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hey ~~you-know-which-symbol~~ maxfruehschuetz ~~you-know-which-other-symbol~~ dev
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mfru··on America.gov
this page is extremely stuttery on my developer machine in chrome. why does every web page now have to have an amount of "fanciness" that apparently not even decently specced machines can take?
mfru··on It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs
The true value of AI lies in hyper-specialized models that you can run locally / are embedded in programs to make tedious tasks easier.

As true open-source models mature more and more they will make the big AI labs completely obsolete.

mfru··on Far-left party wins Berlin election, pledging to nationalise housing
Also, German law recognises legal expropriation
mfru··on Rock band Muse lose social media handles to Meta’s new AI tool
to be fair, Meta is a conspiracy company, probably just not in this particular case
mfru··on Reverse engineering my ADHD test
If you pair meds with therapy and adjusting your life according to the things you learn about yourself through the lens of the diagnosis your quality of life can increase dramatically (at least it did for me).
mfru··on Ex-Crips leader found guilty in 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur
what the person is criticizing is that fraud gets way less recognition as being disgusting than one-on-one violent crime. not trying to excuse the violence
mfru··on Ex-Crips leader found guilty in 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur
There is already a named concept for it, you were probably looking for "social murder"
mfru··on CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO
nobody becomes CEO because of being a cog, you have to intentionally seek it out and be actively willing to participate in the wage theft machine
mfru··on Error by AI scribe during medical appointment leaves patient devastated
The person in question obviously did not handle the hallucinations, though, did they?
mfru··on GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%
It's vibes all the way down.

It's... really just vibes?

Always has been.

mfru··on Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network
Where is the spec?
mfru··on The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding
Regime is what western countries generally, usually call countries they don't like
mfru··on The hardest working font in Manhattan (2025)
Counterpoint: I give a shit about this because I love typefaces / fonts, how they are made and what the history behind them is.
mfru··on Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI
I've found that using LLMs for significant amounts of code generation completely drain the result from any dopamine I would get doing it myself.

Have others noticed this as well? This is going so far as to me losing interest in side projects because I have "lost touch" with the code base.

mfru··on Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7
Well, why use Elixir if I can use Clojure/Python/Ruby/Go?
mfru··on Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise
Workplaces that are dictated by a boss or C-suite are anti-human as well, as they are dictatorial, not democratic.
mfru··on Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise
Your work colleagues are not your family. Your superiors are not your friends. Treat every company as if they were going to look for a reason to fire you right now unless you can reasonably argue that they don't
mfru··on Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects
They held an internal discussion amongst members and decided democratically which stance to take.
mfru··on TS-2026-009: Insecure argument handling in Tailscale SSH permitted root access
as someone who uses tailscale: exactly this.

i have my homelab only reachable via tailscale and can access everything i would ever want on the go that way. it was a matter of 15 min to get it all working.

mfru··on 98% isn't much
You can update Win 10 to Win 11 IoT version for unsupported devices, by using something like massgrave
mfru··on China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes
money that is stolen from the public at a certain point is really damaging, especially when people think they can get away with it.

some non-violent offenders definitely need to be put into the same prison as violent ones

mfru··on .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting
i don't like normalizing people hoarding things they don't need in order to sell them for way higher prices to other people that do, do you?
mfru··on .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting
the most fair distribution for limited sought-after resources that are inconsequential (like domain names) are raffles. let people apply in a 4-week window and then randomly assign it to one of the applicants.

then don't allow reselling, just allow giving it back and do a raffle again

mfru··on Free the Icons
MacBooks have the best value/money ratio at the moment. The combination of battery life, processing power and touch pad UX are unmatched
mfru··on Israel targeted Gaza children resulting in genocide, UN inquiry says
The human shields narrative has long been debunked.
mfru··on Israel targeted Gaza children resulting in genocide, UN inquiry says
Many many countries got sanctioned into oblivion or color-revolutionized into US-loyalty for far far less (often just for not being aligned with the US).

It is even more sickening and outrageous if you view it through that lens.

mfru··on Deno Desktop
At this point I think that would be a more sane outcome than whatever it is we have right now.
mfru··on OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, with Spending Hitting $34B
it will be so satisfying to see them crash and burn
mfru··on Leaked OpenAI financials show $38.5B loss and compute burn
it will be so satisfying to see them crash and burn
mfru··on Hetzner Price Adjustment
Social credit does not exist the way you think it does
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