Roberto

✳️ Love coding, tech, AI, biz & history.
🆔️ 16 years running my business | Passive income | 👨‍👩‍👧‍👧
| Cooking up some apps

[Roberto @manchatz]

My daughter has a daily TikTok streak where the content is literally just a "."
They're heading off on a 5 day phone-free school trip, so who will keep the streak alive?
I told her: deploy an LLM agent to maintain dot posting.

Possibly the only real use case for OpenClaw.

[Roberto @manchatz]

@levelsio Maybe ECO-Performative or Virtue signaling would be good terms, but maybe too long?

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Testing Composer 2.5 and for now it does the job really well. Turn off the fast mode if you want to squeeze the most of your credit, as the difference in the pricing is huge, if you are working in two projects at the same time the fast mode is not that important.

Composer 2.5 is built on the open-source checkpoint, Moonshot's Kimi K2.5.

[MARCELL @madietlx]

I built this last night after work:

LED as a LIGHT SENSOR

I got so many replies from so many people mentioning that an inverse LED is like a solar cell that I had to finally try it to see it and believe it

Very inefficient, but it works!

Source: B. Kainka

[Roberto @manchatz]

Current goal: learn to master Neovim.

Why? Because most of my coding lately happens directly on servers via SSH, so whenever I need to manually edit a file, any other editor feels too constrained. My favourite shortcut in Vim used to be frantically pressing Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+X to exit it, but now the more shortcuts I learn, the more respect I have for it.

It takes some effort, but woah, it's really worthy!

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@igorhansachat Here in Poland is similar, if one of the parents is not freelancing or unemployed it is difficult to coordinate schedules and calendars

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@thekitze @supermac_app Or 1000000 ppl to pay $1.

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The Framework 13 Pro looks solid but what bugs me about most laptop makers is their contempt for speakers. If I'm going to spend 14 hours straight using my laptop, I want superb sound. To be honest, this is the main reason I bought my first (and current) MacBook Pro.

[Roberto @manchatz]

Any traditional service/goods provider:

"We deeply regret to inform you that, due to inflation, wars, pandemics, and the possible collapse of civilization, we must increase prices by 2% starting in 6 months. We humbly ask for your forgiveness."

Most SaaS companies:

"Your subscription is doubling and your usage limits are being cut in half starting in 2 days. Why? Because f*** you."

[Roberto @manchatz]

like a unemployed salesman in the job interview:

- "If you're a great salesman, why aren't you working right now?"
- "Because I was too successful. I brought in more orders than my company could fulfill, so they fired the guy creating all the extra work"

Legit, a guy told me this during an interview.

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Just had a family member get scammed by a fake online store. Looking back the web looks legit but red flags were so obvious: no company info, no address, no company details in the legal notice, no cookie banner (yep, fraudsters don't take the effort to place them), zero transparency.

And yeah, this is where everybody loves to joke about EU bureaucracy but here's the thing: in the EU real online stores have to tell you who they are, company details, contact info, legal terms, privacy policies, the works, and it is not simple paperwork, but if you’re handing over your money, you should at least know who’s taking it.

Does this stop every scam? Nope, as you see. But does it make it way harder to set up a fake shop? Absolutely.

So next time someone rolls their eyes at EU rules on disclosures, VAT numbers, or cookie popups, remember: the alternative is typing your credit card into a site run by some anonymous stranger halfway across the world.
Faking fiscal data in an e-shop is obviously possible, but also makes it easier for the authorities to freeze merchant accounts, domains and take similar actions.

[Roberto @manchatz]

This is the standard A/C setup in much of Europe: a split A/C system with the compressor installed outside and the indoor unit mounted on the interior wall. The two are separated by a wall approximately 50 cm thick, typically made up of about 30 cm of insulation and 20 cm of insulated brickwork, + triple glass insulated windows.

Portable air conditioners are also available. These are the inexpensive models that vent through a window using an adapter, but their performance is generally quite poor and they suck, very much.

A split system installation costs roughly €600, which is fairly affordable, and it offers excellent efficiency, particularly in well-insulated homes.

We use it mainly to heat the room during the winter, in summer just a couple of weeks to cool down, the house keeps the temperature quite stable.

[Roberto @manchatz]

I was born in Madrid, Spain, where the temperatures from June to September most of the time are >30C (86F). Now I live in Warsaw were the temperatures are closer to those you wrote. I miss the hot summers in Madrid tbh, but most people there hate it.

This is the weather now there, and has been already for a couple of weeks.

[Sandi Slonjšak @sandislonjsak]

https://t.co/mbY4s58vhs

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@LinusEkenstam @FedEx I avoid FedEx at all cost, but for other reasons. Too many times i had to pay the customs cash on delivery: no cash? they leave with the delivery, reasonable. The problem comes 2 years later, with letters from FedEx demanding us to pay AGAIN for the customs/taxes.

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What its the outcome this company expects from me watching this ad? Do they really want me to buy "turreted, remote-controlled 120 mm mortar systems"? What is the conversion rate of these ads?
How many X users are actually in position to decide what advance mortar systems their organization needs?

So many questions.

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@adamwathan "Destroyed" as in "seizing a herd of Ferraris and piles of cash, then setting them on fire in the town square" destroyed? What a sight.

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The methodology used in Europe takes the statistically expected deaths, against all the deaths in the heat period and categorise that excess to heat (risk of overestimating)
In the US official stats only count those actually coded as heat related (what rarely doctors do). There are studies from the EPA that confirm that. Like: https://t.co/OiHVyGpZ9m

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@sandislonjsak 🇵🇱