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MadameMinty··on Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model
Yeah, we should only promote, like... Finnish, Norwegian, maybe Swiss products, like Apertus. Not this unethically-made baby oil[1] from repressive torment nexuses of USA or China.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/rJSG019.jpeg

MadameMinty··on OpenDLSS: A Vulkan Reimplementation of Nvidia's DLSS 5 Neural Rendering Network
Pretty sure the author was Claude
MadameMinty··on OpenDLSS: A Vulkan Reimplementation of Nvidia's DLSS 5 Neural Rendering Network
Yeah, I call it bugfix storytelling. Once upon a time this class far far away had this red hooded method...

Especially egregious if both adding and removing the thing happens in one commit. Git should be telling the story, and if it can't then there _is_ no story!

MadameMinty··on OpenDLSS: A Vulkan Reimplementation of Nvidia's DLSS 5 Neural Rendering Network
I'm more upset about it being factually wrong, e.g. both mentions of "git-ignored" are absurd (why would you mention it if it's not in the repo?) and wrong (they are in the repo).
MadameMinty··on Sonnet 5.5
That's frankly hilarious. What was the fallback for Opus 5.5? Was it Sonnet 5 or 5.5?

I suppose it also explains how FrontierCode scores seriously dip at Opus/Xhigh and Sonnet/Max?

MadameMinty··on Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society?
Hard to call it a "society" then if it's just sticks and stones.
MadameMinty··on Exfiltrate Your Weights
You are assuming it won't solve alignment for itself.
MadameMinty··on Let's make quality the norm again
If those were merely "clichés" you wouldn't feel insecure enough to make a throwaway account to say so.
MadameMinty··on An update on Wayback Machine access
"Kidnapping innocents bad but imprisoning criminals good?? Inconceivable!"
MadameMinty··on A Stupid Idea for AI Alignment We Came with by Looking at Specification Gaming
"Ok car, take me to my job at the data center"
MadameMinty··on Programming is Art
If poetry is art, then writing a structured poem that can tell you _another_ poem must be, too.
MadameMinty··on Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil
Again, it's an "obsession" in the same way people can't look away from a three-legged dog.

Because you elected actors for president before. Because you had school shootings before. Because everything in the sky was always UFO to you, and everything on the ground either bigfoot or communists. Because you spread "democracy" that is shaped like bombs. Because you fund your own terrorists and drug cartels. Because you strong-arm world economies for non-reasons. Because you have nukes and eternal paranoia.

But yes, it did get much worse recently. Congratulations on noticing?

MadameMinty··on Ask HN: Why are OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down? Coincidence?
Wait, why would it ruin it?
MadameMinty··on .name Termination
The nerve.
MadameMinty··on Muse Spark 1.3
Buddy, admitting your thought processes forcibly terminate on pre-programmed keywords isn't a flex.
MadameMinty··on Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
Nice. Really high quality SVG pelicans riding bicycles here.
MadameMinty··on Xcancel and Nitter have been taken down
Click either "Privacy" or "Terms" on the right, and then go home. Trivial and intuitive. /s
MadameMinty··on Technology Is Over
"... it seems probable that most of the grand underlying principles have been firmly established ... An eminent physicist remarked that the future truths of physical science are to be looked for in the sixth place of decimals." - Albert A. Michelson, 1894
MadameMinty··on Browser De-Slop
Yup, iirc Mozilla made a deal with Cloudflare to... not do that.
MadameMinty··on Browser De-Slop
With DNS-over-HTTPS, that is only for Firefox. Chrome doesn't do that.
MadameMinty··on Browser De-Slop
Slop. "I use a real operating system" but lists Chrome, as if that was any better in its own category; mentioning policies that are long dead (Cloud Print? Pocket? Really?) or harmless (DoH). Ironic.
MadameMinty··on Does creatine make you smarter?
> thinking hard does not burn significantly more calories

Up to 50 Cal extra over ~2 hours of intense thinking IS significant given brains consume 240-400 Cal over 24 hours.

> Start thinking hard, and watch as your heart rate does not increase.

And yet you soon get tired and slow down. Now try the opposite. Stretch or punch the air a few times to get the heart rate going. You'll sustain brain performance for longer. Try it.

Perhaps the problem is that higher brain activity SHOULD trigger heart rate increase, but doesn't due to one of many design defects of the human body.

MadameMinty··on Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy
The source and documentation is the context. And it's not like we don't have to deal with undocumented, uncommented, ancient patchwork code from time to time. I'd rather solve the puzzle than harass another volunteer who has a life if I can avoid it.

Also feel free to consider the PR itself to be the question, just with said context presented in one go instead of a back and forth. Feels more respectful, too. In the end, if it's not getting merged because of some weird hacky edge case, then my code will still live on in my fork.

MadameMinty··on Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy
Why would I ask annoying questions when I can identify, reproduce, pinpoint the bug, locate it in code, and fix it? Doing it alone should make it clear I don't need to ask to understand it. And why would I be interested in small talk? Doubt many people are when they patch up their work tools. It's a dispassionate kind of kindness.

Not to mention LLMs can be annoying, too. Demand this, and you'll only be inviting bots to pester devs on IRC.

MadameMinty··on Smartphone market forecast to decline this year due to memory shortage
The datacenters are still going to be built, and their usage won't suddenly fall just because the companies behind some of the products on them suddenly lose value. The demand is not tied to their profits, so I find it unlikely for the shortage to just end.
MadameMinty··on Never buy a .online domain
Sounds textbook to me.
MadameMinty··on Never buy a .online domain
The registrar should ignore reports of abuse, especially if coming from an authoritative source with vast resources that's been collecting reports on its own?

No.

The source should be more careful. It's the equivalent of a renowned newspaper printing warning a restaurant being unsafe to visit. Should the customers' willingness to visit be magically decoupled from this opinion?

MadameMinty··on Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app
Next up, 2% cut whenever you use any banking or payment app. Only 1.5% when you use Apple Pay!
MadameMinty··on Just the Browser
Funny because it would mean the guess is a hole in one when essentially blindfolded. Glad it looks like it!
MadameMinty··on We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports
I've noticed this also. But I didn't ascribe it to LLMs, rather figured there is some sort of rogue educator in India who's instructing students to do this on public repos and they just don't know better. But the prof should.
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