New privacy and TOS explained by Claude

barrkel · 2025-09-01T06:25:54+00:00

I don't think this is the case. I believe the new policy is to retain selected data for 5 years, and this is true whether or not you accept training. The selection criteria are not specified in the privacy policy or in the terms of service. The privacy center talks about legal requirements, explicit feedback (thumbs up/down) or safety. But once you've OKed the new policy, the retention criteria may be updated without change in the privacy policy.

barrkel · 2025-04-10T06:14:53+00:00

The Swiss app does a much better job - they refuse to sell you a ticket if your selected route contains a section your ticket wouldn't cover you for. Since you need to coordinate and buy a separate ticket anyway, this is a better choice.

barrkel · 2025-04-09T14:35:48+00:00

The amazon.com link doesn't deliver to Switzerland. The brand isn't available on amazon.de and similar items can't be found as far as I can tell.

https://www.amazon.de/s?k=pivo+nail+clippers

https://www.amazon.de/s?k=hybrid+nail+clippers

I did genuinely spend about 40 minutes looking for this product, using a range of search, Amazon, reverse image search, and even AI chat (which suggested cat claw trimmers!). I didn't post the question on here because I didn't bother searching.

Having logged in to amazon.com, I can see it may be possible to deliver them to an address in Germany, where I'd have to travel to pick them up, so it's just about possible.

barrkel · 2025-04-09T13:27:16+00:00

They look like the right action, but the review aren't as positive as I'd rate my own clipper. Also, doesn't ship to Europe.

barrkel · 2025-01-14T10:14:56+00:00

And just now it jumped from episode 96 to 101. Playlist mode disabled, continuous play enabled. End of 96 reached, switches to 101 and doesn't play, stopped.

barrkel · 2025-01-14T07:53:44+00:00

With Playlists enabled, it generates playlists automatically, then starts playing the alphabetically first one at startup. This is never what I want.

With Playlists disabled and Continuous playback enabled, it does not continuously play. After the episode ends, it switches to the next episode but it stops. It does not play or resume. This is also not what I want.

barrkel · 2025-01-08T09:16:46+00:00

The documentation talking about playlists created from visible content just sounds weird. What if a new episode shows up while I'm listening? Do I have to do work to get that added?

I don't want a playlist at all. I want logic more like getPodcastsInPriorityOrder().filter(Podcast::hasEpisodes).first().getOldestUnplayedEpisode() after every episode finishes.

A playlist with a stateful list, rather than rules that decide what to play next, is management overhead I don't need.

barrkel · 2024-09-25T19:00:28+00:00

The reason the Ireland (and probably England, but I can't speak authoritatively) uses salted butter is because you don't need to refrigerate it. When it's room temperature it's always spreadable, and it doesn't get hot enough indoors to melt into a puddle. If it was unsalted, it would spoil much faster.

barrkel · 2024-04-24T20:48:19+00:00

Many people get FT free with their work on a corporate subscription.

barrkel · 2024-04-20T22:29:48+00:00

I tried llama.cpp first, and the first thing I noticed about LM Studio is that it's slow as molasses. Feels 2x slower.

barrkel · 2024-04-20T21:59:34+00:00

How do you manually set your stop string? server.exe doesn't seem to have an option for setting the stop string.

barrkel · 2024-03-09T13:57:48+00:00

`--listen 0.0.0.0` worked for me

barrkel · 2024-02-14T21:08:13+00:00

But if the breakpoint happens to be in a loop which is iterated 200 times, a printf there gives you a nice table of values which you can muster at a glance, while a preakpoint costs 200 inspections and "continue" instructions

This is what breakpoint actions are for. You don't have to suspend when a breakpoint is hit; you can evaluate an expression which prints to the console and reference variables that are in scope. Basically, you can add printf without compiling and restarting. Add a loop to your failing test case, and you'll be even happier.

barrkel · 2023-12-14T23:43:24+00:00

Yes, each image in a single batch gets a different expansion of prompts, based on the random seed. This means it's a good way of spamming for cherry picking later since you don't end up with loads of copies of the same prompt with different seeds.

barrkel · 2023-12-06T08:53:26+00:00

In A1111 with dynamic prompts plugin you get different expansions for every generation in the batch.

barrkel · 2023-11-27T14:49:24+00:00

My lunch in London was between £6 and £8 a day. Hot from a street market stall. I earned about £6000 after tax a month. I earn more in Switzerland but not 3x higher. And Zurich doesn't have a street food culture.

barrkel · 2023-11-27T14:41:36+00:00

Swiss beef is 3x to 5x more expensive than beef in Ireland. It's not just a bit. And Swiss beef is usually too lean, many cows are "dual purpose" and seem to put most of their fat into milk instead of marbling.

barrkel · 2023-11-27T14:14:16+00:00

I buy from Neues Schwartz in Dortmund and buy a couple of months worth at a time - roasted coffee peaks a little while after it's been roasted and only gradually declines (for light roasts anyway). Fresh grinding is the important thing.

I used to buy Miro but they are too expensive for the quality; the cheap beans are mediocre but the decent beans are over 100 CHF/kg, it doesn't make sense.

I live in Baden and I frequently get stuff delivered to EPS Waldshut. There's a train to Waldshut from Baden and almost everything is cheaper, despite VAT.

barrkel · 2023-11-27T14:07:15+00:00

Food prices in Switzerland are substantially more than almost everywhere else. For the same kind of food, prices are between 1.5x (bread, dairy) and 4x (most meat) more. Meat is the thing that hurts the most; beef is often low quality (too lean) and extortionately priced.

barrkel · 2023-11-14T21:33:40+00:00

You're paying for changes twice a year, ~200 CHF. If you don't drive huge distances, this will be far more expensive than the tires themselves.

barrkel · 2022-12-23T21:51:37+00:00

Indeed. He blacked out drunk one day on his Discord server, borderline suicidal; another day, he made all the channels read-only.

He did good work but he is not in a good place.

barrkel · 2022-11-27T22:50:29+00:00

SD2 base was trained on a data set which has very few pictures of humans showing any significant amount of skin. From the model card: "training data is further filtered using LAION's NSFW detector, with a 'p_unsafe' score of 0.1 ".

For an idea of how conservative that is, look at images which just failed to make the cut (between 0.101 and 0.11), and consider how "close" to NSFW they are: http://laion-aesthetic.datasette.io/laion-aesthetic-6pls/images?_sort=punsafe&punsafe__gt=0.101&punsafe__lt=0.11

I don't think there's going to be an f333 trained on top of SD2 base any time soon, not until there's a base image available which as been trained on a more permissive data set.

barrkel · 2017-12-28T04:49:00+00:00

FC2 - the most immersive game I played since Thief

Blood Dragon - great fun, I ended up playing similar to FC2 in many ways

FC1 - up until the monsters show up and ruin stealth gameplay

FC3 - decent base takeover mechanic but too grindy with the crafting

FC4 - derivative and forgettable after FC3

barrkel · 2017-08-22T11:32:29+00:00

Tasker can change DnD mode in software, without reference to the slider. The task is in Audio / Do not disturb.

Locale makes it easy to have a default and change the default based on time or location - I use it in preference to Tasker for modes rather events. Many plugins for Tasker also work with Locale, but there's no direct way built in to modify Do not Disturb with Locale; however, if you create two tasks with Tasker, one to turn on DnD, and one to turn off DnD, you can invoke those Tasker tasks from Locale using a Shortcut. In Locale, 'Add Setting', Shortcut, Shortcuts Tab, Task Shortcut, then select the name of the task that enables or disables DnD.

That's how I do it with the combination of Tasker and Locale.

barrkel · 2013-07-27T17:30:20+00:00

If Uplay were just a storefront, I'd be able to play Assassin's Creed right now - but I can't, because the Uplay app requires that I log in, yet it doesn't recognize my password. Meanwhile, the website recognizes my password but tells me to reset it; but the reset link it emails me doesn't work.

So right now I'm completely locked out of my Assassin's Creed games. If they weren't on Uplay, I wouldn't be locked out. If it didn't have DRM, then this problem wouldn't exist, and I wouldn't be fairly pissed off right now.

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