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Fuzzwah

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Fuzzwah··on iPhone Duo
One reason is making it easy to scale things up or down for printing on standard sizes of paper.
Fuzzwah··on I tested 10 model/harness combinations on the same Three.js task
I've been impressed with orca

https://github.com/stablyai/orca

I did have some issues getting it installed on a headless server. I sort of gave up and installed the instance that I use as the remote server on a Debian + xfce machine I had laying around.

Fuzzwah··on GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter
It did that thinking about a helmet but didn't actually include a helmet. And there's no "actually, wait, this is just a cute little image no helmet" thought.
Fuzzwah··on Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
I've just returned home after doing a 100 day "half lap" of Australia in a camper trailer with my family. I made heavy use of gemini to plan much of it. Getting packed up with a general destination in mind and telling gemini "we're leaving X town at 10am and heading to Y, where should we stop for lunch. My wife has coeliac disease, find us somewhere that does good gluten free options" was one of the many things I regularly leant on it for.

Never had a bad suggestion.

Fuzzwah··on Playa Phone
Here in Australia our once public phone company, telstra, have converted many phone boxes to be free to use and also provide a small wifi AP.
Fuzzwah··on Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root
In a recent long interview with Lex Friedman, DHH explained that he's essentially doing pure agentic dev on Omarchy now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYFGCESmikA

Fuzzwah··on GitHub Outage Tracker: Is GitHub Cooked?
Near the end of the 8.5 years that I worked at GitHub as an enterprise support engineer, I asked in an all hands if a "GitHub Classic" product had been considered. Much like World of Warcraft Classic, I imagined it would be a rewrite focused on matching the simpler feature set of the past.

I was basically given the same response that blizzard gave that question; "you think you want that but you don't".

Fuzzwah··on Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
Rectangle solved my macos window management annoyances.

https://rectangleapp.com/

Not involved in dev of this, just a happy user

Fuzzwah··on Incident with Github.com [resolved]
And then consider that GitHub hasn't had their own CEO for a year now.
Fuzzwah··on My midlife crisis Corolla is fast, furious, and modded
If you're talking about the US Landcruiser it's actually what we know as a Prado over here in Australia. My dream midlife crisis vehicle is a 2025 Landcruiser 79. Mostly for towing capacity and being able to access more offroad areas of Australia, but admittedly a lot of the appeal is just how awesome they look when decked out for "adventuring".
Fuzzwah··on Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera
The person you're replying to mentioned a Toyota, which I also drive a newer model of. It has two modes: lane assist (which works like you have described) and lane centering (which automatically is enabled when you switch on cruise control). The centering will continuously nudge you towards what it decides is the center of your lane.

It's awful and I've trained myself to automatically long press the button on the steering wheel to disable the entire system every time I get behind the wheel.

Fuzzwah··on Steam Machine launches today
30th anniversary of Quake's release today.
Fuzzwah··on Claude Fable 5
The "big beak!" comment in the svg source makes me think it's definitely a gamed "benchmark" at this point.
Fuzzwah··on Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust
The screenshots in your readme all 404
Fuzzwah··on Talking to strangers at the gym
You've so perfectly explained something that I picked up from my father. He always seemed to have a way to get special treatment from people. I always explained it in a very Australian way; "he's a bit of a character" and figured it was tied to his gift of "telling a yarn".

But reflecting on it now, it's because he was always on a quest.

Fuzzwah··on PgAdmin 4 9.13 with AI Assistant Panel
While everyone else is posting top level comments about which tools they're using rather than PgAdmin; I've been a huge fan of Beekeeper Studio since I tried out a range of postgresql db apps such as DBeaver, Postico, etc a few years ago.

https://www.beekeeperstudio.io

Fuzzwah··on Iran students stage first large anti-government protests since deadly crackdown
Do you recall the article? Was it this https://netpol.org/2025/03/01/this-is-repression-annual-stat...?
Fuzzwah··on How far back in time can you understand English?
Acoustic picking 18 from garage band....
Fuzzwah··on How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution
All sounds like a bespoke way of remaking https://github.com/Fission-AI/OpenSpec
Fuzzwah··on Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings
It should be tasteful ads for the AI companies that are making money... Oh wait, I instantly see the problem with that idea.
Fuzzwah··on Nova Launcher added Facebook and Google Ads tracking
For me the advantage of nova is increasing the density of app icons able to be displayed on the home screen and app drawer.

I run with a 9x7 home screen grid and 8x6 app drawer.

This allows me to have a weather widget with a large clock and an excellent calendar widget called Todo Agenda displayed while still allowing me to have all my apps accessible on one screen.

Fuzzwah··on 1300 Still Images from the Animated Films of Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli (2023)
Or maybe the next great story teller to create something meaningful that touches people in ways that change their mental model of the world.

Perhaps allowing them to find the positives in new technologies.

Or, you know... Slop.

An open mind doesn't hurt though.

Fuzzwah··on Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros
> comments in this submission is just straight up guessing and assuming whatever guesses they make are correct.

True of every comment thread on HN.

Absorbing the thoughts of other humans on any topic you have deep knowledge of makes you see that all coverage of EVERY topic is subtly incorrect / poor / has an agenda.

It's sort of liberating when you realize.

Fuzzwah··on Unreal Tournament 2004 is back
sv_gravity console command.
Fuzzwah··on Unreal Tournament 2004 is back
For four great years in my career I ran game servers for an Australian ISP. I really enjoyed tossing up servers for new HL2 / UT / Quakeworld mods and seeing what picked up a community, chipping in on a cyberpunk HL2 mod in the same period.

I have such rose coloured glasses of that time.

Looking back, most of the dedicated server software felt like it was just tossed over the wall. Some of the stuff we used to have to do to get things running happily on headless linux servers was very hacky. Others simply HAD to run on windows hosts.

I feel like the entire industry died as games became "live" services.

Nearly 2 decades later when my kids got into Minecraft, I stumbled into the hosted MC server world and was just amazed by the size of the industry around it.

It was a real "arrrh this is where that same spirit ended up" moment.

And now of course there's huge servers funded by getting kids into gambling and pay to win.... Gross.

Fuzzwah··on PGlite – Embeddable Postgres
My read is that the person you're responding to thinks that pglite could be a better fit than sqlite for ci/cd, where currently sqlite is used.

Not that testing is the main use of sqlite.

Fuzzwah··on Bootloader Unlock Wall of Shame
Can you use NFC payment?
Fuzzwah··on Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written by AI
Give your final sentence a re-read there....
Fuzzwah··on Roblox is a problem but it's a symptom of something worse
I've had a similar approach. My kids computers are setup next to mine and I keep an eye on what they're playing.

I've instigated a purchase wait period of at least 3 days. Very often they themselves realize that the thing that they wanted to spend their pocket money on was a brief desire.

I was super proud when I heard my son say "meh, this is pay to win" as quitting a random roblox game he was trying out.

Fuzzwah··on SIMA 2: An agent that plays, reasons, and learns with you in virtual 3D worlds
You might be interested in https://github.com/mindcraft-bots/mindcraft

It's an open-source framework for building intelligent, task-driven bots in Minecraft Java Edition powered by large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4, Gemini, and many others. Designed for research and creative automation, these bots can connect to Minecraft worlds, perceive and act on their environment, undertake custom tasks like resource gathering or building, and even collaborate in multi-agent scenarios.

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