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I use ProtonPass and afaiu it just syncs the passkeys private part everywhere you need it. So it “just works”. This is better than just old fashioned credentials because the passkey only “triggers” on the correct domain, so they can’t be phished by other domains… Right?
I would still be using my 1000HE if the mouse and power buttons hadn’t stopped working (would have put an ssd in it then). Sure the keyboard keys are a bit wobbly but otherwise I really loved that machine. Nice form factor. Would love to be able to get a new 400$-ish 10-11” netbook with 6+ hour battery that would fly with some minimal Linux. Recommendations?
Maybe the voters also got confused and that's why it passed?
This is a nice piece of democracy right here:
"a measure it had rejected twice in March. Although a majority of voting Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) actually opposed the regulation (314 against, 276 in favor, 17 abstentions), the motion to reject it failed to secure the required absolute majority of 361 votes. As a result, mass scanning is now permitted again until 2028."
"Oh no we can't get a majority to pass the law!"
"Have you tried getting a majority to not pass the law?"
"Worth a shot!"
"It worked, should we also do this multiple times?"
"Of course not! Pass the law, quickly!"
Slop PRs are just spam, we learned to deal with spam on email, we'll learn to deal with this as well.
Fwiw, I don't think it's an "AI" problem, is a knowledge and respect problem from the people that have their agents dump code on FOSS projects.
For sure, based on my experiences.
Should have added that in this case it wasn't (just) pot.
I like reading this, because I love focusing and getting stuff done and vibing with AI in the past has left me feeling exhausted and dirty, like I don't deserve the thing I build. (Btw I'm also an expert at procrastinating! I really need to get into the flow and that is hard but rewarding.)
But recently I have been building a Django app that is all about the data model and with complicated RBAC, and I've been discussing a lot, and I mean a lot, like pages and pages of text back and forth, with Claude code (yes code because I do ask it for the occasional edit, most is done by me).
Claude walks me through things, shows me ups and downs of my plans, points at my flaws in thinking, points at where the huge preliminary text in a docstring does not match what I implemented. And I enjoy it! I'm learning, the picture is getting clearer and I feel good about what I'm building. I feel confident that it is correct and good!
Related are these two comments I made earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48743028
That is an opinion. I for one prefer talking to a happy, healthy mind, healthy body-type over someone with a life riddled with substance experiments. In fact, it was why I hardly talked to some of my family for a long time. Every weekend was the same, they were always angry and in the end they nearly killed themselves. I'm happy they got out of it and we have a much better relation now.
True.
I wonder about all the confounding effects. In my country (famous for cannabis to be easy to come by (for decades already), and I saw many smoke from age 16 up as I grew up in 90's, 00's). I have always felt that the heavy cannabis smokers had something to compensate; stress, unrest, impending depression, friction with parents. It was never the healthy sporty types with fulfilling relationships, good grades or a nice career that smoke cannabis heavily (like daily). Sure, some of those smoked, but more occasionally.
Thanx!
It's a lot of stuff to set up though, compared to disaster recovery instructions being: Install Docker, restore state from x, docker compose up -d.
I want it all "as code", this could certainly be automated (scripts, nix), but it would be nice if it really was as simple as one single compose file, that should be the goal, imho.
I also use my Aranet everywhere. The nice thing is you quickly develop a feel for when you need to ventilate spaces you know so you don’t need it there anymore. I also developed a feeling for new (to me) rooms a bit.
I once woke up with the fam in a hotel with airco at 5500 ppm. It is then that I learned the airco does not blow fresh air (logical after thinking about it).
Yes, the firewall rule altering was what drove us to podman! Was kind of weird to find a container's Postgres wide open on 5432 after a `sudo ufw default deny`. Madness really.
But as said below, the permissions issues got to us.
Mostly self made containers, also one with Claude-code, but I couldn't for the life of me get it to be able to store and retrieve credentials in an externally mounted folder (~/.claude). I tried everything from fixing the user creation process in the container, `--userns=keep-id`, `--userns=keep-id:uid=1000,gid=1000`, several tags, :Z, :U, `chown`-ing after creation etc. And I keep running into that stuff.
I wish that "run podman containers as a user, rootless" would just simply mean: All the things are also the property of the user, but you get weird uid/guid combos and stuff on your filesystem as owners you never heard of (like www-data, but not that one in particular) due to the mismatches.
If containers can ever simply be run as user like they are a user process, that would be so nice.
I went all in on podman compose last year but went all back because off constant permission errors. I thought it was going to be better than docker because I run the containers as a user… but man the amount of time I wasted on files that either I or the container itself or some other container couldn’t read… With docker I felt that stuff just works.
And then there are the extra steps: Enable user lingering, make a systemd service that starts the compose containers (and there is nothing really “native”, it’s a script.) With Docker compose containers just restart if you say so in the file.
There are many great things about podman, will try again in a year or so perhaps?
Ok, so let me ask you this: What is stopping you and a bunch of people like you (ie me) to party like it's 1999?
I think it's because I am also a long time fan but kept the same system running. But generally it's 1 occ command and the thing is alive again. Always did wonder why the container doesn't run that command... Maybe the AIO container does.
I think it is happening less and less, it was more in the older days. I'm still on very old install (from somewhere barely after the OwnCloud split), so I saw some issues.
Of course, just before I was ready to wipe it all and start with the AIO container my partner started intensively using the calendar (switching from paper, finally!) So I need to spend some time with it and migrate properly without her having any downsides. When I do I will also set up EuroOffice and experiment with that. I'm rather looking forward to that. In that sense it's a real "lab" :)
Yes, the weary giants of steel have taken up a very visible part. But what you (we) remember is still there. It just won't come to you via a Smartphone app.
I thought this was going towards the "I have an agent do it". glad it didn't :)
What this skips though is the complexity of services like NextCloud (stuck in maintenance mode again?), Immich (needs a compose file edit?), MineCraft worlds (Dad! my client is on another version again!), (dmn) AlbyHub (needs re-login and closed its channel).
But to be fair this is really getting quite minimal these days indeed. I didn't really realize it but I too have a mostly hand-off home-lab... Ok, then it's not really a lab anymore, its more "stable home-infra" ;)
I don't really trust our EU leaders not to pull the same stunt. So we're back to Marx's "owning your means of productions". Which has always been good advice, whether it's GitHub's recent failings, FaceBook's blocking, or some Google service on their graveyard.
Perhaps it is true that the faster you can internalize knowledge (thoroughly, there is a quality aspect to it), the faster you are. Maybe I'm getting old and learning new skills is getting tougher. Maybe, as my world model grows I'm becoming a slow thinker, or a slow learner? New stuff has to be evaluated against a lot of knowledge. But when it clicks, it really feels like a click, it feels satisfying. Like when some new knowledge does not just explain the problem at hand, but also a lot of things that still lingered in the back of your mind.
Recently my wife said that my daughter (ill at the time) may have heatstroke, my response was: It looks like it but she also has a hefty fever (hot after being more than 24 hours out of the sun), I can't really imagine the immune system being involved in heat stroke, although it's possible... My mind went out to heat damaged proteins presenting neo-antigens triggering an immune reaction. I also labelled that as unlikely and more dangerous than what we were observing. I like that I can do that (of course I went on to verify these thoughts!). That reasoning, it's not exactly 100's tokens a sec, but I like the process and it has value.
I also recently observed some weirdness in a dataset, I spend 3 days hunting it down. Long story short: I though I understood how genes make transcripts but I was wrong and ended up adding a new transcript to the human reference genome annotation together with the Gencode people. Now I understand my data better and can separate two different transcripts better in my data (a difference important to our research).
Things like that. The LLM doesn't speed that up, not really. I read a part of a book on gene expression and the function of transcription factors and their interaction with promoters, but I also used LLMs, In the end it was the book with the pictures and clear language that communicated the concepts most clearly. It was made for that of course, and I knew I could trust it (it's tiring to assign <100% confidence to LLM answers), although I know a real scientist also does that with books :)
Maybe I, we all (humanity), will really be faster in the future. Maybe when you grow up with these things you can build world models better and faster. Maybe I'm just too stuck in my ways, as my neuro-plasticity degrades over time. Or maybe it doesn't degrade, maybe I just need more evidence before changing my world models, they have been building on a heavy foundation for a while now.
I'm a scientist, (biophysicist). Over time I have become a bioinformatician and a python dev.
I wrote articles and applications, and it always was a struggle. But now I can speed up, make it all go much faster. But I often feel like my mental models can't keep up.
Recently the AI has generated a comprehensive data model (in Django) and I find myself retracing its steps with long discussions and explanations (with/from the LLM) and searching for documentation. With scientific assignments I find myself searching literature on my own, read whole papers as I used to. Checking the LLM constantly but adapting to it and I don't like it, don't like how it steers me, just let me search, let me wander the scientific landscape on my own, let me read the words of the authors with opposing views. Then let me make 20 plots and only use 1, let me wrestle with the data. Let me make wrong visuals that by chance communicate something important about the data.
Because otherwise I feel uncomfortable, I need to understand, that is what I do. I can reason about so many things because my internal world model is comprehensive and mostly correct. That has taken 44 years so far. Hard work from time to time, but I've mostly enjoyed it.
I still don't know what to make of these models, I use them everyday, but sometimes I wonder if I was not just as fast with Stack Overflow, because what I crave is understanding, not "some finished app". Yes, I rarely finish things fully (that's how I feel), but in research I've often been told they like my ability to move very fast and creatively in phase one, the development is left to others anyway...
I crave an understanding of what these tools mean to me exactly. This comment is part of that. HN is part of that.
Maybe they should just publish the spec, and then providers can offer ID as a service? I.e as a Proton user, Proton Pass currently supplies my ID everywhere, including for government services.
What makes Android and Apple devices special?
It's well known that realtors get better deals on their houses, doesn't seem to go like that for fire tamers it would seem.
Motorola/GrapheneOS, and FairPhone/e/OS.
I'm looking forward to an Agent. I have some customers who don't want US LLMs anywhere near there IP (code), but Lumo, being European and privacy focused, may convince them. Still would prefer local of course. I'm also eyeballing Vibe-cli (yes that is the actual honest to god name of Mistal's coding agent) as a "local" (as in EU) option.
Not what OP means but there is Zellij [0]
Zellij is nice, it's as close to a window manager in a terminal as I ever got. Right now I'm trying to get used to it in Termius, with a Logitech Pebble for some light remote devving.