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TaLiTr··on Coding is not solved
Strange that GP never claimed software doesn't function without LLMs and yet you strawman-man them then make some bad-faith dismissal of their experience by accusing them of having psychosis.
TaLiTr··on Measure internet censorship
Many websites block UK IPs rather than comply with some recent KYC laws.
TaLiTr··on Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep
Nothing stopping them from threatening an open-source dev. The ""recent"" incident of Hoarder rebranding to Karakeep comes to mind.
TaLiTr··on Neovim have a ~$800k Bitcoin donation sitting untouched since 2023
> Ah yes lets ignore the tons of co2

"Tons" of CO2 would be an inconsequential drop in the bucket. Also cryptocurrency ≠ Bitcoin and I hate how people think the space is only Bitcoin.

TaLiTr··on Neovim have a ~$800k Bitcoin donation sitting untouched since 2023
> it's not real money anyway in many countries as legal tender.

That might be true, but that doesn't matter. In Canada crypto is a barter good, both parties just need to decide fair market value.

TaLiTr··on Douglas Adams and the exterminated Doctor Who adventure
> Nah, politics in shows is great. It's like CGI. It can really make a show pop if it's well thought out, subtle, and feels realistic.

Is this a joke?

To me both CGI and politics have the same issue which is aging poorly. Nobody thinks The Phantom Menace looks better than A New Hope.

TaLiTr··on To write non-fiction, draw the trunk, then the rest of the tree
> So I'd say that you shouldn't say that if you're relying on your own feelings and impressions to judge facts not in evidence, because your instincts may be wrong.

That's exactly my point. That teacher didn't have any facts, they just decided someone was a slacker based on vibes and used that bias to single them out. And presumably would go on to add systems to allow them to persecute others they deem to be slackers.

> School isn't a therapy session or entertainment. If it's a miserable experience and you come out smart, it's 1000x better than if its a wonderful experience and you come out dumb.

As someone who gets told he's smart somewhat regularly by his peers, and had a school mandated therapist because they thought he was a suicide risk, I believe that's a statement that needs a citation.

In any case they're not mutually exclusive, you can have an education system that works without grinding people down into lifelong anxiety disorders.

TaLiTr··on To write non-fiction, draw the trunk, then the rest of the tree
> “You should have failed this class. I’m going to make accommodations so that no student can pass next semester the same way you did.”

> This is what my Ancient History II professor told me when my group and I got our final group project essay handed out.

What a terrible, hack of a teacher. If you've ever said something like that to a student, quit your job. Those people are the reason academia is such a miserable experience for so many.

TaLiTr··on The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021
Is this arguing in favour of Spotify?

> buy 13 songs a month, every month, for a year, and see how big your library is.

Sure. And when I had Spotify I added about that to my liked songs every month.

> There is a compounding effect

That doesn't sound compounding, it sounds like a linear increase of 13 per month.

> for convenience of being able to listen to a new song once or twice and never again.

Yes, that is the advantage of Spotify and other steaming services. I can listen to dozens of new songs a day, picking out my favorites while being exposed to new music allowing me to find more that I like. And if I don't like it, meh, didn't cost me anything.

A library of 300 songs is tiny. I guess you don't listen to much music? Back before I lived in the city 300 songs would have lasted a week, I'd statistically hear a repeat on the drive home on the first day.

TaLiTr··on Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone
I'd say it's similar but not the same. One thing I can see from a quick skim is that cloud in a bottle can be set up on local infrastructure, this requires a cloud hosted VPS.
TaLiTr··on Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone
> One needs to make their server machine accessible to everyone

No not really, what gave you that idea?

> which isn't generally possible due to how networks work

Complete nonsense. Lots of people do it, many more have the capability even if they choose not to use it.

> Also one needs a domain

Nice to have, but completely optional.

> These barriers are high enough, so that common people can't create/host their own sites.

Are you talking about a website? Like a blog? If so you can have a Neocities site for free, with an optional 5 USD monthly subscription. That's the accessible, affordable option you're looking for.

TaLiTr··on Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone
> Seriously, take a look at the setup instructions and tell me with a straight face that a 4 year old could set this up.

It's also not accessible to people in comas, what's your point? The instructions are "import the file into VM software" and that's enough to get you something you can connect to over a web browser.

TaLiTr··on Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone
In what way are those remotely similar?

Veganism is incompatible with bacon. You can self-host, and also pay for cloud services when they are better than what you can self-host.

If anything it's like suggesting making food instead of getting takeout while buying bread from the store, because it's better than what you can make at home.

TaLiTr··on The safest job from AI may be writing
> It's sad, infuriating, discouraging. A deluge of slop drowning the last embers of authentic human creativity.

Eh.

You're waxing poetic about some sort of 'authentic' human craft, but I'm not convinced that's what most people try for when they write fanfiction. Is it possible that some or even most people write fanfiction to create the stories they want to see, and the craft of writing is just a way of achieving their goal?

TaLiTr··on Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates
Back in my day, villages weren't even in the game. My highschool classmates and I still found something compelling about it.
TaLiTr··on Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates
> Few people enjoy it. I am the majority opinion here.

The majority of people do not play videogames. The majority of those do not play any roguelikes. Citing the majority is completely useless.

Furthermore I'm not convinced you can make a tutorial for Dwarf Fortress. There's too much complexity, too many edge-cases that you end up needing to know. Most people seem to burn out if fed too much info at once.

> I’m convinced from articles about dwarf fortress that it’s a game that few actually play and enjoy, but like talking about as if it’s fun.

On my Steam friends-list I have 14 friends who have purchased the game. The top three by play-time are at 314, 267, and 67 hours. The remaining 7 with playtime average 22 hours, the other 5 have it in their backlog. That to me is some excellent playtime. Not Lethal Company numbers or anything, but that game didn't have a release before steam either.

TaLiTr··on A 12TB Steam “teraleak” spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history
> A perfect game isn't a game that casts a wide net, a perfect game is a game that satisfies its target audience.

Maybe, but that's completely tangential to what the GP said. And aside from that those games with a wide net do have a target audience, that's how they end up in that situation to begin with.

TaLiTr··on Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane
For anyone confused about timelines, they started releasing un-obfuscated builds in 2025. In 2019 they started releasing Obfuscation mappings. Before that it was all Minecraft wizards with excellent tooling.
TaLiTr··on Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices
I didn't assume a paper menu, I'd love it if there was though. Those at least can be scanned, pinned to the fridge, etc. But in my experience they mostly have a board over the counter that I'm forced to stand there and take slightly blurry photos of.
TaLiTr··on GLM-5.3-Flash
> it outperforms GLM-5.2 across benchmarks and real-world workloads at one-tenth the price, while approaching Claude Opus 4.8 on coding and agentic benchmarks.

From a biased source, but would be big if true. I've had great results with GLM 5.2.

From their subscription page, the smallest plan gives you about 97M tokens weekly for 5.3 but 292M for 5.3 Flash. Not exactly 10x the limit.

TaLiTr··on Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices
> We could all get together and inundate you with DMCA takedown for our Intellectual Property

The same morally repugnant scummyness X is currently engaging in?

> It's not your content, and you're cheating us all!

You haven't been cheated in any way lol. You're posting to a public forum, grow up.

TaLiTr··on Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices
Nobody should have those rights. Copyright has been a disaster for the human race.
TaLiTr··on Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices
I'm copying your comment for my wall of false equivalences.
TaLiTr··on Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices
> Don’t go there. Plenty of other restaurants to choose from. They just lost a customer due to their hostility.

This is a wild take to me. Around here pretty much nobody posts their menu online on any website, the technical literacy is just quite poor. If you limited yourself to places that did, you'd only get big fast-food chains.

TaLiTr··on Bookshelf – Self-hosted eBook library that runs on object storage
> I really wish client side end to end encryption would become more widespread in the developer community.

I think asking every self-hosted app to implement their own encryption is a massive waste of resources. If you need the data encrypted, it should be handled by a dedicated app like Cryptomater or at the OS level.

TaLiTr··on Felony Bench
> Eh, if your take of this had any bearing to reality than I don't think most of the books written by Isaac Asimov would have gotten very far, but instead they've defined robot science fiction for decades.

I'm talking about how the law actually works, and you say it's not based in reality and cite fiction books in the same paragraph?

I was talking about how the real robotic systems that actually exist in reality, to be clear.

TaLiTr··on Felony Bench
> Soon a robot can commit a murder but nothing will be done because of your line of reasoning.

That's rather hyperbolic.

Are you seriously suggesting in that situation the robot should be accused of murder? The robot's operator could be accused of murder, but it could just be negligence without intent. Because that does, and should matter to the law.

TaLiTr··on Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results
As of right now, on Firefox for Android, I am prompted to log in.
TaLiTr··on AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late
> Then the AI companies can simply download a copy of Anna's Archive.

And so can everyone else. That's the ideal outcome.

Only Anti-AI types are against this, they probably don't even care about the books, it's just a proxy for trying to stop the "evil AI companies."

TaLiTr··on AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late
Unlike archive.org which is a real business, Anna's Archive is basically piracy. You could try to sue them but you'd have to find them first. This IMO makes them more resilient against that sort of thing, and also means they can actually do their job.
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