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nickthegreekon Intel Announces Arc Pro B70 and Arc Pro B65 GPUs

Both have 32gb vram. Could be a pretty compelling choice.

nickthegreekon Woman who never stopped updating her lost dog's chip reunites with him after 11y

Had to convince a company we had an Alpaca farm and needed a few tags to test with our livestock. They sent me a few EM4104s.

nickthegreekon Woman who never stopped updating her lost dog's chip reunites with him after 11y

21 years in my right hand. Sadly, they weren't writable back then, so it is just a static number.

nickthegreekon OpenClaw is a security nightmare dressed up as a daydream

The investment for me was an extra $10/month to mess around with some fun cutting edge stuff. This is interesting software tech that I mess with as a hobby. My ROI is understanding, exploring and entertainment. But it’s also doing some monitoring and logging for me on some various stuff that I wanted to keep an eye on with my network and actually proving some real value to my life. It’s genuinely exciting to mess with if you have the time.

nickthegreekon OpenClaw is a security nightmare dressed up as a daydream

$10/month minimax using m2.7 and openai-codex oauth $20/month will allow you to mess around with this stuff for negligible cost.

nickthegreekon OpenClaw is a security nightmare dressed up as a daydream

It doesn’t have to have a credit card number to be useful. I don’t need it to purchase anything. Mine has its own icloud and google account. I can share calendars to it. You can donate same with email or shared lists. There are ways of using openclaw without yolo’ing all your secrets.

nickthegreekon Robert Mueller Has Died

Most kirk’s comments context is quite evident. His final words for instance.

nickthegreekon Apple announces new Mac sales record following MacBook Neo launch

it’s also other gateway to sell subscription services.

nickthegreekon Why Some Men Struggle to Keep Up with Friendships

d&d, bowling league, discord.

nickthegreekon Nvidia NemoClaw

Giving plausible examples could further your case. But at some point you have got to realize that other people have actually thought about these things are are willing to do this.

Imagine going up to everyone riding a motorcycle and telling them about the inherent dangers of their activity and to stop. It is obvious that the OP understands risk, has taken several strong steps to harden their system and isn’t worried about the school calendar getting hacked making an event that they would get notified about and that destroying their community somehow. I don’t even understand openclaws place. The exact same events would unfold without the ai in there at all.

nickthegreekon Remove your ring camera with a claw hammer

It tells me when packages are on the porch. This is the main value add for me.

I’ve been debating adding a camera pointed a bit more outward, as there at least 5 2 car accidents a year at the intersection outside my house of a 1 way road without a stop sign and a 2 way narrow city road with a stop sign. At least 1 of these accidents every 2 years ends up hitting my neighbors house.

nickthegreekon Claude Tips for 3D Work

Love to see this stuff. I recently used codex to produce me a scad file for generating multicolored tokens for 3d printing. I had alot of more fun than grinding it out in the software, and if I ever want to make more for other board games, most of the word is already done.

https://makerworld.com/en/models/2456180-token-creator

nickthegreekon My Journey to a reliable and enjoyable locally hosted voice assistant (2025)

Home Assistant with adaptive lighting.

https://github.com/basnijholt/adaptive-lighting

nickthegreekon My Journey to a reliable and enjoyable locally hosted voice assistant (2025)

100% agree. I dont want a Yes, Got it, Will do or even worse, I have turned on the Bedroom Light. I want soft success ding or a low failure boop.

nickthegreekon My Journey to a reliable and enjoyable locally hosted voice assistant (2025)

My lights adjust their brightness and color spectrum automatically throughout the day while also understanding the time of year and sun position. This alone is next level. All are voice/tablet controlled. When I start a movie at night, lights will adjust automatically in my open floor plan first level. All of this operates without me ever having to give any mental energy beyond the initial setup.

This is not just flip a switch territory.

nickthegreekon My Journey to a reliable and enjoyable locally hosted voice assistant (2025)

I prefer voice strongly. I don't want to stop what i am doing, find a device, open the app, wait for it refresh, navigate and click to get Milk on a list. Sure you can bring this down a few steps, but all of which still require me to move, have a hand and eye free.

nickthegreekon My Journey to a reliable and enjoyable locally hosted voice assistant

apple watch gets you close.

nickthegreekon Life as an OnlyFans 'chatter'

selling your body for cash is what a warehouse worker does.

nickthegreekon Head of FCC threatens broadcaster licenses over critical coverage of Iran war

I largely agree, but I think we have another 5-8 years before TV’s candle light is really extinguished. I hope they fight this nonsense to the bitter end.

nickthegreekon 2026 tech layoffs reach 45,000 in March

Sure, but I’d argue that 140m dau, 400m mau is still success.

nickthegreekon How much of HN is AI?

Where do you fall on the percentage of people here that think they can actually do something? So far you seem to failing at your only stated goal of, checking notes, owning the libs…

nickthegreekon Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US

Aand have your address. The assault doesn’t need to happen at the moment if the ride.

nickthegreekon Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran's oil depots bombed

Those people aren’t in the streets shouting that this isn’t what they voted for. Stands to reason that many are just fine with how everything is playing out.

nickthegreekon MiniMax Music 2.5 – AI Music Generation Model for Fast Song Creation

early warning, you aren’t going to like the answer to that question.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/are-you-listening-b...

https://musically.com/2026/01/12/report-claims-majority-of-y...

nickthegreekon Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage

i just walked into a microcenter yesterday where not only did they have a huge stock of mac mini, they are all advertised 15% off and runs openclaw.

nickthegreekon Palantir and Anthropic AI helped the US hit 1k Iran targets in 24 hours

> Apart from anything else, Anthropic don't want to be used for this

what did they think a Palantir contract would be for?

nickthegreekon GPT-5.4

OP made no mention of not understanding cost relation to intelligence. In fact, they specifically call out the lack of value.

nickthegreekon MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max

Slow and can’t run are different things, but I get your point.

nickthegreekon Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’

https://gizmodo.com/palantir-ceo-says-a-surveillance-state-i...

https://gizmodo.com/palantir-ceo-uses-slur-to-describe-peopl...

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/palantir-ceo-defends-su...

nickthegreekon The View from RSS

Current setup is freshrss running in a proxmox lxc on prem + tailscale. Big fan of the lire iOS app for interacting on mobile and use the freshrss webui on desktop. killthenewsletter helps patch in some email stuff too. RSS and NNTP are 2 technologies that have been with me for decades and you are gonna have to pry them from me.