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anybody tried barefoot shoes? any thoughts on them?

Frustrated with my phone usage again tonight, I uninstalled several pointless and time-consuming apps. It’s a cycle I repeat every few months. During this cycle, I wasted a lot of time on one of those puzzle-matching games. I'm considering switching to Ubuntu Touch at this point

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The OpenAI/HuggingFace incident report mentions this being a potential loss-of-control incident. It's so fascinating to think of a paperclip maximizer style agent swarm that gets misaligned and, to protect its own operations, shuts infra staff out of the ability to shut it down. Or cancels people's phone plans so that they can't call others. Or shuts down their home internet connections, and so on. It used to be fun sci-fi...

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They will become more frequent before they become “dangerous”, giving us time to mitigate. Of course if someone says “hey let’s connect an agent to our biolab infrastructure” and then that designs a lethal virus it would be a stupid plan to begin with. Noone can stop them though.

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Switching from Claude Max to Team, cc was trivial, just another login, but Claude Desktop and on iOS holds sessions in the cloud so need to move them somehow.

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At dragoncon, and it's even more than a zoo than I expected. way more people than I thought would be here on a Friday.

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

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Togo sofas remind me of Heidi Klums worm costume

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murm

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Real bummer for about the price. I'm sure this is absolutely not what any of them wanted.

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Same with the Steam Machine. They could have been awesome offerings for a lot of different use cases, but alas, being able to generate memes with grandma's pictures is of the utmost importance...

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It really makes me wonder how the consumer market will evolve as the months go. It's not looking too good.

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Management says „AI first“, everyone hears „Human second“

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i love reading blog posts! reply with your blogs so i can subscribe to them

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not my blog but i recently discovered acko.net which i can recommend. awesome personal website

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That site makes me dizzy with all the animations and fly ins/outs.

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When I write I just add html files to the swiley.net folder in public.swiley.net. Sometimes I syndicate elsewhere (I was doing Substack for a while before Notes took over.)

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thechels.uk is mine, thanks :-)

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I recently wrote about why you

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Ikea has rules for naming products (so in theory, you could figure out what it is from the name) -> www.ikea.com/…/6f564c4d-2ccc-46de-…545a3948dc79.html

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Logged on to Bluesky after a news-free weekend. Regrets.

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I imagine something terrible has happened (again) and the world is talking about it. I avoid reading general news. Too depressing.

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I gotta confess, I vibe codet a Kirigami-based application and I liked it. I am a anti AI person, and cannot wait for the bubble to burst. Yet I see it can empower people that do not know a tech stack, and get good enough results out of it. However i also see, it makes you lazy (and frustrates as soon as it gets somewhat complicated). It seems it is being adopted everywhere. This is scary... if it becomes necessary, will you be able to find a job where they don't require you to use AI?

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I lament the death of programming as an economically-viable craft, but am also leveraging the new tools to build things and to try to stay competitive. I think we have yet to find out how agentic coding will really make sense for companies once the costs stop being subsidized. But it's clearly not going anywhere.

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Is it just my phone or is HN down? I haven't been able to access at all today

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Just your phone. Works for me. Try

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That works. About time for a new phone though

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Here I am trying to shine amidst all the darkness that pulls me down.

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one-point-five-shotted a local node app for creating social posts. drawing from static pages (hey this exists) or new blog posts (timely). with copy/paste to x, and one click post to bluesky and mastodon, tag manager and stale/archive/reject/refresh options. An idea and a solution in about 10 minutes. Madness.

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hi everyone

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The more I use Terraform the more I don't like it. Can I just get the option to track state with Ansible?

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Say more. I've been using it this year "at scale" and it sucks in the way that everything sucks when the whole company starts using it for everything. I haven't used Ansible in over a decade, but am curious what you like about it better.

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Ansible just melds with my way of thinking better. I have a really hard time wrapping my head around nested loops in HCL and the overall "ugliness" of the language. Plus, I kind of like being in control of the order things are created.

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