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mixedCase··on A coffee shop owner used AI to make a menu poster. Then came the angry DMs
Why?
mixedCase··on A coffee shop owner used AI to make a menu poster. Then came the angry DMs
Starbucks has an amazingly polished corporate image and at least where I'm from the locales have great wall art done by local artists presented alongside tasteful decor and a minimalistic but well cared for choice of furniture that I can't honestly give it no less than a 9/10 presentation.

The coffee still tastes like a Victorian chimney sweeper's piss.

mixedCase··on Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent
Yeah nah thanks I'm building my own. An agent that knows every bit of my life? Dream come true for data harvesting. It's bad enough what it can infer and sell from the public statements I make in social media and imperceptible metrics I could not fathom.
mixedCase··on Fastpotify
Garbage being created at unprecedented rates does not diminish the fact that LLMs are acting as a positive multiplier for useful tools; this very item being one.

No one in all these years had gone through the effort of replicating the Spotify client with a snappy fast interface for a reason. Everything had been an integration into already existing software, or simpler interfaces, because the effort was not worth it. The equation has changed.

mixedCase··on Kumander Linux – A Linux Distro with a Windows 7 Desktop
Wayland is stable. What it's not is stagnant, like X11, which lacks fractional/mixed-DPI scaling, per-window HDR/color management, explicit GPU synchronization, and a security model ready for the modern challenges of the mid 90s.

It's also technically cross-platform, as evidenced by FreeBSD's support for Wayland compositors. But it's not its goal either, the goal is an excellent Linux desktop, not something that serves the 17 people in the world that routinely run the same exact desktop config on Linux and non-Linux PCs.

mixedCase··on DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
With Pi as a harness I've been using OpenAI models as a worker with an Opus 5 (in Claude Code) planner. I've only had a few issues with Terra High/Medium and absolutely none with Sol Medium+ on a fairly complex Rust project that targets Linux, Mac, Windows and Web, with plenty of nasty FFI, VMs, remotely debugging systems, among some other things within a monorepo.

I think the key is to give them a nice assortment of self-verification tools, an AGENTS.md or reference document that they're encouraged to routinely check, and asking the planner to be thorough with the ACs but give the model some space.

The planner routinely finds issues with the worker's output, but that's what it is for.

mixedCase··on 2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out
This ignores that whenever the margins for an industry increase, this interests new investments in it, and new players to come aboard, as well as new product lines that can satisfy the demand in a new way that people either didn't consider or rejected before due to being outclassed by the formerly cheaper alternative.

Rationing does not stimulate investment this way.

mixedCase··on Habitual coffee intake shapes the microbiome, modifies physiology and cognition
The overwhelming majority of the enjoyable coffee experiences are caffeinated. While there is good decaf out there it's not the norm, specially in smaller markets.
mixedCase··on GPT-5.5
I've had success asking it to specifically spawn a subagent to evaluate each work iteration according to some criteria, then to keep iterating until the subagent is satisfied.
mixedCase··on Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent
Is there Live Edit support? I've literally left an agent running to automate the use of Android Studio out of my workflow when I just want to iterate on UI.
mixedCase··on I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows
Look up protondb for game compatibility. Arc raiders is marked as running perfectly fine, but plenty of multiplayer games with invasive client side anti cheats such as Fortnite or Genjin Impact do not run. If you depend on such games it's best not to switch, any privacy concern you may have with Windows is gone with those games running literal rootkits on your PC anyway.

I've been running Linux for gaming for well over 15 years and have not missed much in the last 5 or so. There's way too many games out there to play that do run on Linux even if unemployed and have the time to dedicate it as your sole hobby.

mixedCase··on GraphQL: The enterprise honeymoon is over
If you generate OpenAPI specs, and clients, and server type definitions from a declarative API definition made with Effect's own @effect/platform, it solves even more things in a nicer, more robust fashion.
mixedCase··on Self-hosting my photos with Immich
Now do that for 30 services and system config such as firewall, routing if you do that, DNS, and so on and so forth. Nix is a one stop shop to have everything done right, declaratively, and with an easy lock file, unlike Docker.

Doing all that with containers is a spaghetti soup of custom scripts.

mixedCase··on Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig
OCaml is the closest match I'm aware of.
mixedCase··on Why aren't smart people happier?
Happiness chemicals are the end result, and end result we cannot cause directly, anyway. What leads you there, how the process involves your particular brain and environment, and how it acts as a feedback loop are a higher concern.

Even if one day you could just squirt the cocktail directly into your receptors or otherwise trick them, there's more to happiness as a part of life than turning yourself into a vegetable, but I digress.

mixedCase··on WASM 3.0 Completed
You're doing native code, this the solution is the same as in native code: your languages agree on a representation, normally C's, or you serialize and deserialize. Mixing language runtimes is just not a nice situation to deal with without the languages having first class support for it, and it should be obvious why.
mixedCase··on A security incident that may involve your Plex account information
Thanks for the one-liner, solved it within 30 seconds!
mixedCase··on Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context
This is a thing and doesn't require a separate model. You can set up custom prompts that will, based on another prompt describing the task to achieve, generate information about the codebase and a set of TODOs to accomplish the task, generating markdown files with a summarized version of the relevant knowledge and prompting you again to refine that summary if needed. You can then use these files to let the agent take over without going on a wild goose chase.
mixedCase··on The Big Oops in type systems: This problem extends to FP as well
I'm sorry if this is rude, but your analogy is completely off the mark.

Rules that are not fixed but still are a requirement for code to work/make sense still merit an explicit encoding in the type system. You can have an interpreter somewhere that makes sense of unstructured data and delegates to the right functions once it's able to parse and slap a type on it, which will be better than a function that has a bunch of conditionals laying around which at some point either force you to duplicate them or make assumptions you're calling the right functions in the right order.

mixedCase··on All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding
Governments are elected every now and then by large sums of people as a package deal for handling a number of issues, and only one is in place. Products and companies exist in multiples and regardless of how big they are, they're still more targeted, and you the consumer get to choose directly and every day.
mixedCase··on New York Times shut down Tor Onion service
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/regime

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regime

Relevant quote: "In politics, a regime (also spelled régime) is a system of government that determines access to public office, and the extent of power held by officials. The two broad categories of regimes are democratic and autocratic."

It is true that as a term it has accrued some negative connotations due to the frequent use of the all-encompassing "regime" to speak of governments where their exact denomination tends to fall on the autocratic side of things. From a journalistic point of view, it is better to use a neutral term than a charged one; which unfortunately as you've noticed yourself it can taint the term to readers who are not familiar with its exact scope.

But it is correct to call it Biden's regime, just like the current administration (perhaps a better term given its popularity in the US) is part of Trump's regime.

mixedCase··on Volkswagen seeks to counter rivals with budget EV model
That's way too expensive for an "affordable EV".

The BYD Seagull retails here in Uruguay for less than that and we tax cars at about 100%. On China it seems to go for 10-12k.

It's a proper, basic city car. 4 to 6 air bags, ~300km range (more than what this article's car indicates), all basic security features and standard gadgets out of a modern car.

Our EV infrastructure is not viable if you don't have a charger at work/home and yet these have sold like hot cakes.

Legacy carmakers are making increasingly worse ICE cars for the most part (btw does GM sell a C-segment hatchback on any market, anymore?) and their EVs are simply uncompetitive. What's it going to take for them to wake up to the fact they're going to have to stop fleecing their customers with crappy products? Bankruptcy?

mixedCase··on Alexa+
Finally one of the big ones drop a conversational assistant based on modern LLMs.

I'm just hoping this is what it takes for Google to follow the trend for Android Auto and they go through with their internal integration experiment, don't care if I have to pay a fee, I just want it to understand my accent and be useful consistently.

mixedCase··on Fly To Podman: a script that will help you to migrate from Docker
On NixOS it was as trivial as `podman.enable = true;`. IIRC on Arch it was just a matter of installing the package.

It's all daemonless, rootless and runs directly with your host kernel so it should be as simple as it an application of this kind gets. Probably you followed some instructions somewhere that involved whatever the podman equivalent for docker-machine is?

mixedCase··on AI killed the tech interview. Now what?
I've been interviewing a bunch of developers the past year or so, and this:

> Architectural interviews are likely safe for a few years yet. From talking to people who have run these, it’s evident that someone is using AI. They often stop with long pauses, do not quite explain things succinctly, and do not understand the questions well enough to prompt the correct answer. As AI gets better (and faster), this will likely follow the same fate as the rest but I would give it some years yet.

Completely matches my experience. I don't do leet code BS, just "let's have a talk". I ask you questions about things you tell me you know about, and things I expect of someone at the level you're selling yourself at. The longest it's taken me to detect one of these scumbags was 15 minutes, and an extra 5 minutes to make sure.

Some of them make mistakes that are beyond stupid, like identity theft of someone who was born, raised and graduated in a country whose main language they cannot speak.

The smartest ones either do not know when to stop answering your questions with perfect answers (they just do not know what they're supposed to not know), or fumble their delivery and end up looking like unauthentic puppets. You just keep grinding them until you catch em.

I'm sure it's not infallible, but that's inherent to hiring. The only problem with this is cost, you're going to need a senior+ dev running the interview, and IME most are not happy to do so. But this might just be what the price of admission for running a hiring pipeline for software devs is nowadays. Heck, now feels like a good time to start a recruitment process outsourcing biz focused on the software industry.

mixedCase··on Google Pixel 4a update to "improve stability" of the battery cuts life in half
The article indicates these are also options:

  2) Request a $100 Google Store credit that you can put toward the purchase of another Pixel phone or other hardware.
  3) Request a $50 cash payment.
mixedCase··on Hard numbers in the Wayland vs. X11 input latency discussion
Are we really pretending multi-monitor on X is not an absolutely shit show? Try mixed DPI and VRR in one of the monitors and see how you get that working well.
mixedCase··on React 19
Because both are ubiquitous to the point they basically dominate a large part of a usecase's toolspace.
mixedCase··on Rust in Linux Revisited
I believe this poster meant the new Linux driver for Nvidia cards called Nova (announcement: https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/Zfsj0_tb-0-tNrJy@cassiopei...), not the driver maintained by Nvidia.
mixedCase··on Home Assistant Presence Simulation
I've given up on Home Assistant because of this. Particularly because since I've switched to NixOS I really don't want to be arsed reconfiguring stateful crap from the start every time I make some change that requires a reinstall.

Sadly, I've yet to find a viable alternative.

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