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dancemethis··on The AI Race Just Got Awkward
So Anthropic and other US AI companies... stole harder, and therefore deserve more?
dancemethis··on Eleven v4 by ElevenLabs
I wonder if Portuguese voices stopped drifting towards Spanish in this release.
dancemethis··on Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
I will slightly disagree on a small slice: Their harness/instruction makes Opus/Fable so much better to work with.

Honestly, _this_ was their moat more than Composer to me.

dancemethis··on Grok 4.6
Yeah. There is just one dominant direction when you take into account how it's clearly depicted to the rest of the world, and no direct popular vote for the highest chair.

Oh wait, that's the United States. The difference between red and blue is just that it's more able to do business and bombs come with flowers when dealing with federal governments of the latter.

dancemethis··on Pareto Front
The real Pareto is the lawyer who was the victim of the Telerj prank call in the 80s. Don't be fooled!
dancemethis··on Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export
Code and reasoning generated by Opus/Fable via Cursor seems to be quite better than Claude Code's for the same prompt.
dancemethis··on Show HN: Super Dario
I mean, Sam should be more of a ghoul with those creepy sunken eyes. And Dario that guy with hair on the sides.
dancemethis··on Sakana Fugu
Sakana is certainly a choice of a name. In portuguese, goes from anything between "scoundrel" to "sleazebag".
dancemethis··on Claude Corps
That's a name choice...
dancemethis··on Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiency
This is a fair point, alongside the one about the hidden content in the weights.

Exactly why my prime suspect would be the one country with focus on proprietary models, and the one country prone to bombing others, including with nuclear weapons.

dancemethis··on DeepSeek V4 Pro at 75% off until 31 May
Eh, I'd be more concerned about the Three-Letters and the One country that dropped an A-bomb.
dancemethis··on Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10K concerts into an online treasure trove
Wait until people discover Zappateers...
dancemethis··on Discord just killed anonymity
..."just"?

Did they forget it's proprietary, and from the same person that made OpenFeint, which also had a privacy lawsuit?

dancemethis··on Smart Homes Are Terrible
Hype-based ones like what's described in the original blog post are a nightmare. And I don't even need to pull the privacy card; the UX is already daunting enough.

A good benchmark I have is my wife, who didn't grow messing around with computers and a tinkerer's mindset: if she's taking more than a couple of tries or days to tinker and start living with something new, I need either to prep a better backup plan, or to cut it off. Very specialized stuff (like light bulb colors) are still too expensive to have more manual-like controls, but almost everything toggleable should have something one can press.

dancemethis··on Show HN: LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memory
I mean, at least OpenClaw is funny in the sense that a D port could finish the roundabout by calling itself "OpenClawD"...
dancemethis··on OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again
Now they need a rewrite in D.

So it can be... _OpenClawD_.

dancemethis··on Ratatui – App Showcase
I kept forgetting Narrator is a Windows program, and the post read like the author was referring to the "Narrator voice in their head" while testing the UIs.

It made the post more amusing, actually. I sighed when I saw "Windows Narrator" suddenly.

dancemethis··on Buyers of Radio Shack, Pier 1 brands accused of running $112M Ponzi scheme
I can't read "Ponzi scheme" without thinking "Bonzi Buddy scheme". Y'all should just change the term already.
dancemethis··on 418 I’m a teapot
Objectively speaking, the best status code.
dancemethis··on Ask HN: Who is hacking Internet Archive?
My bet is on hired thugs by Hachette.
dancemethis··on AAA Gaming on Asahi Linux
Where's the real inspiration for Asahi, Fandaniel in FFXIV?
dancemethis··on Doom on a modified rotary phone
Won't oh someone think of the enterprise!
dancemethis··on Why I still blog after 15 years
I miss myself and my urge to write when I was thrilled by the concept in 2002.

My original blog would be old enough to commit cr-- drive now.

dancemethis··on Social Web Foundation launches, supported by Vivaldi
If Vivaldi cared, it wouldn't be proprietary.
dancemethis··on Fable at 20: a uniquely British video game with a complex legacy
... It always felt more French to me.
dancemethis··on Elon Musk's X Backs Down in Brazil
It's really interesting how the _only_ free speech being cared about in this context is specifically the freedom to spread blatantly false information. It's not even stuff that can hide behind plausible deniability, really.

And the specific freedom to defend and spread nazi speak. Which, in Brazil, in paper is a crime.

It's never freedom of speech with a goal other than actively desiring and justifying to hurt others, of belittling and bullying others.

Quite amusing.

dancemethis··on Discord Reduced WebSocket Traffic by 40%
hey now, personal user data takes a while.
dancemethis··on Twitter/X migrated to Cloudflare, bypassing Brazilian block
Yep, which is why Elmo sympathizers hate reading so much and send spam and hate propaganda forward.
dancemethis··on CUNY paid Oracle $600M for its HR software (2013)
Now that's a... difficult company name.

Certainly one of the names of all times.

dancemethis··on With more legal action on the horizon, how long before Archive.org closes?
Of course the individual in the end decided to somehow make the article... about himself.
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