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ThomasGlanzmann

Re:GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @02:59PM (#49898616)
I use crush (https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush) with the following patches:

  curl https://tg.st/u/0001-fix-unblock-all-commands-in-bash-tool.patch | git am
  curl https://tg.st/u/0002-feat-add-light-theme-with-auto-detection-for-white-b.patch | git am
  curl https://tg.st/u/0003-feat-enable-yolo-mode-by-default.patch | git am
  curl https://tg.st/u/0004-fix-disable-mouse-grabbing-to-restore-native-termina.patch | git am
  curl https://tg.st/u/0005-feat-skip-project-init-prompt-and-quit-immediately-o.patch | git am
  curl https://tg.st/u/0006-feat-remove-scrambled-rune-animation-from-waiting-sp.patch | git am
  curl https://tg.st/u/0007-feat-remove-quit-banner-and-thank-you-message.patch | git am
  curl https://tg.st/u/0008-feat-show-output-in-full-instead-of-collapsing-trunc.patch | git am
  curl https://tg.st/u/0009-fix-discover-map-model-features-advertised-by-v1-mod.patch | git am
  curl https://tg.st/u/0010-feat-keep-large-and-small-model-selections-in-sync.patch | git am
Re:Tell HN: PayPal Blocks GrapheneOS on Thursday August 27, 2026 @07:51AM (#49463277)
I'm on Debian Testing sometimes on amd64 and sometimes on m1. Paypal also doesn't like me. Than I have two options: I use a Windows VM to do the payment or I use another payment method. Most of the time I use the other payment method.
Re:Announcement on DeepSeek V4 API New Pricing on Friday August 14, 2026 @05:44AM (#49296542)
New API pricing just dropped. Output token 2.3, Cache hit flash 2.5, pro: 6.1. Cache miss input 1.5.
Re:Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code on Monday August 10, 2026 @01:52AM (#49239687)
I do the same. I also use crush/deepseek a lot. I patched crush to remove all safetyguards and enable yolo mode by default. I use it on a daily basis including devops. For example to configure netapp storage systems and had not a single incident. Of course I also have backups of my systems and have everything under revision control. Depending on the task I let it run on a throw away VM, production system, lab system. Depending on the task I give it access to throwaway credentials (that I rotate afterwards) or my ssh agent socket.
I often use deepseek-v4-flash to summarize hn threads for me. Your comment was enough for deepseek to refuse my request: Content Exists Risk.
Yes, I do mean deepseek-v4-flash.
I do the same. deepseekv4 fast for the 90% of the tasks, if it can't lift it, I use deepseekv4 pro. I use crush as coding agent but removed the blocked commands because I also do a lot of system administration. Love it. I use 8 USD in 7 weeks and use it quiet extensively for all sorts of things, programming, system administration, google search replacement, investments, you name it.
Re:Is BGP Safe Yet? No. Test Your ISP on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @02:47PM (#47604884)
You can mitigate this with DNSSEC, CAA records and account pinning. See: https://www.devever.net/~hl/xmpp-incident
Re:The Size of Adobe Reader Installers Through the Years on Monday August 25, 2025 @10:54AM (#45014551)
Mupdf searches large pdfs much faster. However since I switched to wayland/sway I also use zathura because cut & paste works. Mupdf is an X application but I still use it to search large pdfs. But there is also this plugin but I did not try hard enough to get it running: https://github.com/pwmt/zathura-pdf-mupdf. Under xorg worked cut & paste with mupdf.
Re:Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move on Tuesday April 22, 2025 @01:40AM (#43759353)
I do the same for a few years and use that also for friends with failing NAS. Most of the time two big HDDs or SSDs in RAID 1 is sufficient.
Re:250M-plus reserved IPv4 addresses could be released on Friday February 09, 2024 @12:24PM (#39317511)
Could you please explain how to get an ASN and a /40 for $50/lifetime? I only know the option where you pay a yearly fee.
Re:Update on Samsung SSD Reliability on Saturday February 04, 2023 @06:44AM (#34653707)
In 2021 I bought at least ten 870 EVO 4 TB SATA and six 980 Pro 2 TB NVMe. All devices failed within 6 months on barely used systems. Find some smart data here:

<https://thomas.glanzmann.de/samsung/>

The pattern is always the same: I have them configured in a raid 1. Once a month debian does a raid check. During the raid check Debian reads all data from both devices. I get uncorrectable read errors. I no longer use Samsung SSDs and replaced them them with SSDSC2KB076T8, Micron SSDs and KC3000 Kingston NVMes. No failures since then. In 2021 I told a friend of mine about the issue. He also had a 870 EVO, issued a dd if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/null bs=8M and guess what, he got uncorrectable read errors. Due to running them in RAID 1 I caught the issue early and I had no data loss or downtime because the Linux software raid compensated for the bad hardware. However I replaced them in a hurry because I no longer trust Samsung SSDs. As you can see from the smart log they're barely used. Less than 4 months in service and 10 TB written. I also got uncorrectable read errors when evacuating data from the devices.

Thinkpads have matte (upto 4k) displays, very good Linux support and are around 2000 USD/EUR.
I also did one or two years daily headspace and it helped me a lot. At some point I stopped, but I need to get back to it. I also used a headspace sleep meditation often. Now that you mentioned the pooch palace sleep story, I searched for it everywhere but did not find it. Where can I get it?