rmnclmnt

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Comment · 1 day ago
Wow thanks for the info about the toniebox reverse engineering!

My kids got offer a toniebox this year, and when discovering the product I was so upset about this locked and privacy nightmare I brought it back to the seller for a refund and started to look for alternatives (got time, still very young). Will check it out!

Comment · 4 days ago
Side comment: i guess this is the october 2026 defaut font for Claude? (Vibe coded some landing pages prototypes very recently, always came with this exact fonts)
Comment · 11 days ago
My current analogy for code/programming is currently related to cooking: ai coding agents are the new Thermomix.
Comment · 17 days ago
Yes be able to give new life and maintain compatibility with old hardware and/or unsupported OSes is one of the recent positive aspects of agents with frontier models!

Also managed to bring back compatibility old printer with Linux and even unsupported one working only over bluetooth!

Before this era, you could imagine how it could work but would have rarely taken the time to do this grunt work. Now you ask, wait for a few minutes, do so meat proxy integration testing, iterate a few times and here you go.

Brings some hope for sustainable computing!

Comment · 17 days ago
A few weeks ago, I had Claude develop a CUPS driver running over a Bluetooth connection for the mini photo printer Canon Zoemini 2: works great on Linux (NixOS), even though Canon only bothered to only support smartphones, never desktops!
Comment · 21 days ago
Modern version of « The Dice Man »
Comment · 24 days ago
And that's one the biggest issue right now unfortunately
Comment · 24 days ago
Okay yes "fight so hard" might have been a bit stronger sorry for that. But it was more in line with "this has become so annoying recently" rightly so because yes you do need to remove the cruft that has nothing to be here and I don't remember being such as issue 6 months ago. The other part of it is to regularly remind colleagues of this rising issue because as I said, even experienced people tend not to care anymore, and this is saddening me.

And while in 2025 I considered AI coding agent in the realm of junior devs, we have been way way past that since early 2026 honestly.

Comment · 25 days ago
I don’t think that’s specific to Claude though. I’ve seen people use GH Copilot harneds (don’t with which models) and it was even worst
Comment · 25 days ago
> It's funny how LLMs leak their test procedure docs into user-facing output.

You have to constantly fight so hard to not get this. And for the past few months it seems most people do not even care to remove it and have proper user facing docs

Comment · 26 days ago
Can we stop with the 100% corner radius trend already, please? Or at least give the users the choice between childish UI and professional one?
Comment · 26 days ago
Late to the party but thanks for the pointer, at least with the Proton theme the color palette is not burning my eyes anymore (but still have the crazy Nova full rounded radius everywhere)
Comment · 27 days ago
That 90’s CD-ROM vibe you like is coming back in style!
Comment · 1 month ago
You don’t: either you accept the tracking and can use the feature you are paying for (e.g. Updated gps maps) or you don’t all together.

Put on top of that freakin bugs and non optimized performance for all screens in the vehicule, and you get a wonderful experience…

Comment · 1 month ago
At the beginning of the article, I really thought the author was referring to reversing the final step as the candidate providing feedback for the interviewer, which would have been much more interesting especially on the matter of reversing the power balance! But in fact it was not.

(I have not been a job candidate in almost 10 years but in B2B meetings I kind of like to do a similar reversal of power in some situations, just to inform the other party I am not a 6-weeks rabbit)

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