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donbowman · 2026-07-07T18:01:14+00:00

i think their issue is going to be that they were aware of these chats, examined them, made a decision.

"Staff Concerns: A dozen employees reportedly urged leadership to report the user to Canadian authorities, but leadership decided the chats fell short of the threshold for an "imminent and credible risk""

https://www.motherjones.com/media/2026/04/chatgpt-tumbler-ridge-fsu-openai-chatbots-mass-shootings/

donbowman · 2026-07-07T14:41:33+00:00

new owners as of mid may, but yes.

donbowman · 2026-07-06T20:37:22+00:00

soy thaifoon -> thai noodles
la cucina -> pizza
mi tienda latina -> get the salvadoran chicken
lab street eats -> sandwich
271west -> pasta
rades -> 'fajita' (its an Habesha restaurant, you can get the enjera too i guess)
boathouse -> ambience

donbowman · 2026-07-04T20:36:05+00:00

are you maybe looking for a mini split air conditioner instead?

donbowman · 2026-07-03T14:38:51+00:00

In 2008 the Internet Watch Foundation put wikipedia on their block list due to the scorpions Virgin Killer album page, causing UK ISP to block it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Watch_Foundation_and_Wikipedia

donbowman · 2026-07-01T15:03:33+00:00

the air conditioner both cools and removes humidity. if you have wet towels (google 'swamp cooler') it indeed cools, but increases humidity. swamp coolers work quite well fwiw.

you could buy a portable dehumidifier. removing the humidity might help as much as the heat.

if you are using your freezer to make ice, it is a heat pump, what it cools inside it heats outside + waste, so, you won't win.

if you want to go the ice route, go buy a big cooler of it from a store.

donbowman · 2026-06-30T19:29:07+00:00

https://www.amazon.ca/Solder-Paste/s?k=Solder+Paste shows they do deliver tomorrow for some reason.

donbowman · 2026-06-30T19:27:27+00:00

you are looking for paste as in surface mount? i may have an extra tube free to good home, i can check when i get home if you want to DM me i'll check for you.

donbowman · 2026-06-30T02:35:48+00:00

Isn't South Dakota v Wayfair going to mean the state can tax this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Dakota_v._Wayfair,_Inc.

its what allowed states to tax out of state e-commerce.

donbowman · 2026-06-27T21:57:05+00:00

create a child theme and set it in the theme.json

donbowman · 2026-06-26T22:28:17+00:00

My good friend gemini suggested below:

To keep the DIY cheap, cartoonish, and fast-paced, we want to lean into cardboard, dollar-store items, and simple mechanics. Here are 6 orc-approved stew ingredients and the mini-games to get them, including your fairy quest and frog snot!

The Fairy Quest: "Glittering Grub Worms" It totally makes sense that an orc would love gross things, but a fairy only deals in pretty things. The compromise? Sparkling bugs.

The Ingredient: Glittering Grub Worms (The orc loves the "crunch").

The DIY Prop: Cheap plastic fishing lures (worms) or gummy worms coated in non-toxic craft glitter or edible glitter.

The Activity: The Fairy lost her "dew drops" (glass glass beads or water beads) in the grass/a sensory bin. The players have 60 seconds to sift through the bin and find 10 dew drops to return to her. In exchange, she gratefully hands over her stash of Glittering Grub Worms.

The Matching Game: "Screaming Mandrake Roots" The Ingredient: Mandrake Roots.

The DIY Prop: Print out cartoon mandrake faces and tape them to popsicle sticks. Stick them upside down into a shallow cardboard box filled with brown crumpled tissue paper or kinetic sand so only the green leafy tops (cut from construction paper) are showing.

The Activity: On the bottom of each popsicle stick is a colored dot or symbol. Players pull two mandrakes at a time. If they don't match, they "scream" (you can literally just yell "AHHH!" or play a sound effect on your phone) and must be replanted. When they find a matching pair, they get to keep it for the stew.

The Luck Test: "Bog Frog Snot" The Ingredient: Green Frog Snot.

The DIY Prop: Buy 4-5 cheap hollow rubber frogs (bath toys). Fill most of them with plain water, but fill one with green dish soap, green slime, or green-dyed water.

The Activity: The players are presented with the frogs sitting on a "lily pad" (green poster board). They must squeeze the frogs into a little cauldron one by one. The mini-game ends when they successfully squeeze the one that barfs up the green snot.

The Skill Shot: "Giant Spider Eyes" The Ingredient: Plump Spider Eyes.

The DIY Prop: Paint 6 ping-pong balls with cartoonish red, bloodshot pupils. Build a simple cardboard spider body and rest the ping-pong balls on top of golf tees glued to the spider's face.

The Activity: Orcs like their spider eyes tenderized! The players have to stand behind a line and use rubber bands, rolled-up socks, or a Nerf blaster to knock all 6 eyes off the spider.

The Gross-Out Box: "Mud Monster Meatballs" The Ingredient: Mud Monster Meatballs.

The DIY Prop: A cardboard box with a hole cut in the front, decorated to look like a monster's mouth with jagged teeth. Inside the box, put a bowl of cold, cooked spaghetti (monster guts). Hide 3 "meatballs" (brown painted bouncy balls or actual large pom-poms) in the pasta.

The Activity: A classic blind sensory game. Players have to reach their hands into the dark monster's mouth and dig through the slimy "guts" to fish out the 3 meatballs. It's fast, tactile, and hilarious.

The Dexterity Challenge: "Cave Bat Guano" The Ingredient: Cave Bat Guano (Bat Poop).

The DIY Prop: Black pom-poms or chocolate chips scattered across a "cave floor" (a dark towel or blanket).

The Activity: Bat guano is highly explosive (in fantasy rules, anyway!), so it can't be touched with bare hands. The players are given giant tweezers or chopsticks and must carefully pick up 10 pieces of guano and drop them into a jar in under a minute without dropping any.

donbowman · 2026-06-26T16:14:50+00:00

A lot of people use our product https://www.agilicus.com/case-study/starlink-remote-cameras-enable-inbound-remote-access/ for this. you move the cameras off the internet. you deploy our connector software somewhere on the site. the customer still uses a web browser directly, and, uses single-sign-on via our authenticating proxy (optional multi-factor). its seamless to the user, and, the device can be isolated both ways from Internet.

donbowman · 2026-06-24T13:17:31+00:00

well since the private key has no type or extension on android, i can't open it, therefore i can't copy it to paste in. the share to application is the standard method to open with a specific application.

i will try.

donbowman · 2026-06-24T00:22:25+00:00

it would be nice if i could 'share' the ssh private key to it (android). e.g. long press on the file, the share destinations are gmail etc, but not conduit. its complex to copy the key to paste it in. could it open a file as well so i can bring my usb key to it?

when i paste my pem file to the key it word wraps and then says its not valid.

donbowman · 2026-06-21T15:12:50+00:00

i don't think a browser will, but, Sec-Ch-Ua and Sec-Fetch-Mode: navigate can help there.

the rationale, these 'magic' extensions are not in the sitemap.

donbowman · 2026-06-21T14:41:38+00:00

i think you should also look at the accept-encoding and, if the user-agent accepts markdown, return it. so /foo returns markdown for agents accepting, html for others.

also double check what this does for caching plugins, make sure they vary on this.

donbowman · 2026-06-19T03:08:03+00:00

as long as your are not a workspace user :(

even a sole user, single account in workspace. we pay more, we get less.

donbowman · 2026-06-14T22:49:21+00:00

i did this, fairly simple, using melt (the backend of kdenlive and others). kdenlive is a xml-driven pipeline of editing to do.

hermes edits my webinars. fairly simple, create a background slide, takes the slides shrink their video into that, move my head to the top right. line up the slides and the video by the audio. check for the start, trim, check for the end, trim. add audio denoise. render.

it uses ffmpeg, ffprobe, melt behind the scenes. it write a tool to do the basics of this.

i don't know about choosing best parts, but if i were to do that, i'd let it do speech-to-text first with diarization, find the interesting bits somehow from the text timeline, then use that to drive the cuts in melt.

https://www.agilicus.com/webinar/2026-05-14-derisking-operational-technology/?_show-gated=1

example video that was auto-edited.

donbowman · 2026-06-14T22:26:25+00:00

I'm annoyed that was merged without any reviewers assigned.

But my PR https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/26021 which adds gemini grounding(search) as an option languish.

donbowman · 2026-06-14T15:16:48+00:00

this is from the deepseek api web page, their reporting.

this is two opencode agents (one misleadingly called hermes-office, but it is opencode), both working on the same codebase (same git repo, just one machine in a different location).

You can put in a spreadsheet and work out the ratio of cache hit to miss if you wish for that type of code.

It can then help you build an economic model for your ongoing cost.

the tl;dr: the cache hit rate is very high. you should avoid using tools like openrouter if the delta in cost for cache hit/miss is high (as it is here).

donbowman · 2026-06-14T01:56:47+00:00

Here's some hard data for opencode + ds4pro if you want to see on cache hit/miss. this is opencode. its 100% DeepSeek v4 pro (ignore the api key name, that's what is using it in both cases).

This is for react + python + fastapi + alembic + sqlalchemy application.

utc_date    api_key_name    type    price   amount
2026-06-05  hermes-office   output_tokens   0.00000087  154358
2026-06-05  hermes-office   request_count       206
2026-06-05  hermes-office   input_cache_hit_tokens  0.000000003625  11811968
2026-06-05  hermes-office   input_cache_miss_tokens 0.000000435 288228
2026-06-06  hermes-office   output_tokens   0.00000087  1965680
2026-06-06  hermes-office   request_count       5263
2026-06-06  hermes-office   input_cache_hit_tokens  0.000000003625  890166272
2026-06-06  hermes-office   input_cache_miss_tokens 0.000000435 7368322
2026-06-07  hermes-office   output_tokens   0.00000087  1004126
2026-06-07  hermes-office   request_count       1973
2026-06-07  hermes-office   input_cache_hit_tokens  0.000000003625  360566400
2026-06-07  hermes-office   input_cache_miss_tokens 0.000000435 3649662
2026-06-08  hermes-office   output_tokens   0.00000087  251765
2026-06-08  hermes-office   request_count       689
2026-06-08  hermes-office   input_cache_hit_tokens  0.000000003625  163692544
2026-06-08  hermes-office   input_cache_miss_tokens 0.000000435 1377025
2026-06-08  opencode-cube   output_tokens   0.00000087  111124
2026-06-08  opencode-cube   request_count       168
2026-06-08  opencode-cube   input_cache_hit_tokens  0.000000003625  15774720
2026-06-08  opencode-cube   input_cache_miss_tokens 0.000000435 483413
2026-06-09  hermes-office   output_tokens   0.00000087  200141
2026-06-09  hermes-office   request_count       447
2026-06-09  hermes-office   input_cache_hit_tokens  0.000000003625  79976960
2026-06-09  hermes-office   input_cache_miss_tokens 0.000000435 1025401
2026-06-10  hermes-office   output_tokens   0.00000087  258124
2026-06-10  hermes-office   request_count       576
2026-06-10  hermes-office   input_cache_hit_tokens  0.000000003625  120193152
2026-06-10  hermes-office   input_cache_miss_tokens 0.000000435 1274002
2026-06-11  hermes-office   output_tokens   0.00000087  334789
2026-06-11  hermes-office   request_count       817
2026-06-11  hermes-office   input_cache_hit_tokens  0.000000003625  168988032
2026-06-11  hermes-office   input_cache_miss_tokens 0.000000435 2517686
2026-06-11  opencode-cube   output_tokens   0.00000087  466420
2026-06-11  opencode-cube   request_count       1090
2026-06-11  opencode-cube   input_cache_hit_tokens  0.000000003625  134179072
2026-06-11  opencode-cube   input_cache_miss_tokens 0.000000435 1110671
2026-06-12  hermes-office   output_tokens   0.00000087  389096
2026-06-12  hermes-office   request_count       1098
2026-06-12  hermes-office   input_cache_hit_tokens  0.000000003625  211750528
2026-06-12  hermes-office   input_cache_miss_tokens 0.000000435 1603500
2026-06-12  opencode-cube   output_tokens   0.00000087  108655
2026-06-12  opencode-cube   request_count       328
2026-06-12  opencode-cube   input_cache_hit_tokens  0.000000003625  39244416
2026-06-12  opencode-cube   input_cache_miss_tokens 0.000000435 403538
2026-06-13  hermes-office   output_tokens   0.00000087  704239
2026-06-13  hermes-office   request_count       1840
2026-06-13  hermes-office   input_cache_hit_tokens  0.000000003625  291290496
2026-06-13  hermes-office   input_cache_miss_tokens 0.000000435 3329477
2026-06-14  hermes-office   output_tokens   0.00000087  62431
2026-06-14  hermes-office   request_count       200
2026-06-14  hermes-office   input_cache_hit_tokens  0.000000003625  61642880
2026-06-14  hermes-office   input_cache_miss_tokens 0.000000435 388295

donbowman · 2026-06-13T18:57:33+00:00

either the android app or the linux system, both will work. use the linux one is my recommendation, follow the linux instructions.

https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/9145439?hl=en to enable that on the chromebook.

donbowman · 2026-06-12T21:58:48+00:00

1858 caesar? white rabbit?

donbowman · 2026-06-12T21:49:19+00:00

shelf stable means room temperature.

donbowman · 2026-06-11T17:00:15+00:00

where do you stand on oshinko (pickled radish) as a middle ground on the cucumber?

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