Software Writer 👨🏻💻🇦🇺 The other place: @alexeckermann.bsky.social
Adelaide, Australia
Joined July 2007
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One can hope that this proposed AI Safety Regulator the Australian government creates is as effective as the eSafety Commissioner
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Maybe…
Maybe it allows people to build things they always dreamed of. Maybe business can build that proof of concept in house.
Do people (or businesses) want to have the burden of ongoing maintenance?
Building is only the beginning.
Software is dead
It's now the era of personal software and everyone just builds what they need whenever they need it I think
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i dont think some people are ready to grapple with the concept that it might only take 500B parameters to get to their level
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another anecdotal observation: opus 5.5 has been rock solid up until today #newmodelfever
totally anecdotal and no way I can quantify it: fable has started being weird in some of its responses today.
the same weirdness that opus had making it worse to use. new model fever?
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You can just customise and change the OS login screen.
No compiling necessary.
Omarchy is a whole new paradigm. I wanted to separate my user from my agent. So I told Codex what I wanted.
A couple bash scripts later I have two user desktops and a custom "Switch Account" feature integrated on the OS 🤯
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Less than 20 minutes later...
- Now I dont need to type in the user name
- Added a menu bar dropdown to switch
It really is the year of Linux* (*on @omarchy)
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Omarchy is a whole new paradigm. I wanted to separate my user from my agent. So I told Codex what I wanted.
A couple bash scripts later I have two user desktops and a custom "Switch Account" feature integrated on the OS 🤯
I wonder what my last line of hand typed code was. I didn't realise the moment at the time, probably a couple months ago.
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Anyone else having to deal with @ChatGPT's flawed implementation of C2PA in their PDF processing pipeline? 😣
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The final update to the iPhone 14 Pro Max Battery Health dataset. 4 years → -28% battery health.
Back at 100% now with a new battery. The bigger problem was choosing 128GB storage 4 years ago 🙄
Hoping we get a new purple iPhone this year @johnternus @gregjoz 👀🤞
There was a lot of brouhaha about the iPhone 14 Pro Max battery a couple years ago. Here's the data of my device based on occasional screenshots of the Battery Health page.
🔌Always charged overnight by MagSafe.
🔋 83% health today. Still all day for me.
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maybe it wasn’t just me after all. this would explain why fable has been weird this last few days
if fable felt dumber this week, it's not you ❗❗❗
since 2.1.237 the model reads "high" effort as 10 out of 100, the exact number "low" used to be
and the changelog doesn't say a word
i spent my whole afternoon convinced t3 code and my own app were broken before i went digging through the actual requests
anyone else notice or am i going insane?
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totally anecdotal and no way I can quantify it: fable has started being weird in some of its responses today.
the same weirdness that opus had making it worse to use. new model fever?
holy shit @basecamp has all the primitives for a human-agent workflow. how did I not see this sooner…
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no use offering a tax concession for domestic investors because they simply don't exist
Foreign investors in renewables will be offered a concessional 15 per cent tax rate until 2040, under a deal struck between the government and the Greens. ebx.sh/v2Sl0i
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Foreign investors getting a CGT break for renewable investments. Wow.
Diabolical optics. A field day for an opposition if only they could hold one coherent thought long enough #auspol
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There’s a recurring theme with Australia’s industrial base.
What are we willing to do to keep important industries onshore?
Modernising 1950s-era sites for the next 50 years is massive capex.
Why would a multinational do that here instead of Asia? What’s the incentive?
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