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Perplexity – which I thought would give the best answer as it can research online – gave a totally useless but super-long answer.

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o3 also gave a nice answer, explaining that it's a change introduced in iOS 16:

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Claude was absolutely wrong, recommending I use an Apple Watch and even saying that "Your 'apologize and call back' approach is probably the most reliable solution" :-)

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OK, I asked Gemini 2.5 Pro, o3, Claude Sonnet 4, and Perplexity. Gemini gave a perfect answer! It explained why it happens: an accessibility setting was inverted on iOS 16, and many users got caught by this. I personally never touched this, so I'm surprised by its default value.

Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 22/05/2025

Crossposter progress update: I just remembered that I cannot write "Bluesky" on X, the land of free speech. Asked Gemini how to make similar-looking Unicode characters, which look the same but are actually not the same string.

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 20/05/2025

The biggest issue was that LLMs kept hallucinating it as markdown-it, so I had to double-check and write everything by hand. BTW, Bluesky API is amazing!

Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 19/05/2025

Crossposter progress update: Optimal splitting into threads works! It was a big one. Turns out I need dynamic programming to find the optimal splitting points in a thread. What does an optimal splitting point mean?

Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 18/05/2025

Looking at @astro.build source code be like: returning a template string of JS code, which imports template strings of image paths, which maps regex-parsed HTML matches to async image objects, all while JSON-parsing a stringified regex-escaped string!

Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 18/05/2025

Crossposter progress update: Posting on bsky works! Amazing DX and super friendly dev community on Discord. Posting on X works! Terrible DX, scary low quota + returns wrong quota information in response headers. I have no idea when it blocks me and for how long.

Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 15/05/2025

I'm developing a local-first app and found conflicting information online about how much data I can actually store in localStorage. I found "Browser Storage Abuser", a 12 years old (!) website for stress testing the limits of different local storage options in browsers.

Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 12/05/2025

OpenAI o3 hallucinations are on a different level compared to anything I've seen before. Here o3 hallucinated a whole ecosystem! Everything here is 100% hallucinated!

Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 12/05/2025

Here is a small snippet I'm using to 'replace all' across all files in a directory tree. It uses ripgrep so it's super optimised, much faster compared to grep.

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 11/05/2025

I love when LLMs make a typo! It's so much out of their character that it feels like catching a shooting star. Here, Gemini wrote "Rable" instead of "Table."

Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 27/04/2025

Today I learned, sitting on a train: Ping packets can still return after 20 seconds! You'd think that your internet connection is broken, but no, somewhere out there, there is a packet destined for your laptop, arriving 20 seconds later!

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 16/04/2025

like your date of birth, etc. But you can’t archive them like this; you need to remove the password first. I found the best command-line tool for the job to be github.com/qpdf/qpdf or `brew install qpdf` Here’s how to use it: (2/3)

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 15/04/2025

Office 365 isn’t just accidentally messy. Complexity is the product. Of course it's misconfigured. That’s what they’re selling. Meanwhile, I’ll just wait for the client to notice their email silently stopped working. x.com/signulll/status/1908900460771… (5/5)

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 15/04/2025

We cannot reach one of our clients because their Office 365 is configured to "only accept messages from people in its organization or on its allowed senders list." I don't mean I'm trying to cold-email someone - we've exchanged 50+ emails over the years. (1/5)

Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 28/03/2025

Thanks to @ahocevar.bsky.social, the developer behind @openlayers.org, OpenFreeMap now has an official example for OpenLayers.

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 03/01/2025

New year, new updates on probably one of the biggest MapHub maps (both in size and effort): UK Bus Map W.I.P by JayCrab note: Technically it's definitely pushing MapHub's client-side code to its limits - it's a 20 MB GeoJSON or 5 MB gzip compressed.

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 20/12/2024

My X timeline is full of "AGI arrived" because of this chart. But please notice: this chart is logarithmic on the X axis and linear on the Y axis! If something, this proves that we'll never get to AGI by adding exponential resources for linear progress!

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They seem to be taking a different direction compared to other players, and they also happen to have the best model for coding! Claude Sonnet is actually so good that Microsoft was forced to start offering it in GitHub Copilot; otherwise, developers would have left the platform.

Ironically, this seems to include even the new $200/month Pro plan! One company surprisingly missing from the last 2 weeks' series of announcements was Anthropic, which happens to be the only company that is not training on your data.

allowance of "Advanced voice mode" and have even started 1-800-ChatGPT, a free phone line where you can talk with ChatGPT! The catch? You guessed it - for all consumer plans (aka not Teams or Enterprise), your data is used for model training.

And if that's not enough, you get it entirely free on Google AI Studio and through the API! The catch? When you use the Free version, Google uses your data for model training.

The catch: in all plans under $19 per month, they are training on your data by default. Google releases Gemini 2.0 Flash, one of the most advanced models ever, with real-time audio and video-streaming input!

Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 18/12/2024

Ilya Sutskever announced in a NeurIPS talk, that AI labs are running out of data, "The fossil fuel of AI". "We have but one internet" - the data on the internet is limited (also meaning that they've already scraped whatever they could).

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@solidjs.com the command in your hero section acts like a newline character, trying to paste it as two separate commands.

Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 13/12/2024

I don't mean 98% reliability, I mean under 50%! So 1 in 2 requests fails. If you run a business depending on these models, how do you handle this? Screenshots from OpenRouter.

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 13/12/2024

Interesting side effect of this "AI Launch Week" is that all providers' APIs have their worst uptime ever. Yesterday, OpenAI's API was down for like 4 hours. Today, Gemini's API is basically unusable. Even Anthropic - who is otherwise having a quiet week - is extremely unreliable.

Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 11/12/2024

Everything they do is the most overcomplicated, architecture-astronaut level stuff. Like here, just the "packages" subdir is 73 thousand lines of code. For an API wrapper!

Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 09/12/2024

Looking into wood vs plastic chopping boards and I keep finding research stating "per-person annual exposure of ... 49.5 g of microplastics from a polypropylene chopping board". An IKEA plastic chopping board is 210 g. How can you get 50 g of microplastic per year out of one board?

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 29/11/2024

I also made a tiny script that monitors both servers once per minute and sends me a Telegram notification in case one is down. Normally I don't get anything, but in the last few days, I was getting some errors from the Finnish server. Yesterday it was offline for 18 minutes.

Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 29/11/2024

Many of you don't know, but OpenFreeMap.org is hosted on 2 different servers in 2 different countries: one in Germany and one in Finland. The DNS setup is configured so that if one server is offline, your browser automatically picks the other one.

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 28/11/2024

Hetzner cuts traffic from 20 TB –> 1..5 TB on US VPSs Only US locations affected, Ashburn (ASH) and Hillsboro (HIL). Just received by email.

Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 27/11/2024

Bluesky is real. I have 2k followers on both platforms, and I cross-posted exactly the same 3 posts today.

Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 27/11/2024

Reddit notifications about "MapHub" come up in the most interesting places, today morning I got to know about a map of "stained glass windows". maphub.net/potdom/stained-glass-mas…

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 26/11/2024

Once in while you get an email like this and you just want to frame it. Happy SaaS moments at maphub.net

Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 25/11/2024

You need AWS and Kubernetes and automatic load balancing for uptime they say. A $13 Hetzner server tends to disagree.

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Trying a new layout for llmsky feed filter app:

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LLMSky works, aka, filter your feed via LLMs. I decided to publish this in a pre-alpha state. #buildinpublic #ATProto

Reconstructing all the visible text from a Bluesky post is not simple. So far I think this approach gets most things right. Embed, image alt text, video alt text, embed.media.external, embed.external without media and my favourite, the post.embed.record.record.value.text.

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