Readit Newsfuglede_ commented on Running My Own XMPP Server blog.dmcc.io/journal/xmpp... · Posted by u/speckx
Recently came across FluffyChat (https://fluffy.chat/), which works on matrix and has funny stickers and emojis ;)
And for desktop apps, Cinny has custom emoji/sticker support. Would be nice if they played better with Element though.
fuglede_ commented on Denmark's struggle to break up with Silicon Valley politico.eu/article/denma... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
Would you work in Europe for a 5 figure salary?
Median salary for a dev is about $130,000 according to https://www.prosa.dk/raad-og-svar/loenstatistik-2025 (assumes 37 hour work week, 5 weeks of vacation).
how do you measure levels of corruptness?
https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2024 offers some methodologies.
Yeah, a bunch of people started going on witch hunts against the people where were obviously using AI (eg ~30 second solve times) and also anyone who had "AI" anywhere in their bio.
IMO the levels it got to was wildly out of proportion, even if these people were cheating (say what you will about AI, but if the rules say not to use it and you do: you're a cheater) but maybe I would have felt differently if the timezones meant I could take part, rather than waking up to drama.
Just to not feed the witch hunt further, note that human 30 second solve times can be entirely possible for the easiest puzzles, with enough experience, practice, and a bit of risk-taking; see e.g. https://adventofcode.com/2021/leaderboard/day/1 part 1. But the 4 second solution times we saw last year are not, no matter how you look at it.
>predictable given how the last 2 years went
QRD? Was it AI?
There's some good discussion here: https://old.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/comments/1h9cub8/discu...
But yes, you would have people openly share repositories for automatically ingesting the puzzle text, solving the puzzles, and submitting the results the moment the puzzles opened, leading to inhuman solution times. So, despite the rules stating that you can't do that, the result is that whenever the puzzles were easy enough for an LLM to solve them with high probability – and most of them are – the leaderboards would be overrun with such solutions.
In 2023, the LLMs would still struggle enough that the overall leaderboard (taking all 25 ⋅ 2 puzzles into account) would still be dominated by ordinary people (many of them recording their solutions), in 2024 that was no longer the case. Personally I would go from being able to top 100 regularly, to almost never being able to. I'm going to miss the thrill, and think it's a bit saddening that we can't have nice things, but also ultimately think that getting rid of it is the best option.
fuglede_ commented on First convex polyhedron found that can't pass through itself quantamagazine.org/first-... · Posted by u/fleahunter
The triakis tetrahedron fit really is crazy close: https://youtu.be/jDTPBdxmxKw
Seems interesting but for some reason on Chrome on my iPhone 13 mini the page is too big for the screen: I have to pinch zoom out to see the X that dismisses the instructions, and can't scroll the about page.
Did you make some assumptions about the minimum window / screen size based on oversized modern smartphones, forgetting that lots of us still cling to more reasonably sized older devices?
Hm, yeah, tested it down to about 500 px width, and the low-resolution devices in Chromium but that was too optimistic then. The modals should of course be closeable, and both game boards simultaneously visible. Played around with the modals a bit, so maybe it works better now?