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milkey_mouse

Not quite ready for primetime yet, but that's basically https://si.inc/posts/fdm1/
Re:“This is not the computer for you” on Thursday March 12, 2026 @11:02PM (#47360217)
Unless said kid ports Asahi Linux...
Re:Anthropic Made a Big Mistake on Monday January 12, 2026 @10:10PM (#46596947)
Live by the sword, die by the sword
Re:FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @11:55PM (#45896496)
> Then they can stop reporting bugs with their asinine one size fits all "policy." It's unwelcome and unnecessary.

Right, they should just post the 0days on their blog.

But yeah, if someone made a cabinet with fancy Japanese joinery that turns out to be inkjet AI-generated veneers over glue and nails... I would not buy it.
Ha! I practice good commit hygiene---even when no one's paying me---because it's useful to my future self, but I don't think pride in one's work (especially through importing workplace best practices) is a great reason, especially not a normative one. I think this is like the proverbial carpenter finishing the back of a drawer though no one will see it. It's done for the carpenter's sake, out of principle or mundane Calvinism, and I wouldn't begrudge a carpenter who didn't. And the latter might sell more furniture.
> It wouldn't be acceptable in a well managed company so I don't understand why side projects would get a pass to become sloppy.

Because no one's paying you, and you owe your users nothing?

Re:Signal's New PQ Ratchet on Thursday October 02, 2025 @09:59PM (#45458017)
TeleMessage is a prominent, infamous such product: https://micahflee.com/tm-sgnl-the-obscure-unofficial-signal-...
If anything it's the opposite, except maybe at the very low end: AI boosts implementation skill (at least by increasing speed), but not {research, coding, writing} taste. Hence slop of all sorts.
Re:Bcachefs may be headed out of the kernel on Friday July 04, 2025 @02:30PM (#44466817)
Hell, there's XFS if you love stability but want CoW.
Re:S3 as a Git remote and LFS server on Sunday October 20, 2024 @07:18AM (#41894598)
You can also do this with Cloudflare Workers for fewer setup steps/moving parts:

https://github.com/milkey-mouse/git-lfs-s3-proxy

Re:Uncensor Any LLM with Abliteration on Thursday June 13, 2024 @05:18AM (#40667531)
How is it ironic? Now they just need to wait for open models to be used for something bad enough for policymakers to care.
Can confirm.
> I do have a feeling of dejavú, like I've seen this before on hn.

You're either thinking of speculative encoding more generally, or Medusa: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.10774

Re:Build Initramfs Rootless on Friday March 08, 2024 @02:55PM (#39645560)
Thanks--you just saved me an hour or two of debugging. I thought, CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT=y, what more do I need to do? I should've just RTFM though: even an unpatched kernel mentions this in the help for that config option.
your app and website are awesome, especially the cursor thing
> NeRF needs something equivalent that is physically grounded.

Have you seen Plenoxels? https://alexyu.net/plenoxels/

Isn't a (non-Android) Linux phone a security downgrade unless you get Qubes running on it or something? (And secure boot, and an HSM of some sort, and...)
pKVM (theoretically) works on Pixel 6, 6 Pro, and 6a as well.
Re:How to rip audio CDs 2022 – with drive accuracy listing on Sunday November 06, 2022 @11:00PM (#33500972)
New vinyl records quite often come with single-use download codes.
Re:Barilla Passive Cooker on Sunday November 06, 2022 @06:04PM (#33498508)
There are a lot of resistive electric ranges, and around 40% of Americans still use gas stoves.
Makes me wonder if this could be used intentionally, as in a recipe that calls for baking soda left next to certain aromatic ingredients to infuse it with flavor.
Re:Mark Zuckerberg Is Going to Kill His Company on Friday October 28, 2022 @02:07AM (#33368196)
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Re:“Code” 2nd Edition Now Available on Sunday August 07, 2022 @04:06PM (#32379394)
That’s almost certainly (the first edition of) the book in this post.
Re:Why do we all fall for AI-generated language? on Saturday June 18, 2022 @03:10PM (#31792796)
> automatic re-writers and scripts to test against Turnitin until it passes

Like an ad-hoc GAN where Turnitin is the discriminator. Interesting.

Re:Computers are an oppressive technology on Sunday June 12, 2022 @09:22AM (#31714292)
Computers are an inherently oppressive technology only in the same sense as any technology that isn't, like, a magical box that automatically feeds everyone on earth from thin air forever. There are certainly negative aspects to computers, some of which are touched upon in the article (my specific pet peeve is "middleman" apps like DoorDash or Uber whose sole value-add is to allow you to avoid talking to "the help" delivering your groceries, making your food, etc.). I think it's more productive to judge computers by their net "oppression", and for every Bitcoin or GrubHub there is an encrypted messaging app that stops the state from peering into an aspect our lives, an anonymity tool that lets people speak freely, or a Wikipedia. To use one facet of computing as an example, the populace in aggregate has more secrets than the government, so if each secret kept by the government via encryption adds 1 unit of oppression and each secret kept from the government via encryption subtracts 1, (theoretical, perfect) cryptography would clearly be liberatory on net.

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