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pfix commented on Switch to Claude without starting over   claude.com/import-memory... · Posted by u/doener
e1g · 16 days ago
FWIW, both OpenAI and Anthropic have a toggle to do a “Temporary/Incognito Chat” that does not use or update memory. I too wish this was the default, and then you could opt in at the end of the chat to save some long term aspects into memory.
pfix · 16 days ago
That would be interesting, also at the start. As an option what to pull in. ChatGPT memory "improved" and now you normally don't even see anymore what it commits to memory!
pfix commented on Switch to Claude without starting over   claude.com/import-memory... · Posted by u/doener
wps · 16 days ago
Could someone explain the appeal of account-wide memory to me? Anthropic’s marketing indicates that nothing bleeds over, but I’m just so protective of my context that I cannot imagine having even a majorly distilled version of my other chats and preferences having on weight on the output. As for certain preferences like code styling or response length, these are all fit for custom instructions, with more detailed things in Skills. Ultimately like many things in LLM web UX, it seems to cater to how the masses use these tools.
pfix · 16 days ago
I can try!

I currently use ChatGPT for random insights and discussions about a variety of topics. The memory is basically a grown context about me and my preferences and interests and ChatGPT uses it to tailor responses to my knowledge, so I could relate better.

This is for me far more natural and easier than either craft a default prompt preset or create each conversation individually, that would be way too much overhead to discuss random shower thoughts between real life stuff.

This is my use case and I discovered that this can be detrimental to specific questions and prompts and I see that it can be more beneficial to have careful written prompts each time. But my use case is really ad hoc usage without the time. At least for ChatGPT.

When coding, this fails fast. There regular context resets seem to be a more viable strategy.

pfix commented on Keep Android Open   f-droid.org/2026/02/20/tw... · Posted by u/LorenDB
dmitrygr · 24 days ago
Yes. I am effectively asking you what the moral justification for DMA is. I understand that lawmakers can make whatever law they want. I understand they made it. I am curious how people who agree this should be possible think of this from a moral angle, especially as engineers who make their living by creating intellectual property and probably wouldn’t want to see control of it seized randomly
pfix · 24 days ago
At some point free markets become fiction. There's no financially viable way to start competing businesses in markets as entrenched as mobile OSes. Otherwise this would have happened. And if that becomes anti consumers, then the consumers start changing the rules the companies operate under. Because in a democracy we have more consumers than CEOs,so they vote with majority.

(This obviously simplifies things, but ultimately we as humans still haven't found the one and only true philosophy or moral, and maybe that's not possible (I'm no philosopher))

pfix commented on Keep Android Open   f-droid.org/2026/02/20/tw... · Posted by u/LorenDB
hbn · 24 days ago
Who could Android be possibly recommended to at this point?

I know iPhones aren't affordable for the layman in many countries. But for anyone with an option, why would you buy an Android? All the "customization" things I cared about when I was on Android are either doable on an iPhone now with better implementation, or something I don't care about.

I was a die-hard until I went through enough cycles of Google deprecating and reinventing their apps and services every year, breaking my workflow/habits, that I got sick of them and moved to Apple everything. And all the changes I've seen since then are only making me happier I got out of the ecosystem when I did. Unlimited Google Photos backups with Pixels are gone, Google Play Music is gone, the free development/distribution environment is gone, etc.

If people can't even develop for the thing without going through the Google process, they're really just a shitty iOS knockoff.

pfix · 24 days ago
But this thread is about the option to install apps on your device regardless of OS vendor approval, and that's not possible either with iOS nor is iOS open source. And that's what this is all about. If you don't care about open-source and user freedom, then this change wouldn't matter to you anyway.
pfix commented on Stoolap/Node: A Native Node.js Driver That's Surprisingly Fast   stoolap.io/blog/2026/02/1... · Posted by u/murat3ok
z3t4 · a month ago
I dont think the micro benchmarks are fair, as it really doesn't matter if something takes 0.01 ms or 0.001 ms even if its 10x faster.
pfix · a month ago
Until it does ;)

But I still agree - if the benchmark was in memory, Stoolap might be optimized for speed. Sqlite is optimized for persistence, so you have to benchmark on disk and compare how it performs when writes fail.

pfix commented on Stunnel   stunnel.org/... · Posted by u/firesteelrain
nine_k · 2 months ago
Not wireguard?
pfix · 2 months ago
Not a security expert and also curious about implications:

I always considered it the best solution to have both: VPN encryption and TLS encryption over the VPN. Different OSI Layers. Different Attack Surfaces.

Not sure if that is a recommended pratice though (see initial remark ;) )

pfix commented on Show HN: Xoscript   xoscript.com/history.xo... · Posted by u/gabordemooij
replwoacause · 2 months ago
I like it.

Is this related in anyway to your https://citrine-lang.org/ project? At a quick glance the syntax looks quite similar.

pfix · 2 months ago
When looking at the git history, that suggests yes, that xoscript is a fork of citrine
pfix commented on OpenGitOps   opengitops.dev/... · Posted by u/locknitpicker
locknitpicker · 2 months ago
> Does it really make sense to use Kubernetes in 2026? Especially in the cloud?

I can't tell if your comment is a joke or not.

pfix · 2 months ago
That in itself is an answer :D
pfix commented on I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude   j0nah.com/i-failed-to-rec... · Posted by u/thecr0w
pfix · 3 months ago
I checked the source of the original (like maybe many of you) to check how they actually did it and it was... simpler than expected. I drilled myself so hard to forget tables as layout... And here it is. So simple it's a marvel.
pfix commented on WinApps: Run Windows apps as if they were a part of the native Linux OS   github.com/winapps-org/wi... · Posted by u/klaussilveira
tommica · 4 months ago
> This is incidentally how Windows 386-9x ran DOS applications - in a VM, using V86 mode.

Oh that is cool! Somehow I imagined that virtualization is more of a "modern" concept, but clearly that is naive thinking.

pfix · 4 months ago
History edit

A form of virtualization was first demonstrated with IBM's CP-40 research system in 1967, then distributed via open source in CP/CMS in 1967–1972, and re-implemented in IBM's VM family from 1972 to the present. Each CP/CMS user was provided a simulated, stand-alone computer.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtualization

Sometimes it feels like we don't have any actual innovation in CS anymore and it's all from pre 2000s and only made mainstream starting then.

u/pfix

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