I definitely agree that if the logistics don’t make any sense then you shouldn’t build them there.

~Side note: this is also why I think Florida, Nevada, and Arizona shouldn’t have hockey teams. It’s an affront to nature.~

This looks great.

Lord knows I have to make enough mermaid renderings of these UML diagrams.

Will be giving it a try

Passwords are one I happily pay for someone else to worry about

That’s about my most valuable digital data

Maybe fastmcp is too new for Claude, it’s much less code and still one file

Is that why they like tailwind so much? Philosophically tailwind just seems unsustainable to me, css specifying the intent of an element seems nicer.

Mine too

I’ve been working on an app and it was fantastic for the basics, then I decided to refactor an API and Claude code would run for hours without really getting there.

Also a good warning: I just had to completely rewrite an mcp server I had Claude build because when I needed to update it, the whole server was one giant if/else statement and utterly unmaintainable.

That tracks with my experience

You have to very carefully scope things for them and have a plan for when they inevitably screw up.

No, not I don’t self host my email which is where a lot of the trouble comes from

I don’t remember having any issues with it ever. That was a concern so I did slowly transition to the custom domain

I will say it is fantastic you can run deepseek models locally

Some of the deepseek r1 distills are still the best small models. The 8b ones are good and can run on a lot of devices.

That’s pretty much my setup, it is not super hard to get working, it’s basically just copying and pasting the magic numbers they give you

Three R’s to deGoogling: Reduce, replace, remove.

I would say start by changing your browser and search engine (lots of options out there today), and then set up your own domain for email hosting so you can try different providers.

There isn’t another YouTube with all that content out there, so that one is tough, but you don’t have to 100% de google, 50% is still good. 15% is still good.

A lot of DDOS attacks nowadays are from a DDOS for hire service.

So there could be hacking done, or just a bitcoin transfer.

I switched to Kagi for this and they have “small web” and fediverse search.

They are a US based paid search engine and so far have not enshittified.

They’re one of the few US services I kept (low switching costs, low lock in, and a company I like) despite otherwise boycotting most other US products.

People have been talking about it since Google debuted their instant answers years ago.

Nobody listened or cared.

Weirdly I’m polite to all LLMs, but Gemini sets me off and I end up yelling at it.

Open webui lets you install a ton of different search providers out of the box, but you do need sn API key for most and I haven’t vetted them

I’m trying to get Kagi to work with Phi4 and not having success.

I think the AI might have too much empathy for the role.

Have they looked at their own app store?

We already saw Grok being used for this, though rather clumsily by stuffing the prompt.

If an AI company were behind the scenes fine tuning on specific political sentiment you would never know.

In fact there’s some evidence that later ChatGPT models are more right wing biased than early models (which were accused of being left wing).

Also important to note how much social media gets fed into these things and how astroturfed modern social media is these days, so even if not explicitly biased the well has been poisoned.

Reddit has had a “bug” for years where when you delete comments and posts it says they’re deleted but never actually verified they were.

When you delete quickly the API just says it’s deleted. You have to reload and purge multiple times to actually remove your content.

I wouldn’t put it past Reddit to undelete content, but at the time a lot of the complaints Reddit was restoring content were due to this bug.

It’s been a bug for at least 10 years.

Hey, it’s expensive to host nude comics in s3 and pass payment info into stripe.

They need to double head count because the middle managers need fiefdoms.