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by sterlind 5mo ago
I use nix + bwrap, which gives a similar result. it works well enough, though I really ought to restrict reads to only the closure.
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by sterlind 5mo ago
and then once they had the primitive, they used a compressed sensing algorithm or HMM of some kind to create a live player map. truly APT-level tradecraft.
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by sterlind 5mo ago
even careful programmers working in unsafe languages will introduce bugs; it's inevitable. in 2026 we should be using safe languages for all new projects, but there's a gargantuan amount of C/C++ handling protocols. but I agr
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by sterlind 5mo ago
less if you quantize. apparently Q8 and Q4 do pretty well.
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by sterlind 5mo ago
there is a significant learning curve to using AI well. learning to stay skeptical and keep your brain on, developing an intuition of how much free reign to give it, writing ironclad specs and design docs and keeping them updated, making wo
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by sterlind 5mo ago
probably both, to be fair. Meta may know that their employees will put up with it, given how depressing the job market is right now, but unhappy, cynical, resentful employees do not produce good software and innovations. there's a real
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by sterlind 5mo ago
MitID has been active since 2024: https://www.nordicalcohol.org/post/id-now-required-in-denmar... https://idura.eu/blog/mitid-vs-age-verification-login
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by sterlind 5mo ago
1. if they have to subpoena each site each time they need user data, it reduces mass surveillance risk. I'm okay with cops getting a warrant to access someone's gmail. I'm not okay requiring everyone to use email.gov. 2. I us
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by sterlind 5mo ago
I have not seen any government adopt such a standard. some EU countries claim to provide anonymous age verification services, but those only hide your identity from the relying party. the site you visited is logged to the government's
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by sterlind 6mo ago
agreed that not everyone has the same limit, but 4GB is big enough to be annoying to many. that still costs real money (in bandwidth) and storage (on low-end hardware) for a lot of folks.
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by sterlind 6mo ago
I'm surprised so many people still use Chrome. there are perfectly serviceable browsers which block ads. do normies not know you can block ads if you use a different browser?
102.
by sterlind 6mo ago
accelerated what learning? learning to code? learning to engineer? learning to manage? learning to market?
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by sterlind 6mo ago
the problem is managing the contexts. your session might fit in Opus, but will that smaller model you dispatch the git commit to fit? even so, will it eat too much on prefill? do you keep compactions around for this, or RAG before dispatch
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by sterlind 6mo ago
pulls up chair could you tell me the long story? edit: or wait, is it quasi-Blackwell the way all DGX Sparks are quasi-Blackwell? like the actual silicon is different but it's sorta Blackwell-shaped?
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by sterlind 6mo ago
hell yes. I'm glad they found an OEM to work with them.
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by sterlind 6mo ago
they're working on it. GrapheneOS has serious plans to get a phone made for them. even more serious now that Google has become openly hostile to their project by no longer publishing the Pixel device tree when new releases come out.
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by sterlind 6mo ago
you're right, I shouldn't compare the "eradication" rhetoric back then to the "eradication" rhetoric now. I shouldn't compare the concentration camp rhetoric then to the institutionalization rhetoric now.
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by sterlind 6mo ago
not Mythos, no, but they're probably running some kind of vuln-finding frontier models. maybe GLM or Kimi fine-tuned on a dataset of past CVEs or something.
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by sterlind 6mo ago
I'm thinking of picking up some used Gaudis from eBay. they're pretty TPU-like. but other than oddball hardware like that it's just the GPU duopoly and proprietary bespoke stuff the hyperscalers have made for themselves. shit
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by sterlind 6mo ago
not all of us are just "sitting here with insane privilege." it's quite dangerous for some of us right now. I'm trans. this Administration does not like us. after Charlie Kirk's murder, things got legitimately scary
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by sterlind 6mo ago
WSL2 isn't exactly a distro. there's CBL-Mariner, which is a distro used for utility/plumbing, but it's pretty hidden internally. WSL2 is mostly: 1) a lightly-patched Linux kernel 2) a bunch of esoteric bridge stuff, n
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by sterlind 6mo ago
I'm extremely curious how these models learn to pack a lossily-compressed representation of the entire Internet (more or less) into a few hundred billion parameters. like, what's the ontology?
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by sterlind 6mo ago
against those components being Mythos specifically, or against every major intelligence agency using frontier models to find vulns?
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by sterlind 10mo ago
I think the Administration is likely to get its toys taken away soon. the Major Questions Doctrine, the end of Chevron deference, the mandate for Article III courts from Jarkesy , have been building towards this for a while. the capstone
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by sterlind 10mo ago
the Task Force can try to challenge state AI laws. they can file whatever lawsuits they want. they will probably lose most of their suits, because there's very little ground for challenging state AI regulations.
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by sterlind 11mo ago
models are derived from datasets. they're treated like phonebooks (also a product of datasets) under the law - which is to say they're probably not copyrightable, since no human creativity went into them (they may be violating c
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by sterlind 11mo ago
where in the world are you still on 2MB ADSL?
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by sterlind 1y ago
do androids dream of electric airliners?
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by sterlind 1y ago
it's tongue in cheek. the book is an act of mild trolling.
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by sterlind 1y ago
laughs in NixOS it's remarkable to me that NixOS manages to run so well despite breaking the FHS so thoroughly. and not just in superficial ways like not calling it /bin, I mean forsaking dynamic linking (hence /var/li

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