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sivakonon Iranian banks' SSL certificates are being revoked due to OFAC sanctions

US sanctions alone are responsible for nearly 565,000 deaths/year around the world.[1]

The UN Human Rights Council just confirmed US blockade against Cuba violates human rights and international law, citing Article 33 of Fourth Geneva Convention, which prohibits collective punishment.[2]

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-1...

https://x.com/mhdksafa/status/2098058012145389602

sivakonon One Nix flake to rule them all

> I'm a software engineer, father and wishful amateur surfer. If you've come seeking my political views, you've found the wrong Fareed.

this is on their about page

sivakonon GLM-5.3-Flash

correctly is very loaded here. correct according to whom? the truth is different though.

sivakonon Claude Opus 5

What is HuggingFaceExploit bench?

sivakonon The Kimi K3 Moment

> peaceful protests

We know that is not true. You can check wikileaks and pictures online about what protestors did.

You don't even know the truth and because internet is poisoned with this version in English, it will regurgitate the same propaganda.

https://youtu.be/HmIvfqIQ_O0

sivakonon The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway

The link I shared mentions their AI strategy.

Short version is this: putting export controls on AI open-source will hinder their own internal open-source ecosystem

sivakonon The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway

> And then there are the geopolitical tensions. What happens if China or the US cut us off overnight from these technologies? Just a couple of weeks ago the US government showed it was able and willing to cut off non-US citizens from Anthropic’s latest frontier model.

The only evidence you have is US here and all the frontier models from China are free to download. Pure projection.

You can read China's AI strategy here: https://ipc.court.gov.cn/zh-cn/news/view-5766.html

sivakonon Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence

> The recent meetings (past month) with Alibaba, ByteDance, Z.ai, etc., were primarily about overseas acquisitions, foreign investment, and tech/talent outflow controls and not blocking foreigners from using Chinese AI models.

That is just misleading reporting. Very convenient for US frontier labs. This is actually what happened.

sivakonon Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai speech

Can you stop spreading atrocity propaganda?

The rape hoax has been debunked several times. Meantime, there is a lot of video evidence of Israelis raping Palestinians.

https://zeisquirrel.substack.com/p/rape-hoax-redux-debunking...

sivakonon The OnlyFans Economy of American AI

What is this $100 plan the author was talking about?

sivakonon GPT-5.5 Price Increase: What It Costs

which ones are those?

sivakonon Raylib v6.0

Do you use any bindings or directly use C functions (with a modulemap) in Swift?

sivakonon Bevy game development tutorials and in-depth resources

can you tell me what those paid ones are?

sivakonon North Korean's 100k fake IT workers net $500M a year for Kim

That book is an anti-communist propaganda with 'came to me in a dream' sources.

sivakonon North Korean's 100k fake IT workers net $500M a year for Kim

What exactly is fake? People or their work?

sivakonon CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font

https://ibb.co/chk13GxD

I found this somewhere on the internet. Haven't been able to know what this font is.

sivakonon Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?

This is an interesting usecase, and I want to learn more about your workflow. Do you also use Lean etc. for math proofs.

sivakonon Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes

Maduro was handing out guns to civilians but people here thinking he was not loved.

sivakonon Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor

Is there a way to run this in Ubuntu?

sivakonon Detecting and countering misuse of AI

that's my primary use case for llm, asking factual history from a stochastic word generator.

sivakonon Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator

From the likes of Silicon Valley, this person defending his friend who tried to blow up a critics car

https://x.com/TrueAnonPod/status/1898155052159701148

sivakonon OpenAI O3-Mini

deepseek answered it.

https://leaflet.pub/63ae4881-d726-4388-9ba3-8a5f86947443

sivakonon [dead]

No.

He never opposed deportations to Colombia.

He just wanted them to be treated humanely.

Petro has already declared counter-tariffs against the US.

Very dishonest reporting.

sivakonon Jimmy Carter has died

the first one is covered here

https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/01/11/jimmy-carters-blood-...

for more details you can also look at part 1

https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/08/18/jimmy-carters-blood-...

sivakonon Linus Torvalds comments on the Russian Linux maintainers being delisted

US spends billions on paid propaganda.

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/china-cold-war-2669160202/

sivakonon Toasty, an async ORM for Rust

excuse me, what is Vietnam of Computer Science paper? what’s vietnam has to do with it?

sivakonon The Third Atomic Bomb

A great article on this topic is https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/05/30/the-bomb-didnt-beat-jap...

Youtube video by Shaun goes in detail as well https://youtu.be/RCRTgtpC-Go?si=XY6Yr_nhzNlejBHK

sivakonon Understanding, using, and finetuning Gemma

It’s objectively worse in my local tests compared to Mistral. Again their model doesn’t include MT-bench benchmark because it’s really really bad at answering a follow up question(s). (this is also a problem in Ultra). It’s reasoning is also pretty bad compared to mistral.

sivakonon 8GB RAM on M3 MacBook Pro 'Analogous to 16GB' on PCs, Claims Apple

What laptop are you using? just curious

sivakonon LaTeX for tabletop

how do you use Context to make graphs or mind maps or flow charts? I have a hard time setting it up