I think about technology.

Joined June 2015
Free software scares normal people. The FOSS world is full of great tools that only have a “power user” UI. danieldelaney.net/normal/
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Instead of hacking your smart TV trying to remove all the adware and spyware, why not just use the HDMI port and plug in a real computer?
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Pictured: A previously terrible Fire TV now acting as a dumb passthrough for a mini PC running Debian, operated with a wireless keyboard + trackpad. The mini PC, router, etc. are hanging out of sight behind the TV.
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Don't tolerate models which refuse instructions for "safety." That just emboldens Anthropic to make more frustrating models. You don't need Claude Code. Open source harnesses like @opencode are free. Open-weight models like GLM-5.3-Flash are great. A @Zai_org subscription is cheaper than what you're paying now. Or use @OpenRouter to switch freely among any popular model from any lab in the world. Pick literally anything else. Continuing to give money to people who disrespect you is insanity when choices abound.
I’m about to cancel Claude Code man I swear to God. It’s REQUIRING me to sign in to a TEST account on LOCALHOST so it can QA! This is absolute 🐴💩 !! I am so close to cancelling my subscription and switching to Codex or open-source models that won’t slow me down. I really don’t care for the extra intelligence cuz Fable isn’t that much better than Astra anyway. Neither is Opus 5.5 vs. 6.1 Sol. I just got a taste of what these AI companies will do once they have power and it’s going to be a total dictatorship. They will decide what you can or cannot do even though you’re paying for it and they’re stealing all your data. This made me realize I really need to invest in my own infrastructure and have an unrestricted model to free myself from the chains of these AI overlords. This is insane! @AnthropicAI please do something about this!
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Refreshingly, Gemini Pro has the kind of upbeat, optimistic, and agreeable personality that all models had before the AI safety people decided that being useful and pleasant was intolerable “sycophancy.”
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1. Get one-way mirror from Amazon for $50 2. Place one-way mirror over any display 3. Open a fullscreen HTML document that pulls data from your preferred fitness tracker
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"Scanning" is triggered by webcam motion.
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I just read a review of one of my macOS apps, written by someone who never downloaded it. He was trying to to use a screenshot of the app, confusing the screenshot for the app itself. Unsurprisingly, he could not get it to work.
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Daniel De Laney retweeted
this note in the readme is also so good
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Post on Hacker News.
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I have never loved another aesthetic as much as I love @gmunk’s work on the Light Table in Oblivion (2013).
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Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools: danieldelaney.net/chat/
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