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small_scombrus··on Using Thunderbird for RSS
IIRC Thunderbird is a fork of Firefox, so it can do all of the web things your heart desires
small_scombrus··on Helix: A post-modern text editor
My local build of helix is 20MB, did you use the suggested flags on the install guide page?
small_scombrus··on Helix: A post-modern text editor
> Is there some established AI-agnostic protocol/interface?

AFAIK no

small_scombrus··on Helix: A post-modern text editor
I desperately wish Helix would support virtual text (code folder, markdown links just showing the text when not selected), but the default keybinds and the way that selecting and editing text work just works too well in my brain to go anywhere else
small_scombrus··on Helix: A post-modern text editor
I know it's not a proper fix, but helix does have `:reload` and `:reload-all` commands

I have reload-all bound to Ctrl-r

small_scombrus··on Good software knows when to stop
Nano not powerful, but it is friendly, it shows you its keybinds.

Vim is very powerful, but also very unfriendly.

The difference in effort required to pick up Nano vs Vim is HUGE

small_scombrus··on Discord Alternatives, Ranked
You can already make steam friend group chats, it was just a bit janky when I last used it like 5 years ago
small_scombrus··on Discord Alternatives, Ranked
A LOT of open source software offers features tiers with per user pricing even when self-hosting.

They do need to fund development, but SSO is almost always in the top two level pricings :(

small_scombrus··on LinkedIn checks for 2953 browser extensions
It could very much be confirmation bias, but I do feel like most "please use our app" popups appear after a mobile site breaks or refuses to load something
small_scombrus··on OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been
[Insert survivorship bias aeroplane png here]
small_scombrus··on Norway EV Push Nears 100 Percent: What's Next?
> What are the returns for a landowner leasing a solar farm

Depending on what you're doing with your land, you can multi-use solar farm + grazing, or solar farm + some crops which increases it's value.

small_scombrus··on The lost art of XML
Base JSON not supporting comments is a sometimes annoying 'feature' because without it no-one can use the comments to try and add extra functionality into their JSON file using comment tags so you don't end up with a million JSON+ custom formats.
small_scombrus··on The lost art of XML
Unfortunately Word documents are XML. Microsoft has a LOT of customisation going on, but at the core it's very ugly, incredibly complex xml :(

Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/open-xml/word/worki...

small_scombrus··on Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice
Using your first text block 'Eponine' skips "we had nothing before us" and doesn't speak the final "that some of its noisiest"

I wonder what's going wrong in there

small_scombrus··on The Palantir app helping ICE raids in Minneapolis
All things done with office must be evil by association.

(Except clippy, he's just a guy)

small_scombrus··on There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape
> Even if the retailer took it back it would still be... trash.

Yes, but making them deal with it would create a massive incentive to either reduce the amount of rubbish they make, or to make it recyclable/processable.

small_scombrus··on Shipmap.org
Also, if you're a plane or a boat it's really important everyone knows where you are for general safety / rescue reasons. On a (consolidated and decently organised) railroad the railway operators can take care of all of that.
small_scombrus··on Building an internal agent: Code-driven vs. LLM-driven workflows
> Where’s the blueprint?

A JSON Schema file that can be directly linked in your .JSON file!

But otherwise it's the same way you know anything. Documentation and trial and error

small_scombrus··on KDE onboarding is good now
Not to it works for me, but I'm on tumbleweed and can't say I'm even crashing once a week
small_scombrus··on Building an internal agent: Code-driven vs. LLM-driven workflows
> Is it storage? Is it wire protocol?

Yes.

It's just a standardised way to represent data structures in text. You can then save that text to a file for storage, or send the text over the wire for data transfer. As long as everyone involved knows they're saving/loading or talking JSON then everyone knows exactly how to read/write the data.

It is a very literal representation of (specifically JavaScript, but generally any) data-structures in text.

small_scombrus··on Critical vulnerability in LangChain – CVE-2025-68664
ChatGPT can generate you a sentence that plausibly looks like the prompt
small_scombrus··on I don't care how well your "AI" works
> You can’t be data driven and also blind to the data

"Tickets closed" is an amazing data driven & blind to the data metric. You can have someone closing an insane number of tickets, looking amazing on the KPIs, but no one's measuring "Tickets reopened" or "Tickets created for the same issue a day later".

It's really easy to set up awful KPIs and lose all sight of what is actually happening while having data to show your bosses

small_scombrus··on I built a faster Notion in Rust
How do you manage the more Obsidian-y sync side? Do you have it open with no tabs, or something else going on?
small_scombrus··on I built a faster Notion in Rust
> All it would take is forcing an artificial CPU slowdown

Technically, yes. But for many large tech companies it would require a large organisational mindset shift to go from more features is more promotions is more money to good, stable product with well maintained codebase is better and THAT would require a dramatic shift away from line must go up to something more sustainable and less investor/stock obsessed.

small_scombrus··on Pebble Watch software is now open source
I may be wrong, but I think they mean ship from the factory to the distribution point so that could add some time between an item being made and shipped to a customer

But I've never done anything like this, so ¯ \ _ ( ツ ) _ / ¯

small_scombrus··on Two women had a business meeting. AI called it childcare
Not to Let me google that for you... but there are a LOT of scientific papers that specifically analyse bias in LLM output and reference the datasets that they are trained on

https://www.sciencedirect.com/search?qs=llm+bias+dataset

small_scombrus··on Two women had a business meeting. AI called it childcare
That a regular meeting between two women must be about childcare because women=childcare?
small_scombrus··on Steam Machine
> I would think that the credit card owner would dispute the charge and Steam would deactivate the key

There's a real issue for both Valve and the game dev if this happens. The public isn't going to take this key doesn't work or worse my game stopped working after I bought it and blame nebulous credit card fraud, they're going to blame Valve and/or the dev

small_scombrus··on Two women had a business meeting. AI called it childcare
> You assume the bias is in the LLM itself

Common large datasets being inherently biased towards some ideas/concepts and away from others in ways that imply negative things is something that there's a LOT of literature about

small_scombrus··on Time to start de-Appling
> Am I missing something?

A joke? A fun tagline? A little zing for under the heading?

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