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ahknight··on EmbeddingGemma 2: An open, lightweight multimodal embedding model
Thank you for your service.
ahknight··on EmbeddingGemma 2: An open, lightweight multimodal embedding model
This is exactly the use case. And if your indexing software uses it correctly you can also do "video deposition with Jane Doe where she angrily discussed John Doe's mother's behavior concerning his grandfather's estate." With audio embeddings, transcripts/captions, and periodic image embeddings contributing to tags on the media item you'd be golden.
ahknight··on EmbeddingGemma 2: An open, lightweight multimodal embedding model
Both of those use subject identification models, not embedding models (last I checked, and I run Frigate as well).
ahknight··on Show HN: NanoMuse – An open-source AI agent for your phone and computer
Everyone has their own struggles, yes. And we're all different, so it's often difficult to imagine the struggles other people have because we take certain things for granted.

For those of us with executive function disorders, yes, the amount of information being shoved at us in this modern world is well past the level where we can make sense of it easily, and we certainly can't keep track of it all. Assistants that can read and understand natural language and _assist_ us have been accessibility revolutions.

If you can do it all yourself, that's great. Not everyone can, and not everyone can have a person helping them or doing it for them all the time, either. Being able to just throw _life_ at something in a box and say "Help. Please." and get help? Indescribably useful.

Now if we can just fix the risk and privacy nightmare part we'll be golden.

ahknight··on Decisions API is in public beta
I think it's because only Luna could be competitive on price due to its size, honestly. And if there's demand, then they bump it up later to other sizes.
ahknight··on Decisions API is in public beta
It's still a predictive model under the hood, so order will always matter. They are also just as open to prompt injection and bias/loaded questions as the underlying model.
ahknight··on Big Tech ruined the cloud, so we're renaming ours
This has been around for years. It's just a rename. The code is open source and you or anyone else can go look at it (and many have).
ahknight··on Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?
`/goal` is the best thing ever for this. Ensure there's a condition and a way to test it and the harness will keep poking it until it can say the goal is met.
ahknight··on Replacing Pull Requests with Delta
You also upload your code and conversations into their server-hosted DeltaDB service and the only way to remove it is to email their privacy contact.

Thanks but no.

ahknight··on Bend 2 and the Vibe-Coding Trap
He claimed the guy did no research while himself doing no research? I'm shocked! Shocked! Well, not that shocked.
ahknight··on Neki – Sharded Postgres
If I don't know what I'm reading about by the third or fourth phrase, I skip it. Empty language comes from empty minds and I don't have time for that.
ahknight··on DeepSeek v4.1 Flash
An obliterated 30B model versus a 1T model without guardrails is like comparing an angry squirrel to a bear having a bad day. One hurts, the other hurts until it abruptly doesn't.
ahknight··on Object storage is all you need
They should put a Summary section at the top with the raw prompt.
ahknight··on bzip3
Feels like it's the opposite of what it should be. It's fine to impose the world on the compression side, but decompression should be optimized for low-end devices. This is where deflate and zstd get it.
ahknight··on C*: Unifying Programming and Verification in C (2025)
The inverse is true, however. Especially the "almost" part.
ahknight··on C*: Unifying Programming and Verification in C (2025)
Many of us were there when yada yada white wizard. Hell, my first paid job was writing Perl CGI scripts. Well, script. Monolithic MFing thing spread across 100 files and running a whole company on text files with zero format documentation and RCS as version control. No need for CVS because the systems were incrementally archived with tar every hour...

Until they weren't. (I'm glad you saw that coming, because they didn't.)

ahknight··on C*: Unifying Programming and Verification in C (2025)
This is also fair.
ahknight··on C*: Unifying Programming and Verification in C (2025)
And direct access to system calls. And the uncanny ability to look like it's going to do what I want and then five minutes into a run wind up in a small town in Arkansas blind drunk and crying vaguely about fluffy red squirrels taking its sandwich.
ahknight··on OUI-1: world's first model for Generative UI
Oh no.
ahknight··on Connecting the machines
Why would I want a service for this when I could easily run such a discovery service myself? Why not just release that tool to users? SyncThing offers its discovery server for self-hosting as an example.

Oh, right, this is how we monetize in 2026. Nevermind.

ahknight··on C*: Unifying Programming and Verification in C (2025)
Perl is just C with less type safety.

And yes, for the most part. C++ as simple shorthand for struct-attached functions and automatic memory management (no, not smart pointers; RAAI) is good. Every single thing added after that is misery and should push a modern developer to Rust, Go, or Zig (roughly in that order) where such things are implemented sanely or not at all.

ahknight··on C*: Unifying Programming and Verification in C (2025)
I say this about C every day.
ahknight··on I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer
I end my user CLAUDE.md files with:

"- I'm not always going to read every word, so end each summary message with a TLDR of what you found, what you recommend, and what you need from me."

It works really well.

Sol doesn't need it at all.

ahknight··on Arm Mali G2-Ultra NX GPU: desktop-class mobile gameplay with AI-native graphics
Back when the point of Pixel was to tell the world: THIS is what you can do with Android.

Then Samsung got the message, ran with it, and Google went "Ehh, we're good now."

ahknight··on Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices
And in parallel we had FIDONet. Mustn't forget that magical place and source of many a late night and large phone bill.
ahknight··on New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra
My heavily-upgraded M1 Max came in slightly over that when I got it five years ago. (Still going very, very strong.)

This new Studio? Can't find a config under $5k I'd bother with. But for the MBPs that number still mostly tracks for the average Pro user. (I buy large and run it into the ground so long I mistake the ground for the computer's remains.)

ahknight··on New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra
Because who hates themselves that much? It's the thing I touch and interact with. That's exactly the part that needs to be sturdy, smooth, and pretty. It's the facade to the beast at the other end.
ahknight··on New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra
Yeah, but how many years until 128GB+ is attainable by mere mortals again? My 2021 home server build was 64GB of RAM. My 2025 build was 32GB and zram. :/
ahknight··on New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra
I got used to the hub-and-spoke model at home (previously thin terminal, server-client, etc.). Big ole desktop/server and smaller devices that (ab)use it remotely. Roam around with a smaller computer/tablet/phone. Tailscale to bind it all together.

If your computing needs line up, it's a very serviceable approach.

ahknight··on Qwen 3.8
Did you know you can create more than one email address?
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