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tehbeard··on Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
Nope.

https://xkcd.com/908/

tehbeard··on Creating Backup Storage Sucks
It's a pain in the ass on new systems if it copied restrictive permissions to reset/gain access.

Ntfs equivalent of Chmod/chown is a "go have a long lunch" type of operation.

tehbeard··on Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI"
It's based off that 30% of code written by AI quote from the MS CEO last year.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/satya-nadella-says-as-much-a...

Note that he said written by, not assisted; and also that there's been some major QA issues with win11 the last year, enough for Microsoft to have made a public apology/commitment to improve...

So, no definitive evidence, but the rest of the breadcrumbs provide enough to say that yes it does appear to have suffered from it.

Given the Debian policy seems more geared towards aided/assisted an existing dev than replacing them and shipping because the code works on the golden path on a devs monster pc ... Well I'd still keep an eye on it but trust OSS OS engineers to have some competence at knowing if this works and adjusting the policy later if it proved to be wrong.

tehbeard··on Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
Someone with financial / decision making weight their is going to ask why they are commoditizing models that run on "others" GPUs .... Since doing that makes their gpus less of the scarce resource..
tehbeard··on Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
It was unreliable post acq. and before the slop-tsunami, the latter has just multiplied the underlying issue of their ipv4 only half assed azure migration.
tehbeard··on Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects
Yes yes yes, we know. Git is decentralised, you can just trivially push* anywhere!

* - the code. Just the code. only the code. Nothing but the code. You don't need the issues, the roadmap, the ACL of which human can do what, the API access keys for third parties, the artifact repos. Just. The. Code.

Somewhat arsey in my tone? Yeah. But having done two large scale (100+ repos) forge migrations of our company's client projects (SVN -> github, then later on github -> bitbucket) and seeing people completely ignore the metadata surrounding the code that isn't as easy to "just push" anywhere, somewhat justified.

tehbeard··on The largest available Minecraft world, totalling 15 TB
Your name seems familiar...

I don't think it was finished before the map got rotated out due to all the changes to Minecraft world gen back then, decent progress was made on the big dig though.

It should be in the ver3/terra map download; best of luck getting the world data updated for modern MC.

http://forum.escapecraft.net/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=150&t=10...

tehbeard··on SteamOS Linux 3.8 released as stable
"decide" feels like a particularly choice word for a supply chain issue hitting many consumer facing companies.
tehbeard··on DaVinci Resolve 21
Because those people see the phrase "AI features" and the first thought is those sloppy generative AI stuff where things shift.

Where as marketing at all these corporation is trying to genericize "AI features" into anything using an algorithm. "Content aware fill", something we've had for over a decade is now "AI object removal"

"Noise suppression" is "AI voice extraction"

Motion unblur is now "AI motion unblur".

tehbeard··on Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others
Does the UI atleast hint there's hidden files or is it only by going to the filters you can find this out?

It seems incredibly stupid for a BACKUP PROGRAM to not list the hidden files instead of indicating they're hidden (e.g. _(hidden)_.git)

tehbeard··on France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech
Not sure if it's still the case in the 2020's, but back in the 2010's I had no end of issues with Windows deciding to either fuck up the dualboot so nothing would load or overwrite it entirely and leave it as Windows only.
tehbeard··on Forget Flags and Scripts: Just Rename the File
This is the classname soup mess of TailwindCSS (when people don't precompile that away) manifested into the CLI...
tehbeard··on Forget Flags and Scripts: Just Rename the File
That's more a case of providing the distinct "APIs" ( bzip2 , gunzip etc) to userland / scripts, while the implementation for all is just one binary; than it being "Configuration via name..."

Somewhat similar to how busybox does its thing.

tehbeard··on VSCode rebrands as "The open source AI code editor"
Jumped back to it to try seeing how functional it'd be as something more than than large logfile explorer.

Package control is still only in the command palette. If you want to explore what's on offer you have to do so on the actual package control site.

Managed to get LSP + intelephense installed so I have good PHP parsing (Other LSP providers appear to be available)... but stuck at the moment trying to get an intellisense analogue setup... Doesn't show up in package control in the program despite showing up on the site.

So right now I have syntax highlighting and errors flagged for a php file... but I don't have anything that can take the fact the class is missing several methods from the interfaces, and stub them out in a few keystrokes.

tehbeard··on VSCode rebrands as "The open source AI code editor"
How is Sublime's plugin ecosystem these days?

I'd love to move back to it (or rather, use it for dev work beyond opening large log files to search for things), or atleast have it as a backup for vscode's inevitable enshittification.

tehbeard··on Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out
All depends on the type of interaction.

A high usage one, absolutely improve the time of it.

Loading the profile page? Isn't done often so not really worth it unless it's a known and vocal issue.

https://xkcd.com/1205/ gives a good estimate.

tehbeard··on Helldivers 2 devs slash install size from 154GB to 23GB
It's not which duplicated instance....

Think of it as I have two packs for levels.

Creek.level and roboplanet.level

Both use the cyborg enemies, by duplicating the cyborg enemy model and texture data across both files, Only the level file needs to be opened to get all nessecary data for a match.

Because modern OS will allow you to preallocate contiguous segments and have auto defrag, you can have it read this level file at max speed, rather than having to stop and seek to go find cyborg.model file because it was referenced by the spawn pool. Engine limitations may prevent other optimisations you think up as a thought exercise after reading this.

It's similar to how crash bandicoot packed their level data to handle the slow speed of the ps1 disc drive.

As to why they had a HDD optimisation in 2024... Shrugs

tehbeard··on PHP 8.5
You can still write php 5-esque slop and have it run... mostly (some particulars like the half dozen ways of interpolating a variable into a string have been paired down, some extensions left in the dustbin, but the fundamental "shit out a script and run it" capability still remains doable).

non of the "modern" things are particularly taxing to teach someone with more than two braincells. If they don't understand them then they haven't kept up with ANY programming trends in the past decade and are best placed infront of the TV with an iPad than left to mess with the possible critical infrastructure of a business.

tehbeard··on Dead Framework Theory
> Takes 30 seconds to load.

Tried a cleared cache load, open and usable in 3 seconds, loading my work inbox which is fairly busy and not clean.

I'm not sure what FPS has to do with this? Have you some sort of fancy windows 11 animations extension installed that star wipes from inbox to email view and it's stuttering??

I click and email it shows instantly, the only thing close to "low FPS" is it loads in some styles for a calendar notification and there's a minor layout shift on the email.

What / how are you using it that you apparently get such piss poor performance?

tehbeard··on FFmpeg dealing with a security researcher
> Recieving vuln reports is a gift.

A real gift would be to include a patch for it. Not just to run off into the sunset.

tehbeard··on Moving PHP open source forward
I've had phpstorm get stuck indexing until I shut the app down, no matter what Stack overflow voodoo I tried to break the cycle.

Vscode and intelephense handled the same project without breaking a sweat.

I've had much better experience with IntelliJ. No matter the maven or gradle project I've thrown at it, it just works.

tehbeard··on Moving PHP open source forward
How much do you trust them to keep it to "just" non-commercial though...
tehbeard··on Mesh: I tried Htmx, then ditched it
https://bundlephobia.com/package/react-dom@18.3.1 130kb for react-dom 15-18 (would check more but site has rate limited me...)

So, while yes the very latest version of react is *finally* as slim as competitors like preact, don't act like all the legacy projects where a migration is off the table due to time or money just don't exist.

tehbeard··on Playing “Minecraft” without Minecraft (2024)
A key part you're missing either willfully or ignorantly is that they're midway through the refactoring to make it data driven, so you have these odd/rough edges.

Yes, having to declare json files for your new block in your mod is a pain...

Meanwhile what it was built for, resource packs, this actually gives a good amount of power to the pack maker without having to ask the client to run untrusted java code.

tehbeard··on <template>: The Content Template element
The example is a contrived *simple* example to get the point of it being easily cloneable into DOM nodes you then manipulate.

Maybe a more understandable example for you would be it's use in conjunction with <slot>, shown here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...

tehbeard··on Sqlite3 will also read and write ZIP archives
Sounds like an optional module that lets you avoid needing to clobber something with python/node/perl and bash to turn zipped files into sqlite data, or vice versa.
tehbeard··on Apple's Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under the DMA
Remote debug on iOS is ass unless you are fully invested into their ecosystem.

And apple has some "nice" licencing nonsense around their software that makes VMs not the "obvious" solution.

tehbeard··on Game publishers respond to Stop Killing Games claim it curtails developer choice
Because parents and the general public won't see that it's Bob's private server for $game. They see $game_name by $developer/publisher.

Mojang (creators of Minecraft ) is an unfortunate good case study for this. It's sale to Microsoft is in part down to not being able to balance freedom for server owners and the PR issues caused by people scamming others, in this case children, while obscuring it under the Minecraft brand.

I don't agree that we should be coerced into being in the kid safe padded play area, but I ain't blind enough to not see why we are.

tehbeard··on Poor Man's Back End-as-a-Service (BaaS), Similar to Firebase/Supabase/Pocketbase
The closest I'm aware of is https://remotestorage.io/ , the protocol has been relatively static for a while but not widely adopted.
tehbeard··on What went wrong with wireless USB
They don't mean the absolute real distance between dongle and mouse.

They mean the mouse communicates an absolute position (relative to some arbitrary 0,0 the mouse decides upon) instead of a relative direction.

Dongle can then take latest coord packet and diff it against previous coord packet to get a relative coord to pass via HID to the system.

If the RF packets are lost, some latency occurs but the dongle still has the previous mouse coord and can make a fairly accurate correction once a packet gets thru (get's from A to D, but might skip points B+C).

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