Even some AFX fans have the opinion that the stuff on Drukqs is "style over substance".
To be fair, he was kinda forced to release it following a leak, wasn't he?
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mprev commented on Claude Code, but for SQL, Beekeeper Studio 5.3 beekeeperstudio.io/blog/r... · Posted by u/rathboma
I gave this a go and it's a really nice way of generating context-aware SQL without having to upload your entire dataset or even just your data model to an LLM.
Gives you a conversational interface for your SQL data, alongside a more traditional SQL GUI.
mprev commented on Home washing machines fail to remove important pathogens from textiles medicalxpress.com/news/20... · Posted by u/bookmtn
When I first switched to the front load washer I started getting a terrible smell pretty quickly.
How I got rid of it.
1) do not use liquid detergents. powder only. My working theory is the medium used to make it gooey was sticking and giving the mold a good medium to live in.
2) do not use liquid fabric softeners. see #1. I use a fabric sheet on drying.
3) clean cycle once a month
4) washer tablet in with the wash clean cycle, I alternate with bleach every other month.
5) leave the door open between washes
6) drain out the water from the 'pigtail' once every 6 months, or whatever the documentation recommends. It is not just for when you move it. It is meant for the next step.
7) clean out the lint trap. Many have this just before the drain out and before the pump. That thing can get really gunked up. especially with liquid detergents/softners. I use the same schedule as the drain out.
#1 and #2 were the main sources for me. Took about 2-3 weeks before the smell was gone.
For my samsung I would say about a 1/4 gallon is left in the hoses.
A note on liquid versus powder detergents. In the UK, at least, my understanding is that liquid detergents do not contain bleaching agents, whereas powders do. That is, unless you buy a colour-safe powder.
If you're pouring bleach into your machine, it can erode the rubber seals. I use Dettol instead (I think it's called Lysol in the States), which seems to do the job.
mprev commented on Google’s two-year frenzy to catch up with OpenAI wired.com/story/google-op... · Posted by u/totaldude87
Technologically they may have caught up, but market wise they may have lost forever. In my country (and I think in many others), ChatGPT is already a household name, and nobody has even heard about Gemini.
This looks like the Google+ vs Facebook story all over again.
Isn’t this more like Teams vs Slack or Zoom?
Consumer brand recognition isn’t the issue. Bundling with Workspace might be.
mprev commented on Moving away from US cloud services martijnhols.nl/blog/movin... · Posted by u/MartijnHols
Well, there are no (classical) office tools. There is a text editor, but no spreadsheet. Their "Drive" solution is very mvp, you can collaborate on text docs, but it's very minimal.
Email is great, looks great, fast, nice feature set. Calendar is mvp-ish, I can accept invites and they go into the calendar and they have nice links to Teams or Meet etc, pretty seamless. They also have widget for a iPhone now, but it's early days.
ProtonPass is great, at least as great as BitWarden, sharing credentials with family and colleagues is a lot easier (not that "organizations" stuff, just click, share, done).
My iPhone syncs pictures to Proton Drive, but the app needs to be opened to do that, which is annoying. Other than that, works well, pics are safe. I really want a Linux client and an API (or rsync endpoint?) so I can push backups there (I have 3 TB drive for the family/business combined).
Their Bitcoin wallet was wasted effort if you ask me, would have preferred video chat or something. Make it more like NextCloud with a dashboard perhaps.
But when they make a new product, it's mvp but generally immediately works very well. I have a lot of trust in their solutions to just work.
But you can use almost everything on the free tier, so just try it out! The migration tool also works really well.
Important to note that the migration works well one way only. If you later want to migrate out it'll be more painful.
mprev commented on Moving away from US cloud services martijnhols.nl/blog/movin... · Posted by u/MartijnHols
Would you recommend moving from Google Workspace to Proton? Including emails and so on.
I'll give a different point of view.
I switched my personal email from Google Workspace to Proton. My use case wasn't privacy (especially when 99% of my email is sent to and received from people using Gmail, Office 365, etc.) I was interested in trying Proton more to support a plurality of service providers.
As such, I'm probably not Proton's target customer. That means the compromises Proton makes to enable E2E are not worth it to me.
Some examples:
* Search is like going back 20 years.
* The lack of automatic filtering (e.g. Gmail's automatically applied Promotions, Updates, etc labels) has made the signal to noise ratio in my personal inbox so low that I'm considering just taking the app off my phone or suppressing notifications, at least. I don't have the time to set up manual filters for everything that comes in.
* The lack of automatic filtering and decent search means that my personal email is now pretty much useless.
Similarly, it's pretty hard to migrate away from because you can't just use IMAP to shift your email history to another provider.
This isn't a negative review of Proton. This is just to say that choosing Proton Mail means living with the compromises necessary to enable their main feature (privacy) and I don't care enough about that one feature to make those compromises worthwhile (because my email is going through so many non-private services anyway).
Great to see a push towards standardisation in this space.