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chokolad··on Houthis 'take control' of key island in global shipping route
> split Soviet debt obligations, etc on a case by case basis.

What split of Soviet debt obligations? Russia took over all Soviet foreign debt, as well as all the foreign assets

chokolad··on New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro
> Your typical compact SUVs is in the upper $20k range.

Your typical base model compact SUVs start in upper $20K range. Your typical compact SUV usually lands somewhere in the 30s.

chokolad··on Dostoyevsky isn't difficult
> Interesting, never heard 'Nikolasha' once

It's archaic, used in Peter I times. Modern one is Kolya

chokolad··on There are no instances in ATProto
> It’s not more painful because there’s plenty of alternatives for activitypub instances, but only one bluesky.

No, there is not. There is blacksky, northsky, eurosky. They all display the data from your PDS.

chokolad··on There are no instances in ATProto
You can scale down as much as you want. You don't need to run full relay if you want to follow only a dozen of accounts. I bet you can run something like that on a raspberry pi or something similar. You will not get the search over all of the network, but that's something you don't get with your personal mastodon instances either.
chokolad··on There Are No Instances in ATProto
> So all the censor needs to do is cut off one host? And then you upload everything to different host and connect that?

Which host?

chokolad··on There are no instances in ATProto
If that becomes a massive problem - host a relay with different moderation policy.
chokolad··on There are no instances in ATProto
Why is that a problem if you can host relay for $50 per month as TFA mentions?
chokolad··on There are no instances in ATProto
> Maybe because doing that would show that there are in fact "instances" in atproto, but who knows?

I wonder why you are vagueposting here instead of stating your position firmly. Maybe because you are afraid to be shown wrong, but who knows ?

chokolad··on Hermes Agent – Open-source AI agent with persistent memory
you can add netclaw to your list
chokolad··on MAI-Code-1-Flash
To understand microsoft IA problems right now observer the parent comment. It is literally false [1] but somehow creates a whole story of Microsoft inaptitude.

[1] https://github.blog/changelog/2026-06-02-mai-code-1-flash-is...

chokolad··on Intelligent Terminal 0.1
> The windows bloat continues unabated

This is an application that needs to be installed separately. What are you even talking about?

chokolad··on Shantell Sans (2023)
Somewhere in the middle of the article, I stumbled upon a multilanguage sample and noticed that this font has wonderful Cyrillic glyphs. In my previous experience with new fonts Cyrillic usually is not as great as the latin part of the font. The exception being fonts done by foundries based in cyrillic speaking countries, like ParaType fonts [1]. Well, the last third of the article goes into the details on how they achieved it.

[1] https://www.paratype.com/fonts/pt/yefimov-sans?tab=gallery

chokolad··on 1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'
Can you provide some links that show this clear inferiority ?
chokolad··on How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?
> I don’t use windows, so most of this doesn’t affect me, but I do use GitHub and VSCode. Can anyone clarify, once and for all, whether “GitHub Copilot” and “VSCode Copilot” (sic?) are the same product? The documentation isn’t even clear, and it’s important because it affects billing. How do these two products interact and where do they NOT overlap?

There is no VSCode Copilot. There is Github Copilot integration inside VS Code.

chokolad··on Bluesky leans into AI with Attie, an app for building custom feeds
> And despite all the marketing to differentiate from say Meta, Bluesky has no problem scraping and feeding everyone’s posts to AI.

All BlueSky data is public. Literally anyone can scrape it and feed everyone's posts to AI.

chokolad··on I'm betting on ATProto
> This year, I'm betting less social media as being better and in the long-run a new protocol that learns from the mistakes.

Can you list protocol level mistakes made by ATProto?

chokolad··on Our commitment to Windows quality
> There's everything wrong when "agentic" means that the regular bread-and-butter functionality of the OS becomes unusable

Can you provide an example of agentic functionality in Windows making regular bread-and-butter functionality become unusable?

chokolad··on Despite doubts, federal cyber experts approved Microsoft cloud service
Have you worked in those areas with high saturation ?
chokolad··on Despite doubts, federal cyber experts approved Microsoft cloud service
> I’ve seen Microsoft employees run public presentations from MacBooks on multiple occasions.

This is specifically done to show that Microsoft tech eg .net is not tied to Windows.

chokolad··on Despite Doubts, Federal Cyber Experts Approved Microsoft Cloud Service
> while iOS, Android, and macOS account for the rest. Of these devices, approximately 45 percent are

Pretty much everyone has an android or iOS device in their pocket. A lot of those devices are enrolled into Microsoft MDM in order to access email/teams/etc. These phones are part of the stats. Dev work in general is done on Windows boxes, unless you are in specific teams that have other requirements. Default is Windows, specifically Windows laptop.

chokolad··on Despite doubts, federal cyber experts approved Microsoft cloud service
It's not true. Source - me, MSFT for 25 years.
chokolad··on I found the perfect yearly calendar (for me)
Hey.com calendar has recently shipped a very nice year view

https://world.hey.com/michelleharjani/building-hey-calendar-...

chokolad··on I was right about ATProto key management
Can you clarify - are you implying that BlueSky team made protocol hard on purpose, in order to "tell regular people that they are not allowed to participate"?
chokolad··on DHH: AI models are now good enough
The claim was > DHH has long past the point where anyone should be caring about his technical opinions.

I asked for evidence, you are replying to something else.

chokolad··on DHH: AI models are now good enough
> DHH has long past the point where anyone should be caring about his technical opinions. This is a 0 substance post.

Can you elaborate?

chokolad··on Rivian Will Add Lidar in 2026, Says Tesla's Cameras Aren't Enough
stop derailing the discussion...
chokolad··on Rivian Will Add Lidar in 2026, Says Tesla's Cameras Aren't Enough
how on earth 3 links to Github actions price increases are relevant here ?
chokolad··on Reinventing how .NET builds and ships (again)
> I hope this churn in .NET builds is temporary because a lot of people might be looking to go back to something stable especially after the recent supply chain attacks on the Node ecosystem.

Can you elaborate a bit? This article talks about internal machinery of building .net releases. What does that have to do with "this churn", whatever that is?

chokolad··on The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia
What's stopping you from doing it now ?
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