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We have to block our TV from dialling home (there just aren't any privacy oriented 'smart' TVs). We chose to go down the DNS filtering route and pay for https://nextdns.io/ - it turns out it super helpful for a whole host of home network privacy jobs (ad blocks, kids safety filtering, security posture etc.). I can't stop recommending it to people.

Yes, feeling this 100%

In true drinking the kool-aid style, I've attempted to solve this problem with an LLM!

I have a skill which aggregates what I've been working on over the last day (from slack, calendar, mail etc. MCP) and writes a notion journal entry for me. It runs in the evening when I've finished and is ready the next morning when I start. It helps with the context switching - reminding me of deadlines or what I was in the middle of before I left.

Yes, I guess its a balance - the inconvenience of sorting through odd-shaped defunct USB standards vs actually needing one of those weird cables for an ancient camera in 10 years time.

I naturally have the ~< £ from AZ mindset, but I try to challenge that by re-using avoiding waste. It doesn't always work (and there's a lot of eventual waste in those hundreds of zip-lock bags).

Hot tip - buy a box of small / medium zip lock bags and bag them all up. Duplicates in the same bag are ok (10cm / USB-C) etc.

For the last 10 years my "techno box" has been a box of bags - the cables don't get tangled and small bits (adaptors / notes) get to live with the cables. Its one of the rare few home environment hacks I actually have!

> weight update during eval: this is a form of test time training and not really cheating.

Possibly "not really cheating", but it does make benchmark comparisons unfair - especially as the other models are unlikely to have their weights updated during the eval.

`from plotnine import *`

... I love the idea of a new python plotting library, but why is this anti-pattern so common with plotting libs?

> Trump administration says restrictions could impose ‘disproportionate’ burden on US tech companies

Placing the onus firmly on US tech companies and not the well-being of children.

The tech firms (like cigarette manufacturers) have long known about the harms of social media on the young, and what steps or measures have they taken to reduce or limit damage (...crickets).

Oppose a "blunt regulatory instrument" if you like, but if you don't implement safety measures that's what you're going to get.

I'm working on something very similar, but I've found that if I'm not doing the work - I forget what has been set up and how its running a lot faster.

For example - I have ZFS running with a 5-bay HDD enclosure, and I honestly can't remember any of the rules about import-ing / export-ing to stop / start / add / remove pools etc.

I have to write many clear notes, and store them in a place where future me will find them - otherwise the system gets very flaky through my inability to remember what's active and what isn't. Running the service and having total control is fun, but it's a responsibility too

I love atuin -- the shared shell command memory function solves a problem that I had (recalling obscure CLI commands)

I'll try atuin desktop and I hope it succeeds, but I can't say that it solves any particular problem that I have and am aware of.

Apparently if a light-bulb blows at a station, two different contractors need to be called - one company has a contract for replacing consumables while another has a contract for repairing faults.

https://youtu.be/bNEEJX0VM6k?si=1hGCnYx826ffGOPj

Hijacked? no. For me this demonstrates the temporal differences between the web and the real world.

Books are solid things that will be here for a long time. Websites are transitory, ethereal and likely to change. It's clearly ok to reference a book from a website, but books that reference websites - yeuch. It reminds me of those stacks of hard-copy programming manuals targeting specific versions of a language now obsolete.

When you don't understand this you end up in this kind of situation. If you don't renew your domain, you might lose it (as the author and publisher are now finding out). I expect legal proceedings will fail miserably, and that a nice fat bung will probably solve the problem immediately.

> Doing the smallest and easiest solution to a problem as a way to get to know the full scope and then iterating after that if needs be is by far the best solution (for me).

100% -- this is YAGNI (or you-aint-gonna-need-it) and should be among the first things you think about when starting a new project.

Not patronising, this was exactly my first (and off-topic) thought as well.

We have lived in our house for +15 years and we still regularly find small fluorescent yellow ball bearings in the garden soil from the previous owners family. These things are here to stay

While we're here - I've gained a lot from "Data Analysis: A Bayesian Tutorial" by DS Sivia and J Skilling. It's a graduate level text, and I found the chapters very concise and the subject well-laid out. It was one of those books that gave me continuous insight and fresh inspiration - even though it's more than 10 years old.