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by nullc 5mo ago
I guess I wasn't clear-- I wasn't so much making the point people do own $4000 in GPUs (though I suspect you are massively underestimating the number who do, also before the current market conditions this would have been more like
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by nullc 5mo ago
Because-- in this hypothetical-- your user agent restricts the usage to the name displayed on the screen and also because your agent won't send the same value twice either (it'll increment the counter or tell you that its run out
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by nullc 5mo ago
You're just not going far enough-- the dual use technology suppressing human liberty in this case isn't asymetric crypto, it's _computing_.
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by nullc 5mo ago
you don't need asymmetric crypto to make remote attest like this. Google can put a hmac key in each device which it knows and keeps secret. Device can author authenticated messages using it. Of course, only google can verify them-- b
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by nullc 5mo ago
> it is a legitimate desire from an application developer I want a pony! A legitimate desire. So it's okay if I rifle through your underwear drawer in case there are any ponies I could take? Requiring there be a physical phone is a
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by nullc 5mo ago
RMS found it acceptable to use SunOS initially to create GNU. Open weight models can be a big boost to building Open AI (cough). Progress comes from incremental improvements, -- and open weight models are a big advance in privacy, security
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by nullc 5mo ago
but what if the alternatives are fundamentally worse ? Turns out centralization has a lot of advantages. I think it's an error to demand the alternatives be as good-- that might not even always be possible. But even if they're
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by nullc 5mo ago
"It’s a poor atom blaster that won’t point both ways."
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by nullc 5mo ago
Just to give an example to prime your intuition: define your "usage token" as H(private_key|service_domain_name|date|4-bit_counter). Make your scheme provably reveal the usage token when you authenticate. Now you can use the s
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by nullc 5mo ago
Here is an example-- I'm running hermes + qwen3.6-27b on a workstation GPU (an older RTX A6000 which gets 55tok/s, though people run this model on more limited hardware). A friend an I had previously worked on an entropy extracti
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by nullc 5mo ago
> two 4090s is not consumer grade I think that is a very narrow perspective. Enormous numbers of consumers own $50,000 cars, but a pair of $2000 GPUs is "not consumer"? I agree with your view that cheap tokens on SOTA are a tra
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by nullc 5mo ago
> Can someone explain to me like I'm 5, why you would need to communicate with a cloud service to use a 3D printer? Using a cloud service means all your designs are submitted to Bambu and that means that they have the ability resell
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by nullc 5mo ago
That's a common but highly misleading view. If you invent something and publish it (including by offering it to the public in product) your work constitutes prior art and is an absolute bar against the subsequent (valid) patenting of t
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by nullc 5mo ago
Almost no one meaningfully isolates their bambu-- lots of people isolate the printer but bambu makes you run their mystery meat 'network plugin' on your host. Unless you're running qubes or some other virtualization setup the
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by nullc 5mo ago
> I would count myself among those who would prefer to have working phone service again without endless junk calls False choice. It's quite possible that this will not substantially reduce much less eliminate the junk calls. It will
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by nullc 5mo ago
An obvious thing to do is that if you have enough concurrent batches to max out performance you should use those and not speculate. But if compute would be idle waiting on memory, fill the excess with speculation.
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by nullc 5mo ago
You likely need one other step beyond a plain ring signature, often called a linkable ring signature. If you use only a plain ring signature I could get one authenticated key and setup a site that gives away an unlimited number of access t
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by nullc 5mo ago
You can prove your signature is from a key which is in a member of an acceptable set without revealing which one. These schemes can also prevent excessive reuse, e.g. by you also proving that some linked value is a hashlike function of you
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by nullc 5mo ago
> (as that would be 'farmable') It could be contextual, as in each user gets one anonymous id per domain name per day. Multiple uses by the same user at the same domain in the same day are linked. But much of the purpose of th
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by nullc 5mo ago
The patents on powering an electronic lock by turning it are expired now-- lock picking could be a thing of the past.
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by nullc 5mo ago
> Most people don't know, that "prediction markets" are acutally based on an idea by DARPA in 2002, after 9/11/2001. Did they then use a time machine to go back to the mid-90's to pass the idea to Jim Bell s
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by nullc 5mo ago
There are worse fates. Claude has been feeding a number of mentally unwell people screwed up conspiracy theories about me rigging the last presidential election. (I'm not involved in politics or elections at all, never have been). On
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by nullc 5mo ago
A lot of the "add a cost to stop bad actors" end up being a selection effect in favor of bad actors. Sure, it might stop 10% of the bad actors and lower the numbers, but it'll stop 80% of the good users who aren't expert
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by nullc 5mo ago
Coinbase gave my confidential "AML" information to criminal extortionists-- I hadn't even had an account with them for a decade because I realized they were bad eggs long ago. What licenses of theirs were terminated? Seems t
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by nullc 5mo ago
Thanks for the link,it took qwen3.6-27B-q8 w/256k context on my RTX A6000 from ~20t/s to 55t/s. Prefill is mysteriously slower however, but prefill is so much faster still that I think I'm still bottlenecked on output m
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by nullc 5mo ago
Inpainting/guiding from a sketch is how I've always used diffusion models. I thought everyone did that, or at least everyone who wasn't just trying to get some arbitrary filler material without much care of what the output l
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by nullc 5mo ago
The free coffee is a nice bonus.
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by nullc 5mo ago
That is a very reasonable level of diligence, but I don't think it's right to characterize further skepticism as "schizo" -- lets imagine the car has a separate entertainment system or sirusxm radio (perhaps not the cas
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by nullc 5mo ago
Makes it less likely to connect presumably, but at least on some cars it will sometimes, rarely manage to get out-- and of course it'll upload its queued data if it can. (In particular I know of someone where a GM car managed to get d
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by nullc 5mo ago
The antenna has an amplifier, usually with more than enough gain to support downstream splitting. But then sure the antenna is a SPOF. Also the splitter will pass through the dc-bias on the first port to power the antenna, -- so whatever i

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