bramhaag (u/bramhaag)

bramhaag commented on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month theverge.com/tech/875309/... · Posted by u/x01

bramhaag · a day ago

What realistic open source alternatives to Discord are there? I'm currently considering moving to one of these with my friend group:

- Matrix

- Stoat, previously revolt (https://stoat.chat/)

- IRC + Mumble

- Signal

bramhaag commented on Claude Composer josh.ing/blog/claude-comp... · Posted by u/coloneltcb

Flemlord · 4 days ago

I can't believe AI music hasn't hit the mainstream yet. It's the most amazing thing I've seen since my original ChatGPT 3.5 wtf experience. https://suno.com/playlist/fe6b642c-f4a8-4402-b775-806348640e...

This song was generated from my 2-sentence prompt about a botched trash pickup: https://suno.com/s/Bdo9jzngQ4rvQko9

bramhaag · 4 days ago

These songs sound like royalty-free stock music at best. Bland and inoffensive, with the same uncanny and compressed quality that AI-generated images have too.

Borderline acceptable for elevator music is a long way from the paradigm shift you claim it is.

bramhaag commented on OpenAI Frontier openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/nycdatasci

Nextgrid · 5 days ago

> At a major semiconductor manufacturer, agents reduced chip optimization work from six weeks to one day.

I call BS right there. If you can actually do that, you’d spin up a “chip optimization” consultancy and pocket the massive efficiency gain, not sell model access at a couple bucks per million-tokens.

There should be a massive “caveats and terms apply” on that quote.

So far the AI productivity gains have been all bark and no bite. I’ll believe when I see either faster product development, higher quality or lower prices (which indeed happened with other technological breakthroughs, whether the printing press or the loom) - if anything, software quality is going down suggesting we aren’t there yet.

bramhaag · 5 days ago

They've already changed the wording to

  > At a major manufacturer, agents reduced production optimization work from six weeks to one day.

Make of that what you will.

bramhaag commented on Pavel Durov: "You'd have to be braindead to believe WhatsApp is secure in 2026" twitter.com/durov/status/... · Posted by u/martinlaz

bramhaag · 14 days ago

This is really funny coming from Durov, CEO of an IM app that doesn't even have E2EE on by default (or even available for group chats). Both WhatsApp and Telegram are terrible choices.

bramhaag commented on I was right about ATProto key management notes.nora.codes/atproto-... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

danpalmer · 16 days ago

Bluesky has been asymptotically approaching full decentralisation. A few years ago the gap was everything except a decentralised design, then it was AppViews, now it's "tooling and documentation" for the bit of the PKI that only 50 entities have done.

Meanwhile I lost my Mastodon account history because I moved once, couldn't interact with half the network or apps because I was on a non-Mastodon codebase instance, lost my account again because I stopped paying for access to the instance I was on, all classic signs of centralisation.

bramhaag · 16 days ago

  > all classic signs of centralisation.

No, these are classic signs of decentralization.

  >  I lost my Mastodon account history because I moved once

Your posts still exist on every server that federated with you, there's just no central authority to coordinate reclaiming them.

  > couldn't interact with half the network or apps because I was on a non-Mastodon codebase instance

Independent implementations having compatibility issues is what happens when there's no central authority enforcing conformance. Frustrating, yes, but it's a symptom of decentralization.

  > lost my account again because I stopped paying for access to the instance I was on

That's just how paying for services works. You could host your own instance, and nobody but yourself can revoke your access.

On Mastodon, if something goes wrong, nobody can cut you off the network entirely. On Bluesky, the author deleted an empty test account and is now blacklisted network-wide until Bluesky support decides to help. That is a classic sign of centralization.

bramhaag commented on I was right about ATProto key management notes.nora.codes/atproto-... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

wmf · 16 days ago

If Bluesky wants to be taken seriously they need to invest in decentralization themselves and not leave it as an exercise for the reader.

bramhaag · 16 days ago

Unfortunately most people couldn't care less. Bluesky has been lying about being decentralized since day 1, and yet they have millions of users.

bramhaag commented on I Like GitLab whileforloop.com/en/blog/... · Posted by u/lukas346

javier2 · 17 days ago

Is there any point to switch to Forgejo for my open source projects? Wouldnt I just be leeching resources from the guys at Codeberg/ whereever instead of Microsoft?

bramhaag · 17 days ago

Codeberg _wants_ to host open source projects; it isn't leeching any more than adding articles to Wikipedia.

If you feel guilty, you can self-host Forgejo, contribute to Forgejo, or become a Codeberg member and pay them a yearly fee of your choosing (https://join.codeberg.org/).

bramhaag commented on I Like GitLab whileforloop.com/en/blog/... · Posted by u/lukas346

javier2 · 17 days ago

Just tried it out for a bit, and it looks great and is super snappy. It seems the CI portion is delivered by a project Woodpecker? How does this work and is compared to gitlab CI?

bramhaag · 17 days ago

Forgejo has an integrated CI/CD solution, Forgejo Actions [1], that is very similar to GitHub Actions (and thus not so similar to GitLab CI). This is what you'll probably use if you self-host.

Codeberg (a public Forgejo-based forge) also offers Woodpecker CI. Their hosted Forgejo Actions is still in beta AFAIK, but you can also use your self-hosted runners.

[1] https://forgejo.org/docs/next/user/actions/quick-start/

bramhaag commented on I Like GitLab whileforloop.com/en/blog/... · Posted by u/lukas346

bramhaag · 17 days ago

I switched from GitLab to Forgejo for my private projects after not wanting to deal with how slow GitLab's interface is anymore.

I still have proper CI, issue tracking, and all other features I care about, but the interface loads instantly and my screen isn't filled with many features I'll never use for my private projects.

bramhaag commented on Scientists find a way to regrow cartilage in mice and human tissue samples sciencedaily.com/releases... · Posted by u/saikatsg

arjie · 20 days ago

Fusion Power

Cartilage Regrowth

Room Temperature Semiconductors

Quantum Computing

    def generate(topic, year):
       return f"Scientists have made a major breakthrough in {topic}"

The only subjects that are more Year Of The Linux Desktop than Linux itself.

bramhaag · 20 days ago

Don't forget about Alzheimer's disease