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They actually came knocking...

Just in case you decide to do this again, put the foil on the outside to avoid stressing the seals around your glass with the extra reflected heat and light. Depending on how old your windows are, you could either end up losing the gas between panes or cracking the glass if there are extreme temperature differentials.

Had to do this when I was dirt poor in 2009, was a lot hotter when the window seals failed....

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Anthropic nuked a company's access to Claude, stopping 60 employees dead in their tracks — support via Google Form is the only recourse for vague usage policy violation

This is the nightmare scenario for any team that built their whole workflow around a cloud API. No warning, no clear reason, no real support path. just a Google form and 60 people sitting on their hands.

The uncomfortable truth is that "terms of service" at this scale is just "we can pull the rug whenever." Anthropic isn't unique here either. OpenAI, Google, all of them have the same opaque enforcement problem. It's a big part of why I've been building tools that run on local inference by default. Not because cloud is bad, but because your users shouldn't be one vague policy complaint away from a complete outage.

Local gives you continuity even when the upstream disappears.

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I'm telling my spouse I'm leaving today and I'm crushed.

I've been the partner with ADHD and CPTSD in this picture before, still working my way out of it, but I recognize the phrases she's using and the reasons. Still not an excuse. You're doing the right things, she's not putting in the effort to overcome the discomfort and guilt she's going to have to confront when she accepts everything you say is true.

The more she denies it, the harder it gets to accept and start the process of healing.

I'm truly sorry for your loss and the pain you've suffered. It's real and your feelings are valid <3

Edit: for additional context, the work never really stops. You're not a cake. There is no "ding youre done". Literally typing this on my way to therapy....

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Calling for volunteers to help out as site admins [GenAI]

I'm not really a regular poster, much more of a lurker and commenter, but I'm very capable.

Mixed heritage, AuDHD, cis-male, queer, married to a genderfluid individual and very connected in the LGBTQ community in the Bay Area California.

Dedicated self-hoster, I handle everything engineering from networking, devops, software development (full stack), server automation, electronics and PCB design, and with the help of genAI I'm finally learning how to build a decent front-end.

I used to moderate a solarpunk discord server (in addition up the one for my PCB business) but left after the co-founder went a little nuts and then the big breach just made me distrust the platform entirely.

I'm not sure if my post history is still up on Reddit anymore, as I haven't posted there in years now, but I used to be quite active under the same handle "pyr0ball"

fuck_ai

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Jobs Now in a Nutshell

The loop in that article is deliberate. ATS exists to externalize the cost of screening onto applicants while giving employers plausible deniability about who gets filtered. The "objective" framing is the fraud. I built a tool for this (CircuitForge-Peregrine, open-core, local-first). Not because I think the system should exist, but because I kept watching people get filtered before any human ever saw their application. A lot of neurodivergent folks especially, people who interview brilliantly but get wrecked by the performance art of keyword optimization. Resume coaches and LinkedIn premium exist for people who can afford to play the game. Peregrine is for everyone else.

Using AI to survive AI screening is genuinely stupid and I don't love it. But I'd rather the tool be free and local than have the only options be "pay someone" or "lose."