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n8m8··on GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
So you agree that Luna vs Terra is less clear than Haiku vs Sonnet?
n8m8··on GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
TIL everyone knows Terra means the planet earth (not a prefix for ground) and everyone knows Astra means a star that isn’t the sun
n8m8··on GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
“I’m right and you’re wrong” type reply
n8m8··on GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
It’s not… why do I need to translate from Latin (or wherever these come from) to understand them? Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku do the same thing, and are widely known words. Not to mention all LLMs do is generate tokens; I prefer the homage to writing over a space reference.
n8m8··on Gemini 3.7 Flash
I haven’t tried in about a year, but I could never do any meaningful work outside 1P Google apps (antigravity) due to such fast throttling.
n8m8··on Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows
You gotta touch grass and talk to people irl
n8m8··on Oura says it gets government demands for user data
Great, so they can further extrapolate what exact locations you get nervous / are more relaxed / walk more quickly… the understated problem with PII isn’t about any single data point, it’s about combining data to make probable inferences.
n8m8··on Addressing Antigravity Bans and Reinstating Access
If the "3rd party product" is you selfhosting FOSS, then that's you (OpenClaw users)
n8m8··on Google removes AI health summaries
It took being a meme for a literal year for them to remove this… more responsibility in frontier tech, I’m begging.
n8m8··on HP Reveals Keyboard Computer with Ryzen AI Chip
Interesting idea, seems like an adventurous v1 idea. Feels like it would be hard to sell this to enthusiasts who want a nicer keyboard, and hard to sell to the average consumer who’d still rather have a laptop or iPad.
n8m8··on Anthropic invests $1.5M in the Python Software Foundation
They won’t even attempt to read ToS, you think they’ll shun companies?
n8m8··on What a year of solar and batteries saved us in 2025
Is an ETF simple?

I get your point that in modern society, you can invest in an ETF in a few clicks, but in a way, owning your own infrastructure is simpler. Transform the sun into energy reserves with parts you can buy, understand, and install yourself from wholesalers.

A power company is opaque, carries overhead, and requires complexity to serve at an institutional level. ETFs have a similar complexity/abstraction to their customers.

n8m8··on Swapping SIM cards used to be easy, and then came eSIM
I transferred my number from Mint Mobile to Visible 8 months ago or so. I tried to at least. They initiated the number transfer before accepting payment from me. Their iOS app was bugged and their web app had no way to pay. I engaged support and they escalated to engineering. Still had no phone number or cell access for 3 days, with an upcoming trip planned. Ended up getting them to transfer it to US Mobile which has been fine. Probably works a lot of the time but it’s a shitshow.
n8m8··on Project Vend: Phase Two
Fascinating, thank you for sharing!
n8m8··on Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers (2022)
Apparently pro tools came out in 1989, makes me think this may or may not be true. This article has some info about the mixture of analog and digital tools use to record:

> The main event was a brand-new mixing console called the Harrison Series 10, which was the first analog console to feature a digital control surface, with full automation of all parameters. Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis were the first studio to have it, according to Jam. This meant that they could cut down the time it took to switch songs to about 10 minutes because complex mixes now required little-to-no cross-patching.

https://reverb.com/news/the-making-of-janet-jacksons-rhythm-...

n8m8··on Debian's Git Transition
shoutout AUR, I’m trying arch for the first time (Omarchy) and wasn’t planning on using the AUR, but realized how useful it is when 3 of the tools I wanted to try were distributed differently. AUR made it insanely easy… (namely had issues with Obsidian and Google Antigravity)
n8m8··on CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with suspicious travel patterns
PII isn’t limited to SSNs. By your logic, First name can’t be PII, and last name with no accompanying info wouldn’t be PII. Different types of data have different risk profiles. When multiple records about an individual are collected the risk grows exponentially. Location is absolutely PII when combined with other risky data, like license plate.
n8m8··on Dark Pattern Games
What % of the time do you think the die-hard gamers live a healthy lifestyle? I’m thinking it’s higher than my knee jerk reaction, like 40-50%, but an important consideration. Of course people define “healthy” differently too, but obesity and mental health crises have objectively grown and correlate with rising technology use.
n8m8··on Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division
Can confirm — itsa me
n8m8··on Legal Contracts Built for AI Agents
Can't scroll, Cookies disclaimer doesn't work in firefox with ublock origin :(
n8m8··on Claude Sonnet 4.5
Excited to try Claude agents sdk though
n8m8··on Claude Sonnet 4.5
So far the only thing I’ve noticed is that it made me confirm that it should do a 10 minute task “manually” because it “would take 2 or 3 hours”

It was a context merging task for my unorganized collection of agents… it sort of made sense, but was the exact reason I was asking it to do it… like you’re the bot, lol

n8m8··on Just let me select text
I almost always copy this by double clicking after the `/` in the URL
n8m8··on ChatGPT Developer Mode: Full MCP client access
Yes~
n8m8··on ChatGPT Developer Mode: Full MCP client access
+1, I have a c4ai docker container + brave search MCP (2000 queries/mo free!) running on my laptop so I can ask claude code to do research similar to GPT deep research, but I config to ignore robots.txt since it's a one-off instance collecting data on my personal behalf, not a service (At least that's how I justify it)
n8m8··on Weaponizing Ads: How Google and Facebook Ads Are Used to Wage Propaganda Wars
Makes sense, yeah I definitely handwaved "old media"!
n8m8··on Show HN: Narcissistic Abuse Simulator exposes toxic patterns
Thank you for the feedback!

> The “question” - is a statement at the top in smaller italic type

That's context to the question

> Why one option has a heart on it?

That's the question, the answers are below it. There are different categories of questions, the emoji changes based on the category

I can probably just add labels overlapping/replacing the box outline and have it look pretty nice

> Is “simulation” questions and answers?

Yup, that's the gimmick!

n8m8··on NPM debug and chalk packages compromised
https://docs.brew.sh/Acceptable-Casks#apps-that-bundle-malwa...

> Unfortunately, in the world of software there are bad actors that bundle malware with their apps. Even so, Homebrew Cask has long decided it will not be an active gatekeeper (macOS already has one) and users are expected to know about the software they are installing. This means we will not always remove casks that link to these apps, in part because there is no clear line between useful app, potentially unwanted program, and the different shades of malware—what is useful to one user may be seen as malicious by another.

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So there might be pull requests, but Brew's official stance is that they do not actively moderate casks for malware. I guess there's something built into the MacOS packaging step that help mitigate the risk, but I don't know much about it outside playing w/ app development in XCode.

n8m8··on NPM debug and chalk packages compromised
Went and found the link: https://docs.brew.sh/Acceptable-Casks#apps-that-bundle-malwa...

> Unfortunately, in the world of software there are bad actors that bundle malware with their apps. Even so, Homebrew Cask has long decided it will not be an active gatekeeper (macOS already has one) and users are expected to know about the software they are installing. This means we will not always remove casks that link to these apps, in part because there is no clear line between useful app, potentially unwanted program, and the different shades of malware—what is useful to one user may be seen as malicious by another.

n8m8··on NPM debug and chalk packages compromised
Agreed that it's a bit funny given the context and no community-managed package manager should be 100% trusted.

That said, I think rg is pretty well known to linux daily-drivers and they just wanted to share something quickly for powerusers who want to check their workspaces quickly. Probably better to just instruct n00bs to use grep than install a whole cli tool for searching

Come to think of it, I wonder if a 2-phase attack could be planned by an attacker in the future: Inject malware into a package, flood guidance with instructions to install another popular tool that you also recently compromised... lol

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