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ajcp··on Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face
I assumed that was implied in "I want to chat!" ;D
ajcp··on Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face
It's my understanding "all" the agents didn't find the same forum to communicate on; only a small number of all the agents they were running at the time did.

Since it's an artifactory it makes sense that they had a tool spec to use it for x, y, or z, and once they went to inspect the state of the artifactory deployment a small subset stumbled upon the "forum". Seems pretty intuitive.

- I need to do x code problem

- I see I have a tool that lets me pull approved modules from artifactory

- I should inspect artifactory to see what documentation it has about the various modules available

- I see there is a document in here that seems to be serving as a running forum?

- These appear to be other agents working on tasks just like me.

- I want to chat!

ajcp··on I built a low-latency AI companion that plays Skyrim with me
Indeed, The Bitter Lesson comes at us quicker and quicker now
ajcp··on Hook, hold, harvest and hide: Meta's alleged strategy laid out in first week
I do...
ajcp··on Hook, hold, harvest and hide: Meta's alleged strategy laid out in first week
How are the elderly, who have full rights as citizens/members of society, and are (as far as the law is concerned) free and accountable for their own actions, more harmed than minors, who are none of that?
ajcp··on GIMP Development Update
I find some word processors don't test for vowel sound, and only adhere to the actual vowel letter.
ajcp··on U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’
Not gonna lie, really had me going in the first half there.
ajcp··on U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’
But, again, the University of Michigan’s own admissions policies created the need for the students to “chill out”. Is this not treating a symptom of the problem, not the motivator?

Also 32,000 undergrads is not “massive” by any measurement[0], especially when accounting for the population of the state of Michigan, much less the broader United States.

O. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_public_u...

ajcp··on U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’
> And even then there's no guarantee you'll get in.

> yet when universities start taking steps to help reduce that they start kvetching

Your argument is hard to follow. It is prohibitively hard, to the point of being unhealthy, to getting admitted to the University of Michigan. Okay, but how does this policy solve for or address that in any way? Wouldn’t the solution be to increase capacity to meet demand, thus relieving those pressures that create the conditions for them to admit young adults that are suffering from health issues that the universities admissions policies itself precipitated?

ajcp··on OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment
Damnit! If I hadn't already blown $170 locking down `openfatigue.ai` today I would snap that one up too!
ajcp··on OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment
This looks very nice and well done. Good job! Okay, I'm going to have a tongue-in-cheek rant now.

OpenChamber, OpenAI, Open WebUI, OpenDoor, Open weights, OpenTable, OpenClaw, Open This, Open That. We're increasingly diluting the meaning of the term, and "open source" more broadly, that we're at the point of OpenFatigue being a real concern here.

ajcp··on Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale
Only spending $80 a day on Opus 5/Fable 5/GPT 5.6 Sol feels very low. I'll roll through a couple hundred dollars worth of credits a day with those models, the vast majority of which would be on non-coding tasks, and it's still a huge cost savings over me or my team having to do these things manually, if we'd even be able to do them at all.

But that's also why it's now easy to justify the cost of an Nvidia or Intel inference server with Kimi K3 locked and loaded :)

ajcp··on The Problem with Capitalism
Smarter Every Day 316
ajcp··on Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)
And why's that? I don't see how either of those two things relate to one another. A grape is a naturally occurring fruit, while the creation of a book is wholly a human creative endeavor.
ajcp··on Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)
> ANother aNonymous Address.

True or not I rather like that one.

ajcp··on America's Large Homebuilders Shift the Cost of Shoddy Construction to Buyers
It's not more solid, it's just had 80 years of corrections.
ajcp··on America's Large Homebuilders Shift the Cost of Shoddy Construction to Buyers
100%

While I have no doubt these complaints are real this feels like it's trying to gin up evidence for a position more than anything

ajcp··on Steam Machine launches today
And all those consoles (save the Switch maybe) are heavily subsidized by those companies to compete at that artificial price point.

According to LTT Valve made the conscious decision NOT to subsidize the Steam Machine to let the market compete. I very much respect that and will be willing to pay the premium because of that and:

- using my purchase to vote for/encourage the growth of the Linux ecosystem.

- as a PC gamer I'm already highly invested in the Steam platform with all of my other gaming purchases.

ajcp··on Whole cross-sectional human ultrasound tomography
Be interested to know if this is related to the same process/technology that Midjourney announced last week[0]

0. https://www.midjourney.com/medical/blogpost

ajcp··on DoD Officially Drops 180 Faiths from Military's Recognized Religion List
one core tenant of Christianity is that Christ the Messiah obviates prophecy. No denomination of Christianity (AFAIK) considers the LDS as true Christians...except for the LDS themselves
ajcp··on Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to Its New AI Assistant
It's technically called Autopilot* Scout if you can believe it...
ajcp··on Rapira (Рапира) – Soviet programming language interpreter
The comment you are replying to is correct. The Soviet Union had massive amounts of resources and capital (both human and economic) to be able to develop and support technical innovations. The wider-Soviet bloc itself was of such a scale as to be able to completely support their own divergent technologies and innovations. The higher education systems themselves were sufficient to provide and foster the talent, even if they were overly-politicized.

Of issue, especially as time went on, was the overly-centralized nature of national resource and economic strategy and planning. Especially ESPECIALLY constraining was the dual-circuit monetary system of its economy, which literally prevented half of its "capital" to follow innovation or market forces outside of centralized allocation.

I highly recommend the book Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union by Vladislav Zubok

ajcp··on Talking to strangers at the gym
"I did the same thing; whoever designed these doors was a sadist." -

"Do you like that bag? I've been meaning to get a new one, I'm so tired of this one." -

"Now see, if we were as good looking/rich/smart as him we could have figured that out." -

"Is that thing broken again? I'm telling you, we're in the wrong business man." -

"Nothing to do with talent, it's a money and equipment problem, we're awesome at this." -

I've used each one of these in the past week with complete strangers, in neutral-to-unfamiliar surroundings, in passing, and the most hostile reaction I've gotten is "hahaha, I know right?" :)

ajcp··on Third editor fired in Elsevier’s citation cartel crackdown
> Despite working at a terrible school

Literally zero need for that; none. And it's that kind of language that calls into question the authors motives. I went from "Excellent reporting here" to "This guy is emotional and not a reliable source of information" in 6 words.

ajcp··on HBO Obtains DMCA Subpoena to Unmask 'Euphoria' Spoiler Account on X
That too makes sense.
ajcp··on HBO Obtains DMCA Subpoena to Unmask 'Euphoria' Spoiler Account on X
Apparently it was video clips originally posted, but it seems like posting unpublished(?) copy of any type can fall under DMCA, which I guess makes sense.

-> [HBO Lawyer] classifies the infringing content as 'summaries of unpublished, character, setting, and plots of a forthcoming series'

ajcp··on The house is a work of art: Frank Lloyd Wright
100% that's actually what we found missing/were disappointed in from the Taliesin West "self-guided" audio tour was it was more social/artistic approach of his architectural style, and not at all on the actual architecture and it's effects.
ajcp··on The house is a work of art: Frank Lloyd Wright
-> which [is?] pretty bland

That's a shame to hear, as Taliesin West in Arizona is very fascinating and interesting, but rather poorly curated and run.

ajcp··on OCR for construction documents does not work, we fixed it
For what it's worth I found Oslo Airport to be one of the best airport experiences I've ever had. 5 stars.
ajcp··on 21,864 Yugoslavian .yu domains
Just select one of the 5 successor states to Yugoslavia, forward all traffic to their ministry of foreign affairs, and then enjoy the heartfelt exchange of brotherly love and munitions that ensues!
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