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Sounds like they partnered to make an amazing advert for using AI tools.

Our S3 bill for a single day was $48 trillion

Just a personal project right now but it's a music metadata aggregator.

I find that nobody really knows how to do this. Machine learning can detect some song attributes well (bpm, ez right?) but it's inconsistent with some things (eg mood, spotify valence)

I prefer to only add metadata that I can rely on: track credits & instruments (when available), lyrics, bpm / "energy" and genre. At least that's what I've got for now. I'm not adding anything unreliable.

So far I'm able to pick a genre, artist or even better, song and it gives me a list of tracks that are similar. I can alter the weights of "era", "instruments", "genre".

So far i haven't run old school NLP on the lyrics but that's the next step. It's likely to be far more informative than "valence"

Anyway, not public, still very alpha but I like it and find it useful.

I get to use the same host names and IP addresses at home or on the VPN. I run a simple wireguard server on a Raspberry pi, and the whole setup has been rock solid.

I did set up tailscale, way back. After using it a few times to test, it failed me when I really needed it (I was out of the country and it failed - can't remember exactly what went wrong but it wwas 100% 'in my tailscale account'). I immediately dropped it and went back to OpenVPN (shit but reliable) before building my current setup.

For small stuff I use bash / sed / awk / jq / yq / curl etc. I stopped using perl (a long time ago) and hate trying to build or distribute anything in Python. "You asked for a script! I give you... a venv, a pip install, woops need to compile something, so let's install build tools. Actually let's get github actions set up to handle this, or would you prefer a Docker image? Do you have a registry so I can share the image? Wait are you using a Mac? Multiarch image time! Or should I just give you a bag of scripts and a Dockerfile? Oh you're using Podman rootless, need you to read this page on how to access your own files as "you" in your container. Shit the wheels fell off! But look, Python is amazing and can do lots of stuff bash / curl / jq can't do!"

So these days I almost exclusively use Go wherever bash and friends aren't enough. Compile to Linux x86 & ARM and Darwin ARM, or just "go run" if it's simple enough.

I love hearing the guys from The Rest Of History discuss this from their different perspectives!

And "hepped up on goofballs" is a Police Chief Wiggum quote, about Ned Flanders.

Lol, is github down again?

Hmm. I don't really care enough about leaking home network host names because they are all super generic names like 'router', 'laptop', 'tv', 'nas'. So I use my public zone on cloudflare. I just use internal ip addresses (eg: nas.example.com = 10.1.2.3) on the public zone and DNS01 challenge for let's encrypt. Anyone can resolve the ip for any of my hosts, but obviously you'd need to be on the wireguard vpn to hit them.

This means that I can always use public DNS servers like 1.1.1.1, 8.8.8.8, nextDNS etc

This is not "done right" by any stretch but it's extremely low effort to set up and has never once failed me, unlike countless complex meshy things.

I have 3 different bookmarks that open 3 different Gmail accounts. I use an AWS SSO plugin to open each account in its own container. My wife and I have several other services where we each have an account, so on our media pc at the TV we can both be logged in at the same time in different tabs. I always open sensitive stuff like banking in its own container. I keep various online stores (where I will be paying for stuff with my credit card) separate from casual browsing. Tabs are colour coded too.

How about mixing up band names? Take the end of "Florence and the machine" and mix it with the start of "Rage against the machine" and you now have the totally unguessable "Rage sharing the machine". It's a different machine see?! Nobody would know that!

Last time I tried rootless podman was about 6 months ago and it was a total mess. I was trying to use it to run a container as me (user 1000) and mount a directory from my home (owned by user 1000) and it drove me and Claude around the bend. It's not a podman vs docker thing per se, just rootless being a total pain. However I just enabled the docker service, ran the same command on docker and it worked. I think I just left docker running after that. I realised that on my home setup I don't care enough to fight with it. Sometimes you just want to do the thing you want to do and not turn it into a 4 hour learning session about some side shit.

For me, they are completely essential and we're the killer feature that kept me on Firefox. That, and I never liked Chrome anyway.

Try getting a Linux laptop to just go to fucking sleep and not drain it's battery flat within a few hours, and wake up without losing wifi.

By "reward manufacturers that make good hardware" do you mean "purchase their hardware" or do you mean some other long term commitment to them? Or is this a jab at the person who suggested you not buy their "good hardware" for other reasons?

Personally, I will use whatever gear is good as long as there's no risk of it becoming a paperweight because the manufacturer aggressively gets in the way of using it with other operating systems. I'm not "all in" on Apple and never will be. I love certain apple hardware but I'll likely never buy an M series Macbook because one day they'll stop supporting it even though it still works perfectly, and it doesn't support Linux.

I installed opensuse tumbleweed on mine and the bastid won't hibernate. Or: it hibernates but refuses to resume. It loads the saved state from disk and then 30 seconds of black screen later, reboots and loses state. Two solid days with Claude, exhausting every avenue, and it's basically unfixable. Sleep=OK, Hibernate=Fucked.

Right now mine isn't an app (yet) it's the backend service (api and web) so I just run it in a browser.

For now I'm letting that backend access my files directly. The front end can also play YouTube music (free, using the yt-dlp method).

None of this is public yet so right now I don't need anyone's approval.

I'm working on a recommendation service (which, to me, it's the piece I'm missing when I play my local mp3 collection)

I collect song metadata from various places (genre, instruments, track credits, rating). I also scrape charts by year, genre etc.

Then I run an ETL job on the json data I have downloaded, pre-building queries for extremely fast lookup tables. This gets saved to Duckdb, which is used by my go web ui/api.

It's very early days, and I only spend one or two hours a week on it, but right now it's amazingly useful. It had roughly 80k song metadata. To preview the suggested songs I ended up building a very cut-down YouTube music player, except that the playing song has all the metadata right there, and everything is a link that can take you to the artist, composer, instrument, genre, album etc. It's a great way to "wander through your collection".

Unfortunately this is only useful to me, because I targeted the music I listen to.

Next step is to download lyrics and extract song meaning, keywords etc. Then use MusiCNN, (or CLAP,OpenL3, HTSAT) to extract embeddings. Finally train my own model for nearest-neighbor retrieval based on a mix of metadata, giving the user the ability to tune it on the fly.

Yep. This situation doesn't do the "cancellers" much good either. What they want to do is eliminate the 'evil person' from society. Wipe them from social media. Block them. Even get them fired. Make them disappear.

But here's the problem. This whole phenomenon is most prevalent in western style democracy. You cannot take that person's vote. You can engage with them and try to change their mind (but also be open to having your own mind changed too, otherwise it's a disingenuous enterprise). Or you can eject block and cancel. If anything, that just drives them further from your social/political group. Hence the person who you blocked and cancelled starts to look around at the other "so called evil people" outside the bubble, and realise that many of them might be refugees from pleasantville , just like you. You can only see your former bubble after your pushed or pulled out of it.

Bubbles can suck people in, but they can also push people out into the gravitational pull of other bubbles.

If his definition of woke mind virus is "identitarianism", then it's agree that it's fucking awful. But I wouldn't call it "woke mind virus".

Identitarianism is a cancer, that has been fed via social media algorithms. We seem to have invented a machine for rewarding all of the wrong incentives. Who would have thought that phenomena like audience capture & polarised thought bubbles would be in the palm of the hand, directing thoughts and forming unbreakable opinions on an array of issues that otherwise wouldn't even be on the radar?

I don't think that this is a left, right or in between thing. Identitarianism had infected the entire political spectrum.

BTW: Perhaps I'm wrong but I don't take the Wikipedia definition of "identitarian movement" and identitarianism. I'm thinking entirely about identity politics. "If you're associated with person X you must be Y", or "If you believe A you must be a B". Highly policed thought bubbles. Ostracism. Cancelling.

As a result, today, with technology that can enable mass communication of thought, there are important conversations that can no longer happen in society.

Or universal

Well, if space is expanding and earth is revolving and spinning around the sun which is spinning around the milkyway which is moving through space then.... Was it really close in space either?

I used a raspberry pi 3b+ and an ancient ipad to turn my Canon A3 scanner into a network scanner with an LCD interface (which also just points to the phpscan web page). I tuned to html / js / css to fit the ipad perfectly and only show options that worked with my specific scanner.

On a long enough timeline, a piano could fall on your head

You think that you're complaining about IAM, but really you're complaining about the web ui. I rarely use the web console, I use terraform or the cli. I'd you're vibe coding your infra with Claude, point it at the cli / terraform. Skip the ui.

I always smile at posts like this. They're right and wrong at the same time. Systems should be "as simple as possible, but no simpler". And thinking that you can gloss over the detail is just going to create more hassle later on.

IAM is just complex. I can't think of any implementation of "users, groups, roles, policies, identity providers, oidc" that is truly simple.

I'm reminded of a guy I worked with, who fought against Kubernetes adoption because it was "too complex", only to slowly reinvent Kubernetes badly, adhoc, out of vault, consul, systemd, nomad, iscsi, ansible, jenkins, puppet, bash, spit, glue... making lots of mistakes along the way. You think you don't need to implement some feature until you do.

Another thing I'll say about AWS (having been the sole infra guy at a few startups) is that it's well within most people's abilities to learn it. And you can usually avoid the shitty stuff. You think lambdas stuck? Don't use them! You could use EKS, ECS or bare EC2.

Well, for hobby purposes I terraformed a completely free cluster on OCI today. It's a "toy" of course, but k3s + OCI "Always free" tier includes Oracle Heatwave mysql which k3s can use in place of etcd. I'm deploying 2x (2 CPU / 12GB mem) VMs to run workloads. Also get an internal load balancer so nodes can find each other an external network load balancer for Traefik. It's quite usable.

Example: there are teenage gangs going around on high powered scooters in my city, carrying hammers and mini grinders. They pair up on a scooter, steal a bike and disappear.

I watched them. They don't want to hang around longer than necessary. They will only approach a bike rack that is clearly visible from the road. They will only steal a bike that has unobstructed access to the road (no tricky bollards or other bikes to get around). Even though they are full of bravado, and shout obscenities and threats at me when I tell them to fuck off, they still run away (even though the one approaching the bikes is carrying a weapon while his companion stays on the scooter ready to escape)

Anything that even mildly inconveniences these guys is enough to stop them attempting theft. The bikes they steal needs to be expensive, out in the open, with direct access to the road, and with a shitty lock. And believe it or not, those tumblers line up a lot.

Throwing a blanket over a bike is probably enough to stop them from even approaching it.

Would this ever affect me if I don't use many of MacOS built on tools? I brew install gnu equivalents make them all default. Just like how I also don't use most of their desktop environment stuff, and instead use rectangle, hammerspoon, karabiner to make it feel more like the Linux desktop I wish I could use at work.

Yep. Either projector or rear projector or didn't happen. I think 70 was pretty big for a rear projection unit.