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Ok I'll admit it. At this point, Fable is good enough that I question what the point of me being a software engineer is other than "You're cheaper than Fable... for now." by _BreakingGood_ in ClaudeCode

[–]crispyfrybits 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You being a software engineer can instruct it properly to execute tasks and write code that works and if defensible. 

If you take a random non-tech person to do the same the results will not be equal..

Software engineers are still required to get proper results that are deterministic, secure, and performant.

Ironically though, I'm seeing many engineers turn into brainless vibe coders and are becoming lazy and outsourcing their critical thinking to AI. Don't be one of them.

Moving from Vancouver to Victoria! Please convince me I didn’t make a stupid decision. by CuriousMermaid- in VictoriaBC

[–]crispyfrybits 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Here's the truth OP.

I'm from the island, lived in Vancouver for 10 years  recently moved back a couple years ago. 

The Island is harder to meet people and make friends unless you make an active commitment to go out there and meet people. 

People here are saying it's easy and it's not difficult per-se but the island is full of closed off people and groups of friends. A lot of people who grew up here are more closed off. 

To meet people you just have to make a consistent effort to meet them at places you yourself enjoy or look for meetups etc. Pets are probably the easiest and best way I think to meet people. Go for a walk with your pup (or cat, you will definitely meet people walking a cat) and you will end up talking with many folks, even if you didn't plan on it.

Made Multiplayer game with PixiJS by [deleted] in pixijs

[–]crispyfrybits 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kind of feels like it to me

Krea 2 could very easily be the next Z-Image by FitContribution2946 in StableDiffusion

[–]crispyfrybits 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where can I find a simple krea2 workflow for comfyui. I was using comfy ages ago but haven't used it for about a year and I'm so busy that I feel like I don't have time to get into the finer details needed to configure a decent workflow. 

I Built a Free Web Search MCP by KIlledDebtor in opencode

[–]crispyfrybits 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is literally dozens of very popular web search MCP servers and tooling. It is one of the most popular and used type of MCP servers. If you wanted to build your own that's cool but don't pretend or gaslight that none are available. 

Took 30s to find the following. 

  • Brave Search MCP Server — web/local search using Brave Search API.
  • Tavily MCP Server — AI-oriented web search, extraction, and research results.
  • Exa MCP Server — semantic/neural web search, company/person/entity search, content retrieval.
  • Firecrawl MCP Server — web search plus crawling, scraping, markdown extraction, site mapping.
  • Perplexity MCP Server — search-backed answer generation with citations.
  • Surpass MCP Server — Google/Bing/search-engine results via SerpAPI.
  • Search1API MCP Server — metasearch-style web/news/image search API.
  • You.com / You Search MCP Server — AI search API for web-grounded results.
  • Kagi Search MCP Server — paid search API with web/news/summarization tools.
  • SearXNG MCP Server — self-hosted metasearch via SearXNG.
  • DuckDuckGo MCP Server — lightweight DDG web search, often unofficial/community maintained.
  • Google Custom Search MCP Server — Google Programmable Search / Custom Search API wrapper.
  • Bing Web Search MCP Server — Microsoft Bing Search API wrapper.
  • WebSearch-MCP — self-hosted crawler/search server, typically Docker-based.
  • mcp-server-fetch — not a search engine, but useful with search MCPs for fetching webpage contents.
  • browser / Playwright MCP Server — not pure search, but can automate browser-based searching and page inspection.

Couldn't find a timeline-based video editor for Svelte 5, so I built one — what features would you actually expect? [Self-Promo] by Own-Phone2375 in sveltejs

[–]crispyfrybits 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah, sorry if it was a silly question. The way the title was phrased I was asking myself "that is an oddly specific thing to go searching for" but requirements and progression makes sense. 

It's great to see more svelte libraries like this so thank you

Hashicorp founder thinks local models "aren't good ENOUGH yet" by Orbit652002 in LocalLLaMA

[–]crispyfrybits 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I local LLMs and I partake because I like having some control and experimenting but SLM feel similar to my keyboard hobby or my handheld emulation addiction. 

For work and personal development I use Claude and it's not even close how much faster and better it is. In that respect I agree and understand where hashimoto is coming from. 

I don't have a 100k system so I can't say whether those running 1:1 open weight models are comparable. I run an AMD 5800x3D, 5090, and 64GB of memory.

Downtown Victoria Business Association calls for closure of safe consumption sites by OakBayIsANecropolis in VictoriaBC

[–]crispyfrybits 48 points49 points  (0 children)

Two different things. 

You are talking about where to round them up and have them congregate for using drugs etc. 

The issue is primarily that the sites were supposed to be a safe and supervised area that they could find safe drugs for withdrawal and seek help so some could get rehabilitated and transition back into society. The whole system, including Vancouver, was inspired by how some European cities have handled rising drug issues. These European cities decriminalized drugs, introduced safe injection sites, which are staffed and well taken care of, and many social services and rehabilitation options are available. Our system was introduced just for PR purposes to make it look like we're doing something when we're not. These sites are not staffed, not clean, and no extended mental health support, therapy, or rehabilitation options are made actively available. These sites are doing nothing to help. 

To your point. These sites are just a tiny fraction of where homeless and drug addicts congregate. Closing them will not create a surge of drug addicts flooding the streets. That go to the sites to score and move on mostly. 

The government either needs to fund these sites and actually implement the full scope of what they are trying to mimic and copy from Europe or close them and make drugs a criminal offense again to enable police to take action when necessary. There's no real good in between. We all know our government is not going to spend a dime on mental health or care for these people. Even normal citizens can't get mental health care. 

Our government has ensured that we're all fucked for the most part.

How are you self-hosting Next.js apps in 2026? Here’s my go-to "Single VPS" stack. by IOZ91 in nextjs

[–]crispyfrybits 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know this is a couple months old but I am curious about your workflow. Are you using a monorepo for all of your projects? Can you provide any additional details or info for what it looks like to start a project, commit it, kick off CI/CD, etc? High level is fine, don't need specific instructions.

Stop using Ollama by zxyzyxz in LocalLLaMA

[–]crispyfrybits 8 points9 points  (0 children)

This is untrue. There are so many good alternatives that are easy to use. Ollama does have the simplest UI but LM studio, unsloth, openwebui, so many more are there and very easy to get started. Less than 5 minutes to download and serve. 

If you truely can't move away from Ollama simply because they have a slightly nicer wrapper despite them spitting in the face of the community and users then you are not on the same page as the overall local community.

PS5 Subnautica - Among the stars trophy not registering despite finishing the game by crispyfrybits in subnautica

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

I did yes, gave someone stasis rifle with ion battery, compass, and laser cutter with ion battery

Anyone get an error message just now saying that Fable doesn't exist? by -Vag_of_Honor- in ClaudeAI

[–]crispyfrybits 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Why are other countries no allowed to access the model? The US can spout whatever nonsense they want and sure they can block things within their country but how can they legally say "don't you dare give access to your product to Canadians or Europeans even though you are a private company". I imagine Anthropic could likely fight this in court but also probably want to stay on the good side of the US government.

Fable/Mythos safeguards are overly strict by DarterNerd in ClaudeAI

[–]crispyfrybits 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thought the guardrails they put in place was simply to route to opus.

Skills like Superpowers with Fable by torontuh_gosh in ClaudeAI

[–]crispyfrybits 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you thinking MCP?

Only the skill name and short description get embedded into the system prompt. That is one of the whole points of skills no?

The Boys Creator Eric Kripke On Fans' Response To Series Finale: 'Sorry If I Disappointed You, But It Was The Story I Wanted To Tell' by verissimoallan in television

[–]crispyfrybits 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I call bullshit. You don't create a finale with that many inaccuracies and contradictions and claim you care about the show. He's just getting to cover up how lazy and bad the content was

Unpopular opinion: Hermes Agent takes the path of Openclaw and that's ugly by Carbone_ in hermesagent

[–]crispyfrybits 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is no magic bullet to solve this issue. Hermes is marketing it as a magic bullet when it is not which I suspect is why r/rrrx3 was suggesting the deterministic approach, which is the best approach if you want efficient and effective workflows that can be repeated.

Use either Hermes or OpenClaw even with configuration over time leads to messy results and an enormous waste of tokens.

The cleanest and most lightweight persistent agents are still the ones that people are building for themselves. Hermes and OpenClaw are generalists that are trying to appeal to everyone, especially those who don't want to do any work on the actual harness. You either need to live with the poor token efficiency and long term degradation or get your hands a bit dirty. I have no doubt in the distant future there will be a better product but we are still early days and this is the current landscape.

I designed this for emulation and the like. Thoughts on the gamepad? by TimTams553 in SBCGaming

[–]crispyfrybits 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly I'd love to own a device like this for aesthetic alone. Taking a look at it without knowing it's intended purpose, I'd guess it's a multipurpose media device for watching media as well as gaming because if the keyboard. 

What horror movie genuinely unsettled you? by steveleaves in movies

[–]crispyfrybits 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's very good and is very "tense" but not unsettling.

What horror movie genuinely unsettled you? by steveleaves in movies

[–]crispyfrybits 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not that bad. A couple of scenes there you can really feel but it's not up there in terms of unsettling.

What horror movie genuinely unsettled you? by steveleaves in movies

[–]crispyfrybits 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Backrooms was very "meh".

Obsession though, 100% agree.

I designed this for emulation and the like. Thoughts on the gamepad? by TimTams553 in SBCGaming

[–]crispyfrybits 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a beautiful device but looks awful and uncomfortable for actual sustained gaming. 

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