I’ve been explicitly told not to use any open source for a project. I don’t even know what language I’d write it in. We ended up not even quoting for it in the end.

Yeah this only makes sense if the builds start diverging from the open source code, extra features that are closed source.

Hertzner storage box. I think it’s €13/month for 5tb. Just storage with ssh interface. I use restic but most backup systems should work with it.

Also happy with them. Might not be relevant but you can have all 50 aliases be different domains and wildcards count as 1.

Switched from protonmail because i wanted a second domain which was lots more expensive with them. I also didn’t like having to use their app. With mailbox i gave them my public key and they still encrypt everything on receipt but i just use Thunderbird as the client.

No. They handle that. You get so many credits that get used at different rates depending on the model.

You can burn through your months allowance in 10 minutes using Fable then your employer just gets billed the coverage. I think it’s based on the provider’s API pricing so just using Claude or codex directly is probably cheaper.

If you have it do the work entirely and make PRs itself then Copilot is listed as the author regardless of model. E.g. you can assign it an issue and it’ll go and do it itself. I don’t use that though because it’s bad at it.

I tend to just prompt it to write snippets as part as whatever I’m working on to save some typing.

Github copilot is a totally different product from Microsoft copilot. Github copilot is just a harness for any model. I can use openai, anthropic, google, etc. models.

I have at least 1 colleague who does this. Has a Claude subscription despite being provided with github copilot.

New outlook is awful. When I first got forced to switch it didn’t show you tooltip with where a link was actually going before clicking on it - you know, the thing literally every mandatory phishing training has told you to do!

They have actually fixed that now but it was ages without it.

My current pet peeve is it doesn’t tell me about new emails in shared mailboxes. We have a shared support mailbox and I have to remember to go and check it manually. It doesn’t even update the unread email count until you open the inbox.

They’re doing this where i live. Mostly grazing land. Cows all summer, then they’re brought in for winter and the whole place becomes a swamp. The farmers are tenants and the landowner sold to developers a few years ago who now want to build 1000s of houses. It only takes looking at the topology and the location of the existing houses to realise why it’s not been done before.

Unless it has local maps like mine that are now a decade out of date. It’s completely useless now but i refuse to pay several 100 for the update.

Yeah, i agree. You can cut the benefits bill by reducing payments and making lives worse, or you lift people up so they no longer need them. This seems like an attempt at the latter and I hope it works.

We have 2 mongrels. We had their dna tested to see what breeds they were. It was complete nonsense. They came back with 20+ breeds each, not matching anything like what they look like.

For one of them it flagged his mother, who’s owners had done the same, as a distant relative, 1% match. It also flagged pure breed dogs 1000s of miles away on a different continent as relatives. Possible but very unlikely.

They also induce demand and push up prices to the cap

I took an existing thing and put it inside another existing thing. That’s a novel idea, right?

We could put card terminals in everything! Put card terminals in the fridge to pay for food?

I can’t think how this is any better than just using the card you already saved on the account. Even from their point of view, this is an extra step in the payment process.

That’s why all these microtransactions are in their own made-up currency.

She tried that but then it leaves a 5 year gap

Same here although i cycled. Was about a mile each way. Fairly low traffic. I imagine it’s way more traffic now so that might be part of it.

My view is regulatory capture is as an existential requirement for them. Otherwise at some point we’ll be running open models on our phones and won’t need them.

Not for nvidia though, always going to need chips

Yeah my wife was the same. 2018-2023. Delayed a little over a year because they shut the labs for months and limited occupancy when it opened. Basically 3 years she hardly saw anyone.

Sometimes if I hit the voice typing on my phone, which I’m pretty sure is whisper, and then don’t say anything, it just comes out with nonsense.

Just did this and also got…

Thanks for watching!

I hated when i had a long commute. There was a toll bridge on the way as well just to annoy me more. Wasn’t allowed to work from home until covid hit and suddenly it’s possible. Now 6 years later and I’ve never driven that commute again.