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I see the same thing with Q8.

I get the same messages in a MLX Q8 quant - I assumed it was reacting to the harness, but it doesn't seem to cause issues.

ryan-con Norton Neo Browser

This was dead. Not sure why, but vouched, it's relevant.

ryan-con GLM-5.3-Flash

They claim it applies to EU citizens when both they and the service are outside the EU as well.

ryan-con The Shape of Things to Come, Part 2: Model Welfare for Agentic Engineers

To be clear, I find the claim that the models are sentient and have feelings to be preposterous, but I feel like the key takeaway is:

> It doesn't actually matter to you if they have feelings, because you will still get demonstrably better results across the board if you treat them as if they do.

However, personally, my main reason for that mode of interaction is that I interact with a lot of humans via text, and I do not want to habituate myself to being an asshole when the medium is words on a screen (or otherwise).

ryan-con Terminals should generate the 256-color palette

There are escape codes that can re-define palette entries. Usually including the 16-255 range.

ryan-con Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass

Doesn't appear to be working, at least for UK purposes. Tool claimed to have worked, I dropped my VPN and my account is not age verified.

ryan-con Ask HN: Anyone Using a Mac Studio for Local AI/LLM?

10gbps is slow enough to be annoying when you're loading a 200GB model, unfortunately.

ryan-con Ask HN: Anyone Using a Mac Studio for Local AI/LLM?

I'm using an M3 Ultra w/ 512GB of RAM, using LMStudio and mostly mlx models. It runs massive models with reasonable tokens per second, though prompt processing can be slow. It handles long conversations fine so long as the KV cache hits. It's usable with opencode and crush, though my main motivation for getting it was specifically to be able to process personal data (e.g. emails) privately, and to experiment freely with abliterated models for security research. Also, I appreciate being able to run it off solar power.

I'm still trying to figure out a good solution for fast external storage, I only went for 1TB internal which doesn't go very far with models that have hundreds of billions of parameters.

ryan-con The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dlopen

(not an endorsement, I do not use it, but I know of it)

https://www.magicermine.com/

ryan-con 200 MB RAM FreeBSD desktop

My existence is not political. If someone doesn't think I should have rights and/or exist and/or thinks I am inferior because of who I am, then no, we cannot write quality software together.

If someone disagrees with me on tax, foreign relations, government services, defense, etc policy, sure, we can disagree and still work together.

What gives rise to people like Lunduke is not a simple thing, and something I don't think society fully understands.

ryan-con 200 MB RAM FreeBSD desktop

He's harassed people, including one of my friends.

ryan-con 200 MB RAM FreeBSD desktop

opens blog post

sees lunduke

closes blog post

ryan-con Washington State Bill Seeks to Add Firearms Detection to 3D Printers [pdf]

It seems pretty clear that the populace is not going to use guns to oppose the fascists. Since that was a major (if not the most important) reason for the second amendment, it appears vestigial.

Also, as others rightly pointed out "much more tightly regulated" ≠ "banned entirely".

ryan-con Washington State Bill Seeks to Add Firearms Detection to 3D Printers [pdf]

Two things that I simultaneously believe:

* Gun ownership should be much more tightly regulated in the US.

* Requiring 3D printers to block production of firearms is worse than useless.

How would that even work from a technological perspective? If it did work, why would 3d printer jailbreaks not be the immediate result? I would use jailbroken firmware on principal.

ryan-con Ask HN: Share your personal website

https://rya.nc/ - my personal site and blog

ryan-con "Sneakers", in high def ANSI with full subtitles

rickroll@ also works if you're into that

ryan-con "Sneakers", in high def ANSI with full subtitles

`ssh sneakers@ansi.rya.nc`

ryan-con Global Warming Has Accelerated: Are the United Nations and the Public Informed?

> There's always an Arquillian Battle Cruiser, or a Corillian Death Ray, or an intergalactic plague that is about to wipe out all life on this miserable little planet, and the only way these people can get on with their happy lives is that they DO NOT KNOW ABOUT IT!

ryan-con The Zizians' deadly fusion of transgender ideology, rationalism and veganism

A large portion of your submissions and comments are anti-trans. Pronouns and names are not "preferred".

ryan-con Ready or not, age verification is rolling out across the internet

AI generated images/video pass verification...

ryan-con A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page (2022)

I'm not going to dig it up for you, but this is in line with what I've read and observed. I set this to 20 packets on my personal site.

ryan-con Inspect ANSI control codes and escape sequences

This is really cool - I've been experimenting with terminal escape sequences recently, and they go deep. Thanks for sharing! Get in touch (email in profile) if you'd like to collaborate.

ryan-con Can Large Language Models Play Text Games Well? (2023)

I've actually have a pretty good experience with gemini-2.5-pro doing this, but I was focused primarily on role-play and collaborative story telling. Definitely some issues, but I enjoyed it.

ryan-con Meta buys a nuclear power plant (more or less)

Move fast and irradiate things.

ryan-con Show HN: Sneakers (1992) in Your Terminal

It's a WIP, but some of the code is on github:

https://github.com/ryancdotorg/ansi-player-rs

https://github.com/ryancdotorg/ansiani

I haven't posted the SSH part yet, but that is planned along with a writeup.

ryan-con Show HN: Sneakers (1992) in Your Terminal

What's the TERM variable for the default macOS terminal? I want to try to detect non-working terminals.

ryan-con Itter.sh – Micro-Blogging via Terminal

here's a screenshot with a terminal that works with it https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attach...

ryan-con Itter.sh – Micro-Blogging via Terminal

drop me an email

ryan-con Itter.sh – Micro-Blogging via Terminal

It needs a terminal with 24 bit color support, and at least 80x24. In particular, gnu screen doesn't work.