barnabee

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by barnabee 2mo ago
Surveillance is required for closed weights models to have meaningfully different outcomes to open ones
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by barnabee 3mo ago
> Is there a problem with someone owning it Yes > what? They can decide you can't use it anymore They can decide to charge more for it They can arbitrarily take features out from under you or change how it works They can read and
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by barnabee 3mo ago
I like that using keypairs and signed messages inverts the centralised server and SaaS model and makes things more local/client first. I wish more products would move that way. Nostr seems like a reasonably convenient way to achieve th
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by barnabee 3mo ago
I’ve always seen the frontier shown as a curve on a plot. Frontier ≠ SOTA
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by barnabee 3mo ago
This is true, but I'm pretty firmly of the opinion that these data centres shouldn't be built, or at least allowed to operate until/unless they can be powered cleanly and without cornering the market and driving out existin
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by barnabee 3mo ago
My favourite attempt to improve markdown is djot[0] but I think markdown just has too much inertia and most of its issues aren’t really a problem in practice. [0] https://djot.net/
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by barnabee 3mo ago
Everyone’s eventually going to run a binary they downloaded from the same place, if you’ve already decided to do that, why is a curled install script worse?
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by barnabee 3mo ago
The only answer isn't to sink to the lowest common denominator. Ban or tax things from the "globalised" world that are just worker/societal/environmental protection arbitrage so they're competing for the EU mar
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by barnabee 3mo ago
"We didn’t pay as much attention as we should have to the experience of our most knowledgeable engineers" The defining motto of the corporate world
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by barnabee 4mo ago
Yeah, the Steam Machine is pretty tough to justify against something like the Minisforum AtomMan G1 Pro, or indeed a smaller much cheaper mini PC that’s closer to Steam Deck performance. I think it’ll sell well though because of the form fa
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by barnabee 4mo ago
Laws define fraud, terms of service define what a company would like you to do, usually in the narrowest and most abusive and extractive way possible. The idea that anyone would side with a company doing more to support the ToS con than (at
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by barnabee 4mo ago
Snapdragon gaming handhelds are much cheaper than a Steam Deck, so I’m hopeful that as an Arm device it won’t be completely crazy.
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by barnabee 4mo ago
Agree. I only keep a Chromium based browser around because of Mozilla's asinine decision not to support Web Bluetooth and Web USB that are needed to interact with devices, microcontrollers, etc.
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by barnabee 4mo ago
What use is knitting as a hobby after you have already decided it’s reasonable to buy clothes from a shop? …and countless other examples Not to mention the fact that AIs do the programming in a programming language and it’s quite possible
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by barnabee 4mo ago
Me, to scratch an itch and because LLMs make it possible. I'll probably throw it out on the internet someday if it gets far enough, but there are no attention/adoption related goals attached to the project. It's currently use
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by barnabee 4mo ago
If they’re not in it for the money, they’ll be happy to pay more tax
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by barnabee 4mo ago
Money, property, limited companies, intellectual property laws, patents, contract law, etc. etc. are things on which all successful businesses depend. These are social constructs - societal "technologies" if you like. They work be
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by barnabee 4mo ago
Yeah I agree. I’m “vibe engineering” an entire (non-trivial) programming language, toolchain, and standard library, as well as some smaller side projects. I leave OpenCode implementing entire milestones unattended for long periods regularly
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by barnabee 4mo ago
Indeed, but the weights they release are valuable in a way that precisely counteracts the fact that none of these companies are your friend.
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by barnabee 4mo ago
My take is that GUI frameworks/APIs have abandoned power users. Yes, there are things like https://github.com/ocornut/imgui , and some (especially open source) applications try and muddle a long with Qt or GTK, but
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by barnabee 4mo ago
Abusive business models should be illegal. Nobody is entitled to harass their customers because their business would fall apart otherwise. Get a new business model or close the site. Nobody has the right to do whatever they feel like to mak
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by barnabee 4mo ago
Running the website isn’t necessary. These people should try not running any websites for a bit. It was just fine when most websites were academic or hobby content, not businesses.
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by barnabee 4mo ago
Tracking people around the web (especially without asking) is a big deal though.
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by barnabee 4mo ago
I do this to a ~/git-sync/<project>.git directory that's synced over Syncthing for all my personal projects it's great.
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by barnabee 4mo ago
Front end is mostly an enshittified disaster hiding behind "UX" and "design principles". If LLMs help me never use a front end owned/dictated by a corporation again it'll be no bad thing, regardless of the qual
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by barnabee 5mo ago
The war on copying is like the war on drugs: unwinnable, and socially useless. Let information be free for personal and recreational uses[0], and vote for governments that will fund the arts. The corporations will be just fine. [0] The AI c
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by barnabee 5mo ago
I feel about the same about both cars and AI. Cars are useful but they ruin places. AI is useful and it ruins at lot of what it touches, too. I own a car for occasional trips to the countryside and couldn't imagine using it anything li
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by barnabee 5mo ago
TV is here to stay, I watch very little of it. AI is here to stay, I don't want it anywhere near the art, literature, and music I enjoy, not least because part of the enjoyment comes from the knowledge it had a very human creator. That
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by barnabee 5mo ago
^ taxing
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by barnabee 5mo ago
Needs to be inverted. Tax excess tech profits that derive from the efforts of others and use the proceeds to fund living artists. Vaguely analogous to levies on blank cassettes that went to offset piracy. Give the money directly to actual a

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