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glitchcrab··on Show HN: AI Photo Cleaner iOS app (on-device processing)
I wanted to try it out as I really need to clean up my camera roll, but it's not available in the UK :(
glitchcrab··on Vodafone Germany is changing the open internet, one peering connection at a time
It doesn’t make sense to conflate a decision made by the government with that of a private company, just because they happen to be in the same country.
glitchcrab··on AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questions about leaving AWS
I run several Talos clusters (provisioned by Cluster API) on commodity hardware which is part of a Proxmox cluster in my homelab
glitchcrab··on We saved $500k per year by rolling our own "S3"
You misunderstand; we're on the same wavelength. I'm not talking about an app, I'm talking about a basic audio baby monitor.
glitchcrab··on We saved $500k per year by rolling our own "S3"
It just has a certain feel to it, by the end of the first paragraph I also thought it was written by an LLM too.
glitchcrab··on We saved $500k per year by rolling our own "S3"
Of course you don't _need_ it, but it's a useful convenience. Due to the layout of our house it was quite hard to hear my toddler if he was crying in the middle of the night - we often wouldn't wake up to it. So the monitor was very helpful.
glitchcrab··on Valetudo: Cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling local-only operation
Well that's great for you, I was just pointing it out so people were aware of it.
glitchcrab··on Project Amplify: Powered footwear for running and walking
I run for exercise, but I also genuinely enjoy it as an activity
glitchcrab··on Unlocking free WiFi on British Airways
They're not all bad. We're selling our house and the buyer's surveyor was incredibly thorough - he picked up on some small issues I'd never even noticed even though they were right in front of my eyes the last few years (nothing serious though). He was so good that I'd definitely use him for any future moves.
glitchcrab··on Valetudo: Cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling local-only operation
I'd check some of the comments around the creator's behaviour before donating any money to them.
glitchcrab··on Show HN: Free AI Email Newsletter Generator
Hard disagree. A substantial amount may be AI generated but certainly not 'almost all'.
glitchcrab··on Show HN: Free AI Email Newsletter Generator
Any newsletter which is written by AI is an automatic unsubscribe for me.
glitchcrab··on Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock
Home assistant just connects to the devices; you still need the devices to make it useful.
glitchcrab··on London Became a Global Hub for Phone Theft. Now We Know Why
https://archive.is/iBGy5
glitchcrab··on MAML – A new configuration language
Yep, zero interactions, just dumpling links.
glitchcrab··on Show HN: A Digital Twin of my coffee roaster that runs in the browser
This is correct.
glitchcrab··on The strangest letter of the alphabet: The rise and fall of yogh
I work for a small remote company with employees all over Europe; it's pretty common for most non-native English speakers to pronounce it this way. Especially noticeable with Germans.
glitchcrab··on Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine
The world was a very different place 30 years ago.
glitchcrab··on Denmark bans civil drones after more sightings
As different as the Russian mindset is, I highly doubt they would be MAD enough (pun intended) to engage in nuclear warfare.
glitchcrab··on How AWS S3 serves 1 petabyte per second on top of slow HDDs
Oh sure it works, not denying that. My point is that performance isn't great and if you only have a small cluster then it doesn't take much to make everything fall over because your failure domains are huge (in your case, you only have 3).

But then to offset the above, it also depends on how important your environment is; homelabs don't usually require five nines.

I am a big Proxmox fan but I dislike how easy it makes Ceph to run (or rather, how it appears to be easy). Ceph can fail in so many ways (I've seen a lot of them) and most people who set a Ceph cluster up through the UI are going to have a hard time recovering their data when things go south.

glitchcrab··on How AWS S3 serves 1 petabyte per second on top of slow HDDs
Unless you have a large cluster with many tens of nodes/OSDs (and who does in a homelab?) then using Ceph is a bad idea (I've run large Ceph clusters at previous jobs).
glitchcrab··on Rail travel is booming in America
I knew this would be the B1M just from your description. I’ve been a subscriber of theirs for quite some time now - they have some fascinating videos.
glitchcrab··on OCI Registry Explorer
Thanks for making it, i use it on a regular basis and it's very helpful. I could use crane but it's oftentimes quicker just to explore a registry in a browser.
glitchcrab··on Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification"
> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

glitchcrab··on Sunny days are warm: why LinkedIn rewards mediocrity
Yeah, it was never going to be a forever solution, but it's served me well for the last few years.
glitchcrab··on Sunny days are warm: why LinkedIn rewards mediocrity
A really good way of weeding out the recruiter spam is to change your first name to an emoji (I use the waving hand) and then put first name and last name in the last name field. That way when a DM opens with 'hello %waving hand emoji%' you know it's just scripted bulk crap.
glitchcrab··on The electric fence stopped working years ago
Do you not think that maybe those people care about you and would like to know how you are? I appreciate that you have your boundaries, but it doesn't sound like you're considering their point of view. Or maybe you are but it isn't conveyed in the post well.
glitchcrab··on Why LLMs can't really build software
My eureka moment when I first started using Cursor a few weeks back was realising that I talking to it the same way I talk to my three year old and the results were fairly good (less so from my boy at times).
glitchcrab··on Perplexity Makes Longshot $34.5B Offer for Chrome
Couldn't agree more with this. A stock I hold suddenly started trending sharply upwards earlier in the year and when I asked Perplexity to research why it came back with a very detailed and well-cited explanation. It's far more efficient at distilling stuff down into a useful format than if I were to Google it myself
glitchcrab··on Ask HN: Why do AIs include obvious, easily removed tells that can get you fired?
Do you really think that the LLM knows or cares whether you get fired? Your mistake here is treating LLMs are sentient when all they really are is a token probability predictor.
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