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MaKey

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Senior DevOps Consultant

Contact: hn@beier.xyz

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MaKey··on Running local models is good now
Friends don't let friends use Ollama: https://sleepingrobots.com/dreams/stop-using-ollama/
MaKey··on Electric motors with no rare earths
One of the most interesting features of sodium batteries is that they still perform good in cold temperatures.
MaKey··on Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiency
So does Opencode Go ($10/mo: https://opencode.ai/go) for DeepSeek v4 Flash and MiMo 2.5.
MaKey··on German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews
Having proof is not always enough. I had a bad experience with a shady used car salesman and my review was removed by them. I appealed, nothing happened. I deleted the review and put up a new concise one with proof. It wasn't published. The appeal was eventually successful but my new review still not published. I appealed via arbitration, which was decided in my favor but the review is still not published, as their decision is not legally binding. So Google rather pays hundreds of Euros in arbitration fees than publish my honest review. In the arbitration process they said that because I deleted my first review there is nothing they could do, which to me is nonsense. Overall the Google Maps review situation is very frustrating. At least they now show how many reviews have been removed in the past year for defamation for every Google Maps listing.
MaKey··on Claude Fable 5
I'm speaking of third-party providers. They just host those open models themselves on their hardware.
MaKey··on Claude Fable 5
There are also EU providers for those models, e. g. Tensorix.
MaKey··on Claude Fable 5
There are US providers for DeepSeek v4, MiMo 2.5 and GLM 5.1.
MaKey··on LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do
> As a bit of an aside, I have been toying with the idea of adding some sort of second pass/security auditing/scaling offering to my consultancy for people vibe coding projects which wind up generating interest. (Not sure what the fuck else I'm going to do!) I have a few non-technical friends who have found themselves in this situation and there's a real need for it.

There might be a need for it but as a consultant your daily rate should be way above what a small vibe coder is willing to pay.

> As signs of how desperate I'm getting, I recently signed up for Task Rabbit and am seriously considering applying for a job at Tractor Supply.

I hope you'll find a way to keep going. Signing up for gig work is a race to the bottom though and not something I'd recommend. May I ask how you've arrived at this point?

MaKey··on The OnlyFans Economy of American AI
+1, it's good enough for what I need to do as a DevOps engineer.
MaKey··on United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert
After reviewing the video tapes the police concluded that the women knew that they were handling poison - they kept their hands away from their body and immediately washed them after the attack.
MaKey··on I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit
I've been using DeepSeek v4 Flash with OpenCode for the whole week to refactor a Terraform code base I inherited and it worked surprisingly well.
MaKey··on DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent
In that scenario others host the model, not DeepSeek themselves, so they indeed charge their own prices.
MaKey··on Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on every card
Which one-off tasks need 10k lines of code?
MaKey··on The quiet renovation at Bitwarden
> If you are (like me) somewhat paranoid about the fact that Vaultwarden hasn't got a proper security audit on its codebase [...]

It was audited in 2024: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Password-manager-BSI-reports-cr...

MaKey··on The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers
You can make it illegal to use private cameras for surveillance of public spaces. In Europe this is already the case.
MaKey··on Ask HN: When did computers stop being fun?
> Basically, the spark I felt some 25 years ago seems to be completely gone.

You just need to find the right application for your skills to reignite it, e. g. a side project. There are also plenty of awesome books out there to dive into new topics (I like O'Reilly and No Starch Press books).

MaKey··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
So you are looking to offer a managed RADIUS server once you've finished building the software?
MaKey··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
What motivated you to start this and which language did you choose?
MaKey··on Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
The times where you have to try to appease small but vocal perpetually outraged groups are over. The German language has no generic feminine so adding it to the extension would contradict its goal.
MaKey··on Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
I like the Unhooked extension. You can select which parts of YouTube you want to remove (e. g. Shorts). My start page is empty, I need to visit the channel pages to watch their videos.
MaKey··on Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
It's still the same word, just as generic masculine. Gender speech isn't part of the German language but an add-on with no standardization (that's why there are multiple different approaches). Apart from looking awkward one of the main criticisms is that it hurts the reading flow. Following that point the extension improves the reading experience.
MaKey··on Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
Example: Reader

In German: Leser (masculine)

Possible forms of inclusive speech: Leser*innen, Leser:in, Leser_innen

This extension removes these possible forms of inclusive speech. Arguably they hurt the reading flow and the German language has the generic masculine. However, proponents of inclusive speech feel that the generic masculine isn't inclusive.

MaKey··on Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
It removes gender speech (Leser*innen becomes Leser), which can be awkward and hurt the reading flow.
MaKey··on Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
For me the most important extension is uBlock Origin. It's worth switching to Firefox for this alone.
MaKey··on Why IPv6 is so complicated
Here is the documentation from Scaleway on IPv6: https://www.scaleway.com/en/docs/dedibox-ipv6/quickstart/

The first step is to request an IPv6 prefix. Did you do that?

MaKey··on Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML
AI psychosis: (informal) A phenomenon wherein individuals reportedly develop or experience worsening psychosis, such as paranoia and delusions, in connection with their use of chatbots.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/AI_psychosis

MaKey··on VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
FYI, they changed the default of 'git.addAICoAuthor' to 'chatAndAgent' afterwards: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/312880

So it was 'off' -> 'on' -> 'chatAndAgent'

MaKey··on Why IPv6 is so complicated
Which european cloud provider is it?
MaKey··on Why IPv6 is so complicated
This concern is addressed in RFC 4941 (IPv6 privacy extensions).
MaKey··on Why IPv6 is so complicated
Your proposal (translation) is addressed as point 3B in the article.
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