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albertgoeswoof··on How to set up SPF, DKIM, and DMARC for your sending domain
They don’t do ips they just use SES, same as resend and a bunch of other email startups lately
albertgoeswoof··on How to set up SPF, DKIM, and DMARC for your sending domain
This is an aws ses wrapper so is basically irrelevant in the email world
albertgoeswoof··on Jemalloc 5.4.0
Ha, it’s like that for us except we deploy an update at least every few months, which obliterates our machine and restarts then launch sequence
albertgoeswoof··on Jemalloc 5.4.0
I switched to jemalloc on a sidekiq queue and memory dropped from 8gib to under 1gib

There’s a slow memory leak somewhere in my code but with jemalloc it no longer actually matters.

Thanks to jemalloc team for this!

albertgoeswoof··on Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations
I got https://www.waveshare.com/13.3inch-e-paper-hat-plus-e.htm from Amazon, about 300 gbp
albertgoeswoof··on Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations
I built one of these that shows the hacker news front page, nyt front page, my most listened to album of the last 7 days etc.

Refreshes every hour

Battery lasts a few months

Esp32 and a colour eink panel, same as this one I think

albertgoeswoof··on Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open
What does stays open mean
albertgoeswoof··on Towards a harness that can do anything
It’s a pitch for their product ambience
albertgoeswoof··on Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%
not anymore
albertgoeswoof··on Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech
If this is the case then I simply won’t engage. 90 % will not engage and you’re left with the 10% who are willing to put everything they do out there publicly and permanently- probably because they have an ulterior motive or commercial reason to do so
albertgoeswoof··on The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the far-right Swedish Örebro party
Left wing parties historically are not pro immigration as it increases the labour pool and reduces individual worker powers.

Right wing should be boosting immigration to give businesses cheaper labour and erode worker rights.

Explains why they UK immigration rose massively with the tories.

Many parties outright lie about this to grow their voter base, but the difference in policy vs promise is huge.

albertgoeswoof··on Why current LLM costs are not sustainable
One thing missing here is the maturity of agent harnesses. I’m finding the free deepseek flash model in opencode can handle all of my simple tasks, because the harness is so good. Soon that will be a local model.

And the reality is that other industries aren’t finding the use for LLMs as much as programmers are. Sure there are some benefits but you can’t fire your marketing department and replace it with AI

albertgoeswoof··on An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time
Yes about 2000 years ago we read many of them, we even wrote some too!
albertgoeswoof··on Half-Life 2 in a Browser
Yup. I was going to finally buy half life 2 today but now I’ve seen this I guess I won’t need to.

Hard times at Valve, I suppose they’ll have to find more children to start gambling with them.

albertgoeswoof··on Snap Smart Glasses
We need legislation that there’s a big bright red light when these things are recording.

Do we really want to live in a world where people have hidden cameras strapped to their faces?

Normal people don’t want this, it’s creepy

albertgoeswoof··on I Could've Rickrolled the FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID
Please stop using AI to write for you, it ruins what is otherwise a fascinating story, and on reflection I struggle to trust it.

If you used AI to generate the blog post, did you use AI to generate the screenshots and story?

albertgoeswoof··on AI coding at home without going broke
It won’t be long till employers get wise to this stuff, they just need to burned a couple of times.

It seems AI is good, great even at many things. But it doesn’t seem like it’s going to change the world as much as some people believe it will. And if it does it’s going to take time

albertgoeswoof··on AI coding at home without going broke
I’ve watched a bunch of layman videos where they create stuff with AI, these people burning through 12 hour tasks are literally not reading the output or understanding what it’s doing. Like they’ll ask for a program, and then right after it’s been created they ask the AI how to run it. Then when there’s a bug, they ask the AI what went wrong, or scrap the entire thing and switch model/harness and try again.

Here’s an example https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xc1296HY8Fw&ra=m

It’s completely different to a professional workflow (what you described). It’s a toy for consumers

albertgoeswoof··on Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra
It’s in the first line of the article. It’s for people that make the world, obviously
albertgoeswoof··on Mike: open-source legal AI
how does the agent edit the docx files then? or does it convert all docx to pdf, parse the PDF into context, make edits and then save it back to docx?

laywers live in docx not pdf

albertgoeswoof··on Mike: open-source legal AI
And yet 130 stars
albertgoeswoof··on Joby kicks off NYC electric air taxi demos with historic JFK flight
You state that like decades and billions is a long time.

You have 10000 people who need to do this trip every hour, how will you manage that with this? It can’t scale.

In the end normal people will be stuck without proper transport, while a tiny majority will fly around in comfort.

albertgoeswoof··on Mike: open-source legal AI
How does this work with docx files? The screenshots only show pdfs?
albertgoeswoof··on Joby kicks off NYC electric air taxi demos with historic JFK flight
This so inefficient it’s painful to watch. It’s about 14 miles to go from jfk to manhattan. A train could do this in 20 minutes or so. A train could ship thousands of people in one go, supports millions of ordinary people in their daily lives, and doesn’t cause excessive noise pollution at street level (not to mention the climate, safety, and infrastructure benefits)

In London a new train line was built deep underground from Heathrow all the way through central London and out the other side. It stops all the way, travels further (19 miles) and still only takes 25 minutes, so don’t pretend it can’t be done.

Instead of supporting people we solve problems for the 0.001% who will give us a quick buck, while we pretend we’ll one day be rich enough to ride these things

albertgoeswoof··on Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?
What does your company do and what do the open claw agents do?
albertgoeswoof··on Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?
You should ask claude code to write a bash script that does this for you. Then run that as a Cronjob every night. You might not need any inference at all to create the flash cards so it would be free.
albertgoeswoof··on Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events
What would do about someone like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santhi_Soundarajan
albertgoeswoof··on Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events
Doesn’t really work though - and given athletes are on the edge of performance there’s probably more people that fall in between than you might expect

From the Wikipedia article:

While the presence or absence of SRY has generally determined whether or not testis development occurs, it has been suggested that there are other factors that affect the functionality of SRY.[25] Therefore, there are individuals who have the SRY gene, but still develop as females, either because the gene itself is defective or mutated, or because one of the contributing factors is defective.[26] This can happen in individuals exhibiting a XY, XXY, or XX SRY-positive[27] karyotype[better source needed] Additionally, other sex determining systems that rely on SRY beyond XY are the processes that come after SRY is present or absent in the development of an embryo. In a normal system, if SRY is present for XY, SRY will activate the medulla to develop gonads into testes. Testosterone will then be produced and initiate the development of other male sexual characteristics. Comparably, if SRY is not present for XX, there will be a lack of the SRY based on no Y chromosome. The lack of SRY will allow the cortex of embryonic gonads to develop into ovaries, which will then produce estrogen, and lead to the development of other female sexual characteristics.[28]

albertgoeswoof··on You can run a DNS server (2025)
Why do you want to do this? What would you redirect / override on this?
albertgoeswoof··on You can run a DNS server (2025)
It can’t be fully secure but you can use a domain or path with a uuid or similar such that no one could guess your dns endpoint, over dot or doh. In theory someone might log your dns query then replay it against your dns server though.

You could also add whitelisting on your dns server to known IPs, or at least ranges to limit exposure, add rate limiting / detection of patterns you wouldn’t exhibit etc.

You could rotate your dns endpoint address every x minutes on some known algorithm implemented client and server side.

But in the end it’s mostly security through obscurity, unless you go via your own tailnet or similar

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