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ahofmann

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ahofmann
·3 days ago·discuss
To be fair, the "beeps and lights a led" part is very important in case of a dead disk in an array. The only time, I disrupted a service in production for longer than a few hours was when I didn't get the email of a degraded raid 1 array and the second disk died a few weeks later.
ahofmann
·3 days ago·discuss
https://github.com/obra/superpowers
ahofmann
·8 days ago·discuss
You mean something like https://adnauseam.io ?
ahofmann
·13 days ago·discuss
"It's still pretty obvious and still much worse than human prose"

You have no idea how many false positives and how many false negatives you have in your judgement. It is indeed impossible to differentiate between badly written human text and somewhat good written llm text.
ahofmann
·16 days ago·discuss
They didn't sued Thomann and they didn't show up. They sued some Chinese guy who didn't show up and used that default judgement against everyone including Thomann.
ahofmann
·last month·discuss
They don't seem to understand, that there is no way out of it except giving the guy all the Lego sets or 200k dollars and saying "we are very sorry" multiple times. They're still trying to save their face and money and it might ruin the whole franchise.
ahofmann
·last month·discuss
I switched to MacOS a few months ago from sway and I really try to be as open as possible to the mac way of life, because I don't want to fight my OS. But, boy, mission control is unusable crap. I was really shocked how dumb everything around this feature was made. Things that were possible a few years ago, are not possible anymore. Like switching to desktops/workspaces by keyboard. Or the grid.

With the app "AltTab" I can at least switch between my apps without using the mouse and with raycast I can position windows, but it is painful how much slower switching and positioning things in MacOS is, than in any tiling window manager.
ahofmann
·last month·discuss
Great Idea, thanks for building it!
ahofmann
·2 months ago·discuss
Vivaldi is the browser, where I always wonder why it doesn't get mentioned in all the privacy enhanced browsers. It's the only browser for me, that reliably filters out all ads with ublock origin while working on all websites without any problems. Also the company behind Vivaldi is not in USA/China/Russia, which also helps from my point of view.
ahofmann
·2 months ago·discuss
I have kind of the same architecture. I host multiple dedicated servers and vps instances in the Hetzner "cloud", but all of these connect to a few hosted databases by Hetzners web hosting packages for like 20 bucks a month. It sounds insane, but the one thing that absolutely needs to stay online, is the database, so not hosting this myself makes sense. And since Hetzner is apparently tuned their dirt cheap databases pretty well, we can hammer them pretty hard without any problems.
ahofmann
·2 months ago·discuss
The services, I ran didn't care about decisions "the industry" made. They worked just fine.
ahofmann
·2 months ago·discuss
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ahofmann
·2 months ago·discuss
To me this makes no sense. Nothing in web development changes because of long running requests, there are plenty of solutions for this. The most easy one is to just listen long enough on a http request for the answer. The routing problem can be mitigated with session pinning. Http2 and 3 have solutions for streaming data, websockets can be used, and pub/sub also. Heck, we could push the LLM response in a k2v system/redis and read it from there. "State is in the DB" is running strong and will be for decades to come.
ahofmann
·2 months ago·discuss
This project looks very interesting. Unfortunately, the fact that only new accounts are praising the tools reeks of astroturfing.
ahofmann
·2 months ago·discuss
Putting on my tinfoil-hat: Sooo, the guy who runs the test and delivers the report could just have removed the more interesting bugs and delivered those to any three letter agency?
ahofmann
·2 months ago·discuss
I'm sorry, but this is unreadable to me. It's long, it's very repetitive and it feels very over the top. Just tell me, what a skill.md is and what to look out for, that I would happily read.
ahofmann
·2 months ago·discuss
You mean like this? https://github.com/iamgio/quarkdown#comparison
ahofmann
·3 months ago·discuss
This, and "don't be evil" was replaced over ten years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_evil

So stop calling the Google people out for being evil. They are officially evil since 2015.
ahofmann
·3 months ago·discuss
In 20 years of hosting all kinds of web services, some of them serving over 200m requests per month, a crashing single server was twice a problem.

Dealing with over engineered bullshit, that behaved in strange ways that disrupted the service was far more often a problem.

So, yes, redundancy is something that can be left away, if you're comfortable to be responsible for fixing things at a Saturday morning.
ahofmann
·3 months ago·discuss
They do, it's called B2 and is another product of them.