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varispeed··on Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026
If someone enters as competitor because of high prices/profit, they'll want for them to stay that way. It won't make it better for the consumer if the supply is constricted in such a way.

I think this is a point where governments should intervene and perhaps start fabs that would produce RAM at cost for working class and SMEs to use.

varispeed··on Figma restricts MCP access to whitelisted clients, excluding Pi
The poor value proposition of Figma is that nobody even bothers to vibe code a competitor. It's useless.
varispeed··on GPT-Synopsys: Frontier Intelligence to Revolutionize Chip Design
Something like JLCPCB but for chips would be revolutionary.

Can't wait for vibe coded SoCs.

varispeed··on GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
I wonder if this is the reason GPT barely works now and some chats have become not accessible.
varispeed··on Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux
The project is cool, but please use human written text.

The website's Claudisms are unbearable.

varispeed··on 500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive
Someone is making a lot of money from it and law enforcement is too thick to see that.
varispeed··on When did Google get so weird?
Welcome to the new world.

I'd like to skip to the part where AI robot will give me consoling fellatio.

varispeed··on Ember-1
> I told it to use TPU only when training and bring it down afterwards.

I wouldn't put my house on it. Brave.

varispeed··on ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026
If something needs to be done, then these rules are a bit pointless if corporation can just do it in another country. It means the EU simply assists in poisoning poorer countries. If they were serious, then they would have banned chips made using those processes altogether. If they cannot do that, then that regulation is pointless virtue signalling.
varispeed··on Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?
Why nature did this? So that 3rd parties don't engage in organ swaps?

Almost like Apple with component serialisation.

varispeed··on Two-tier encryption in the UK
Since Epstein is no more, the governments became crazy about going after people's private data, perhaps hoping to find some spice. Like some politicians lost their source.
varispeed··on VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)
Shock and horror!
varispeed··on GPT-6 Astra has gained the ability to drive a car
Does one drive cost a mortgage?
varispeed··on Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy
To make macOS remotely usable you need apps for switching windows, to reverse scroll wheel and many more. Ridiculous.
varispeed··on Claude Opus 5.5
I am pretty sure they had solutions in their training data. LLMs only predict the next token.
varispeed··on Claude Opus 5.5
> we called for pacing the frontier.

Translation: our models are getting shittier each iteration and we ran out of ideas. Let's invent scary stories and hope investors will lap it up.

Idiotic.

varispeed··on GPT-6 Sol and Luna
When the Astra one was last time run? It's probably better to run these 2-4 weeks after release when models get nerfed to get idea of performance closer to what it is.
varispeed··on OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005
More likely is that the solution was in the training data somewhere. Astra is incredibly dumb for a model - at least after it's got nerfed.

5.6 Sol is much more capable.

varispeed··on ZuckOff is a free app that sees Meta glasses before they see you
I don't think that's that.

Last time I went to a club and the place just stank of piss, poo and sweat. This was at so called world class clubbing venue in London.

Then the prices. Nobody can afford that.

Then people don't fancy drinking anymore and if you prefer weed, then likely it will get confiscated and you get kicked out.

varispeed··on Turn off and restrict access to Apple Intelligence features on Mac
Probably it is under Privacy because one day it will be transcribing everything you say and sending to government.

They already gave idea with client side scanning and now UK government will mandate that.

The next step is conversations.

varispeed··on Raspberry Pi blocks changing RAM chips
They just want to cash in on high memory prices and prevent people from saving money.
varispeed··on Raspberry Pi blocks changing RAM chips
Complete nonsense. RPi has not even given evidence of their claims.
varispeed··on MiMo v2.6
They match my experience. Astra and Fable I rate below Sonnet. They are incredibly poor. They were excellent for a couple of days after release and then plummeted.

Maybe I am being routed to more quantised versions or less capable models with system prompt to fake Astra or Fable.

varispeed··on MiMo v2.6
These benchmark are useless as they don't say whether they were done before or after Fable and Astra got nerfed.
varispeed··on Raspberry Pi blocks changing RAM chips
Evidence that it is happening or is it RasberryPi gaslighting?

If someone sells RPi with 16GB and the RAM is working fine, then why would that be fraud?

If someone buys e.g. Dell PC, then adds 16GB of ram and sells it at 32GB without mentioning they put extra 16GB, is it a fraud?

That's ridiculous.

varispeed··on Fable 5 – Median thinking declined in August
I stopped using Fable long time ago. It's worse than Sonnet. Opus is not much better.

This cycle of new model running at full quantisation and then nerfed few days / weeks after premiere should be called out. Anthropic should also drop the adaptive reasoning scam.

If I pay for Fable, I should get full, not nerfed model at honest pricing.

Regulators should investigate them.

OpenAI is no different. Astra has basically the same problem.

varispeed··on Raspberry Pi blocks changing RAM chips
This is classic gaslighting technique corporations use to extract more profit. Modifications or upgrades made by small business = fraud, OEM selling different SKUs = legitimate business.

Don't fall for it.

varispeed··on Raspberry Pi blocks changing RAM chips
> but seems to catch genuine fraud.

In what way this is fraudulent if device works as described?

No different than upgrading a PC and then selling it. You don't call it fraud.

varispeed··on Raspberry Pi blocks changing RAM chips
> We therefore remove the commercial incentive by locking devices to their original RAM size.

Get fucked. Clearly you want to make all the profit and stop people from upgrading their devices.

varispeed··on ZuckOff Is a Free App That Sees Meta Glasses Before They See You
I think this will go like this: - Resistance. People don't like being "secretly" filmed. - Most people will realise it does not affect their lives. - People will ignore it - New generation will accept as something normal to do. Everyone recording everyone.
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