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Re:French digital tax may kill VideoLan non-profit on Friday October 30, 2026 @04:58PM (#50310059)
This was expected. France is in a lot of debt trouble and it’s highly alarming development for Eurozone. Unlike the US, France cannot print more Euros to stay afloat and the ECB, who can, is institutionally hand-cuffed to not do so. Its chief just quit in a seemingly related situation but optically unrelated way.
Re:Railway Security Disclosure on Thursday October 22, 2026 @03:08AM (#50192156)
I have 3 clients projects running there. I am on pro plan. Openrouter has invalidated all keys. Nothing is working. Clients are angry. Railway is taking forever to resolve this and are taking steps in a mildly brain dead way. I cant swap keys.

What can i do? Move to render ?

I have been using this : https://magnitude.dev/ for a while now. Is it something similar you are doing? I would love to have something that would connect to my codex, Claude, and opencode subscription rather than having to make a new subscription.
Re:Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5 on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @07:36AM (#48192000)
I agree. I quit cursor and replaced it with conductor and a mix of Claude Code / Codex/ Copilot and i dont miss it as such. Maybe one day I will come back.
Re:Talk like caveman on Sunday April 05, 2026 @12:48PM (#47651250)
It speaks like Kevin from The Office (US) https://youtube.com/shorts/sjpHiFKy1g8?is=M0H4G2o0d6Z-pBAC
Re:I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file? on Thursday January 22, 2026 @05:39PM (#46726046)
Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them. Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965
Re:Allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15 on Saturday January 10, 2026 @09:48AM (#46566138)
Designed in the era of Use-maxing vs Status-maxing. I think modern cars are taking a lot of car experience out and putting in the phone experience in. My Maruti Suzuki 800 was such a fun car to drive. Easy to repair. Decently efficient. Repair manual was understandable.

The new electrics are great. But they are less of a car and more of a transportation technology.

Re:Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn on Monday December 29, 2025 @07:44AM (#46420105)
DB is weird. They seem to make their own rules and then run the game and “dont tell the rules to anyone”. I was on my way to catch a flight from Munich to my home (Madrid). I didn’t knew that apparently at one point the train splits into two parts and the front part goes to the airport and the other part just goes to the nearby cattle farms and comes back in 3 hours.

Google Maps - No idea Citymapper - what? English announcement - nien.

Thanks to an old lady, who told me that i needed to switch coaches to go the airport. Madre mia!!

Re:Affinity Studio Now Free on Thursday October 30, 2025 @02:30PM (#45763458)
Interesting. Yes, the pro features seem to be just about ai these days. I used affinity’s indesign equivalent while at work and it was quite good. I wonder what the business model is? Same as figma a while back?
Re:Affinity Studio Now Free on Thursday October 30, 2025 @12:39PM (#45761999)
So did they buy Affinity and all their tools and gave it for free?

https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/about/

Re:Nobel Peace Prize 2025: María Corina Machado on Friday October 10, 2025 @07:27AM (#45537642)
She definitely trumped this one.
Re:The AI coding trap on Sunday September 28, 2025 @03:48PM (#45407330)
It is an interesting take. I teach programming to designers as a part of a course called "Emerging technologies". Although, it is fun to see what students create, but it is not fun to solve doubts. When you are teaching basics, the students would quickly fire up ChatGPT and make some slop up. In the end, I have to fix their codes. I think, the learning output is reduced as they have not written any code. I am genuinely concerned as an educator. One thing that is missing is differentiating AI output and understanding what to keep and what to ignore. The sheer "aesthetic" of it. I feel, many do not take time to develop this very "human" skill and become very output oriented from the very start. This, IMO, affects learning. These tools are also quite addictive due to the sense of 'manufactured' certainty they offer, which is something that hinders learning. What is the point of learning how to add when you have the cheatsheet next to you?
Day 4/10 of Vipassana meditation. This is EXACTLY what happens.
Re:Tencent Open Sourced a 3D World Model on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @10:20AM (#45116132)
Matrix

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