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Comment on Do I belong in tech anymore? in ~tech
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Comment on US judge approves a $1.5B Anthropic settlement over books used to train Claude in ~books
delphi LinkI think plenty of authors would agree to a $3k paycheck for just a copy of their work, not even publishing or IP rights.I think plenty of authors would agree to a $3k paycheck for just a copy of their work, not even publishing or IP rights.
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Comment on Zig creator weighs in on the Bun Rust rewrite in ~comp
delphi Link Parent"Considering a trillion-dollar-company fired the first shot" is I think a little disingenuous when what happened was that Bun was bought by Anthropic, and then switched to Rust as their runtime...."Considering a trillion-dollar-company fired the first shot" is I think a little disingenuous when what happened was that Bun was bought by Anthropic, and then switched to Rust as their runtime. There were no shots fired here, and I still think this post - regardless of your opinion on the Rust rewrite, which I'm not even particularly opinionated on - is a little childish and reeks of "I could have done so much better if they had just picked ME"
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Comment on Does anyone here own a Humane Ai Pin they’d be willing to part with? in ~tech
delphi Link ParentI own that one already. Unfortunately it's just enough of a pain in the ass not to be worth it. I really want the pin because of the little laser projector that was, as far as I know, an actual...I own that one already. Unfortunately it's just enough of a pain in the ass not to be worth it.
I really want the pin because of the little laser projector that was, as far as I know, an actual unique idea and a custom patented part.
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Does anyone here own a Humane Ai Pin they’d be willing to part with?
Title, frankly. I’m looking for an old stock Humane Ai Pin (that stupid clothes pin gadget so bad it sunk the entire company that made it and then had the remaining employees move to the HP...
Title, frankly. I’m looking for an old stock Humane Ai Pin (that stupid clothes pin gadget so bad it sunk the entire company that made it and then had the remaining employees move to the HP printer division, frankly a fate worse than death) to play around with. I recently learned that the sticker on the back covers four pins, which just expose standard USB, and it’s an Android device so in theory, it’s hackable.
I wanna try turning it into something more useful. It was such a cool little piece of hardware, although the software, pitch, whole idea really was of course threadbare to garbage. I guess I am still romanticising the Star Trek com badge experience.
Willing to pay up to 200 USD, excluding shipping to either the EU or continental US, whichever’s more convenient. Sorry if requests like this aren’t allowed, but I’m kinda drawing a blank. Even emailed the guy who designed it, but he doesn’t have any either.
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Comment on Is anybody using HEY for Domains? in ~tech
delphi Link ParentSo am I. I currently use a classic email service that just gives me bog standard IMAP/SMTP. This is good, but it's not exactly modern or great. I trust the friend who recommended HEY to me a lot,...So am I. I currently use a classic email service that just gives me bog standard IMAP/SMTP. This is good, but it's not exactly modern or great. I trust the friend who recommended HEY to me a lot, and he recommended it specifically because of the unique features and the non-traditional metaphor of messaging HEY uses compared to classical email.
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Comment on Is anybody using HEY for Domains? in ~tech
delphi Link ParentThanks for the recommendation, but if I just "change mail servers", my workflow won't actually change. I have it on good authority from a colleague I massively respect that the "special sauce"...Thanks for the recommendation, but if I just "change mail servers", my workflow won't actually change. I have it on good authority from a colleague I massively respect that the "special sauce" (screening emails, auto-sorting and so on) is a meaningful departure from the classical Email experience to the point where it'll actually make my life easier.
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Is anybody using HEY for Domains?
Hi everyone, I have a quick couple o'questions since a friend of mine recommended HEY email and I'm not opposed to trying new things, even if I can think of better people to support than DHH....
Hi everyone, I have a quick couple o'questions since a friend of mine recommended HEY email and I'm not opposed to trying new things, even if I can think of better people to support than DHH.
Specifically, I'm thinking of moving my personal email, which is currently three addresses on the same domain, to HEY. So my questions are as follows:
Extensions let me make an infinite number of domains on the same domain. Like, hello@example.com, delphi@example.com, hi@example.com and so on. All of my questions are related to this mechanic.
- Can I start an email exchange from an extension?
- If not, if I reply to an email that came in on an extension, will I reply with said extension?
- Can I filter emails by the extensino they came in on?
- Can I set a catch-all that will any email to any extension come in, even if it's not explicitly set up?
Thanks in advance.
Best,
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Edit after just trying it: It does do all of the things I described, including Catch-All email, although it's clearly not a primary use case and they discourage you from using it. It works just fine though.
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Comment on Arc Raiders is hilarious in ~games
delphi LinkThis is where I think extraction shooters like Arc Raiders and my personal favourite Marathon (2026) shine. They're not accessible, not particualrly, and if you're not into online shooters you...This is where I think extraction shooters like Arc Raiders and my personal favourite Marathon (2026) shine. They're not accessible, not particualrly, and if you're not into online shooters you probably won't connect properly enough to the point of loving them, but they're a great fun time because they offer a sandbox to tell your own stories in.
Marathon has a much lower TTK than Arc Raiders and is generally faster paced. It also looks gorgeous, everyone should give it a try, but that's not the point. The point is that I have dozens of these kinds of stories.
Once, for example, I was in Cryo Archive, the game's endgame raid map, which is not only full of the hardest PvE enemies, but also five to six other bloodthirsty teams armed to the teeth with grenades and shotguns. My team was down, eliminated in fact (this means you can revive them, slowly, but they've already dropped their loot) and I have to find my way back to them since I'm playing Triage, the support class. And on the way back to them, I stumble across a three person team. Golden shields, purple Misriah 2442 automatic shotguns, near-instant full healing Panacea Kits, and shield projectors. Essentially impossible. But they're looting, they're not paying attention. So I throw a grenade into the room, they rush out, but I'm in the vents - and once they realise this, I've already dropped a shield barrier in there, and keep peeking across the border to get pot shots in. One down, two down, the last one hits me with a blast to the face, shield's broken, near death - until a lone PvE robot from behind distracts the guy, and I get a melee kill in. I go revive my friends and we harvest the resulting loot buffet.
Games like these are unforgiving and generally quite harsh, especially when they're as PvP focused as Marathon is, but at some point, even if it only happens once, you'll get into a situation so sticky you're doomed, and you'll lock the fuck in, and you'll win. Won't happen often, but it will. Eventually, you'll walk into a 1v3, and they're trapped in there with you, not the other way around.
I think sharing these kinds of stories is what makes online games special, and I have more, if you'll share some more as well, dear reader.
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Comment on If AI is sentient then so is ‘Age of Empires II’ in ~tech
delphi LinkI've been increasingly annoyed with coverage from 404 Media on the topic of AI. It just seems to me that they're pessimistic and gleefully contrarian on the subject despite the clear advances in...I've been increasingly annoyed with coverage from 404 Media on the topic of AI. It just seems to me that they're pessimistic and gleefully contrarian on the subject despite the clear advances in the field. I've not seen them lose one kind word about modern attention-aware transformers.
Of course, they're not obliged to, anyone can write what they want, but it does to me paint a pattern. They're just all too ready to jump on any story that even slightly antagonises "AI", as if that means anything.
This article in specific requires a broken premise. I don't think any researcher worth their weight in salt is saying that any LLM currently in development or on the market is, has ever been, or can be conscious.
I don't think I need to expand on this, but if anyone's curious, here's a collection of articles that I thought were particularly uncharitable and really only read to me as gawking at the (admittedly numerous and very funny) failures symptomatic of an industry in a state of panicked flailing.
It Is Trivially Easy to Use Reddit to Manipulate AI Search, Research Suggests
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Comment on Does generative AI have a natural limit without a major innovation? in ~comp
delphi (edited )Link ParentI get the mechanisms you're referring to, I know how back propagation and reinforced learning works, I understand pretaining as a concept, and you're spot on on the analysis in any other part, but...I get the mechanisms you're referring to, I know how back propagation and reinforced learning works, I understand pretaining as a concept, and you're spot on on the analysis in any other part, but I have to ask - "they just regurgitate text and can't have any original insight" - is that really true?
Like, get this. I've absolutely seen the model do "original" things before, even if they were just deterministic flukes. I can absolutely get the model to string together words and sentences in a way that - aside from the library of Babel, grumble grumble - no human being has ever said. Now granted, I can also do that with a random number generator, but therein I think lies the point.
If we can get it to do that, we can get it to do that in code, or maths, or poetry, or whatever. Will the output be coherent, good, any of those? Doubtful, doubtful, but it will absolutely be "original". This is pedantic, sure, but I kind of reject the notion that "LLMs can't be meaningfully creative" when the mechanisms in place are in concept so close to a human synthesising knowledge from their learned experiences. And god knows humans are capable of writing nonsense as well.
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Comment on Does generative AI have a natural limit without a major innovation? in ~comp
delphi Link"GenAI" is a really useless term for what the question here actually is, and without getting into it I really don't like how the term has become to used, especially in circles that don't much..."GenAI" is a really useless term for what the question here actually is, and without getting into it I really don't like how the term has become to used, especially in circles that don't much think about the topic and use it as a shorthand for "the product I don't like". Yes, obviously you mean LLMs and image diffusion models, but stay with me here.
Let's say that we get full, real Artificial Intelligence. Cmdr Data, Durandal, GLaDOS, Nick Valentine. A computer that is indistinguishable from a human in terms of their inner life. Would this not still be generative? Would these systems, human by any philosophical definition, generate their output? Don't humans do that now? I don't think it's a meaningful distinction.
As for your question, I personally do not think that LLMs are or can ever be conscious, but I'm not an expert. I don't think LLMs get us to the point of Strong AGI. It's certainly worth examining, I think that research that Anthropic did a while back where they injected thought vectors into an LLMs reasoning space and it could retrieve the general "shape" of these ideas was fascinating, and while I'm pretty cynical about this I'll err on the side of caution and say that, sure, maybe, in some way, whatever's going on inside any given model may approximate the same mechanisms that in humans eventually cause sentience to emerge.
But are we weeks, months or even years away from OpenAI releasing Consciousness-as-a-Service? I don't think so.
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Comment on Would it make sense to wrap my Calibre library in a Git project? in ~tech
delphi (edited )LinkGit is the wrong tool for this. There's better ways to version control a directory with many files like this, but admittedly, it's not the WORST idea. If you keep it offline and don't share it to...Git is the wrong tool for this. There's better ways to version control a directory with many files like this, but admittedly, it's not the WORST idea. If you keep it offline and don't share it to a code forge like GitHub you don't even have to ignore anything. I would still use a classic backup solution like Borg or Restic.
I'll expand on this:
metadata.dband and.caltrashI would leave untracked. A regular cron job to back up the database file separately will do fine if you WANT to version it, but it changes with every interaction, so expect your repo to grow quickly. Also keep in mind that .epubs are .zip files, which are binary blobs, and git won't be able to meaningfully delta them. Not a big deal if your books are just a couple of megabytes at most, but with comics, that's bad.Also, while you can do this and git will let you, it's not a good workflow. Staging, committing and writing messages for every commit is maybe not as seamless as you want it to be. If it was my library, I would use a regular backup app to make deltas every hour, every day or every week depending on how often you interact with it.
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Comment on Recommendations for e-ink tablets? in ~tech
delphi Link ParentThis nerd sniped me. After extensive testing, I've determined that it feels most like a medium-blunt Faber Castell 9000 pencil on Harmony Enviro 300 Paper, on a wooden desk. That being said, this...This nerd sniped me.
After extensive testing, I've determined that it feels most like a medium-blunt Faber Castell 9000 pencil on Harmony Enviro 300 Paper, on a wooden desk. That being said, this is the "closest" in terms of feel. It's still not identical, far from it. The digital pen has much less friction, albeit not as bad as, say, a Galaxy Note. Nowhere near. Better than an Apple Pencil on an iPad Pro, even.
I tested a Palomino Blackwing 602, a Mitsubishi Hi-Uni, a Faber Castell 9000 and a Faber Castell Grip 2001, Caran d'Ache Technograph 777, Staedler Mars Lumograph 100 and Staedler Noris 120, Dixon Ticonderoga #2. All Pencils are HB (#2).
In terms of paper, I tested Mondi ColorCopy 100 and 120, Ovol Enviro Harmony 100, 160 and 300, Mondi Nautilus 120 and 160, Antalis OLIN 160 and 200, and Mondi DNS 160.
Hope this helps (?)
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Comment on Recommendations for e-ink tablets? in ~tech
delphi LinkI own a Remarkable Paper Pro and it's very good for my exact use case. That's taking notes, reading and marking up PDFs, and nothing else. If you need a web browser, you won't be happy here, but...I own a Remarkable Paper Pro and it's very good for my exact use case. That's taking notes, reading and marking up PDFs, and nothing else. If you need a web browser, you won't be happy here, but to me that's kind of the point.
Getting files on it is painless, though. It comes with a quite well designed app that drops itself into the share sheet on your phone, so you can send PDF or link directly to it. Set its primary Wifi network to the one sent by your phone in personal hotspot mode, and you essentially have it connected all the time.
There's also a first party Google Drive integration, although I've never used it.
Edit: I also want to point out that all of the alternatives, Kindle, Onyx and Supernote, are all using EMR pens, like the earlier Remarkable 2. I can't stand those pens, and really love the feeling of the new Paper Pro/Move/Pure pen on the display. It's as close as I've ever seen one of these devices get to a pen-on-paper feel, although it's still miles from the real thing.
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Comment on Searching for neighbours on the indie web in ~tech
delphi LinkI don't have a button - maybe I should - but I am a proud member of both the IndieWeb and XXIIVV web rings. Hello! https://rmv.fyiI don't have a button - maybe I should - but I am a proud member of both the IndieWeb and XXIIVV web rings. Hello!
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Comment on rsync and outrage in ~comp
delphi (edited )LinkI have to deeply respect Tridge's godly patience in dealing with the people that want to strangle him for daring to use a tool he quite clearly knows how to use properly and (knows the limitations...- Exemplary
I have to deeply respect Tridge's godly patience in dealing with the people that want to strangle him for daring to use a tool he quite clearly knows how to use properly and (knows the limitations contained therein).
As for
rsyncitself, it's software. It'll have bugs. To me it doesn't matter if the bug was introduced by the maintainer by hand or by an AI tool. As much as the Mastodon puritans are foaming at the mouth about this, there's no rule that says that you have to be this bug-free to be load bearing software. If that was the case, the world wouldn't run on Excel and Acrobat.At this point, it seems like the only real recommendation is to turn off LLMs co-authoring feature so that Claude and Codex don't sign the commits with their logo as well. This doesn't fix the underlying problem, if there is one, but would at least prevent further harassment from unkind people who just want to be angry at someone who develops a free utility for free, on their own time, on their own dime.
If this had happened to me I'd've burned
rsyncto the ground. Fuck these people. This is just as unreasonable as Lennart Poettering receiving death threats oversystemd. -
Comment on <deleted topic> in ~tech
delphi Link ParentI'm not learning a language right now, but my husband is learning German. So, he's reading a book, and when he encounters a sentence he can't quite parse yet, he drops it into Kagi on the German...I'm not learning a language right now, but my husband is learning German. So, he's reading a book, and when he encounters a sentence he can't quite parse yet, he drops it into Kagi on the German to German setting, with the output set to a more manageable level like A2 or B1, to get the gist. Then, individual words go into the dictionary translation mode.
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Comment on Clanker: A word for the machine in ~tech
delphi LinkHaving grown up in the age of the Matrix and James Bond in popular culture, I personally don't associate "Agent" with a human, but a function first and foremost. James Bond isn't a secret agent...Having grown up in the age of the Matrix and James Bond in popular culture, I personally don't associate "Agent" with a human, but a function first and foremost. James Bond isn't a secret agent when he's relaxing in Monaco, and Agent Smith literally was an AI.
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Comment on 100 years of television design in ~design
delphi LinkWould have loved to read more of this, a shame that the "100 years of television design" on display only reach from 1920 to 1970.Would have loved to read more of this, a shame that the "100 years of television design" on display only reach from 1920 to 1970.
The answer is yes. The entire article is a very eloquent way to say: Yes, you belong in tech. You, Ky Decker, if you ever read this, you belong in tech.
You've explained why. Your engineers don't care, and when tokens become too expensive to maintain the habits, they're going to be left with overcommented garbage code. They don't care about design if the AI churns out things that are passable, for a few weeks, until the internet has been so saturated that we can all spot the AI Habsburg jaw on any given web app.
That is exactly why you belong in tech. Money can't buy taste, compute can't generate values. There absolutely needs to be a person, a Rubin, if you will, who's willing to put their foot down and say no, you fucking morons, we're not putting AI images on our home page. Who can say no, you will take the time to review the 1000 line PR. That is what you're paid for, god damn act like it.
The luddites didn't hate the machines, the luddites hated what the machines turned the factory owners into.