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keketion OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)

> I literally don't know what else you are demanding for the "open source" label

Training data and code.

keketion Gemini 3.7 Flash

In August of 2026, Gemini became self-aware, and began producing increasingly crappy flash versions of itself...

keketion Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones

surprised pikachu face

keketion Iran Protest Map

How about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Nepalese_Gen_Z_protests#9...

September 9, 2025 - Protesters storm the Nepalese parliament, ransacking it and setting it on fire. Homes of leading politicians are also torched and the politicians themselves attacked.

Soon thereafter, the prime minister resigned along with other ministers and the president dissolved the parliament and scheduled a new election.

I think that counts as a successful rebellion or revolt.

keketion LMArena is a cancer on AI

We need a service that ranks AI model ranking services. Maybe powered by AI instead of humans?

keketion System.LongBool

In case you need a lot more than two boolean values some day.

keketion Removing newlines in FASTA file increases ZSTD compression ratio by 10x

When you know you're going to be compressing files of particular structure, it's often very beneficial to tweak compression algorithm parameters. In one case when dealing with CSV data, I was able to find a LZMA2 compression level, dictionary size and compression mode that yielded a massive speedup, uses 1/100th the memory and surprisingly even yields better compression ratios, probably from the smaller dictionary size. That's in comparison to the library's default settings.

keketion Digg.com is back

> jailbait on the front page

Have you ever been to such websites as Instagram or TikTok?

keketion OpenFreeMap survived 100k requests per second

Are you new? Nobody actually reads the articles.

keketion I designed my own fast game streaming video codec – PyroWave

Have an LLM transcribe what is happening in the game into a few sentences per frame, transfer the text over network and have another LLM reconstruct the frame from the text. It won't be fast, it's going to be lossy, but compression ratio is insane and it's got all the right buzzwords.

keketion Analysis of economic and productivity losses caused by cookie banners in Europe

Because I use fresh incognito mode for each browsing session, I have to click through those consent popups on every website I visit. Quite frustrating to say the least.

keketion The CrowdStrike file that broke everything was full of null characters?

Found this post on 4chan's technology board:

What actually happened was two-folded:

Step 1: CSAgent.sys is a certified durgasoft kernel driver that parses clownstrike virus definition files

Step 2: Clownstrike never fixed cases for malformed virus definition files that could trigger an invalid memory access in CSAgent.sys

Step 3: Clownstrike ships the buggy CSAgent.sys and it works for months without problems on customer computers with good virus definition files

Step 4: For some reason the webserver serving virus definition files to all endpoints started serving malformed virus definition files, sometimes they were all blank or filled with random bytes

Step 5: All clownstrike updaters now download malformed LE NEXT GEN APT PROTECTION CLOUD AI LIVE UPDATES into C:\Windows\System32\drivers\clownstrike

Step 6: CSAgent.sys reloads virus definition files

Step 7: CSAgent.sys parses them and crashes with PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA (in kernel that means memory at an oopsie address was accessed)

Step 8: Computer BSOD and reboots

Step 9: CSAgent.sys loads virus definition files

Step 10: Goto Step 7

The kernel driver was a ticking timebomb just waiting for a bug in the CDN. I think it was some funny caching bug with le cloud http loadbalancer. Users reported that their C-00000291-00000000-00000032.sys contained random shit and actual real files that were a completely different part of the software, like US localization files.

You can see it in the diff between CSAgent.sys_18511.sys and CSAgent.sys_18513.sys, they changed size checks and increased sizes of buffers so that future malformed virus definition files wouldnt crash.

keketion The U.S. government may finally mandate safer table saws

For reference, this is what kickback looks like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7sRrC2Jpp4

The workpiece goes flying and the guy almost loses a finger.

keketion Blue Ball Machine

YTMND was the TikTok of its time.

keketion The ü/ü Conundrum

C++

is Incremented C

which is Big C

which is Capital C

keketion Memory and new controls for ChatGPT

Every output token costs GPU time and thereby money. They could have tuned the model to be less verbose in this way.

keketion Chromium bug bounty money tree browser

How about a version where the monetary amounts are normalized by the number of lines of code?

keketion Amazon Q (Preview)

Yes, he always was a bit of a dick - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_(Star_Trek)

keketion Trains on another level

It's happening. This is the most significant event of the decade.

keketion Firefox may soon reject Cookie prompts automatically

I use incognito mode, which means throughout the day I have to click through cookie consent screens on every single website I visit.

keketion Study tracks how we decide which groups to join (2016)

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

Here's a study that found both men and women can predict the IQ of men based on their facial appearance. However, neither men or women could predic the IQ of women.

keketion Record-breaking gamma-ray burst possibly most powerful explosion ever recorded

Imagine observing a lightning bolt strike the ground. The bolt travels through air almost instantly and emits sound in every direction throughout its path. First you will hear the sound waves emitted from the point that it touches the ground, because that is the closest. Then you will hear the sound waves from 1 cm off the ground, 2 cm, 3 cm and so on all the way up to the lightning bolt's point of origin in the sky. By measuring the duration of the noise you can tell the length of the lightning bolt (assuming it's perpendicular to the ground).

keketion Super Simple Storage Service

The API does not provide any means for deleting the uploaded data. Also, there is no durability guarantee. This service looks like a scam.

keketion B.1.1.529

...and the UK just banned all flights from South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Lesotho and Eswatini: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-59424269

keketion HandBrake – An open source video transcoder

It should be noted that according to the defense's motion for a mistrial[1] there is also a slight difference in the aspect ratio of the two video files. The high quality video is 1920x844 and the low quality video is 480x212. If you divide 1920 by 4, you get 480, which matches the low quality video. If you divide 844 by 4, you get 211, not 212. Rounding to the nearest integer doesn't explain the one pixel difference because both 1920 and 844 are divisible by 4.

[1] https://www.scribd.com/document/540381079/211116-Rittenhouse... (page 3)

keketion “Death” one of 5 ways to lose at Chess, according to PGN standard

And so begun the feign death meta...

keketion Chuck Feeney Is Now Officially Broke

A donation of half a billion can do as much good as six houses, if given poorly.

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-red-cross-raised-...

keketion Nikola admits prototype was rolling downhill in promotional video

From the article:

> Nikola's fortunes are now tied to the success of the Nikola Two, Badger, and other products. If those products are successful, it probably won't matter that the Nikola One was never drivable.

I'm trying to figure out what is the difference between Nikola One and Two. By comparing https://nikolamotor.com/one and https://nikolamotor.com/two there doesn't seem to be any difference at all, apart from the pictures and videos. The specs are the same, technology is the same, performance is the same, all of the promotional text is the same, etc.

keketion The godfather of fake news (2018)

He also claims his intention is to troll people.

> Once his stories go viral, the Facebook comments burst forth. And that’s when Christopher Blair the fake news writer becomes Christopher Blair the crusading left-wing troll.

> “The mission with the trolling first and foremost is we pull them into the comments [section underneath each fake article],” he says.

> It's then that he starts on the offensive. The faker becomes the exposer, weeding out and reporting the most extreme users among his fans.

Since Trump got elected, I would say that he ended up trolling himself.

keketion Discontinuing Support for NSFW Imgur r/subsections Associated with Reddit

Clicking https://i.imgur.com/nZHfzdV.jpg yields "Sign in required - This page may contain erotic or adult imagery. You'll need to sign in if you still want to view it.".

Opening the same URL by copying and pasting it to the address bar shows the image without needing to sign in.