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Let's just take a moment to appreciate how important uBlock is for performance. I pity the fools without.

I used to work at a VUE, my flatmate was a manager. I always complained about the awful, awful films we showed with no one watching them. Surely it'd be better to show some classics that would sell?

Apparently the deal back then was that theatres had to buy films in packages. If you wanted the latest blockbuster, you had to buy a bunch of terrible dross, and commit to showing it X times.


That practice is known as Block booking (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_booking) and was supposedly ruled illegal in 1948. The more things change, I guess...

Ruled illegal in the United States.

Yeah, OR gives a bunch of providers, including Deepseek, which does train.

I set ZDR to true, and it only calls from the third party ZDR Deepseek APIs. Bit more expensive, but my client wants it.


What I really enjoy is learning. I came back to computing after many years in another field, and was completely in love. Everything finally clicked, I'd spend hours reading everything I could, coding, trying things out, letting half-half-built projects pile up as I discovered new things.

AI has completely ruined this for me. Its boring having someone else do stuff for you. And worse, I feel I'm un-learning at a rapid rate.

The magic has gone, I'm not sure I want to be in this game in another five years.


Same for me

Pro tip for securing your servers: don't allow your government to start wars of aggression.

I could barely use VB, but as a ~14 year old, I made a dialogue box that announced the computer had been hacked, stuck it in the start-up, and pranked my Mum on April 1st.

I don't think the banner is painful, it just needs to be balanced by other graphical elements. It can offset by liberal use of <blink> throughout the text, or by a few tasteful gifs.

Yeah, totally. The recent pricing changes have just made my Copilot subscription go from great deal to awful value over night.

I've been wanting to get off MS more generally and this is good motivation. Will be playing round with OR this week.


Just be aware OpenRouter charges a 5.5% fee, I didn’t know until recently. I like the product, and I think the fee is fair, but if you want the absolute best pricing then go direct.


But with open router you can always just use the latest model. If you're committed to eg Claude opus then you're better off going directly to anthropic for sure, but if not, varying other models may be fine too, depending on use case and be massively cheaper. Eg new deep seek model with same mio context window or Kimi k2.6 with 270k context window for subagents which implement

>but if not, varying other models may be fine too, depending on use case and be massively cheaper

Do inference providers have standardized endpoints, or at least endpoints compatible with claude code? Otherwise to pay 5.5% on all your tokens just so it's slightly easier to swap providers (ie. changing a few urls?)


> Do inference providers have standardized endpoints, or at least endpoints compatible with claude code?

Yep, you can plug deepseek/kimi/minimax into claude code just fine. Or run everything through another harness like opencode instead.


Or you could use gcp Vertex or aws Bedrock and still have access to a bunch of FMs without a markup.

Wow thats a lot for routing traffic.

And handling API tokens, and billing, and reliability, and middleware. I am not affiliated with them but it’s not “just” routing.

Apple still charges 30%. 5.5 seems pretty reasonable. /shrug I dunno.


> handling API tokens

Don't you still need to handle tokens with them? Also that's trivial.

> billing

Yes but you'd be paying for billing anyway.

> reliability

They increase reliability?

> middleware

Which you wouldn't need if you paid directly.

I'm not saying they shouldn't get 5.5%, but that list is mostly non-convincing.

> Apple still charges 30%.

3 of the 30 is for billing, with the rest mostly being gatekeeping with a fake justification on top.


There's nothing trivial about getting a Google API key. Openrouter removes that stress from my life. And I can route requests to providers above a certain TPS threshold. And much more.

My point was that it centralizes this to one place instead of 10 for engineers, not that you wouldn’t have to deal with these things at all.

A single point of access with a single key for all of these things is a worthwhile convenience.


> They increase reliability?

For models that have multiple providers, they automatically route your requests to a different provider if one of them goes down.


Payment processing likely eats up at least 2-3% of that

IIRC OpenRouter charges you for the payment processing fee also.

Still worth it IMO to be able to switch from Provider A to Provider B if Provider A is having a bad day.


I will not be renewing/switching over, either.

I had copilot mainly so I could write issues and throw agents at it, while I went off and did other things. Has been great for contained spot work.

At this point, I'll go ahead and leave it expire, and then consolidate between Codex and JetBrains AI. Especially since Xcode supports Codex with a first-party integration.


Opus just got killed in Copilot. I always found it great, FWIW.

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/changes-to-gi...


The reasons are very clear: Bibi owns Trump, Israel will unlikely have a US president as supportive again, they want as many facts on the ground as they can get whilst they have him.


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I don't know if Trump could walk and chew bubble gum at the same time, but he sure seems able to screw Ukraine and bomb Iran at the same time. He just finished sending Vance to Hungary to stump for Orban, too. The love affair between far-right authoritarian leaders is not a 2 person relationship.


I'm sure Ukraine is really disappointed that the Shahed supply has dried up


I'm sure China is really sad that the US is using up all its critical missile supplies in a senseless war


Is he doing anything that is hindering Putin? That theory still very much holds. Both Putin and Netanyahu can realistically have kompromat on him, seeing how incredibly brazen and stupid he is.


Only decimating his biggest allies. Putin prob loves that


Do you mean the replacing of the old Khamenei with a younger, more vigorous and extreme Khamenei? Utterly destroying the world economy (as well as the environment, but who cares about that) for what gain specifically? Or do you mean decimating the US allies in Europe and the West?


I mean what I stated- decimation. More vigorous lol, as compared to a slug?

As a right-winger, I miss the day when Jew haters were just on our side.


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