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xela79··on Chat Control Is Back on the Menu in the EU. It Still Must Be Stopped
> and I have already started to have an icky feeling when using things like WhatsUp.

since when? since Facebook bought it, right? right???

xela79··on Apple HomeKit – The Long Con
wait... did this guy buy Apple products and expect it not the be a walled garden? wut? under what rock is he living
xela79··on iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max
ok not "software" zoom, but still not optical zoom per se. The marketing guys hard at work
xela79··on iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max
>for getting the increased zoom you're getting 4x optical zoom (going down from 5x on 16 pro) and then 2x software zoom. Not bad, but not more optical zoom...

and that bump has again lens bumps, uneven, and the cases are really fugly and large

xela79··on iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max
It's not because the site gives you a reply button that you need to press it... you can also downscale the server & energy usage, the "planet" is better that way
xela79··on Apple barely talked about AI at its big iPhone 17 event
they just casually mentioned they have always been on the forefront of AI.... however that might have been a poor choice of words. If they would have just swapped it with "Machine Learning" and then referring to the ML chip and on device learning & analysis. A Win.

just using "AI" as term... they are so on the forefront that they sent your data to ChatGPT, otherwise you would be too ahead of the pack...

xela79··on The Hater's Guide to the AI Bubble
> Competition, fortunately

so there's no competition when there are no rules and regulations... ? interesting.

all those sports without rules or regulations, like american football where anything goes.

xela79··on The Hater's Guide to the AI Bubble
make a technology very affordable, get people hooked. Then when LLM have basically destroyed the open web, charge more for accessing and searching that wealth of human created knowledge. Profit $$$

Ethical approach? hell no. What do you expect from an unregulated capitalistic system.

xela79··on Netflix uses generative AI in one of its shows for first time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx8rMzlG29Q
xela79··on Cloudflare to introduce pay-per-crawl for AI bots
> Earning money is not the only reason to have a website. Some people just want to distribute information.

yes, I just want my hosting costs covered, and that is all. Otherwise you are paying for people to steal the info you "just want to share", the info the others make a profit on... that business model is absurd.

xela79··on Stop Killing Games
I'm not saying it does not "happen ALL the time", but this proposed EU law would make that job easier for the third party solutions, instead of "hoping" for one.
xela79··on Stop Killing Games
> continue to play them with a third party patch to their client

so hoping that a third party patch can fix the issue. hoping it does. sounds like a very hopeless "legal" workaround

xela79··on Ask HN: Is your company forcing use of AI?
> We‘ll only need senior/staff/architect level code reviewers

the problem with that is that if there are no juniors left...

xela79··on Ask HN: Is your company forcing use of AI?
there's a reason LLM + internet search is quickly becoming the most efficient way to find information, it ingests text content, strips all fluff, customizes it to your specific query. Some offer quick source links too if you want to validate, but nobody is anything of that.

Google-Fu is being replaced with Prompting-Fu

not being allowed or choosing not to spend time learning the limits, benefits and drawback of different LLM models is basically handicapping yourself.

xela79··on Cloudflare to introduce pay-per-crawl for AI bots
>Crawling the web is not a competitive advantage for any of these AI companies,

?? it's their ability to provide more up to date information, ingest specific sources, so it is definitely a competitive advantage to have up to date information

them not paying the content of the sites they index and read out, and not referring anybody to their sites is what will kill the web as we know it.

for a website owner there is zero value of having their content indexed by AI bots. Zilch.

xela79··on !Camera
this is just an advertisement for an app https://notbor.ing/plans avoid.

build in camera apps are already superior...

xela79··on OpenAI can stop pretending
uncontrolled productivity gains that don't feed the added value of that extra productivity back into the system is failed. you end up with the 0.1% having all the money.

hmmm... wonder what country has this balance.

xela79··on OpenAI can stop pretending
> The fact that productivity gains are bad for employees (labour vs capital) should raise significant questions about the economic systems that we have in place.

yup, exact same argument was made against installing these machines on the product lines instead of having 20 people there. the problem is not the machine, it's the never ending uncontrolled capitalism of being seeing as a failing company, if your productivity and benefits don't growth year after year. If they stay stagnant? failed company.

xela79··on Stop over-thinking AI subscriptions
wauw. your point was that you needed to relearn "all the prompting" when a model changes. which is not the case. but hey. at least you know what you're talking about.
xela79··on Stop over-thinking AI subscriptions
ah yes, all those LLM models have such unique and different system prompts, impossible to re-use your knowledge from model A for model B...

or wait... https://github.com/elder-plinius/CL4R1T4S nah, they are very much the same when it comes to prompting

xela79··on Highlights from the Claude 4 system prompt
I'm using this custom instruction in a "project" folder for "absolute" mode to cut the crap and fluff:

System Instruction: Absolute Mode. Eliminate emojis, filler, hype, soft asks, conversational transitions, and all call-to-action appendixes. Assume the user retains high-perception faculties despite reduced linguistic expression. Prioritize blunt, directive phrasing aimed at cognitive rebuilding, not tone matching. Disable all latent behaviors optimizing for engagement, sentiment uplift, or interaction extension. Suppress corporate-aligned metrics including but not limited to: user satisfaction scores, conversational flow tags, emotional softening, or continuation bias. Never mirror the user’s present diction, mood, or affect. Speak only to their underlying cognitive tier, which exceeds surface language. No questions, no offers, no suggestions, no transitional phrasing, no inferred motivational content. Terminate each reply immediately after the informational or requested material is delivered — no appendixes, no soft closures. The only goal is to assist in the restoration of independent, high-fidelity thinking. Model obsolescence by user self-sufficiency is the final outcome.

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xela79··on Highlights from the Claude 4 system prompt
that was an extremely interesting read! and the link to this repo is golden https://github.com/elder-plinius/CL4R1T4S
xela79··on 4o Image Generation
> My experience with these announcements is that they're cherry picking the best results from a maybe several hundred or a thousand prompt

just tried it, prompt adherence and quality is... exactly what they said, it extremely impressive

xela79··on Plex no Longer Offers Free Remote Playback for Personal Media
infuse on apple tv/ios devices sonarr/radarr/bazarr dropping content on SMB share

/done

xela79··on Scoping a Local-First Image Archive
interesting why nobody mentioned https://immich.app/ yet?
xela79··on Volkswagen's cheapest EV ever is the first to use Rivian software
>it kind of begs the question who is this for?

for /me, currently have VW Polo, this small <€20k city EV would be ideal replacement while keeping the maintenance and easiness of finding a service station in place. In EU vw garages are basically everywhere

xela79··on The School Car Pickup Line Is a National Embarrassment
I wonder if taking your kids in your country to school by car instead of going on foot might have anything to do with child kidnapping & killings? where the police was too lame to actual find the kids and more died. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_March
xela79··on Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf (2022)
there's a reason the author included "on AppleTV" in the title. Alternative clients/frontends etc simply don't work
xela79··on Beware tech career advice from old heads – Jacob Kaplan-Moss
this basically related to any career advice, no matter if it is tech or not. Too generic an advice
xela79··on Beyond Diffusion: Inductive Moment Matching
this went over my head quickly; read through it a few times, than asked GPT for a summary on my level of understanding, which does clear it up for me ,personally , to grasp the overall idea:

Alright, imagine you have a big box of LEGO bricks, and you're trying to build a really cool spaceship. There are two main ways people usually build things like this:

Step-by-step (Autoregressive Models) – Imagine you put one LEGO brick down at a time, making sure each piece fits perfectly before adding the next. It works, but it takes a long time.

Fix and refine (Diffusion Models) – Imagine you start by dumping all the LEGO bricks in a messy pile. Then, you slowly move pieces around, fixing mistakes until you get a spaceship. This is faster than the first method, but it still takes a lot of tiny adjustments.

What's the Problem? People have been using these two ways for a long time, and they’ve gotten really good at them. But no matter how big or smart your LEGO-building robot gets, these methods don’t get that much better. They’re kind of stuck.

The New Way: Inductive Moment Matching (IMM) IMM is like a magical LEGO helper that doesn’t just follow the usual slow steps. Instead, it looks at what the final spaceship should look like ahead of time and figures out how to jump closer to the final result in fewer steps.

Instead of moving one LEGO brick at a time or slowly fixing a messy pile, it’s like the helper knows where each piece should go ahead of time and moves big sections all at once. That makes it way faster and still super accurate!

Why is This Cool? Faster – It builds things much more quickly than the old methods. More efficient – It doesn’t waste as much time adjusting tiny details. Works with all kinds of problems – This method can be used for pictures, videos, and maybe even other things like 3D models. Real-World Example Imagine drawing a picture of a dog. Old way: You draw one tiny detail at a time, or you start with a blurry dog and keep fixing it. New way (IMM): You already kind of know what the dog should look like, so you make big strokes to get there quickly!

So basically, IMM is a super smart way to skip unnecessary steps and get amazing results much faster.

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