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ddalex··on Global warming will exceed 1.5-degree limit, UN says
Why should I stop eating meat, just so that Taylor Swift can fly everywhere with two jets !?

Fuck that, we're on this boat together, and we'll all go to the bottom together.

ddalex··on Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing
Probably they bias the RNG for selecting the next token. This can be done practically in a lot of ways, including during training.

I suspect the signal will be significantly under the noise floor, so it's not detectable if you don't know exactly what to look for, but certainly you can submit more information then the textual contents.

ddalex··on Claude Opus 5
> At some point, the chickens are gonna come out.

What does this mean ? AI will only get better and cheaper.

> essentially all about money and government backing

So is nuclear power, and once it came it didn't go away.

ddalex··on Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera
I give it 6 years for not being able to disable the "safety" feature for all the cars in EU.
ddalex··on Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development
And why is this skill important, if a machine can do it ? What's the last time you ploughed your field with oxen ?
ddalex··on Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development
I just got Claude to download and install all the models and servers and agents and prepare all the launch scripts for me... no need to learn, just ask it to do it for you
ddalex··on Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users
> People are growingly concerned with both the car manu and Apple/Google control over their car and related extra software goodies.

10 out of random 10 drivers out there don't care about the software running in the car.

> Laws are really needed when businesses don’t play nicely. I don’t know the legal specifics, but I’m sure glad I don’t need to buy $1000’s of specialty tools to maintain my vehicle, and sure glad that replacement parts are readily available (and will be for decades).

You drive a self-maintained car. Nothing wrong with that, but I would guess 95 out of 100 drivers on the road don't care about the car at all - they just want reliable transportation from A to B and perhaps some confort.

> Just image how much worse society would be if car manus did the same thing as Apple and had ID-paired parts. Sorry! Your AC doesn’t work anymore, please install a genuine Honda oil filter at your nearest Authorized Honda Shop, available for a minimum of $500.

I don't have to imagine that al all, all premium car manufactures digitally id their components and will not accept 3rd party replacements.

ddalex··on Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users
I would guess there are a couple of orders of magnitude difference between the complexity of interfaces comparing the head unit with wheels and tires.

Like, the head unit is in control of all that happens on the slow bus of the car, and needs to pass independent safety certifications for a complex system.

ddalex··on Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users
Why should they ?! Do you also want to force them to design their cars so the engine is easily replaceable by a Custom Engine OS so that the community can build their own engines ?!?
ddalex··on S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic
"they only be stealing a tiny amount so not worth doing anything"
ddalex··on Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?
Because the economics are simply not there.

There is not enough money in space exploration, let's be real. SpaceX biggest customer is itself. Hence the vaporware about datacenters in space.

ddalex··on Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?
> understanding that this is one infinitesimally small cost

They are stealing your money with make believe numbers, but just suck it up.

ddalex··on The mysterious Hy3 LLM is topping OpenRouter Model Rankings by a large margin
where would it be stored ? it's just a big set of numbers.
ddalex··on The mysterious Hy3 LLM is topping OpenRouter Model Rankings by a large margin
what can it do ? it's just a big set of numbers, if you trust the host that's good enough
ddalex··on Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026
If the repo is already forked, what difference does it make if Google supports it or not? The community can just continue development if they so choose
ddalex··on Google changes its search box
In fact, more then what the call seller expects, not the market.
ddalex··on Why LLMs Can't Play Chess
LLMs can play chess, Gemini 3.1 Pro reaches an accuracy on 96.9 on chess.com and wins regularly against stockfish 18 set on elo 2000
ddalex··on ICAO issued new power bank restriction on flight
Quantity is a quality of its own.

Maybe there is enough plane onboard capacity to deal with just 50 batteries, let's say; multiply the failure rate expected and the pax capacity of the plane and you get how many batteries you can afford to have onboard and still be able to deal with worst case scenario.

ddalex··on Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps
Don't assign to malice what can be explained by incompetence:

* new automated UX experiments starts * the UI bot made a change that made the page unscrollable * the experiment has a much higher rate of retention then the control (because people can't scroll) * the experiment is deemed a success by results analysis (no one looks at the page to see WHY) * the experiment is blessed as the new pipeline

Such an obvious business improvement made by Gemini !

ddalex··on Show HN: A weird thing that detects your pulse from the browser video
> You could prototype this in a few hundred lines of python.

You mean Claude can one-shot this.

ddalex··on Google API keys weren't secrets, but then Gemini changed the rules
I think Google has a database with everything. EVERYTHING.
ddalex··on Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw
The human also started the bot.
ddalex··on Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw
A human is not punished, the access of the robot to the API is restricted. The human has not suffered any damage.
ddalex··on Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw
The consequences for Google are that the people are misusing the keys and the Google is fixing that. They're not banning anybody using proper API keys
ddalex··on The Israeli spyware firm that accidentally just exposed itself
but its not mass surveillance, its targeted at a large but finite number of people
ddalex··on The Israeli spyware firm that accidentally just exposed itself
Appear weak when you are strong, and all of that
ddalex··on Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents
800 grams more or less
ddalex··on Beginning fully autonomous operations with the 6th-generation Waymo driver
Dude, $26k Chinese cars come with lidar in the base configuration
ddalex··on Beginning fully autonomous operations with the 6th-generation Waymo driver
It's between 7k (chinese) and 17k (european) now.
ddalex··on GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark
20 kWh per hour
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