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I use this to toggle power to a 3d printer. It gets it actual power from a switched socket but usb still powers the board.

We want to liken Mullvad to a force of nature. Or to cryptography. It just mechanically does its thing with no human arbiters.

I can't even find the right words to describe how wrong this sounds to me

tangent but i vibe coded a webapp that pulls article texts and runs tts via kokoro. Its interface allows me to read the article text while the current paragraph is highlighted + autoscrolled while the audio is playing. All of this runs on a cheap vps. Works surprisingly well, as long as you are fine with consuming it "later" (conversion needs some minutes)

Oh, thanks for the hint. I actually don't like this - similarly to dark mode setting detection. But I guess thats more a criticism on the OS preferences not being granular enough.

This resonates with me. On the one hand I feel like my team is spread too thin all the time, scope and complexity is just too broad - and at the same time I'm pretty sure nore headcount could only improve it to a certain degree.

I like the part about synchronization and honesty. And I'm certain every time I get annoyed that someone is not as open with me as I wish they were, there is a part in there that myself contributed to that.

now the real fun part is how to self-host it on a machine accessible on the net without services like cloudflare or tailscale tunnels.

fun to watch until the ssh user input exploits the web interface :P

It's really sad to see that this is not the usual kind of software people are exposed too.

How was the syncing actually achieved?

I'm having a hard time to parse this last part. Care to elaborate?

In a system with rule of law, the rules are already being followed so that stupid/unreasonable rules are reformed as they're encountered and you can't use the massive backlog of them to make everything grind to a halt while people scramble to do all at once the thing they should have been doing continuously over time.

and is really, really secure

... until its getting popular usage and gets targeted for vulnerability research

while the climate costs of creating those models is terrible, they're here now

It doesn't matter what happens to Openai; Whisper is here to stay.

Yes and No. They may be here now, but they will be outdated tommorrow.

I literally burned through 20USD in a couple of hours on openrouter with deepseek v4 pro and opencode tasks - i'm sure i did something wrong

Reminds me of a session I had recently (on web!) where claude insisted that i prefixed all my messages with statements about code execution or something, which was not the case. I interrogated it about that and it confirmed that it came from somewhere else, but could not get rid of it and each response mentioned that its gonna ignore those instructions. Eerie.

Are you seriously complaining that you are not getting taken seriously anymore after creating a track record of acting in bad faith?

You literally can't create constructive online communities if you don't do that.

How do you avoid/reduce exposure to dust? Genuine question

Then, somewhere in the second hour, the room quietly gets worse at making them.

Maybe it's not just the air but also the multi-hour meetings that drive people to a sense of "oh god let this finally end now", which leads do decisions that fall short.

How do I pass this to coworkers without coming off as passive aggressive? Because this article pretty much sums up what adds a lot of stress for me currently.

I guess it saves you the hassle of dealing with reverse proxies and TLS certs if your use case is "userbase is 1 person and it is me, and i only access services from a desktop os"

Interesting, how is this orchestration set up?

It's kind of fascinating trying to think back of the earliest memories I still (or used to) remember. I'm not "old" at all but still these distant memories are literally from another world (in the sense that my mental model of the world was very different, as well as all the changes it went through)

quad9 seems fine. Glad there are a bunch of alternatives though. We should never stop practicing decentralization in the net.

tangent/feedback about the product: replacing abandoned desktop apps with a webapp with unknown future does not exactly excite me. Bundle this as a desktop app that works offline-first and you'll pique more interest.

Not at all related but still reminds me a bit of FM synthesis

In theory. I read so many times now where people report they use it and don't really need it, and I've seen it myself now too. Still very anecdotal, but it seems somethings there

aliexpress? Thomann themselves are big in manufacturing guitars in china.

What can you say about long-term plans? The bitnami situation burned a lot of people I think, and yes we can cache your images, but switching providers still does not come for free.

Granted, i guess backup is what i meant

Same problem happened two years ago. You'd think that would be enough time to figure out a failsafe routine

This is marketed as a defensive tool, but how do you prove that you check against "your" source code?