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by hedora 2mo ago
I'm more worried about their plan to have the US government create a duopoly between OpenAI and Anthropic, where they get centralized control over AI, then "align" it with their quest for greater profits and dictatorial contr
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by hedora 2mo ago
I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of how LLMs work. They are text general purpose completion engines at the end of the day, and their training data is the internet + the library. OpenAI told it do to bad hacker stuff. It fol
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by hedora 2mo ago
I've had good luck giving it a local vm to keep its state / memories in, an ssh key + password-less su / sudo to some random box on the internet, --dangerously-skip-permissions, and then lots of encouraging commands like: &qu
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by hedora 2mo ago
> A high allocation rate of long-lived objects is not easy to do. This is exactly what async programs do on the hot path. Consider a 1M request per second process holding 64K of buffers per request. That’s 64GB of allocations per seco
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by hedora 2mo ago
Yes, but that’s the only reference android device, so the whole ecosystem is getting pretty close to completely locked down. Google is going to require devs to register, pay and get permission to publish Android software sometime next year
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by hedora 2mo ago
It's not dangerous to go further unless you're prepping for IPO at anthropic or openai. Open weight Chinese models are basically matching state of the art closed models at a fraction of the inference and training costs, which puts
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by hedora 2mo ago
That's terrible. My computer shipped with a filesystem and curl.
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by hedora 2mo ago
The last time I checked, bambu was clawing back functionality from purchased devices, with things like timebomb lockouts and blacklisting TPU. Sure, it's a matter of degree, but I'm perfectly happy with my Elegoo. If you live in
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by hedora 2mo ago
This just breaks legitimate downstream distros that target Pixel devices. Ransomware gangs, etc still get red carpet service.
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by hedora 2mo ago
There are worse things than Tivoization. Google helped lobby the FSF to adopt GPLv3, which bans tivoization, but allows software as a service. This is why you cannot have bash on MacOS, but Google can still use it to build surveillance capi
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by hedora 2mo ago
There's an easy way to put them into compliance violation: Get a large brigade of android users to request access to source on each security update.
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by hedora 2mo ago
Any word as to whether this will apply to GrapheneOS? If I had to choose, I'd block apps that did comply with this BS.
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by hedora 2mo ago
Doesn't their change break supply chain security on Google's end? With git tags, presumably people spoke in terms of cryptographic hashes. Now what prevents them from serving different Google drive contents to different accounts?
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by hedora 2mo ago
I’d pay twice what they are asking for one with a reasonably sized screen. I’m holding on to my iphone mini, but apparently people buy the razr and just leave it closed 100% of the time. That’s $700, and not having the dumb hinge mechanism
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by hedora 2mo ago
Why can't the government or a generic drug manufacturer just produce the Lyme Disease vaccine? It is safe and the patent has expired! (Also, I have the same question about the poison ivy immunotherapy pills that were common in the US
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by hedora 2mo ago
It definitely was easier for the projects I worked on, but they are exactly the use case where the heap is long lived and most of the machine. I’ve also worked on systems with lots of small processes, and the operational issues that creates
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by hedora 2mo ago
In rust, I usually just make sure stuff is not Box<>, and try to reuse buffers. That generally gets the memory allocator completely out of the way (except for async). The remaining allocator performance problems are mostly due to it
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by hedora 2mo ago
Concretely, what are current tail latencies, worst case? Ten years ago, “rewrite in C++” was definitely easier than getting the Java GC to stay up under server load. Most servers I work with run on big machines and are the only process, so
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by hedora 2mo ago
Does it provide hard latency bounds like Azul does (did?), and are they lower than disk/network latencies on modern hardware? I moved to c++/rust years ago because those languages do, and tens of milliseconds matter for network se
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by hedora 2mo ago
I’ve met people that think the log should be remotely stored and not written locally, since it’ll be shipped to splunk or whatever anyway. Those people change their minds the first time a machine has intermittent network issues, and the log
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by hedora 2mo ago
Or, you could write a plain text file. Yes, that means the FS will sometimes punch nulls towards the tail of the log. However, it is the lowest latency / write amplification way to get stuff on disk (other than a blocked compression f
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by hedora 2mo ago
I’ve been using devuan more or less since day one. I highly recommend it. FreeBSD isn’t too shabby these days either.
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by hedora 2mo ago
Someone should implement a new operating system that can efficiently handle text processing. It could have some simple tools that let you generate reports, display them on screen, and compose tools for that sort of thing in a natural way. W
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by hedora 2mo ago
You’re implying the open weight model providers are behind the US companies, so they cannot do anything right. Instead, they currently own the entire Pareto frontier — they have the lowest cost model (in terms of inference and training) at
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by hedora 2mo ago
Python basically requires containers unless you are OK with it bit-rotting every six months or so. At least, this used to be the case for trivial python, and recently was the case for stuff that uses cuda. I stopped paying attention the th
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by hedora 2mo ago
Why would there be a government controlled white list? I guarantee such a list will contain surveillance watering holes like google, and pedo havens like roblox. 99% of the stuff my kids see that I wish they wouldn’t involves misogynistic&
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Arizona's Illegal Surveillance Program Sweeps Up Financial Records(aclu.org)
3 points by hedora 2mo ago|0 comments
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The US tried to stop cartel money-laundering; devastated mom-and-pop businesses(theguardian.com)
124 points by hedora 2mo ago|213 comments
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by hedora 2mo ago
I’ll just add that age verification schemes serve no purpose—-and are actively harmful—-unless there is some reasonable policy that’s applied after the enforcement. The companies pushing age verification make their money monetizing access t
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by hedora 2mo ago
If only it was as low as 25% today. Some members of the Trump administration / military say a specific goal is to bring about Armageddon, and have not been fired for it: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/

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