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Freelance I.T. consultant and web developer in Charlotte, NC - sdavis@nativeit.net

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nativeit··on Claude: Elevated errors across all models – Resolved
All-natural, boutique, organic intelligence.
nativeit··on Claude: Elevated errors across all models – Resolved
They’ll just ask the OpenAI model current infiltrating its systems to lend a hand.
nativeit··on Claude: Elevated errors across all models – Resolved
Prompt: “How much wood could a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood? Place your answer in ‘a-metric-chuck-ton.md’”
nativeit··on Claude: Elevated errors across all models – Resolved
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nativeit··on Substack writers, you need a website
Cheers from Concord, NC. Nice to see a fellow techie in the South ‘round these parts.
nativeit··on RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB
Can I reverse that to get back to Fahrenheit, or does it only work in one direction?
nativeit··on Our position on open-weights models
The consent factory has never been more productive.
nativeit··on Our position on open-weights models
China has been aggressively developing infrastructure and financial services all over Africa and the rest of Asia.

https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-106866

nativeit··on AI companies are shredding rare books
If a case is settled by the parties, it cannot be cited as establishing precedent.
nativeit··on Show HN: Discrete6502 – one thing led to another
Great work! Now do it using tubes/valves. The more energy hungry and inefficient the better! The power supply can be the same sort of diesel generators hospitals use during power outages.
nativeit··on Late.sh – a command-line Clubhouse for computer people
I generally agree with the first point. As to the second, this is clearly designed for people who will have the technical know-how to facilitate custom CSS, browser extensions, reader modes, and other assistive technology.

Considering its branding is entirely centered on late night socialization, I feel low-contrast dark mode is precisely the aesthetic that fits its identity.

nativeit··on Late.sh – a command-line Clubhouse for computer people
Don’t forget to include translations to all 190+ languages, and their various dialects. Otherwise, you obv. don’t care about being inclusive to Sentinelese users. /s

Your dark mode choice for your late night chat is appropriate, and good branding. If someone’s technically literate enough to engage with an SSH-based social network, then they should be capable of injecting user scripts, custom CSS, and/or deploying assistive browser extensions, OS settings, and screen readers.

If this were a website about cataract treatments or a Metamucil landing page, then it would be a bad design.

nativeit··on Late.sh – a command-line Clubhouse for computer people
There’s a single green box blinking at the top. If that’s too much for your e-ink display to handle, I think the problem is your display.
nativeit··on Late.sh – a command-line Clubhouse for computer people
The whole brand identity is “late”, as in late night, as in all the lights are off and I don’t want my screen to blind me. I feel like this is a perfectly appropriate sort of theme, but maybe that’s just my inner 20-year old impugning my inner 70-year old?
nativeit··on Late.sh – a command-line Clubhouse for computer people
Is this really not a mostly “solved” problem using assistive browser (or OS-level) settings/extensions that apply high-contrast/large type consistently across all sites/apps? Is it necessary to performatively sacrifice aesthetics to signal to everyone else you’re especially sensitive to these needs?

At what point is it enough? If they use high contrast, large fonts, and translations for every language—including Swahili’s default Kiunjuga dialect, but fail to include the Kimvita, Kiamu, Kingwana, Chimiini, Bajuni, AND Comorian dialects, will they be accosted for saying “f off” to everyone speaking Swahili outside of Zanzibar?

nativeit··on Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code for command and lunar modules
This remains to be my go-to example for how YouTube can be a remarkably effective and valuable platform for the kind of enthusiast whose interests have exceeded the bounds of typical documentaries and media produced for the general public.

It’s sadly getting more difficult to surface these kinds of examples, as we’re seeing a lot of lowest common denominators and slop-py channels run by people who only want to be YouTube content mills, rather than people who have expertise to share and who learned to leverage YouTube as a means to those ends.

nativeit··on Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting
Shocking, it appears they never substantiated their own hype that the AI hype was substantiated.
nativeit··on Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude
Realtors are capped in the percentage they can take for selling properties. Brokers and financial advisers are capped in their fees. My presumption is that the only reason this very standard and reasonable regulatory pattern doesn’t affect lawyers is because they tend to be the ones writing and enforcing the regulations in the first place.
nativeit··on Advertise in ChatGPT
> As far as I can tell…

This is precisely the problem with the entire notion of putting advertising into these models. You’ll never really know.

nativeit··on Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM
When did we aggressively legislate against, search for, monitor, investigate, and prosecute owning firearms?
nativeit··on Self-Powered Trailers Promise Leaner Freight Runs
Brave new world for the kinds of people who steal catalytic converters and the copper off air conditioners!
nativeit··on Exploit brokers pay $500k for WordPress RCEs. I found one with GPT5.6 and $25
How long do you figure a criminal reputation typically needs/wants to last? I have always been skeptical of “black market credit ratings”. If you happen to build one up, it’s likely only in order to rip someone off at a higher price and cash in the value of it. It’s not like you’ll need that good rep for your retirement.
nativeit··on Exploit brokers pay $500k for WordPress RCEs. I found one with GPT5.6 and $25
> modified like they are holy scripture

So never modified at all, even if plainly contradictory and/or ethically and morally compromised?

nativeit··on Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s
You’d die on the back of unreliable operation and relatively high maintenance. A DIY system built off of cheap ESP32s is never going to be reliable enough. The system as described above is the sort of thing I would happily operate for myself, but would never attempt to sell as a product. Anyone who’s tried to hold together a few dozen ESP32-powered IoT devices will likely attest—they’re very impressive for their cost, but hardly reliable on the scale of years.
nativeit··on Airport Simulator
Speaking of congested airspace…

Yesterday’s 50-mile line of planes coming to Oshkosh is something to behold: https://youtu.be/9IHbO0tzpMc

nativeit··on What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph
lol. Error 503.
nativeit··on Apple targets dozens of OpenAI employees with legal letters
Maybe?

https://transformativeprivatelaw.com/the-transfer-of-ownersh...

nativeit··on How to Train a Gen AI Kick Drum Model on Your Old Linux Desktop with 6GB VRAM
I remember making kick drum models with kilobytes of RAM.
nativeit··on Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources
Why wait? Let’s just jump straight to “StripeX” and get it over with.
nativeit··on Financing the AI boom: from cash flows to debt [pdf]
I’m not sure I understand these references. The banks were too big to fail specifically because they were banks involved with the finances of every major industry and government, not simply because their (arguably specious) valuations, or even market caps, had a ton of zeroes on them. What’s the argument for OpenAI being so inherently critical and interweaved with the rest of the economy that it can’t be allowed to fail? What’s the argument for how such a bailout would result in greater economic outcomes? The banks that got bailed out continued lending and immediately resumed profitable business, how will the AI companies offer value towards such a proposition?
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