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c0wb0yc0d3r··on Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries
Maybe I’m not picturing it correctly but wouldn’t a negative price mean more money in your wallet? Or are you saying that the set price is less than it costs to produce the energy on your side?
c0wb0yc0d3r··on Heretic removes restrictions from language models
This is off topic.

Why don’t people who release python projects ever encode the venv steps into the installer? Can’t pip just do that step for the user?

c0wb0yc0d3r··on Cloudflare Quick Tunnels
For me, it’s as much about ease of use as much as it is about minimizing attack surface area.

Also the lifetime I need the connection open. For something quick, ssh tunnel. For something normies use, reverse proxy. Ain’t trying to teach my parents about IP addresses and port numbers.

c0wb0yc0d3r··on BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork
A legal battle is expensive and time consuming. For example they have been fighting one with Visio since 2021[0]. It’s going to court this year.

I’m not sure how well tested AGPL has been tested in court, but assuming it has, the SFC has the right to reverse engineer anything covered by the license. That will help people sooner than trying to get a court to make a decision.

c0wb0yc0d3r··on Apple unveils new accessibility features
I think we should reserve judgment until this lands in the hands of the people it helps.

My experience is limited to my elderly parents who have trouble seeing. With the text size Apple allows them to set it to, their phones are unreadable. Text runs off the screen in every app, 1st and 3rd party.

In their bill example, the user is told to confirm with the provider. Why not offer to call the number on the bill? Instead of telling them to use text detection, do it for them? Presumably Apple Intelligence would already have that capability. I’m afraid this will be a gimmick at best.

EDIT: Forgot to mention, the grip is good to see. Hopefully they don’t charge the apple tax on it.

c0wb0yc0d3r··on VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
Can you explain how this works? Doesn’t this also stop you from connecting to it over ssh via vs code?
c0wb0yc0d3r··on I don't want your PRs anymore
> Submitters use LLMs to generate the code and reviewers use LLMs to review it.

This just like my favorite, “We can use LLMs to write the code and write the tests.”

c0wb0yc0d3r··on Claude Opus 4.7
The buddies were Anthropics April fools day stunt. Buddies were removed from a newer version of Claude code. By default Claude code updates automatically.
c0wb0yc0d3r··on Google releases Gemma 4 open models
I am not deep in this world. What does it mean when you (LM Studio) fixed a bug in a model Google released?
c0wb0yc0d3r··on Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry
This is a common take but language servers bridge the gap well.

Language servers, however, are a pain on Claude code. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/15619

c0wb0yc0d3r··on Figma's MCP Update Reflects a Larger Industry Shift
New operating systems or could it make micro kernels viable?
c0wb0yc0d3r··on Sunsetting the Techempower Framework Benchmarks
For anyone wondering, the ASP.NET Core benchmark applications appear to be largely the same.

However it also appears that as of the last benchmark (round 23), “aspnetcore“ has fallen to 35on the fortunes leaderboard. The code for that result, really just uses kestrel. It doesn’t even import any of the usual ASP.NET Core NuGet packages, just what’s provided by the web sdk. [0]

[0]: https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/57d9...

c0wb0yc0d3r··on An industrial piping contractor on Claude Code [video]
I believe that it just changes the opportunity cost. There are still only 24 hours in a day. You can’t copy everything.
c0wb0yc0d3r··on XML Is a Cheap DSL
Surely this is a product of the fact that XML is just more extensible (it’s in the name after all).

If you tried to represent the data (exactly) from any of the examples in the post, I think you’d find that you’d experience many of the same problems.

Personally, I think the problem with XML has always been the tooling. Slow parsers, incomplete validators

c0wb0yc0d3r··on How to install and start using LineageOS on your phone
Personally I am not sure what "replacement for google captured android" means. That said, if you aren't using a pixel, you aren't using graphene. If you do have a pixel, then graphene is the way to go.

I find it easier to install, and the fact that you can run google play services in a sandbox, is a great safety blanket.

c0wb0yc0d3r··on The FCC Wants Your Next Customer Service Agent to Be in the U.S.
I agree. The way I see it is the provider still needs to feel the pain of the problems they cause. otherwise they have no incentive to fix them or add monitoring of some sort to address issues asynchronously.
c0wb0yc0d3r··on Microsoft's new 10k-year data storage medium: glass
Is blu-ray best for hobbyists?
c0wb0yc0d3r··on Mecha Comet – Open Modular Linux Handheld Computer
It’s not exactly cool but mobile media server and tool box. Knowing I have tools I can trust in my pocket is nice. Being able to travel and watch my shows without setting up a vpn is double nice.
c0wb0yc0d3r··on Milk-V Titan: A $329 8-Core 64-bit RISC-V mini-ITX board with PCIe Gen4x16
Isn’t that kind of like saying automated testing (for apps written without testing in mind) isn’t worth it because you have to spend time getting code into a state that is testable?

I do agree that it takes a lot of work to get something usable, and so I think we are a ways off from mainstream risc-v. I do also think there is a lot more value for low power devices like embedded/IoT or instances where you need special hardware. Facebook uses it to make special video transcoding hardware.

c0wb0yc0d3r··on Show HN: 1Code – Open-source Cursor-like UI for Claude Code
I’m happy to see another project monetizing built executables. I feel like it’s not a popular option to many, but to me I think it’s the best way to getting financial support from enterprises that would be more than happy to leech.
c0wb0yc0d3r··on I hate GitHub Actions with passion
I haven’t looked into act for some time but I remember it NOT being a direct stand in locally. Like it covered 80% of use cases.

Maybe that has changed.

c0wb0yc0d3r··on Building a macOS app to know when my Mac is thermal throttling
I’m not super familiar with windows code signing anymore but fewer people care about it on windows (because it isn’t required). It’s definitely a small hurdle to be sure but I think you’d really only lose out on enterprise users at that point. I think code signing might only matter if the installer is built in certain ways (i.e. it’s an exe instead of using an msi to install, if someone knows better please correct this).

If your target is enterprise users convince IT users of its value and they will eventually make exceptions in their orgs for it no matter what signed or not.

c0wb0yc0d3r··on Advent of Sysadmin 2025
Advent calendars track time until Christmas. “12 days of Christmas” are the twelve days after Christmas.
c0wb0yc0d3r··on Quest for Permissively Licensed PDF Library in C#
Aspose is the library I’ve used commercially in the past, too. My experience was similar. The company I worked for at the time eventually charged more for PDF export as a paid add on. The software is very sticky so the people who truly needed pdf export directly paid, the rest relied on export to word then “printed” the pdf themselves.
c0wb0yc0d3r··on Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article
I feel like there is a difference here. A calculator has no bias. LLMs do, obviously. News is not the place for bias. Unless the LLM used hallucinated the operator’s intentions, the operator was using the LLM to doctor the article to capture readers not report the news.
c0wb0yc0d3r··on iPhone Pocket
Could this be some sort of joint venture? In other words, is Apple being paid to promote this in some way?

I realize this is a “limited edition” item but it seems to me as being way off brand.

c0wb0yc0d3r··on We need a clearer framework for AI-assisted contributions to open source
This is the thought that I always have whenever I see the mention of coding standards. Not only should there be standards they should be enforced by tooling.

Now that being said a person should feel free to do what they want with their code. It’s somewhat tough to justify the work of setting up infrastructure to do that on small projects, but AI PRs aren’t likely a big issue fit small projects.

c0wb0yc0d3r··on KDE celebrates the 29th birthday and kicks off the yearly fundraiser
There is Java and bedrock. Everyone I know has Java. There are other differences, but multiplayer is available in both.
c0wb0yc0d3r··on Clavier: An FPGA-based mechanical keyboard with USB hub and comms interfaces
I'm curious as to why it doesn't have USB 3.0 ports. Do they take too much power? Too much space?
c0wb0yc0d3r··on Show HN: Toolbrew – Free little tools without signups or ads
The correct link is https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef
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