metabrew

Joined 17 years ago

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Made Audioscrobbler in 2002, founder & (now ex-)CTO, Last.fm Ltd.

Also https://www.irccloud.com/

Beam appreciator. Rust and Bevy fan. Home assistant tinkerer.

Blog: http://www.metabrew.com/

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Comment · 1 month ago
This is an interesting idea.. do you use agents with more adversarial / cynical prompts whose only job is approving api calls? "You are an API approval agent on the lookout for suspicious or unusual stripe api calls...."
Comment · 6 months ago
This looks great - how much of it is open source, could I host it all myself? wouldn't be interested in investing any time learning if I'm locked in to hosting on some else's hardware.
Comment · 8 months ago
I tried the chatbot. jarring to see a large response come back instantly at over 15k tok/sec

I'll take one with a frontier model please, for my local coding and home ai needs..

Comment · 10 months ago
this is correct :)
Comment · 11 months ago
Did this with policy based routing in my opnsense (pfsense) router a couple of weeks ago. egress via a specific tailscale exit node for a list of domains including Imgur.

Also browsing Minecraft mods/shaders was my motivation ha.

Comment · 1 year ago
I would love to pay for youtube premium, but i have a google workspace/apps/own-domain/whatever the hell they call it now account, and loads of stuff (like youtube premium) isn't supported.
Comment · 1 year ago
Will definitely need to tone down the American Corporate Alacrity for the UK market..
Comment · 1 year ago
Many opponents to the bill have been very cagey about their reasons for opposing it, and eventually admit it's for nebulous "religious reasons".

Personally I'd like the right to die with dignity if I were unfortunate enough to find myself facing horrible, imminent, certain death.

I'm glad it passed and I hope it makes it into law.

Comment · 3 years ago
neat! any support for efficient spatial queries?
Comment · 3 years ago
Using Google assistant via a home mini and nest mini has generally gotten worse, not better, over the last few years. I can't wait to bin them and replace with something else that works well with home assistant and setting timers.
Comment · 3 years ago
spent so many hours playing this years ago.. great memories. too bad it doesn't seem to support inverting mouse y-axis or changing keybindings. too much muscle memory to overcome.
Comment · 4 years ago
API for the server example looks... actually good, wow. Nice job!

Also tickled to see my erlang 1M comet blog post referenced. A lifetime ago now, pre-websockets.

Comment · 5 years ago
When we set up user content storage of images and mp3s for Last.fm back in 2006ish we used MogileFS (from the bradfitz LJ perl days) running on our own hardware. 3/4/5/6u machines stuffed full of disks. I still think it's an elegant concept – easy to grok, easy to debug, easy to reason about. No special distributed filesystem to worry about.

Don't take this as an endorsement of the MogileFS perl codebase in 2021, but worth considering this style of storage system depending on your precise needs.

Comment · 7 years ago
Interesting. Shame there's no pricing info published.

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