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heavily customised agentic framework: https://github.com/connollydavid/host gets good work out of the weights

i can't understand why AVM don't allow this to be configured!

i then A/B test skills for terseness with weco’s auto-research within this using a much weaker model e.g. Qwen 3.5 4B

i'm going to send a few old fashioned letters. my registrar said only, we can't give legal advice, ICANN going to ICANN ;)

do you think there's any point in contacting ICANN or Verisign? i'd be sad to lose mine!

it's wild how long some third level domains are still pre-registered for and how little an email forward must cost to run (at the sub-registrar level?)

i've been a third level domain customer since 2006 not amused at all

i'm going to try an run it from free bios rom space on a NuXT similar to Basic in rom:

https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=67340

https://www.jsoftware.com/help/learning/23.htm is the closest i've found, but wondering if i'm missing something perhaps, Julia?

tyvm

git worktrees and sidequests

but i do enjoy antialiased blu-ray subtitles of course YMMV :)

edit: plus the blu-ray subtitle encoder itself is new...

is the most recent.

I'm taking a phased approach with an agentic host repo that drives the source changes in FFmpeg. generally, i do a "sprint" for adding features, then a sprint reorganizing for coherence with an eye on possible upstreaming.

honestly, it would've taken me about 2 years to do this otherwise.

there are many FATE tests added and a lot more to add when the hardware verification bits i'm planning are done.

edit: do you know if upstream have ever taken an AI assisted commit? i've not seen anything yet and would hate to be controversial or a burden on hardworking reviewers!

https://connollydavid.github.io/pgs-release/

such a fun project!

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows-itpro-blog/...

worked perfectly on a fully updated Windows 11 24H2 installed on an old Surface Pro LTE i5-7300U that is perhaps unlikely to receive another firmware update...

And from a more local angle & purely for a lovely day out, may I recommend a trip to Cork City and a wander through George Boole’s old stomping ground in UCC.

Enjoy reconnecting!

one thing i would like to see happen is deprecating SMS message with Labels rather than numbers, phishing has got far far too common in my jurisdiction RCS + some sort of DNS validation like atproto of sender would go a long long way

FM-Towns was an always 32-bit approach, really really early and features a port of Strike Commander (1993) that is pretty great.

does anyone have any manuals from the Phar Lap Run/386 dos extender from back in the day? sadly not preserved online as far as i have found.

doubtless, the irish representatives wouldn't support any divergence between Dublin and Belfast, (especially considering this is wrong from a spatial perspective as population density is heavily skewed to the east of the island).

edit: i was curious enough to email all of the irish delegates to this organisation. some fairly heavy hitters, as a citizen with a keen interest in Dublin & Belfast being in the same timezone will be interesting to hear back!

the slides may be of interest: https://treasures.scss.tcd.ie/miscellany/TCD-SCSS-X.20121208...

and a hub of related content: https://treasures.scss.tcd.ie/ludgate/

however, as an EU citizen, I can see immediate advantages to a cautiously administered digital id. as it is, many states within the EU demand a national tax id on registration for services as simple as bike rental, such a digital id would presumably supersede such nonsense and help further the single market everyone is working towards.