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screamingninjaon A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE

> by discoverability I basically mean having things like ...

intuitiveness?

screamingninjaon Upgrade your desktop: Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is now available

Where do you not get hardware support? Many, many distros work out of box nearly everywhere.

screamingninjaon Upgrade your desktop: Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is now available

Fedora IoT seems to advertise support for it. Have not tested it yet but I am very tempted.

screamingninjaon Upgrade your desktop: Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is now available

Considered any alternatives? Like atomic OS images, e.g. Fedora derivatives?

screamingninjaon An empirical study of harness design for coding agents

190 is not close enough. It is close to double.

screamingninjaon I don't like passkeys

Could you create a separate account for the tablet without that credit card? Just curious.

screamingninjaon An Empirical Study of Harness Design for Coding Agents

How do Nemotron models + mistral compare to "the current frontier" in your experience?

screamingninjaon An empirical study of harness design for coding agents

> Minimal: Just some 100 lines of python for the agent class (and a bit more for the environment, model, and run script) — no fancy dependencies!

It is way more than 100 lines. Why keep advertising something that is no longer the case?

screamingninjaon Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra

Atomic OS images. I moved away from individual package management once I discovered the alternates. Currently on Bluefin (Fedora-based) - not affiliated with the project but just a happy user.

https://projectbluefin.io/

screamingninjaon How to Do Great Work (2023)

You assume that people are rigid in their habits. Inspiration goes a long way. Habits can be shaped greatly with the right motivation and mentorship.

screamingninjaon AI OSS tool repo goes archived over night after raising $7.3M Seed

> For example: I cannot imagine being a successful touring live performer. I am an introvert, I keep a rigid schedule so travel throws everything off, can't keep myself awake very late...

These are not examples of in-born traits. While I agree that not everyone has the motivation to become a CEO, I would disagree that a person cannot learn and adapt.

screamingninjaon Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust

> 5. What features will gitdot not have?

> AI.

> We view AI as an implementation detail — and do not think that using it is necessarily good.

> In fact, we think it makes many products worse by acting as a bandaid for poor design.

> That isn’t to say we are blind to it, but that we will be judicious in our use of it instead.

Not sure I follow. What feature are the developers referring to? I understand that AI will power tools that may or may not fit a particular use case. How is AI a feature and what does it mean to be anti-AI?

screamingninjaon Local AI needs to be the norm

We just need some Markdown love here. That'll solve everything!

screamingninjaon Why Almost Everyone Loses–Except a Few Sharks–On Prediction Markets

Have you heard of the Sucker Effect? Your gains come solely from the those who made the wrong bet. There is no inherent value generation in the prediction markets unlike the stock markets. Yes, there is money to be made, but at a net loss to the society, so many would not consider these bets "opportunities" but rather "gambling".

screamingninjaon Pyodide: a Python distribution based on WebAssembly

sending you an email!

screamingninjaon Pyodide: a Python distribution based on WebAssembly

https://marimo.app/

A reactive notebook for Python that runs in browser, powered by Pyodide. I have been using it extensively for teaching Python to non-STEM students that do not need the added friction of navigating the CLI or filesystem hierarchy.

screamingninjaon A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth

Standards: https://xkcd.com/927/

screamingninjaon Where in the world are babies at the lowest risk of dying?

Can you share the report?

screamingninjaon Evolving OpenAI's Structure

> ban all non-US LLM providers

What do you consider an "LLM provider"? Is it a website where you interact with a language model by uploading text or images? That definition might become too broad too quickly. Hard to ban.

screamingninjaon Common food dye found to make skin and muscle temporarily transparent

> You don't play with chemicals

How else do you learn?

screamingninjaon What App to Use for Notes?

Logseq + Syncthing has been working quite well. Logseq is well maintained, has a fully functional Android app, and a thriving plug-in ecosystem. I have been using the combination for a year and it's an excellent long term solution.

screamingninjaon Public toilets are vanishing and that's a civic catastrophe

Or perhaps higher demand can be a signal to increase supply instead of price gouging. Why incentivize anyone to limit supply?

screamingninjaon Mozilla silently bans 2 anti-state-censorship add-ons in Russia

> Mozilla is starting to seriously have a long list of highly questionable if not directly user hostile behaviors.

Would you care to provide examples? I am a longtime user of Mozilla products unfamiliar with the topic and I am genuinely curious.

> What should we think of their VPN they try to promote so much

Mozilla does not have its own service but rather resells Mullvad, one of the most privacy focused services in existence. Is there more to this story that I am unaware of?

screamingninjaon Own a weather station? We want your data

> But like so many they turned commercial and kicked off all the hobbyists that made them big. It was a really nasty move.

Yes, their acquisition by IBM really messed things up. I went from totally loving the app to uninstalling it and never looking back.

Definitely going to feed my local data to weather.gov.

screamingninjaon Microsoft AI spying scandal: time to rethink privacy standards

> everyone copy-pastes commands other people wrote straight into the terminal

I know a lot of people that use Linux and not many of them operate this way. Most care about their software sources. "Everyone" is certainly not the case.

screamingninjaon Simplicity is an advantage but sadly complexity sells better (2022)

You missed the point. Driving a Tesla takes more than two steps. The door does not close itself either.

screamingninjaon Simplicity is an advantage but sadly complexity sells better (2022)

While I agree with the sentiment that Tesla has wonderful UI/UX, your 10+ step EV-to-ICE comparison is disingenuous. Tesla does not scrape the ice by itself.

screamingninjaon OpenVoice: Instant Voice Cloning

What is a legitimate use case for this? I can think of a hundred applications for deceiving others but struggle to come up with a scenario where one would want their voice cloned or reproduced.