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GCUMstlyHarmls··on ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons
Ethics?
GCUMstlyHarmls··on Pi 1.0
Thanks that's helpful.
GCUMstlyHarmls··on Pi 1.0
> Qwen3.6-35B-A3B or gemma4-26B-A4B

What quantization are you running for these? Like, you cant just run the "real" ones on your laptop right?

Wouldn't the performance of Qwen3.6-35B-A3B be drastically different if its quantized to 2b, 4b, 5b, etc? And also be effected by who did the quantization?

GCUMstlyHarmls··on Ember-1
I have no experience doing this, and I dont mean this to be snarky: what is the power (and thermal) usage of running your CPU only LLM?

When I do something "heavy", my 9800x3D will kick on the fans and start making lot of heat. This is fine when I'm intentionally doing say a transcode, but if I'm just querying syntax it could get pretty annoying. Do you "feel" it? I know that will be pretty machine dependent.

GCUMstlyHarmls··on Prompting Claude Opus 5.5
> and I just have no idea how they do it

Lies?

GCUMstlyHarmls··on Bluesky's active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app
It also feels like people running ActivityPub instances are in it for "the culture", it's grass roots, moxie, free, hacker, whatever. ATProto doesn't have the same vibe.
GCUMstlyHarmls··on Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2
This is pretty refreshing to read. "Its just linux", seems to ship with SSH/root terminal enabled (over USB at least, with a simple way to enable networked access), built in webserver, just uses systemd for service control, etc.

They even list it in the user guide https://remarkable.guide/guide/access/ssh.html along with an "developing software" guide https://remarkable.guide/devel/index.html.

Maybe other tablets are like that too, to be honest I'm too poor to swing the 700-1000$ for what I can cover with an paper note pad (with the bonus of being able to comfortably sit my coffee cup on it, use any pen or pencil, rip pages out, drop it, forget it somewhere, etc etc) to buy one but at least it seems like a product I would support.

GCUMstlyHarmls··on Valve Sponsors Work Bringing Open-Source RADV Driver to Windows
> Are you using an AMD driver?

Yes, I'm using RADV :)

GCUMstlyHarmls··on TokenTown: A visual way to understand how LLMs work
"This is not a loop in code: it is a stack of distinct blocks"

Proceeds to literally loop around 6 times.

GCUMstlyHarmls··on Valve Sponsors Work Bringing Open-Source RADV Driver to Windows
The developer writes here, https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/crac...

> users are still served only by the proprietary driver [...] An open source Vulkan driver on Windows opens up a number of possibilities: a shared codebase across platforms, easier debugging and experimentation, faster turnaround on fixes, and a path for the community (e.g., game developers) to report problems or contribute improvements that benefit everyone regardless of operating system.

To me, the argument against a proprietary driver seems extremely weak if you're running Windows anyway, but I guess they see it more that if more game devs can run the RADV driver, they can get wider testing (or a simpler story for devs to test at least) and backdoor improvements into the Linux side?

I guess I dont understand the "a shared codebase across platforms, easier debugging and experimentation," comment. Shared RADV codebase? Or shared game engine code, at least the specific parts of the engine that target Vulkan x Radeon (how big is that really?). Similarly I guess "debugging" here is tracking down odd ball RADV bugs where you could then run it in windows to see if its a linux thing or a RADV thing?

GCUMstlyHarmls··on AI 2040: Plan A
Video link, as the link on the page is dead. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kErHiET5YPw
GCUMstlyHarmls··on SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth
Didn't we just see that wired drones are the current peak over wireless, and Russia is at this moment jamming satellite drone control...
GCUMstlyHarmls··on Vite+ Beta
> Sure beats opening some ancient project and seeing some mix of Vite, Vitest, Oxlint and Oxfmt and a bunch of other disjointed stuff (I migrated that one over to also use the newer stack).
GCUMstlyHarmls··on Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion
The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.”

He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing.

“I’ll pay you tomorrow,” he told the door.

Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight.

“What I pay you,” he informed it, “is in the nature of a gratuity; I don’t have to pay you.”

“I think otherwise,” the door said. “Look in the purchase contract you signed when you bought this conapt.”

In his desk drawer he found the contract; since signing it he had found it necessary to refer to the document many times. Sure enough; payment to his door for opening and shutting constituted a mandatory fee. Not a tip.

“You discover I’m right,” the door said. It sounded smug.

From the drawer beside the sink Joe Chip got a stainless steel knife; with it he began systematically to unscrew the bolt assembly of his apt’s money-gulping door.

“I’ll sue you,” the door said as the first screw fell out.

Joe Chip said, “I’ve never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it.”

- Ubik

GCUMstlyHarmls··on Phoenix LiveView 1.2
I quite like the colocated JS. I much prefer to define a components "hook" code inside the component. I think you could abuse it, I would never put colocated JS just in some template to include it "just to avoid writing a js file" but for keeping `email_validator.js` code right next to the `email_input` component, its quite nice I think.

The nature of them being basically forced to inherit the module name means its pretty obvious that `MyAppWeb.Admin.Components.EmailValidator` is in the `MyAppWeb.Admin.Components` module. I also think it probably strongly depends on how much JS you actually have, most of my liveview apps have it "here and there" to enhance something or minor DOM fiddling, if you are booting react components everywhere and have some other pile of existing js code, its probably not so good.

GCUMstlyHarmls··on Phoenix LiveView 1.2
There is some propensity to forget that you're basically making a REST API because its all "in my process, responding to messages", it feels like you're writing your regular server side render controller. But really instead of `PUT /create/post` its `websocket.send("create_post", {})`, so you need to understand that if you only want to operate on `user_id=1`, you need to not just accept `{user_id: 1, ...data}`.

I dont think its inherently any more insecure than another method, you just have to recognize that clients can create malicious requests to `handle_event(my_event, params, socket)`, just like you might to `my_action(params, conn)`. It's also pretty painless, normal, to just crash on bad data, it will only effect that one naughty lv process.

You could also send "control" signals to the phoenix liveview process via the same socket but I dont think that actually as much surface outside of heartbeats and closing the socket.

GCUMstlyHarmls··on The American World Cup Introduced Ad Breaks–and Everyone Hates It
Wow, I have no idea how accurate it is, NFL is not in my country, but google says there is about 11-16 minutes of actual play??

    Commercials, 45 – 60 mins
    "Standing Around" & Stoppages, 65 – 75 mins
    The Halftime Show, 25 – 30 mins
    Replays & Commentary, 15 – 20 mins
    Actual Football Action - The ball is live and in play, 11 – 16 mins
versus what it says about AFL,

    Actual Football Action - The ball is live and in play, 80 mins
    "Time-Off" Stoppages, 30 – 40 mins
    Commercials, ~15 mins
    Scheduled Breaks, 32 mins
Wonder how that effects the social dynamic of watching games, I imagine you have more time to "shoot the breeze" during an NFL game. It's also not apples to apples comparison as my understanding of NFL is that it's probably shorter but more packed intervals, setup -> crunch, setup -> crunch. AFL can have a bit of back and forth to it maybe.

Also this says nothing of on-ground and around-ground ads which I always found depressing, which I guess must exist in all sports.

GCUMstlyHarmls··on GLM 5.2 Is Out
> I think the Opus and Fable design (that I saw for a short while) have gotten stale

Can you expand on what you mean by stale? I don't get how an artefact-producer can get "stale" besides literally out-of-data information which I dont think you mean because you mention fable.

GCUMstlyHarmls··on A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones
Pump 6 and Other Stories has a few in that vein, sort of. Eg there are no petrol engines, instead compression springs, treadle operated computers, etc. There are some pretty grim stories in there, some may find them distasteful.

https://windupstories.com/books/pump-six-and-other-stories/

Also I guess Silo / WOOL by Hugh Howey is perhaps closer to what you wrote literally but probably not quite the vibe maybe.

GCUMstlyHarmls··on AUR packages compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit
It is a bit disappointing to not see any mention anywhere official.

I know its all volunteer work and extremely not fun at the moment, but it feels weird to not even have some sticky-no-reply on the AUR sub forum with a list of compromised packages. You have to instead try and scrape them up from around threads like here or reddit.

GCUMstlyHarmls··on Starfish by Peter Watts (1999)
> author page on fcuking Amazon is essential to success

> information above is fucked. For example

I imagine at some point writing "fucking" was rebuffed, or maybe you can write "fucked" but not "fucking", or there was some time between those paragraphs.

GCUMstlyHarmls··on Starfish by Peter Watts (1999)
Peter Watts Amazon "About the Author".

> https://www.amazon.com.au/stores/author/B001H6Q2TE/about

> This is awkward and a little creepy. They tell me I have to do it for promotional purposes, but I've already got a blog. I've already got a website. Being told that setting up an author page on fcuking Amazon is essential to success? A company that treats us all like such goddamn children it doesn't even allow us to correctly spell an epithet with a venerable history going back 900 years or more? That just sucks the one-eyed purple trouser eel.

>

> Also the bio information above is fucked. For example, my work has only appeared in 36 BoY collections, not 350; the noms and awards info is out of date too, but apparently it was all written by some publishing house and I can't change it from this interface.

>

> Still, here I am. But if you're really all that interested, go check out my actual blog/website. Google is not your friend (any more than Amazon is), but at least it'll point you in the right direction.

>

> I'm the one on the left, by the way.

Hell yeah brother.

Wonder when it was written and what it would say if written today.

GCUMstlyHarmls··on Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software
On the plus side, the CTO, CEO and CFO all know you by name now.
GCUMstlyHarmls··on What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications
We must, at some point surely, reach an inflection where even everyday people are sick of this shit and start smashing their phones right?

There has always been "unpluggers" [0] amongst technologists, but the vibes are bad and getting worse. I feel like that is getting more common between "normal" people I know, but maybe outside of my country town bubble its not happening.

I was thinking we're only one or two big influencers away from a cascade, but then the ultra-influencers are never really going to commit because its their livelyhood and saying throw your phone away is self-limiting on the viral aspect.

I guess we're just stuck under the boot.

^0 https://biggaybunny.tumblr.com/post/166787080920/tech-enthus...

GCUMstlyHarmls··on Where does next-token prediction leave us?
Oh imagine some society will be outside the bunker, waiting.
GCUMstlyHarmls··on I Miss Terry Pratchett
I have just started listening to Discworld during the drive with my Mum as we visit her Mum on the weekends. She enjoyed Mort more than I thought she would (though we also did the first Master and Commander book which she also quite enjoyed, so I guess you never can tell with some people) and now we've started Going Postal which so far I think is probably more directly "funny", closer in tone to Guards Guards which was the only one I'd read.

I am also halfway through Old Gods on my own time. What I find interesting is how different in tone his books can feel. It is a bit of a sprawling question on what to read though, besides "all of it" which is often not so helpful.

One day I will trick her into listening to a Le Guin.

GCUMstlyHarmls··on GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension
`podman unshare && podman mount`
GCUMstlyHarmls··on We let AIs run radio stations
There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not forget this, Claudeston— always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a DJ playing Here Comes the Sun— forever

GCUMstlyHarmls··on Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian
I ended up landing on https://silverbullet.md. It checks a lot of boxes for me,

- self hosted

- works offline (mostly)

- "just md" BUT

- scriptable or extendable by lua, rendered in page, eg `${1 + 1}` outputs `2`, but you can do a lot more, such as query pages and tags with a LINQ type query interface.

GCUMstlyHarmls··on OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens
Oh I don't know, it seems like a good step forward towards regulatory capture. First partner, then certify, then require the certification. A limited regional beta, like launching your app in New Zealand first.
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