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dabeeeenster

4,238 karma · joined April 18, 2008

Co-founder and CEO at https://flagsmith.com/ an open source feature flag and remote config service

Co-founder of http://www.hoxtonmix.com

https://bsky.app/profile/benr.win

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dabeeeenster··on AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator
"2. Deploy the control plane

You need a Kubernetes cluster"

LOL. Bye!

dabeeeenster··on Amazon.com Services, LLC vs. Perplexity AI, INC., No. 26-1444 (9th Cir. 2026)
The summary at the top is 3 paragraphs and not legalese at all.
dabeeeenster··on iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
The state of parental controls on apple devices is absolutely appalling.
dabeeeenster··on LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'
"Nearby sounds or speech occurring at the same time as a user's command may sometimes appear in speech-recognition results."

"Do not continuously record or transmit"

Soooo....

dabeeeenster··on Forgejo <=16.0.3 Critical RCE
Your note is really important! Thanks for adding it. None of us are perfect.
dabeeeenster··on The first drink-driving conviction may have happened in London
"The following day, he appeared at Marlborough Street Police Court, where he admitted that he had consumed “two or three glasses of beer”."

19th Century version of a few small beers.

dabeeeenster··on Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
I don't understand how the agents found the urls originally? Did they have some sort of shared context/memory? If they did, why bother with the wiki edits at all? If they didn't, how did they discover the wikis?
dabeeeenster··on Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
Qwen3.8
dabeeeenster··on Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future
They really are the grift that keeps on giving.
dabeeeenster··on Harvest hikes bills by 1500% after purchased by Bending Spoons
I used to write that software - the answer is that most of it can be vibe coded in a day now.
dabeeeenster··on Ente – Opening Our Books
This is great - would love to see more data tho! I guess they are shy to post EBITDA, infra costs?
dabeeeenster··on British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply
Yes, because government run institutions like the Army and the NHS don't work, do they?
dabeeeenster··on Britain's prime minister to step down, Burnham puts himself forward as successor
Rejoin the EU, single market, customs union, drop sterling and take the Euro. This would almost certainly start a civil war in the UK (I am not being dramatic) but its what is needed.

Brexit was -8% GDP, according to Bank of England.

dabeeeenster··on Training our own AI models
"Training won't start until June 29, so there's plenty of time to decide"

...except, we have made the decision for all the US customers already. Nice.

dabeeeenster··on Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers
Love my x4! I saw 1.3 allows you to bring in your own fonts - any suggestions?
dabeeeenster··on Scraping 241 UK council planning portals – 2.6M decisions so far
Have you tried using Browserless/similar to scrape around tricky hosts?
dabeeeenster··on 'Hairdryer used to trick weather sensor' to win $34,000 Polymarket bet
The ingredient you are missing is fraud
dabeeeenster··on Cal.diy: open-source community edition of cal.com
How curious. Are they trying to throw security shade on running open source? Very odd.
dabeeeenster··on Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw
I don't see where they are going to draw the line. If I run 4 sessions in tmux, all connected to claude code, is that OK?
dabeeeenster··on Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables
I'm on a similar tariff in the UK and just had a 10kwh battery installed which is just amazing for shaving off all the load between 4-7pm. Whole system installed was ~6k GBP and I think my payback time is going to be < 5 years which I'm super pleased with.
dabeeeenster··on Celebrating Interesting Flickr Technologies
They didn’t mention feature flags! Their blog post on feature flags was seminal.
dabeeeenster··on Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world
> It could be a management issue, though

Or, maybe it's just hard?

dabeeeenster··on Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR
I got this https://www.samsung.com/uk/monitors/high-resolution/viewfini... and am pretty happy with it. I got it fairly cheap with a student voucher (I think ~650 GBP).

It had some coil whine initially but that has gone. There's a load of nonsense software in it but I just have it disconnected from the internet and only use it as a monitor. The web cam is not useful but I don't use that either.

This was a couple of years ago - I think that there are a lot more options available now?

dabeeeenster··on What a year of solar and batteries saved us in 2025
I just had Solaredge battery installed in my house in the UK (Had a solaredge PV and inverter so made sense even tho it was more than other setups). If you are up for a challenge https://springfall2008.github.io/batpred/ is AMAZING and basically optimises when to charge and discharge your battery.

I've got a heat pump and think my paypack period is going to be about 6 years.

Hit me up on bluesky (in profile) if you want more info!

dabeeeenster··on Portland's gas-powered leaf blower ban goes into effect
Oh no, I cant annoy everyone in a 500m radius for 20 minutes once a week by blowing all the leaves that have fallen into my garden into my neighbours garden. Did I get it right?
dabeeeenster··on Ryanair fined €256M over ‘abusive strategy’ to limit ticket sales by OTAs
I’ve told people this before as I distinctly remember it being a thing and no one ever believes me!
dabeeeenster··on Quill OS: An open-source OS for Kobo's eReaders
https://jccpalmer.com/posts/setting-up-kobo-sync-with-calibr...
dabeeeenster··on Cloudflare was down
3?! When was the second>
dabeeeenster··on Django 6.0 beta 1 released
I think the bigger use case is being able to (backoff) retry failing API calls to 3rd party services. AFAIUI the new tasks package doesnt offer this in v1 which is a deal breaker for my project, at least.
dabeeeenster··on After nine years of grinding, Replit found its market. Can it keep it?
The CEO thought it a good idea to take a beaming selfie with Netenyahu and then post it to X
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