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BeefySwain

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BeefySwain··on Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search
Good luck living long enough to see a jury
BeefySwain··on Combustion Engine Web-Based Simulator
Am I missing something? Setting the throttle to 0% seems to do nothing?
BeefySwain··on Microsoft's 6502 BASIC is now Open Source (2025)
Is that the same BASIC as this?
BeefySwain··on Industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice
I'd love to see more info on this
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I assume because the discovery is branching. If the an agent using the CLI for for GitHub needs to make an issue, it can check the help message for the issue sub-command and go from there, doesn't need to know anything about pull requests, or pipelines, or account configuration, etc, so it doesn't query those subcommands.

Compare this to an MCP, where my understanding is that the entire API usage is injected into the context.

BeefySwain··on Sunsetting Jazzband
What is happening with Ghostty?
BeefySwain··on Returning to Rails in 2026
Does batteries included somehow result in upgrading years old projects being a larger lift? I would think the opposite.
BeefySwain··on WebMCP is available for early preview
Also, as someone who has tried to build tools that automate finding flights, The existing players in the space have made it nearly impossible to do. But now Google is just going to open the door for it?
BeefySwain··on WebMCP is available for early preview
Can someone explain what the hell is going on here?

Do websites want to prevent automated tooling, as indicated by everyone putting everything behind Cloudfare and CAPTCHAs since forever, or do websites want you to be able to automate things? Because I don't see how you can have both.

If I'm using Selenium it's a problem, but if I'm using Claude it's fine??

BeefySwain··on Garage – An S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacenters
(genuinely asking) why not SQLite by default?
BeefySwain··on History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts
Pendragon?
BeefySwain··on Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work
Consider that this isn't just a random AI slopped assortment of 9,000 tests, but instead is a robust suite of tests that cover 100% of the HTML5 spec.

Does this guarantee that it functions completely with no errors whatsoever? Certainly not. You need formal verification for that. I don't think that contradicts what Simon was advocating for though in this post.

BeefySwain··on Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden
The equivalency here is not 9 billion versus 90 billion, it's 9 billion versus 90 million, and the question is how does the decline look? Does it look like the standard of living for everyone increasing so high that the replacement rate is in the single digit percentage range, or does it look like some version of Elysium where millions have immense wealth and billions have nothing and die off?
BeefySwain··on Britain to introduce compulsory digital ID for workers
Do you mean gait recognition?
BeefySwain··on Python on the Edge: Fast, sandboxed, and powered by WebAssembly
What's wrong with Docker for this?
BeefySwain··on Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
Campfire is definitely not FOSS: https://once.com/license
BeefySwain··on Ollama's new app
No it's not
BeefySwain··on Claude 4
I'm curious what tooling you are using to accomplish this?
BeefySwain··on Email Forwarding for Your Domain
How does this compare to https://mxroute.com/?
BeefySwain··on Open WebUI changed license from BSD-3 to Open WebUI license with CLA
Why does this keep happening? Do people not understand the implications choosing an open source license.in the first place? There are a million licenses, in fact you can just make your own one up! But when you choose a class of license the specifically allows commercial exploitation... you don't get to act wronged when it happens.
BeefySwain··on Evertop: E-ink IBM XT clone with 100+ hours of battery life
Anyone know what keyboard that is and where I could get my hands on one?

Just the keyboard. Not the entire unit.

BeefySwain··on Google makes Android development private, will continue open source releases
Android effectively stopped being "open source" when they added Google Play Services. Try running anything on stock AOSP now. Good luck!
BeefySwain··on Copyright Office suggests AI copyright debate was settled in 1965
Why is a binary (compiled machine code) protected by copyright, but the raw output of an AI model is not?
BeefySwain··on DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL
Can you explain what you mean by this?
BeefySwain··on Query Apple's FindMy network with Python
What does "x-platform" mean in this context?
BeefySwain··on FCC opens entire 6 GHz band to low power device operations
Chart of all US frequency allocations (as of 2016, but there doesn't appear to be a more up to date one?): https://www.ntia.gov/sites/default/files/publications/januar...
BeefySwain··on From where I left
All the conversations about SSPL seem to go the same way:

- Someone complains about the extra restrictions imposed on AWS (lets be real, it's basically just about AWS)

- People point out that SSPL is basically AGPL+, and that for the vast vast majority of people it doesn't make any difference

- People counter that the SSPL is written ambiguously/untested in court, and so while it might seem like it's AGPL+ and doesn't matter for most users, you can't rely on that

- People complain about rug pulling (valid, IMO)

My question is this: Can there be a AGPL+ that is OSI approved? Could there be a "AAGPL" that GNU releases that covers this (very common, and IMO valid) "need" for open source companies to not be cannibalized by cloud providers?

Is this conceptually unacceptable, or is it just that the SSPL is poorly executed?

BeefySwain··on RollerCoaster Tycoon was the last of its kind [video]
Minecraft?
BeefySwain··on DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome
> browsers aren't really a self funding product

Yeah... Because massive companies use them anti-competitively as a moat against other companies, and as a loss leader to enable massive data collection and vendor lock in.

"browsers aren't really a self funding product" is a symptom of dysfunction, not the inevitable conclusion of a fair market.

BeefySwain··on Sears Homes 1915-1920
Seems like this company ships in Arkansas only.

What should I be searching for to find these generally?

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