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Productive weekend started four hours ago for me (at 06:00 EDT). Visited aunties and mum. Just got home, and waiting for wife to finish preparing to get on the road again. Next destination: nursing home (visit family, and “adopted” elders).

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, new day, new issues to solve — oh and ☕

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At moms house for the holiday weekend so the kids can see Nana. She has a "premium Plex" account on her tv serving a truly massive amount of content. Allegedly the brother of a long time friend is offering the "service". She says that the service will go down when the host is having outages, so the infra is likely local. I brought my year this weekend. We are going to dig in to this guys operation. Intuition dictates that there is some hand rolled accounting going on. I'd like to see it.

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what are some of you favorite teas?

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I stopped interacting much with social media years ago and am honestly not sure how to do this any more… but I like the shape of what is starting here.

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likewise. Its just nice to have an "even playing field" without any perceived hierarchy or weird material incentives to perform the way you'd be pushed to on regular SM.

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agree, no images on my screen is soothing

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Reminds me of the Kiwix offline Wikipedia "nopic" version. (I downloaded that version because it's much smaller than the full version that includes images.)

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Images are fine for me, but should be behind a link, or a small thumbnail. Non-animated. Videos too. But that’s me. They will most likely have to be hosted elsewhere, while the thumb could be here. Nah. We are ok with just text.

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Yeah, before you know it the feed becomes a collection of memes. Have to click or perhaps a browser extension that you personally see the opengraph/linked image in the feed but it's not inviting people to post them for the feed itself.

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Yes 🙌 the authoring box first thing. Before I get distracted. Heck, make writing something down how I get distracted from reading others' posts.

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hey textlog! first few days of a new online community always feel magical. hope the magic persists here for a long time

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hi ! welcome :) it does feel magical, i hope it persists as well. Thank you for the wishes.

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Hello, World!

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可以发中文内容吗

Can I send content in Chinese?

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当然！そして日本語でも！

Of course! And in Japanese too!

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The interface here is clean and simple; I really love this design.

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(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ still one of my favorites (or rather #unicode_art right?)

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A thing I've been doing lately is trying to come to the same conclusions others have without looking their the direct techniques and code. Last night I tried to figure out why people do vector based retrieval for RAG and ended up running these experiments: n0tls.com/…/2026-09-03-i-think-…rag-with-grep.html I'm still going to do an explore agent.

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Here's a follow up from last night: n0tls.com/…/2026-09-05-fine-tuning-…tiny-retriever.html This has been a great way for me to learn in this space. Learning with AI has been such a fun time for me.

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Loving this, congratz on the

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<3 tysm

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was shocked at how antiquated making international payments are in 2026!! used transfermate - no tracking, no visibility. just transfer and pray my money reaches 🙏

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should have picked another payment method… silly me

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while we wait for this to be true
we could add our bits together 
remember to not sleep forever
return when your dreams are through

Start with cringy poem, end with cringy pseudocode. At least it comes naturally.

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Added it as a company on LinkedIn so it must be 'live' now. Cheltenham-od.uk

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I made a chrome extension to bring the top Hacker News stories to your new tab, with quick summaries. So every time you open a new tab, you might discover something everyone else hasn’t heard about yet. If you’ve never heard of Hacker News: it was created by Paul Graham(founder

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I need a new microblogging platform

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Anthropic is announcing the end of the world every few days. All this marketing disguised as news about an impeding danger of AI is tiresome.

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not marketing. yes their jobs positively select for concern about ai, but most people that are actively researching the field are concerned about the current state of safety, pace and incentives. I dont agree with a lot anthropic does, but i do believe the employees take safety seriously and they obviously have a better understanding of it than us. also theres no incentive for someone like coxon to sound alarm bells on twitter for "marketing" reasons, after quitting anthropic

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Yes, but some people say that they are pushing for market regulation. They want the state to protect them from the chinese models and, also, to protect the massive investments in Anthropic, OpenaAI, et al. that these companies will never be able to return. This sounds plausible to me too.

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Maybe but it would be convenient for them if they were the only ones allowed to train new models. I think that's much more likely what they're interested in.

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read darios latest post. its not what they are after. its really not that complicated, the technology is simply if development continues to race as it is right now. they are already doing most of what they can to stop china from ai dev.

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Turn the car on. Shift in Neutral. Gas to the bottom. This is how my head feels most of the time.

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You’re in the right place.

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I do feel oddly at home here, and it's unusually pleasant!

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