WinstonSmith84

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Comment · 1 day ago
maybe Gmail isn't that bad... Yes you may be targeted with ads and what else brings revenue to Google. Yes you could expect that law enforcements may scan/seize your inbox but if you're kind of fine with either of these, I certainly trust more Google than anything else when it comes to protect against real hackers/unauthorized access
Comment · 2 days ago
Not 10 months... Binance revenue was 17B in 2024 (no disclosure in 2025, certainly a bit lower but still). The frozen assets from the stolen 5.8B come close to 3B, so they have at most a 3B loss if nothing is recovered from now on. Significant but that's no more than 3 months of revenue.
Comment · 2 days ago
It's all about agentic work. Tmux doesn't know what an Agent is. You use Pi, you use CC, you use Codex, ... they all have primary supports in Herdr with built-in integrations around each of these harnesses

But if you don't do any agentic work, Herdr has 0 value vs. tmux.

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Comment · 2 days ago
It's very approximate. You've Spain which has almost +3 hours of offset in the west of the country with the sun during DST, while you have countries like Japan which are in the negative territory (Tokyo).

Or, you have Spanish people who start their dinner at 10PM while Germans living in the same timezone are already sleeping at that time...

Comment · 2 days ago
Online banks, 24/7 gyms (or close to). That's my situation .. Yes I can't shop at 3AM if that's going to be your next point, but I'm okay with that one :-)

With that said, I don't know where you live nor what is your situation, and like I said previously many people can dictate how their day shall look like but of course not everybody can.

Comment · 3 days ago
Exactly, the time on the clock is just a number, can't understand people complaining about this.. If one wants to have its dinner at sunset then so be it, whether the sunset is at 4PM or 9PM. I mean I get it some people don't have a freewill unfortunately but many people can dictate how their day shall look like
Comment · 3 days ago
If we could just all stick to UTC in the world... DST is just a (North) American and European invention, nobody in the world follow that non sense. And whether DST or Winter time, it doesn't matter, just choose one or the other, it can only be better than the current situation
Comment · 5 days ago
Huh.. well maybe... but I can only assume you are not a developer
Comment · 9 days ago
Competition on what to do with it, not on pricing: Dot is free (assuming you've a subscription), Duet isn't. I'd not want precious tokens to be wasted by some random polling Duet may be doing, all while using Opus as its underlying agent.
Comment · 19 days ago
> Russia will never attack NATO

You think about a frontal attack like in Ukraine, and maybe you're right. But Russia is already waging a much more subtle war against NATO. Look at who's leading the US. Look at Brexit. Or look at who could soon lead France or Germany... Their conventional army may be weak, but they don't need to fire a bullet either.

Comment · 23 days ago
Many reasons:

- economy has been slowing down (the real one, the people) while stocks are at record high

- a long overdue business cycle which has been pushed back and back and back ...

- rates hiking (in a slowing down economy)

- bubbles, and that AI bubble is huge. Loving AI on an every day basis but revenue wise, it's not mainstream, far from it. Average people want free stuff, they're good with Google or Facebook throwing them ads, they don't want to pay $200 for a subscription and fact is, 2026 revenues are about $100b totall. Meanwhile hyperscalers are spending about $1 to $2 trillion alone in 2026, and meant to increase within the next few years. You need a lot of imagination to see how this can "flatten" nicely.

Like internet didn't disappear after 2001, AI is here to stay, too. But...

Comment · 23 days ago
it will fail the day there is a downturn of the economy. That day will be at a 2001 or a 2008 like event - anytime within the next few years (I've no crystal ball, but strong convictions haha).

And yes, they will be acquired by a company which will have survived the next crash at a fraction of their currently estimated valuation and we will truly have the next ride of the economy .. many years ahead if 2001 is an example.

Comment · 24 days ago
noticeably smarter remains to be seen in practice. For now, Haiku is a bit more expensive than Luna on < 100k token, but I just don't have any agentic work below 100k, so this is going to be 5x more expensive than shown on these charts. It's hardly competitive ...
Comment · 24 days ago
I've been using Codemode with the new Dot so that Dot can coordinate my agents with:

1. Launching workflows, so it avoids some large configuration

2. Reviewing work, with reviewers restricted to read-only tools or specific tools. Or some tools for reviewers to check hashes, correctness, etc.

3. I'm using the widely used pi-extensible-workflows. So say you want to stop a workflow, you gonna call workflow_stop. Or check the status with workflow_status. Without Codemode, Pi exposes an API, that the agent can use. So yes, you can call workflow_status. Or call workflow_stop. With Codemode, the agent can do something more complex like a for loop over all the list of workflow ids and get a status and stop them all (again, it's just an example).

So basically, Codemode allows to build a sort of framework for more correctness like using a typed language vs. JavaScript without a linter. It gives boundaries essentially. And also Codemode allows an agent to do things more easily like using internal Pi extensions.

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