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I remember when water was privatized in Brisbane, Australia - instantly noticing the jump in my bill. It's clear that privatizing infrastructure like water & electricity doesn't benefit consumers (unless they are somehow investors). I understand that Amsterdam is privatizing water as well. But what can be done about this? Is the only path as consumers is to become ruthless capitalists for our own survival? I wonder where this cycle ends?

Just seeding a comment - the original headline should have read - "Kernel.org compromised". Hoping for a bit of insight into the origin of the rabbit hole of kernal.org.

You'll know my bird when you catch it: "Realized that "reasoning was set to low" on DeepSeek Flash 4.1 - set it to high and life improved immediately."

Strange world we live in, but life just got seriously better. ;-)

Very nice - thank you!

This is a multi-session problem, or at least this is how I've solved it in the past (i.e. the user chat/report thread isn't the one driving the conversation, the sub-sessions/workflows are guiding the analysis).

p.s. there's some interesting literature on how in some circumstances (i.e. religious delusions), where actually validating the patient - basically confirming their experience can lead to rapid recovery (however this approach is not found in western culture). I do agree with you in terms of the risks of LLM's driving folks deeper into delusional beliefs & behaviors - it's very real.

Speed run to game over by simply opening the text editor.

WhatsApp backend in Erlang + used in telecoms

Anyone that uses "Claude Fable 5 running in Claude Code"? Can you speculate that plan or cost might have been involved in doing this (given that it seems approximately 5 hours or so of continuous operation for both C++ and Assembly ports, along with the shipping / marketing functions where it's not clear how much compute was used". Thanks in advance (I'm thinking of trying US based models, however I'm penny pinching using DeepSeek Flash etc. ATM).

Hey rosrepa... I want to go down your rabbit hole & collect some titles... would you be kind enough to recommend some easy ones to start with?

Disappointed that it wasn't returning a list of paragraphs from eBooks that semantically match; search only appears to list the publications - not the actual match within the document.

Living in bizarro world of AI. Install open source project, fails, feed into OpenCode w/DeepSeekFlash 4 -> feed error into it get fixed.

The kill_port function only catches ImportError from the psutil block, so when psutil is installed but raises AccessDenied (common on macOS), it crashes instead of falling back to lsof.

In platform_paths.py - add two lines after line 250:

except psutil.Error: pass

Fixed. Now when psutil raises AccessDenied (as happens on macOS without elevated privileges), it falls through to the lsof/fuser fallback instead of crashing. Try docubrowser start again.

Anyone getting a bunch of permission errors when running (e.g. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/tron/Applications/DocuBrowse/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/psutil/_psosx.py", line 347, in wrapper return fun(self, args, *kwargs) File "/Users/tron/Applications/DocuBrowse/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/psutil/_psosx.py", line 508, in net_connections rawlist = cext.proc_net_connections(self.pid, families, types) PermissionError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted (originated from proc_pidinfo(PROC_PIDLISTFDS) 1/2)

"Om patiently explain how I should think about my career" - care to share what Om explained to you?

I think it's all about keeping state in the determinant space. I've come across the same issue, the key was to not rely on LLM performing workflow - the runtime needs to enforce.

New business model apparently. USD$22,567.56 per day.

1. Make Trump meme 2. Go to jail for N days 3. Profit ($22k per day)

Nice ;-)

Amazing work! Thanks very much for this OP!

This is great stuff! As a side note, I wonder if anyone has created a HAM viewer that runs in the browser? I remember HAM flickering by necessity and being amazed by 4096 colors on-screen at once. There was a certain quality of HAM images on the Amiga that made them instantly identifiable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hold-And-Modify

OMG. Thanks so much for posting this - completely awesome! Such a nostalgic roller coaster ride, from Qmodem to Xcopy and everything in between... brought back so many memories... - thanks again!

I’m not making a claim about whether any particular idea is good or bad.

I’m pointing out that the process by which ideas gain acceptance is somewhat independent from their actual quality, so acceptance alone isn’t a strong signal.

I might not have been clear. I’m separating two questions: (1) whether an idea is actually good or true, and (2) how easily it gains acceptance. My point is just that (2) doesn’t reliably answer (1).

I think we’re still talking past each other. I’m not arguing that any specific idea is good.

My point is just that public acceptance itself isn’t reliable evidence either way: ideas can gain support (or fail) for reasons other than their actual merit.

Having worked in public advocacy advertising, I’d frame it like this: “Good ideas don’t need lies” is a compelling ideal but in practice, public acceptance isn’t a reliable signal of truth or societal benefit. It depends on incentives, narratives, and how information is presented.

History shows that even harmful or suboptimal ideas (like coal power) can gain widespread support if presented persuasively, while genuinely beneficial ideas can struggle if they’re complex or unintuitive.

A useful heuristic is: if an idea relies on misleading claims to survive scrutiny, that’s a warning sign. But public acceptance itself is not proof of goodness or correctness.

In short: persuasion and truth are related—but far from identical.

Thanks for the link to the Parable of the Polygons - her work is amazing.

You might be right about the mindset, I have no idea about the demographic that plays the game; only that they seem to be repulsed by BuyMeACoffee. The heavy users (i.e. more than 12 hours on site within last month) - once they see that banner for the first time for a return session instantly stop playing. It's not long enough yet to see if they return. Maybe it's the equivalent to putting a "Remember to buy your mom a gift on her birthday" pop-up on a porn site ;-) It's a mojo killer for sure.

If anyone wants to chime in with other theories etc., very interested in the what others think?

The tumbleweed tells me I probably need to have a long think about Balatro before making the next version ;-)