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Not sure what you consider "no good" alternatives. jeanp413.open-remote-ssh[0] has worked flawlessly. It's the first or second search hit in the extension manager for "ssh". It's a fork of Microsoft's previous extension before the proprietarized it.

0: https://open-vsx.org/extension/jeanp413/open-remote-ssh

Wandering in a Barnes and Noble in 2007, stumbled into The Female Brain and read it cover to cover.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Female_Brain_(book)

It’s a simple concept but extremely illuminating. Mostly because of natural hormone specifics, females through different stages of development, gravitate toward specific social behaviors that shape their development as people.

She cites the original study (the one this replicated).

Infant girls track their mother’s face and social responses, in a way that boys simply don’t attend to (until many years later)

Not sure if finetune is the right word here, but their default local model seems to be an in-house fork of parakeet (?, maybe whisper) that works a bit better on tech jargon than vanilla parakeet i use in handy. Though has a few other quirks. Take with a grain of salt as I’m a low volume user, but it’s been enjoyable to test. I kept my wife on handy while i test this one.

I think it’s timing. So many devs trying to squeeze their subscriptions, build more tooling to throughputMaxx. 6 months ago, i speculate it launches pretty flat.

Interestingly, snake oil gets it's reputation not because it is itself ineffective, but, it was because so many counterfeiters piled in selling cheapfakes, while simultaneously inflating cure-all claims. (citation, Smithsonian Magazine on Stanley Clark). Snake medicines are still used commonly in various types of Chinese medicine.

I can also recommend the book Mindfuckers - a source book on the rise of acid fascism in America. Each chapter is about a different cult from the 60s and 70s including one on the Manson's. Super interesting read.

In Pampano beach FL my 76 yo mother got pulled over for driving a stolen vehicle. Luckily the police had some common sense to decipher what happened. Plate swap, same make model and color.

Bad faith argument, borderline flaggable. But I’ll bite. Do you not see any issue with mass surveillance of people’s movements?

I’m an American living in Turkey at the moment. My airbnb host tells me that as a white collar software guy, he personally knows a large fraction of people who have been detained in prison for 1,2 or 3 months for having parties or fake traffic violations.

Of course i don’t love the ever-tightening shackles of algorithmic pricing, which is already well in place for insurance, finance and banking.

But the situation in Turkey reminds me that we are only one “national emergency” away from your freedoms being ripped from us with zero recourse. The chilling effect here is real.

The casually interested, confidently wrong argument can be summed up pretty easily. There is a risk v reward calculation with mass surveillance. What’s the reward? I don’t know the details, but apparently police love the tech because it makes catching bad guys easier. What’s the risk? Unfathomably and Immeasurably high, in ways that we won’t always get to know, or find out years later.

Any refutation of said high risk argument should be something like “relax, guy!” The corporations and state authorities are never gonna use their surveillance of innocents in ways that have any real consequences.

I use chrome primarily when something appears broken in Firefox and i want to test if it’s a ff browser issue. Turns out it’s pretty much never a ff browser issue. Cmd+q

I’ve definitely experienced step jumps down in quality on an almost daily basis. I usually used xhigh. The experience of relying on codex’s outstandingly thorough coding earlier in the year has evaporated for me. I’m seeing incredibly stupid implementations intermittently, and have simply switched to Claude until openai takes the issue seriously. As far as i could tell they haven’t taken it seriously for the several months I’ve been personally seeing it.

Contabo, an even cheaper alternative to Hetz, raised prices this month as well by 30-35% as well. Just noting it here because i couldn’t any info elsewhere.

I wonder how aws handles this in bedrock. Do they use Anthropics classifiers? Or their own? Or none? Would their data policing be different in bedrock than their other services?

How i know Masley is trash:

> Jordan is suspiciously lurching to the extremely high energy end of the light spectrum when we know that the low energy end (comparable to infrasound) doesn’t have negative impacts on us if we can’t detect its presence.

Masley spouts the falsifiable propaganda that any photon (light/emf) below ionizing radiation energy can only cause “heat” and can have no other possible harm effects.

Many science-minded people (though more accurately in this case, billiard-world materialists) have become quite militant defenders of this idea (ostensibly fighting off the hoardes of tinfoil hatters and quantum aquarians sensitive to 5g).

This point is very plausible military industrial propaganda. There were numerous studies with evidence (starting from the 60s) such as - non ionizing radiation (eg hv powerlines) might cause lots of cancer, and it’s weaponized (sub-thermal) usage can microwave the brains of enemy spies. THOSE studies have come out in declassified and leaked docs.

Now we have several plausible and serious theories of mechanism for low-f light disrupting biology that lean into quantum biology. While the iceberg of quantum biology understanding is still in its early decades, the mounting downstream evidence of health and medical issues are established public knowledge.

I’m helping a client move data from dozens of spreadsheet to an aggregate one. The elegantish solution is to use Python, each run takes about 5s and 1 cal of energy. If i hadn’t helped her write the script, she as a non techie could have started with something like this tool, and it’ll take 90s and use 200 cal of energy. The numbers are fudged a bit, but still, how can this be profitable, or ethical? To say nothing of the spontaneous hallucination that sneaks in from time to time, especially when the model gets silently lobotomized.

That idea was minorly present during Clinton and Bush, by the time Obama was in office I think it was clear that was never going to happen. The book covers the period from 2016 on, so long after that neocon dream.

I don't think Cook gets enough credit for this [0] - Book: Apple in China. (Author Interview [1])

It's an undisputed damning account of how Cook was used by China to train millions of Chinese electronics manufacturers, managers, and engineers. The US took the most advanced industrial electronics manufacturing tech, and handed the expertise on a silver platter it to a long term strategic enemy.

Frankly, he shouldn't legally have even been able to do this. But that he was, he ought to be crowned one of China's greatest champions of this century.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_in_China 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SerbnYhhw7s

Cute. That is the commenter’s whole point about monopolies. Google is on record making their product worse to squeeze revenue. We’ve been living in the enshitification economy.

Agreed! not having a dedicated voice message button is the one feature holding me back

I thought i had tried this but no it’s a massively crowded app name. I’ll check this out soon, but honestly this one has been great.

https://github.com/Starmel/OpenSuperWhisper

Though it seems like the dev stopped work on it

Despite Trump being a huge footgun for the economy and middle class prosperity and general stability, I listen to the work ofPeter Zeihan on macro economic and geopolitical analyses. He has a YouTube channel and was recently on Modern Wisdom podcast for a deeper dive. He makes a strong case that, in the long run, US is still poised to be winning competitively for many reasons. Access to nat resources from Canada, and labor from Mexico are two big ones. The will likely always have food and be a reliable exporter of food, due to luck of climate and soil. The birth rate is less bad than in other developed economies. And we still have great tech and universities.

I'm very pleased that it seems like there is a real movement happening in the self-hosted space. I've been self-hosting for about 6 months and actually started with umbrel because the UI looks so polished, which is comforting for people like me who didn't live in the CL. But there's a reason dev and eng tools always have the CL fallback, the GUI limits customization and hacking. And I hit those limits super fast on Umbrel. Then I moved to dokploy, then coolify, and finally `ssh homelab "cd /opt/<homelab>/stacks/<app> && docker compose up -d"`, and I couldn't be happier to tinker to my heart's desire.

The biggest upgrade of this movement is privacy & data sovereignty, so I hope it continues growing, and hope Umbrel has success in being a gateway for a lot of selfhost-curious.

I hope this news travels to more gen pop. My 82yo MIL uses Firefox because she’s concerned about the acceleratingly encroaching “police state”. That being said as an IT manager, it’s hard to tell my employees to incur the friction of broken Google services (Meet, a few others) for the intangible privacy benefits.

Yah fair enough. I'm very beginner, and using python lib fabric to push ssh commands.

I’ve been working on doing this with Coolify. There are very few coolify settings to backup, and then all the application configs are stored in /data/coolify. And I use kopia to backup all the volumes. It’s not pretty, and a little hacky, but workable for disaster recovery.

Dokploy ergonomics I found just a bit lacking, and switched to Coolify instead. I daresay the feature that swayed me was force “pull latest images” button on coolify (convenient way to update any app), that was weirdly not available on Dokploy.

What’s missing in both, and would liked to hear from hn, is docker-native backup solutions, for backing up select docker volumes. Currently I’m using some tricks with duplicati, but I wonder if there’s anything better.

Also this is the first I’ve heard of coreOS, the author says nothing about it, though it’s in the title. I wonder why someone choose it over Debian.

> isn't room for doing it arbitrarily as from my perspective it is a suboptimal strategy towards accomplishing one's goals.

One’s goals? And if my goal were to enslave a nation of people to enrich myself and maintain power for as long as possible?

> I am not interested in making an emotional argument. I would be willing to hold my belief regardless of what a system is made up of.

You cannot discuss governance and civilization design without emotional arguments - i mean i guess you can you can if you lean psychopathic. I don’t mean to name call so please correct my assumptions here what you mean.

Closed societies are tolerable in theory - but in theory people should be able to opt-in or opt-out. If they aren’t free to opt-out such as with a national closed society it’s not civilization, it’s slavery.

This is awesome. I was literally looking for this exact thing like two weeks ago.

Suggestions: A few categories/tags might be nice for filtering. A few more anime styles would also be good.

One of the big claims is that perhaps the Biden administration had a policy of issuing ssn’s to illegal immigrants. I’m not agreeing or endorsing but this is one of the issues their looking into. If Elon were trustable as an honest broker, this would be compelling to investigate.

https://youtu.be/SrOAY3oQ4oc?si=5O0oinGKAuIju6FJ

Nice article but I with there was something more authoritative to compare it to. I know controlled in-lab sleep studies are expensive but this would be the key data to have in the mix.

I stumbled on grequests for this use case and it just works.