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I read the GitHub repo, but still don't quite understand-
What exactly is the advantage of doing this vs just running a prompt in my existing coding agent?
I don't understand why this is a harness/project vs just for example, a skill?
I'm confident there's a good reason, I just don't understand.
I'm not defending them or this behaviour but it sounds to me like they may think the message/threat this sends to silence future criticism from other people, outweighs the immediate sum.
(Internally I'm sure they could probably phrase it some other less negative way such as chance of people confusing the brand as still owned by them, etc) association
I'm not sure I understand the intention here-
One of the technical things I don't really understand, is that it is not that hard to have an agent use tmux/etc to type into Claude code directly if you really want to? Like using tmux vs Claude -p are effectively the same aren't they?
Like, I understand the way they are subsidizing or whatever but on a technical level, I don't see how this makes any meaningful difference?
Am I missing something? Is this more about policy than the specific way it is invoked?
If you haven't seen it, there was a new season of connections made in 2023 as well.
https://www.space.com/connections-with-james-burke-docuserie...
I think for kids in particular, it's important to remember that the educational discount brings it down to US 500. That's not exactly nothing but that's a pretty reasonable amount for a non-crap laptop.
I certainly do not want to try to talk you into this particular phone – but just in the general case so you know, it's pretty easy to get physical Sims that you can download an eSIM onto.
I didn't deep dive into this, but just for context and comparison, here are some other tools which are building TikTok like tools on Bluesky-
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/01/here-are-the-apps-battling...
I don't know much about how windows software is packaged, but I find that a solid majority of desktop software I use is in flatpack and server software in OCI images
I'm trying not to get nerdsniped, but in the realm of subjective pragmatics, I personally find `allowlisting` to be drastically more clear.
Does it say anywhere which model it’s using?
I see references to vLLM in the GitHub but not which actual model (Llama, Mistral, etc.) or if they have a custom fine tune, or you give your own huggingface link?
I agree that a lot of plastic recycling is greenwashing from the manufacturing industry.
I've seen the statistics, and we need to take dramatic steps in order to reduce the amount of single use plastics – but don't you think that it's better that we try?
I hear you about micro plastics, and I think that it's important to try to do better to fix this.
But given the limitations of our imperfect world, do you really think that we would be net-net better off without even making an attempt to recycle it?
Historically Starlink roam let you pause/suspend the service and restart it when you need-
In August they changed their plans so you’d need to cancel and re-subscribe.
What a beautiful bit of hacking! This is awesome, and made my day to see :) It sounded -much- better than I would have guessed!
Like so many things, it depends-
How quickly do you need to be able to restore? Is it commercial or homelab?
The most cost-effective option by far would be to put a NAS device someplace offsite. You could use tailscale to connect to it remotely.
After that, depending on your access patterns, either a glacier-style s3 service (aws or backblaze/etc), or a rented bare-metal server with big disks some place inexpensive.
Because the technical aspect of building the software like is the most fun and nerd–sniping, but perhaps the least important part in the process of building an audience and encouraging people to adopt it.
Just one point of view- but I have used both a decent amount and I drastically prefer CarPlay.
The native apps are … fine?
Again, it’s just my particular perspective, but I really appreciate that any CarPlay vehicle has the exact apps that I set up on my phone, already configured, etc.
There’s nothing Tesla could ever really do to compete with the convenience of already having all of my accounts set up and already having exactly the apps installed that I know I want.
The big one for me is moving packages to snap. You can work around it, but that defeats the whole “works out of the box” aspect
One thing your comment it made me think of that I would find really useful as a future, if you did want to use a LLM as part of a browser-
I’d love for it to be able to read a given webpage and extract the different articles/pages into my RSS feed, even if that page doesn’t support RSS/Atom
Thanks! I’m glad to see that that’s something that works for you, and I think I understand what you’re using it for more even if it’s not something I would do.
Personally - No way. I don’t want to let generative AI anywhere near anything I write in email.
If I’m writing an email to somebody it’s because I have something to say, and I want to express my own feelings on it.
(I suppose theoretically I could see it I guess if I needed to talk to someone who only used another language?)
But when reading/composing email, I’m not just trying to optimize for raw information throughput- I’m trying to experience my life and the lives of the people who took time to write to me.
If my friend wrote me a letter, I want to enjoy every word of it. Even for something more perfunctory, the nuance of the particulars in the way it is expressed carries a lot of information.
Likewise, I suppose with reading sites like HN comments- I want to see the perspective of the people who are writing, that’s the whole point of reading comments.
It helps me to understand them as people, their use cases, and how they interact with an particular article.
If I didn’t care about any of that, if I didn’t want their perspective, I wouldn’t bother reading the comments…
Great point - Firefox container tabs and the “temporary containers” are essential to me and my workflow.
It makes it so trivial to be logged into multiple AWS accounts or isolate shared cookies by environment.
I would love to have a chromium based browser be able to do this- the best I have found is juggling profiles, but even that doesn’t work nearly as well as FF containers.
One thing that I do think AI would genuinely be useful at, is a smarter “reader mode”.
I don’t want it to summarize the page. I don’t want it to do the reading for me.
But if it use visual analysis to remove ads, that can work even when they are served from the same domain as content.
A reader mode could identify the text of a page and remove all of the headers remove the footer and just give me the main article.
Various add-ons and browser modes do this to an extent, but they don’t always work reliably and this does seem like something we’re using AI could genuinely improve the experience.
I am not the original poster, but I have a hard time understanding how this is useful to anyone.
I have tried these sort of tools before and never see the point – if it is something that I want to read in depth then I’m going to spend the time to read it.
If it’s something I’m not particularly interested in the details of, I’ll just skim it and read the parts that I /am/ interested in.
I am genuinely curious, can you help me understand why you would ever want to summarize a page?
This feels like skipping over your own life? Typically If I’m going to a webpage, it’s because I want to enjoy reading it.
I did not realize they had ever offered this. I suppose that may be related to why it's shutting down.
One potential alternative might be to investigate https://tailscale.com/mullvad You can use tailscale for normal device->device routing, and add mullvad VPN as an optional outgoing ip gateway.
It has been reported that IBM made a deal with Microsoft in part because the chairman of IBM was friends with Bill Gates’s mother.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/05/how-bill-gates-mother-influe...
It is likely that no other company could’ve gotten the same deal.
If you use a string inverter not a emphase style microinverter, most of them are capable of running without the grid- Particularly if you add any sort of battery system.
These use a form of transfer switch like you’d use when you connect a generator- they disconnect the upstream.
Relatedly, is there a good archive of EDID binaries somewhere, or a better program to make them?
I have an nice programmable EDID emulator plug, and I can clone my monitor and others, but there's some times there's a specific resolution or feature I want to set and I don't have a way to. (Like 8K with DSC, etc)
I'm aware of https://github.com/bsdhw/EDID but it's rather limited in terms of modern monitors.
I've also written by own using https://www.analogway.com/products/aw-edid-editor but getting all the nuances of various modes, and setting preference order, etc, is rather difficult, at least for me :)
I think the license change and initial fork was back in 2019? It's been a while.
A few years ago, Chef (configuration software, sort of like ansible) changed their license, and this is a fork which maintains the open source.
Respectfully, I don't see how that comment relates to this discussion, can you help me better understand what you're going for?
In this case, DOGE confused 8M for 8B. That's 3 orders of magnitude of difference.
I don't see how having payments labeled differently would change that. Can you clarify what you're implying the problem was here?