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pacifika

1,207 karma · joined January 13, 2011

Creating digital experiences that help improve mental health for the people using them.

Web: https://vandragt.com Github: https://github.com/svandragt

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pacifika··on In September, AI generated code has made up 17.25% of all Linux Kernel patches
You’re missing out on people getting better at working with ai to improve better long term goals, like testing suites and guardrails, velocity is inconsistent in my experience.

And vibe coding apps in the gym, is like playing a game by typing a cheat code, honestly it’s not satisfying

pacifika··on Apple M6 Pro Achieves the Highest Single-Core CPU Score in Geekbench 7
Try and export a few thousand Notes entries with images.

Change how you like your day to day workflows in terms of window management

Share a home made app with some friends without helping them install it

Fix a bug in the vendors software by writing a patch

pacifika··on Apple M6 Pro achieves the highest single-core CPU score in Geekbench 7
Lock-in: ownership over user choice and data
pacifika··on US military reveals it has weapons in space
I thought our climate survival would have been that.
pacifika··on AI Can Make You Suck Faster Too
If you don’t understand how the sausage was made you have made legacy sausage.
pacifika··on Run macOS Software on Linux
You wouldn’t want to run it without instruments and effects I’d imagine.
pacifika··on The Legends of the Canary and the Sleeping Keeper
I've been building diagnostic tools for identifying and correcting errors with the syncing and backup process of the JottaCloud backup solution. This is its operational lore described as it might be told by firelight three hundred years on, when nobody remembers what a daemon was.
pacifika··on I think I have LLM burnout
Key points only.

Anything written for humans should be written by humans.

pacifika··on Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report
Mainly I’m concerned about shortcut conflicts such as command q
pacifika··on Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software
You rather open the server up to security issues than have software where the developer has been assisted by ai which you feel decreases the quality of the code or is it for moral reasons?

Rsync is not being vibe coded, and it’s not become slop so would love to understand the position.

pacifika··on Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software
That’s not how LLMs are used by experienced engineers.
pacifika··on Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software
Reminds of the days when windows and macs folks were debating each other, made it impossible to announce Mac software on a software forum with windows users.

The significant thing that will result from this is private issue lists and disabling open PRs. and then you’re worse off as an ai sceptic.

pacifika··on Google Declaring War on the Web
Adding a subscription form at the end of the article when the user is ready for the next task always made more sense to ne
pacifika··on Google Declaring War on the Web
Funny edge case when you can’t read the password because you need it for access
pacifika··on Ubuntu now requires more RAM than Windows 11
https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/
pacifika··on Tell HN: Chrome says "suspicious download" when trying to download yt-dlp
Flagged for this particular description. Could have said stupid.
pacifika··on Our commitment to Windows quality
People just have disliked computing in general as a result of their Windows experience.

I’m not seeing any brick and mortar stores selling Linux laptops or any mindshare for any Linux brand. Maybe if Ubuntu started selling hardware in supermarkets Linux would have a chance of capturing people’s consciousness outside of the power user / professional circles. But they’re years too late now.

pacifika··on Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?
> I can't remember the last time I had an issue

Depending on your workflows the comment just described three issues

pacifika··on The 49MB web page
That’s confusing a webpage that’s rendered by the user with a pdf
pacifika··on Have a fucking website
A bad apple spoils the bunch
pacifika··on Have a fucking website
And where does Google map get it’s information?
pacifika··on Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act
Why?
pacifika··on System76 on Age Verification Laws
Select your location, if NY etc.
pacifika··on Show HN: Microterm runs Linux VM in any browser tab via WASM, RISCV64 emulation
This is very cool and replaces a whole class of applications on iOS in terms of networking tools and web development.

Saw the docs are still minimal so understanding high level usecases is still a challenge for me.

The docs should at least evidence that I can use this securely. Can I verify the customisations to the base alpine Linux somewhere? Tech is great just wonder about the trust issue.

pacifika··on zclaw: personal AI assistant in under 888 KB, running on an ESP32
Build a synthesizer
pacifika··on UK Expands Online Safety Act to Mandate Preemptive Scanning
Unwanted by DSIT
pacifika··on Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11
> be fair windows 11 is the most secure windows ever created

Every patch Tuesday they’re fixing more insecurities that previous Windows didn’t have.

pacifika··on Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11
Yeah first time Windows Clock wouldn’t restore because the net wasn’t ready I was shocked
pacifika··on Vietnam bans unskippable ads
Firefox Focus has an extension build in that works with Safari
pacifika··on Vietnam bans unskippable ads
Yeah but the gov relies on that income. £2.0-£2.5 billion
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