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mdotk··on Twitter Is Back at Twitter.now
Is it Bluebird or Twitter.now?

I sense some issues incoming if the latter.

Also why ask for money immediately?

mdotk··on My Homelab Got Hacked – A Postmortem
What's up with this bit?

Note: I know the LLM-use will (understandably) piss some people off.

They used it to be able to read the code better!

mdotk··on [dead]
To better stop / control AI crawlers
mdotk··on Melatonin vs. magnesium: Which is better for your sleep?
Melatonin makes me feel dopey the next day.
mdotk··on Marc Andreessen Says One Job Is Mostly Safe from AI: Venture Capitalist
Had me rolling
mdotk··on The Web We Know Is Going to Disappear
Definitely still exists. You just can't find it amidst everything else.
mdotk··on How are you feeling about the first Trillionaire?
Absolutely fine.
mdotk··on AI slowly sucking the joy out of work
I feel more empowered than ever
mdotk··on Ferrari Luce
Nissan Leaf with a hideous bodykit
mdotk··on Show HN: Pdfwithlove – PDF tools that run 100% locally (no uploads, no back end)
You're right, the market is flooded with simple "button grid" apps. That saturation is actually why I built FlowPDF.

I didn't want another list of basic tools; I wanted to chain them. I built a node-based editor so you can create actual pipelines (Merge -> OCR -> Filter -> Compress) rather than just doing one-off tasks.

I think that's the only way to actually add value over the 50 other "Hello World" clones.

https://www.flowpdf.app/ if you wanna check it out!

mdotk··on Show HN: Pdfwithlove – PDF tools that run 100% locally (no uploads, no back end)
I've been working on exactly this with FlowPDF (https://www.flowpdf.app/). It was a huge pain to find a tool that didn't rely on Google APIs.

I integrated a local translation model. It downloads the model to your browser cache on the first run (so it's a bit heavy initially), but after that, you can OCR and translate documents 100% offline without uploading anything.

mdotk··on Show HN: Pdfwithlove – PDF tools that run 100% locally (no uploads, no back end)
I actually built a tool called FlowPDF - https://www.flowpdf.app/ - specifically to solve this "logic" problem. I found that single-button tools were too limiting for things like "Merge -> Check Size -> Compress".

It uses a node-based graph so you can literally string those steps together (e.g., Merge files -> Split out page 35 -> Compress the rest) and save it as a repeatable workflow.

mdotk··on Samsung confirms its smart fridges will start showing you ads
Just another reason not to buy Samsung. They're already notoriously fragile fridges.
mdotk··on Devs Cancel Claude Code En Masse – But Why?
Codex just seems to have a much bigger context and doesn't chew up tokens as readily as Claude. It seems to be able to do a much wider and broader range of things, accepting much wider and broader instructions and implementing them perfectly.Whereas Claude would struggle.
mdotk··on Apple barely talked about AI at its big iPhone 17 event
I think it's more because they're way behind on AI and they literally have nothing to actually tell us.
mdotk··on [dead]
Isn't the playbook with a $120M+ annual LLM bill?
mdotk··on Sweeney confirms Epic Games Store launch on Play Store after Google loses appeal
*Tim Sweeney
mdotk··on Ask HN: How promote your project?
FB ads is probably the cheapest way to start getting the word out
mdotk··on World Bank predicts worst decade for global growth since 60s
You wouldn't know it looking at stock market indexes
mdotk··on Man who scammed country out of $130M using mobile game facing 89,000 years
Very old news. The website seems to be republishing stories
mdotk··on Reddit policy changes make sitewide protests nearly impossible
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41702198
mdotk··on WP Engine sent “cease and desist” letter to Automattic
I'm no fan of WP Engine and their outrageous prices for very average performance, but this is a terrible look for Matt M if true. reply
mdotk··on Re: Automattic's Actionable Misconduct Directed to WP Engine [pdf]
I'm no fan of WP Engine and their outrageous prices for very average performance, but this is a terrible look for Matt M if true.
mdotk··on Just use fucking paper, man
Emails to myself and snoozing combined with inbox-zero.
mdotk··on 13ft – A site similar to 12ft.io but self-hosted
This. 12ft has never ever worked for me.
mdotk··on Trump to Musk: Climate change means 'more oceanfront property'
You actually have less ocean front property because the land mass shrinks.
mdotk··on How do passwords become compromised?
A: you trust LastPass
mdotk··on Why Isn't Google's "Generative AI Search" Copyright Theft?
To be fair, a lot of the content is opinion too.

But I see now on the facts point. Thanks

mdotk··on Why Isn't Google's "Generative AI Search" Copyright Theft?
I know that a lot of content on the web is rehashed itself, but many creators actually review products themselves, speak from first hard experience, research, etc.

The original knowledge has to come from someone human.

How can Google promote its "1 trillion facts" database of scrapped content and just use it to show answers to searchers alongside ads.

Seems like they are doing this without regard for much anything else because OpenAI is a new entrant and about to threaten their search empire?

mdotk··on Raspberry Pi CM5 seen in the wild
What does this mean for someone non-technical who uses a Pi for home files server?
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