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samtheprogram··on OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent
Definitely not Wayland related, or so I doubt. I'm on wayland and never had any issues, and it's a TUI, where the terminal emulator does or does not do GPU work. What led you to that conclusion?
samtheprogram··on Bringing Chrome to ARM64 Linux Devices
I'm confused, how does Chrome work on ARM64 Android phones today?
samtheprogram··on Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns
He deletes posts after they are no longer relevant. Given how people dig dirt up on people and take them out of context long after that context is forgotten, more people should do that (or delete social media altogether).
samtheprogram··on GPL upgrades via section 14 proxy delegation
Linus never cared about that use case of the GPL. He cared about the source code sharing.
samtheprogram··on Welcome (back) to Macintosh
Tangeltial, can we still run custom Darwin kernels? IIRC that was blocked under security pretenses.
samtheprogram··on Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns
And?
samtheprogram··on How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week
The irony of this in the README:

- Node.js production server (vinext start) works for testing but is less complete than Workers deployment. Cloudflare Workers is the primary target.

samtheprogram··on Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware
And now everyone else is aware of it too... including anyone marginally above a scriptkiddie.
samtheprogram··on Why E cores make Apple silicon fast
Catalina and Mojave were the closest releases in terms of quality that we got to Snow Leopard. Catalina in particular since it was the release that removed more 32-bit cruft (like Snow Leopard before it).
samtheprogram··on Solving Shrinkwrap: New Experimental Technique
I came to say something similar; on Android Firefox, scrolling on the page is stuttery.
samtheprogram··on Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions
New feature development in web and mobile apps is absolutely 10% more productive with these tools, and anyone who says otherwise is coping. That's a large fraction of software development.
samtheprogram··on GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams
This is by choice, no? In most cases I see stuff like this, it could've been a bash script. That said, the environments in different CI's are different so it won't be totally portable, but still applies.
samtheprogram··on Study: emotional support from social media found to reduce anxiety
This is the equivalent of saying that a cigarette reduces anxiety. The overall habit absolutely does not reduce anxiety.
samtheprogram··on Kimi K2.5 Technical Report [pdf]
Kimi K2.5 approaches Sonnet as well from what I can tell, it's just slower to get to the result.
samtheprogram··on Kimi K2.5 Technical Report [pdf]
opencode is a good alternative that doesnt flake out in this way.
samtheprogram··on Bugs Apple loves
Spotlight has really been bothering me lately, for months now, and it’s not even indexing all the time. I disabled all but applications and the calculator, because that’s all I use Spotlight for, and it still can’t find some apps that are in /Applications. Sometimes it’s some apps, sometimes it’s everything, and after rebooting it’ll sometimes reindex. No idea what’s going on, but today might be the day I install Quicksilver, if that’s still a thing.

I also had to type over reindex 3 times to get it to stick :)

samtheprogram··on Show HN: Rails UI
It’s fixed for me, nice!
samtheprogram··on Show HN: Rails UI
If you’re showing off a UI framework, I shouldn’t be accidentally scrolling left and right on the page on mobile / my iPhone. Couldn’t be bothered to scroll down the page to look at components while accidentally activating horizontal scrolling.
samtheprogram··on Flux 2 Klein pure C inference
There’s benchmarks in the README. Python is ~10x faster. It’s heavily optimized. Based on the numbers and my experience with Flux.1, I’m guessing the Python run is JIT’d (or Flux.2 is faster), although it’d likely only be ~half as fast if it weren’t (i.e. definitely not 10x slower).
samtheprogram··on Show HN: Lume 0.2 – Build and Run macOS VMs with unattended setup
For a version of macOS that old, you’d probably want a dmg, which you can create with createinstallmedia if you have the Install macOS.app. Not sure if it’s supported with Lume as it’s the first time I’ve heard of it.
samtheprogram··on Anthropic is making a huge mistake
I’m just using their API tokens instead of Max. If usage gets out of control, then fine, I might need to look into an alternative. But I’ve grown very accustomed to the model and would rather not switch until I find a real need to.
samtheprogram··on Windows 8 Desktop Environment for Linux
I’m sorry, but the release of Plasma, around the same time IIRC, was not without controversy.
samtheprogram··on Sopro TTS: A 169M model with zero-shot voice cloning that runs on the CPU
This is one-shot.
samtheprogram··on Please just try HTMX
When an API returns JSON, your JS framework can decide what to do with it. If its returning HTML that's intended to go in a particular place on a page, the front-end has far less flexibility and pretty much has to put it in a specific place. Hence why they said endpoints can return 3-5 different versions of HTML.
samtheprogram··on Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop
Wow, Slax is still around and supports Debian now too? Thanks for sharing.
samtheprogram··on Gnome is better macOS than macOS
I never minimize windows. They are almost always full screen or split screen (unless I'm quickly grabbing a file in a Nautilus/Finder/Explorer window), and I just hide windows if I really need to. The same is true for macOS.

Forget what I do in Windows, been a couple years since I daily drove it.

I wonder if that's because I've used macOS and Gnome more than Windows for the last decade -- because its confusing as hell to cmd/alt-tab back to an app or click it in the dock and for its window to not appear because you minimized it rather than hiding it. When that happens, it usually takes 30 seconds until I realize the app is hiding in the task bar or dock.

samtheprogram··on Show HN: Build the habit of writing meaningful commit messages
YOU should be writing your commit messages, not an AI.

You can always generate a new commit message (or summary, alternative summary, etc) down the road with AI. You can never replace your mind being in the thick of a changeset.

samtheprogram··on The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting
There's no point unless a critical mass of people use these tools. You will be the only one on your IP address using this configuration of masked fingerprinting, which is itself a fingerprint.

That's also why it's indeed useful when using Tor, because you're not identified by your base IP.

Unless we make this part of the culture, you have basically 0 recourse to browser fingerprinting except using Tor. Which can itself still be a useful fingerprint depending on the context.

EDIT: I'll add that using these tools outside of normal browsing use can be useful for obfuscating who's doing specific browsing, but it should be emphasized that using fingerprinting masking in isolation all the time is nearly as useful as not using them at all.

samtheprogram··on $1900 Bug Bounty to Fix the Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16IAX10H's Speakers on Linux
> Turns out that Lenovo put awful bluetooth in the laptop, and made it ignore any other bluetooth chip you installed (you can get around this in Linux by force ignoring what the system reports.)

I used to Hackintosh Lenovos -- I thought this was at the bios level, so even if you did DSDT patching (linux or mac wise) it wouldn't work?

samtheprogram··on Do not put your site behind Cloudflare if you don't need to
You keep saying stuff like "the fallout" and "the repercussions" but then the only example you can provide is talking to customer service to bring your stuff back online. Is that it? Honestly speaking, not being sarcastic at all.
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