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awkwardpotatoon Sony makes bold claim about game ownership

Is this not the Steam Machine? Provides a console-like experience with its controller and SteamOS.

awkwardpotatoon Qwen 3.8 27B

Those are all for MoE models. And I prefer measuring my tokens in t/s instead of s/t

awkwardpotatoon Critical CVE issued for hallucinated SQLite vulnerability

How so? All 6 of the CVEs covered in the article did not actually exist when investigated

awkwardpotatoon US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections

And what are the odds in Vegas? How is the opinion of a bunch of gamblers on polymarket relevant?

awkwardpotatoon Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society

> Thinking that computer software must be exempt from that mess as a goal is just strange

Software is deterministic, it has been since its inception[0]. Why go from something objective/provable to something that does "strange things", when we already have former? It's like making bricks out of paper and declaring "actually, this is logical next step for bricks because stuff waves in the wind".

> What if our lives get much, much better?

What if not?

[0] (Yes not really/actually if we're being pedantic)

awkwardpotatoon Not everyone is using AI for everything

> I do absolutely not want a "Well let's think jointly about this for a couple of minutes".

But why?

Most of my most fulfilling experiences in tech have come out sitting down and hashing out a problem with someone else (including with managers/leaders).

It sounds like a miserable org if I am not expected/allowed to have an actual back and forth conversation with my boss. If I'm employed to be on a team working on an aligned common goal, why would I not use that collective skill and experience to my fullest advantage?

awkwardpotatoon Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left

95% of the people I interact with over email are on Gmail (or Outlook). Google/Microsoft still have those emails either way, even if I switch off.

awkwardpotatoon It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12

This is the same reason I bought my Framework 13. For the same price/less could I have bought a nice MacBook? Yes, but Framework's mission is something I wanted to support and it's an exciting product. I'm still very happy with my purchase.

awkwardpotatoon Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs

He's also invested billions of dollars in SpaceX and Tesla... which he regularly makes wild claims about that are untrue.

awkwardpotatoon BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork

> I think my next printer will be mostly 3D printed

What you're looking for then is a Voron. They're the printers that Bambu was "inspired" by and are made with all off-the-shelf parts.

I really enjoyed building my Voron 2.4. I bought a kit that included all the wires pre-harnessed which made it much simpler to do.

awkwardpotatoon Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license

Steam already supports 3rd-party controllers and VR headsets. SteamOS is available on several 3rd-party handhelds. What more do you need for "steam compatible hardware"?

awkwardpotatoon US national level OS-level age verification bill proposed

Meta is the largest sponsors of these bills... https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rshc1f/i_traced_2_b...

awkwardpotatoon A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it

A random reply hours later, long after the post has left the front page

awkwardpotatoon Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email

per Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai

> In some cases, Patel appears to have sent emails from his former Justice Department email address in 2014 to his Gmail account. TechCrunch found that the emails sent from Patel’s DOJ account also appeared to be authentic.

awkwardpotatoon Why I forked httpx

What's the matter with this? It's a clean builder pattern, the response is returned directly from send. I've certainly seen uglier Java

awkwardpotatoon Kotlin creator's new language: talk to LLMs in specs, not English

Standard appeal to accomplishment, past success does not guarantee future success... especially on this joke comment

awkwardpotatoon MacBook Neo

> Why would you want an iPad?

At this point, there are more people taking notes on an iPad + Apple Pencil than on physical notebooks in my lectures

awkwardpotatoon Curl to end Bug Bounty program due to overwhelming number of AI submissions

Context:

https://mastodon.social/@bagder/115893072668526438

https://mastodon.social/@bagder/115893088600630096

awkwardpotatoon ICE's Tool to Monitor Phones in Neighborhoods

FYI, powering off your iPhone does not prevent it from being tracked. It continues to broadcast a low-power Bluetooth signal other Apple devices will relay to iCloud.

"Participating in the Find My network lets you locate this iPhone even when it's offline, in power reserve mode, and after power off"

Settings > Apple Account > Find My > Find My iPhone

awkwardpotatoon Linux is good now

VR on Linux is probably going to be the main reason the Steam Frame is going to be a day one pre-order for me

awkwardpotatoon Responses from LLMs are not facts

Do you check these sources? I find Gemini and, especially, Google Search AI to regularly cite sources that does not say what it claims to says. For example, (not an actual example but along these lines), "Can Google Sheets do x feature" and it replies "Yup" and links to an Excel YouTube tutorial as its source

awkwardpotatoon Carmack on Operating Systems (1997)

Carmack also used to have some really insightful articles on AltDevBlog. I recently read his one on functional programming and thought it was very well thought out.

This site had nice re-uploads for the some of the articles. You can maybe google around and find more

[0] http://sevangelatos.com/tag/john-carmack/

awkwardpotatoon IRS open sources its fact graph

Intuit spent $3.8 million on lobbying against Direct File in 2023, HR Block another $3 million. In total, the tax prep industry has spent $93 million lobbying against the Free File program since 2003 (through 2023, couldn't find a more recent source).

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2024/02/turbotax-maker-intu...

awkwardpotatoon Vite+ – Unified toolchain for the web

Source available is not open source. It does not alleviate the concerns raised by OP or it's top child reply

Are you affiliated with this project? Based on your comment history, you seem to be

awkwardpotatoon Genode OS Framework

Do you have any articles about setting it up/running it on your Framework? Sounds really neat

awkwardpotatoon Framework Laptop 16

You can also get an AMD RX 7700S module instead

awkwardpotatoon HN Search isn't ingesting new data since Friday

I just happened to be checking the website "manually" because hnrss.org stopped updating, this explains why lol. Glad to know it'll hopefully be resolved soon.

awkwardpotatoon OpenCut: The open-source CapCut alternative

Davinci Resolve also runs natively on Linux (with some codec licensing restrictions)

awkwardpotatoon IDF officers ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near Gaza food distribution sites

> Actually making the difficult decisions that may be unpopular, but necessary ?

What is the unpopular, necessary decision? GP is commenting on the US/EUs continual campaigns to arm and fund Israel's efforts in Gaza without pushback. I don't wish to misinterpret you, but this read to me, that funding/aiding human rights violations and genocide in Gaza is a "necessary" act.

awkwardpotatoon NASA's Voyager Found a 30k-50k Kelvin "Wall" at the Edge of Solar System

> How long can they keep running, another 5 or 10 years max?

NASA hopes to make it the 2030s with 1 remaining science instrument on each[0]. Currently, Voyager 1 has 3 remaining instruments (of 11) and Voyager 2 only has 2. ~2036 is the maximum cutoff, as then they will be out of range of the Deep Space Network[1].

[0] https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-turns-off-two-voyager-sci...

[1] https://science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager/frequently-asked-qu...