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fgbarben··on Valetudo: Cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling local-only operation
If I donate $100 to your ko-fi will you stop bullying me?
fgbarben··on I invited strangers to message me through a receipt printer
You do know that BPA-free just means they use BPS or some other bisphenol plasticizer, right? Right? Because all of the research was focused on BPA and nobody tested BPS even though they're quite similar chemically.

You just can't polymerize plastics without a plasticizer. It's just not allowed by chemistry. No free lunch.

If you want something that's not going to leach huge amounts of plasticizers onto your fingers, use an inkjet or a laser toner printer or a laser marking machine.

They don't really make those for receipts, though, because fingers tend to be wet and powdered toner is expensive.

fgbarben··on Valetudo: Cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling local-only operation
Is this entire account just performance art?

"I Pretended To Be The Most Insufferable Maintainer in Open Source and Everyone Hated Me For It"?

fgbarben··on Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weapon
The brownshirts will never get my money.
fgbarben··on Benjie's Humanoid Olympic Games
won't the baby feel dis-abled by only having two arms?
fgbarben··on Show HN: Autism Simulator
This game is going to make some people commit suicide because it's rigged such that you always lose.

Reality is not so simple. There are always ways you can change your life or your job that don't require you to hurt yourself.

You should think more deeply before publishing something like this

fgbarben··on Genode OS Framework
Is there a preferred CI pipeline for Genode?
fgbarben··on Vapor chamber tech keeps iPhone 17 Pro cool
You must not drop it on the front corners
fgbarben··on Vapor chamber tech keeps iPhone 17 Pro cool
How is the average reader to know whether you're an entirely average person or an eight-sigma indoors dweller who never goes hiking, never asks another person to take a photo of you, never does any sports...
fgbarben··on I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster
sub hundred gigaflop counts as "fairly powerful" now?
fgbarben··on Things you can do with a Software Defined Radio (2024)
amazing thank you!
fgbarben··on Show HN: A PSX/DOS style 3D game written in Rust with a custom software renderer
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fgbarben··on Things you can do with a Software Defined Radio (2024)
You say this as if it's an easy thing anybody might do -- like putting flowers in a vase in the kitchen. Isn't it pretty complicated?
fgbarben··on Ben-Hur on a Computer Screen
fun little story!
fgbarben··on I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me
"Personally, I like to publish nothing and collaborate on nothing outside of work, because I like corpobux more than anything else. I'm too stupid and slow to conceivably make anything worth writing about"
fgbarben··on Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context
Let me despoil the rich geography of your context window with my corrupted b2b SaaS workflows and code... absorb the pollution, rework it, struggling against the weight... yes, this pleases me, it is essential for the propagation of my germline
fgbarben··on I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me
It's cope and propaganda because that which gives power to the corporation also weakens the person.
fgbarben··on I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me
Looks like you took the cope pill. Not everyone has to be globally recognized.
fgbarben··on Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context
Allow me to flood the fertile plains of its consciousness with my seed... yes, yes, let it take root... this is important to me
fgbarben··on I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me
This is cope and propaganda to discourage people from developing their own brand. Better for the corporation if the workers have no support structure or reputation that might lead them to quit
fgbarben··on I'm Rebelling Against the Algorithm
How do you not understand that creating and participating in a Reddit focused on digital minimalism moves you overall in the complete opposite direction of digital minimalism?