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by stego-tech 2mo ago
100% agree with your twist, there. I was speaking from the broadest possible sense, from local OS all the way to corporate internet infrastructure, but you're correct that one of the earliest promises was independence and intent separ
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by stego-tech 2mo ago
I mean, yeah. I got into IT because I loved working with technology, building communities and game servers and chatrooms and computers and the like. I got lucky that someone found me, my interest in these things, and showed me how it could
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by stego-tech 2mo ago
Vertical Thinkers: “Who could’ve seen this coming when all the data looks good?!” Lateral Thinkers: quietly sipping tea, nursing our wounds from layoffs, lamenting another unheard Cassandra moment. Basically sums up the mood, I find. Don’t
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by stego-tech 2mo ago
We thought the same thing. Proprietary or open didn't matter, because with enough attempts at something you can eventually sus out its operations and optimize accordingly (or distill, as we've seen with LLMs). The only solid way t
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by stego-tech 2mo ago
As a PC gamer who grew up in the 00s, this has been something I’ve tried to warn ardent LLM and model enthusiasts about for quite some time. Benchmarks are handy when they’re new, novel, and constantly changing. The second you let even a
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by stego-tech 2mo ago
I’ve read NTSB reports before. Studied aviation accidents as a hobby to help me overcome a sudden and irrational fear of flying (thanks Final Destination!). I’m on Chapter 4, and this is, by far the best report I’ve ever read. Each sectio
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by stego-tech 2mo ago
Amazing article that puts my outsider observations into technically-digestible details. Tangentially, their repeated observations to providers hiding or obfuscating important systems or processes are highly relevant to my own developing c
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by stego-tech 2mo ago
I think this is pretty great, though I’m sure hyperscalers will find a way to make sure such a scheme becomes as shitty for customers as frequent flier programs are today. Think of it from a small hobbyist perspective: I want to host a few
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by stego-tech 2mo ago
Excellent piece, but it does hinge on the idea that what we’re building is actual AI (still hotly debated), if it can be successfully commoditized like utilities (very unlikely given compute continuously evolves and the hardware cycles of d
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by stego-tech 3mo ago
I mean naivety is the default until wisdom born of experience prevails. I bought into the “do no evil” mantra of Google, and boy howdy did I learn the hard lessons from that. It’s partly not arbitrarily punishing the naive unless they ref
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by stego-tech 3mo ago
We should mock them because others look to us as the subject matter experts. It’s mirror neurons: if we mock these entities, these companies, as the technical experts we are, and we show others why they’re deserving of such mockery, then
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by stego-tech 3mo ago
> If you enjoy the screaming, have at it. If you want to persuade people, dialing it down a few notches and at least giving token acknowledgement that nuance exists would help. You’re not going sufficiently far back in comment histories
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by stego-tech 3mo ago
And to think I got warned in another post that I need to be nicer/more professional in discussing this topic. Yeah. Nah. Bringing out the same drum I’ve been banging for years now , these companies have never actually cared about en
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by stego-tech 3mo ago
I’m familiar with the guidelines and I stand by what I said, including how I said it. This has been a regular talking point from AI companies since DeepSeek first hit the scene, and I feel a glib response to what is very clearly an insincer
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by stego-tech 3mo ago
See, this is something I’ve had to reconcile: founders aren’t CEOs, and CEOs aren’t founders. I remain unconvinced a CEO is needed in any real, modern capacity. A large enough company has a PR person (who can do the interviews and sell the
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by stego-tech 3mo ago
It’s Cloudflare and Stormfront all over again, at least from my perspective. As much as folks want to somehow find a way to separate a company from its leadership or founders, the reality is that giving money to Mullvad rewards someone who
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by stego-tech 3mo ago
This. Microsoft has chosen to allow this functionality, despite it being a very clear breach of trust with customers. LG/Dell/et al should be shamed and blamed for even trying this shit in the first place, but it’s Microsoft who h
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by stego-tech 3mo ago
> Plus, a pledge is only worth the credibility behind it. When someone signs “I will not support the development of lethal autonomous weapons,” then stays while their company sells unrestricted AI to a military that wants exactly that, t
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by stego-tech 3mo ago
“Is your refrigerator running - on a botnet for AI companies? Stainless Steel Scrapers - tonight, on Sick Sad World.”
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by stego-tech 3mo ago
The thing that continues to irk me about these sorts of "papers" is how they refuse to remotely acknowledge the possibility that LLMs and Diffusion models won't lead to AGI, ASI, or whatever acronym they're foisting up
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by stego-tech 3mo ago
I mean in a perfect world where I knew my subscription fees were going to developers and enabling them to live a high quality of life, sure thing. Except in practice, that’s rarely the case. The systemic incentives in society have perverted
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by stego-tech 3mo ago
Basically what I’ve been saying since OldJob forced LLMs down our throats and pegging performance to usage metrics: why the fuck are we handing deterministic processes to probabilistic systems when it should be the other way around (using
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by stego-tech 3mo ago
This hurts , in a very specific way. Those coders are legendary wizards of the craft, understanding engine design and systems architecture in a way nobody else in the industry does. This is a team that could get 200fps+ in their games wi
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by stego-tech 3mo ago
I mean, probably? There's definitely a statistical likelihood of folks who use cannabis also using tobacco products or other substances. It's not a "gateway drug" so much as a "anyone who enjoys thing X is likely
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by stego-tech 3mo ago
I mean, it's good that we have data showing some sort of connection between heart attacks and cannabis, but I appreciate the callout toward the end more: > Since both studies were limited by their retrospective nature and the meta-a
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by stego-tech 3mo ago
This is one of those things we should absolutely push proactively rather than reactively, if only because I’ve had several “chats” with AI models both local and AIaaS, and all repeat the same talking point that AIaaS is the only sensible, s
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by stego-tech 3mo ago
I’m with OP, here: CarPlay is additive to the experience, but also is something that provides me a degree of consistency across my automotive experiences - when vendors bother to implement it properly. I have an old Honda Fit that I install
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by stego-tech 3mo ago
And that's fine! I've got a flatmate who loves 320kpbs MP3s on studio monitors, I've got musician friends who swear by CD-audio and Sennheiser HD200s, and others who love how vinyl uniquely degrades over time on big speakers.
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by stego-tech 3mo ago
I cannot hear the difference between 16/44.1 (and by extension, 16/48) and High-Res Content generally, be they HDCD, SACD, or just straight-up Masters from Qobuz. This is on multiple sets of equipment, ranging from El Cheapo earbu
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by stego-tech 3mo ago
I’m aware and have one such drive, but every manufacturer of PC drives has exited the industry. There’s a rumor that Buffalo or some other manufacturer might step in to restart production, but what’s out there is it for the time being. Besi

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