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Yes so many iPads that are dead bricks, while they could be running some pure Linux distro for many purposes

Wow thanks for the info about the toniebox reverse engineering!

My kids got offer a toniebox this year, and when discovering the product I was so upset about this locked and privacy nightmare I brought it back to the seller for a refund and started to look for alternatives (got time, still very young). Will check it out!

Side comment: i guess this is the october 2026 defaut font for Claude? (Vibe coded some landing pages prototypes very recently, always came with this exact fonts)

My current analogy for code/programming is currently related to cooking: ai coding agents are the new Thermomix.

Yes be able to give new life and maintain compatibility with old hardware and/or unsupported OSes is one of the recent positive aspects of agents with frontier models!

Also managed to bring back compatibility old printer with Linux and even unsupported one working only over bluetooth!

Before this era, you could imagine how it could work but would have rarely taken the time to do this grunt work. Now you ask, wait for a few minutes, do so meat proxy integration testing, iterate a few times and here you go.

Brings some hope for sustainable computing!

A few weeks ago, I had Claude develop a CUPS driver running over a Bluetooth connection for the mini photo printer Canon Zoemini 2: works great on Linux (NixOS), even though Canon only bothered to only support smartphones, never desktops!

Modern version of « The Dice Man »

And that's one the biggest issue right now unfortunately

Okay yes "fight so hard" might have been a bit stronger sorry for that. But it was more in line with "this has become so annoying recently" rightly so because yes you do need to remove the cruft that has nothing to be here and I don't remember being such as issue 6 months ago. The other part of it is to regularly remind colleagues of this rising issue because as I said, even experienced people tend not to care anymore, and this is saddening me.

And while in 2025 I considered AI coding agent in the realm of junior devs, we have been way way past that since early 2026 honestly.

I don’t think that’s specific to Claude though. I’ve seen people use GH Copilot harneds (don’t with which models) and it was even worst

> It's funny how LLMs leak their test procedure docs into user-facing output.

You have to constantly fight so hard to not get this. And for the past few months it seems most people do not even care to remove it and have proper user facing docs

Can we stop with the 100% corner radius trend already, please? Or at least give the users the choice between childish UI and professional one?

Late to the party but thanks for the pointer, at least with the Proton theme the color palette is not burning my eyes anymore (but still have the crazy Nova full rounded radius everywhere)

That 90’s CD-ROM vibe you like is coming back in style!

You don’t: either you accept the tracking and can use the feature you are paying for (e.g. Updated gps maps) or you don’t all together.

Put on top of that freakin bugs and non optimized performance for all screens in the vehicule, and you get a wonderful experience…

At the beginning of the article, I really thought the author was referring to reversing the final step as the candidate providing feedback for the interviewer, which would have been much more interesting especially on the matter of reversing the power balance! But in fact it was not.

(I have not been a job candidate in almost 10 years but in B2B meetings I kind of like to do a similar reversal of power in some situations, just to inform the other party I am not a 6-weeks rabbit)

« Hey Coop’! I guess Blue Roses occur in nature now! »

« Damn good news, Gordon! »

The French comedy movie « Yves » from a few years back is quite fitting right now

Welcome to SWE in 2026

OCLP is excellent but it's all coming to an end for Intel Macs unfortunately. Even Homebrew just dropped the ball a few days ago (this is the final draw for me, I'll keep a Sequoia partition but my MBP2015 daily drives on NixOS + GNOME)

Interesting, been thinking a lot about this recently due to Vimeo crazy price hike for private video storage...

Any modern Linux distro works great on Intel Macs. Been daily driving with Debian 13 initially and now NixOS on my MBP2015, have not used the MacOS Sequoia partition for months!

Isn’t iphonebridge[0] doing the same but without browser extensions? (Haven’t used neither but been looking for such solution in the past)

[0]: https://github.com/gabrielmeir53/iphonebridge

Time for Benjamin Malaussène to strike again!

Oh nice! I’ll take a look at it, I was thinking of implementing such mecanism in Cooper (I don’t know where it’s going, exploring the possibilities and practical usefulness)

In the past few weeks, experimenting with a custom ai agent running entirely in the browser with sandboxed tools exec.

The core is built in Rust, a native CLI is built on top for local experimentation but the most interesting part is the web version: the core is built to WASM and get augmented with many tools in the JS land: - OPFS access (read, list, edit files) - Sandbox Python exec (Pyodide in WASM) - Sandbox DuckDB exec (DuckDB-WASM) - Draw charts - Show images - etc OpenAI Completions compatible API providers are supported.

But if you want a full local and sandboxed execution of the whole agent, the web version bundles also wllama to serve local GGUF models (with WebGPU optional support).

Github repo: https://github.com/rclement/cooper

> People do weird things when given sudden access to money or power.

10 years ago my last boss told me one last advice before going onto entrepreneur ventures: « be careful, people do become crazy and stupid with money » (and I guess he knew what he was talking about…)

Same been running Debian 13 Gnome on MBP 2015 13’. Works great, in a triple boot setting using OCLP

For instance visio calls are unusable on Sequoia (OCLP) but rather smooth on Debian

Is this using the youtube per-channel RSS feeds?

For people already using RSS feed readers, this is another way to achieve the same result (i do that with miniflux)

For the past few months, many times i’ve tried this workflow: 1. Ask a coding agent to think and implement a feature that is non trivial 2. This leads to really understand pros and cons for many possible solutions and see it happen end to end 3. Revert all changes and implement it myself when i’m settled on a solution i’m satisfied with 4. At this point the agent is just an iterative reviewer

I’ve felt that any non trivial amount of code not written myself tends to be hard to own. And like the author said, need to keep skills sharp also