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monksy··on Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility
That's a disingenuous response.

Having legalized and accessible adult content hurts the scope and desire for "the raw shit". Organized crime created the problem, not the production/consumption of adult content. They're unethical, unlawful, immoral opportunists.

monksy··on One month coding with GLM 5.3 Flash
Same. It's barely even touching the credit I have on openrouter, it's great.
monksy··on Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility
> of the women who end up in porn are underage, trafficked, or psychologically coerced (due to poverty, drug addiction, abuse, etc) such that the choice is not really the free choice of willing participant.

People who believe that are not aware how the industry has changed and the standards attached to that.

Additionally, that wasn't the draw of the industry. Using the "porn/stripping" preys on the poor is a far over simplification and a weasly thing to say.

monksy··on One month coding with GLM 5.3 Flash
GLM5.3-flash has been fantastic for me to make minor fixes in ambigious ways. "Fix x feature, whats going wrong. " It does the job.
monksy··on Fuck Android Developer Verification Program
They also love keeping malware apps on the play store as well. I tried reporting an app that took over one of my parents phone. It stayed up for quite a while. I'm sure it's still up.
monksy··on America.gov
Ok, who has jailbroken it yet?

I tried asking it to reverse a linked list but it refused to write code or do python.

monksy··on Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests
Oh no its not. It's just less invaded.. it will get worse with the more people that use it.

Word-Word-#### have become the norm ever since they've been pushing mobile users to use reddit. They also are a good source of questionable users.

monksy··on Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests
From my experience, they have been astroturfed quite a lot, its' been that way for a while.

During the Laquan McDonald innocent and trial there were tons of accounts from the_donald, and not-connected to that were pretending to be experts and live in chicago (despite not having history on the sub). In the threads these accounts weren't positively contributing to the conversation, they were spewing:

1. Direct racial slurs 2. Political proganda criticising leadership they didn't like (not having direct experience and not critiqing direct political actions that lead to the event). I.e. "Chicago is a warzone"/etc. 3. Maliciously bad faith arguements. (Non-regulars steering up arguments to push talking points.. these weren't well intention-ed factual/communicative debates)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Laquan_McDonald

Since then: There have been heavy agenda pushing on subs. For example scooters and bikes, after the introduction of rentable ebikes and scooters.. there was heavy votes and arguements over people who criticized the business and users behavior. (When the scooters were added to the city, there were lots of posts about destroying them.. now there are not recognizable accounts arguing and attacking you if you comment on this.. a comment about defending yourself against someone riding aggressively near you gets you site wide banned). Note: the attacks in support for scooters aren't consistent.. sometimes you get breakthroughs talking about the negative impact.

On r/privacy, there are groups of people that grief others about "well you can't do anything about this". I'm not talking about people expressing how they feel, I'm talking about direct denialism and griefing in a sub that is expressly meant to be pro-privacy.

Additionally, the DNC did this on r/wisconsin in 2024. They even used social manipulation tactics with calls to actions that "we must do something." There was documentation about this was coordinated efforts.

This has been documented on accounts that are necro-ing old posts for product recommendations as well.

Theres a lot that is claimed on the Ellen Pao == hitler drama actually being a Spez lead campaign in a business lead fight. (Turns out it was spez that wanted to roll out a lot of the restrictive features and sub removals, and Pao was more of a "let's be less resirictive and socially moderated" )

https://reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/2zcbyq/what_is_go...

monksy··on Gemini hacked three companies in first known breakout by Google's AI
I'm just waiting for Qwen 3.8 27b to do it too.
monksy··on Show HN: Sunk Cost – How long until a local LLM rig pays for itself?
I wish you could put different setups on here. I have a couple of A6000s on an AM5.
monksy··on John Margolies' photographs of roadside America
You can still have consumerism with a divergence of style. You just can't have large concentration of wealth in select businesses and high cost of entry.

This kind of style comes out when there is high compeition and an economy that can support experimentation.

monksy··on Georgi Gerganov on llama.cpp/ggml future after Nvidia acquisition of HuggingFace
Did I ever tell you that you're my hero? You're the wind beneith my wings
monksy··on Georgi Gerganov on llama.cpp/ggml future after Nvidia acquisition of HuggingFace
Why are we not seeing xcancel alternative links?

X threw a fit.

monksy··on GrapheneOS project: pixel 11 no longer supports hardware memory tagging (MTE)
ooo I can't wait for the CDMA carrier locking boogaloo all over again.
monksy··on GrapheneOS project: pixel 11 no longer supports hardware memory tagging (MTE)
At what point do we blame google for going the route of regressive and damaging business tacitcs to earn a penny while burning a dollar?
monksy··on Man Charged with 3 Felonies for Breaking 3D-Printed 'Decoy' Flock Camera
Who's property is being destroyed?
monksy··on Man Charged with 3 Felonies for Breaking 3D-Printed 'Decoy' Flock Camera
Not to mention the people who speak out about them are being threatened as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es5kDpyJkBU&t=12s

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/n7PgNlT8GP8

monksy··on Man Charged with 3 Felonies for Breaking 3D-Printed 'Decoy' Flock Camera
Are these criminals?

This is a device that tracks, stalks, and investigates individuals without their consent. Additionally, these are contracts that were entered into and that are forced upon people. People's resistance to these have been punished aggressively. (From the video of the public council meetings I've seen).

In addition these devices are setup to enforce state laws outside of where the law is relivant at. (I.e. a woman has been tracked outside of the state to evaluate compliance with abortion law in texas).

To me this shows it's a breakdown of the agreement of law between the citizens and the government.

monksy··on Man Charged with 3 Felonies for Breaking 3D-Printed 'Decoy' Flock Camera
Weird that the police are so motivated to resolve this. It's almost like they don't serve the community.
monksy··on Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md
spez likes your comment.
monksy··on Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md
because its spez. That is his nature.
monksy··on Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md
That link is giving me a login screen completely on desktop.

New reddit: Doesn't require a login Redlib: Doesn't require a login

monksy··on Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md
Reddit is undergoing an even worse tragetory right now:

They're a lot heavier on the censorship and sidewide ban. Subs are being astroturfed as much or worse than usual.

On top of that they're trying to stop anonymous browsing by paywalling on a timer.

monksy··on Gardner police discontinue Flock cameras as license plate readers face scrutiny
They connect into the flock network.

https://investor.axon.com/2020-04-02-Axon-Partners-with-Floc...

EDIT: There is a claim they terminated their partnership by last year..but who knows.

https://www.404media.co/cities-are-ditching-flock-immediatel...

monksy··on Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things
I'll have to post the links to my Pelican svg. I did it in Q8 and BF16. The Q8 turned out better.

But what I did see is that it does overthink a lot.

17GB is Q4 for Qwen3.8. That's quantitized quite a bit.

monksy··on AI At Home Part 1: A Box Of Scraps
I got mine below $400.
monksy··on AI At Home Part 1: A Box Of Scraps
Shame the guy doesn't have an RSS feed? I want to read the next one.

I was recommended the x299. I didn't go with that and I've been struggling with the AM5.

monksy··on AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?
> whole "Learn to Code" push of the 2010s was one of the worst things that happened to our industry

I would also throw in the toxic positivity and gas lighting sorrounding that. We got a lot of churn on "we have to be nice to everyone" and fears that people weren't "being included." I'm not saying you have to go all Linus on everyone, but it really catered to those who didn't want to learn a lot of the details or were resistent to testing their own code.

monksy··on Woman Pulled over at Gunpoint Twice After Flock Camera Glitch
There needs to be a public site that surveils and broadcasts (from public support) the private and public lives of officers, government officials, and Flock/Axon. For everyone's safety.
monksy··on Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024)
Chase actively will tell you they'll call you back and then they'll try to verify who you are. That's their fraud department at play.

Despite trying to tell people not to trust unknown callers.

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