Problemsby GlyphVendor lock-in makes switching tools costly
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I only stopped using Perplexity when the kill-sticky (login-workaround) stopped working correctly. Early 2023 - August 2026, I used their rudimentary LLM before making any major purchase - seems like they really dropped the ball by both locking out users (log-in requirements)...
...pledge on LTE bands, which forced Verizon to allow third-party networks 2. Qualcomm giving up on UMB, forcing Verizon to adopt LTE, and by extension, SIM cards[3] 3. Clearwire / Sprint's WiMAX service totally failing, also forcing Sprint to adopt LTE and SIMs [0] The US has a...
How to quickly replicate a great coding "harness" in a VS Code + OpenRouter workflow?
...so that I'm never locked in (or locked out) of any specific model ever again. . But how can I get a high-quality, plugin-style harness inside this workflow? What extensions, open-source scaffolding, or tools are people using to get that full agentic experience without...
[v2 Bug] [DuckDB] dbt State: `dbt build` fails with "schema-wide relation listing is disabled" when a model is built into a v2 Iceberg REST catalog
...profile is only there so the State-off run can finish. It is unrelated to this bug; the failing run never reaches the catalog. ### Root Cause Inferred from the error message and from #15828, not from the source: with State on, the build runs a "downloading relations" step that...
Difficult manager at startup - what's normal and what's not?
...is less than 200 people but growing quickly.. My manager (let's call them "JD") is awful. There is no way to sugarcoat it. He joined 1 year before me from one of the FAANGs know for bad culture, and I am the first person they have ever managed. I am locked in a doom loop: I do...
prefect-redis: async tasks with SERIALIZABLE isolation never release their RedisLockManager lock
### Bug summary An async task with `SERIALIZABLE` isolation and `RedisLockManager` leaves its lock in Redis after it finishes, with no TTL, so the next run of the same task waits on it indefinitely. The task returns 2, then the lock key is still there with TTL -1. Running the...
...AI to a browser that does not need it (in Dia, you cannot even turn off AI) or are buggy with bad UX. So directed a bunch of agents into Arc to try and copy Arc as a seperate app locally, blocking Browser Company servers and cloud storage. It copies the Arc.app you have on Mac...
Restore advisory Cloud API compatibility checks on pull requests
The OSS Cloud API compatibility workflow is disabled, so API changes can merge before the corresponding changes reach Prefect Cloud. This can break the compatibility tests downstream. Restore the shared suite as a non-blocking check. Compare the base and proposed changes against...
Support deferrable data-readiness polling in DatabricksSqlSensor
### Description Add a `deferrable` parameter to `DatabricksSqlSensor` for Airflow 3, allowing users to opt in with `deferrable=True` while preserving its existing data-readiness semantics: repeatedly execute a SQL query until the returned result is truthy. The proposed approach...
bug: web app shows "Something went wrong / failed to load the conversation" every 2-3 minutes, requires full reload
...The web client's live conversation stream (websocket/SSE) appears to disconnect and fail to reconnect cleanly. Firefox's different reload/reconnect behavior suggests the client does not resume the stream after an interruption, then hits a hard error state instead of recovering....
ASR rules blocking export as PDF options in office applications?
...dialog/save/setting box.. *Ricky action blocked*. App or process blocked: WINWORD.EXE. Blocked by: Attack Surface Reduction. Rule: Block off Office applications from creating child processes. Affected items: C:\Program Files\PDF-XChange\PDF Editor\PXCEditor.exe.
Improve IO pipeline for Parquet/IPC on S3
Including: - For ordered scans, increased pipeline budget to absorb head-of-line blocking. - For concurrency, better estimation of processing time (for large chunks): download time, pacing delay. - Revise ramp-up time and stability. - Add memory budget to decode look-ahead....
Does It Ultimately Come Down to Happy Users and Appreciated Effort?
...done it. And in some places, people seem to get by without doing much at all.. What gets frustrating is when taking initiative turns into a political issue. Someone may see you trying to fix something or make a process better as stepping on their toes, especially if they feel...
...(Ideogram 4 is the only other open-weight model that outscored it), but the quality is frustratingly inconsistent. https://genai-showdown.specr.net/?models=local
DROP NAMED COLLECTION succeeds while a detached table still depends on it
### Describe what's wrong - `DROP NAMED COLLECTION nc` succeeds even though a detached table's on-disk metadata still uses `ENGINE = URL(nc)` - Trigger: `DETACH TABLE t` followed by `DROP NAMED COLLECTION nc`, where `t` was created with `ENGINE = URL(nc)` - Expected: the drop...
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LibraryPanels Git Sync: Finish managed-resource UX validation on Cloud
Part of #110230, #124622, and the Cloud validation tracker #131670. The final Cloud run requires #131828 and #131829. Coordinate with #131830, but the UX work does not need to wait for its automated test PR. ## Goal Finish the user-facing validation that is not covered by the...
...a lot of ways, I really love AWS, but most of the high-value services are increasingly flaky and questionably supported, and nearly all of them have (often not very obvious) lock-in barbs. For a while, cloud native development actually made sense. But as Cloud services have...
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18 posts from 18 people in 11 places, about 2 a week over 72 days. Mostly on Hacker News comments, r/sysadmin, PrefectHQ/prefect. Tools named alongside: GitHub, Prefect, AWS, Kubernetes.
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Posts that state a pain and match the "vendor-lock" rule. First post Aug 28, 2026, latest Nov 7, 2026. Corroborated: 3 or more posts from 2 or more people or places. Method
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