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> “What they found was striking: … These differences essentially locked each progenitor cell into its respective fate, like travelers on parallel tracks that never cross.”
The dramatic colon, the obligatory closing metaphor, makes me ill.
I had to modify the default ComfyUI workflows to use a GGUF quant (city96's ComfyUI-GGUF custom node, UnetLoaderGGUF in place of the stock loader) [0].
I use the model labeled Q5_K_M. There is Q8_0 available as well, which is 34GB and fits fine in 64GB unified memory if you keep resolution modest.
The main issue is speed, a ~9-second 480x864 clip at 20 steps takes me a bit over an hour. So this will be cool to try for the speed up alone.
There's a lot of great information and workflows available to follow on the r/StableDiffusion subreddit.
[0] https://huggingface.co/Abiray/MiniMax-H3-GGUF/tree/main/unet
Basically you deliberately create the best mosquito breeding habitat in your yard (stagnant water), then spike it with a a bacterial larvicide to kill the larvae at the source.
Since mosquitoes don’t travel long distances, you end up creating a small mosquito free zone around your trap where they were never able to breed. It’s extremely effective
It’s just another example of a company demonstrating shamelessness in the pursuit of growth, in an industry where consequences do not exist.
But the event itself only seems possible because they failed to properly monitor and isolate the environment in the first place. To me, it looks like their job is to market the model, not take security seriously.
The model is obviously impressive, but we already knew that. I personally don’t like how the containment failure becomes part of the mythology of how capable the model is, rather than an environment engineering failure.
At the end of the day, it’s not like Hugging Face is critical infrastructure. But there need to be real consequences for stuff like this so that OpenAI is incentivized to mature as an organization and take security more seriously.
At this point, this incident is just security porn and entertainment for developers
One of the things I realized is that backups are about as “critical” a function as you can get in personal computing. I ultimately decided to stick with Carbon Copy Cloner because, in this case, it just made sense to use something battle-tested.
I’m happy the developer of SuperDuper got the chance to build the version he wanted to build. But from the outside, reading the blog on mobile, it’s hard to ignore that the website is broken and appears to have been generated with an LLM.
The fact that AI was used to create the website isn’t a problem in itself. It’s the lack of attention to detail in shipping the website broken. It makes me wonder about the state of the application itself.
In the case of SuperDuper 4. The application could be extremely well tested. But as a potential customer, I have no way of knowing that, and the presentation doesn’t inspire the confidence I’d want before handing it my backups.
Cases like this are where I really appreciate open source projects. Having the ability to look at the source directly gives me confidence. In this case, all I have to go off is a broken LLM generated website.
When I'm using agents to code, I don't want to have to stop what I'm doing and commit known-good state to the repo every few minutes.
jj just snapshots everything automatically, so I know I've captured that state, and I can look back and curate it all after the fact.
It's like the shift from manually saving Word documents to autosave, but instead of forcing it with git, I can use JJ which has been intentionally designed for that workflow.
I have all of them run `jj status`, because jj snapshots the working copy every time it's invoked.
You can have Claude write the hooks, but mine is:
`[[ -d .jj ]] && jj status >/dev/null 2>&1; exit 0`
It turns out the snapshot model is a perfect fit for AI-assisted development. I can iterate freely without thinking about commits or worrying about saving known-good versions.
You can just mess around and make it presentable later, which Git never really let you do nicely.
Plus there’s essentially zero learning curve, since all the models know how to use JJ really well.
I’m paying for BookFusion, to have synced cross-platform reading. It’s expensive, but seems to be one of the few cross-platform synced readers that supports the EPUB Media Overlays from Storyteller.
Have you experienced ghosting with your Boox tablet? I’d like to get one, but I know that ghosting would bother me.
It would require a lot of trust.
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Combine that with our cell providers, and it's a real problem. There's some cell providers like Public Mobile where you can't even opt into roaming. So SMS 2FA is never an option. [1]
[1] https://productioncommunity.publicmobile.ca/t5/Get-Support/T...
Perhaps "Risk Compliance Security" or "Security Compliance Engineering"
Where "Security Compliance Engineering" is the practice of designing, implementing, and maintaining security controls that satisfy regulatory frameworks, contractual obligations, and insurance requirements. Its primary objective is not to prevent cyberattacks, but to ensure that organizations can demonstrate due diligence, minimize liability, and maintain audit readiness in the event of a security incident.
Key goals:
- Pass external audits and internal reviews - Align with standards like ISO 27001, SOC 2, or NIST
- Mitigate organizational risk through documentation and attestation
- Enable business continuity via legal defensibility and insurability
In contrast…
Cybersecurity is focused on actively detecting, preventing, and responding to cyber threats. It’s concerned with protecting systems and data, not accountability sinks.
I was actually trying to determine the best free source of metadata for books. I was hoping for something like MusicBrainz.
The best I could find seemed to be https://openlibrary.org. There is https://isbndb.com, but it is paid.
My iPhone 12 Mini has seen better days, and I will need a new phone soon. It is disappointing that there is no alternative to the iPhone 12/13 Mini in 2025.
The smaller form factor is more comfortable in my hand, and fits better in my pockets. With the slim bezels, I have never felt that the screen was too small.
It is funny to think that the screen size on the iPhone 12 Mini is very similar to the screen size on the older plus models.
sigh
It turns out the Ocean is fascinating, and I learned something crazy:
"Between 1950 and 1973, world fish harvest trippled, but the amount of fish directly consumed by humans stayed the same. The rest went into fishmeal, as a supplemental food for livestock, and this became an essential ingredient for modern industrial farming".
I didn't realize that fishmeal was a primary input to modern animal agriculture. Global fish stocks collapsed not only because people ate fish, but also because of animal agriculture in general. It's fascinating how it's all connected.
Also, sea turtles cry 8 litres of tears an hour.
Needless to say, this book ended up as a permanent fixture on my bookshelf.
Connecting a Bluetooth remote to the Paperwhite or using the Scribe's pen to turn pages remotely would be fantastic.
I can't understand why remote page-turning capabilities are not being included.
There are multiple listings on Amazon for the clip on remotes that have 10,000 reviews. The use-case is common.
"What made Apollo A Success?"
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19720005243/downloads/19...
I'm looking forward to seeing how it progresses. I'd like it to be able to recognize and perform more involved calculations like converting L/100km to MPG fuel economy; which I tried and it was unable to do.
Most providers that use traffic shaping don't care about content, and the encrypted traffic classification is enough to make traffic policy decisions.
https://community.rationalreminder.ca/login
It started as a landing pad for listeners of the rational reminder podcast.
TrueNas is configured to automatically backup to Backblaze B2 (which is off-site).
After editing, all the exported JPGs are stored on Google Photos and shared with family. I like Google photos because of the content search and face detection features.
So that's 1 on-site medium and 2 off-site mediums. I used to burn the photos to archival disks and place them in the bank, but it got tedious.
Edit: I use Backblaze because it's the cheapest. Most Photo storage providers don't have support for Raw files. (If anyone has a recommendation let me know).
I'm commenting to see if that's everyone's experience, or if we're outliers.
Am I getting the correct impression?