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Re:DeepSeek: DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017 on Saturday October 17, 2026 @12:39PM (#50132580)
I've used the zai subscription, opencode go und cline-pass in the last few months and would recommend the latter. Zai quickly drains your quota as soon as the context window is at more than 10-20% and opencode was a bit unreliable at times.
Re:We have a year to fix security everywhere on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @06:21AM (#49608293)
If the goal is just destruction then letting it free in random public places is not that hard. Especially in countries where wearing a mask is not frowned upon.
Re:Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @01:12AM (#49268049)
How does it save tokens?
I've heard lots of people use it to actually find out what you were being banned for even when the company absolutely does not want to disclose it.
Or maybe it's just lazy programmers, wouldn't be the first time.
Re:If AI Writes All the Code, What Do the Programmers Do? on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @01:24PM (#49087129)
I'd like to see them try to increase prices as long as open source models that are roughly in the same league are available
Re:Mysteries of Telegram Data Centers on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @04:19PM (#48926530)
I have yet to find a messenger with a better UX than Telegram. And I have tried lots in countless attempts to get away from this badly encrypted russian App.
Re:Good Tools Are Invisible on Friday July 10, 2026 @04:35PM (#48864885)
Theoretically yes, but in reality I have found that often it's much easier to just fix something locally or with a workaround rather than jumping through all hoops required to get somebody in another team or even another company to understand and agree with you on your (or your teams) issues, let alone fix them in a satisfactory way.
Re:Organic Maps on Monday July 06, 2026 @11:45AM (#48806298)
When I downloaded it via F-Droid earlier today it did what wanted. Unfortunately Android Auto is only enabled in the Play Store Version, so I downloaded that and there it went the same as for you. At least it immediately prompted me to download my local tile set when I tapped the geolocation button to zoom in.
Re:Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live tokenmaxxing on Monday June 29, 2026 @12:56PM (#48721760)
I still feel that during agentic workload sometimes it would be nice to have the model identify it is veering off the main track, send out a "keep the cached states and tell me which they are" command to the inference server, do the side thing (such as handling an error that plopped up that has not that much to do with the main task) and return back to the cached state with just a comment tacked at the end to say "oh and btw I fixed DNS" instead of having the DNS debugging inside the context window now. Maybe other harnesses just steer the models more towards using subagents for such tasks and my pi is misconfigured. I can use the tree feature, but having insight into what's cached would be nice there.
How's the battery holding up during vibe coding sessions or occasional LLM usage? I've been thinking about getting a MacBook or a laptop with a similar Ryzen chip specifically for that reason.
Re:Do Users Verify SSH Keys? (2011) [pdf] on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @12:38PM (#45735130)
The paper does mention that you can have your ssh keys signed by a ca, so in a company the it staff could configure everybodys os to only trust ssh keys signed by the organization.
There's conflicting information in the readme about whether --best-effort is enabled or disabled by default.
Re:What Excessive Screen Time Does to the Adult Brain on Thursday October 03, 2024 @08:24AM (#41730061)
I'm unsure how much of a difference that really makes as there's lots of distractions in my (and probably most peoples) morning routine that are not related to my phone. Boring things like the hygiene routine but also things that come up and require thought such as (almost) empty grocery items or things related to the commute such as radio in the car or ads in public transit. While most of these are not specifically engineered to be attention seeking, I still see most of them as distracting and my focus only starts when I sit down to do some work.
Above a certain size all communities sooner or later turn into cults, most of the time around one or a few persons. The ones that you don't perceive as such you just haven't looked into close enough. I wish it were different but so far I have yet to find a community that doesn't fit that description. Not just open source, not just software, any community.
Re:Ask HN: Should you reply STOP to unwanted texts? on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @07:59AM (#41707248)
Wouldn't that also apply if you blocked the number?
Re:A word about private attribution in Firefox on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @04:16AM (#40974528)
If Firefox is so bad then which better alternative do you propose? The one owned by the biggest advertising company? The one that is only available on Apple's devices? The one owned by the company that puts ads into the start menu of your OS? The one that injects its own affiliate ID into the websites you browse? The one that takes tens of seconds to load even the simplest website? One of those that don't support JavaScript and thus don't let you use 99% of the web?
I used Aegis for a while and really liked it, switched to Bitwarden now but the UX was better
Re:Regulation Alone Will Not Save Us from Big Tech on Monday July 01, 2024 @10:51AM (#40846339)
Many important parts of android auch as the keyboard, camera App and even call/SMS have been der facto replaced with closed source alternatives by Google or your smartphone manufacturer.
Re:Why *not* parse `ls` (and what to do instead) on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @07:14AM (#40787009)
Json is maybe a bit heavy, but using a machine readable format such as tsv or csv (including configuring your terminal emulator to properly display it) would be a big step up from the status quo.
Re:Fonts are still a Helvetica of a Problem on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @04:36AM (#39614066)
Even if they did, some designer would just decide that they need a specific font that is not in the set and then it's just the same thing again.
What model are you using for more complex prompts?
Re:Cockpit: Web-based graphical interface for servers on Monday October 16, 2023 @09:25AM (#37899571)
And using any of them is more of a hassle than just using cockpit instead.
Re:Bing ChatGPT Image Jailbreak on Sunday October 01, 2023 @09:19PM (#37732880)
Sounds just like social engineering. Whenever there's a call center worker that doesn't comply you just redial to get somebody else or try a different phrasing. And most attacks go against specific rules that the person has been "trained" with (i.e. instead of saying that you're speaking in behalf of somebody just claim to be that person or vice versa, depending on the situation).
Re:Heat pumps show how hard decarbonisation will be on Saturday September 09, 2023 @02:04PM (#37448299)
It's always easier to choose the option that costs less to install but more to use. That's why lots of homes have poorly insulated pipes and lots of people use cheap printers that require expensive ink.
Re:A Critical Analysis of the What3Words Geocoding Algorithm on Saturday September 02, 2023 @12:02PM (#37362729)
My last two (android) phones showed a screen that included my current coordinates whenever I call any emergency number. I would say putting your phone on speaker and reading out the numbers that are right there on the screen could be considered "easy".
Yes but 1/x is just another division, so it only helps to speed up the final division of you're able to calculate 1/x beforehand.
Same for Firefox on Android
Re:DeArrow – Solving Clickbait on YouTube on Monday June 26, 2023 @11:08AM (#36480606)
At least on floatplane their video titles are a lot less misleading (not perfect but better). Unfortunately it won't make sense for them to have someone design another thumbnail when they can just use the same as on YouTube.
Re:DeArrow – Solving Clickbait on YouTube on Monday June 26, 2023 @10:34AM (#36480129)
How about setting the latter as a bookmark so when you begin to type youtube.com it directs you there instead of to the homepage?

Or like me: I learned to always click the subscriptions button when I'm on the start page or done watching a video. Had quite a few moments where I saw somebody complain about the home page and my first thought was "did they remove the subscriptions page?"

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