radicality

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Comment · 19 hours ago
I look at that page in the last few weeks probably every day. Not sure they themselves know what exactly they are summing up or how much tokens they believe they should be charging - my usage recently went from ~48B -> ~51B -> ~47B -> ~44B -> ~46B. Meaning, they messing around with the tokens consumed math / rewriting the consumption history, surely should not ever go back down, and just making it go up/down however they like. Even the individual per-day counters seem to have changed for me without rhyme or reason, some past ones increased, some decreased.
Comment · 6 days ago
I forget where, but I remember reading somewhere about how STOP is meant to actually be handled at the carrier level and do something to not allow future messages at all from the sender? Though maybe I’m misremembering?
Comment · 12 days ago
This is amazing, pretty much every single thing I hate with all the AI-generated documentation nowadays, all in one repo! And conveniently organized across >20 separate files haha
Comment · 12 days ago
> I’m a building automation and controls tech in Manhattan

Hi - sorry if this is not your expertise, but I thought I might as well try asking. I live in ~central Manhattan, in a ~40th floor apartment with a corner view with large windows meanings lots of glass through which sound will travel. For around a year now there's been an annoying high tone coming from somewhere nearby, I would suspect perhaps some large AC fans, or maybe generator coil whine? It's persistent, around both ~2587Hz and ~2475Hz peaks, so a quite high pitched tone that's been driving me insane. The moment I open a window it's just excruciatingly "there", and even with windows shut it's still faintly there in background.

I don't know how somehow no one else has complained/gotten it fixed in this long. I'm overall use by now to manhattan noise, but this kind of persistent high pitched tone is another level of noise annoyance. I know the general direction it's coming from, and have few ideas for which buildings/devices it might be based on just seeing from my window, but pinpointing this kind of tone is difficult.

Again, might not be your expertise at all, but if you know of how I could proceed with it, to either find the source, and/or report this somehow for an investigation (311 ? some other agency? ) ? Thanks upfront!

Comment · 14 days ago
My macOS 27 m4 MacBook 128GB ram has in the last 3 days: completely locked up and went black screen (after reboot it had a stacktrace that windowserver crashed and didn’t come back) ; had a full on kernel panic, which later an AI agent analyzing the panic dump said it’s because the iOS simulator was somehow leaking resources and watchdog triggered a the kernel panic.
Comment · 19 days ago
I think I would be more inclined to get it if it supported 2.5Gbs or preferably even 10Gbs.

I have Infuse app for playback on my Apple TV, and recently tried to play, from my local nas on 10Gbs link, some 4k ProRes footage. I forget if it even has the decoder for it, but just the bandwidth wasn’t even enough to play that. Honestly also from experience, playing from local network a 80GB BD remux is also kinda so-so. Random hiccups for me during normal playback. And just completely unreliable fast forward/backwards seeking.

Comment · 19 days ago
Also single seat workspace user. Half the time my Gemini forgets I connected Gmail to it and hallucinates false instructions to enable it.

Truly crazy how much Gemini still hallucinates, especially things which its own Google documentation or just a basic web search away. I feel it’s mostly solved problem with chatgpt/claude , but for me, with Gemini it’s almost guaranteed it will just make stuff up

Comment · 19 days ago
Ha, same experience here. It opened my Gemini and gave me images like “Design a terrarium with Gemini 4” - proceeds to pick 3.1 Pro from the picker because 4 just doesn’t exist in the dropdown. Typical Google.

I really can’t believe how bad the Gemini experience is. I have personal paid workspace account, and meant to have some better AI Google features I think.

So, I connected my Gmail to Gemini. 3.6 Flash kept telling me it doesn’t have any Gmail connnection, and then proceeded to hallucinate instructions for me to enable it, all bogus. At least 3.1 Pro realized that my Gmail is connected and then searched.

Comment · 19 days ago
I wish it could do something what should be seemingly incredible simple task - sync and download ALL the email. But afaik Mail iOS can’t do it, Gmail ios app can’t do it , and no other mail app I tried seems to be able to, which seems absurd.

All I want is all the mail and attachments downloaded locally the way normal desktop mail clients work. Not the last 90 days of it (Gmail ios max) - all of it, I don’t care if it’s many gigabytes or more, i just want the full mail, so that something as full text local search of the email would actually work…

Comment · 26 days ago
Have not tried yet, but did see in the readme it supports x402 protocol for payments, that’s nice.

1) double checking whether it actually does, does it? 2) Which chains are supported, and how’s the x402 being handled - your service self hosted or third party?

Comment · 28 days ago
Comment · 1 month ago
Oh yeah? I’m absolutely against Ticketmaster and their whole monopoly and the whole platform sucks with all the scalpers, but, for this specific case I never had any issues and it works well for me. I’ve bought 2 tickets multiple times on Ticketmaster, and then ‘transferred’ one of them from the Ticketmaster UI to my partner, and then they ‘accept’ it on their account and the ticket appears there. This transfer is thankfully free.
Comment · 1 month ago
On my paid personal Workspace account I’m even more behind. I see 3.1 Pro, 3.6 Flash (New). Can’t not laugh at that ‘New’.
Comment · 1 month ago
Right yeah, I saw this announcement, opened my Fdroid app and clicked around very confused on how to get it to update :S
Comment · 1 month ago
Oh, interesting, I feel like a year so ago I read something posted from openrouter team that they write that credits expire, but that they in actuality don’t expire them. But maybe I’m misremembering, or perhaps that’s changed for the worse in last few months :S

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