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bjord

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Engineer with passions for privacy and entrepreneurship, as well as a soft spot for things with wheels. American based in Kazakhstan.

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bjord··on GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
neither, actually, just that unattended "oneshot" sessions are incredibly token inefficient

if you talk about them (in which you lean on an LLM as a sort-of independent employee) and conservative, chunk-based usage (in which you use the LLM as more of an extension of yourself), you're comparing apples to oranges

a predefined spec obviously reduces that gap but how much is highly dependent on the level of detail

bjord··on GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
> unattended overnight claude opus session

yes, exactly

bjord··on AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You
Honestly, I'm not clear where the line is as far as what is reasonable, and it seems to me that no one is really addressing that question. It's easy to wave your hands and say "vibecoding is bad", without really defining what vibecoding is.

I suppose it'll be a few years before we see the true volume of technical debt catch up with the worst offenders, but even then, without the original LLM conversations associated with it, it'll be difficult to assess that in a structured way. Mind you, that doesn't even address the ever-improving models.

bjord··on AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You
I think the issue here is the nebulous definition of vibecoding.

You, as an experienced engineer, are doing a lot of hand holding and review of LLM-generated output, maybe even(?) using it as purely a check on your own work. There are others, though, that are essentially outsourcing the entire process to a basic, underspecified chat prompt.

bjord··on Flet 1.0 – Build cross-platform apps in Python
absolutely! no shade towards contributors, my impression was that compiling for iOS is just a bit of a moving target. everyone was willing and ready to help where they could, I just had a lot of trouble.
bjord··on Flet 1.0 – Build cross-platform apps in Python
kivy, which does the same thing, has been around for over 10 years. I built my thesis in it a few years ago. not recommended—too many limitations and build issues in practice. given that this one is less mature...I'm not optimistic.
bjord··on One year of sponsored Servo development
sorry, what? servo existing as a mozilla side project did not give it broad adoption
bjord··on Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing
waterfox is downstream of firefox and can't meaningfully match mozilla's maintenance of the core browser

librewolf devs are just more honest about it

bjord··on XCancel service is suspended until further notice
did you sign up with your actual details? or were you using a throwaway email and/or phone?

as for using it without an account, try https://codeberg.org/irelephant/kittygram

bjord··on SteamdDB Joins Nexus Mods
I do believe it makes sense in this particular case. xPaw made it clear in his other half of the announcement that he's been burnt out for years, and a big portion of burnout is being asked to do things, whether you love them or not, for free.

https://steamdb.info/blog/steamdb-nexus-mods/

bjord··on SteamdDB Joins Nexus Mods
you should read the other half of the announcement in which the founder talked about the burnout he was experiencing

https://steamdb.info/blog/steamdb-nexus-mods/

bjord··on SteamdDB Joins Nexus Mods
I think that's perfectly reasonable if it means a more sustainable future
bjord··on SteamdDB Joins Nexus Mods
that's optimistic
bjord··on Fastpotify
need this for android. on average, it takes genuinely about five minutes to open—I think it reindexes my entire micro sd card every time.
bjord··on Atomarine: Nuclear Data Centers at Sea
who's ready for gpu piracy?
bjord··on Advertise in ChatGPT
enrico, at this point you're knowingly spreading misinformation. I corrected you in my last comment: the yandex search index is owned by the russian entity. there is no non-russian "yandex" anymore, period.

> After a short transition period following completion, YNV will cease to use the Yandex brand, which will be retained by the Target group. We expect that our International Businesses will develop their own branding going forward. We intend to seek shareholder approval to change the legal name of YNV in due course.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1513845/000151384524...

bjord··on Advertise in ChatGPT
this is absolutely not true. yandex IS the russia-related business that got sold in 2024, the dutch entity (now known as "nebius group") is basically just data centers now.
bjord··on Advertise in ChatGPT
I'm not saying I agree with it, but I think this comment

> Yandex does not add any special feature or functionality that is so great they should make it obligatory to include as a default option.

kind of captures kagi's argument: that its removal would degrade search results in a not-immediately-noticeable way, particularly for certain areas of the world, which might actually be worse than a loss of a distinct add-on feature or something.

...but yeah, from my perspective, it'd be great if you could turn it off.

bjord··on Advertise in ChatGPT
they're conflating yandex with the international entity that sold it off to russian investors (now known as "nebius group"). the entire basis of the argument is wrong.
bjord··on Advertise in ChatGPT
no it didn't. the international entity sold off the vast majority of yandex businesses and assets to russian investors, then rebranded to "nebius group". that is to say that the yandex index/api used by kagi is wholly russian-owned and has essentially doubled down on russia/its allies.

if you're curious, the dominant business retained by the international entity was their data center stuff (though yandex still operates its own cloud business in russia/elsewhere).

bjord··on Please don't discontinue Gemini 2.5 Flash
I'm aware. regardless, when it comes to models, the advice to "not use Google in Production" falls short.
bjord··on Please don't discontinue Gemini 2.5 Flash
there was a community of people who used (famously sycophantic) gpt 4o as—for lack of a better word—a friend, who were devastated when it was shut down

I suppose at least in this case the loss is not an emotional one?

bjord··on Please don't discontinue Gemini 2.5 Flash
have you experimented at all with the deepseek flash models?
bjord··on Please don't discontinue Gemini 2.5 Flash
in this case, the other frontier shops are all doing the same thing, so maybe the advice here should be "don't use closed weight models in production"?
bjord··on Transparency efforts behind the Helium Browser
firefox 149+ actually bundles brave's adblock-rust as well, it just doesn't really use it. waterfox does enable it and use it, though they're still testing (https://github.com/BrowserWorks/waterfox/issues/4182).

all of that being said, I was answering the question about mv2 broadly, not ad blocking.

bjord··on Transparency efforts behind the Helium Browser
this is not correct. neither brave nor edge has committed to that.

as of yet, there's no (publicly stated) contingency plan if the upstream mv2 code is excised, but I could be mistaken.

bjord··on CarPlay Is Additive
I meant if you wanted to update the maps in your gauge cluster.

https://update.kia.com

you said they bothered you, so I suggested a fix. no obligation to do it if you don't care.

bjord··on CarPlay Is Additive
you actually may be able to update these. it's worth looking into.
bjord··on Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads
start launching moon missions, what else?
bjord··on Half-Life 2 in a Browser
they're not saying it's fair to consumers, they're saying "it's not just apple, microsoft does it too", i.e. that judgement on apple should be made in the context of how its competitors behaved
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