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z_on I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it's “free” and ad-supported

Now file the patents.

z_on AI and the ironies of automation – Part 2

This is a thought provoking piece.

“But at what cost?”

We’ve all accepted calculators into our lives as being faster and correct when utilized correctly (Minus Intel tomfoolery), but we emphasize the need to know how to do the math in educational settings.

Any post education adult will confirm when confronted with an irregular math problem (or a skill) that there is a wait time to revive the ability.

Programming automation having the potential skill decay AND being critical path is … worth thinking about.

z_on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy

Please consume. For the economy.

z_on Researchers developed a compact, solid-state laser system

Paper: https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/advanced-photoni...

z_on Create a QubesOS Gaming HVM with GPU PCI passthrough (2023)

Also worth mentioning Looking Glass which does a similar trick.

https://looking-glass.io/

z_on $400M armored Tesla gov contract

https://sam.gov/opp/bb1ac5870df5485ab090216dc8fe0511/view

FWIW

z_on DeepSeek-R1

Exolabs claims they can distribute the compute over many machines to use memory in aggregate: https://github.com/exo-explore/exo

Maybe there is enough memory in many machines.

z_on Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand

Mega stored files in the US, Carpathia and Cogent were the providers specifically.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaupload_legal_case

z_on CrowdStrike update that caused global outage likely skipped checks

From the outside this incident appears to have highlighted a number of internal and external Crowdstrike skipped checks.

z_on Ask HN: Have coders made stuff complicated on purpose?

I’ll put this link for the archivists.

“Hanlon’s Razor”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor

z_on Canada's parliament rocked by allegations of treason and foreign interference

Canada has an attempt at providing the lobbyist information: https://lobbycanada.gc.ca/app/secure/ocl/lrs/do/guest?lang=e...

Here are the monthly communication reports: https://lobbycanada.gc.ca/app/secure/ocl/lrs/do/rcntCmLgs

There is also a statistics section available.

z_on House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner or ban the app

Does the Citizens United ruling have a say?

z_on House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner or ban the app

What about ByteDance’s freedom of expression?

z_on Mistral Remove "Committing to open models" from their website

Deepseek (https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-Coder?tab=readme-ov-...) code is MIT and the model license is available too.

edit I should mention that using the Web service Deepseek provides will unceremoniously shutdown terms deemed to be too sensitive. Self hosted models do not appear to be as aggressive.

z_on Notesnook – open-source and zero knowledge private note taking app

And chacha20-poly1305 is listed in the SSH MiTM issue.

https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-23:19...

z_on Starlink carbon footprint up to 30 times size of land-based internet

Thanks AT&T!

z_on Govt of Canada proposes a 4% Link Tax

Don’t ruin their fiction with facts.

z_on When did Postgres become cool?

Postgres has always been cool.

z_on Physicists identify the engine powering black hole energy beams

Another helix formation from Cambridge? Hrm.

z_on Hate crime bill: Hate talk in homes ‘must be prosecuted’