Fedi Is for Losers
Does the fediverse have a vibe? I think that yes, there’s a flave, and with reason: we have things in common. We all left Twitter, or refused to join in the first place. Many of us are technologists or tech-adjacent, but generally not startuppy. There is a pervasive do-it-yourself ethos. This last point often expresses […]
New California law requires one-click subscription cancellations
(Stock photo by James Yarema via Unsplash) A new law in California will make it easier for consumers to cancel their streaming subscriptions and similar products when they enroll in automatic renewal of those services. The law, passed through Assembly Bill (AB) 2863, will require companies that offer automatic subscription renewals through one-click purchases to […]
Firefox tracks you with “privacy preserving” feature
Firefox follows Google? With a recent Firefox update, Mozilla seems to have taken a leaf out of Google’s playbook: without directly telling its users, the company has secretly enabled a so-called “Privacy Preserving Attribution” (PPA) feature. Similar to Google’s (failed) Privacy Sandbox, this turned the browser into a tracking tool for websites. The idea: instead of […]
Ask HN: How have you integrated LLMs in your development workflow?
I use Cursor primarily with Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Overall a solid productivity increase depending on the task. I have a few observations: – I vastly prefer Cursor’s Copilot++ UX for autocomplete compared to GitHub’s in VSCode, which I used until a few months ago. – The Composer multi-file editor (cmd+i) is easily its most powerful […]
FRED: New Zealand open-access and crowdsource database of fossil records
FRED is a computer database for the New Zealand Fossil Record File (FRF) which is a recording scheme for fossil localities in NZ and nearby regions. FRED minimally contains registration information about fossil localities, including geographic coordinates, collection details, and sometimes stratigraphic and lithological information also. For many samples, taxonomic determinations and paleontological interpretations of […]
Doom on a Modified Rotary Phone
Dialrhea is a modified rotary phone that has been repurposed to control the classic first-person shooter game Doom via Bluetooth. We built it in two days during the “Internet Of Shit” hackathon organized by Technarium crew in Vilnius, Lithuania. The theme of this hackathon was to build devices that are completely useless, but fully functional. […]
SQL Tips and Tricks
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No more blurry fonts in Linux
No more blurry fonts in linux 05 May 2023 Ever since I saw elementary os sporting the very legible Inter font for its UI and site, I wanted to make it part of my desktop too. The only problem was any font I’d choose got a little blurry. Not any more! Open up /etc/environment and […]
A new semantic chunking approach for RAG
Using the shape of stories As we saw in my last blog post, there is a shape for stories. The shape of stories. Or how AI sees a story nutanc · Sep 17 When I saw Kurt Vonnegut’s video on shape of stories, I was fascinated. Read full story The next question we need to […]