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randomjoe2··on I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services
The fact that you think declining the cookies gets you privacy is the real grift. The fact that you think you're safe from tracking because of a cookie banner
randomjoe2··on I Was Wrong About Data Center Water Consumption
Oops! I helped spread misinformation to a huge number of people, shoot!
randomjoe2··on GAO warns of privacy risks in using facial recognition in rental housing
oh wow yeah all of us are chartering planes left and right for privacy reasons, really good point man
randomjoe2··on Deploying DeepSeek on 96 H100 GPUs
Local doesn't refer to "on metal" anymore to many people
randomjoe2··on AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'
If you actually believe this, you're either using bad models or just terrible at prompting and giving proper context. Let me know if you need help, I use generated code in every corner of my computer every day
randomjoe2··on Building MCP servers for ChatGPT and API integrations
You think they need to convince you on the concept of AIs in this article?
randomjoe2··on Building MCP servers for ChatGPT and API integrations
OpenAI has fallen behind, way behind. Stop trying to benchmark off openai, it's pointless imo. They're not even playing the same game as everyone else.
randomjoe2··on Chrome's hidden X-Browser-Validation header reverse engineered
I mean you're using a VPN, they can't tell the diff between you and a bunch of bots
randomjoe2··on Breaking Git with a carriage return and cloning RCE
Someone using git without github isn't an edge case, it's the default
randomjoe2··on At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work
Lots of models CAN handle large contexts, gemini 2.5 pro their latest model can take 1 million tokens of context
randomjoe2··on 4o Image Generation
Here's what it created based on a text description of your schematic

https://i.imgur.com/sGfdtWo.png

randomjoe2··on Google Calendar removed events like Pride and BHM; retains Black Friday
Every org is just kissing the orange man's feet, hoping to be blessed with kickbacks
randomjoe2··on How to Run DeepSeek R1 671B Locally on a $2000 EPYC Server
But at a totally different quant, you're crazy if you think you can run the entire R1 model on a single 4090, come on man. Apples and oranges.
randomjoe2··on Hynix launches 321-layer NAND
Thank god for ublock origin filters, i have all the optional filter lists, I never see those things. EVER.
randomjoe2··on McDonald's, Chipotle increases prices after California raises fast-food min wage
This is such a naive view of the situation. It's so easy to blame minimum wage workers for all the issues when really it's corporate greed eating into the economy
randomjoe2··on Nuclear war probabilities are useless - counter to the nuclear gambler’s ruin
Amazing way to think about HPIs, thanks for the introduction of this concept.
randomjoe2··on On the Effectiveness of Traffic Analysis Against Tor Networks Using Flow Records [pdf]
Well if that's the case then that should apply to anyone on the internet. It'd be much more secure to just not go on the web, so anyone on the web is sacrificing a huge amount of security. These aren't black and white arguments.