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| Location | The Netherlands and Italy |
| I design | Hardware and software |
| Sidegigs | Hacking, tinkering, shitposting |
@eunews You do realize NATO is a defense pact right? Not a “hey guys, let’s attack this guy next!”?
It’s extremely interesting how “world’s bestest country” has chosen the world’s dumbest idiot to be their president, let them replace everybody who matters in government, let them threaten allies, go to random wars with ABSOLUTELY NO clue on what the goals are, be the sole reason for the increase in energy and gas prices and the American people do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
Went to the Dara Ó Briain’s show in Eindhoven tonight. (Re:creation)
Excellent story, very funny audience interactions (especially when he didn’t know what ASML is, in a town filled with ASML engineers). He’s excellent at making a sad/real life story funny and heartwarming.
@GossiTheDog I’ve transitioned my mom to Ubuntu. She browses the web and uses e-mail, Linux is fine and she knows the two icons that start “web browsing” and “e-mail”.
Windows has become an ad-infested crap OS for some time now, so it wasn’t hard to get her to switch.
@tautology Yeah, I should’ve probably put a large workbench in the garden or something. The 3m x 1.20m boards are just so difficult to manoeuvre once you start building walls, so I needed to cut them in the rooms I’m enclosing.
So, on my knees, bending over the board to cut. Felt a warmish ache in my lower back and now it constantly hurts. Trying to keep the bending over to a minimum for the next week or two…
I’ve been working with drywall for the past 2 weeks, building walls and soffits. I’m extremely proud of the results, but goddamn my back is killing me, cutting the panels on the ground, screwing the panels to studs (on the ground) and bending over to cut weird angles to match the extremely crooked walls our 260+ year old house has.
This is after 2 weeks, I have to idea how actual builders do this for most of their working life.
@domenpk I've tried it a couple of times, but not my codebases, because I don't really want to give it access to my code.
Most of the things I've tried were separated cases like this, but this was the first "you do it yourself" case that actually touched more than just files and it was so smooth.
I'm currently trying to build an entire application from scratch with it, and so far, it's managing it pretty well (although it definitely still needs input to do things correctly).
Today was the first day I was honestly incredibly impressed by Claude Code.
I was working on an Android device which I need to provision in bulk. I've built the AOSP ROM myself, but I needed to access the userdata partition from outside of the device (which is quite hard in recent Android versions, because the filesystem is encrypted using device keys). For testing purposes, I wanted to disable filesystem encryption and switch the userdata partition to ext4.
I did this myself, but ran into an issue when using recovery mode to clear out the userdata partition. The recovery image was set up to use the f2fs file system and not ext4. I could manually use mke2fs to format the partition, but seeing as I was testing and wanted to clear the userdata partition often, this was less than ideal.
I gave Claude Code access to adb and my serial terminal hooked up to the debug UART of my device. All by itself, it extracted the recovery partition, extracted it, patched the fstab, packed up the image and then flashed it back.
This is far FAR beyond what I expected Claude Code would be able to do. It worked, first time and it saved me at least an hour in reading documentation on cpio and other image generation/unpacking tools.
It's also quite scary. Yes, I still needed to tell it what to do and what I expected and obviously, this was quite technical. But it did it. All on it's own.
Have these tools actually become good / useful?