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taf2··on Claude Fable 5
I’m waiting to see results on deepswe - that benchmark really seemed accurate for opus and gpt 5.5…
taf2··on Adafruit receives demand letter from Fenwick legal counsel on behalf of Flux.ai
I wanted to love flux.ai because i love codex... and if i could automate the creation of some PCB projects with as much success as I am with codex it would have been quiet fun in the shop... so i gave them a $100~ bucks and i got like nothing in return so I decided i'd wait and see... sounds like it has not improved.
taf2··on Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026
That sucks I guess I won’t be using any Google llms anymore
taf2··on MIT: 20% drop in incoming graduate students
are there any stats pointing to these students going to different schools? we know birth rates fell sharply starting ~2008 and have stayed low. [https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsrr/vsrr043.pdf]
taf2··on Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
4gb? Maybe on a raspberry pie it’s a problem - I’m sure there is a chrome flag to disable
taf2··on Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
What’s wrong with shipping a local llm? This is quite nice IMO is there a privacy concern with running it locally? I already have a few games I wrote web based using this and it’s quiet nice to not need a server to run my game in pure HTML from my file system
taf2··on DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved
ok i picked a bad day to move from one register to another... i just spent the last hour frantically trying to figure out why the new register screwed us or the old register was screwing us...
taf2··on Uber Torches 2026 AI Budget on Claude Code in Four Months
i bet someone mentioned openclaw one too many times
taf2··on Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"
Wow so like there are many services that rely on anthropics api.. if for example I inject the word openclaw into a bunch of chat bots or voice bots that might be using anthropics API would this also break them…
taf2··on Making RAM at Home [video]
my goal was simple 2 sided pcbs, machined traces because i wanted to avoid chemical etching, but when it comes to via's chemicals are really the only way. The chemcials needed for plating via's are very toxic. my current thinking to avoid the really nasty ones is to try conductive ink (probably pretty bad too) but it maybe would work to coat the fr4 material and then allow a copper plating to take... really it's a fun process machining and laser the soldier mask.
taf2··on Making RAM at Home [video]
In my journey to make pcb’s at home I decided to stop once I almost gassed myself and shifted instead to buying gpus
taf2··on IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark
Just in time for ipv8 - https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-thain-ipv8-00.html
taf2··on I ran Gemma 4 as a local model in Codex CLI
I did this with qwen 3.5 - tool calling was the biggest issue but for getting it to work with vllm and mlx I just asked codex to help. The bulk of my the time was waiting on download. For vllm it created a proxy service to translate some codex idioms to vllm and vice versa. In practice I got good results on my first prompt but followup questions usually would fail due to the models trouble with tool calling - I need to try again with gemma4
taf2··on Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th
I switched off claude when they nerfed opus 4.5 in August 2025, since then codex has clearly produced better code with fewer bugs. Opus 4.6 was more a temporary de-nerf of 4.5 but did not materially improve. codex has now a proven track record of producing stable results while introducing far fewer bugs.
taf2··on Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th
I don't understand who's still using anthropic? The model produces more bugs and agrees to solutions that are clearly wrong at a much higher rate then codex. Codex produces significantly better code with fewer bugs and far less oversight. with /fast on codex it's not even slower then claude and consider it implements working code more reliably you have to use it less anyway. Beside anthropic appears to be more focused on fear mongering and other types of FUD and is a more closed solution I do not understand why so many people still appear to care what anthropic does and have not already moved on? </rant>
taf2··on Our commitment to Windows quality
Bro Linux gaming is where it’s at - windoze is cooked
taf2··on Anthropic takes legal action against OpenCode
avoid bun is my take away... if anthropic decides you're a competitor and with the way AI is evolving you will be a competitor soon - don't rely on any anthropic tools or models.
taf2··on Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage
I hope you are right
taf2··on Nvidia PersonaPlex 7B on Apple Silicon: Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech in Swift
Yes exactly- one part I did not like is we have to also separately transcribe because it does not also provide what the person said only what the ai said
taf2··on Nvidia PersonaPlex 7B on Apple Silicon: Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech in Swift
I forked and added tool calling by running another llm in parallel to infer when to call tools it works well for me to toggle lights on and off.

Code updates here https://github.com/taf2/personaplex

taf2··on MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max
Considering these max out at 128GB of unified ram my guess is the hope of an M5 Ultra with 1TB of unified ram is unlikely to come true... Super disappointing.
taf2··on Google API keys weren't secrets, but then Gemini changed the rules
Am i reading this right - it was like impossible to get an api key for gemini but actually i could have just grabbed an API key from someone's google maps site and gotten started right away?
taf2··on Markdown CLI viewer with VI keybindings
There is a pull request option - feel free to use it
taf2··on Markdown CLI viewer with VI keybindings
Great question- rather then having to push a change to GitHub to see the format changes you can just mdvi it now. Iterate locally is nice
taf2··on Markdown CLI viewer with VI keybindings
pretty fun right :)
taf2··on Markdown CLI viewer with VI keybindings
aka view
taf2··on Markdown CLI viewer with VI keybindings
Thanks i added a screenshot and in 0.2 you can see images now in the cli too
taf2··on Data centers in space makes no sense
Isn't Starlink already basically a distributed datacenter in space? they have like ~9k+ satellites up there already at least according to: https://planet4589.org/space/con/star/stats.html.

what am I missing here?

taf2··on Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking
any chance we can get something like this for codex cli that'd be cool too compare
taf2··on TÜV Report 2026: Tesla Model Y has the worst reliability of all 2022–2023 cars (2025)
Interesting been driving a Tesla since 2014 - worst issue I had was the seat belt recall - had to drive to the service center for a guy to tug on my seat belt and tell me I was all good… my current 2019 x has been rock solid - due for new tires but otherwise solid
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