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mythz··on Houthis 'take control' of key island in global shipping route
They haven't denied it yet, it's still under investigation. They may be able to workout they were the only country in this war with Tomahawks responsible for the triple-tap missile strike, after the mid terms. Or they may just move on from it and never talk about it again, like the Epstein files.
mythz··on Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux
It's nice to have more options, so far I've managed to handle most of my Linux graphics needs with https://www.photopea.com - amazing broad support of document image formats, full-featured edits and all running in the browser.
mythz··on Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
anyway to do this with the Antigravity macOS App?
mythz··on Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
I'm trying it now for token heavy coding tasks, it's capable for many tasks but in noway compares to Claude/Sol - requires more prompts and the output isn't as good.

So just another mid-tier flash model, nothing exciting, but Antigravity has very generous quotas so it's a good workhorse model when your Claude/OpenAI subs run out.

And whilst it's a fast model, having to baby sit through and approve prompts every few seconds ends up making it slower than the Auto approve modes of Claude/ChatGPT - they definitely need an auto approve mode.

mythz··on Gemini-3.5-Transcribe
Annoying that they don't include pricing info in new models, here it is [1]:

Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Live (Per 1M tokens in USD):

    Input: $3.50 or $0.005/min* (audio)
    Output: 21.00 or $0.004/min* (text)
Gemini 3.5 Transcribe:

    Input: $2.00 or $0.003/min* (audio)
    Output: $12.00 or $0.002/min* (text)
[1] https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing#gemini-3.5-tra...
mythz··on New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro
Considering doing exactly this, hopefully by the time M7 Ultra is out, the RAM Apocalypse will be over.
mythz··on New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra
Still absurd, but it's $4K for an additional 164GB RAM.
mythz··on New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra
Waited years for a decent Desktop lineup like this as I was hugely disappointed in the generation old M3 Ultra when it was released. Unfortunately it took Apple so long that the memory prices are now through the roof - USD $4000 for 164GB RAM upgrade is insane.

I may consider a M6 Mac Mini as a stop-gap whilst waiting out RAM Apocalypse to be over. Basically abandoning any ambitions of AI sovereignty and riding out subsidised LLM pricing for the next couple of years.

mythz··on Omacom Foundation launches with $8M
Been a happy Omarchy user for over a year, it's changed how I work with lots of Hyprland grouped windows spread across multiple virtual desktops which I can easily get to each with just a few keystrokes, it's a pretty fluid workflow after you get used to the keybindings.

Things I like about Omarchy:

   - Great job at blending Native Desktop, Web and CLI Apps - they launch & look the same
   - Polished themes - applied to most Apps (inc. running)
   - Built in installers for most dev tools, lets you get setup with most popular programming langs in a few secs
   - Built-in Windows (run in Docker container) great to have when you need it
Also something I only started doing recently is whenever I hit any Linux issue I now just paste it into ChatGPT and let it fix it for me which saved a lot of time porting my customizations over to Quattro. There's now built-in support for passing the crash info to your default AI Agent when a process crashes.

I'm using AI to power a lot of my desktop tasks now, even ended up buying Davinci Resolve yesterday since the paid version had scripting support which let me use ChatGPT to implement some video effects.

mythz··on You don't need React: creating a minimal UI library in Vanilla JavaScript
Minimal UI library results in maximal App code, which makes it a good usecase for why you're better of with React/Vue
mythz··on Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year
Surveillance comes for us all.
mythz··on Kimi-K3 Releases on HuggingFace 7/27
It's a release party
mythz··on IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center
There are way more important things in life than Karma, preventing Zionists from actively trying to hide and whitewash Israel's genocides is one of them.
mythz··on IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center
Trying to attribute blame on anyone but its current Occupiers who are bombing them daily during a "ceasefire" is purposefully presenting a false narrative to hide who are responsible for systematically preventing and destroying aid, bulldozing homes, destroyed water wells, and deliberately targeting and starving children [1]

[1] https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/06/1167790

mythz··on Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber
Antigravity is now split into 2 Apps:

'Antigravity' which is an agent-first editor layout where you don't see your code and just prompt it.

'Antigravity IDE' which uses the Windsurf/VS Code editor, which is still what I primarily use in my day-to-day.

I hope they never retire the IDE, I don't think I can get used to prompting an AI Agent without being able to see my code to help workout what needs to be done.

mythz··on Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber
Always happy to see new Gemini releases as IMO Antigravity Pro 16.67/mo plan (Annual) is still the best plan available and have been pretty happy with Antigravity IDE.

If it wasn't for Gemini/Antigravity I'd have to go with a Max Claude plan, as it stands now I can get by with just a Claude Pro plan to get Opus when I need it, whilst using Antigravity as my day-to-day workhorse.

Unfortunately Gemini Flash became too expensive to use as a general purpose model (i.e. for AI features in Apps), luckily there are plenty of cheaper Chinese models to fill that gap now.

mythz··on SpaceX stock erases all its gains and slides below IPO price in intraday trading
Buying at a high price just gives money to the early investors, the company itself doesn't get richer unless they're doing a raising capital round, but after an IPO you're just giving liquidity (+ profit) to early investors.

If you wait till the price comes down to its natural level, you'll be able to buy more of the company for less money.

mythz··on Image Compression
Worth highlighting the QOI Image format (qoiformat.org) showing that you can also get significant image compression benefits with a simple 1-page specification [1]:

> QOI is fast. It losslessly compresses images to a similar size of PNG, while offering 20x-50x faster encoding and 3x-4x faster decoding.

> QOI is simple. The reference en-/decoder fits in about 300 lines of C. The file format specification is a single page PDF.

[1] https://qoiformat.org/qoi-specification.pdf

mythz··on MiMo Code is now released and open-source
Because they want to optimize it for their models and don't want to be blocked by waiting for PRs to merge or be rejected.

There's plenty of reasons to start your own fork that you have full agency of, as long as the OSS License is maintained anyone will be able to benefit from any new features they want to make use of.

mythz··on WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward
Windows can now load 2x Ads 100% quicker!
mythz··on Iran hit more U.S. military targets than has been reported, satellite images
Everyone has to rely on Iran's satellite images to find out what's happening because Trump is censoring the war by forcing a blackout of commercial satellites from providing any images.
mythz··on Grok 4.3
I said speed was great, Cerebas and Groq can provide better performance, likewise Fast versions of Cursor's Composer and Claude.

The reported speed like benchmarks is only a reported number on paper, we'll see how it holds up in real world usage, so far OpenRouter is only reporting 73tps

[1] https://openrouter.ai/x-ai/grok-4.3

mythz··on Grok 4.3
Ok speed (202.7 tok/s) and value (1.25 -> 2.50) look great, with pretty decent intelligence.
mythz··on New iPad Air, powered by M4
Had an M4 iPad Pro for nearly 2 years. Everything's so fast and fluid I doubt I'd notice if the CPU were twice as fast.

If this ever died I'd likely replace it with an Air - the Pro is overkill for what's basically a consumption device.

mythz··on “Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server
Yeah ban the use of a catchy catch-phrase as you continue to shove AI down your user-base - that'll work. Streisand would be proud.
mythz··on OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network
It absolutely matters, especially when done in unison like this.

Cancelling ChatGPT sends a signal that you don't agree with weaponizing AI. Switching to Claude says you support Anthropic's principled stance against it. If you have a strong opinion either way, today is the day to vote with your wallet.

Dismissing every small action as meaningless is just apathy and how nothing ever changes.

mythz··on OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network
Perfect timing - Had already cancelled my Claude sub over their OAuth ban in external tools and was about to pick up a Codex sub as the next best alternative.

Ended up renewing my Claude sub today instead. Principled stances matter and I no longer trust OpenAI to be trustworthy custodians of my AI History.

mythz··on OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network
Sam is just about the least trustworthy person in AI, I don't trust his words as face value and I consider these weasel words:

> prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility *for the use of force*

mythz··on We Will Not Be Divided
These 2 Exceptions shouldn't have to be disputed.

At this point I'd go far to say I wouldn't trust any company with my AI history that caves to DoD demands for mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons.

Your AI will know more about you than any other company, not going to be trusting that to anyone who trades ethics for profits.

mythz··on Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
Had Cancelled my Claude sub after they banned OAuth in external tools, but just renewed it today after seeing their principled stance on AI ethics - they matter more when they hurt profits, happy to support them as a Customer whilst they keep them.
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