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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

  • This is a tricky statement, though. You could argue that sorting popular posts to the top is an attempt to maximize engagement, since you’re probably more likely to click on and/or comment on top posts. Lemmy just has less data to use to make the decisions as to what you’d like, but it’s still trying to do it.




  • There’s some Chinese EVs in the USA - you can buy BYD busses, trucks and forklifts (we use BYD busses at work for transportation between buildings), and Waymo’s new van-looking cars are manufactured by Zeekr.

    The Polestar 4 and Volvo EX30 are also both built on a Chinese platform (Geely / Zeekr) but the US is OK with them since they’re partially manufactured in South Korea and partially in the USA at Volvo’s factories.

    The issue is that there’s huge tariffs, it’s hard to get Chinese cars approved to sell in the US, plus the US is still mostlyl holding on to the legacy dealership model. The Chinese cars are so much better and cheaper than US brands, but the US has to protect the dying legacy US brands.








  • My Epyc 7702 does have onboard TPM, but my supermicro H11DSi-NT doesn’t pass it through to the OS, for some reason

    Huh… That’s interesting. At my workplace we have Linux EPYC servers with working TPM (it’s mandated that all computers, both clients and servers, must have TPM 2.0), but I’m not a hardware person and don’t know exactly how they’re configured.



  • This is good to know. I haven’t had issues with using a USB drive though, since it doesn’t receive many reads or writes - the system is copied to a RAM drive on boot and runs off that rather than the USB.

    I assume this means I’d need another drive to boot it from? My current setup is that I have 2 x 22TB drives in a ZFS mirror for data storage, and 2 x 2TB NVMe SSDs in a ZFS mirror for things like VMs, Docker containers, documents, etc.



  • Bitwarden’s the only “cloud-based” password manager I trust, since their entire stack is open-source.

    For self-hosting, they recently released Bitwarden Lite, which is a lot simpler to host than their regular server. One Docker image and you can use SQLite for the database. Different design decisions compared to the regular server which is designed to scale up to handle businesses with tens or hundreds of thousands of employees.

    There’s also Vaultwarden, which is an unofficial third-party server implementation.



  • You need to use hooks to actually block it from doing things. CLAUDE.md files are just guidance, and it’s not guaranteed to follow everything (and the longer the file gets, the more likely it’ll ignore stuff - it should be kept as short as possible)

    https://code.claude.com/docs/en/hooks

    Hooks are code that runs at a certain point (eg after you submit a prompt, before a tool call, after a turn, etc) that can do some validation, verification, logging, etc.

    It does still try to work around the blocks though, but it’s not as bad as trying to put the restrictions in the prompt.

















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