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sobchak

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    Rising Fuel Prices Are Making Return‑to‑Office Mandates Harder to Defend

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  • RTO is designed to "fire" only the least desperate employees.

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  • Specifically, I’d love to hear your thoughts on how to better optimize the context window limits when dealing with massive raw outputs (like huge DNS dumps or nmap scans) before feeding them back into the LLM’s memory.

    Launch a sub-agent that reports its findings back to the main orchestration agent. If it's even too long to fit in the sub-agent's context, you can chunk it up, have a sub-sub-agent per chunk report back to the sub-agent for a shorter summary, just the interesting lines per chunk, or "no relevant lines found" or whatever. Can get even fancier by allowing the sub agent to use tools like grep, head, tail, etc on the text to search it instead of reading the whole thing directly.

    Surprised you're not using LangChain/LangGraph as it makes some of the things you're doing easier. But it looks like you're vibecoding this anyways, so it's just doing whatever Claude Code or whatever decides to do. My suggestion would be to code it yourself with minimal AI assistance, as this will just turn into an unmaintainable mess as time goes on, and eventually, the AI coding agent will get stuck and be unable to really progress.

    Now that I think if it, you could probably get Claude Code or OpenCode to do everything this project can do by just installing all the tools needed in your environment, creating a new empty project, telling it what tools are available in your environment, allow it to download any other tools necessary, and prompting it to do the recon (may need to use an abliterate, heretic, or otherwise uncensored model to do some things).

  • hass-closest-intent: Fuzzy intent matcher for HomeAssistant. Garbled STT output in, actual intent out.

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  • Cloudflare to fire 1,100 staff whose jobs just aren’t AI enough

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  • Tons of people are getting fired because the owners think AI can replace them. Doesn't mean the AI can do the work properly, but they are getting fired anyway.

    I know a person that works at an AI startup and they convinced a company to replace their HR department with AI a while back. Funnily enough, that startup's "AI" is largely "Actually Indians." Their service is an agent that writes its own "tools" to solve problems/complete tasks, but the tools often don't work, so they have a large team of devs in India rewrite them or do the tasks.

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    Programming Still Sucks

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  • It's weird that the mass layoffs are happening during the bubble inflation this time now. That "techno-feudalism" idea really seems like where the world is heading. Doesn't matter if the products and services work or not, they still make money from the irrational stock market hype, lock-in and rent extraction, and governments.

  • Does an "if - else" statement always need the "else"?

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  • Yeah. Not necessarily applicable here, but in general, it's good practice to use guard clauses/early return when appropriate which don't have else (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guard_(computer_science)). Deep nesting is usually best avoided and a "code-smell" indicating that you may want to do something different.

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    "This could cost people their jobs": VS Code added Copilot as co-author without permission or notice

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  • AstroNvim is nice. It's an opinionated and pre-configured nvim distro, so you don't have to spend as much time finding the right plugins and configurations.

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    Building Websites With Lots of Little HTML Pages

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  • Yeah, for personal projects, I've been going back to just HTML, CSS, and some "HTML Web Components" for progressive enhancement where needed. The complicated build process and bloated frameworks of modern JS web development just feels wrong to me. JS has enough features now, where you don't even need libraries like JQuery.

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  • IDK, this post says "GPT-5.3-min" which is not an open-weight model AFAIK. Either way, everything is public on the Fediverse, so IDC very much. Specifically asking for political classification is a little bit weird though.

  • The coreutils Rust rewrite story

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  • I like C. Rust is better, but I like the simplicity of C too. C++ is an abomination :)

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  • I'm mostly just surprised that a mod would pay for tokens to moderate. The Fediverse is radically public by design, so I don't have any expectation of privacy. I'd bet at least someone is gobbling up the entire Fediverse to train AI, since companies are so desperate for new human-generated data.

  • Jensen Huang says Nvidia now has 'zero percent' market share in China — says US export policy 'has already largely backfired'

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  • I doubt it's the "culture." It's just that they used to specialize in making things for the lowest cost possible. That's changing bit by bit. DJI is best in class for example; no other consumer product comes close. They are also leading in many scientific fields.

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  • Can states not sue companies that accept payment from citizens within their state?

  • Insider trading was massively underestimated: 52% of ‘long shot’ Polymarket bets on military action were successful

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  • These markets were illegal for so long because they can easily turn into assassination markets with plausible deniability.

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    MIT AI expert warns automating Gen Z entry-level jobs could backfire—and cost companies their future workforce

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  • I think offshoring/nearshoring is booming right now. Tons of "Global Capability Centers" being built. It's even cheaper than H-1B.

  • Some Chicagoans aren't paying federal taxes in protest of Trump policies

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  • Some people consider what Rojava was as anarchist or at least anarchist-adjacent and considered it one of the closest models to what a large anarchist society could look like (it was recently dissolved by force by the new Syrian government). It had ~4 million people. The Zapatista territories consist of ~300k people and controls roughly half of the state of Chiapas (larger than some small countries).

  • Some Chicagoans aren't paying federal taxes in protest of Trump policies

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  • Some Chicagoans aren't paying federal taxes in protest of Trump policies

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  • "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."

  • Some Chicagoans aren't paying federal taxes in protest of Trump policies

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  • There's a lot of anarchist theory and practice. Some implementations have means against that kind of stuff. It's not like nobody ever thought about it.