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Beeper has LinkedIn integration, so you can chat with recruiters with any Matrix app without ever opening the website.

https://www.beeper.com/


Still need a LinkedIn account for beeper to connect to though.


GPT 5.4 has been the winner this week. Last week Opus 4.6. You can use both in OpenCode.

5.4 kind of falls apart in big/large projects.

How does it compare to using GPT 5.4 inside Codex?

I used Codex for a long time. It's definitely better than Claude Code due to being open source, but opencode is nicer to use. Good hotkeys, plan/build modes, fast and easy model switching, good mcp support. Supports skills, is not the fastest but good enough.

Well not anymore with Claude pro…

It is "not supported" for two month at this point, yet somehow opencode + claude max is still my main workflow today

Yep. That's what I do. Just API keys and you can switch from Opus to GPT especially this week when Opus has been kind of wonky.

I pay $100/mo to Anthropic. Yesterday I coded one small feature via an API key by accident and it cost $6. At this rate, it will cost me $1000/mo to develop with Opus. I might as well code by hand, or switch to the $20 Codex plan, which will probably be more than enough.

I'd rather switch to OpenAI than give up my favorite harness.


Yeah I had a similar experience one time. Which is why I laugh when people suggest Anthropic is profitable. Sure, maybe if everyone does API pricing. Which they won’t because it’s so damn expensive. Another way to think about it is API pricing is a glimpse into the future when everyone is dependent on these services and the subscription model price increases start.

I don't get why people talk about ChatGPT as some great saviour though, they're in the same boat but just have more money to burn.

This is the intention. They do not want folks that can’t pay to use their service.

SOTA models cost SOTA prices. Nothing new there

Out of curiosity, what's your next monthly subscription in terms of price?

Electricity, $95/mo.

Now you got me thinking my electric company should start offering subscription tiers in these uncertain energy times...

Ours never will, they're a cartel, sadly. If you mean fixed subscription, next one is Netflix, I think, or my server provider at $40 or so.

My monthly "connection fee" is more than that (no solar, just EV). Your cartel needs to step it up!

For me it's $0.8/kWh during peak, $0.47 off peak, and super off peak of $0.15. I accidentally left a little mini 500W heater on all day, while I was out, costing > 5% of your whole month!


Wow, what the hell.

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Yes, you are doing it too with antropic an xAI. I don't get your point. xAI and OpenAI are a little worst? Maybe, still very well fascism.

Quite a lot worse. Both OpenAI and xAI were among the largest donors of Trump's campaign

Musk was the largest individual political donor of the 2024 election [1] and Greg Brockman was the largest donor to Trump's "MAGA Inc" super PAC [2]

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/12/06/elon-mu...

[2] https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/867947/o...


You’re right, Anthropic is quite a bit worse https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/03/04/anthrop...

Wait - are you missing all the context on this? Anthropic pushed back against this hard, there was a whole back and forth. I'm on mobile and can't look it up for you atm but if you google about this scenario, Anthropic definitely come out of this looking a lot better than OpenAI and xAI

Did you read the article? Or are you just replying?

Anthropic has literally been working with the DoD and Plantair for 2 years now. They were key to the Iran invasion.

If thats “looking better”, keep it.


Key being “worked”, past tense

Now they’re blacklisted from government work (appeal pending) and OpenAI practically jumped to replace them immediately


You’re right it completely doesn’t matter they’ve been instrumental to ICE and the war in Iran. It’s fine now, their previous actions are excused.

Edit: the word you’re also looking for is “working” not “worked”. I have many friends on government contracts still using Claude.


If you evaluate fascism in terms of donation, yes.

But it is more about the political opinions, IMHO, and Anthropic doesn't sound more attractive than the competitors. Anthropic is very much to the right of the transhumanism spectrum (even if xAI and OpenAI are even farther).


IMO, OpenAI have either implicitly committed to becoming the IT service for Trump's secret police, or they've willingly signed up for the harsh retaliation Anthropic's getting, knowing that the Trump administration will inevitably try to push OpenAI around in the same way, if they meaningfully refuse to assist in domestic mass surveillance efforts.

Anthropic was fine doing the same, they just didn't want it done to Americans.

OpenAI agreeing to operate as Trump's secret police materially impacts your security as a European, though, because it cements Trump's power.

Again, though, both of them agreed to that. Anthropic just didn't want to spy on Americans.

You can argue a moral equivalence, I guess, but on a practical level, OpenAI's decision is more dangerous for everyone, because it will help to secure Trump as a dictator.

Or have Claude write the code and Gemini review it. (Was using GPT for review until the recent Pentagon thing.)

You can also review the code you ship yourself.

I certainly do -- but having Gemini review it first saves a lot of time.

'just API key' lol. just hundreds of dollars at a minimum

Yes. And many companies pay that.

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I'm testing glm5 on Claude code and opencode just to stop consuming American... Soo good so far!

Qwen works fine and requires paying no-one except a hardware vendor.

And then we have artists such as Gas who famously mixed classical with dub techno.


Interesting, i never heard of anything similar before, but i'm quite sure the classical music fans would also hate on him for ruining the original compositions.


I love electronic renditions of classical music. Trance does this often (Tiesto, Armin van Buuren, William Orbit, Ferry Corsten and others) and it's some of the best work they put out. To me, it's like a natural progression from classical minimalism, such as Phillip Glass or Max Richter.

I've played the violin since I was a kid (only for fun now). I can find something I love about almost any musical genre and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

BT is a trance dj that's classically trained: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BT_(musician) and Armin van Buuren has classically trained parents

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6yFanGv_ReU

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S1YwlPH_o50

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j2fNloJAge0 (same chord progression as la folia https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7v8zxoEoA_Q)

La folia itself has been "remixed" many times by both classical and modern composers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folia


He is a very influential artist in the techno subculture. I don't think anybody hating him for making those masterpieces...


The blend of classical and techno must come from the techno side. I remember many years ago listening to CBC Radio as they breathlessly talked about some avant garde classical piece that purported to blend classical and techno. It was a mid tier modern classical composition with occasional cheap synth sound effects. And this was ten years after Portishead released their entire first album, recorded with an orchestra, or all the work that Massive attack was doing.


William Orbit did an album of electronic arrangements of classical music 25 years ago. Not that it prevents anyone else from doing it. But it's not a completely novel idea.


Yes, at least 50. Folks applied electronic instruments to classical music shortly after they moved out of the experimental phase.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switched-On_Bach

And there was this fun disco version as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fifth_of_Beethoven


Remixing art has been done since the invention of art. It doesn't ruin anything if the original work is preserved.

No one is required to like it. But the word 'hate' is a bit extreme, even in your example. Also, the group comprising "the classical music fans" is certain to include many who disagree with you.


I consider myself a "fan of classical music". We go to Philharmonic a few times a year and I own a remarkable collection of classical music. And I do go to parties and love techno...

I'm not working in this industry, but I am living in Germany. I'm lucky enough to take remote jobs all around the world, but I'm a bit scared on what it means politically in Germany when the sh*t really hits the fan.

This might be one of the reasons I should not buy an apartment and settle in Germany...


No where is safe from this kind of fuckery though. Greed is in human nature because education is gamified, sports are gamified, business is gamified, your attention is even gamified. You’re forced to run a race you never signed up for in a manner which you disagree with for an audience that gives nothing in return but laughs as they watch you spin the wheel for them.

Literary aside, there used to be a time when you could count on a company and they could count on you. Now it’s a culture cult. This makes whistleblowing and doing what’s right virtually impossible. Who wants to sacrifice everything? Only the scorned and mistreated or it has to be egregious enough to solicit public outcry.


Shouldn't whistle-blowing be much easier in a more transactional work culture where everyone knows you can't count on the company and they'll fuck you over next Thursday on a whim of some consultant or an ambitious upper manager?


Sadly no. The world is litigious. The expection is that a wealthy corporation will crush anyone who holds it accountable.


That entirely depends on the current economy. If they know they might have opportunities elsewhere, toot that whistle..


Weimar 2.0 Electric Boogaloo


Last time our (Finland) president visited US he was playing golf and shaking hands. Supposedly signed some nice deals...


I am confused, who in the Finnish government wrote the book that PM of Canada quoted at Davos?


Stubb is a realist. He says the rules based world order is gone. We have to hurry and learn how to deal with dictators, because the US is becoming a dictatorship real quick. And that EU countries will have to unite in order to be able to negotiate from a position of strength. It's the only way to survive while staying true to our values (internally).


I've been running two distros with Plasma: Bazzite OS and CachyOS. Both very different, and stellar with Plasma.

I use CachyOS in my ThinkPad and in my Framework Desktop, for work. A stellar OS, has great defaults, is very fast and prioritizes KDE although you can do other WMs too if you're adventurous.


Bazzite has been so good to use it has me consisting dropping PopOS as my dev distro for Bluefin


Sure. And then a few weeks later they send you a letter, asking all the information again which you have to send by mail.

Source: my train back from Amsterdam was late...


My refund from my cross-border journey this Sunday was issued yesterday.

But that was from Germany to Austria, so that might make a difference


Mac doesn't run Linux so in my books is a worse general purpose computer than a Strix Halo box.


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