Lukas
@lxgr.net
Logged in to my Spotify account on the web once when traveling to update my card, and now the web interface, while logged in with my account they know the country/language for perfectly well, is persistently in a language I don’t speak, even after returning.
September 7, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Logged in to my Spotify account on the web once when traveling to update my card, and now the web interface, while logged in with my account they know the country/language for perfectly well, is persistently in a language I don’t speak, even after returning.
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Amazing new age verification procedure requires no government ID, no credit card numbers, no photography
import { setTimeout } from 'node:timers/promises'
const verifyAge = async () => {
await setTimeout(568_036_800_000)
return true
}
import { setTimeout } from 'node:timers/promises'
const verifyAge = async () => {
await setTimeout(568_036_800_000)
return true
}
September 3, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Amazing new age verification procedure requires no government ID, no credit card numbers, no photography
import { setTimeout } from 'node:timers/promises'
const verifyAge = async () => {
await setTimeout(568_036_800_000)
return true
}
import { setTimeout } from 'node:timers/promises'
const verifyAge = async () => {
await setTimeout(568_036_800_000)
return true
}
So the model powering “GPT-5” in the UI (modulo “routing to the thinking model”) is called “gpt-5-chat” in the API, while the one powering “GPT-5 Thinking” is called “gpt-5”?
This has got to be intentional at this point.
This has got to be intentional at this point.
August 12, 2025 at 9:29 PM
So the model powering “GPT-5” in the UI (modulo “routing to the thinking model”) is called “gpt-5-chat” in the API, while the one powering “GPT-5 Thinking” is called “gpt-5”?
This has got to be intentional at this point.
This has got to be intentional at this point.
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The beauty we threw away in the name of progress
May 30, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The beauty we threw away in the name of progress
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Monty Hall: [opens the door with the car behind it] "Do you want to switch?"
Contestant: "Of course I do, everybody knows the math"
Contestant: "Of course I do, everybody knows the math"
May 7, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Monty Hall: [opens the door with the car behind it] "Do you want to switch?"
Contestant: "Of course I do, everybody knows the math"
Contestant: "Of course I do, everybody knows the math"
o4-mini must be the most overconfident (and often confidently wrong) model I’ve used so far.
Its tool use capabilities are amazing, but getting it to use them to produce a correct answer is often painfully frustrating.
Its tool use capabilities are amazing, but getting it to use them to produce a correct answer is often painfully frustrating.
April 23, 2025 at 1:07 PM
o4-mini must be the most overconfident (and often confidently wrong) model I’ve used so far.
Its tool use capabilities are amazing, but getting it to use them to produce a correct answer is often painfully frustrating.
Its tool use capabilities are amazing, but getting it to use them to produce a correct answer is often painfully frustrating.
Wait, so Samsung phones and wireless airbuds already support Auracast (Bluetooth multicast audio, i.e. a modern replacement for gyms broadcasting TV audio over FM channels, cinema hearing loops etc.)? www.samsung.com/us/support/a...
Where's Apple's implementation? Too busy collecting MFi royalties?
Where's Apple's implementation? Too busy collecting MFi royalties?
Use Auracast to broadcast audio from your Galaxy phone
Auracast allows you to create your own broadcast channel on your Galaxy device and share it with others!
www.samsung.com
April 17, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Wait, so Samsung phones and wireless airbuds already support Auracast (Bluetooth multicast audio, i.e. a modern replacement for gyms broadcasting TV audio over FM channels, cinema hearing loops etc.)? www.samsung.com/us/support/a...
Where's Apple's implementation? Too busy collecting MFi royalties?
Where's Apple's implementation? Too busy collecting MFi royalties?
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As I end-of-life my Mastodon sunrise/sunset bot, it seems an appropriate time to vent my complaints about Mastodon as a platform. v.cx/2025/04/mast...
Mastodon Exit Interview
I am currently winding down the Mastodon bots I used to post sunrise and sunet times. The precipitating event is that the admin of the instance hosting the associated accounts demanded they be made ni...
v.cx
April 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
As I end-of-life my Mastodon sunrise/sunset bot, it seems an appropriate time to vent my complaints about Mastodon as a platform. v.cx/2025/04/mast...
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France, the country of true justice
April 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
France, the country of true justice
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Ouch.
Dave Täht has died https://libreqos.io/2025/04/01/in-loving-memory-of-dave/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43550098)
In loving memory of Dave Täht
04/01/2025We’re devastated to report that Dave Täht has passed away.Dave was an amazing man, helping the world with FQ-CoDel and CAKE, fighting bufferbloat and trying to make the world a bett…
libreqos.io
April 1, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Ouch.
As punishment for our sins, the next Studio Ghibli movie will be released as a Netflix live action series that ends at a cliffhanger after a mediocre season 2
March 27, 2025 at 10:50 PM
As punishment for our sins, the next Studio Ghibli movie will be released as a Netflix live action series that ends at a cliffhanger after a mediocre season 2
Sad to see my excessive, long-time usage of en dashes slandered as evidence of LLM trickery and not seen for what it is (i.e. typographic snobbery)
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Is This a ChatGPT Hyphen — or Just Good Writing?
AI has made the stalwart em dash a flashpoint in trying to separate the real from the fake.
www.bloomberg.com
March 26, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Sad to see my excessive, long-time usage of en dashes slandered as evidence of LLM trickery and not seen for what it is (i.e. typographic snobbery)
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...