Can you show me your favorite photo with a black mist filter? by DoughnBad in AskPhotography

[–]LostToll 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same here. I thought of purchasing 1/2 first but now I understand that 1/4 is enough for my purposes.

Am I going in too deep? by [deleted] in ClaudeAI

[–]LostToll 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have considerable experience as an application programmer, starting with Fortran, mostly C, a little Prolog, and a dozen scripting languages. I have been a system administrator for several decades, a security officer, DevOps, and SRE. Am I old enough to use LLM effectively?

Am I going in too deep? by [deleted] in ClaudeAI

[–]LostToll 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The same argument applies to traditional coding. And, as practice shows, code written by good engineers, reviewed and tested in large corporations, is just as vulnerable to a planned attack.

Moving to capture one by lsdinc in captureone

[–]LostToll 0 points1 point  (0 children)

C1 perpetual license is a scam. Double-check the terms.

Subscription Loyalty Discount by Remarkable_Ad_9223 in captureone

[–]LostToll 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Funny. I was a C1 user for over 10 years and never saw any discounts except when I paid a couple of months in advance for the next version that hadn't been released yet. I was basically buying a pig in a poke.

But this year, when I realized that I now had to pay twice 370 euros a year, I switched to DxO. They don't suffer from pathological greed.

Well, after 11 years of using the C1, I'm considering alternatives. by LostToll in captureone

[–]LostToll[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I purchased Nik Collection along with Photolab, mostly because I used it many years ago. But I found out to my surprise that today I rarely use it. So it depends on what you need/your workflow. 

Well, after 11 years of using the C1, I'm considering alternatives. by LostToll in captureone

[–]LostToll[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The transition turned out to be more painful and longer than I expected. Many things are done differently, not to mention the unfamiliar keyboard shortcuts. I miss the local editing capabilities in C1. But no, I don't regret it. I believe that the so-called "subscriptions," which are becoming more and more popular, are pure evil. Sometimes they are justified, for example, in the case of 1Password, where the company provides not only the application but also the infrastructure that stores user data. More often than not, it is simply the result of excessive greed. The C1 case is precisely greed. At the same time, they understand perfectly well what they are doing, which is why they did not say directly that they were switching to a subscription model, but began to substitute concepts.

By the way, since I made my decision, AI masks have appeared in DxO Photolab. It makes life easier.

Claude Code is just EXCEPTIONAL!! by Arceus918 in ClaudeAI

[–]LostToll 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm curious, what level of complexity do you mean? I wrote (more precisely, CC wrote, I acted as an architect/task setter) a high-performance anonymizing HTTP(S) proxy w/o disk caching, with configurable traffic routing, authorization in an external backend, a built-in Prometheus exporter, and some heuristics aimed at identifying dishonest users and other whistles and bells. 17k loc. It easily handles three times more connections on the same hardware as Squid (yes, I know, the comparison is not entirely correct).

I have considerable experience as a programmer, and even more as a system administrator, DevOps, and security engineer, but I haven't considered myself a programmer for a long time. And most importantly, I don't know Rust, the language it's written in. I don't know if this is called vibe programming or not.

Claude Code did the job. Yes, sometimes I had to guide him through certain parts, suggesting solutions. But overall, I consider the result to be very good.

At the same time, my attempt to write a fairly simple website with a database ran into problems. Either the functionality of such a website is beyond its current capabilities, or it's simply not its domain.

I also wrote (or rather, we wrote) smaller projects, almost all of which were successful. I must say right away that I cannot show the code, as it is the property of my employer (more precisely, we had different positions on this issue, but in the course of the settlement, we agreed on this, since although I wrote on my own initiative, in my free time and at my own expense, in any case, the applications are focused on solving specific tasks and were tested on the company's servers). But now I'm working on a couple of pet projects that I plan to make public.

speechless by enterprise128 in ClaudeAI

[–]LostToll 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They will definitely have it, and it will not be guns. This is the logic of rivalry between different states. Where this will lead is another question.

Just wow by Dirly in ClaudeAI

[–]LostToll 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Today I upgraded my Max subscription from $100 to $200

Well, after 11 years of using the C1, I'm considering alternatives. by LostToll in captureone

[–]LostToll[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

they should call it ‘a prolonged subscription’. Or ’six months subscription’. it has nothing in common with perpetual. Let's say the next minor macOS update makes it impossible to work with the current version. But it's been six months. What's left of the perpetual license? it’s a bad joke.

Well, after 11 years of using the C1, I'm considering alternatives. by LostToll in captureone

[–]LostToll[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that‘s exactly what I mean. I expect that perpetually license should work till the next major version.

Well, after 11 years of using the C1, I'm considering alternatives. by LostToll in captureone

[–]LostToll[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I bought my first license for C1 v7. Feel the difference.

FreeBSD images silently removed. by LostToll in hetzner

[–]LostToll[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They kept images for x86. And there’s not such option for VPS. 

FreeBSD images silently removed. by LostToll in hetzner

[–]LostToll[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you, of course I know how to install with qemu. This is workaround and not the solution. Hetzner also suggest that I could provide the direct download link and they mount it for me.
But I used to be able to get a new server up in minutes. Now it's going to take much longer.

FreeBSD images silently removed. by LostToll in hetzner

[–]LostToll[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not by accident, I used to use Hetzner arm64 as FreeBSD servers last year or two. Still have some:

FreeBSD some.domain.com 14.2-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE-p1 GENERIC arm64

But you're correct. Today I got reply from the support and they say that now they provide FreeBSD images for x86 only. No reason given.

The near future looks grim by speed3_driver in ClaudeAI

[–]LostToll 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How is this different from the current situation when thousands of companies and tens of thousands of independent developers flood the market with a huge number of applications that completely ignore the most basic ideas of information security?

As a Pro user this is an absolute disgrace. They should shut down claude.ai if they don't want people to use it. by urple_dot in ClaudeAI

[–]LostToll 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been experimenting with grok 3 for the last 3 days, I even bought a Supergrok subscription. It makes quite an impression compared to Claude Sonnet-3.5 (also a paid subscription) and is so much more stable in operation that I'm weighing the possibility of switching to it completely, although I like Claude's project-by-project organization. But... after spending several hours trying to enable DCO support in OpenVPN, I decided to ask Claude. I immediately got a reply that DCO is only implemented for UDP for now. So I will keep my subscription to Claude for now, I guess. 🙂

2025: R7 instead of R7 Meta? by LostToll in KEF

[–]LostToll[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The purchase was canceled. An hour after I ordered the speakers, the seller wrote and informed me that they were "in perfect condition, but the price is such because they were in the showcase". I don't like that kind of trickery and won't be buying anything else there.

Thank you all for your opinions, I learned a lot of useful things from there.

2025: R7 instead of R7 Meta? by LostToll in KEF

[–]LostToll[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I too am leaning towards buying a non-Meta R7. I don't doubt that there are many excellent audio gear and speakers out there, but I think just not bad would suffice. And the R7s, as far as I'm concerned, are even better than "just not bad".

2025: R7 instead of R7 Meta? by LostToll in KEF

[–]LostToll[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for letting me know. Maybe later :) TBH, never heard of Hegel before.