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oarsinsync··on Upgrade your desktop: Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is now available
> It's the release month, so 26.04 is April 2026. 26.10 lands in October.

26.04 is an LTS release, 26.10 will not be.

oarsinsync··on Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?
> > It's not the weed wacker's fault or even the dog's fault when someone got hurt, it's the fault of the guy who put a weed wacker on a dog and let it run wild.

> The difference is volume. They spent hundreds of billions of tokens on these agents. If you put "a million weed whackers on dog backs" you would see the difference.

So put one weed whacker on one dog, you're to blame. Put a million weed whackers on a million dogs backs and ... you're still to blame? Arguably even more so?

oarsinsync··on Serverless DTLS
You provide a DTLS to clear-text proxy service, for applications where the client supports DTLS, but the server does not (or vice versa)?

Yeah, why did you build this? It's unclear what the value proposition is, paying for a MitM proxy. It effectively means it cannot be used with secrets, without trusting y'all to not be snooping?

oarsinsync··on OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally
100% easily scriptable. Just like running an (S)FTP server is easy, and Dropbox is not at all disruptive.

Except you're overestimating the barrier to entry of scripting for the overwhelming majority of people. OpenClaw is not disruptive because it does something that wasn't possible before, it's disruptive because it enables more people to do the thing that was limited to fewer people.

Where I get confused is why my techie friends are all going bananas over claws... they all know how to script already, and are crying about burning through multiple $200 claude subscriptions a month, filtering email. This I can't understand.

oarsinsync··on Google buys crashed airline Spirit's data at auction
That was an eye openingly delightful read. Thank you for the recommendation!
oarsinsync··on Google buys crashed airline Spirit's data at auction, because AI
There's something about circles of control in this, that makes the difference. If I publish information about myself, that's about me, and it's in my control.

If someone else shares information about me, without my consent, and someone uses that to nose in on me, that feels creepy and problematic.

oarsinsync··on Qwen 3.8 27B
Have you seen what happens when you ask 500 humans to draw a bicycle? No pelican, nobody riding it, just the bike.

https://foerstel.com/memory-bikes/

oarsinsync··on GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities
I'm assuming you're alluding to them selling a managed solution, alongside the unmanaged solution that the GP is referring to?
oarsinsync··on GCC steering committee announces AI policy
You can learn more about lwn.net: https://lwn.net/op/FAQ.lwn
oarsinsync··on Show HN: Remux – an open-source tmux workspace designed for iPhone
The app looks cool, and the website design (tmux style pane at the bottom) is very clever. Nicely done. Will be giving this a try!

Been using Blink.sh with mosh, and the persistence of session is a joy, but the interface is still.. awkward at times.

oarsinsync··on Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team
Indeed. They forked Xbox Media Center back in the day, to produce a Mac version when none existed.

Then they became a client/server model.

They are supposed to provide the source code for Plex Transcoder, since that's a modified ffmpeg build. In practice, the version they share is not up to date with the version they ship.

They are generally speaking, closed source.

oarsinsync··on Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team
Infuse is another $100 license to sync watch history, when I already paid $100 for Plex a while ago (with the primary driver being 'sync watch history', which is the basic feature Plex provides).

Paying more money to use a different product, and then expecting all of my users to do the same, is a big hill to climb.

So the Plex inertia remains.

oarsinsync··on Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team
How are you going about installing Jellyfin on random hotel TVs? None of the hotels I've stayed at have that level of freedom on their TVs.

(So I instead travel with an Apple TV that does all of the above, and more)

oarsinsync··on OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe
> for most people

For most people, salaries have not kept up with inflation

oarsinsync··on .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting
You're right, I'm confusing it for $70 to register, which registered the domain for 2 years.
oarsinsync··on .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting
> The much simpler way to avoid squatting is to make .com domains cost $200 a year

A monopolist hiking prices to this extent will likely see legal action against them. That's a 20x increase you're proposing.

It's also unlikely to have a material effect. .com used to cost $75 a year back in the day, and that didn't stop squatters, and high value domain transfer sales. $75 in 1990s dollars is about $150-$190 today.

oarsinsync··on Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech
> In theory the King can veto any law he wants. In practice he couldn't without causing a monumental constitutional crisis that would probably end his reign.

His mum Lizzie2 had no problem doing it without causing any problems:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/07/revealed-que...?

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/08/royals-vette...

I think it's likely that Chuckie3 is continuing this grand tradition with impunity.

oarsinsync··on Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech
> No one cares about UK having a king, because it doesn't change a thing.

Which is the position the Monarchy absolutely wants you to have, and they definitely don't want you to know that they have veto power over all laws, and regularly intervene and get laws modified so that they're not included in scope.

Meanwhile they just gave themselves a massive pay rise, at a time when government is cutting public spending in all areas.

oarsinsync··on Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads
As wonderful as long term deals are, if Apple signed a long term deal with a supplier who didn't secure their supply chain properly, said supplier is going to either:

1/ Force apple to eat a price hike. Failing that, they can:

2/ Terminate their relationship with apple

3/ Go bankrupt trying to sell $2 for $1 (which leads us back to point 1)

oarsinsync··on Why current LLM costs are not sustainable
> This idea that the subscriptions are subsidized is repeated over and over, but I've never seen any proof of this. It seems to be entirely based on the inferred API cost the subscription usage could give you, but there are a lot of assumptions needed for that to follow.

My claude code environment shows me cost per token used in that session, according to API costs. It regularly exceeds $200. I pay $200 a month for my claude subscription. That's fairly obviously subsidised, unless you genuinely believe their unit costs are 100x less than what they're charging.

oarsinsync··on Raspberry Pi Pico W as USB Wi-Fi Adapter
I've never used Perplexity Pro, but I would expect the exact same outcome from Claude, as I don't have cross-session memory enabled.

If you do have cross-session memory enabled, I agree this is not glowing performance. If you don't, then I think it's working exactly as intended.

oarsinsync··on Apple is going to raise device prices, but when?
> At least the iBook would come out of sleep when you opened the lid, I don't think Windows laptops could manage that until 2007.

I think that was very hardware-dependent. I don't recall what hardware I had, but it had a > 90% success rate of resuming from suspend and/or hibernation under Windows XP.

Apple's advantage there being pretty obvious: they control the entire range of hardware

> You still have to turn off USB power management on a windows machine to avoid serious problems just as you have to turn off Bluetooth power management if you don't want to be connecting and reconnecting your headphones several times a day.

The irony being that I still have to turn wifi and bluetooth off and on on my macbook air regularly today, as airplay stops working every ~10-20 transfers / every other week.

oarsinsync··on I told them forced consent was unlawful. 5 years later it cost Elkjop €1.8M
> Becauae "spirit of the law" doesnt exist. It is a saying used by people when they want to do something that isnt in the law. You dont see lawyers, judges or law makers use the phrase.

This is dependent on jurisdiction. Some countries (e.g. the USA) do not consider spirit/intent (anymore), as the judiciary has repeatedly ruled that the letter of the law, as written, is what matters, regardless of whether it meets the intent of what the law was written to achieve.

There are other countries in the world, outside of the USA, that do not work this way.

oarsinsync··on Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS
I think a combination of:

1/ ZFS datasets with hourly (or daily) snapshots

2/ Samba with vfs_fruit

Gives the peace of mind that even when the sparsebundle shits the bed, you can rollback to a suitable snapshot and only lose a small period of backups, rather than having to lose the entire history and start again from scratch.

(I say when, not if, through considerable experience over the last 15 years that it will always, inevitably, shit the bed.)

oarsinsync··on What it feels like to work with Mythos
Surely devs could just uninstall Slack, and get the same combined RAM & productivity boost?
oarsinsync··on The quiet renovation at Bitwarden
1Password for Business accounts all get an additional 1Password for Families license (5 seats), so you can absolutely keep your work and personal life separate.
oarsinsync··on 'No way to prevent this,' says only package manager where this regularly happens
You can get subdomains for free from a number of places, some of which are more reliable than others.

This exists because domains (historically) used to be expensive by western standards. .com used to be $75/year back in the day.

oarsinsync··on GitHub is sinking
I went to look at a repo on Github today. Clicked on the "xxx commits" link to see the commit history, and got told I've hit a secondary rate limit and need to wait.

I'm the only person on this network that would even look at Github, and my connection has a dedicated IP, no CGN.

oarsinsync··on Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc
> Before computers

Computer used to mean "human who does math". Before machine computers, we had human computers. Machine computers replaced all of these human computers.

oarsinsync··on DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro
I can either change my daily workflow to accommodate the noisy herd, or I can change the noisy herd to accommodate my daily workflow.
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