I'm done trying to take the hard-line anti-genAI stance that I see so much both here on the fediverse and in the broader discourse among programmers. When I'm truly honest, I have to admit that I find the technology too fascinating, entertaining, and yes, sometimes useful to outright avoid it on ethical grounds. I'm through being a hypocrite. As with my rejection of religion some 14 years ago, it's better to admit I don't really believe, in this case in the arguments against using genAI.
What does this mean specifically? For starters, I won't keep repeating and amplifying the arguments that I've now rejected. I'll use genAI models as I wish, for both business and pleasure. I may post publicly about particularly useful or entertaining things that come out of those sessions, behind this content warning. And I'll start playing around with Claude Code or other similar agents.
But, I'll respect the wishes of any project or future employer that does not want LLM-generated code. I'll review all LLM-generated code that I contribute to any project, and be forthright about the use of genAI in writing that code. And I'll try to be careful about not using an LLM to closely imitate code from known copyleft-licensed projects in whatever domain I'm working in.
Now then, I wonder about the easiest way to run an agent like Claude Code in an isolated, sandboxed *Windows* development environment, as opposed to giving it access to my main box. Just because I'm giving up on strict abstinence, doesn't mean I'm going to be reckless.
I guess I should spin up a new Windows VM in VMware Workstation and install Visual Studio and Claude Code there.
What I have yet to find out is whether I'll *like* relying heavily on an LLM for coding, agentic or otherwise. But I've decided to give it a serious try.
Just as an anecdote on what a top-tier coding agent (Claude Code) is currently capable of, I offer this experiment, where I had Claude Code write a simple custom GUI with accessibility: github.com/mwcampbell/claude-a…
I am, of course, flattered that with no explicit prompting on my part, it decided to use AccessKit. Of course, that's the obvious choice for a GUI implemented in Rust.
The spec for the program is also admittedly very much like the AccessKit winit example, with the notable exception that this program also draws a visual UI.
Considering that, it's a bit surprising that it didn't copy the winit example *more* closely. And as a result, there's at least one bug.
What's most striking as I look through this code is that while Claude decided to use AccessKit for the accessibility part, it implemented simple rectangle drawing/filling and text drawing (with a simple bitmap font) from scratch on top of softbuffer. I told it not to use a full-blown GUI toolkit, but it still could have used vello or tiny_skia or femtovg to handle the graphics, as it used AccessKit for accessibility.
Maybe implementing AT-SPI from scratch is just so obviously complicated that it decided to use AccessKit for that, while it figured doing the graphics from scratch wouldn't be too hard. Or, maybe it pattern-matched my spec against the AccessKit winit example, which has no visual UI, so it improvised on that part. I'll have to look back at the "thinking" traces and see if those give any clues.
OpenAI Codex is much better at Sandboxing than Claude. Not sure how stable its native WIndows sandboxing support is though, and whether you're fine with WSL or whether you need native Windows.
Asking for help! My wife is currently locked out of most digital services due to her phone being broken, and all passwords being in #bitwarden . The bitwarden webapp doesn't help because it asks a verification code, sent on an email which password is.. in bitwarden. What can we do?
- stop hiding which window has focus. It used be done well in 1984 - stop stealing fucking click. If I dismiss one of you fucking dialog the click should not be passed down - start serving user, and I don't mean in a cookbook way
Когда я была ещё маленьким аутёнком и не понимала людей, я решила прочесть одну из книг-инструкций Дейла Карнеги. Прочла. Из всех советов помню единственный: подумали что-то хорошее о человеке — скажите ему.
В подростковом возрасте следовать совету для меня было почти невозможно, но со временем получилось. И всем хорошо: человеку — от комплимента, а тебе — от его радости.
В итоге, понимать людей мне помогли не инструкции, а тонны прочитанной художественной литературы и внимательное наблюдение за окружающими. Так что мало кто разглядит во мне того аутёнка теперь. (А он есть.)
Those of you keeping track will know that I did a Christmas market tour early December last year. I ended up downloading the Karlsruhe transit authority’s (KVV) app and buying a day ticket or two off them.
These days I’m more familiar with German transit ticketing, so I haven’t used the KVV app since then.
And today I have received this SMS, telling me they’re going to delete my account soon.
…
⁃ A company that is systematically deleting accounts after a year? ⁃ That takes their data protection responsibilities seriously? ⁃ That proactively informs their data subjects with plenty of time to cope? ⁃ That doesn’t do so using dark marketing patterns that try to guilt me into staying? ⁃ Or upsell me? ⁃ Or trick me into clicking somewhere as the only way to exercise my rights?
I am agog. My flabber is truly ghasted.
Genuinely, this sort of attitude needs to be praised. It’s been 10 years since GDPR, and this sort of thing is still that rare.
⁃ It was sent by SMS to my Spanish number. They don’t care that the number is not German. Their systems will allow this. ⁃ It was sent by SMS, not WhatsApp, which is annoyingly increasingly becoming the default messaging platform for this sort of thing, thus making an American company the mediator of all your messages. ⁃ It was sent in English, my language of choice on their website and app, their processes are capable of checking my language preferences ⁃ No link was included. Nor instructions. If you care about this, it’s obvious what to do. No need to send something that can be turned into a Phishing vector ⁃ My name wasn’t mentioned, no need to attempt to gender me by giving me a title
None of these things are standard yet, and they should be. If you work for a consumer-facing company, can you say that your customer data will be treated this way?
Almost makes me want to keep my account with them, just for the respect they’ve shown
Memphis residents say they're already grappling for clean air after Elon Musk’s AI company began pumping out plumes of pollution to power its gargantuan data center.
You might not notice it in your peer group, when you are not their age, but my daughter showed me that many 20-30yr olds are switching to dumb phones, are cancelling their Facebook/tiktok/twitter accounts and are discovering libraries and printed books. As a conscious decision. Not all of them, but quite a lot and it's growing.
another nice thing you can do with delta chat is having in-chat tools like shopping lists in the family chat where anyone can add or mark an item as done and is marked for everyone, collaborative text pad, to-do lists, split bills, mini-games etc. you can even write your own small utility apps and share it in the chats and your contacts will be able to use them in all platforms
the speed is of chatting is realtime if you use the optimized chatmail relays instead of classic email
Running a whole GUI as root, with a ton of unaudited code running in the same process and that brings in more code across IPC barriers, and has the tendency to poke at random environment variables, mmap random files, and read/write configuration.
Unfortunately the open source ecosystem doesn't have many external signals to users about which components are on the other side of a GUI's d-bus interactions and whether they have been audited. The polkit prompts give many uses the sense that they are granting the GUI application permission to "Run as Administrator" in the language of Windows.
it's not like people are going to run GParted sandboxed otherwise. And it fundamentally needs access to your full disk, so not running as root is not going to buy you much security.
But yeah, you don't *have to* run it as root either, so why not run it as $USER.
that XKCD strip is fundamentally flawed: installing fake software running as an admin is how people get access to all those remote services without having to physically steal the laptop.
The problem is not running gparted (or whatever application): it's running everything, from settings to random (GTK) modules, as root without your knowledge or consent. You don't know what else has root access when you run a whole ass GUI application.
I've have bug reports for gdk-pixbuf being broken after the switch to sandboxed loaders because people run gparted as root and modify the environment to set themes and cursors from their user's home directory. This is the kind of insanity we allow, while going around sandboxing and hardening the underlying OS.
IIRC, udisks is pretty complicated to set up (and depends on polkit which can also be quite tricky). Consider that folks who need a GUI want something dead simple. Like “sudo gparted-daemon” and then “gparted-gui” on another terminal.
It also the kind of tool that is usually used quickly in some one-off scenario, not something for which one wants to dedicate lots of time setting up and configuring.
"depends on polkit" yeah, no shit. The privilege escalation flow is a solved problem if you use the tools that the OS provides you. "Something dead simple" is not a thing, unless you want to re-implement everything that already exists and is well integrated with the rest of the OS. In short: people don't want "dead simple" as in "I have to run two binaries"; they want something that works like everything else.
in short: yes, there's some complexity, usually already dealt with by the people developing the applications and integrating your OS. The complexity is not there for shits and giggles, and it's only visible if you're taking over from those two roles above. Some computer touchers enjoy doing the integrator's job, but that's not something that actual users have to care about.
people want “dead simple" and “want something that works like everything else”. That’s why they (try to) run gparted as root.
You can just create a socket for IPC, and use group membership to control permissions. Linux, BSD and any other Unix-like support this just fine.
Perhaps polkit+udisks has some technical advantage (compared to a socket) in some specific use case, but folks will always go for convenience. Especially the kind of folks who want a GUI.
an OpenBSD and Alpine user coming here and arguing for ease of use with handrolled IPC sockets instead of the proper privilege escalation API that is well integrated with desktop environments used by millions of people…
I've been hearing this argument for 10 years, specifically about GParted. What's the reason that the functionality you describe never got implemented? Or was it implemented, and people are just using it wrong?
@Corax42 it's a simple case of nobody putting in the work after the introduction of polkit in 2007; people worked around it with `sudo gparted` because they could.
I have an alarm in my phone called "Germantown." I have no idea why. It was probably a dictation error. But today I need to call someone from Germany at 9 AM, and as I was setting an alarm for it, I realized that "Germantown" is set for 9 AM. So I just turned it on instead of making a new one. Small things amuse me sometimes.
Iran may be on the verge of Internet shutdowns again. If you have friends or family in #Iran, now is the time to let them onboard for example with tiiiz.ir -- because using in-country servers helps to stay connected. If you need support for setting up a relay in or for Iran, send us a DM and we'll see to connect you with other knowledgeable operators. با آرزوی فردایی بهتر...
Please don't overwork yourself. If you feel exhausted, please take a break. Pease don't hesitate to call us via DECT 1023 at any time to sign out of a shift if you can't make it or feel uncomfortable for any reason.
While some people on our team are enjoying the opportunity of learning a lot more things about postgresql, in the meantime here's a rendered version of the map of the event as of the evening of December 24th:
how do you make these decisions around the repo, such as where to host it and what version control system to use? Is it a somewhat rational process or is it a decision from the guts?
its typically a discussion in the team and an attempt to sense what people in general would like and prefer, but ultimately also a good portion of gut feeling...
Můj zlozvyk číslo 1: V rámci úspory času a nachozených kroků jsem začal strategicky přemýšlet, co všechno můžu při jedné cestě z jedné místnosti do druhé udělat nebo vzít. Nejdřív mi to dávalo smysl, ale posléze jsem toto začal praktikovat i v práci, což se trochu začínalo zvrtávat. Typickým příkladem je vaření kafe ráno po příchodu do práce. Do toho si ještě nosím vodu z automatu a někdy i talíř na snídani. Kávovar je ráno potřeba zapnout, vyhodit logr, doplnit vodu. Někdy si během toho ještě strategicky odběhnu na záchod. I když jsem si všechno strategicky plánoval, pak jsem na jednotlivé podúkoly začal zapomínat. Výsledkem bylo, že když jsem se na stejnou trasu vrátil za 20 minut, viděl jsem nachystaný talíř k odnesení, uvařené kafe nebo někde na mě ještě číhala lžička. Cítil jsem se zoufale.
I think one of the wildest parts of the Epstein Files fiasco to me is billionaires are so different that they talk about the darkest most blackmailable secrets of the worlds elite in gmail when I am miserably embarrassed Google is retaining my everyday online cosplay purchase history to train AI.
Die #DB_Bahn sollte sich lieber mal fragen, wieso Menschen mit Rollstuhl 'verladen' werden müssen - wär sie nämlich #barrierefei gäbs das Problem nämlich nicht.
Mal abgesehen davon, dass Menschen mit Hilfebedarf aufgrund fehlender #Barrierefreiheit ja nicht mal spontan reisen können sondern sich vorher erstmal beim Mobilitätservice anmelden müssen.
Der nach meinem letzten Kenntnisstand eine kostenpflichtige Rufnummer hat.
Da fehlt manchmal ein wenig das Feingefühl. Eine ansonsten sehr nette und gut gelaunte Zugbegleiterin am letzten Samstag so "Bitte nutzen Sie die nächste Tür, ich MUSS hier eine Rollstuhlfahrerin rauslassen". Sie hätte zB auch sagen können "leider ist die Bahn immer noch nicht barrierefrei" oder ähnliches. Denn das Hindernis ist ja die Struktur, nicht die Menschen, die genau wie alle anderen einfach Zug fahren möchten.
manchmal? Ein bisschen? Vielleicht solltest du mal @HoernchenCecile folgen...
Und ja klar gibt's nette, freundliche & bemühte Mitarbeitende, das hab ich nicht in Frage gestellt. Die Tatsache, dass diese aber 2025 immer noch notwendig sind, taugt aber halt genauso wenig wie Menschen im Rollstuhl nur als 'Rollstuhl' zu bezeichnen.
Ist ja nicht das erste Mal, dass so eine Durchsage die Runde macht - allein der (mediale) Aufschrei fehlt - im Zug hat's ja auch niemanden interessiert
Die Bahn begründet oft Verspätung mit dem Einladen eines Rollstuhls oder - etwas besser formuliert trotzdem diskriminierend - wegen Unterstützung beim Ein- und Ausstieg.
ich wurde schon mal ausführlich per Lautsprecherdurchsage beschimpft. Bei einem Halt wartete der Mobilitätsservice, ich sagte aber ich wolle nicht aussteigen, ich wolle beim nächsten Halt aussteigen, wegen der Verspätung komme ich so schneller an mein Ziel.
Der Mobilitätsservice verhielt sich als sei es ein "Service" und ich war die böse die absagt. Obwohl es Grundrecht ist mitfahren zu können und den "Service" gibts nur wegen der Barrieren. Aber die Auseiunandersetzung ging hin und her es wurde dirskutiert weil die wollten dass ich da aussteige und nicht beim nächsten Halt und ich was so, ich entscheide selbst.
Dann der Knaller mit der Durchsage als der Zug weiter fuhr. Man habe Verspätung weil ein Rollstuhlfahrer (sic!) - immerhin nicht nur der Rollstuhl - sich geweigert habe ausszusteigen.
Dann kam die Schaffnerin persönlich zu mir um mir auch noch vor den Fahrgästen eine Lektion zu erteilen. Die Fahrgäste solidaridierten sich zum Glück (das ist nicht immer der Fall) mit mir und die Schaffnerin war sauer, ging aber weg.
You can't say you wrote code if you wrote it in C. All you did was write a prompt to a compiler, it did all the hard work of translating that prompt into a string of ones and zeros. Real programmers do that themselves instead of just accepting slow and buggy compiler-generated slop.
Do you know how much water you're wasting by running your LLVM-powered compiler at -o3? You'd be far better off just turning that code into assembly yourself.
Today is not the first time an agentic coding agent has unblocked me. It turns out that the Winlibs package currently ships a version of CMake using libcurl without a valid SSL cert. As such, trying to build anything that requires an HTTPS download will fail, while working everywhere else. This stumped both me and one of my most talented debugger friends yesterday, claude figured it out in 5 minutes this morning.
Ich habe die letzte Woche viel mit #Perplexity experimentiert. jetzt habe ich noch fast ein Jahr einen gratis Pro-Zugang und absolut keinen Bedarf daran. Es gab in der Zeit nur eine einzige Konversation, in der mir kein Fehler aufgefallen ist, der zu Fehlkäufen bzw. Fehlentscheidungen geführt hätte. Was das für die erstellung von Code bedeutet, mag ich mir ehrlich gesagt nicht ausmalen.
Es kann menschliche Sprache glaubwürdig nachbilden. Wenn es um korrekte Informationen geht, selbst im Mainstream, versagt diese Technologie krachend. Ja, vermutlich bleiben LLM. Aber dieser Hype und die Anwendungsfälle, die immer wieder skizziert werden, sind wirklich albern und gefährlich.
Heute: 13 km radeln mit der Flims (einer der vielen Ylvi-Spitznamen), dann Kamin, Kaffee und Kuchen zu Hause und gleich noch ne große Runde mit den Kleinis und dem Mann. Zu Hause isses halt doch am Schönsten. 😅
I did a quick unscientific comparison. AI generated drums and bass for a snippet of a cover version versus me hobbling through those parts with software instruments, playing from memory of hearing it recently.
I invested a similar amount of time in total to reach the second verse of the song. With the generative engine, I only started paying attention to time spent *after* figuring out enough of the horrible UI accessibility to be able to get anything done with it, so although that will inevitably cloud my judgment of whether I enjoyed the UX, it shouldn't impact the comparison of musicality/usefulness.
In both cases, the original song was playing for reference with its rhythm section removed. I've turned the original down pretty quiet in these examples, loud enough to be recognisable but hopefully balanced in a way that makes it easy to focus on the differences in drums and bass.
The generative engine had this prompt: "Follow the chords and dynamics of the reference track as closely as you can. I'd like a laid back feel, fingerstyle bass playing and a 70's style deadened drum sound".
This is as good as I could get from it after a bunch more prompts trying to help it hone in. 2/4
I played the drums and bass in this version on keys here, using software instruments, so a totally silent recording setup that I could make at 4AM with a sleeping partner in the same room. I'm not much of a keys player and I don't have absolute pitch or a good enough memory to recall parts note for note, hit for hit, this was just a gut instinct jam-along.
Drums were recorded in two passes, I played the kicks snares and toms first, then overdubbed hats and cymbals. In both cases I did some light tweaking of the MIDI to get a few stray velocities and timing gufties straightened out. 3/4
I think it really depends on how well you can manually play and mix. Some people can do it better than AI, and some people cannot. I'm not saying people should not learn and practice, but AI is often about democratizing and closing the gap between top-performing and low-performing groups by lowering the barrier to access.
@chikim There wasn't any mixing. I did a small amount of tweaking of the starting presets in each instrument just so they sounded a bit closer to what I was imagining, nothing drastic enough to make or break whether they'd sound workable though. Then I turned the volume of the original down before I rendered, which wouldn't have been a necessary step at all outside of this comparison context. That's all. Do those choices need democratising? Who for?
I'm not talking about just mixing. It could be singer/songwriter who needs to produce a quick demo, and has no idea how to play the drums. Also, if you listen to the AI version, you can tell AI generated drums and bass already with EQed and compressed sound.
@chikim In this case, they'd come away with a quick demo that didn't follow 4/4 timing or simple chords. I'm trying to think of who that's useful to, and I'm coming up empty.
You can always get stems and edit. You can basically handle like pattern loops. Replace what you don't like with what you like. If it messes up every time, that's a problem. Hopefully AI will get better.
I mean we can argue what works for who all day long. :) We even have a professor at Berklee who says Suno is better musically than 80% of his students! lol
As a side note, there’s a guy who generates AI music, uploads it to streaming services as a side gig, and makes a few hundred bucks a month. I wonder what percentage of musicians actually make a few hundred dollars a month from streaming service? AI music has even hit the top of the Billboard charts. I’m not advocating for Suno or anything, just pointing out the sad reality.
@chikim Last week I had a session helping someone remake a beat that was from Suno. I've heard plenty of examples now where the generative part coming first then humans doing their thing after/on it can turn out good. In part that's why I'm surprised this gave me such a shit result. I didn't think the order of events being flipped around would make the result so different.
I don't use Suno enough to say for sure. I just generate bunch of stupid songs when my kids ask. lol My guess is they focus more on mass use, where you generate from text prompts, rather than professional workflows where you feed in audio and augment it. Also is this from v4.5-all or v5? Have you looked at the Suno Studio? It looks very interesting workflow. youtube.com/watch?v=qR4BefPvSi…
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@chikim This flow works for me. More than a few times I have heard an AI version of something and went "hey, that was fun, I bet it'd sound awesome with real people." The AI stole everything from us, we can steal it right back.
Also, when I said AI is often about democratizing, I meant it in a general sense too. I know you already understand this, and I am generalizing, but Deaf people might use AI to generate speech transcription, blind people might use AI to generate image descriptions or even create a cover art for their albums, and I have even heard of people who cannot afford a lawyer successfully using AI to fight insurance companies. In each case, it lowers the barrier to access.
@chikim Well sure, I understand what democratizing is and in many cases I'm in favour of it. TBH I can't really say I'm against it in this scenario either. It's more like... I dunno... I'm surprised that even as a barely function keys player and probably less than 5 minutes of tweaking sounds, I could throw together something that's more usable than this thing that some people are paying money for.
@KaraLG84 I thought it would be better. When I heard the first few notes of the bass track soloed my initial reaction was like "hey, that's a decent thumpy bass tone, it's playing the sort of pattern I'd expect and... oh..." then the rest happened lol.
Was ich mir fürs nächste Jahr von Männern wünsche: Schweigt nicht bei sexistischem Verhalten anderer Männer. Schaut nicht betreten weg. Sagt etwas. Macht etwas. Das ist auch Eure Baustelle.
Wenn ihr Teil einer Gruppe seid, bei der sich jemand sexistisch verhält und ihr lasst es geschehen, weil: „Ist ja nicht meine Sache, muss er selbst wissen, usw…“, dann seid ihr aus Perspektive der Betroffenen nicht „Einer von den Guten, die aber nix sagen“ - ihr seid Teil des Problems.
**altbot v2.5 is out!**
fixed non-english support! switched to a two model setup: gemma3:1b handles translations while qwen3-vl does the image processing stuff. gemma3:1b is surprisingly good at translations for such a tiny model??
now running 23.
I am blind. Seeing people who think I'm not worth the effort fill my timeline with AltBot generated AI stuff that isn't even accurate in lots of cases.
Human alt text is always better, because it doesn´t focus on ocular seeing. Seeing people think, and AltBot was designed around that notion, that blind people must compensate for missing "eye-seeing", but that's not the case. I am interested in the meaning of an image to you, its maker or publisher.
Again, human alt text is better, also because it strengthens reciprocity between seeing and blind people. AltBot doesn't but it makes seeing people believe they have done their bit for accessibility. In actuality, the reverse is often true.
Lavrov: Západ musí chápat, že Rusko má na Ukrajině strategickou iniciativu
(ČTK)
https://www.ceskenoviny.cz/zpravy/lavrov-zapad-musi-chapat-ze-rusko-ma-na-ukrajine-strategickou-iniciativu/2765595
What's the good in having this apartment with it's fancy amenities (pool, barbecue) if nobody ever shows up to visit? They all said oh yeah we'll come see your place. Half of them haven't. Half of them aren't getting the fucking hint when I post on facebook. So I'm done.
Wanna swap? This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to live in a damp, cramped shit-tip that benefits from noisy neighbours in 3 directions and a wonderfully hassle-free existence by foregoing pools, barbecues or any attraction that might tempt people to visit. Act now to lock in the joys of blocked drains and a stink of sewage that can be experienced in the overgrown garden.
@Scott Awesome. We'll swap. You can have my crackhead parade, screaming children and barking dogs because people leave them home for most of the day, plus cafes and train tracks that are in bad need of work. Think we're getting good deals here haha.
The amount of discussions I have to hold because #Laravel devs don't want to write a read-only DTO somewhere, but instead add a dynamic property on some ActiveRecord contraption.
It's so exhausting, and it could be so simple, if it wasn't that the framework promotes terrifyingly bad software practices everywhere. #php
I took my final decision not to use Laravel unless absolutely needed (like paid for this) when I added lots of typehints, sent quite a large PR, and it was declined because "it's not needed at the moment". Then I said no, sorry not sorry. I like PHP's evolution, and writing in #PHP 5 style is something that doesn't inspire me.
The most interesting finding from using EVs in winter is not that they consume more energy (which they do), but that charging is really slow if you don't have battery preheating. Yesterday, I arrived at a 240 kW charger with 33% SoC, the outside temperature was 0°C, and the charging power was only 35 kW (the maximum charging power of the car is 118 kW). With this charging power, it would take 40 minutes to charge to 80% SoC. We don't mind too much because we primarily use the car as a city car and do 95% of our charging at home, but if you want to have an EV as your only car and drive long distances with it even in winter, definitely get one that has battery preheating.
Or plan a longer drive before the charging (ideally to arrive with lower state of charge). You can also warm up the battery by repeated acceleration and recuperation.
@ondra yes, you can improve it by this, but I drove 50km on highway speeding 120 km/h before charging, so it wasn't completely cold. I don't think you can get the battery to the ideal temperature range (25-30C) just by driving it when it's zero outside. I would definitely have gone down to a lower SoC if I could, but the next suitable charger was 50 km and I would arrive with like 5% SoC. While travelling with the family I rather play safe. And even with a lower SoC I don't think the charge power would go above 50 kW with a suboptimal battery temperature.
Wait, that's not standard? I was living under the wrong assumption that thermal control was one of the really intricate parts of EV battery packs and they're actively cooled & heated to keep them in the optimal temperature range
@Defolos thermal control which keeps it in safe range (operation/battery life) is standard, but not thermal control that keeps in the ideal temperature range although it's becoming standard with the newest EVs. We have a 2022 Audi Q4 e-tron and this model got preheating with the 2024 facelift. I wrote this as a warning that you may get a car with a large battery, but if it doesn't have preheating, it won't be a good car for long distances in winter.
@Defolos I have a car with battery preheating (Hyundai I5). But that's a Pyrrhic victory. It turns on automatically when it's freezing outside and the navigation system shows a charging station as the destination. But not when the destination is a square (where it's located). And it also turns on 30+ km before the destination. When I have a range of 40 km. So I wouldn't make it. God!!! A simple button would suffice.
@mirek @Defolos New Audi Q4 e-trons (2024 and later) have manual battery preheating. There isn't a button, but you can do it in the infotainment. It tells you how much energy it will consume and what charging boost it will provide, so you can make a decision if it's worth it.
For me the most annoying part is, that German cars only charge with this low rates. My company has an ID7 and when I first plugged it into an super charger of 400kw it was stuck at 156kwh, whilst the Smart 5 beside me used 350kwh. I thought I did something wrong and went to the other ID7 driver and asked him about it, he said 160kwh is max.
To be clear: ID7 is Germanys answer for long range business cars like Passat.
@tpheine Yeah, but at least it was close to its official maximum (170kW). It's a fairly reasonable charging rate given it's the 400V architecture. For a car that should be used for long distances I would go for the 800V architecture these days. E.g. Audi A6 e-tron isn't much more expensive than ID.7 and it can charge up to 280 kW. But VW has a strong position in enterprise fleets and IDs is usually all you can get. My sister is getting an ID.4 now.
Following the discourse in Germany on why Germans deny eCars, one issue is the long charging times for long distance travel. This comes from the enterprise fleets, which make up most of the new car sales of German cars.
And I never understood the discussion, until I used my companies ID7, which is Germany's top of the pops enterprise long range car, which needed 2x 30min stops for 500km.
4 people, wasting in total 4hrs paid by company. I understand companies.
@tpheine yes, it is still limiting, my brother-in-law drives to customers spread across the whole country and time is of essence. He says he still cannot afford an EV because of this, so he has a diesel Škoda Superb. I think this will be pretty much solved with the 800V architecture which is slowly getting into this segment. A good example of this is the new BMW iX3. Its drive range is over 500km even in winter, the maximum charging rate is 400 kW and can charge for 350km in 10 minutes. Once EVs with such parameters are more widespread, most of the opposition will disappear. It's already a completely different world than my 3-year-old Audi with 35kW charging in winter. 🙂
Ten paciencia cuando se confunde. No la apresures cuando tarda en recordar. No le quites valor a sus palabras cuando repite una historia que ya conoces. Porque antes que nada… sigue siendo tu madre. La misma que respondió tus preguntas una y otra vez sin cansancio. La que secó tus lágrimas, incluso cuando no había motivo. La que veló tu sueño cuando el cuerpo te ardía de fiebre y el mundo parecía demasiado grande para ti. Hoy sus pasos son más lentos, su memoria a veces se dispersa y su cuerpo se fatiga con facilidad. Pero su amor no ha cambiado. Ese amor sigue firme, atento, completo… como siempre lo fue. Hazla sentir importante. Hazle saber que su presencia cuenta, que su risa sigue teniendo lugar y que su vida no es una carga, sino un regalo. Abrázala sin prisa. Escúchala aunque repita. Quédate un poco más. Porque llegará un día en que ese lugar quedará vacío, y darías cualquier cosa por escucharla contar su historia una vez más. Ama hoy. Cuida hoy. Porque el amor que se posterga mañana pesa más de lo que imaginas. 🤍
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Now then, I wonder about the easiest way to run an agent like Claude Code in an isolated, sandboxed *Windows* development environment, as opposed to giving it access to my main box. Just because I'm giving up on strict abstinence, doesn't mean I'm going to be reckless.
I guess I should spin up a new Windows VM in VMware Workstation and install Visual Studio and Claude Code there.
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GitHub - mwcampbell/claude-a11y-test
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The spec for the program is also admittedly very much like the AccessKit winit example, with the notable exception that this program also draws a visual UI.
Considering that, it's a bit surprising that it didn't copy the winit example *more* closely. And as a result, there's at least one bug.
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