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nixosbestos··on Claude Code is steganographically marking requests
I am also really confused and annoyingly stuck on this. I understand that the model name might appear in prompts for distillation (I guess? "You are RipOffModelv2, learn from these responses from Claude")?

I guess the only explanation is that there's a side-telemetry channel that still sends some data to Anthropic, regardless of ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL overrides.

nixosbestos··on DGX Spark vs. Mac Studio and Halo
Wow the timing, I spent a few hours trying to get my head around these three choices last night. Got to roughly similar conclusions. And I still don't know what to do.

I have more money than sense. I don't even know (yet) how silly it is, but maybe a Strix Halo, with 2x 5090s with p2p pcie patch? I'd do more 5090s but the power consumption and need to water cool is too much for me.

I'm also itchy because it seems like Ryzen Pro 495 is coming soon with even more unified RAM... (thoughts very much appreciate on any of this...)

nixosbestos··on Rocketlab acquires Iridium
God I hate hate hate hate justified text. Just ridiculously stupid.
nixosbestos··on Younger workers avoid phone calls and it might cost them opportunities
"and it might cost them" lmao fuck right off Business Insider.
nixosbestos··on Show HN: Oak – Git replacement designed for agents
Yeah, I'll just wait for jj to get more virtualized FS features, and be very, very happy with that.
nixosbestos··on Help I accidentally a wigglegram
How is the first one done? It seems like the cartons would fall faster than you could manually capture 2-3 images?

(super cool all around, thanks for sharing)

nixosbestos··on Sakana Fugu
AI noob question, is this like Amp? I just use Amp, I ask it to do neat stuff and it does it. I desperately need to invest in my AI skills but every day I open two new tabs and add it to "AI stuff" folder, and then go back to drowning in work to do.
nixosbestos··on XLibre XServer 25.2.0 Released
> given all the software I use every day is built on X11

Oh? I'm curious what that is? Must be very old and/or bespoke :P

nixosbestos··on I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware
No, it's really not, and really hasn't been. Do people truly have such poor reasoning and logic skills?

"Closed source software is inscrutable, impossible for me to fix, impossible for me to review the source" is absolutely a distinct statement from "it is impossible to hide malware in open-source software". I've literally never heard someone claim the latter.

(edit for coherency, thanks graemep)

nixosbestos··on Thunderbird Littering My Home
You (and other folks...) should probably click-through to the bugzilla links. Yes, normally. But, it looks like some legacy code path near the XDG stuff caused an accidental extra dir creation.

(I was rolling my eye wading in, thinking that Thunderbird was doing XDG and maybe some distro just wasn't setting XDG_CONFIG_HOME correctly, etc, but alas, no it's a TB bug)

nixosbestos··on Install web apps with the new HTML install element
I guess I don't get the distinction? That's some Google-y Chrome-y sounding stuff if I've ever heard of it.

I don't really get it. I click Install in Firefox. I get an app icon. It works, :shrug: ?

nixosbestos··on The desperation of NYTimes
Just earlier I opened 404 Media's subscribe page and was going to spend sometime after work subscribing to them, NYTimes, and maybe a couple others. It's past time I pay for some news media.

This has guaranteed I will not even consider NYTimes for the foreseeable future. So disrespectful.

nixosbestos··on Install web apps with the new HTML install element
Since apparently this thread needs context, yes, you can install PWAs from Firefox on Android and I've heard it's returning to desktop.

This just seems to be a way (in Chrome) to trigger the already existing PWA install flow but from some styles element on the page, rather than the user knowing how to trigger the install flow (usually multiple clicks).

Edit: I wonder if you could do some click-jacking attacks here...

nixosbestos··on What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications
Except that they did. Android has notification channels. Now, I suppose we could argue that Google could be more ham-fisted about forcing apps to use them, but that's murky.

In fact, Uber on Android does use these notification channels. I just have "All Promotions & Recommendation notifications" disabled, and then "Taking a ride" channel enabled.

nixosbestos··on Matt Mullenweg Overrules Core Committers; Puts Akismet on WP 7's Connector List
I guess I'm confused about Matt wanting to "right the ship" so to speak, while also shoving this through. (Idgaf, it's a product call ultimately)

But it seems the clean, sustainable, long-term way to do this was to have the akismet plugin simply self-register. Why was this hack easier than just doing that?

God I love this place, a simple fking question gets downvoted.

nixosbestos··on Matt Mullenweg Overrules Core Committers; Puts Akismet on WP 7's Connector List
Why? People are referred to as committers everywhere. I like the transparency and credit this gives to the ecosystem users helping fund development.

When I did OSS work paid for by my employer, I was careful to note and credit who paid for the PR.

nixosbestos··on Discourse Is Not Going Closed Source
> must be the virtue signalling

I wish you folks could understand how clownish you sound.

nixosbestos··on FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages
-_- I see it now, on Android. Thanks for prompting me to recheck.
nixosbestos··on FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages
I get it. I am stubborn. That behavior results in a polite but direct email/review followed by an uninstall. I'm so tired of being treated like disposable crap by everyone trying to make a buck the cheapest and shittiedt way possible.
nixosbestos··on FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages
I'm referring to what sounds like a feature of the app, not the OS... The app... already chooses what to send through the OS notification API so I really don't have any idea what scenario you're worried about.

I generally sympathize, I also don't like when apps block screenshots (or even more stupidly, they can block Android's amazing "select text from anywhere" feature...). But I don't think there are similar concerns for Signal allowing me to hide notification content from the OS.

nixosbestos··on FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages
Um. Android has notification history also and I see no similar ability to hide notification content from the system ...
nixosbestos··on Native Instant Space Switching on macOS
Pretty sure that's from another setting in the same panel
nixosbestos··on Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net
That's the catch though. By time you're scaling, there's tension between roadway and revenue and headcount and it's the worst worst possible time to need to reachitect.
nixosbestos··on Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net
I used to handwave cloud portability. Turns out when you're shipping things and need extra services and you have deadlines, you build against the platform. I think the GP comment was probably expressing wariness of the free cloudflare tier that entices you to build against their APIs and their product shape in a way that inevitably locks you in. Sure, you could migrate, but that's expensive.
nixosbestos··on Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?
I would be curious to hear you expand on that, walk me through it, maybe a small paragraph to explain what over inclusion happened with the weird fascist, what baddies you're vaguely referring to, and connect those dots?
nixosbestos··on NYC families need over $125k in income to live in any borough
Huh? 87k is the median, not mean, so majority would be perfectly accurate....?
nixosbestos··on Run Linux containers on Android, no root required
I just want a folding portable monitor now. We're getting so close...
nixosbestos··on The FAA’s flight restriction for drones is an attempt to criminalize filming ICE
Look at the first sentence of their bio. It would be rude of me to offer my opinion on their mental state, is all I'm going to say.
nixosbestos··on Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
> I caved to the blue bubble pressure

Had me until then. Zero respect for this, frankly.

nixosbestos··on Inside Epstein’s network: what 1.4M emails reveal
Sorry, I regretted this pretty much after I wrote it. I'm upset, didn't need to be at you. I'm having a bit of a hard time compartmentalizing? all of this, despite my default cynic attitude.

Time for an extended break from things.

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