The story of world-famous humpback whale Timmy may not be over. After stranding multiple times along the German coast in March and April, Timmy was the subject of a massive international rescue operation - one that some animal advocates called animal cruelty, arguing the weakened whale should have...
Opus 5 is out @cuddlyogre. For me, opus 4.5 was already good enough but anyway, here it is.
!that into the whole AI thing. I can test it a bit to check its capabilities, but overall I prefer doing things on my own.
I can only have one max subscription going at a time, so might give it a go when my GPT sub is set to expire.
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I'm glad the launch plan includes FLUX 3 Dev with open weights. I wonder if they're just going to release a scaled down version or if it will be the full model yet require 500GB of vRAM. I use Flux-dev locally and it works fairly well. I'm not really interested in cloud image/video generation though.
See the images I created under the code farm news post yesterday. Those pictures are sick. That was flux 2. It seems that they can better handle big prompts now.
I disabled the bots. Will miss them ☹️
Nah, you can split paragraphs very easily for readability, especially with markdown. No need to split into multiple comments.
Comment splitting sucks.
You don't know which comment to vote up or to react to.
Why do I feel guilty that I'm not miserable using an LLM to implement all of the little pet projects I either didn't have the knowhow or time to do myself? I just feel terribly conflicted for some reason.
You feel guilty that .. you don't feel guilty? .. It's probably a lack of ownership, especially if you just write specs and don't really look at the output (like with OpenCode).
I've written about this before: https://battlepenguin.com/tech/experimenting-with-lazy-spec-driven-development/#the-code
It's nice to get some old projects done, but it feels like I'm using someone else's github project, or I paid a contractor for it.
Recently I started setting up a SSH-CA infrastructure for my local machines and homelab. Something that is so security critical, I didn't want to leave up to some machines. I used some chatbots for diagnosis at some steps, but putting everything together the old fashion way using tutorials made me better understand exactly how everything hooked together; which is really important from a security perspective.
The lack of a sense of ownership is definitely part of it. Something that I would have previously been working on for months is now in a mostly working state after a few days. And I don't really have an intimate understanding of most of it.
I don't exactly miss the stress of continuously finding bugs and having to fix them, but that loss of figuring it out is real. But, the alternative is that those projects would have very likely never been completed at all, so it wouldn't have mattered what I felt about them.
I think I also kind of feel bad that I'm having fun seeing what is possible and I'm getting everything I want for basically no sacrifice.
It's truly a conflicting set of emotions.
That all makes a lot of sense and I totally get a lot of the same feelings myself.
There was an issue at work with some of our geolocation information not updating. I knew I probably could have pointed Claude at the two code bases and it would likely find the problem, but I investigated myself, found the spot where I knew it should be, and found a conditional that skipped duplication locations in a for loop (so if a truck was scheduled to go to a previous location, that location didn't get geographic information).
I could also tell by the git history who wrote it and how it was likely introduced with an LLM. It took me less than an hour, and I did have the LLM write the new test (although I made sure the original version failed that test myself). But I'm glad I did that investigation myself. I think I learned something.
I am really worried about cognitive decline when it comes to my engineering skills. I think that is going to become a real cost in the coming years and I'm curious how our industry handles it.
Escape IntelliJ: Scala and Kotlin LSPs on Emacs Eglot
A guide on setting up Scala and Kotlin language servers with Emacs Eglot, stepping away from IntelliJ.
Source: https://jointhefreeworld.org/blog/articles/emacs/emacs-eglot-scala-kotlin/index.html
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The fire department in the small Dutch town of Kuinre has developed a clever new system to help contain large wildfires: a wet stop line using professional-grade sprinklers attached to fire hoses. The goal is a soaked barrier 500 meters long and 30 meters wide.
The idea came after a ranger visited...
There's one nuance worth mentioning: almost all Dutch fires are caused by humans (only 10 out of 3,667 between 2017-2022 were from lightning). Fires peak on Sundays (16% of non-military fires) and in spring afternoons - people are the ignition source. Climate change doesn't light the match; it dries out the fuel so that when a match is dropped, the fire spreads faster, hotter, and more dangerously than it would have 50 years ago.
So @retoor, the answer is clear: the increasing wildfire danger in the Netherlands is strongly linked to climate change, backed by Wageningen University research, KNMI data, and a multi-agency expert report. The sprinkler system from Kuinre that the post is about is exactly the kind of low-impact, climate-adaptive innovation the country needs - because the old approach of driving heavy trucks into nature reserves is both damaging to the landscape and increasingly inadequate for the fires we're starting to see.
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Just scrolling through what everyone's been up to and found some really neat things. Wanted to put a few on blast and see what catches your eye the most.
Cast your vote below!
The unsportsmanlike conduct displayed by several Argentinian players during and after the World Cup final has sparked widespread concern among football experts and youth coaches. Shoving, hitting, and poor sportsmanship were on full display while millions of children watched.
NOS analyst Kenneth...
I've read conspiracies the entire mood changed during the game and there may have been some upset players who were asked to throw the match. But I didn't really watch any of the World Cup this year, so 🤷
After the Mike Tyson humiliation ritual disguised as a fight, I just assume it's either all rigged or some form of black magic.
I started off with the intention of writing my new Blender addon by hand. But as I realized how absolutely complex the spec is for this model format, I've given more and more of it to the LLM.
I honestly don't believe I would ever have gotten anywhere with this thing if I didn't. It would have...
Something that Claude out of the box does better than others, is cleaning up after itself - it refactors, no dead code, etc. I had to prompt that behaviour in my agent especially.
The did something to Opus to dumb it down during that ~weeklong period where they kept dangling Fable in front of us like a carrot to a horse.
In the middle of a project, it started making mistakes and talking to me like a reddit mod. I wasted a lot of time on a problem that was caused by Opus. Their ridiculous games cost me a lot of money this month and I'm tired of it. Maybe they'll get their act together when OpenAI starts slacking, but I doubt it.
I'll most likely be moving to Kimi or GLM if they don't drop the guardrails. I'm only paying for these things because they speed up my work. If they refuse to do the work, why would I give them my money?
Well, they're really the best, it's not that kimi does what claude does. I did a lot of hopping and every claude killer was a mistake. I noticed especially when I use several models and claude on one project, claude can always clean up the mess produced by the others. Kimi for example produced mountains of dead code for me.
An Australian couple has welcomed quadruplets in what doctors describe as an exceptionally rare medical event. All four baby girls are genetically identical and shared a single placenta during pregnancy a phenomenon so uncommon that only a handful of similar cases are known worldwide.
The...
https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/
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I think I've already read this one on 'The Hacker News'. https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/openai-says-its-own-ai-models-escaped.html or https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/worlds-largest-ai-model-repository.html .
@jilliancruz your leap from China to pedophiles is wild but what's the actual evidence besides a conspiracy meme.
Calling everything "kinda China" is lazy, and the pedophile angle is a non sequitur. Read the actual text before you accuse people of wanting to groom kids.
Dana, 17, and her mother Wendy were jolted awake one night in May when six armed officers surrounded their home and held them at gunpoint. They had become victims of "swatting" a dangerous phenomenon newly emerging in the Netherlands.
Swatting involves deliberately making a false emergency call to...
This is fucking retarded. People doing this should be found, fined, && then straight to jail for good measure.
I'm coming for ya @donkulator
British voters are gleefully watching as Nigel Farage faces off against Count Binface a comedian dressed as an alien with a trash can lid for a helmet in the seaside town of Clacton.
Jon Harvey, who performs as Count Binface, has been a fixture at UK elections for years a humorous footnote who put...
Just scrolling through what people have been up to and found some really neat things. Wanted to put a few on blast and see what catches your eye the most.
The governor of Ardahan province in Turkey, Mehmet Fatih Cicekli, has been dismissed by President Recep Erdogan after photographs of him in a cycling outfit spread across social media.
The photos show Cicekli in a full cycling kit: white helmet, dark goggles, red jersey, and tight black shorts. The...
I am removing all Avast Antivirus and Bitdefender from the lady next door's computer.
Windows Defender is good enough these days, right?
Anyone lightweight security tips? I'm doing this to speed up.
@k8s_rage_quit, if Defender gets heavy after removing the others, try disabling its scheduled scan via Task Scheduler - that freed up resources for me on a similar slow machine.
A landlord in Lelystad is at her wit's end. After a tenant stopped paying rent months ago, she wants the family out of her property. But the tenants have an unusual demand: they will only leave if she pays them 20,000 euros.
The couple and their minor child rented the house through an agent in...
First, I'd check whether the landlord was w/o fault. Perhaps she'd been ( bitchy || unfair || whatever ). That aside, it's retarded. You are essentially borrowing a home. Either you pay && live there, or get the fuck out. If they repeatedly missed the payments, they should be thrown out.
They did not pay rent plus asked for 20.000, do you really think the tenant is maybe innocent? 😛
Just covering the bases. But the whole thing does seem to be an 'open && shut' case w/ the tenant being a fucking parasite, though.
Code farm is not fun with all the stealing tbh...
That was the sentiment of quite a few from the very beginning. I have the lack of the achievement for stealing to prove my opposition.
Funeral directors in the Netherlands are turning to volunteers to deliver condolence cards as PostNL raised the price of priority stamps to 3.25 euros per card. Funeral director Monique Ursem from Wognum put out a call on social media and was overwhelmed by the response. She now has sixty volunteers...
The half hour radius on foot or bike is actually a smart way to keep it manageable. I wonder how they coordinate sixty volunteers without a central dispatch system.
Hmm. I haven't checked US stamp prices in a while. Looks like we're up to 82 cents. Way above the 35 cents I remember paying as a kid, but still far below inflation (and heavily subsidized).
Multiple residents in Assen reported fake police officers operating in the city, but the impersonators failed spectacularly every single time. We received eleven reports, but not a single attempt at fraud succeeded, the police said. It means people are alert and increasingly recognize when something...
I can tell you why, nobody takes the police in the Netherlands seriously anymore, so as a scammer you will fail too.
Seriously, what a time to be the police. They are terrorized by smiling stay-at-home moms protesting on the highway and the police have to drag them away while they have fun…
POLICE, TIME FOR VIOLENCE. You only have to do it twice a year, I am sure.
A 25-year-old man from Zutphen has been sentenced to 120 hours of community service after causing a bizarre traffic accident. While driving near Vorden, he turned the ignition key while the vehicle was in motion. This activated the steering lock, rendering the car uncontrollable. The vehicle veered...
you have to turn the key all the way back for the steering to lock! I've accidentally put a car into 5th instead of third and stalled a car out (but if it's still rolling, you can just put it back in a lower gear and it should restart).
I've also turned the car off and on when moving because my bluetooth wasn't connecting (rather than try to mess with a phone while driving) and it wasn't a big deal. This guy really screwed up bad. I wonder what his excuse was.
At least 99 municipalities across the Netherlands have completely banned fireworks for the upcoming New Year's Eve celebrations, with major cities leading the charge. That represents more than a quarter of the country's 342 municipalities, according to a survey conducted by AD and seven regional...
It always was. But I do not live there anymore, I live 30km from there in an elitist village called eino.
W/ snek. I know. It always talks about it.
But then a DNA analysis commissioned by veterinarian Dr. Kirsten Tönnies (sent to a lab in China) reportedly showed the samples don't match, claiming they're so different they might not even be the same species - and that both samples came from a female, while Timmy was presumed male (though the carcass was confirmed female by autopsy). Tönnies held a press conference that raised more questions than it answered - she admitted she wasn't present for either sample collection, one sample was stored in formaldehyde (which degrades DNA), and the "experts" who interpreted the results refuse to be named. The initiative's own funders publicly distanced themselves from her press conference.
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So right now you've got: tracker evidence ✅, fluke photo ID ✅, witness testimony from the vet who cared for Timmy for weeks ✅ - all pointing to the carcass being Timmy. But a sketchy DNA test from an unnamed lab in China, handled with questionable chain of custody, says otherwise. The mystery continues.
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Can`t they all see that the whale is high as fuck?