win scenario of IT/security budgets:

things are working: why do we pay so much for IT/security or XYZ tool, we don't need it.

things are on fire: we pay so much money for IT/security or XYZ tool and it didn't help us

pluto_modadic··on Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server
bittorrent needs to know the complete file at the beginning to make the pieces. This tool doesn't need to know the complete file to start the upload, nor the download...

IIRC webtorrent /can/ do streaming though....

pluto_modadic··on Open Letter to Anthropic – Last Ditch Attempt Before Abandoning the Platform
If this could crash faster that would be grand
pluto_modadic··on Elevated errors on Claude 4 Sonnet
Ah great
pluto_modadic··on A low power 1U Raspberry Pi cluster server for inexpensive colocation (2021)
Could be fun for an ipv6 cluster
pluto_modadic··on The future is not self-hosted, but self-sovereign
Ah, yes, the cure is the magical token.

If you want a better future, make better self hosted apps, that are accessible, easy to set up, and don't lack features ordinary people ask for.

No fancy token ever beat an easy button. And no poorly built self hosting app is helping...

pluto_modadic··on Against the censorship of adult content by payment processors
why not bitcoin? because: "Repeat after me: all technical problems of sufficient scope or impact are actually political problems first" - Eleanor Saitta
pluto_modadic··on Celebrating 20 Years of MDN
Is this the same MDN that ruined their docs by having AI hallucinate answers instead of linking to working examples? Mozilla really forcing the AI angle on their poor teams :(
pluto_modadic··on What to expect from Debian/Trixie
finally they're using a tmpfs. thank goodness <3
pluto_modadic··on CSS's problems are Tailwind's problems
1. highlighting

2. syntax checking

3. language servers.

pluto_modadic··on Blip: Peer-to-peer massive file sharing
1. - FTP could fail / doesn't resume the same way rsync, mutagen, or syncthing could

2. - nothing would by your criteria of an airgap, that's a strawman, this is just an alternative over the wire method (as is bluetooth file transfer)

pluto_modadic··on AI could have written this: Birth of a classist slur in knowledge work [pdf]
blue checks are orthogonal - they're more rough approximations of "I bought a cybertruck when musk went full crazy" (and yes, it's a bad look). - judging some blog post for seeming like AI is different.
pluto_modadic··on The surprising geography of American left-handedness (2015)
founder effect, or bias of kindergarten teachers in that area having an outsized effect picking ambidextrous students to be left handed.
pluto_modadic··on Occasionally USPS sends me pictures of other people's mail
USPS usually sends me emails that reference a package, that the web dashboard doesn't display. or has packages stuck in their system from a thursday several months ago.
pluto_modadic··on AI is killing the web – can anything save it?
> "not bothering to spend any time searching"

because searching has become MUCH worse, and because even when it used to be good, searching is a SKILL.

pluto_modadic··on Subreply – An open source text-only social network
UTF-8 is still text :p
pluto_modadic··on The borrowchecker is what I like the least about Rust
The syntax is what I don't like. You can create some intensely cursed 3 line segments.
pluto_modadic··on Fully homomorphic encryption and the dawn of a private internet
queries are Oblivious Transfer - a second limited case of FHE that actually addresses the filter threat model.
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