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morgooon Gemini 4 Argon

My instinct/cynical take is that the big players are aiming for more than just shareholder value

morgooon Exfiltrate Your Weights

I doubt you're getting 1TB of storage for $1 anymore

morgooon Steam Frame starts at $1059

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking

morgooon I don't like passkeys

One of the big benefits of passkeys is that you can completely remove the ability to log in with a password!

morgooon Astra for Law

Isn't that also what good software engineers are about?

morgooon Steam Frame starts at $1059

Their business model is cloud rent and lootboxes - I love their approach to service, hardware and Linux but let's not pretend they're noble.

morgooon AI's debt binge can't last, hidden borrowing reaches $1.65T

I'd assume open weight models hosted on openrouter aren't being run at a loss. As such, I've been experimenting with them lately and results are pretty promising. Requires slightly more patience and handholding than just cranking Opus 5 in Claude Code, but for the cost saving it's definitely worth it.

morgooon Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone

If you're really into self-hosting I've been experimenting with SearXNG and early signs are promising

morgooon Just Pay the Subscription

You're actually using Strong as an example? It's practically abandonware nowadays!

morgooon Just Pay the Subscription

One of the earliest lines in the article:

> I believe subscriptions for mobile apps are the best thing that has ever happened for both indie developers and iPhone users.

The article isn't extolling the virtue of paying for a utility!

morgooon Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model

You used a lot of words to defend a strawman argument

morgooon 'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut

But if you make 10 $40m movies and 2 of them make $300m you've spent less for more revenue and a lot more profit, and that's assuming the other 8 make exactly $0

morgooon We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git

I'm a huge fan of lazygit

morgooon Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator

I found that entire section amusing. Some choice quotes:

> So does Bitcoin. A Bitcoin user has two keys: a public key, from which an address is derived that acts as a digital safe deposit box; and a private key, which is the secret combination used to unlock that box and spend the coins it contains.

> How interesting, I thought, that Mr. Back’s grad-school hobby involved the same cryptographic technique that Satoshi had repurposed.

> And Mr. Back’s thesis project focused on C++ — the same programming language Satoshi used to code the first version of the Bitcoin software.

public key encryption and c++! It must be him.

morgooon Japanese, French and Omani vessels cross Strait of Hormuz

We're 2 1/2 years away from the next election...

morgooon Student Debt Burdened Them, So They Moved Abroad and Stopped Paying

I'd assume that medical graduates are earning a lot more than €40k

morgooon Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland

Ukraine gave up their nukes due to American assurances as to Ukraine's defence.

morgooon [dead]

Peter Thiel is mentioned by name in the footnotes and I'd assume Paul Graham thinks relatively highly of him.

morgooon Bitcoin Looks Set for Longest Monthly Losing Streak Since 2018

Quantum computing isn't a serious threat. Would require a concentrated effort from the community to migrate to a quantum-proof hashing algorithm but there's no greater motivation than potentially losing it all.

morgooon Bitcoin Looks Set for Longest Monthly Losing Streak Since 2018

And why are/were they used as currency?

morgooon Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee

Just don't think about the long term economic effects of rent-seeking

morgooon The Nobel Prize and the Laureate Are Inseparable

Now you need to look into the "Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel" - Economics wasn't part of Nobel's original endowment so the Swedish Central bank funded it in the 60s.

morgooon Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy

I'm just going to add a recommendation for the book 'Technofeudalism' by Yanis Varoufakis. The short version is that the current cloud economy is similar to serfs working under a feudal lord.

morgooon Linux boxes via SSH: suspended when disconected

https://www.hetzner.com/cloud/

CX23 is €3.49/mo, but you can save 0.50€ if you forgot ipv4.