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ziftface··on Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]
The sun
ziftface··on Qwen3-Max-Thinking
Incidentally, a western model has very famously been producing csam publicly for weeks.
ziftface··on Say No to Palantir in the NHS
It's totally reasonable to be skeptical of palantir without knowing the exact product in question, given their record.
ziftface··on Magit Is Amazing
I've used it before when I used to use emacs and it's really neat and simple to use but I think lazygit is better. I think of lazygit as the spiritual successor of magit. If you're curious what that looks like you can see a descriptive video on their GitHub.
ziftface··on Seoul says US must fix its visa system if it wants Korea's investments
If a Chinese company was making a substantial investment in Korea, they would likely not be stupid enough to jeopardize the project over some paperwork.
ziftface··on Seoul says US must fix its visa system if it wants Korea's investments
Do you have another explanation?
ziftface··on I Don't Like "AI"
It's not necessary to provide proof that humans are not machines which do nothing but guess the next likely word. But also feeling anything at all is proof of that.
ziftface··on Building your own CLI coding agent with Pydantic-AI
I had the opposite experience. I liked the niceties of Pydantic AI, but had trouble with it that I found difficult to deal with. For example, some of the models wouldn't stream, but the OpenAI models did. It took months to resolve, and well before that I switched to LiteLLM and just hand-rolled the agentic logic stuff. LiteLLM's docs were simple and everything worked as expected. The agentic code is simple enough that I'm not sure what the value-add for some of these libraries is besides adding complexity and the opportunity for more bugs. I'm sure for more complex use cases they can be useful, but for most of the applications I've seen, a simple translation layer like LiteLLM or maybe OpenRouter is more than enough.
ziftface··on Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)"
I think Simon was being overly charitable by pointing out that there's a chance this exact behavior was unintentional.

It really strains credulity to say that a Musk-owned ai model that answers controversial questions by looking up what his Twitter profile says was completely out of the blue. Unless they are able to somehow show this wasn't built into the training process I don't see anyone taking this model seriously for its intended use, besides maybe the sycophants who badly need to a summary of Elon Musk's tweets.

ziftface··on Show HN: I reverse engineered top websites to build an animated UI library
Would love if the site had some more information about how the components are implemented, eg does it use tailwind so they're easily modifiable, is there a light mode and a dark mode for each, can you update the animations to fit your needs, etc. They look good though!
ziftface··on Search could be so much better. And I don't mean chatbots with web access
It might be worth putting those examples and other use cases you've found in the post. That is certainly something Google can't do.
ziftface··on Try Clojure
Autocomplete works for me with jvm imports
ziftface··on Harlequin: SQL IDE for Your Terminal
I actually like being in the terminal for the most part. The vast majority of GUI applications are a huge disappointment.
ziftface··on Sunday service suspended at all NYPL locations
In what way has a migrant surge affected the budget?
ziftface··on Lapce Editor 0.3
I haven't made a vscode extension, but I don't agree that neovim extensions are created with any great difficulty. The lua API is easy to use and well documented. There is a huge ecosystem of neovim extensions precisely because it is so easy to get started.
ziftface··on 0-days exploited by commercial surveillance vendor in Egypt
Already very well-paid criminals for that matter
ziftface··on Google was founded 25 years ago today
I hadn't thought of it that way, you're making some good points.
ziftface··on Google was founded 25 years ago today
The same way libraries are free: they're actually paid for by taxpayers.

If the internet was invented in America's earlier days, a lot of these information tools would be a public service, similar to libraries, and we'd all be better for it.

ziftface··on West Point discovers time capsule from 1828
I would definitely expect a high correlation between the top software engineering school and software engineering accomplishments, because there's a strong bias. If you want to achieve something in software engineering, most likely you'd want to go to a top school. I think it's the same for West point.
ziftface··on Mother is arrested in Bangladesh after son in US criticizes government online
To add to this, funding autocratic governments in these countries with billions in "aid" also delays foreign progress towards democracy.
ziftface··on “Web Environment Integrity”: Locking Down the Web
I used to feel that too but not anymore. Now when I boot up chrome to test something I don't notice a difference. I think it's improved quite a bit over the last few years.
ziftface··on Conduit: Simple, fast and reliable chat server powered by Matrix
Isn't xmpp old style instant messaging? As in, if you miss a message because you had poor connection or the application wasn't running then it's gone?

Matrix does not work this way.

ziftface··on Techdirt has been deleted from Bing and DuckDuckGo [fixed]
You won't regret it, it's been a lot better than ddg for me.
ziftface··on Brave is a fork, not a Chromium reskin
Interesting that the few that I randomly clicked on were css changes. Not a reskin indeed.
ziftface··on Brave is a fork, not a Chromium reskin
I'm not going to defend mozilla, since I think deciding which organization we hate more is counterproductive. But I will say that as a user of a browser, I don't really care that much what anyone publishes or who they boot from their organization (sounds flippant I know but at the end of the day I just want a browser that works). Brave putting garbage in their browser like crypto mining and redirecting links affects _the product_, which is the only thing I care about. Firefox has made blunders, but nothing like this.

Not to mention that they're based on chromium.

ziftface··on MacOS in QEMU – ARM edition [pdf]
That's interesting, I did not know about this legislation. I'm not European, but it seems that even outside of Europe, people will benefit from this change.
ziftface··on MacOS in QEMU – ARM edition [pdf]
I'm sure it's possible, depending on the kind of application and the tools you use to build it. But xcode won't build your application if you don't link your account. I believe it needs that to "sign" the application with apple.

There may be ways to get around this but I don't of any.

ziftface··on MacOS in QEMU – ARM edition [pdf]
I think that means no iOS development so if you need that you need a real Mac
ziftface··on Lazydocker: a lazier way to manage everything Docker
I read that and even downloaded it and tried it, but like the other commenter said, it's just not for me. I don't see any value added compared to just using the docker-compose and docker commands.

I love this developer's other tool, lazygit, which I use every day. And I can see this one is similar quality, even though it doesn't appeal to me personally. Glad it helps some people out though.

ziftface··on Lazydocker: a lazier way to manage everything Docker
I never really understood the use case for things like this. You can get the logs with docker-compose logs and you can see what's running with docker ps. So I'm not really sure why you'd need this.
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