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MetroWind··on Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone
In an ideal world where software is well-written, you don't need containers to make self-hosting easy. You just copy over the binary with some config files and run it.
MetroWind··on Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived
I was a Japanese boy who died at 5 month because of diarrhea.
MetroWind··on Ambient CSS v3 – Blender meets CSS
I'm not sure why they had to mention Blender. It's just regular CSS?
MetroWind··on How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?
I only read the left half of the text on my ultrawide screen.
MetroWind··on Understanding ChatGPT Work
> - Options to use Luna and Terra in place of Sol > - A code execution environment with Internet access > - A headless Chrome browser > - A persistent filesystem shared between sessions > - The ability to publish ChatGPT Sites > - The ability to run sub-agent sessions with Sol, Luna, and Terra > - Scheduled prompt automations (may be in ChatGPT Chat too)

I'm a bit confused. Why not just Codex...?

MetroWind··on No AI Fridays
The author is a CEO, so I can see why they care that much.

I'm not a CEO. If I don't own the code I write, I couldn't care less. Personal code is another story.

As to learning, are there really any adults offloading learning to AI?

MetroWind··on Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat
Well, California is like that naturally. It's green only in the winter.
MetroWind··on “I just chose words carefully”
"A but ironic" <---:
MetroWind··on Bug Blindness
Lmao I thought it was going to be an article discussing insects' ability to see.
MetroWind··on Hy4 preview
Either way, I'd prefer corporations "stealing" each other over them destroying books.
MetroWind··on Hy4 preview
I sometimes just chat the LLM in Chinese for token efficiency.
MetroWind··on “It works better in the app”
It's better to break the app than to break the web.
MetroWind··on CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO
... unless/until all CEOs are replaced with AI.
MetroWind··on Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
I just asked AI to write one for me and self-hosted it.
MetroWind··on Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots
Fake "think tanks" are already everywhere. We've all seen it. It's called AI-generated content.
MetroWind··on At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosis
Big "inspirational" image on top = no read :->
MetroWind··on Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking
Shrug~ I'm sure they'll find a way. They have power; they don't need more.
MetroWind··on uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook
All over the internet I saw this news title "uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook".

Shouldn't the title be something like "Trillion dollar corporation forces small opensource project from blocking their attack against users' browser"?

MetroWind··on London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces
What? They didn't even bother to use child safety as an excuse?
MetroWind··on Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering
It's 2026 and programmers are still fighting over language choices. Lmao
MetroWind··on Mojo 1.0
> uv pip install --upgrade mojo

What's wrong with people?

MetroWind··on US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search
They can legally do a lot more than that.

There is also a huge space between "obeying the laws and policies in the most conservative sense" (which is what you described) and being "illegal".

> do you apply this everywhere

In fact I do.

> should I let them because they can illegally shoot me

I'm not suggesting what you should do. That's up to you. I'm just saying the government can do a lot more than you think and get away with it, including "illegally" shooting you in circumstances. It's always a balance of risks. For me personally, If a normal cop ask to enter I'll refuse. But if it's ICE? That's suddenly a much harder choice.

Actually no I'll probably die either way. Who cares.

MetroWind··on OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining
Nah... it'll never work if the cost of being ethical is profit.
MetroWind··on OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining
I don't get why in the comments this gets compared with regulations and security teams...

Say no to regulations and security --> Fine, forced correction, fewer customers, shutdown.

Say no to ethics --> money (at least for AI companies)

Why is this so hard to understand?

MetroWind··on OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining
Of course it is. Doesn't mean the stakeholders are willing.
MetroWind··on What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers
Oh look, "white collar" workers lost their jobs due to automation like the blue collar workers have for decades and now it's an issue instead of advancement.
MetroWind··on “Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers
Well 99% of actual coding is just manual labor, nothing more. If that's not the case, either you are constantly at the cutting edge, which I cannot comment due to lack of experience, or your are constantly failing on the "engineering" part.
MetroWind··on How I use LLMs to learn complex topics
I mean it's a complex topic alright, but what you can learn with this is just a watered down pop-science level overview, which is not what I would call "learning".

A reasonable test is what I call the enhanced Feynman test: teach what you learnt to others, and be able to defend against reasonable questions.

A stretch goal I sometime use is to be able to read recent papers on the topic.

MetroWind··on Taste Is All That's Left
Pangram said my 100% AI generated cover letter was "57% AI assisted." And the rest was human. lmao
MetroWind··on Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index
Yeah DeepSeek has always been terrible until the new release version of 4.
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