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Bruno is fantastic. Switched a while ago and haven't even thought about going back

Somehow I'm paying more tax and getting worse services. I'm getting pretty sick of it, and the only way it's going to change is a reform of the public service.

I'd want to see quarterly budgets and funding vs yearly, penalties for any department executives that spend just so they use their entire budgets, and efficiency dividends implemented for any department that has been caught spending on pointless crap. We have the tech to move fast in ensuring funds are being used responsibly.

I always found them too chatty and verbose. I'd get a wall of text and miss things because it was lost in garbage about load bearing and blast radius

Yeah, ollama has it up for free at the moment. I'm fairly nonplussed about it.

Got it to do a code review on a couple of codebases where I knew roughly what the problems were and it underperformed even with a prod in the correct direction. Its code output is average, and it's more expensive than glm-5.3-flash, I don't see myself using it when it comes off free.

Cool, no reason for them to drive up the cost of hardware anymore

Even just one of the smaller models is good enough for the grunt work I use them for 90% of the time. Currently doing most of my home hobby projects with OpenCode Go and Qwen 3.7 Plus, it's not great at diagnosing issues in the code, but if I can clearly articulate a test suite or boilerplate refactoring it works fine.

I think you're missing the point OP was making. He's saying it's profitable but not optimal, those who recognised that quickly outstripped the slave owners in wealth.

I could ask you about your spending habits and why you don't pump all your money into an S&P 500 ETF, but that's ignoring time and consumption preferences you have, as well as perceived opportunity cost. It's not a useful observation to make at an individual level.

This reeks of the start of enshittification. Very doubtful it was a "test"

Who's at fault when it suggests feeding someone cyanide?

I'm working on moving as much as possible to self hosted options. Have forgejo, Authentik and Nextcloud set up so far. Slowly finding alternatives for things, I think my next goal is Nostr

I think it's awesome that AI is enabling this. I think the the future of software engineering is in helping make this kind of thing resilient and removing the fragility that AI generated code always seems to inject

Must have just been the ones I liked that died. Will have to go looking

I miss the decentralized web and phpBB forums. If you didn't like one community, it was super easy to find one you did.

I always liked reading about it in uni in the mid-late 00s. It made me feel smart in my OS tutorials when I could rattle off all the design choices and how they differed from Linux and Windows

My observations match this. I can get fresh things done very quickly, but when I start getting into the weeds I eventually get too frustrated with babysitting the LLM to keep using it.

Last place I worked had long running end to end tests that would take 30 minutes on GHA (compared to maybe 5 locally) on every PR. This is going to make that a very expensive endeavour

Real mask off comment here, respect

Amazing that we can propagandise people for decades to accept cultural relativism and then expect people to get upset over this.

In an era where the working poor are struggling to buy groceries and pay rent, these clowns want government money to make a better chat bot.

What a complete circus.

Yeah, had no luck getting windows tools running. I'm only an amateur mixer thank God, but I found this list a while ago and have been having mixed success here and there https://github.com/alex-tee/lv2-plugins-ultimate-list

Just running these through reaper and it's ok enough.

I've been full-time Linux again for about 12 months, gaming isn't my main problem anymore. I think the only thing I'm having a bit of difficulty with is trying to get Jedi Knight working without crashing my entire computer.

Biggest problem I'm running into now is replacing all my music mixing tools. It's getting there, but it's a whole process.

I recently went back to full time Linux and the gaming aspect is fine with my RTX-3090. I don't really play anything like COD or Battlefield with all the invasive anticheat though, so your mileage may vary

We use paper in Australia and generally have a result by the next day (2010 being an exception due to hung parliament). We also have a very strict chain of ownership and auditible vote counts ledgers, if they're really looking for anti-fraud measures they could come and observe our AEC

Patents around printing are out of control. All the major manufacturers cross license everything from each other

The best disinfectant is sunlight. I'm similarly appalled by some of the behaviour after a certain political activist was murdered, but I don't want them to get banned or deplatformed. I'm hoping what we're seeing here is a restoration of the ability to disagree with each other

I'm unsurprised by that. I'm really hoping it quickly improves now that more people are using it

Why would we defend the rights of someone that refuses to defend ours?

Great. Now let's see them enforce it.

Agreed. One of my mentors early on was a self taught engineer and honestly I'd trust him a lot more than some of the engineers with degrees

So did 4chan, god help you if you abused a cat