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Re:3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit on Sunday October 11, 2026 @02:54PM (#50046544)
> both ethically and financially/career-wise, imo.

And, most importantly, you weren’t sent to the slaughterhouse and are still alive, thanks to your choice.

If I wanted to build something like this, at least conceptually with the roles, where’d I start? My first guess would be to give Claude your blog post; but any other pointers to make it work reliably? Do you happen to have the system open source?
Re:Bitwarden Dual License Model on Saturday October 10, 2026 @02:42PM (#50035829)
In today’s day and age I read the OP as saying that threw an LLM at the extension repo and had it reimplement/improve upon for a private fork of theirs.
Do you remember every sandwich or just this one in particular?
This but for motorbikes. I can’t stand people riding them through residential areas in London late at night, revving their engines.
Re:Emacs 31: An unofficial guide to Markdown-ts-mode on Thursday August 27, 2026 @02:37PM (#49469288)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMac

Setting up a keyboard replacement is the way to go here. Solves the issue for all devices.

I thought anything in the US is ridiculous amounts of money, when it’s related to health/hospital.
Maybe the editor is from Germany DACH, or similar?). A trillion is a billion in that language.
Care to explain how this relates to Leopold? I know they hold some stake in Anthropic, but I’m not proficient enough in the topic to jump to the conclusion you’re alluding to.
I can relate to this feeling, having encountered it many times in academia. But the inverse would also be true, would you stop reading yet another article that explains for the umpteenth time what library Y does? Not arguing for the author, but there’s certainly something about knowing and writing for your audience.
Re:HackEurope 2026: A short rant on AI and hackathons on Monday August 17, 2026 @05:24AM (#49328304)
The animation in the background is fun, but really impairs readability on mobile. At least there’s Reader mode in browsers, but a pity that the original form isn’t accessible!
> „[…] but the fact is many PhD students do still graduate with very unexamined understanding of science, cognition, philosophy, etc.”

Is there some generally accepted definition what it should take to graduate with a PhD?

Why are some areas more observed than others then?
Re:200 Milliseconds on Monday August 03, 2026 @04:56PM (#49161321)
Agreed. This reeks LLM writing with no human oversight, or at least a human with no writing experience. The text underneath “The Click” is an immediate giveaway:

> Five milliseconds of hardware and browser bookkeeping before a single byte leaves the laptop.

I don’t even know how to describe it, but the “[…] before X” sentence style stands out to me.

Re:Nano Banana 2 removed from Google Earth on Friday July 31, 2026 @04:58PM (#49128436)
Is this the fastest Google has killed one of its own products (features)?
The article headline screams Claude to me, is that just me? I am as bullish as can be on AI usage, but I’m either hallucinating myself or this is the classic AI “not this, but that” phrase that I keep reading all day.

> Decathlon didn’t just add a new payment button to its German checkout page. It handed European banks their first big-box sporting goods test case at a moment when competition in digital payments is intensifying and the push for EU-made payment infrastructure is growing.

You are in for a ride with Denglish [1], but also “senden“ is a real word [2] — it is unclear to me from your rant if you’re trying to speak from a position of authority or are just venting for no obvious reason.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denglisch

[2] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/senden

Re:My Emacs Configuration (Dired) on Friday July 24, 2026 @01:43PM (#49039202)
I think that’s what many enjoy—and probably why many other steer away from—Emacs: its malleability. It has some defaults that are grounded in some usecase that have persisted for decades, and to change them would take hours of arguing on the mailing list.. or you could just change the defaults yourself to your liking.
Re:Fake food delivery site for the dopamine on Saturday July 18, 2026 @02:09PM (#48960577)
Does this have the ridiculous dark patterns that Deliveroo in the UK has? “Pay a monthly fee for free deliveries!*

*We won’t tell you, but you might notice, we’ve now increased the service charge by almost the amount of what you saved on that free delivery.

Re:Human Emacs on Monday July 13, 2026 @06:16PM (#48899643)
And yet, the Emacs community appears more vibrant than ever with many AI-assisted/-related projects (ghostty.el and agent-shell.el, among others) thriving and bringing a fresh wind into the ecosystem!
Danke Merkel!

/s

Re:Sick leave: Germany rising but not the worst in Europe on Saturday July 04, 2026 @03:27PM (#48788164)
For clarification, “default” above doesn’t mean “In Berlin you get insured with TK by default”, and rather “Most people in Berlin will recommend choosing TK over a different state-mandated insurer”. TK was also very popular when I was back in university in Frankfurt. It might just still be the one with reasonable prices!
I’d be curious about that web to kindle one you built. Mind sharing?
Re:Siri AI on Monday June 08, 2026 @05:39PM (#48452546)
Some of your points are addressed by: https://github.com/apple/password-manager-resources
Except it wasn’t for all users. IIRC it either didn’t show for all, or it was the WinRAR equivalent of you being able to say “maybe later” and it left you alone for a long while.
At the rate that people claim AWS us-east to go down, folks will argue that OVH has a tendency to go up in flames!
Re:I have officially retired from Emacs on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @01:52PM (#47937969)
Can you describe your setup on how you use LLMs within Emacs?
Re:Bet on German Train Delays on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @07:10AM (#47246351)
For context, David Kriesel gave the infamous talk called “BahnMining” at 36C3 highlighting this. IIUC it’s only available in German: https://youtu.be/0rb9CfOvojk
What makes you think that? Genuine question, as I’ve not flagged it as such in my mind.
Re:The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else on Saturday February 07, 2026 @02:33PM (#46926861)
Ok I’ll bite. Was it worth it? What have people missed that haven’t used it.

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