I recommend transfering to Cloudfare, since they have guaranteed wholesale price (no added fees, and only what the tld owner and ICANN asks), so they should be cheapest (since anything less is selling at a loss for the registrar, at least ifI understand right).

Namecheap has started overcharging me like 20+$ on a renewal compared to CF. So, transfering after a first year (which is where registrars like Namecheap take a loss and give you a discount) is probably the cheapest way how to go about it.

As far as I know, Cloudfare is the only registrar that offers you wholesale price, as in the price asked by the tld owners. So, you a registrar can’t go lower, because that’s what they pay for it.

But, a lot of registrars will give you first year at a heavy discount (so, at a loss), just so they can ramp up the price to wholesale + a lot extra. I got my domain for like 5$, and they then asked for 40$ for renewal, while wholesale is around 25$.

So, I just transfered to Cloudfare for the renewal. Tbh I don’t remember if it was the first or second year, and what are the transfer rules, but I think it should be possible to just buy a first year at heavy discount with i.e Namecheap or something, and immediately transfer to Cloudfare for the first renewal at wholesale price.

Rock Band maybe? We’ve been mostly playing that, made for a great highschool party.

Oh, nice. A sync with ProtonDrive, that looks promising.

I don’t trust myself enough to backup my passwords on something self-hosted, but ProtonDrive might actually be reasonable. I’ll look into it, thanks! And I sure don’t want to use stuff like GDrive or OneDrive.

Damn, it has been years since I last played Guitar Hero. We even had a full blown rack with stage lights above our TV in my parent’s house.

If I’m not mistaken, Keepass doesn’t have cloud sync, right? That’s a pretty important feature for me, and a reason why I went with Bitwarden, even though Keepass is probably better.

It’s starting to slowly show up. I think I’ve seen quite a lot new tools and projects pop up, from World of Warcraft addons, CIs, through “game engine based on Tesla’s Aether theory” to secure loginless messengers.

I remember few months ago that the state was “If vibe coding is so good, where are the AI coded projects?”, and I’m starting to slowly feel, at least anecdotally and in the past few weeks, that they are slowly starting to surface.

As a DJ, AI music made it extremely difficult for me to build sets, since I really don’t want to support AI music. If FOSS vibe-coded apps start popping out just like AI music did, it’s going to suck - especially as someone who likes to look for new tools and cool software often, mostly around cybersecurity. Vetting tools as safe to use is already pretty difficult in that scenario.

Thankfully, most of them will just have agents.md or ./claude, so I know I can disregard them outright. Unfortunately, seems like Bitwarden is one of those :(

Hosting your own Matrix server is pretty easy and cheap. There’s a pretty robust Ansible project, and I have it running on a Hetzner cloud for 6$ a month.

The added bonus is I can turn on bridges for Messenger, WhatsApp, Telegram and Discord and don’t need to be worried that someone somewhere will steal my account, since it’s all running on my server. So far I haven’t had any problems, and I’ve had it running for more than a year by now.

Ah, damn. Bitwarden has Agents.md. That doesn’t really fill me with confidence, and it’s the most critical software I use.

I need to update my threat model, I’ve trusted them quite a lot to the point of using Bitwarden for MFA for less-important services (so it’s not really MFA, since both my password and MFA token is in Bitwarden, but it’s super convenient), and only had Yubikey for my Bitwarden account, so as long as the app itself isn’t compromised I should be good (and Bitwarden has a pretty good track record as far as I know), but if they are going to start vibe-coding their tools then it’s probably time to move to a proper MFA.

What browser are you using that isn’t just a modification of chromium/firefox?

Honest question. All i know about are only forks that basically do the same thing as the scripts try to do.

How does it compare to Shotcut? It was my go-to for (very minor) video editting.

Oh, damn. You’re right.

When I first saw this, I read through the readme, and it sounded pretty cool. Needless to say, I know nothing about physics.

I didn’t suspect AI in the slightest, until I saw this comment thread.

Now I’m pretty taken aback. Looking at it again, it should be pretty obvious. I wonder what was it about the way it was presented that made me believe it and not suspect AI in the slightest, because that’s a mistake I don’t really want to do again.

Probably a combination of passionate presentation, topic I know nothing about combined with topic I love (game engines), and my whole interaction being “this is pretty cool” and moving on. I did try looking for some actual sources about the Tesla’s mythical “standart model”, which I found none, plus got suspicious about definiton of “standart model” feeling like it doesn’t match what the text was talking about, and I just moved on, but the conclusion I had was “i wonder what will turn up out of it”, instead of “probably llm halucination” as ot should’ve been.

Oh well, I guess it’s time to properly lock in on actual textbook knowledge in fields I’m interrested in, because recognizing stuff like this in tutorials/posts and eventually books will be only harder, and it won’t be really feasible to rely on “I’ll research it on the internet when I need it”

I had no idea, and this hurts. I have a few, but fond, memories about DeviantArt when I had a short phase on highschool where I was drawing for a bit (which was more than 10 years ago). It didn’t last long, but DeviantArt was a large part of it.

Hearing they are commiting to AI art - THE platform for actual artists (at least it was, 10 years ago), who AI hurts the most, is insane. That’s pure betrayal. I hate this.

I don’t really do courses anymore, but one thing that kind of matches the questions was playing through Turing Complete.

It’s a game where you start with NAND gates, and slowly build up from there. Other gates, then a counter, adder, single-bit memory, etc, where every puzzle uses the component design’s you’ve build before. Eventually you build up to an ALU, RAM, add instructions and connect it up to a working CPU.

It’s super fun, and even though hardware isn’t really something I usually look into, it has taught me a lot, way more than college courses about CPU architecture. Plus, seeing (and actually programming, in later levels) on a CPU of your own design, using your own opcodes, is actually pretty cool.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Unreal Engine being C++ is also a relevant factor in this, with Unity doing their bullshit while lagging behind in almost everything feature-wise.

I mean, the (I think) CEO said that the predator problem on their platform “is not a problem, but an opportunity”.

I know it’s taken out of context, and his take was along the lines of trying to improve child safety and explore tools and way how to prevent it, but the whole interview was still pretty unhinged, and it was not a good take.

AI Training: Training LLMs on the prose of this book is strictly prohibited without a Community Benefit Agreement.

It’s available in a Github public repository.

While I couldn’t find any specific clause in GitHub ToS that would explicitly mention that you give them a permission to train on it, it does have a clause that you are allowing them to (among others) parse and analyze the content as necessary to provide the service, which if I’m not mistaken is what they are using to justify them training their AI on public repositories, since technically their service is also Copilot.

Also, I think they accidentally replaced their LICENSE with README. https://github.com/chrisnchips42-blip/Logos-of-Aether-A-Measurement-Theoretic-Foundation-for-Physics/commit/7703fd43b859b6177738ca276e5eeafd77e17598

To add to this excelent answer, one thing that made me really understand and realize quite a lot about how do CPUs actually work, and why is most of the stuff the way it is, was playing through the amazing “Turing Complete” puzzle game.

The premise is simple - you start with basic AND/OR/NOT gates, and slowly build up stuff. You make a NAND, and then can use your design. Then you make a counter, and can use that. The one bit memory. An adder. A multiplexer. All using the component designs you have already done before.

Eventually, you build up to ALU and RAM, until you end up with a working CPU. Later levels even add creating your instruction sets and assembly language, but I never really got far into that part.

It’s a great combination of being a puzzle game - you have clear goals, and everything is pretty approachable and very well paced. I had no idea how is memory done on the circuit level, but the game made me figure it out, or had hints when I got stuck.

And seeing a working CPU that you’ve designed from scratch is pretty cool, but most importantly - even though I’ve had courses on hardware, CPU architecture and the like on college, there’s a lot of stuff I kind of understood, but it never really clicked. This game has helped tremendously in that regard, and it was full of “aha moments” finally connecting a lot of what I know about low-level computing.

I’m not even into puzzle games that much, but this was just a joy to play. It was so fun I sat through it in one session, up until I got to a complete CPU. I very highly recommend it to anyone.

Maybe I’m misunderstanding, but are you saying that you use LLMs as refactoring tools, so things like to move code around, rename stuff, extract functions, and make changes that don’t change the logic?

Or is it something else? Because as far as I know, LLMs are pretty bad at not making random changes, even if told to just reorder stuff, plus we have a lot of deterministic tools for that job, so I guess you probably mean something else. Honest question.