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kQq9oHeAz6wLLSon Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict

I wonder if this will change now that camera-enabled glasses are becoming more common.

kQq9oHeAz6wLLSon Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict

Yes, but we've clearly seen the value and effectiveness of French law here...

kQq9oHeAz6wLLSon OpenAI Feared "Optics" of what might appear on Hacker News

I think it's more likely to affect aspiring authors, rather than established ones.

Sadly, like keeping track of "attempted burglaries"[0], it's impossible to know the extent.

[0] how do you count attempts where the burglar was unsuccessful/left no trace and nobody was home to notice the attempt?

kQq9oHeAz6wLLSon Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI

And not a few low/uneducated people of high influence

kQq9oHeAz6wLLSon What even is an OS now?

10 print "<brother's name> is dumb"

20 goto 10

kQq9oHeAz6wLLSon Transformers Explained Visually

Seriously. I was expecting more Optimus Prime.

kQq9oHeAz6wLLSon AI and the Destruction of the Creative Commons

The law doesn't prevent someone from doing or using something. It punishes them for doing or using something (if caught), but never prevents.

If laws had the power to prevent, Chicago would be some sort of utopia.

kQq9oHeAz6wLLSon Largest wildlife overpass in North America reduced wildlife collision by 91%

Is that the California high speed rail I see trying to hide in the back?

kQq9oHeAz6wLLSon I captured 72 hours of idle Android packets behind pfSense

I'd be curious how LineageOS stacks up against GrapheneOS.

Also, anyone know if there are downsides to blocking checkin.static.com?

kQq9oHeAz6wLLSon AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible

Disagree. The value proposition of AI is that you can focus your caring on the things that matter, and let the machine do the dirty work.

kQq9oHeAz6wLLSon Gemini hacked three companies in first known breakout by Google's AI

Yeah, something is amiss at that company. They've been at the center of all these.

kQq9oHeAz6wLLSon Gemini hacked three companies in first known breakout by Google's AI

It also has a 20% project classifying bird calls

Oh, so that's who's behind Google Perch

kQq9oHeAz6wLLSon US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons

No one expects the Antarctic Inquisition

kQq9oHeAz6wLLSon Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher

It'll have to do something with all the greenie socialists who hate nuclear, too.

kQq9oHeAz6wLLSon AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement

That sounds terrifying.

Which means someone is already working on it.

kQq9oHeAz6wLLSon Google will buy half the electricity from one of Finland's nuclear power plants

Don't forget that they buy countless things from China, who is by a very large margin the largest polluter in the world.

kQq9oHeAz6wLLSon California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law

It does if you're looking to solve the problem at the root, rather than treat the symptoms.

kQq9oHeAz6wLLSon Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread

If this is the question they asked:

Is corruption widespread throughout the government in this country, or not?

Then that's very open to interpretation. Even if I thought the federal government was not corrupt, but I did think the local or state government was corrupt (or many local governments were, not just my own), I'd answer yes to this question.

They should have broken it down a bit more.

kQq9oHeAz6wLLSon California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law

Not as much anymore. Sure, trap teams are common, but we used to have school rifle clubs that taught safe handling of firearms.

Now we've decided that if we don't talk about something, people won't get curious about it. Sadly, without being properly taught how to be safe, that generally ends tragically.

kQq9oHeAz6wLLSon Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private

This brings to mind the government set up in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress: it takes 2/3rds to pass a law, but only 1/3rd to repeal it.

The thinking being if a law isn't good/useful enough to garner 2/3rd support, it shouldn't be law. And if a law is so bad that it can't even get more than 1/3rd the people to support it, it should no longer be a law.

Sadly, I don't think it'd work today. People are too divided, it's too easy to import the votes you need, and people are too lazy to understand a law beyond the headline or what the news tells them about it.

kQq9oHeAz6wLLSon Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private

Yes, completely giving up is definitely the better option.

kQq9oHeAz6wLLSon Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is

I've had great success using Gemma4 even on old hardware (4GB VRAM). I haven't found a Qwen model that can match it on very low end hardware.

kQq9oHeAz6wLLSon Early Humans Likely Ate Carbs and Sugary Foods

What a coincidence, so do I

kQq9oHeAz6wLLSon Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border

Then why are so many non-white, non-Christians still flocking here? Why would anyone want to come to this country if it's such a hellhole?

I'm not buying it. Turn off the news and go out into society, preferably one of those small so-called racist communities. You'll find out the truth, one way or the other.

kQq9oHeAz6wLLSon Unsloth Dynamic 3.0 GGUFs

The key to running in lower amounts of VRAM is patience. It'll be slow, but it'll work.

kQq9oHeAz6wLLSon Pressed Penny Machine Map

They're not even a penny anymore; they're using copper blanks.

That said, I have seen several that take a credit card (or dollar bills) but you still hand crank them, so you still get the experience.

kQq9oHeAz6wLLSon GPS and the Lost Art of Getting Lost

Related: I highly recommend "The Natural Navigator" by Tristan Gooley[0] as a means of training your brain to orient itself.

[0] https://www.naturalnavigator.com/

kQq9oHeAz6wLLSon I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone

I had this feeling recently at a local fair when a local online-only news site produced thier first-ever physical edition. It was great, I read through the entire thing while waiting for the parade.

kQq9oHeAz6wLLSon AI At Home Part 1: A Box Of Scraps

> Compare that to a $5k DGX

Times 2, because OP said they had two of them. That's considerably more.

kQq9oHeAz6wLLSon Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out

Speaking of gopher, I'm low-key hoping that becomes the new place for all the non-bot traffic. Gopher felt magical back in the pre-www days.