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You mean being voted into regional parliaments in the former GDR states?

Sorry, but the German far right party that just won their first state governmental majority vote has the highest share of former Stasi officials in their ranks.

So basically - being ex-stasi is nothing to be ashamed of anymore in some parts of Germany.

And what are the systemic practices in place that led to people not following the official protocol?

Because if the system punished compliance and rewarded such behavior, you now have a systemic issue underlying the "people are lazy".

Yes.

Pardon me not understanding what this is about?

Basically SETI for AI workloads? At least, this is the impression the landingpage left me with.

I am a bit lost, tbh.

I think the parent you replied to was mocking his parent comment with that statement, because that was the gist of the grandparent comment.

I read the comment as being a satirical way of voicing critique.

Concrats for finding the confidence. Looks really interesting. Put it on my list of projects to view during my down time. Thanks a ton for sharing. And congrats for getting something out the door.

We’ve had IKEA furniture for over 15 years, sometimes storing it in the attic for a few years after disassembling it, then assembling it again. We’ve also kept the main bodies of our living room furniture while replacing the doors. We sold the old doors on eBay, and other people reused them.

I also inherited some “regular” living room furniture after my mom passed away. It cost about four times as much as IKEA’s higher-end lines. After moving it from my mom’s place to my office, I can already see it falling apart after just three years (total lifetime as my mom only had it for two). The quality is so shite that I honestly wish my mom had bought IKEA.

In the future, I’ll either buy custom pieces from a furniture maker or choose IKEA's higher end lines for longevity and reusability.

> That's not at all what Barthes was saying; you've misunderstood him.

Thanks for misrepresenting me. Or willfully miunderstanding me. But hey. No qualms here.

Just that I never said: > the idea that there is no subtext, that a text only communicates exactly what it lays out on the surface level.

Not sure though, what made you read that into my writing (and I am aware of the ironiy here). I actually read Barthes. And not only him. I actually used him and his ways of looking, together with thelikes of Genette and others when doing my thesis work (and before).

Because their depth and their way of looking at the depth within text was what fascinated me.

I always compared them to trying to understand the bones, the organs, the muscles and sinues of a text, compared to a surface level way we were taught in school. Combine that with a more culturally anthropologic way of looking at topics in literature and outside of it, more like Focault did (as an example) and my time in university was actually one that I cherrish deeply.

Edit: > Your teachers weren't trying to get you to fix on the one perfect interpretation, because that idea (Barthes would agree) doesn't really make sense. Instead, they wanted you to interpret, explain, and justify in a complex and ambiguous space.

I have to disagree here. My university teachers mostly did. In school, my experience sadly was quite different. In school there was in most cases and with most teachers only one correct way of interpreting a work of literature. Regardless how well you argued your interpretation.

But I actually love the discussion. Thanks for engaging my opinion.

> Art is about engaging with human emotions and thoughts

Exactly. Still, that does actually not contradict what I wrote. You can still do this from a viewpoint of Structuralism, Formalism, Reader Centric Schools of Interpretation and Author Centric Schools of Interpretation.

Non of those are less intellectually" engaging with the work. Differently - and in my personal opinion more or less intellectually rewarding - yes. But not less or more.

That is a perfectly valid opinion and POV to have. While I don't share it personally, I can totally understand why one has it. That does not change, that I personally actually do not care the slightest about the question of who or what wrote a novel.

But that is just me, having studied literatur and fallen into a school of literary studies that held Roland Barthes' claim of the death of the author [1] in high regard.

That might just be a German thing, but in school I hated the question of teachers asking: "What does the author wanted to tell us with this story." Because -> The author never wrote that down. And deriving their intentions from a fictional text felt just like making shit up. You either hit the interpretation of your teacher or received a bad grade.

So when entering university and learning, that to analyse a text, to understand how structures within a text enable us humans to interpret and generate meaning, regardless of what the author originally might have intended, was freedom to me.

To make a long story even longer: As long as the story is good - I don't give a rat's ass if an LLM wrote this, a monkey on a typewriter or a human being (or a group of authors writing under a pseudonym).

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

Wow. Thanks. This is an awesome idea. Will blatantly steal. Thanks for sharing.

Yes. More than one. This one was especially "interesting", a security researcher was tasked by a company to evaluate the ERP (I believe would be the acronym) software. Diiscovered an external database connection, looked at it, discovered this external DB contained sensitive information from other clients of that vendor - reported it, got sued, lost.

In German: https://ht-strafrecht.de/blog/strafrecht/it-sicherheitslueck...

That has nothing to do with LLMs or not. If they were to "code" the same tool with an LLM, or build a LLM version of it, in Germany (where rthey are residing) they would face the same consequences.

Our legal system in that regard is total BS, when it comes to the so called "Hacker Paragraph". This comes with a sentence tht can range from a fine to up to one year prison time, just for producing such a tool. So if the police would actually - even if they had not published it - computer... well. They could be potentially "f**ed" (depending on how a judge would decide).

Interesting idea. I got myself an eInk tablet last week and was thinking about how I could incorporate handwritten notes/blog posts into my regular blog. As a separate section and maybe a separate RSS feed.

Because I actually liked the idea of enabling people to read my handwritten notes. I just would not want to put that onto an external service, being more of a selfhost person...

In my daily work, I found expeciall terra and sol now stopping every few rounds again, telling me the tak is done. I even had them create a detailled plan - and told them to finish "end to end" - and they appruptly stop after the plan. Because they interpret this as finished. Even if the DOD is clearly not "finish the plan".

The new models are shite (pardon my French), when it comes to long running tasks and I find myself more and more using open wheights models or switching back to gpt-5.5 for "real work".

This might be the fact, that i use them for non coding work. But the degradation between 5.5 and 5.6 is stark in my daily work.

As always with AI - everybody's mileage will vary.

Same. And I built a search tool for that repository of older sessions, so that I can search through those on all my machines. This helps me to be able to pick something up on a machine I did not originally start the convo on.

I found Kimi3 (currently only a few tests) to be not to bad. Older Claude versions (did not yet test it with the 4.8-5 generation.

I do not really like (even if it is my daily driver for a lot of things) gpt-5.x for text. It really needs heavy hand holding and beating it into submission to produce readable/human sounding text.

Tbh. I am still looking for my "go to model". But the Chinese models were for my use cases significantly better than openAI models and personally I liked them better than Anthropic ones as well.

> “Most People Do Not Switch Models Mid-Session”

I do, quite regularly. Because different models have different strength (for example when producing text for live presentations based on the text for a reading deck). Or when it comes to other aspects of the work. I regularly switch between open wheight models and closed models.

I know, I am a tiny minority here. And this behavior only ever started a few weeks ago. But it quickly became a habbit, to CTRL-L in pi and change the model.

Privatize the earnings, socialize the risk. The neoliberal dream.

Calling it a “1 hour flight” is a bit misleading when comparing transport options. The relevant number is door-to-door travel time.

Once you include getting out of Stockholm to the airport, security, boarding, the flight itself, possible baggage collection, and the trip into Umeå, I would be surprised if the total were much below 4 hours. Comparable German domestic flights such as Hamburg–Munich usually took me around 4–4.5 hours in practice in the past when traveling for work before the pandemic.

That makes the train a 6–8 hour alternative to a roughly 4-hour flight journey. Whether that is viable depends on the traveller, but it is certainly more competitive than “1 hour versus 8 hours” suggests.

I admit that for me, living about an hour north of the Hamburg main station but only 15 minutes from the airport, the plance for a business trip in Munich can still be a viable (albeit seldom taken) option. More often than not, if time permits, I take the train, work on the train. But as said - there still are situations, that make flying such a distance viable (to me).

I just wanted to point out, that it is not as clear cut as 1 hour vs. 6 to 8 hours.

Could the hidden state slides "just" react to a down arrow press as well as to the click? But then they probably would have to have an order somehow?

Just my two cents.

Cool. I really like it. One thing that I stumbled upon was that, when I was playing with negative numbers on slide 6 I would have expected the x-axis to stay at zero and the line to dip below it.

But I am not really sure how to achive this for the secondary y-axix (I was playing with the percentages and simulating negative growth).

Speaking of Tor, there is currently a massive and great Bundle for Scalzi books over at Humble by Tor. Just bought it, even if I already own a few of those, because the 4 books I don't yet have would be more expensive to buy separately.

Not a US citizen. But yeah, Germany does quit a lot of shit these days as well and will be doing even more, once we get our far right government after the next election. Will be the day I set my bug out plan in motion.

> human rights and all that rubbish

Denying human rights. Classic. Sorry - you instantly lost any respect I could have maybe had for your opinion.

To me, the question of switching (and any recommendation) depends highly on the type of work you do as well as your setup in terms of harness and memory, context management, and so on.

I have my context managed in a structured (but nowadays way too big) Obsidian Vault. I also built myself a vector based "vault search" capability and have my harness use this as a tool to find thematically similar things across the different contexts, when needed. I also build a few custom skills and extensions for my harness to be able to do my work.

Talking about harness: I use pi.dev and have taken care of, that i set it up in a way as to easily be able to switch the intelligence layer without loosing context. Yes, there are differences in how well models perform, but if a model refuses a task - like gpt-5.5 not willing to build a downloading tool for Annas Archive - I switch the model to something less finicky.

Thus I was able to switch to gpt based models after about a year with Claude (and having had a Claude Max since the early days it was available).

I played a lot with other models recently, to see how stabl my setup is for switching, should something like Fable happen on a broader scale with the US government. As said, minor changes in tonality, minor issues ith the quality of long text being written by the model, but most of it is actually managed in by the tonality docs, guard rails, coding standards and the likes, I set up over the last 9+ months of intensive work with it (first in Claude Code, then Codex and now as said pi.dev).

So YMMV and it heavily depends on your setup. But I more and more treat those models as interchangable.