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archerx··on Shimano Bicycle Museum Review
Interesting but nothing on that bike felt like it was the cheapest, still one of the best rides I had even 20 years later.
archerx··on Shimano Bicycle Museum Review
I had a Shimano bike as a teenager and it was great, the breaks were amazing and I loved riding it until it got stolen right in front of a bank security guard. I still think about the bike.
archerx··on DraftKings Uses A.I. To Target the Gamblers Likeliest to Lose
There is a special place in hell waiting for these people and everyone who helps enable their greed and the misery they produce. I bet their system also finds who is likeliest to win and finds a reason to ban them like casinos have been doing.
archerx··on iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
The 6s was great, I had mine until it literally came apart.
archerx··on Thanks to Siri Recaps, your Apple Watch is always listening
Yea were they not paying attention during the Microsoft Recall debacle?
archerx··on Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit
Great let’s install a bunch of cameras in and around your house and live stream it on the web 24/7. You can be a great first case study. You have nothing to hide right, so you should have no issues with this.
archerx··on Gambling with our lives: AI researcher quits Anthropic with warning about safety
Ukraine and Iran are proving that is not true. A drone is cheap and the AI required to run it is no where near as demanding as running a massive LLM.

The problem is they are too cheap, a drone that cost a couple thousand can wipe out millions of dollars of “defense”.

archerx··on Gambling with our lives: AI researcher quits Anthropic with warning about safety
An AI that generates text will never be scary to me. An autonomous AI with facial recognition on a flying drone with weapons (bombs/guns) with swarming capabilities will always be terrifying. I feel like we are ignoring the massive elephant in the room.
archerx··on Audacity 4.0
I feel you and that’s why I use tenacity, the spiritual continuation of the original audacity.
archerx··on Free Image Upscale
So what upscaling model are you using?
archerx··on How to build a diffusion language model
I think it would make training take much much longer but the models would be able to tell you how many Rs are in strawberry.
archerx··on Small, native web tricks worth remembering
Sometimes things overflow and you don't want scrollbars popping in and out.
archerx··on MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID
So what you're saying is we should use linux?
archerx··on Small, native web tricks worth remembering
An online game for example.
archerx··on Flat Chair by Sara Paculdo
I wish they had shown a real version of the chair with a real human sitting on it.
archerx··on Controversial creators are benefiting from monetization programs run by Meta
Maybe they should pay their programmers to fix the audio bug in their iOS app. I can't listen to my podcasts and use the facebook app at the same time because it wants to mute the podcast to play nothing, even with the phone on silent and autoplay disabled the facebook app just randomly mutes my podcasts for no reason making me not want to use the app.
archerx··on Worms: The Future of Yesterday's Worms Today
I remember bringing worms 1 on a diskette to my schools computer lab and playing with classmates, we all got hook and had good times. Then Worms Armageddon came out many days after school were enjoyed blasting each other with bazookas, sheep and holy hand grenades.
archerx··on Apple Introduces Leasing Program for iPhones and Other Devices
Ignorance is bliss.
archerx··on 99% of My Website Traffic Is Bots
A lot of my sites are on $5 vps and run very well.
archerx··on Solving poker in custom WebGPU kernels
It autocompleted the PyTorch library into webGPU…
archerx··on Hetzner is working on LLM Inference
Infomaniak is such a shitty company, I had to use them on a previous job I worked at and dealing with them was awful.
archerx··on John C. Dvorak has died
I do, he and Andrew had a nice chemistry that somehow blended well. I wonder if Andrew will have John’s son on again.
archerx··on John C. Dvorak has died
This was a very sad thing to wake up too. He sounded alright in the last episode of No Agenda. I wish him, his family and friends the best. I will miss John’s unique brand of charm and insights. I really looked forward to the biweekly episodes + DH unplugged.

Rest in Peace John, I will shed some tears for you today.

archerx··on Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude
Ok Spez
archerx··on Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude
Right with his tech skills instead of money.
archerx··on Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude
He wasn’t just some famous redditor. Aaron Swartz helped create Reddit and invented RSS.

If I put my conspiracy theory hat one and I always get piled on for this theory in other online communities but I think it could be possible. The theory is I think Aaron found some very dark stuff while exploring the MIT private networks, things that he was not supposed to see and could be very damaging to a lot people if they were exposed. The infamous Jeffery Epstein was donating a lot of money to MIT and its Media Labs. I think there is a much deeper story at play that the mainstream narrative is hiding with a “suicide”.

archerx··on Funny item co-occurrences in 3.2M Instacart orders
The kale and enema one makes sense, they get so much fiber they get blocked up and need an enema. The parsley and condoms I don’t get but the adult diapers and baby food is probably some terminally online poor souls who “roleplay”. Oreo’s and lube I don’t get, it could be the absurdity that has the writer thinking it’s funny.
archerx··on AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
Double your yearly revenue with this simple trick…
archerx··on Launch HN: Context.dev (YC S26) – API to get structured data from any website
Great, another thing I have to block server side. Reminds me of the image leech protections that had to be in place because bandwidth was expensive. History doesn’t repeat but rhymes as they say.
archerx··on Web-based cryptography is always snake oil
It said the message was removed for violating some rule or something. The message was a link to a website meta does not approve of but it was removed like a day later.
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